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Analysis of Ionospheric Scintillation and its Impact on PPP at Low Latitudes (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Guo, K., Aquino, M., Vadakke Veettil, S., Liu, Z., Chen, W., & Antonio Marques, H. A. (2019). Analysis of Ionospheric Scintillation and its Impact on PPP at Low Latitudes. In Proceedings of the ION 2019 Pacific PNT Meeting (835-845). https://doi.org/10.33012/2019.16842

Ionospheric scintillation refers to the random and rapid fluctuations in the amplitude and phase of radio signals that occur due to their propagation through plasma density irregularities in the ionosphere. For Global Navigation Satellite System (GNS... Read More about Analysis of Ionospheric Scintillation and its Impact on PPP at Low Latitudes.

Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance (2019)
Journal Article
Sprinks, J., Houghton, R., Bamford, S., & Morley, J. G. (2019). Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance. Meteoritics and Planetary Science, 54(6), 1325-1346. https://doi.org/10.1111/maps.13277

Virtual citizen science platforms allow nonscientists to take part in scientific research across a range of disciplines, including planetary science. What is required of the volunteer can vary considerably in terms of task type, variety, judgment req... Read More about Planet Four: Craters—Optimizing task workflow to improve volunteer engagement and crater counting performance.

Design and optimisation of a microwave reactor for kilo-scale polymer synthesis (2019)
Journal Article
Buttress, A., Hargreaves, G., Ilchev, A., Monti, T., Sklavounou, A., Katrib, J., …Dodds, C. (2019). Design and optimisation of a microwave reactor for kilo-scale polymer synthesis. Chemical Engineering Science: X, 2, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cesx.2019.100022

Current industrial production of polymer resins is generally undertaken in large multi-tonne stirred tank reactors. These are characterised by relatively slow heating and cooling cycles, resulting in long vessel cycle times and extended production ca... Read More about Design and optimisation of a microwave reactor for kilo-scale polymer synthesis.

Development of a 1000 W organic Rankine cycle micro-turbine-generator using polymeric structural materials and its performance test with compressed air (2019)
Journal Article
Hernandez-Carrillo, I., Wood, C., & Liu, H. (2019). Development of a 1000 W organic Rankine cycle micro-turbine-generator using polymeric structural materials and its performance test with compressed air. Energy Conversion and Management, 190, 105-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2019.03.092

This paper presents the experimental advances on the implementation of structural polymeric materials in a micro-turbine-generator for an organic Rankine cycle (ORC) and through testing provides an insight of its performance. The aim is to create awa... Read More about Development of a 1000 W organic Rankine cycle micro-turbine-generator using polymeric structural materials and its performance test with compressed air.

Process simulation and life cycle assessment of converting autoclaved municipal solid waste into butanol and ethanol as transport fuels (2019)
Journal Article
Meng, F., Ibbett, R., de Vrije, T., Metcalf, P., Tucker, G., & McKechnie, J. (2019). Process simulation and life cycle assessment of converting autoclaved municipal solid waste into butanol and ethanol as transport fuels. Waste Management, 89, 177-189. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wasman.2019.04.003

In 2015/2016, the total municipal solid waste (MSW) collected by local authority in the U.K. was 26 million tonnes and over 57% is still put into landfill or incinerated. MSW is a promising feedstock for bio-butanol production as it has a high lignoc... Read More about Process simulation and life cycle assessment of converting autoclaved municipal solid waste into butanol and ethanol as transport fuels.

A fiducial-aided data fusion method for the measurement of multiscale complex surfaces (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, S., Cheung, C. F., & Liu, M. (2019). A fiducial-aided data fusion method for the measurement of multiscale complex surfaces. International Journal of Advanced Manufacturing Technology, 103, 1381–1389. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-019-03548-x

Multiscale complex surfaces, possessing high form accuracy and geometric complexity, are widely used for various applications in fields such as telecommunications and biomedicines. Despite the development of multi-sensor technology, the stringent req... Read More about A fiducial-aided data fusion method for the measurement of multiscale complex surfaces.

Assessing the Accuracy of Soot Nanoparticle Morphology Measurements Using Three-Dimensional Electron Tomography (2019)
Journal Article
Haffner-Staton, E., La Rocca, A., Cairns, A., McGhee, M., & Fay, M. (2019). Assessing the Accuracy of Soot Nanoparticle Morphology Measurements Using Three-Dimensional Electron Tomography. SAE Technical Papers, 2019-April, Article 2019-01-1188. https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-1188

Morphology plays an important role in determining behaviour and impact of soot nanoparticles, including effect on human health, atmospheric optical properties, contribution to engine wear, and role in marine ecology. However, its nanoscopic size has... Read More about Assessing the Accuracy of Soot Nanoparticle Morphology Measurements Using Three-Dimensional Electron Tomography.

Mechanisms of Toluene Removal in Relation to the Main Components of Biosyngas in a Catalytic Nonthermal Plasma Process (2019)
Journal Article
Xu, B., Xie, J., Yin, X., Liu, H., Sun, C., & Wu, C. (2019). Mechanisms of Toluene Removal in Relation to the Main Components of Biosyngas in a Catalytic Nonthermal Plasma Process. Energy and Fuels, 33(5), 4287-4301. https://doi.org/10.1021/acs.energyfuels.9b00273

In this study, a packed-bed dielectric barrier discharge reactor was built for the removal of biomass gasification tar. Two kinds of packing materials, glass pellets and a Ni/?-Al2O3 catalyst, were employed for the plasma-alone process and the plasma... Read More about Mechanisms of Toluene Removal in Relation to the Main Components of Biosyngas in a Catalytic Nonthermal Plasma Process.

Determining small refractive index contrast in chalcogenide-glass pairs at mid-infrared wavelengths (2019)
Journal Article
Fang, Y., Furniss, D., Jayasuriya, D., Parnell, H., Crane, R., Tang, Z., …Benson, T. (2019). Determining small refractive index contrast in chalcogenide-glass pairs at mid-infrared wavelengths. Optical Materials Express, 9(5), 2022-2036. https://doi.org/10.1364/OME.9.002022

A two-composition thin film (Ge20Sb10Se70/Ge20Sb10Se67S3 atomic%core/cladding glasses) was fabricated using a hot-fibre-pressing technique in which both glasses follow the same post-fibre processing. A simple approach is proposed that uses normal inc... Read More about Determining small refractive index contrast in chalcogenide-glass pairs at mid-infrared wavelengths.

An idealised study for the evolution of a shoreface nourishment (2019)
Journal Article
Chen, W., & Dodd, N. (2019). An idealised study for the evolution of a shoreface nourishment. Continental Shelf Research, 178, 15-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csr.2019.03.010

We develop an idealised one dimensional (cross-shore) morphodynamic model that couples wave, tide and sediment dynamics to study the effect and evolution of a shoreface nourishment. Sediment fluxes driven by wave skewness, wave asymmetry (both onshor... Read More about An idealised study for the evolution of a shoreface nourishment.

Soot in the Lubricating Oil: An Overlooked Concern for the Gasoline Direct Injection Engine? (2019)
Journal Article
Pfau, S. A., La Rocca, A., Haffner-Staton, E., Rance, G. A., Fay, M. W., & McGhee, M. (2019). Soot in the Lubricating Oil: An Overlooked Concern for the Gasoline Direct Injection Engine?. SAE Technical Papers, 2019-April, Article 2019-01-0301. https://doi.org/10.4271/2019-01-0301

Formation of soot is a known phenomenon for diesel engines, however, only recently emerged for gasoline engines with the introduction of direct injection systems. Soot-in-oil samples from a three-cylinder turbo-charged gasoline direct injection (GDI)... Read More about Soot in the Lubricating Oil: An Overlooked Concern for the Gasoline Direct Injection Engine?.

Assessment of surface topography modifications through feature-based registration of areal topography data (2019)
Journal Article
Moretti, M., Gambucci, G., Leach, R., & Senin, N. (2019). Assessment of surface topography modifications through feature-based registration of areal topography data. Surface Topography: Metrology and Properties, 7(2), https://doi.org/10.1088/2051-672X/ab152a

Surface topography modifications due to wear or other factors are usually investigated by visual and microscopic inspection, and – when quantitative assessment is required – through the computation of surface texture parameters. However, the current... Read More about Assessment of surface topography modifications through feature-based registration of areal topography data.

Novel Motor-Shaped Rotational Inductor for Motor Drive Applications (2019)
Journal Article
Odhano, S., Khowja, M. R., Gerada, C., Vakil, G., Abebe, R., Odhano, S. A., …Wheeler, P. (2020). Novel Motor-Shaped Rotational Inductor for Motor Drive Applications. IEEE Transactions on Industrial Electronics, 67(3), 1844-1854. https://doi.org/10.1109/tie.2019.2907512

This paper presents a validation of the novel motor-shaped rotational inductor. To validate the concept, 12 slots 2 poles rotational inductor is tested at different supply frequencies and rotor speeds. Experimental results have shown that the iron lo... Read More about Novel Motor-Shaped Rotational Inductor for Motor Drive Applications.

Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes (2019)
Journal Article
Chadborn, N., Blair, K., Creswick, H., Perez Vallejos, E., Hughes, N., Dowthwaite, L., & Adenekan, O. (2019). Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes. Healthcare, 7(2), Article 54. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare7020054

Background: Technology-enabled healthcare or smart health has provided a wealth of products and services to enable older people to monitor and manage their own health conditions at home, thereby maintaining independence, whilst also reducing healthca... Read More about Citizens’ juries: when older adults deliberate on the benefits and risks of smart health and smart homes.

Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Glucose Prediction (2019)
Journal Article
Li, K., Daniels, J., Liu, C., Herrero-Vinas, P., & Georgiou, P. (2020). Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Glucose Prediction. IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 24(2), 603-613. https://doi.org/10.1109/jbhi.2019.2908488

© 2013 IEEE. Control of blood glucose is essential for diabetes management. Current digital therapeutic approaches for subjects with type 1 diabetes mellitus such as the artificial pancreas and insulin bolus calculators leverage machine learning tech... Read More about Convolutional Recurrent Neural Networks for Glucose Prediction.

A holistic inverse approach based on a multi-objective function optimisation model to recover elastic-plastic properties of materials from the depth-sensing indentation test (2019)
Journal Article
Iracheta, O., Bennett, C., & Sun, W. (2019). A holistic inverse approach based on a multi-objective function optimisation model to recover elastic-plastic properties of materials from the depth-sensing indentation test. Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids, 128, 1-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmps.2019.04.001

Recent years have seen an increased interest in the mechanical characterisation of materials via the inverse analysis of depth-sensing indentation data; however, at low-loads both the reaction forces measured by the instrument and the contact evoluti... Read More about A holistic inverse approach based on a multi-objective function optimisation model to recover elastic-plastic properties of materials from the depth-sensing indentation test.

Analysis of the Spatial Characteristics of Stanley Resso Residence (2019)
Journal Article
Wang, K., Liu, F., & Tang, Y. (2019). Analysis of the Spatial Characteristics of Stanley Resso Residence. Zhuzhai ke-ji, 2019(03), 42-47. doi:10.13626/j.cnki.hs.2019.03.009

Resso residence has an important meaning for us to understand the change of the architectural space concept in the process of Mies design, especially his understanding of the relationship between interior and exterior space. This article focuses on t... Read More about Analysis of the Spatial Characteristics of Stanley Resso Residence.

Small-Signal Modelling and Stability Assessment of Phase-Locked Loops in Weak Grids (2019)
Journal Article
Burgos-Mellado, C., Costabeber, A., Sumner, M., Cárdenas-Dobson, R., & Sáez, D. (2019). Small-Signal Modelling and Stability Assessment of Phase-Locked Loops in Weak Grids. Energies, 12(7), 1227. https://doi.org/10.3390/en12071227

This paper proposes a low-complexity small signal model for a 3-leg converter connected to a balanced three-phase, three-wire weak grid and synchronised to this grid using a PLL implemented in a synchronous rotating d-q axis. A thorough analysis of t... Read More about Small-Signal Modelling and Stability Assessment of Phase-Locked Loops in Weak Grids.

Fluid dynamics of the slip boundary condition for isothermal rimming flow with moderate inertial effects (2019)
Journal Article
Nicholson, J., Power, H., Tammisola, O., Hibberd, S., & Kay, E. (2019). Fluid dynamics of the slip boundary condition for isothermal rimming flow with moderate inertial effects. Physics of Fluids, 31(3), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1063/1.5085497

Motivated by evaluating coating oil films within bearing chambers in an aero-engine application, an analysis is presented for the fluid dynamics relevant in their dual capacity as both coolant and lubricant in highly sheared flows that may approach m... Read More about Fluid dynamics of the slip boundary condition for isothermal rimming flow with moderate inertial effects.

Modelling Urban Housing Stocks for Building Energy Simulation using CityGML EnergyADE (2019)
Journal Article
Rosser, J. F., Long, G., Zakhary, S., Boyd, D. S., Mao, Y., & Robinson, D. (2019). Modelling Urban Housing Stocks for Building Energy Simulation using CityGML EnergyADE. ISPRS International Journal of Geo-Information, 8(4), Article 163. https://doi.org/10.3390/ijgi8040163

Understanding the energy demand of a city’s housing stock is an important focus for local and national administrations to identify strategies for reducing carbon emissions. Building energy simulation offers a promising approach to understand energy u... Read More about Modelling Urban Housing Stocks for Building Energy Simulation using CityGML EnergyADE.