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  1. Energy conversion dynamics in horizontal-axis turbines: From coherent turbulence to torque response

    Article • Renewable Energy, March 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  2. Small (and not-so-small) villages in the Amazon: The challenge of access to electricity infrastructure

    Article • Energy Research & Social Science, February 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  3. Hydrological and Hydraulic Analysis of Hydropower Plants Reservoirs Under the Influence of Climate Change with a Sequential Machine Learning Model

    Article • Water Resources Management, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claudio Blanco, Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  4. Energy access, embryonic urbanity, and development in Amazonian villages

    Article • Sustainability in Debate, December 2025, Editora de Livros IABS

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  5. Prediction of Extreme Events in the Amazon under the Influence of Climate and LULC Change

    Article • Environmental Processes, December 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Claudio Blanco, Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  6. Feasibility of hybrid energy systems for environmental remediation: Transforming closed landfills into sustainable energy hubs

    Article • Circular Economy, December 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  7. Numerical study of a fish swimming in hydrokinetic turbine wake

    Article • Journal of Ocean Engineering and Science, August 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  8. Anisotropic turbulence modeling for natural channel flow: A numerical approach with finite element method

    Article • Flow Measurement and Instrumentation, September 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  9. Linking Energy Transition to Income Generation for Vulnerable Populations in Brazil: A Win-Win Strategy

    Article • Sustainability, August 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  10. Exploring wind energy for small off-grid power generation in remote areas of Northern Brazil

    Article • Energy Systems, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  11. Wind speed short-term prediction using recurrent neural network GRU model and stationary wavelet transform GRU hybrid model

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, May 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  12. Turbulent flow across a clearing-forest transition: a large eddy simulation study

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, April 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  13. Numerical Investigation of Dimensionless Parameters in Carangiform Fish Swimming Hydrodynamics

    Article • Biomimetics, January 2024, MDPI AG

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  14. Flow through horizontal axis propeller turbines in a triangular array

    Article • Renewable Energy, January 2024, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  15. Hydrokinetic Turbine Impact Assessment on Fish

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  16. Wake characteristics in high solidity horizontal axis hydrokinetic turbines: a comparative study between experimental techniques and numerical simulations

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  17. Inland waterway transport development: A Q-Method study on Tocantins River, Brazilian Amazon

    Article • Case Studies on Transport Policy, December 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  18. Turbulent Flow across a clearing-forest transition: A Large Eddy Simulation Study

    Article • November 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  19. A novel mechanism of turbulent kinetic energy harvesting by horizontal-axis wind and hydrokinetic turbines

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, November 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  20. Impact of electric vehicle emissions in the Brazilian scenario of energy transition and use of bioethanol

    Article • Energy Reports, November 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  21. Uncertainty Estimate and Sensitivity Analysis of Lumped Thermal Model of Photovoltaic Modules

    Article • Journal of Advanced Research in Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences, September 2023, Akademia Baru Publishing

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  22. Levelized Cost of Electricity for hydrokinetic turbines

    Article • IEEE Latin America Transactions, September 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  23. On the correlation between thermal imagery and fugitive CH4 emissions from MSW landfills

    Article • Waste Management, July 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  24. Energy impact assessment of electric vehicle insertion in the Brazilian scenario, 2020 – 2050: a machine learning approach to fleet projection

    Article • e-Prime - Advances in Electrical Engineering Electronics and Energy, June 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  25. On the wake of propeller hydrokinetic turbines: Numerical simulations and experiments

    Article • April 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  26. Assessment of wind resource considering local turbulence based on data acquisition with SODAR

    Article • Wind Engineering, February 2023, SAGE Publications

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  27. Dynamical analysis of a novel hybrid oceanic tidal-wave energy converter system

    Article • Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers - Energy, January 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  28. Smart grid systems infrastructures and distributed solar power generation in urban slums–A case study and energy policy in <i>Rio de Janeiro</i>

    Article • AIMS Energy, January 2023, American Institute of Mathematical Sciences (AIMS)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  29. Desempenho orçamentário e governança na gestão de projetos de infraestrutura: o caso do transporte hidroviário interior brasileiro

    Article • Cadernos EBAPE BR, January 2023, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  30. Budget performance and governance in infrastructure project management: the case of Brazilian inland waterway transport

    Article • Cadernos EBAPE BR, January 2023, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  31. Solar model for Rural Communities: Analysis of Impact of a Grid-Connected Photovoltaic System in the Brazilian semi-arid region

    Article • Journal of Sustainable Development of Energy Water and Environment Systems, September 2022, International Centre for Sustainable Development of Water

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  32. Inland waterway transport and the 2030 agenda: Taxonomy of sustainability issues

    Article • Cleaner Engineering and Technology, June 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  33. Corrigendum to “Three-dimensional viscous wake flow in fish swimming - A CFD study” [Mechanics Research Communications 107 (2020) 103547]

    Article • Mechanics Research Communications, July 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  34. A GIS for Rural Electrification Strategies in the Brazilian Amazon

    Article • Papers in Applied Geography, January 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  35. Systematic review of diffuser-augmented horizontal-axis turbines

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, November 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  36. Monitoring a hydrokinetic converter system for remaining energy in hydropower plants

    Article • IEEE Latin America Transactions, October 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  37. On the upscaling approach to wind tunnel experiments of horizontal axis hydrokinetic turbines

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, September 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  38. Techno-economic analysis of a PV-wind-battery for a remote community in Haiti

    Article • Case Studies in Chemical and Environmental Engineering, September 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  39. A Computational Fluid Dynamics Investigation on the Axial Induction Factor of a Small Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine

    Article • Journal of Energy Resources Technology, August 2020, ASME International

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  40. Three-dimensional viscous wake flow in fish swimming - A CFD study

    Article • Mechanics Research Communications, July 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  41. Biomechanics of fish swimming in a hydrokinetic turbine wake

    Article • IOP Conference Series Materials Science and Engineering, June 2020, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  42. Experimental Approach of Photovoltaic System in Operation for Performance Prediction of Natural Convection

    Article • IEEE Latin America Transactions, April 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  43. Flow-velocity model for hydrokinetic energy availability assessment in the Amazon

    Article • Acta Scientiarum Technology, November 2019, Universidade Estadual de Maringa

    Professor Claudio Blanco, Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  44. Powertrain assessment of wind and hydrokinetic turbines with diffusers

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, September 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  45. On the design of propeller hydrokinetic turbines: the effect of the number of blades

    Article • Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  46. An experimental study on the diffuser-enhanced propeller hydrokinetic turbines

    Article • Renewable Energy, April 2019, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  47. Evaluation of the Electrical Energy Potential of Woody Biomass in the Near Region of the Hydropower Plant Tucuruí-Brazil

    Article • Waste and Biomass Valorization, July 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  48. WAKE CHARACTERIZATION IN ROW ARRAY OF HYDROKINETICS TURBINES

    Article • Revista de Engenharia Térmica, June 2018, Universidade Federal do Parana

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  49. A new approach for the design of diffuser-augmented hydro turbines using the blade element momentum

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, June 2018, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  50. MODELAGEM FLUVIAL DO RESERVATÓRIO DE JUSANTE DA UHE TUCURUÍ PARA AVALIAÇÃO DE LOCAIS PARA IMPLANTAÇÃO DE TURBINAS HIDROCINÉTICAS

    Article • American Journal of Hydropower Water and Environment Sytems, June 2017, ACTA Editora

    Professor Claudio Blanco, Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  51. Assessment of hydrokinetic energy resources downstream of hydropower plants

    Article • Renewable Energy, February 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Claudio Blanco, Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  52. Analysis of cavitation for the optimized design of hydrokinetic turbines using BEM

    Article • Applied Energy, January 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  53. Numerical Study of Wake Characteristics in a Horizontal-Axis Hydrokinetic Turbine

    Article • Anais da Academia Brasileira de Ciências, December 2016, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  54. On the hydrodynamics of a row arrangement of hydrokinetic propeller turbines

    Article • American Journal of Hydropower Water and Environment Sytems, July 2016, ACTA Editora

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  55. On the electromechanical behavior of hydrokinetic turbines

    Article • Energy Conversion and Management, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  56. AN APPROACH FOR THE OPTIMUM HYDRODYNAMIC DESIGN OF HYDROKINETIC TURBINE BLADES

    Article • Revista de Engenharia Térmica, December 2015, Universidade Federal do Parana

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  57. A STABILIZED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR UNSTEADY POLLUTION DISPERSION IN RIVERS

    Article • American Journal of Hydropower Water and Environment Sytems, August 2015, ACTA Editora

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  58. Diagnóstico sistêmico e participativo das comunidades do Médio Maracá – AP: preparação para inserção de energia elétrica alternativa no âmbito do programa "Luz para Todos"

    Article • Gestão & Regionalidade, August 2015, USCS Universidade Municipal de Sao Caetano do Sul

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  59. Design of Hydrokinetic Turbine Blades Considering Cavitation

    Article • Energy Procedia, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  60. Hybrid Energy Scenarios for Fernando de Noronha archipelago

    Article • Energy Procedia, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  61. The Brazilian Experience with Hydrokinetic Turbines

    Article • Energy Procedia, August 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  62. Evento extremo de chuva-vazão na bacia hidrográfica do rio Araguari, Amapá, Brasil

    Article • Revista Brasileira de Meteorologia, December 2014, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Alan Cunha, Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  63. NONLINEAR DYNAMICS AND CHAOS OF THE DAISYWORLD EMPLOYED FOR GLOBAL WARMING DESCRIPTION

    Article • Applied Ecology and Environmental Research, December 2013, Applied Ecology and Environmental Research

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  64. A Numerical Study of the Turbulent Flow over a Cylinder close to Moving Plane

    Article • Applied Mechanics and Materials, September 2013, Trans Tech Publications

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  65. Optimum aerodynamic design for wind turbine blade with a Rankine vortex wake

    Article • Renewable Energy, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  66. A Pseudo-Stokes Mesh Motion Algorithm

    Article • Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics, January 2013, Global Science Press

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  67. The Brazilian experience of rural electrification in the Amazon with decentralized generation – The need to change the paradigm from electrification to development

    Article • Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, April 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  68. Integrated Strategy of Water Quality Monitoring and Simulation for Amazon Reservoirs

    Article • International Journal of Social Ecology and Sustainable Development, April 2010, IGI Global

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  69. An explicit method for convection-diffusion equations

    Article • Japan Journal of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, February 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  70. A new algorithm for simulating viscoelastic flows accommodating piecewise linear finite elements

    Article • Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  71. Explicit solution of the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with linear finite elements

    Article • Applied Mathematics Letters, September 2007, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  72. A Stable Explicit Method for Time-Dependent Convection-Diffusion Problems

    Article • January 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  73. Qualidade microbiológica da água em rios de áreas urbanas e periurbanas no baixo Amazonas: o caso do Amapá

    Article • Engenharia Sanitaria e Ambiental, December 2004, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Alan Cunha, Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  74. Cultura e desenvolvimento sustentável no pantanal mato-grossense: entre a tradição e a modernidade

    Article • Sociedade e Estado, December 2003, FapUNIFESP (SciELO)

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  75. A tropical rainforest clearing experiment by biomass burning in the state of Pará, Brazil

    Article • Atmospheric Environment, June 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  76. Heat Transfer During Melting Around an Isothermal Vertical Cylinder

    Article • Journal of Heat Transfer, November 1987, ASME International

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior

  77. TRANSFERÊNCIA DE CALOR DURANTE A FUSÃO EM GEOMETRIA CILÍNDRICA VERTICAL

    Article • Faculdades Catolicas

    Professor Antonio Brasil Junior