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• Titus, E., Shokuhfar, T., Cabral, G.,. Madaleno, J.C, Sousa, A.C.M., Grácio, J., Ahmed, W., and Okpalugo, T. I. T., Applications of Carbon Nanotubes in Bio-Nanotechnology, in Surface Engineered Surgical Tools and Medical Devices, Eds. Mark J. Jackson and Waqar Ahmed, Springer Science+ Business Media LLC, New York, NY, USA, 2007, pp. 439-475.

• Jiang, Fangming and Sousa, A.C.M., Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics Modeling of Transverse Flow in Randomly Aligned Fibrous Porous Media, Transport in Porous Media, DOI: 10.1007/s11242-008-9206-z, 2008.
• Singh, M., Shokuhfar, T., J.J.A. Gracio, Sousa, A.C.M., Ferreira, J.M., Garmestani, H., and Ahzi, S., Hydroxyapatite Modified with Carbon Nanotube-Reinforced Poly(methyl methacrylate): A Novel Nanocomposite Material for Biomedical Applications , Adv.Funct.Mater,18, 2008, 694-700.
• Shokuhfar, T., Makradi, A., Titus E., Cabral, G., Ahzi, S., Sousa, A.C.M., Belouettar, S. and Gracio, J., Prediction of the mechanical properties of HA/PMMA/CNTs nanocomposite, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8, 2008, 1-6.
• Coelho, M.C., Titus, E., Cabral, G., Neto, V., Madaleno, J.C., Fan, Q.H., Sousa, A.C.M., and Gracio, J., Hydrogen Adsorption onto Nickel Modified Carbon Nanotubes, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, 8, 2008, 6-12.
• Nabovati, A. and Sousa, A.C.M., Fluid flow simulation at open-porous medium interface using the Lattice Boltzmann Method, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 56, 2008, 1449-1456.
• Nabovati, A. and Sousa, A.C.M., Fluid flow simulation in random porous media at pore level using the lattice Boltzmann method, J. Engineering Science & Technology, 2(3), 2007, 226-237.
• Titus E., Cabral, G., Shokuhfar, T., Madaleno, J.C., Sousa, A.C.M., and Gracio, J., Carbon Nanotubes/hydroxyapatites for Implant Applications, Journal of Nanoscience and Nanotechnology, Accepted 2007.
• Shokuhfar, T.,.Titus, E, Cabral, G., Sousa, A.C.M., Gracio, J., Ahmed, W., and Okpalugo, T. I. T., HA/CNTs Nanocomposites for next generation implants, Int. J. Nanomanufacturing (In Press), 2007.
• Shokuhfar, T.,.Titus, E, Cabral, G., Sousa, A.C.M., Gracio, J., Ahmed, W., Okpalugo, T. I. T., Makradi, A., and Ahzi, S., Modeling of the Mechanical Properties of the Nanocomposite HA/PMMA/CNTs, Int. J. Nanomanufacturing (In Press), 2007.
• Jiang, F., Oliveira, M.S.A., and Sousa, A.C.M., Mesoscale SPH modeling of fluid flow in isotropic porous media, Computer Physics Communications, 176 (7), 2007, 471-480.
• Sousa, A.C.M. and Jiang, F., SPH as an Inverse Numerical Tool for the Prediction of Diffusive Properties in Porous Medium , Materials Science Forum, 553, 2007, 171-189.
• Ayani, M.B., Esfahani, J.A., and Sousa, A.C.M., The effect of surface regression on the downward flame spread over a solid fuel in a quiescent ambient, Thermal Science, 11(2), 2007, 67-86.
• Jiang, F.and Sousa, A.C.M., Effective thermal conductivity of heterogeneous multi-component materials: an SPH implementation , Heat and Mass Transfer, 43, 2007, 479-491.
• Jiang, F. and Sousa, A.C.M., SPH Numerical Modeling for the Ballistic-Diffusion Heat Conduction, Numerical Heat Transfer, 50 (6), 2006, pp. 499-515.
• Jiang, F., Oliveira, M.S.A., and Sousa, A.C.M., SPH simulation of transition to turbulence for planar shear flow subjected to a streamwise magnetic field, Journal Computational Physics, 217 (2), 2006, pp. 485-501.
• Ayani, M.B., Esfahani, J.A., and Sousa, A.C.M., The effect of radiation on the laminar natural convection induced by a line heat source, International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat and Fluid Flow, 16 (1), 2006, pp. 28-45.
• Jiang,F. and Sousa, A.C.M., Analytical Solution for Hyperbolic Heat Conduction in a Hollow Sphere, Journal of Thermophysics and Heat Transfer, 19 (4), 2005, pp.595-598.
• Sousa, A.C.M., Heat transfer distribution for a free/porous system with forced convection and heat generation – a numerical study, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 51 (7-8), 2005, ISSN 0039-2480, pp.519-526.
• Šelih, J, and Sousa, A.C.M., Modeling of multiphase flow with phase change in porous media - a case study, Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik (Materials Science and Engineering Technology), 36 (10), 2005, pp. 594-601.
• Ayani, M.B., Esfahani, J.A., and Sousa, A.C.M., Transient Laminar Convection Induced by a Line Heat Source: A Numerical Study with Primitive Variables, Scientia Iranica,12(2),2005, pp. 247-254.
• Jiang, F., Oliveira, M.S.A., and Sousa, A.C.M., SPH Simulation of Low Reynolds Number Planar Shear Flow and Heat Convection, Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik (Materials Science and Engineering Technology), 36 (10), 2005, pp. 613-619.
• Costa, V. A. F., Oliveira, M. S. A., and Sousa A. C. M., Laminar natural convection in a vertical stack of pallelogrammic partial enclosures with variable geometry, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 48, 2005, pp. 779-792.
• Ji, S.B., Gerber, A.G. and Sousa, A.C.M., A convection-diffusion CFD model for aeolian particle transport, Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 45, 2004, pp. 797-817.
• Costa, V. A. F., Oliveira, L. A., Baliga, B. R., and Sousa, A.C.M., Simulation of coupled flows in adjacent porous and open domains using a control-volume finite element method, Numerical Heat Transfer, Part A, 45 (7), 2004, pp. 675-697.
• Costa, V. A. F., Oliveira, M. S. A., and Sousa A. C. M., Numerical simulation of non-Darcian flows through spaces partially filled with a porous medium, Computers & Structures, 82, 2004, pp. 1535-1541.
• Ferreira, A.D., Viegas, D.X. and Sousa, A.C.M., Full-scale measurements for evaluation of coal dust release from train wagons with two different shelter covers, J. of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, 91, 2003, pp. 1271-1283.
• Costa, V.A.F., Oliveira, M.S.A., and Sousa, A.C.M., Control of laminar natural convection in differentially heated square enclosures using solid inserts at the corners, Int. J. Heat Mass Transfer, 46 (18), 2003, pp. 3529-3537.
• Costa, V.A.F. and Sousa, A.C.M., Modeling of Flow and Thermo-Kinetics During the Cure of Thick Laminated Composites, International Journal of Thermal Sciences, 42 (1), 2003, pp. 15-22.
• Ferreira, A.D., Sousa, A.C.M., and Viegas, D.X., Prediction of building interference effects on pedestrian level comfort, Journal of Wind Engineering & Industrial Aerodynamics, 90 (4-5), 2002, pp. 305-319.
• Ferreira, A.D., and Sousa, A.C.M., The RNG Turbulence Closure: Application and Revisited Performance Assessment, WSEAS Transactions on Systems, 1(2), 2002, pp. 165-170.
• Hadjisophocleous, G.V., An, M., Costa, V.A.F., and Sousa, A.C.M., Fire suppression using water mists - a numerical model, Journal of Mechanical Engineering, 47 (8), 2001, ISSN 0039-2480, 424-434.
• Oliveira, M.S.A. and Sousa, A.C.M., Neural network analysis of experimental data for air/water spray cooling, J.of Materials Processing Technology, 113, 2001, pp. 439-445.
• Gameiro Lopes, A.M., Sousa, A.C.M., and Viegas, D.X., GRID3D – A Numerical Code for the Generation of Three-dimensional Generalized Structured Grids, Ingenium, Series 2, 56, 2001, pp. 75-80 – in Portuguese.