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Real-time Boundary Element Stress Analysis (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Foster, T., Mohamed, M., Trevelyan, J., & Coates, G. (2013). Real-time Boundary Element Stress Analysis.

Significant improvements in the efficiency of the mechanical design process can be made through interactive stress analysis, in which re-analysis is performed in real-time on models with continuously updating geometry. Once the initial model has been... Read More about Real-time Boundary Element Stress Analysis.

Concepts of self-repairing systems (2013)
Journal Article
Bell, C., McWilliam, R., Purvis, A., & Tiwari, A. (2013). Concepts of self-repairing systems. Measurement and Control, 46(6), 176-179. https://doi.org/10.1177/0020294013492285

Systems fail. Period. No matter how much planning and fault analysis is performed, it is impossible to create a perfectly reliable machine. The existing approach to improving reliability invariably involves advances in fault prediction and detection... Read More about Concepts of self-repairing systems.

Organic Rankine cycles in waste heat recovery: a comparative study (2013)
Journal Article
Auld, A., Berson, A., & Hogg, S. I. (2013). Organic Rankine cycles in waste heat recovery: a comparative study. International Journal of Low-Carbon Technologies, 8(Supplement 1), 9-18. https://doi.org/10.1093/ijlct/ctt033

A theoretical study of organic Rankine cycles (ORCs) powered by three different waste heat sources is presented. The heat sources, all found in industrial processes, span a range of energy scales capable of powering ORCs from ∼10 kW to 10 MW. A novel... Read More about Organic Rankine cycles in waste heat recovery: a comparative study.

Offshore Wind Farm Asset Management: Past Experiences and Future Challenges. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Williams, R., Crabtree, C., & Hogg, S. (2013). Offshore Wind Farm Asset Management: Past Experiences and Future Challenges. In Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2013: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 8: Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind Energy; Honors and Awards. San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 3–7, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2013-94434

This paper considers the asset management of offshore wind farms and, in particular, how this will change as wind farms increase significantly in capacity and move to sites further offshore. Health monitoring, industrial operational structures, infra... Read More about Offshore Wind Farm Asset Management: Past Experiences and Future Challenges..

Reliability Evaluation of New Offshore Wind Farm Electrical Grid Connection Topologies. (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Kazemtabrizi, B., Crabtree, C., & Hogg, S. (2013). Reliability Evaluation of New Offshore Wind Farm Electrical Grid Connection Topologies. In Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2013: Turbine Technical Conference and Exposition. Volume 8: Supercritical CO2 Power Cycles; Wind Energy; Honors and Awards. San Antonio, Texas, USA, June 3–7, 2013. https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2013-94326

In this paper, a composite generation transmission approach has been chosen for adequacy evaluation of wind farms integrated with conventional generating units. It has been assumed that the failure characteristics of a turbine’s underlying subassembl... Read More about Reliability Evaluation of New Offshore Wind Farm Electrical Grid Connection Topologies..

Mass transfer limitations (2013)
Journal Article
Field, R., & Wu, J. (2013). Mass transfer limitations. Desalination, 318, 118-124. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.desal.2013.01.025

The key process engineering differences between reverse osmosis (RO) forward osmosis (FO) and pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) are emphasized. Attention is drawn to the importance of mass transfer limitations which are more severe in FO than in other... Read More about Mass transfer limitations.

Application of an Air-Curtain Fluidic Jet Type Seal to Reduce Turbine Shroud Leakage (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Auld, A., Hilfer, M., Hogg, S., Ingram, G., & Messenger, A. (2013). Application of an Air-Curtain Fluidic Jet Type Seal to Reduce Turbine Shroud Leakage. In Proceedings of the ASME turbo expo - Turbine technical conference and exposition 2013 : presented at the ASME 2013 turbo expo - Turbine technical conference and exposition, June 3-7, 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA. https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2013-94198

This paper describes the design and optimization of an ‘air-curtain’ type seal using a fluidic jet to reduce tip leakage losses on a small high-speed single stage axial turbine device. The application will essentially demonstrate proof of concept for... Read More about Application of an Air-Curtain Fluidic Jet Type Seal to Reduce Turbine Shroud Leakage.

A Novel Method of Coupling the Steam Turbine Exhaust Hood and the Last Stage Blades Using the Non-Linear Harmonic Method (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Burton, Z., Ingram, G., & Hogg, S. (2013). A Novel Method of Coupling the Steam Turbine Exhaust Hood and the Last Stage Blades Using the Non-Linear Harmonic Method. In Proceedings of the ASME turbo expo - Turbine technical conference and exposition 2013 : presented at the ASME 2013 turbo expo - Turbine technical conference and exposition, June 3-7, 2013, San Antonio, Texas, USA. https://doi.org/10.1115/gt2013-94184

The exhaust hood of a steam turbine is a vital area of turbomachinery research its performance strongly influences the power output of the last stage blades. It is well known that accurate CFD simulations are only achieved when the last stage blades... Read More about A Novel Method of Coupling the Steam Turbine Exhaust Hood and the Last Stage Blades Using the Non-Linear Harmonic Method.

Modeling uncertain and dynamic casualty health in optimization-based decision support for mass casualty incident response (2013)
Journal Article
Wilson, D., Hawe, G., Coates, G., & Crouch, R. (2013). Modeling uncertain and dynamic casualty health in optimization-based decision support for mass casualty incident response. International Journal of Information Systems for Crisis Response and Management, 5(2), 32-44. https://doi.org/10.4018/jiscrm.2013040103

When designing a decision support program for use in coordinating the response to Mass Casualty Incidents, the modelling of the health of casualties presents a significant challenge. In this paper we propose one such health model, capable of acknowle... Read More about Modeling uncertain and dynamic casualty health in optimization-based decision support for mass casualty incident response.

A Seal Assembly (2013)
Patent
Hogg, S., & Hilfer, M. (2013). A Seal Assembly

The present invention relates to a seal assembly for use in between two components between which there is relative rotational movement, particularly but not exclusively, a shrouded axial flow turbine rotatably mounted within a turbine housing in a tu... Read More about A Seal Assembly.

Towards understanding learning behavior patterns in social adaptive personalized e-learning systems (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Shi, L., Cristea, A., Awan, M., Stewart, C., & Hendrix, M. (2013). Towards understanding learning behavior patterns in social adaptive personalized e-learning systems. In Hyperconnected World: Anything, Anywhere, Anytime; Proceedings of the 19th Americas Conference on Information Systems (AMCIS 2013) (1-10)

Implicit user modeling has always long since played an important role in supporting personalized web-based e-learning environments and is increasingly important in other learning environments such as serious games. Its main concern is to unobtrusivel... Read More about Towards understanding learning behavior patterns in social adaptive personalized e-learning systems.

Focused ion beam and field-emission microscopy of metallic filaments in memory devices based on thin films of an ambipolar organic compound consisting of oxadiazole, carbazole and fluorene units (2013)
Journal Article
Pearson, C., Bowen, L., Lee, M., Fisher, A., Linton, K., Bryce, M., & Petty, M. (2013). Focused ion beam and field-emission microscopy of metallic filaments in memory devices based on thin films of an ambipolar organic compound consisting of oxadiazole, carbazole and fluorene units. Applied Physics Letters, 102(21), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4808026

We report on the mechanism of operation of organic thin film resistive memory architectures based on an ambipolar compound consisting of oxadiazole, carbazole, and fluorene units. Cross-sections of the devices have been imaged by electron microscopy... Read More about Focused ion beam and field-emission microscopy of metallic filaments in memory devices based on thin films of an ambipolar organic compound consisting of oxadiazole, carbazole and fluorene units.

Characterization of a hollow core fibre-coupled near field terahertz probe (2013)
Journal Article
Misra, M., Pan, Y., Williams, C., Maier, S., & Andrews, S. (2013). Characterization of a hollow core fibre-coupled near field terahertz probe. Journal of Applied Physics, 113(19), https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4804952

We describe the design and performance of a freely positionable THz near field probe based on a hollow core photonic crystal fibre-coupled photoconducting dipole antenna with an integrated sub-wavelength aperture. Experimental studies of the spatial... Read More about Characterization of a hollow core fibre-coupled near field terahertz probe.

Zero-cost labelling with web feeds for weblog data extraction (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Gkotsis, G., Stepanyan, K., Cristea, A., & Joy, M. (2013). Zero-cost labelling with web feeds for weblog data extraction. In WWW '13 Companion : Proceedings of the 22nd international conference on World Wide Web companion (73-74)

The synthesis of neurotensin antagonist SR 48692 for prostate cancer research (2013)
Journal Article
Baxendale, I., Cheung, S., Kitching, M., Ley, S., & Shearman, J. (2013). The synthesis of neurotensin antagonist SR 48692 for prostate cancer research. Bioorganic and Medicinal Chemistry, 21(14), 4378-4387. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bmc.2013.04.075

An improved synthesis of the molecule SR 48692 is presented and its use as a neurotensin antagonist biological probe for use in cancer research is described. The preparation includes an number of enhanced chemical conversions and strategies to overco... Read More about The synthesis of neurotensin antagonist SR 48692 for prostate cancer research.

Idempotents of the Norton-Sakuma algebras (2013)
Journal Article
Castillo-Ramirez, A. (2013). Idempotents of the Norton-Sakuma algebras. Journal of Group Theory, 16(3), 419-444. https://doi.org/10.1515/jgt-2012-0048

The concept of Majorana representation was introduced by A. A. Ivanov (2009), as a tool to identify and study subalgebras of the Conway–Griess–Norton Monster algebra . Sakuma's theorem in “6-transposition property of -involutions of vertex operator a... Read More about Idempotents of the Norton-Sakuma algebras.

Fabrication of a 3D electrically small antenna using holographic photolithography (2013)
Journal Article
Toriz-Garcia, J., Cowling, J., Williams, G., Bai, Q., Seed, N., Tennant, A., …Ivey, P. (2013). Fabrication of a 3D electrically small antenna using holographic photolithography. Journal of Micromechanics and Microengineering, 23(5), Article 055010. https://doi.org/10.1088/0960-1317/23/5/055010

We describe the novel fabrication of a 3D electrical small antenna and its subsequent characterization. The patterning of meander lines conformed onto a hemispherical substrate is achieved by 3D holographic photolithography, which uses time-division... Read More about Fabrication of a 3D electrically small antenna using holographic photolithography.

Demography of a carnivore, the red fox, Vulpes vulpes,: what have we learnt from 70 years of published studies? (2013)
Journal Article
Devenish-Nelson, E., Harris, S., Soulsbury, C., Richards, S., & Stephens, P. (2013). Demography of a carnivore, the red fox, Vulpes vulpes,: what have we learnt from 70 years of published studies?. Oikos, 122(5), 705-716. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1600-0706.2012.20706.x

Populations of the same species often face different selection pressures and, increasingly, the demography of populations within a species has been shown to be highly variable. Knowledge of such intraspecific differences has implications for substitu... Read More about Demography of a carnivore, the red fox, Vulpes vulpes,: what have we learnt from 70 years of published studies?.

A Literature Review of Low Pressure Steam Turbine Exhaust Hood and Diffuser Studies (2013)
Journal Article
Burton, Z., Ingram, G., & Hogg, S. (2013). A Literature Review of Low Pressure Steam Turbine Exhaust Hood and Diffuser Studies. Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbines and Power, 135(6), Article 062001. https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4023611

This paper summarizes the findings from research studies carried out over the last 30 years, to better understand the flows in steam turbine low pressure exhaust hoods and diffusers. The work aims to highlight the areas where further study is still r... Read More about A Literature Review of Low Pressure Steam Turbine Exhaust Hood and Diffuser Studies.

State-of-the-Art Techniques and Challenges Ahead for Distributed Generation Planning and Optimization (2013)
Journal Article
Keane, A., Ochoa, L., Borges, C., Ault, G., Alarcon-Rodriguez, A., Currie, R., …Harrison, G. (2013). State-of-the-Art Techniques and Challenges Ahead for Distributed Generation Planning and Optimization. IEEE Transactions on Power Systems, 28(2), 1493-1502. https://doi.org/10.1109/tpwrs.2012.2214406

It is difficult to estimate how much distributed generation (DG) capacity will be connected to distribution systems in the coming years; however, it is certain that increasing penetration levels require robust tools that help assess the capabilities... Read More about State-of-the-Art Techniques and Challenges Ahead for Distributed Generation Planning and Optimization.