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CRB-RPL: A Receiver-based Routing Protocol for Communications in Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid (2016)
Journal Article
Yang, Z., Ping, S., Sun, H., & Aghvami, A. H. (2016). CRB-RPL: A Receiver-based Routing Protocol for Communications in Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 66(7), 5985-5994. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvt.2016.2617874

As a tool of overcoming radio spectrum shortages in wireless communications, cognitive radio technology plays a vital role in future smart grid applications, particularly in Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) networks with Quality of Service (QoS... Read More about CRB-RPL: A Receiver-based Routing Protocol for Communications in Cognitive Radio Enabled Smart Grid.

A unified mechanical and retention model for saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour (2016)
Journal Article
Lloret-Cabot, M., Wheeler, S. J., & Sánchez, M. (2017). A unified mechanical and retention model for saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour. Acta Geotechnica, 12(1), 1-21. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11440-016-0497-x

The coupled mechanical and water retention elasto-plastic constitutive model of Wheeler, Sharma and Buisson (the Glasgow coupled model, GCM) predicts unique unsaturated isotropic normal compression and unsaturated critical state planar surfaces for s... Read More about A unified mechanical and retention model for saturated and unsaturated soil behaviour.

Improving seabed cable plough performance for offshore renewable energy (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Robinson, S., Brown, M., Brennan, A., Cortis, M., Augarde, C., & Coombs, W. (2016, October). Improving seabed cable plough performance for offshore renewable energy. Presented at 2nd International Conference on Renewable Energies Offshore, Lisbon, Spain

Seabed ploughing plays an important part in providing protection to subsea cables that connect offshore renewables, and the process represents a significant portion of the overall installation cost. Current models for predicting the required tow forc... Read More about Improving seabed cable plough performance for offshore renewable energy.

Investigation into train positioning systems for saving energy with optimised train trajectories (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Hamid, H. A., Nicholson, G. L., Douglas, H., Zhao, N., & Roberts, C. (2016, August). Investigation into train positioning systems for saving energy with optimised train trajectories. Presented at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2016, Birmingham

One approach to reduce energy consumption in railway systems is to implement optimised train trajectories. These are speed profiles that reduce energy consumption without foregoing customer comfort or running times. This is achieved by avoiding unnec... Read More about Investigation into train positioning systems for saving energy with optimised train trajectories.

Evaluation of Permanent Magnet Motor energy saving technology for different types of railways (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Douglas, H., Schmid, F., Roberts, C., & Hillmansen, S. (2016, August). Evaluation of Permanent Magnet Motor energy saving technology for different types of railways. Presented at 2016 IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Rail Transportation, ICIRT 2016, Birmingham

the majority of drive chain losses in railway vehicles are attributable to motor inefficiency. An attractive solution to reduce these losses, and the associated energy consumption, is the implementation of Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor (PMSM) te... Read More about Evaluation of Permanent Magnet Motor energy saving technology for different types of railways.

Noise Robust Image Edge Detection based upon the Automatic Anisotropic Gaussian Kernels (2016)
Journal Article
Zhang, W., Zhao, Y., Breckon, T., & Chen, L. (2016). Noise Robust Image Edge Detection based upon the Automatic Anisotropic Gaussian Kernels. Pattern Recognition, 63(8), 193-205. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.patcog.2016.10.008

This paper presents a novel noise robust edge detector based upon the automatic anisotropic Gaussian kernels (ANGKs), which also addresses the current problem that the seminal Canny edge detector may miss some obvious crossing edge details. Firstly,... Read More about Noise Robust Image Edge Detection based upon the Automatic Anisotropic Gaussian Kernels.

Review of Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations on Complicated Domains (2016)
Book Chapter
Antonietti, P., Cangiani, A., Collis, J., Dong, Z., Georgoulis, E., Giani, S., & Houston, P. (2016). Review of Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations on Complicated Domains. In G. Barrenechea, F. Brezzi, A. Cangiani, & E. Georgoulis (Eds.), Building bridges : connections and challenges in modern approaches to numerical partial differential equations (279-308). Springer Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41640-3_9

The numerical approximation of partial differential equations (PDEs) posed on complicated geometries, which include a large number of small geometrical features or microstructures, represents a challenging computational problem. Indeed, the use of st... Read More about Review of Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Methods for Partial Differential Equations on Complicated Domains.

Enhanced Lifetime of organic photovoltaic diodes utilizing a ternary blend including an insulating polymer (2016)
Journal Article
AL-Busaidi, Z., Pearson, C., Groves, C., & Petty, M. (2016). Enhanced Lifetime of organic photovoltaic diodes utilizing a ternary blend including an insulating polymer. Solar Energy Materials and Solar Cells, 160, 101-106. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.solmat.2016.10.018

We report on the lifetime of unencapsulated organic photovoltaic diodes (OPVs) based on a ternary blend of poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT), phenyl-C61-butyric acid methyl ester (PCBM) and a soft insulating polymer, poly(methyl methacrylate) (PMMA) as c... Read More about Enhanced Lifetime of organic photovoltaic diodes utilizing a ternary blend including an insulating polymer.