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Modelling the electromagnetic separation of non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through a two-stage multichannel (2011)
Journal Article
Shu, D., Mi, J., Wang, J., & Sun, B. (2011). Modelling the electromagnetic separation of non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through a two-stage multichannel. Isij International, 51(1), 21-26. https://doi.org/10.2355/isijinternational.51.21

A two-stage multichannel was designed to increase the efficiency of separating non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through an alternating magnetic field. Numerical method was developed to calculate the particle concentration and separati... Read More about Modelling the electromagnetic separation of non-metallic particles from liquid metal flowing through a two-stage multichannel.

On the recovery of moving source characteristics using time-frequency approach (2011)
Journal Article
Tam, K. C., Tang, S. K., & Lau, S. K. (2012). On the recovery of moving source characteristics using time-frequency approach. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 73(4), 366-378. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.10.012

Four time-frequency analysis techniques, namely the short-time Fourier transform, the wavelet transform, the polynomial phase estimation and the Chirplet transform, are used in the present study to recover the moving speed, the sound frequency and th... Read More about On the recovery of moving source characteristics using time-frequency approach.

Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome (2011)
Journal Article
Simpson, A., Riggs, K., Beck, S. R., Gorniak, S. L., Wu, Y., Abbott, D., & Diamond, A. (2012). Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome. Developmental Science, 15(1), 62-73. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-7687.2011.01105.x

Understanding (a) how responses become prepotent provides insights into when inhibition is needed in everyday life. Understanding (b) how response prepotency is overcome provides insights for helping children develop strategies for overcoming such te... Read More about Refining the understanding of inhibitory processes: how response prepotency is created and overcome.

Gleeble experiments concerning dendrite re-melting and its role in microstructural evolution in spray formed high-alloy metals (2011)
Journal Article
Zhang, Y., Liu, N., Li, Z., Zhang, G., Yuan, H., Xu, W., Gao, Z., & Mi, J. (2011). Gleeble experiments concerning dendrite re-melting and its role in microstructural evolution in spray formed high-alloy metals. Rare Metals, 30(SUPPL.1), 401-404. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12598-011-0312-7

An experimental approach was designed to understand dendrite fragmentation of atomized droplets deposition in spray materials, and to study the relationship between dendrite fragmentation behavior and subsequent microstructural evolution. A Gleeble 3... Read More about Gleeble experiments concerning dendrite re-melting and its role in microstructural evolution in spray formed high-alloy metals.

An implicit parallel multigrid computing scheme to solve coupled thermal-solute phase-field equations for dendrite evolution (2011)
Journal Article
Guo, Z., Mi, J., & Grant, P. S. (2012). An implicit parallel multigrid computing scheme to solve coupled thermal-solute phase-field equations for dendrite evolution. Journal of Computational Physics, 231(4), 1781-1796. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2011.11.006

An implicit, second-order space and time discretization scheme together with a parallel multigrid method involving a strip grid domain partitioning has been developed to solve fully coupled, nonlinear phase field equations involving solute and heat t... Read More about An implicit parallel multigrid computing scheme to solve coupled thermal-solute phase-field equations for dendrite evolution.

Ammonia removal in anaerobic digestion by biogas stripping: An evaluation of process alternatives using a first order rate model based on experimental findings (2011)
Journal Article
Walker, M., Iyer, K., Heaven, S., & Banks, C. (2011). Ammonia removal in anaerobic digestion by biogas stripping: An evaluation of process alternatives using a first order rate model based on experimental findings. Chemical Engineering Journal, 178, 138-145. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2011.10.027

The feasibility of biogas stripping to remove ammonia in the anaerobic digestion of source segregated food waste was investigated. It was found in batch experiments that ammonia could be removed from digestate and that the removal followed 1st order... Read More about Ammonia removal in anaerobic digestion by biogas stripping: An evaluation of process alternatives using a first order rate model based on experimental findings.

Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview (2011)
Journal Article
Font-Palma, C. (2012). Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview. Energy Conversion and Management, 53(1), 92-98. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2011.08.017

Environmental implications of the disposal of waste from the poultry industry have created the need for proper waste management. As a result, poultry litter has been proposed as a potential fuel candidate for thermal conversion technologies since it... Read More about Characterisation, kinetics and modelling of gasification of poultry manure and litter: An overview.

On weak unsteady signal detection using statistical tests (2011)
Journal Article
Chan, C. M., Tang, S. K., Wong, H., & Lee, W. L. (2012). On weak unsteady signal detection using statistical tests. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 73(2), 164-172. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.06.018

Two statistical tests, namely the Jarque-Bera and the D'Agostino tests, originally adopted for checking data normality are used to recover the initialization of an exponentially growing wave embedded inside a stationary background noise in the presen... Read More about On weak unsteady signal detection using statistical tests.

Mass and energy balance for a rotating-drum composting plant (2011)
Journal Article
Eades, P., Banks, C., Heaven, S., & Walker, M. (2011). Mass and energy balance for a rotating-drum composting plant. Proceedings of the ICE - Waste and Resource Management, 164(3), 151-159. https://doi.org/10.1680/warm.2011.164.3.151

The Bioganix in-vessel composting system at Leominster, UK, received 33 515 t of waste from January 2006 to December 2007, of which 9200 t was source-segregated biodegradable municipal waste (BMW). The process operated with a nominal in-vessel retent... Read More about Mass and energy balance for a rotating-drum composting plant.

Full scale model investigation on the acoustical protection of a balcony-like faade device (L) (2011)
Journal Article
Tong, Y. G., Tang, S. K., & Yeung, M. K. (2011). Full scale model investigation on the acoustical protection of a balcony-like faade device (L). The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 130(2), 673-676. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3598430

The acoustical insertion losses produced by a balcony-like structure in front of a window are examined experimentally. The results suggest that the balcony ceiling is the most appropriate location for the installation of artificial sound absorption f... Read More about Full scale model investigation on the acoustical protection of a balcony-like faade device (L).

Development of a heterogeneous microwave network fade simulation tool applicable to networks that span Europe (2011)
Journal Article
Paulson, K. S., & Basarudin, H. (2011). Development of a heterogeneous microwave network fade simulation tool applicable to networks that span Europe. Radio science, 46(4), Article RS4004. https://doi.org/10.1029/2010rs004608

Several research groups in Europe are developing joint channel simulators for arbitrarily complex networks of terrestrial and slant path, microwave telecommunications links. Currently, the Hull Rain Fade Network Simulator (HRFNS) developed at Univers... Read More about Development of a heterogeneous microwave network fade simulation tool applicable to networks that span Europe.

Sound fields inside street canyons with inclined flanking building façades (2011)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Tang, S. K., & Piippo, K. E. (2011). Sound fields inside street canyons with inclined flanking building façades. Proceedings of Meetings on Acoustics, 12(1), https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3624578

Street canyons are common in modern cities. It is well known that the multiple sound reflections within the canyons tend to increase the noise levels inside the canyons. An scaled down model experiment was conducted in the present investigation to st... Read More about Sound fields inside street canyons with inclined flanking building façades.

Dual cylinder inviscid vortex sound of low Mach number (2011)
Journal Article
Tang, S. K. (2011). Dual cylinder inviscid vortex sound of low Mach number. Journal of Fluids and Structures, 27(8), 1337-1348. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2011.06.011

The unsteady motions of an inviscid vortex under the influence of a cylinder pair in the presence of a low Mach number mean flow and the corresponding sound generation are examined in the present study. The two cylinders are in close proximity. A sem... Read More about Dual cylinder inviscid vortex sound of low Mach number.

An Al-Si-Ti hierarchical metal-metal composite manufactured by co-spray forming (2011)
Journal Article
Kelly, A. J., Mi, J., Sinha, G. V., Krug, P., Crosa, F., Audebert, F., & Grant, P. S. (2011). An Al-Si-Ti hierarchical metal-metal composite manufactured by co-spray forming. Journal of Materials Processing Technology, 211(12), 2045-2049. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmatprotec.2011.07.001

Spray forming with co-injection of a solid particulate phase to form a homogeneous distribution within the final spray formed billet has been studied as a new route to manufacturing metal-metal composites at large scale with negligible oxide. 12 wt%T... Read More about An Al-Si-Ti hierarchical metal-metal composite manufactured by co-spray forming.

The characteristics of acoustic line array prototypes for scale model experiments (2011)
Journal Article
Piippo, K. E., & Tang, S. K. (2011). The characteristics of acoustic line array prototypes for scale model experiments. Applied acoustics. Acoustique appliqué. Angewandte Akustik, 72(11), 884-888. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apacoust.2011.05.001

The sound fields created by three different settings of a 5 m long linear loudspeaker array were studied experimentally in the present investigation in an attempt to find out a method to produce a reasonable sound field for scaled down model experime... Read More about The characteristics of acoustic line array prototypes for scale model experiments.

Vortex sound in the presence of a low Mach number flow across a drum-like silencer (2011)
Journal Article
Tang, S. K. (2011). Vortex sound in the presence of a low Mach number flow across a drum-like silencer. The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 129(5), 2830-2840. https://doi.org/10.1121/1.3562567

The sound generated by a vortex propagating across a two-dimensional duct section with flexible walls (membranes) in an infinitely long rigid duct conveying a flow is investigated numerically using the matched asymptotic expansion technique and the p... Read More about Vortex sound in the presence of a low Mach number flow across a drum-like silencer.

Passive noise control by enhancing aeroacoustic interference due to structural discontinuities in close proximity (2011)
Journal Article
Leung, R. C., So, R. M., Tang, S. K., & Wang, X. Q. (2011). Passive noise control by enhancing aeroacoustic interference due to structural discontinuities in close proximity. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 330(14), 3316-3333. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jsv.2011.02.011

In-duct devices are commonly installed in flow ducts for various flow management purposes. The structural construction of these devices indispensably creates disruption to smooth flow through duct passages so they exist as structural discontinuities... Read More about Passive noise control by enhancing aeroacoustic interference due to structural discontinuities in close proximity.

The application of muscle wrapping to voxel-based finite element models of skeletal structures (2011)
Journal Article
Liu, J., Shi, J., Fitton, L. C., Phillips, R., O'Higgins, P., & Fagan, M. J. (2012). The application of muscle wrapping to voxel-based finite element models of skeletal structures. Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, 11(1-2), 35-47. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10237-011-0291-5

Finite elements analysis (FEA) is now used routinely to interpret skeletal form in terms of function in both medical and biological applications. To produce accurate predictions from FEA models, it is essential that the loading due to muscle action i... Read More about The application of muscle wrapping to voxel-based finite element models of skeletal structures.

A quantitative study of solute diffusion field effects on heterogeneous nucleation and the grain size of alloys (2011)
Journal Article
Shu, D., Sun, B., Mi, J., & Grant, P. S. (2011). A quantitative study of solute diffusion field effects on heterogeneous nucleation and the grain size of alloys. Acta Materialia, 59(5), 2135-2144. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2010.12.014

The nucleation ability of inoculating particles inside the solute diffusion zone around growing grains during alloy solidification is studied using a spherical, equiaxed dendritic grain model coupled with a new modified free growth model to predict t... Read More about A quantitative study of solute diffusion field effects on heterogeneous nucleation and the grain size of alloys.