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Plastics-Free - Would you choose a paper bag? (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Collins, C. (2021, July). Plastics-Free - Would you choose a paper bag?. Paper presented at Energy and Environment Institute Colloquium 2021, University of Hull

Do you ever find yourself standing in the supermarket trying to decide whether it is better to buy milk in a glass bottle, plastic bottle or a tetrapak? Plastic-Free July is celebrating its 10th Anniversary this year, a movement to encourage the sw... Read More about Plastics-Free - Would you choose a paper bag?.

The Promise of Causal Reasoning in Reliable Decision Support for Wind Turbines (2020)
Presentation / Conference
Chatterjee, J., & Dethlefs, N. (2020, August). The Promise of Causal Reasoning in Reliable Decision Support for Wind Turbines. Paper presented at Fragile Earth: Data Science for a Sustainable Planet. KDD 2020, Virtual Conference

The global pursuit towards sustainable development is leading to increased adaptation of renewable energy sources. Wind turbines are promising sources of clean energy, but regularly suffer from failures and down-times, primarily due to the complex en... Read More about The Promise of Causal Reasoning in Reliable Decision Support for Wind Turbines.

Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN. (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Atanbori, J., Chen, F., French, A. P., & Pridmore, T. (2018, September). Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN. Paper presented at British Machine Vision Conference 2018, BMVC 2018, Northumbria University

© 2018. The copyright of this document resides with its authors. Segmentation is the core of most plant phenotyping applications. Current state-of-the-art plant phenotyping applications rely on deep Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs). However, thes... Read More about Towards Low-Cost Image-based Plant Phenotyping using Reduced-Parameter CNN..

Experimental study of interfacial structure of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., Azzopardi, B., & Hewakandamby, B. (2015, November). Experimental study of interfacial structure of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe. Presented at American Physical Society-Fluid Dynamics Fall Meeting

Many studies in the literature provide time series data of the film thickness at one or two points on the pipe wall. Most of these studies focussed on either flat plates or small diameter pipes. The main aim of this paper is to study the characterist... Read More about Experimental study of interfacial structure of a falling liquid film in a vertical pipe.

Taylor bubbles at high viscosity ratios: experiments and numerical simulations (2015)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., Hewakandamby, B., Azzopardi, B., Xie, Z., Pain, C., & Matar, O. (2015, November). Taylor bubbles at high viscosity ratios: experiments and numerical simulations. Presented at 68th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, USA, Boston

The Taylor bubble is a single long bubble which nearly fills the entire cross section of a liquid-filled circular tube, often occurring in gas-liquid slug flows in many industrial applications, particularly oil and gas production. The objective of th... Read More about Taylor bubbles at high viscosity ratios: experiments and numerical simulations.

Slugs in a large diameter column with air and high viscosity silicone oil (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., & Azzopardi, B. (2014, November). Slugs in a large diameter column with air and high viscosity silicone oil. Presented at 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, USA

Very little information is known about the behaviour of high viscous liquids (> 100 Pa.s) in two phase slug flows. Experiments were carried out to study the behaviour of silicone oil (300 Pa.s) in gas bubble column using electrical capacitance tomogr... Read More about Slugs in a large diameter column with air and high viscosity silicone oil.

Numerical study of Taylor bubbles with adaptive unstructured meshes (2014)
Presentation / Conference
Hasan, A., Xie, Z., Pavlidis, D., Percival, J., Pain, C., Matar, O., & Azzopardi, B. (2014, November). Numerical study of Taylor bubbles with adaptive unstructured meshes. Presented at 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Francisco, USA

The Taylor bubble is a single long bubble which nearly fills the entire cross section of a liquid-filled circular tube. This type of bubble flow regime often occurs in gas-liquid slug flows in many industrial applications, including oil-and-gas produ... Read More about Numerical study of Taylor bubbles with adaptive unstructured meshes.

Conditional frequency mapping of move reservoir sedimentation models for improved play assessment (2012)
Presentation / Conference
Waltham, D. A., Rowley, P. J., Burgess, P. M., & MacLean, S. (2012, February). Conditional frequency mapping of move reservoir sedimentation models for improved play assessment. Paper presented at Petroleum Play Assessment

Stratigraphic forward models encode what we know about dynamic stratigraphy in the form of a numerical model that can make various types of predictions of stratal geometries and facies distributions. Unfortunately, limited knowledge of the physical l... Read More about Conditional frequency mapping of move reservoir sedimentation models for improved play assessment.

Near-vent processes of the 273 ka Poris eruption (Tenerife): ignimbrite sedimentation, hybrid deposition and phreatomagmatism (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Smith, N., Kokelaar, B., & Branney, M. (2011, June). Near-vent processes of the 273 ka Poris eruption (Tenerife): ignimbrite sedimentation, hybrid deposition and phreatomagmatism. Paper presented at Earth on the edge: Science for a sustainable planet. International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics, Melbourne, Australia

The proximal succession of the 273 ka Poris eruption in the Diego Hernandez wall of Las Cañadas, Tenerife, records opening, main, and waning stages of explosive activity. Stratigraphic and geochemical correlations show varying processes between prox... Read More about Near-vent processes of the 273 ka Poris eruption (Tenerife): ignimbrite sedimentation, hybrid deposition and phreatomagmatism.

Estimation of cardiovascular patient risk with a Bayesian network (2011)
Presentation / Conference
Bohacik, J., & Davis, D. (2011, June). Estimation of cardiovascular patient risk with a Bayesian network. Presented at Transcom 2011

Cardiovascular decision-making support experiences increasing research interest of scientists.Ongoing collaborations between clinicians and computer scientists are looking at the application of datamining techniques to the area of individual patient... Read More about Estimation of cardiovascular patient risk with a Bayesian network.

Exposure of benthic invertebrates to sediment vibration: From laboratory experiments to outdoor simulated pile-driving
Presentation / Conference
Harding, H. R., Voellmy, I., Simpson, S. D., Radford, A. N., Breithaupt, T., Elliott, M., …Voellmy, I. K. Exposure of benthic invertebrates to sediment vibration: From laboratory experiments to outdoor simulated pile-driving

Activities directly interacting with the seabed, such as pile-driving, can produce vibrations that have the potential to impact benthic invertebrates within their vicinity. This stimuli may interfere with crucial behaviors such as foraging and predat... Read More about Exposure of benthic invertebrates to sediment vibration: From laboratory experiments to outdoor simulated pile-driving.

Enabling multipurpose image interaction in modular visualization environments
Presentation / Conference
Wright, H., & Chatzinikos, F. Enabling multipurpose image interaction in modular visualization environments. Paper presented at Visualization and Data Analysis 2003

Recent improvements in processor and graphics power mean researchers can now interact with their running simulation at the same time as they view the results. This so-called 'computational steering' brings greater insight to the investigation process... Read More about Enabling multipurpose image interaction in modular visualization environments.

Output feedback sliding mode FTC for a class of nonlinear inter-connected systems
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Patton, R. J., & Huang, Z. Output feedback sliding mode FTC for a class of nonlinear inter-connected systems. Paper presented at IFAC-PapersOnLine

This paper is concerned with the challenge of developing a fault-tolerant control (FTC) scheme for an inter-connected decentralised system in which the individual subsystems are linear but the inter-connections are non-linear functions of the subsyst... Read More about Output feedback sliding mode FTC for a class of nonlinear inter-connected systems.

Trace and rare earth element dispersal downstream of the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary
Presentation / Conference
Jarvis, A., Burke, I., Gruiz, K., Walton, M., & Mayes, W. Trace and rare earth element dispersal downstream of the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary

Between 600,000—700,000m³ of caustic (pH>13) red mud suspension were released from the Ajkai Timfoldgyar Zrt alumina plant on the 4th October 2010. This study highlights the dispersal of key red mudderived contaminants in downstream fluvial sediments... Read More about Trace and rare earth element dispersal downstream of the Ajka red mud spill, Hungary.

Calamatic liquid crystal blends for organic photovoltaics
Presentation / Conference
Lei, C., Al Khalifah, M. S., O'Neill, M., Aldred, M. P., Kitney, S. P., Vlachos, P., & Kelly, S. M. Calamatic liquid crystal blends for organic photovoltaics. Paper presented at Organic Photovoltaics IX

Four different perylene-based electron-acceptors having similar electron affinities, but different thermotropic phases are blended with nematic liquid crystalline electron-donors with a fluorene-thiophene structure to form single layer photovoltaic d... Read More about Calamatic liquid crystal blends for organic photovoltaics.