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Field Weakening Design for a High Speed Nine-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine in More Electric Aircraft (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Tang, M., Chen, Y., & Yang, T. (2022). Field Weakening Design for a High Speed Nine-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine in More Electric Aircraft. In 2022 IEEE/AIAA Transportation Electrification Conference and Electric Aircraft Technologies Symposium (ITEC+EATS) (1093-1096). https://doi.org/10.1109/ITEC53557.2022.9813972

High speed multi-phase permanent magnet synchronous machine (PMSM) offers increased power density and fault-tolerant ability, which qualifies it a promising solution for the ever-increasing power and reliability demands of more electric aircraft (MEA... Read More about Field Weakening Design for a High Speed Nine-phase Permanent Magnet Synchronous Machine in More Electric Aircraft.

Numerical Simulation of Multi-Scale Oil Films on a Rotating Cup Using VOF and Coupled Eulerian Thin-Film-DPM Approaches (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Nicoli, A., Singh, K., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Ambrose, S., & Mouvanal, S. (2022). Numerical Simulation of Multi-Scale Oil Films on a Rotating Cup Using VOF and Coupled Eulerian Thin-Film-DPM Approaches. In ASME Turbo Expo 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition. https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2022-82533

In this study, the newly developed Nottingham Gas Turbine and Transmission Research Centre (G2TRC) Bearing Chamber Test Module is presented and investigated computationally. The module houses a rotating cup and shaft configuration in order to simulat... Read More about Numerical Simulation of Multi-Scale Oil Films on a Rotating Cup Using VOF and Coupled Eulerian Thin-Film-DPM Approaches.

Numerical characterisation of noise generated by a distributed-propulsion propeller (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Sharma, S., Huang, G., Ambrose, S., & Jefferson-Loveday, R. (2022). Numerical characterisation of noise generated by a distributed-propulsion propeller. . https://doi.org/10.2514/6.2022-2878

The shift towards sustainable and eco-friendly future of aviation is further catalysed by the aggressive targets set by administrative and industrial stakeholders. It has emerged as one of the solutions with the potential to increase overall efficien... Read More about Numerical characterisation of noise generated by a distributed-propulsion propeller.

Analytical Model for the Open Circuit Field due to Different Magnetization Patterns of the rotor in the Slotless Machines (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Dave, N., Gerada, D., Vakil, G., Zhang, H., Li, J., & Gerada, C. (2022). Analytical Model for the Open Circuit Field due to Different Magnetization Patterns of the rotor in the Slotless Machines. In 2022 International Conference on Electrical Machines (ICEM) (1204-1210). https://doi.org/10.1109/icem51905.2022.9910580

From the existing literature, the open circuit field due to different magnetisations of the rotor magnets is known. This includes field due to parallel, radial and Halbach magnetisation. This paper presents the generalised analytical model to represe... Read More about Analytical Model for the Open Circuit Field due to Different Magnetization Patterns of the rotor in the Slotless Machines.

Investigation of Droplet Shedding in an Aeroengine Bearing Chamber Using Convolutional Neural Networks (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Farbrother, K., Cageao, P. P., Johnson, K., & Ambrose, S. (2022). Investigation of Droplet Shedding in an Aeroengine Bearing Chamber Using Convolutional Neural Networks. In Proceedings of the ASME 2022 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition GT2022 June 13-17, 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-82275

More efficient aeroengines are needed to reduce the environmental impact of civil aviation. Design changes for increased efficiency mean that higher loads are transmitted through the bearings supporting the rotating shafts. Better bearing chamber des... Read More about Investigation of Droplet Shedding in an Aeroengine Bearing Chamber Using Convolutional Neural Networks.

Predictions of falling wavy films based on the depth averaged thin film model and its application to aeroengine bearing chamber (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Singh, K., Nicoli, A., Jefferson-Loveday, R., Ambrose, S., Paleo Cageao, P., Johnson, K., …Jacobs, A. (2022). Predictions of falling wavy films based on the depth averaged thin film model and its application to aeroengine bearing chamber. . https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2022-78010

In the present study, the evolution of a falling wavy film with upstream forced excitation is investigated using the depth averaged thin film model, known as Eulerian Thin Film Model (ETFM). Because of the depth averaging of the governing equations,... Read More about Predictions of falling wavy films based on the depth averaged thin film model and its application to aeroengine bearing chamber.

Experimental Investigation Into Oil Shedding From a Rotating Cup Geometry (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Cageao, P. P., Johnson, K., Ambrose, S., & Omar, R. (2022). Experimental Investigation Into Oil Shedding From a Rotating Cup Geometry. In Proceedings of the ASME 2022 Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition Turbo Expo 2022 June 13-17, 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-82195

Oil shedding from rotating components and static elements within rotating systems has a number of applications within the design and understanding of transmission systems as well as wider industrial applications. There is a reasonable body of prior r... Read More about Experimental Investigation Into Oil Shedding From a Rotating Cup Geometry.

Numerical Investigation Into Maximum Pressure Capability of Intershaft Hydraulic Seals (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Warusevitane, A., Johnson, K., & Ambrose, S. (2022). Numerical Investigation Into Maximum Pressure Capability of Intershaft Hydraulic Seals. In Proceedings of ASME Turbo Expo 2022 Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition GT2022 June 13-17, 2022, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-82196

Hydraulic seals are used as intershaft seals in aero-engines and consist of an oil filled trough on the higher speed shaft and a fin on the lower speed shaft that dips into the oil forming the seal. Rotation is imparted to the sealing fluid within th... Read More about Numerical Investigation Into Maximum Pressure Capability of Intershaft Hydraulic Seals.

Droplet Impact on a Curved Moving Liquid Film (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Sinha, A., Ramakrishnan, V., & Johnson, K. (2022). Droplet Impact on a Curved Moving Liquid Film. In Proceedings of the ASME TURBO EXPO 2022: Turbomachinery Technical Conference & Exposition. GT 2022 June 13-17, 2022, Rotterdam, Netherlands. https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2022-79505

The European Commission has set targets to reduce the emissions of CO2 and NOx by 75% and 90% respectively, per passenger kilometre, by 2050. Computational modelling of elements within the aero-engine will play a key role in achieving this goal. Curr... Read More about Droplet Impact on a Curved Moving Liquid Film.

Exploring self-tracking practices for those with lived experience of bipolar disorder: Learning from combined principles of Patient and Public Involvement and HCI (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Majid, S., Morriss, R., Figueredo, G., & Reeves, S. (2022). Exploring self-tracking practices for those with lived experience of bipolar disorder: Learning from combined principles of Patient and Public Involvement and HCI. In DIS '22: Designing Interactive Systems Conference (1907-1920). https://doi.org/10.1145/3532106.3533531

Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a complex, cyclical and chronic mental illness where self-tracking is central to self-management. Mobile technology is often leveraged to support this. Limited research has investigated the everyday practices of self-tracking... Read More about Exploring self-tracking practices for those with lived experience of bipolar disorder: Learning from combined principles of Patient and Public Involvement and HCI.

What We Ought to Know: How Digital Museums Can Facilitate Reflection and Discourse of The Nigerian Civil War (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Aduro, J., & Davis, P. (2022). What We Ought to Know: How Digital Museums Can Facilitate Reflection and Discourse of The Nigerian Civil War.

The Nigerian Civil War is a key that is often unspoken of in public or taught in schools, despite its aftermath still being felt decades later in Nigerian society. In this paper, we make a case for how a digital museum offers room to reflect, discuss... Read More about What We Ought to Know: How Digital Museums Can Facilitate Reflection and Discourse of The Nigerian Civil War.

On the Fine Interior of Three-Dimensional Canonical Fano Polytopes (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Batyrev, V., Kasprzyk, A., & Schaller, K. (2022). On the Fine Interior of Three-Dimensional Canonical Fano Polytopes. In Interactions with Lattice Polytopes (11-47). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98327-7_2

The Fine interior ∆FI of a d-dimensional lattice polytope ∆ is a rational subpolytope of ∆ which is important for constructing minimal birational models of non-degenerate hypersurfaces defined by Laurent polynomials with Newton polytope ∆. This paper... Read More about On the Fine Interior of Three-Dimensional Canonical Fano Polytopes.

Capacitive effects and memristive switching in three terminal multilayered MoS 2 devices (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Gater, M., Adawi, A. M., & Kemp, N. T. (2022). Capacitive effects and memristive switching in three terminal multilayered MoS 2 devices. In 2022 IEEE International Symposium on Circuits and Systems (ISCAS)

We report on the electrical properties of gated two-terminal multilayered molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) memristor devices having a planar architecture. The approach based on highly dispersed MoS2 flakes drop cast onto a bottom gated Si/SiO2 (100nm) waf... Read More about Capacitive effects and memristive switching in three terminal multilayered MoS 2 devices.

Interactions with Lattice Polytopes (2022)
Conference Proceeding
(2022). Interactions with Lattice Polytopes. In A. M. Kasprzyk, & B. Nill (Eds.), Interactions with Lattice Polytopes. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-98327-7

This book collects together original research and survey articles highlighting the fertile interdisciplinary applications of convex lattice polytopes in modern mathematics. Covering a diverse range of topics, including algebraic geometry, mirror symm... Read More about Interactions with Lattice Polytopes.

Settlement analysis of column-like elements (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Wanatowski, D., Al-Ani, W., & Grizi, A. (2022). Settlement analysis of column-like elements. In Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering, Sydney 2021

In recent years, column-like elements have been recognized as an effective ground improvement method to support superstructures constructed on soft soils. Different types of columns are characterized by different construction techniques, rigidity and... Read More about Settlement analysis of column-like elements.

Frequency scanning interferometry for accurate robot position measurement (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Isa, M. A., Khanesar, M. A., Leach, R., Branson, D., & Piano, S. (2022). Frequency scanning interferometry for accurate robot position measurement. In Proceedings of 22nd International Conference & Exhibition

This paper presents a frequency scanning interferometry (FSI) shortwave infrared (IR) setup developed for position and orientation measurement of industrial robots. Within contemporary and future industrial frameworks, robots—in particular collaborat... Read More about Frequency scanning interferometry for accurate robot position measurement.

Push-to-See: Learning Non-Prehensile Manipulation to Enhance Instance Segmentation via Deep Q-Learning (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Serhan, B., Pandya, H., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Neumann, G. (2022). Push-to-See: Learning Non-Prehensile Manipulation to Enhance Instance Segmentation via Deep Q-Learning. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022) (1513-1519). https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA46639.2022.9811645

Efficient robotic manipulation of objects for sorting and searching often rely upon how well the objects are perceived and the available grasp poses. The challenge arises when the objects are irregular, have similar visual features (e.g., textureless... Read More about Push-to-See: Learning Non-Prehensile Manipulation to Enhance Instance Segmentation via Deep Q-Learning.

Responsible AI, SDGs, and AI Governance in Africa (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Wakunuma, K., Ogoh, G., Eke, D. O., & Akintoye, S. (2022). Responsible AI, SDGs, and AI Governance in Africa. In 2022 IST-Africa Conference (IST-Africa). https://doi.org/10.23919/IST-Africa56635.2022.9845598

More than ever before, AI is now an area of national strategic importance. This has become quite evident with the proliferation of national AI strategies since the first was launched in Canada in 2017. There is now an ever-growing body of national AI... Read More about Responsible AI, SDGs, and AI Governance in Africa.

Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Midha, S., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2022). Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life. In CHI '22 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (1-16). https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3517690

We can now buy consumer brain-computer interface devices to help us meditate and focus, but what are we aiming to achieve? Mental workload (MWL) is an established concept, and as a form of personal data could be useful for making positive life change... Read More about Lived Experiences of Mental Workload in Everyday Life.

Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Benford, S., Sundnes Løvlie, A., Ryding, K., Rajkowska, P., Bodiaj, E., Paris Darzentas, D., …Spanjevic, B. (2022). Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum. In CHI '22: Proceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3491102.3502080

Museums are interested in designing emotional visitor experiences to complement traditional interpretations. HCI is interested in the relationship between Affective Computing and Affective Interaction. We describe Sensitive Pictures, an emotional vis... Read More about Sensitive Pictures: Emotional Interpretation in the Museum.