Outputs (58)

A simulation model to enable the optimization of ambulance fleet allocation and base station location for increased patient survival (2015)
Journal Article
McCormack, R., & Coates, G. (2015). A simulation model to enable the optimization of ambulance fleet allocation and base station location for increased patient survival. European Journal of Operational Research, 247(1), 294-309. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejor.2015.05.040

An effective emergency medical service (EMS) is a critical part of any health care system. This paper presents the optimization of EMS vehicle fleet allocation and base station location through the use of a genetic algorithm (GA) with an integrated E... Read More about A simulation model to enable the optimization of ambulance fleet allocation and base station location for increased patient survival.

Improving agent-based simulation of major incident response in the United Kingdom through conceptual and operational validation (2015)
Journal Article
Hawe, G., Coates, G., Wilson, D., & Crouch, R. (2015). Improving agent-based simulation of major incident response in the United Kingdom through conceptual and operational validation. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 7(4), Article 1. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijiscram.2015100101

The aim of this paper is to report on how the credibility of an agent-based model (ABM) of the United Kingdom emergency services' response to major incidents has been improved through a process of conceptual validation, and how the ABM's software imp... Read More about Improving agent-based simulation of major incident response in the United Kingdom through conceptual and operational validation.

Extended isogeometric boundary element method (XIBEM) for three-dimensional medium-wave acoustic scattering problems (2015)
Journal Article
Peake, M., Trevelyan, J., & Coates, G. (2015). Extended isogeometric boundary element method (XIBEM) for three-dimensional medium-wave acoustic scattering problems. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 284, 762-780. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2014.10.039

A boundary element method (BEM), based on non-uniform rational B-splines (NURBS), is used to find solutions to three-dimensional wave scattering problems governed by the Helmholtz equation. The method is extended in a partition-of-unity sense, multip... Read More about Extended isogeometric boundary element method (XIBEM) for three-dimensional medium-wave acoustic scattering problems.

Designing an agent-based model of SMEs to assess flood response strategies and resilience (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, C., Coates, G., McGuinness, M., & Johnson, N. (2015, January). Designing an agent-based model of SMEs to assess flood response strategies and resilience. Presented at International conference on flood resilience, Zurich, Switzerland

In the UK, flooding is responsible for significant losses to the economy due to the impact on businesses, the vast majority of which are Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Businesses of this nature tend to lack formal plans to aid their response to... Read More about Designing an agent-based model of SMEs to assess flood response strategies and resilience.

Evaluation of centralised and autonomous routing strategies in major incident response (2014)
Journal Article
Wilson, D., Hawe, G., Coates, G., & Crouch, R. (2014). Evaluation of centralised and autonomous routing strategies in major incident response. Safety Science, 70, 80-88. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssci.2014.05.001

Fast and efficient routing of emergency responders during the response to mass casualty incidents is a critical element of success. However, the predictability of the associated travel times can also have a significant effect on performance during th... Read More about Evaluation of centralised and autonomous routing strategies in major incident response.

Dynamically-controlled variable-fidelity modelling for aircraft structural design optimisation (2014)
Journal Article
Allen, J., Coates, G., & Trevelyan, J. (2014). Dynamically-controlled variable-fidelity modelling for aircraft structural design optimisation. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, 228(8), 1434-1449. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954410013493074

Structural mass optimisation of an aircraft design is important in increasing the likelihood that a high quality airframe is designed of minimal weight whilst providing necessary resistance to load. Analysis of such structures is often performed at a... Read More about Dynamically-controlled variable-fidelity modelling for aircraft structural design optimisation.

3D Extended Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (XIBEM) for Acoustic Wave Scattering (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peake, M., Trevelyan, J., Coates, G., Javadi, A., & Hussain, M. S. (2014, April). 3D Extended Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (XIBEM) for Acoustic Wave Scattering. Presented at 22nd Conference of the UK Association for Computational Mechanics in Engineering, Exeter, UK

An isogeometric boundary element method based on NURBS is used to find solutions to the Helmholtz equation. The method is extended in a partition-of-unity sense, multiplying the NURBS functions with families of plane waves; this new method is called... Read More about 3D Extended Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (XIBEM) for Acoustic Wave Scattering.

The equal spacing of N points on a sphere with application to partition-of-unity wave diffraction problems (2014)
Journal Article
Peake, M., Trevelyan, J., & Coates, G. (2014). The equal spacing of N points on a sphere with application to partition-of-unity wave diffraction problems. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 40, 114-122. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enganabound.2013.11.020

This paper addresses applications involving the selection of a set of points on a sphere, in which the uniformity of spacing can be of importance in enhancing the computational performance and/or the accuracy of some simulation. For the authors, the... Read More about The equal spacing of N points on a sphere with application to partition-of-unity wave diffraction problems.

Agent-based modelling and inundation prediction to enable the identification of businesses affected by flooding (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Coates, G., Hawe, G., Wright, N., Ahilan, S., Proverbs, D., & Brebbia, C. (2014, December). Agent-based modelling and inundation prediction to enable the identification of businesses affected by flooding. Presented at 4th International Conference on Flood Recovery, Innovation and Response, Poznan, Poland

Flooding continues to cause significant disruption to individuals, organisations and communities in many parts of the world. In terms of the impact on businesses in the United Kingdom (UK), flooding is responsible for the loss of millions of pounds t... Read More about Agent-based modelling and inundation prediction to enable the identification of businesses affected by flooding.

The Extended Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (XIBEM): An Enriched Collocation BEM for Wave Scattering Analysis (2014)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Peake, M., Trevelyan, J., & Coates, G. (2023, July). The Extended Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (XIBEM): An Enriched Collocation BEM for Wave Scattering Analysis. Presented at 10th World Congress on Computational Mechanics, Barcelona, Spain

Isogeometric analysis [1] is an increasingly popular research topic. By using the functions that describe geometries in computer-aided design (CAD) directly in numerical analysis, it oers the possibility of running engineering simulations without the... Read More about The Extended Isogeometric Boundary Element Method (XIBEM): An Enriched Collocation BEM for Wave Scattering Analysis.