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Mixing in density- and viscosity-stratified flows (2022)
Journal Article
Allen, P. A., Dorrell, R. M., Harlen, O. G., Thomas, R. E., & McCaffrey, W. D. (2022). Mixing in density- and viscosity-stratified flows. Physics of Fluids, 34(9), Article 096605. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0108337

The lock-exchange problem is used extensively to study the flow dynamics of density-driven flows, such as gravity currents, and as a canonical problem to mixing in stratified flows. Opposite halves of a domain are filled with two fluids of different... Read More about Mixing in density- and viscosity-stratified flows.

Historic Spatial Patterns of Storm-Driven Compound Events in UK Estuaries (2022)
Journal Article
Lyddon, C., Robins, P., Lewis, M., Barkwith, A., Vasilopoulos, G., Haigh, I., & Coulthard, T. (in press). Historic Spatial Patterns of Storm-Driven Compound Events in UK Estuaries. Estuaries and coasts : journal of the Estuarine Research Federation, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12237-022-01115-4

Compound estuarine flooding is driven by extreme sea-levels and river discharge occurring concurrently, or in close succession, and threatens low-lying coastal regions worldwide. We hypothesise that these drivers of flooding rarely occur independentl... Read More about Historic Spatial Patterns of Storm-Driven Compound Events in UK Estuaries.

Testing the public’s response to receiving Severe Flood Warnings using simulated Cell Broadcast (2022)
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Smith, K. R., Grant, S., & Thomas, R. E. (2022). Testing the public’s response to receiving Severe Flood Warnings using simulated Cell Broadcast. [Dataset]

European Governments must implement a public alerting system to reach mobile phone users affected by major emergencies and disasters by June 2022. Cell Broadcast is used to issue emergency alerts in several countries but has not yet been introduced i... Read More about Testing the public’s response to receiving Severe Flood Warnings using simulated Cell Broadcast.

Book review: Consuming Katrina: Public disaster and personal narrative by Kate Parker Horrigan (2022)
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Smith, K. (in press). Book review: Consuming Katrina: Public disaster and personal narrative by Kate Parker Horrigan. Folklore, https://doi.org/10.1080/0015587X.2022.2090666

Parker Horrigan's slim but densely layered volume presents multiple viewpoints of narratives that emerged from citizen's experiences during Hurricane Katrina. Echoing the methodologies deployed in recent socio-hydrology and/or flood studies, notably... Read More about Book review: Consuming Katrina: Public disaster and personal narrative by Kate Parker Horrigan.

A novel direct steam generation system based on the high-vacuum insulated flat plate solar collector (2022)
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Gao, D., Li, J., Ren, X., Hu, T., & Pei, G. (2022). A novel direct steam generation system based on the high-vacuum insulated flat plate solar collector. Renewable energy, 197, 966-977. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2022.07.102

Process steam is an important product in the industrial sector but the traditional steam boiler will lead to tremendous fossil fuel consumption and carbon emissions. The non-concentrating solar collectors have a huge potential for process steam gener... Read More about A novel direct steam generation system based on the high-vacuum insulated flat plate solar collector.

Longest sediment flows yet measured show how major rivers connect efficiently to deep sea (2022)
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Talling, P. J., Baker, M. L., Pope, E. L., Ruffell, S. C., Silva Jacinto, R., Heijnen, M. S., …Hilton, R. J. (2022). Longest sediment flows yet measured show how major rivers connect efficiently to deep sea. Nature communications, 13, Article 4193. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31689-3

We document directly for the first time how major river floods connect to the deep-sea, by analysing the longest runout sediment flows (of any type) yet measured in action. These seafloor turbidity currents originated from the Congo River-mouth, with... Read More about Longest sediment flows yet measured show how major rivers connect efficiently to deep sea.

Analysis of a direct vapor generation system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle and two-tank oil storage (2022)
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Li, P., Lin, H., Li, J., Cao, Q., Wang, Y., Pei, G., …Zhao, Z. (2022). Analysis of a direct vapor generation system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle and two-tank oil storage. Energy, 257, Article 124776. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124776

A direct vapor generation solar power system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle and two-stage oil tanks is proposed. It offers a significantly enlarged storage capacity due to the unique discharge operation mode. Synthetic oil Therminol® VP-1... Read More about Analysis of a direct vapor generation system using cascade steam-organic Rankine cycle and two-tank oil storage.

Bayesian Calibration for Office-Building Heating and Cooling Energy Prediction Model (2022)
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Cui, Y., Zhu, Z., Zhao, X., Li, Z., & Qin, P. (2022). Bayesian Calibration for Office-Building Heating and Cooling Energy Prediction Model. Buildings, 12(7), Article 1052. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings12071052

Conventional building energy models (BEM) for heating and cooling energy-consumption prediction without calibration are not accurate, and the commonly used manual calibration method requires the high expertise of modelers. Bayesian calibration (BC) i... Read More about Bayesian Calibration for Office-Building Heating and Cooling Energy Prediction Model.

An innovative concentrated solar power system driven by high-temperature cascade organic Rankine cycle (2022)
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Ren, X., Li, J., Gao, G., & Pei, G. (2022). An innovative concentrated solar power system driven by high-temperature cascade organic Rankine cycle. Journal of Energy Storage, 52, Article 104999. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.est.2022.104999

Direct steam generation (DSG) solar power systems eliminate synthetic oils and molten salts in the solar field and enable efficient heat collection. Commercial DSG solar plants usually have a steam generation temperature of 250–285 °C to reduce the t... Read More about An innovative concentrated solar power system driven by high-temperature cascade organic Rankine cycle.

First source-to-sink monitoring shows dense head controls sediment flux and runout in turbidity currents (2022)
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Pope, E. L., Cartigny, M. J., Clare, M. A., Talling, P. J., Lintern, D. G., Vellinga, A., …Vendettuoli, D. (2022). First source-to-sink monitoring shows dense head controls sediment flux and runout in turbidity currents. Science Advances, 8(20), eabj3220. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abj3220

Until recently, despite being one of the most important sediment transport phenomena on Earth, few direct measurements of turbidity currents existed. Consequently, their structure and evolution were poorly understood, particularly whether they are de... Read More about First source-to-sink monitoring shows dense head controls sediment flux and runout in turbidity currents.

Experimental investigation of a novel vertical loop-heat-pipe PV/T heat and power system under different height differences (2022)
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Yu, M., Chen, F., Zhou, J., Yuan, Y., Fan, Y., Li, G., …Zheng, S. (2022). Experimental investigation of a novel vertical loop-heat-pipe PV/T heat and power system under different height differences. Energy, 254, Part A, Article 124193. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.energy.2022.124193

For a novel vertical solar loop-heat-pipe photovoltaic/thermal system, the height difference between evaporator and condenser plays an important role in the heat transport capacity, which has significant impact on the solar thermal efficiency and par... Read More about Experimental investigation of a novel vertical loop-heat-pipe PV/T heat and power system under different height differences.

Time‐Domain Implementation and Analyses of Multi‐Motion Modes of Floating Structures (2022)
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Sheng, W., Tapoglou, E., Ma, X., Taylor, C. J., Dorrell, R., Parsons, D. R., & Aggidis, G. (2022). Time‐Domain Implementation and Analyses of Multi‐Motion Modes of Floating Structures. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering, 10(5), Article 662. https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse10050662

The study of wave‐structure interactions involving nonlinear forces would often make use of the popular hybrid frequency–time domain method. In the hybrid method, the frequency‐domain analysis could firstly provide the reliable and accurate dynamic p... Read More about Time‐Domain Implementation and Analyses of Multi‐Motion Modes of Floating Structures.

Serious gaming in flood risk management (2022)
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Forrest, S. A., Kubíková, M., & Macháč, J. (2022). Serious gaming in flood risk management. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Water, Article e1589. https://doi.org/10.1002/wat2.1589

Serious gaming is increasingly used to explore important real-world problems and a growing number of serious games are addressing flood-related issues. However, there has been limited synthesis of these attempts and their contributions to the ongoing... Read More about Serious gaming in flood risk management.

Here’s why UK tides are soon going to play a much bigger part in powering your home (2022)
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Waldman, S. (2022). Here’s why UK tides are soon going to play a much bigger part in powering your home

Tidal energy has long lurked at the back of the UK’s renewable energy arsenal, outshone by its wind and solar counterparts due in part to early issues with technology readiness and high costs. Yet with recent research showing it could provide 11%... Read More about Here’s why UK tides are soon going to play a much bigger part in powering your home.

Graphics processing unit accelerated lattice Boltzmann method simulations of dilute gravity currents (2022)
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Adekanye, D., Khan, A., Burns, A., McCaffrey, W., Geier, M., Schönherr, M., & Dorrell, R. (2022). Graphics processing unit accelerated lattice Boltzmann method simulations of dilute gravity currents. Physics of Fluids, 34(4), Article 046602. https://doi.org/10.1063/5.0082959

Lattice Boltzmann method models offer a novel framework for the simulation of high Reynolds number dilute gravity currents. The numerical algorithm is well suited to acceleration via implementation on massively parallel computer architectures. Here w... Read More about Graphics processing unit accelerated lattice Boltzmann method simulations of dilute gravity currents.

Anthropogenic Mixing in Seasonally Stratified Shelf Seas by Offshore Wind Farm Infrastructure (2022)
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Dorrell, R. M., Lloyd, C. J., Lincoln, B. J., Rippeth, T. P., Taylor, J. R., Caulfield, C. C. P., …Simpson, J. H. (2022). Anthropogenic Mixing in Seasonally Stratified Shelf Seas by Offshore Wind Farm Infrastructure. Frontiers in Marine Science, 9, Article 830927. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.830927

The offshore wind energy sector has rapidly expanded over the past two decades, providing a renewable energy solution for coastal nations. Sector development has been led in Europe, but is growing globally. Most developments to date have been in well... Read More about Anthropogenic Mixing in Seasonally Stratified Shelf Seas by Offshore Wind Farm Infrastructure.

Fill, flush or shuffle: How is sediment carried through submarine channels to build lobes? (2022)
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Heijnen, M. S., Clare, M. A., Cartigny, M. J., Talling, P. J., Hage, S., Pope, E. L., …Hughes Clarke, J. E. (2022). Fill, flush or shuffle: How is sediment carried through submarine channels to build lobes?. Earth and planetary science letters, 584, Article 117481. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.epsl.2022.117481

Submarine channels are the primary conduits for land-derived material, including organic carbon, pollutants, and nutrients, into the deep-sea. The flows (turbidity currents) that traverse these systems can pose hazards to seafloor infrastructure such... Read More about Fill, flush or shuffle: How is sediment carried through submarine channels to build lobes?.

Hydrodynamic studies of floating structures: Comparison of wave-structure interaction modelling (2022)
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Sheng, W., Tapoglou, E., Ma, X., Taylor, C. J., Dorrell, R. M., Parsons, D. R., & Aggidis, G. (2022). Hydrodynamic studies of floating structures: Comparison of wave-structure interaction modelling. Ocean engineering, 249, Article 110878. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oceaneng.2022.110878

Current panel methods for wave-structure interactions employ the potential flow theory, which provide fast, reliable and relatively accurate predictions for the marine structures, and now some open source packages, NEMOH and HAMS, are available. In t... Read More about Hydrodynamic studies of floating structures: Comparison of wave-structure interaction modelling.