24/11/2025
More buildings, more heat: quantifying the effect of the urban texture on heat islands
Research from the Universitat Rovira i Virgili examines how the make-up of cities helps to make them hotter than nearby rural areas
Department of Mechanical Engineering
20/01/2025
A sneeze simulator reveals the role of the nasal cavity in the dispersion of respiratory aerosols
A URV research project has built a three-dimensional model of the human upper respiratory tract in order to reproduce intense respiratory episodes and has studied how particle nuclei are dispersed indoors so as to determine how to prevent the transmission of diseases by air
24/10/2024
Study reveals how the first vertebrates swam more than 400 million years ago
This discovery, made by a research team led by the URV, modifies the previously held conception of primitive fish and demonstrates that they were able to inhabit areas other than the seabed
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10/07/2024
URV develops mathematical model that describes the dispersion of aerosols in indoor spaces
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08/07/2024
Five URV research projects have been awarded a prize by the Board of Trustees for their social impact
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15/01/2024
Joint research between the URV and the University of Berkeley studies the hearing of zebrafish
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