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Global well-posedness for the Yang-Mills equation in 4+1 dimensions: Small energy

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Global well-posedness for the Yang-Mills equation in 4+1 dimensions: Small energy

Using Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Locate Faults in Transmission Lines: Definition and Application of the Mirrored Minimum Energy Property

Dynamics of daylighting inside out

Preventing overheating in offices through thermal inertial properties of compressed earth bricks: A study on a real scale prototype

Feasibility study of a CO2-based system in NEST

On the impact of the wind speed on the outdoor human comfort: a sensitivity analysis

Energy Harvesting in Microscale with Cavitating Flows

The effects of vegetation on indoor thermal comfort: the application of a multi-scale simulation methodology on a residential neighborhood renovation case study

Shock waves from nonspherical cavitation bubbles

Effects of visual and thermal stimuli interactions on comfort perception

Using Electromagnetic Time Reversal to Locate Faults in Transmission Lines: Definition and Application of the Mirrored Minimum Energy Property

Energy Harvesting in Microscale with Cavitating Flows

Global well-posedness for the Yang-Mills equation in 4+1 dimensions: Small energy

Preventing overheating in offices through thermal inertial properties of compressed earth bricks: A study on a real scale prototype

Feasibility study of a CO2-based system in NEST

On the impact of the wind speed on the outdoor human comfort: a sensitivity analysis

Dynamics of daylighting inside out

Shock waves from nonspherical cavitation bubbles

Effects of visual and thermal stimuli interactions on comfort perception

The effects of vegetation on indoor thermal comfort: the application of a multi-scale simulation methodology on a residential neighborhood renovation case study