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Performance investigation of a novel low-carbon solar-assisted multi-source heat pump heating system demonstrated in a public building in Hull (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Li, Z., Song, Z., Fan, Y., Zhao, X., & Li, J. (2024). Performance investigation of a novel low-carbon solar-assisted multi-source heat pump heating system demonstrated in a public building in Hull. Energy Conversion and Management, 300, Article 117979. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2023.117979

Global climate change has raised great attention from governments and prompted a wave of application of low-carbon heating technologies. However, solar-assisted heat pump, as an attractive technology, has challenges of unstable performance and comple... Read More about Performance investigation of a novel low-carbon solar-assisted multi-source heat pump heating system demonstrated in a public building in Hull.

Specialty grand challenge: renaming our section to “Carbon Dioxide Removal” (2023)
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Renforth, P., Bellamy, R., Beerling, D., Boettcher, M., Bonalumi, D., Brandão, M., Fridahl, M., Fuss, S., Hansson, A., Heyward, C., Kolosz, B., Lamers, P., McLaren, D., Pomi, R., Sanchez, D. L., Shayegh, S., Sick, V., Van der Spek, M., Vishal, V., & Wilcox, J. (2023). Specialty grand challenge: renaming our section to “Carbon Dioxide Removal”. Frontiers in Climate, 5, Article 1279109. https://doi.org/10.3389/fclim.2023.1279109

A novel solar-driven Organic Rankine Cycle system based on the two-stage solar thermal collection and accumulation (2023)
Journal Article
Gao, D., Li, J., Hao, Y., & Pei, G. (2023). A novel solar-driven Organic Rankine Cycle system based on the two-stage solar thermal collection and accumulation. Applied thermal engineering, 234, Article 121249. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2023.121249

Solar thermal power has attracted much attention because it is instrumental to solar energy storage and power grid peak shaving. Among the various solar thermal power technologies, the Organic Rankine Cycle stands out as a prevalent choice for low an... Read More about A novel solar-driven Organic Rankine Cycle system based on the two-stage solar thermal collection and accumulation.

Eco-economic performance and application potential of a novel dual-source heat pump heating system (2023)
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Li, Y., Cui, Y., Song, Z., Zhao, X., Li, J., & Shen, C. (2023). Eco-economic performance and application potential of a novel dual-source heat pump heating system. Energy, 283, Article 128478. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2023.128478

Decarbonization of building heating is the key to carbon neutrality. Heat pumps have great potential to replace non-renewable heating devices, thus creating economic and renewable heating systems. To overcome the application challenges of conventiona... Read More about Eco-economic performance and application potential of a novel dual-source heat pump heating system.

Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings (2023)
Journal Article
Brookes, E. (2023). Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings. Planning Theory & Practice, 24(3), 391-393. https://doi.org/10.1080/14649357.2023.2230046

Robin Hood Gardens (RHG) was a brutalist social housing estate in Poplar, East London, built in 1972 by British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and since 2017 has been undergoing demolition to be turned into luxury flats as part of the Blackwal... Read More about Robin Hood Gardens: The Aesthetic Politics of Listed Buildings.

Time-Lapse Seafloor Surveys Reveal How Turbidity Currents and Internal Tides in Monterey Canyon Interact With the Seabed at Centimeter-Scale (2023)
Journal Article
Wolfson-Schwehr, M., Paull, C. K., Caress, D. W., Gwiazda, R., Nieminski, N. M., Talling, P. J., Carvajal, C., Simmons, S., & Troni, G. (2023). Time-Lapse Seafloor Surveys Reveal How Turbidity Currents and Internal Tides in Monterey Canyon Interact With the Seabed at Centimeter-Scale. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 128(4), Article e2022JF006705. https://doi.org/10.1029/2022JF006705

Here we show how ultra-high resolution seabed mapping using new technology can help to understand processes that sculpt submarine canyons. Time-lapse seafloor surveys were conducted in the axis of Monterey Canyon, ∼50km from the canyon head (∼1,840m... Read More about Time-Lapse Seafloor Surveys Reveal How Turbidity Currents and Internal Tides in Monterey Canyon Interact With the Seabed at Centimeter-Scale.

The unsteady overtopping of barriers by gravity currents and dam-break flows (2023)
Journal Article
Skevington, E. W., & Hogg, A. J. (2023). The unsteady overtopping of barriers by gravity currents and dam-break flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 960, Article A27. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2023.187

The collision of a gravitationally driven horizontal current with a barrier following release from a confining lock is investigated using a shallow water model of the motion, together with a sophisticated boundary condition capturing the local intera... Read More about The unsteady overtopping of barriers by gravity currents and dam-break flows.

Experimental investigation of a novel two-stage heat recovery heat pump system employing the vapor injection compressor at cold ambience and high water temperature conditions (2023)
Journal Article
Li, Y., Li, Z., Fan, Y., Zeng, C., Cui, Y., Zhao, X., Li, J., Chen, Y., Chen, J., & Shen, C. (2023). Experimental investigation of a novel two-stage heat recovery heat pump system employing the vapor injection compressor at cold ambience and high water temperature conditions. Renewable energy, 205, 678-694. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2023.01.101

Heat pumps (HPs) are energy-efficient space heating devices that are key to global carbon reduction and carbon neutrality. However, current commercial HPs have performance issues in cold climates where space heating is needed most, including low COP... Read More about Experimental investigation of a novel two-stage heat recovery heat pump system employing the vapor injection compressor at cold ambience and high water temperature conditions.

Multi-fidelity modelling of shark skin denticle flows: insights into drag generation mechanisms (2023)
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Lloyd, C., Mittal, K., Dutta, S., Dorrell, R. M., Peakall, J., Keevil, G. M., & Burns, A. D. (2023). Multi-fidelity modelling of shark skin denticle flows: insights into drag generation mechanisms. Royal Society Open Science, 10(2), Article 220684. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220684

We investigate the flow over smooth (non-ribletted) shark skin denticles in an open-channel flow using direct numerical simulation (DNS) and two Reynolds averaged Navier-Stokes (RANS) closures. Large peaks in pressure and viscous drag are observed at... Read More about Multi-fidelity modelling of shark skin denticle flows: insights into drag generation mechanisms.

Density stratification controls the bedform phase diagram of saline-gravity currents versus open-channel flows (2023)
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Ohata, K., de Cala, I., Dorrell, R. M., Naruse, H., McLelland, S. J., Simmons, S. M., & McCaffrey, W. D. (in press). Density stratification controls the bedform phase diagram of saline-gravity currents versus open-channel flows. Sedimentology, https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.13075

Sedimentary bedforms such as ripples and dunes are generated both by river flows and sediment-laden gravity currents. Gravity current deposits are usually parameterized using existing bedform phase diagrams which are based on data from laboratory exp... Read More about Density stratification controls the bedform phase diagram of saline-gravity currents versus open-channel flows.