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The wave and tidal resource of Scotland (2017)
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Neill, S. P., Vögler, A., Goward-Brown, A. J., Baston, S., Lewis, M. J., Gillibrand, P. A., …Woolf, D. K. (2017). The wave and tidal resource of Scotland. Renewable energy, 114A, 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.03.027

As the marine renewable energy industry evolves, in parallel with an increase in the quantity of available data and improvements in validated numerical simulations, it is occasionally appropriate to re-assess the wave and tidal resource of a region.... Read More about The wave and tidal resource of Scotland.

Scour holes and ripples occur below the hydraulic smooth to rough transition of movable beds (2017)
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Leuven, J. R., Kleinhans, M. G., Leuven, J. R. F. W., Braat, L., & Baar, A. (2017). Scour holes and ripples occur below the hydraulic smooth to rough transition of movable beds. Sedimentology, 64(5), 1381-1401. https://doi.org/10.1111/sed.12358

© 2017 The Authors. Scour holes often form in shallow flows over sand on the beach and in morphodynamic scale experiments of river reaches, deltas and estuarine landscapes. The scour holes are on average 2cm deep and 5cm long, regardless of the flow... Read More about Scour holes and ripples occur below the hydraulic smooth to rough transition of movable beds.

Setting an agenda for biofouling research for the marine renewable energy industry (2017)
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Loxton, J., MacLeod, {. K., Nall, {. R., McCollin, T., Machado, I., Simas, T., …Miller, R. (2017). Setting an agenda for biofouling research for the marine renewable energy industry. International Journal of Marine Energy, 19, 292--303. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijome.2017.08.006

Extensive marine growth on man-made structures in the ocean is commonplace, yet there has been limited discussion about the potential implications of marine growth for the wave and tidal energy industry. In response, the Environmental Interactions of... Read More about Setting an agenda for biofouling research for the marine renewable energy industry.

Modelling tidal stream turbines in a three-dimensional wave-current fully coupled oceanographic model (2017)
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Li, X., Li, M., McLelland, S. J., Jordan, L. B., Simmons, S. M., Amoudry, L. O., …Thorne, P. D. (2017). Modelling tidal stream turbines in a three-dimensional wave-current fully coupled oceanographic model. Renewable energy, 114, 297-307. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2017.02.033

© 2017 The Author(s) A tidal turbine simulation system is developed based on a three-dimensional oceanographic numerical model. Both the current and turbulent controlling equations are modified to account for impact of tidal turbines on water velocit... Read More about Modelling tidal stream turbines in a three-dimensional wave-current fully coupled oceanographic model.

Biodiversity characterisation and hydrodynamic consequences of marine fouling communities on submerged marine structures in the Orkney Islands Archipelago, Scotland, UK. (2017)
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Want, A., Crawford, R., Kakkonen, {. E., Kiddie, G., Miller, S., Harris, {. E., & Porter, J. (2017). Biodiversity characterisation and hydrodynamic consequences of marine fouling communities on submerged marine structures in the Orkney Islands Archipelago, Scotland, UK. Biofouling, 33(7), 567--579. https://doi.org/10.1080/08927014.2017.1336229

As part of ongoing commitments to produce electricity from renewable energy sources in Scotland, Orkney waters have been targeted for potential large-scale deployment of wave and tidal energy converting devices. Orkney has a well-developed infrastruc... Read More about Biodiversity characterisation and hydrodynamic consequences of marine fouling communities on submerged marine structures in the Orkney Islands Archipelago, Scotland, UK..

Rainfall-runoff properties of tephra: simulated effects of grain-size and antecedent rainfall (2017)
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Jones, R., Thomas, R. E., Peakall, J., & Manville, V. (2017). Rainfall-runoff properties of tephra: simulated effects of grain-size and antecedent rainfall. Geomorphology, 282, 39-51. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.geomorph.2016.12.023

Rain-triggered lahars (RTLs) are a significant and often persistent secondary volcanic hazard at many volcanoes around the world. Rainfall on unconsolidated volcaniclastic material is the primary initiation mechanism of RTLs: the resultant flows have... Read More about Rainfall-runoff properties of tephra: simulated effects of grain-size and antecedent rainfall.

Three-dimensional flow structure and bed morphology in large elongate meander loops with different outer bank roughness characteristics (2016)
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Konsoer, K. M., Rhoads, B. L., Best, J. L., Langendoen, E. J., Abad, J. D., Parsons, D. R., & García, M. H. (2016). Three-dimensional flow structure and bed morphology in large elongate meander loops with different outer bank roughness characteristics. Water Resources Research, 52(12), 9621-9641. https://doi.org/10.1002/2016wr019040

© 2016. American Geophysical Union. All Rights Reserved. Few studies have examined the three-dimensional flow structure and bed morphology within elongate loops of large meandering channels. The present study focuses on the spatial patterns of three-... Read More about Three-dimensional flow structure and bed morphology in large elongate meander loops with different outer bank roughness characteristics.

Large scale three-dimensional modelling for wave and tidal energy resource and environmental impact: Methodologies for quantifying acceptable thresholds for sustainable exploitation (2016)
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Gallego, A., Side, J., Baston, S., Waldman, S., Bell, M., James, M., …Burrows, M. (2017). Large scale three-dimensional modelling for wave and tidal energy resource and environmental impact: Methodologies for quantifying acceptable thresholds for sustainable exploitation. Ocean and Coastal Management, 147, 67-77. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2016.11.025

Extreme flood-driven fluvial bank erosion and sediment loads: direct process measurements using integrated Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) and hydro-acoustic techniques: Direct measurement of flood-driven erosion using MLS and MBES (2016)
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Leyland, J., Hackney, C. R., Darby, S. E., Parsons, D. R., Best, J. L., Nicholas, A. P., …Lague, D. (2017). Extreme flood-driven fluvial bank erosion and sediment loads: direct process measurements using integrated Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) and hydro-acoustic techniques: Direct measurement of flood-driven erosion using MLS and MBES. Earth surface processes and landforms : the journal of the British Geomorphological Research Group, 42(2), 334-346. https://doi.org/10.1002/esp.4078

Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. This methods paper details the first attempt at monitoring bank erosion, flow and suspended sediment at a site during flooding on the Mekong River induced by the passage of tropical cyclones. We deployed int... Read More about Extreme flood-driven fluvial bank erosion and sediment loads: direct process measurements using integrated Mobile Laser Scanning (MLS) and hydro-acoustic techniques: Direct measurement of flood-driven erosion using MLS and MBES.

Erratum to “Geometrical and mechanical properties of four species of northern European brown macroalgae” [Coast. Eng. 84 (2014) 73–80] (2016)
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Henry, P. Y., Paul, M., & Thomas, R. (2017). Erratum to “Geometrical and mechanical properties of four species of northern European brown macroalgae” [Coast. Eng. 84 (2014) 73–80]. Coastal Engineering, 120, 36-37. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2016.11.002

© 2016 This erratum concerns Eq. (1) used in Paul et al. [3] which is the same as Eq. (1) in Paul and Henry [4]. A three-point bending test with clamped ends was performed on macroalga blade samples. As suggested in Fig. 1, this mechanical test was c... Read More about Erratum to “Geometrical and mechanical properties of four species of northern European brown macroalgae” [Coast. Eng. 84 (2014) 73–80].

Does the canopy mixing layer model apply to highly flexible aquatic vegetation? Insights from numerical modelling (2016)
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Marjoribanks, T. I., Hardy, R. J., Lane, S. N., & Parsons, D. R. (2017). Does the canopy mixing layer model apply to highly flexible aquatic vegetation? Insights from numerical modelling. Environmental Fluid Mechanics, 17(2), 277-301. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10652-016-9482-z

© 2016, The Author(s). Vegetation is a characteristic feature of shallow aquatic flows such as rivers, lakes and coastal waters. Flow through and above aquatic vegetation canopies is commonly described using a canopy mixing layer analogy which provid... Read More about Does the canopy mixing layer model apply to highly flexible aquatic vegetation? Insights from numerical modelling.

Comparison of a black-box model to a traditional numerical model for hydraulic head prediction (2016)
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Tapoglou, E., Chatzakis, A., & Karatzas, G. P. (2016). Comparison of a black-box model to a traditional numerical model for hydraulic head prediction. Global NEST journal, 18(4), 761-770. https://doi.org/10.30955/gnj.002002

Two different methodologies for hydraulic head simulation were compared in this study. The first methodology is a classic numerical groundwater flow simulation model, Princeton Transport Code (PTC), while the second one is a black-box approach that u... Read More about Comparison of a black-box model to a traditional numerical model for hydraulic head prediction.

Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity (2016)
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Darby, S. E., Hackney, C. R., Leyland, J., Kummu, M., Lauri, H., Parsons, D. R., …Aalto, R. E. (2016). Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity. Nature, 539(7628), 276-279. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature19809

© 2016 Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature. All rights reserved. The world's rivers deliver 19 billion tonnes of sediment to the coastal zone annually, with a considerable fraction being sequestered in large deltas, home to over 500... Read More about Fluvial sediment supply to a mega-delta reduced by shifting tropical-cyclone activity.

Two decades of numerical modelling to understand long term fluvial archives: advances and future perspectives (2016)
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Veldkamp, A., Baartman, J. E. M., Coulthard, T. J., Maddy, D., Schoorl, J. M., Storms, J. E. A., …Whittaker, A. C. (2017). Two decades of numerical modelling to understand long term fluvial archives: advances and future perspectives. Quaternary science reviews, 166, 177-187. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.quascirev.2016.10.002

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd The development and application of numerical models to investigate fluvial sedimentary archives has increased during the last decades resulting in a sustained growth in the number of scientific publications with keywords, ‘fluvial... Read More about Two decades of numerical modelling to understand long term fluvial archives: advances and future perspectives.

Experimental investigation on performance of fabrics for indirect evaporative cooling applications (2016)
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Xu, P., Ma, X., Zhao, X., & Fancey, K. S. (2016). Experimental investigation on performance of fabrics for indirect evaporative cooling applications. Building and Environment, 110, 104-114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2016.10.003

© 2016 Indirect evaporative cooling, by using water evaporation to absorb heat to lower the air temperature without adding moisture, is an extremely low energy and environmentally friendly cooling principle. The properties of the wet channel surface... Read More about Experimental investigation on performance of fabrics for indirect evaporative cooling applications.

The sensitivity of landscape evolution models to spatial and temporal rainfall resolution (2016)
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Coulthard, T. J., & Skinner, C. J. (2016). The sensitivity of landscape evolution models to spatial and temporal rainfall resolution. Earth surface dynamics European Geosciences Union, 4(3), 757-771. https://doi.org/10.5194/esurf-4-757-2016

© Author(s) 2016. Climate is one of the main drivers for landscape evolution models (LEMs), yet its representation is often basic with values averaged over long time periods and frequently lumped to the same value for the whole basin. Clearly, this h... Read More about The sensitivity of landscape evolution models to spatial and temporal rainfall resolution.

Flow dynamics and mixing processes in hydraulic jump arrays: Implications for channel-lobe transition zones (2016)
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Dorrell, R., Peakall, J., Sumner, E. J., Parsons, D. R., Darby, S. E., Wynn, R. B., …Tezcan, D. (2016). Flow dynamics and mixing processes in hydraulic jump arrays: Implications for channel-lobe transition zones. Marine Geology, 381, 181-193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.margeo.2016.09.009

© 2016 The Authors A detailed field investigation of a saline gravity current in the southwest Black Sea has enabled the first complete analysis of three-dimensional flow structure and dynamics of a series of linked hydraulic jumps in stratified, den... Read More about Flow dynamics and mixing processes in hydraulic jump arrays: Implications for channel-lobe transition zones.

Modelling of organic Rankine cycle efficiency with respect to the equivalent hot side temperature (2016)
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Li, J., Alvi, J. Z., Pei, G., Su, Y., Li, P., Gao, G., & Ji, J. (2016). Modelling of organic Rankine cycle efficiency with respect to the equivalent hot side temperature. Energy, 115, 668-683. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2016.09.049

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd An indicator, namely equivalent hot side temperature (TEHST) is proposed for the organic Rankine cycle (ORC). TEHST is derived from ideal thermodynamic process, but can denote the efficiency of irreversible ORC. Study on 27 fluids... Read More about Modelling of organic Rankine cycle efficiency with respect to the equivalent hot side temperature.

Conceptual development of a novel photovoltaic-thermoelectric system and preliminary economic analysis (2016)
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Li, G., Zhao, X., & Ji, J. (2016). Conceptual development of a novel photovoltaic-thermoelectric system and preliminary economic analysis. Energy Conversion and Management, 126, 935-943. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.enconman.2016.08.074

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd Photovoltaic-thermoelectric (PV-TE) hybrid system is one typical electrical production based on the solar wide-band spectral absorption. However the PV-TE system appears to be economically unfeasible owing to the significantly hig... Read More about Conceptual development of a novel photovoltaic-thermoelectric system and preliminary economic analysis.

On the evolution and form of coherent flow structures over a gravel bed: Insights from whole flow field visualization and measurement (2016)
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Hardy, R. J., Best, J. L., Parsons, D. R., & Marjoribanks, T. I. (2016). On the evolution and form of coherent flow structures over a gravel bed: Insights from whole flow field visualization and measurement. Journal of Geophysical Research: Earth Surface, 121(8), 1472-1493. https://doi.org/10.1002/2015JF003753

©2016. The Authors. The microtopography of a gravel bed river has been shown to generate turbulent flow structures that originate from shear flow generated in the near-bed region. Although field and laboratory measurements have shown that such flows... Read More about On the evolution and form of coherent flow structures over a gravel bed: Insights from whole flow field visualization and measurement.