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Consequences of sex change for effective population size (2018)
Journal Article
Waples, R., Mariani, S., & Benvenuto, C. (2018). Consequences of sex change for effective population size. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 285(1893), 20181702. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.1702

Sequential hermaphroditism, where males change to females (protandry) or the reverse (protogyny), is widespread in animals and plants and can be an Evolutionarily Stable Strategy (ESS) if fecundity rises faster with age in the second sex. Sequential... Read More about Consequences of sex change for effective population size.

Environmental performance of Abuja’s low-income housing : understanding the current state to inform future refinement (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Abdulkareem, M., & Al-Maiyah, S. (2018, December). Environmental performance of Abuja’s low-income housing : understanding the current state to inform future refinement. Presented at PLEA (Passive Low Energy Architecture) : Smart and Healthy within the 2-degree Limit, Hong Kong

In times of global ecological challenges, understanding building performance to improve occupants’
comfort is becoming the norm in various climatic zones and locales. Any performance evaluation should account for occupants’ demands for thermal and v... Read More about Environmental performance of Abuja’s low-income housing : understanding the current state to inform future refinement.

A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms (2018)
Journal Article
Xiu, H., Wang, K., Wei, G., Ren, L., & Dai, J. (2020). A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, 234(1), 241-262. https://doi.org/10.1177/0954406218816343

This paper, for the first time, presents an overconstrained spatial eight-bar linkage and its application to the synthesis of a group of Fulleroid-like deployable platonic mechanisms. Structure of the proposed eight-bar linkage is introduced, and con... Read More about A Sarrus-like overconstrained eight-bar linkage and its associated Fulleroid-like platonic deployable mechanisms.

Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder (2018)
Journal Article
Chadwick, E., Christian, J., & Chalasani, K. (2018). Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder. European Journal of Computational Mechanics, 27(5-6), 469-478. https://doi.org/10.1080/17797179.2018.1550960

Consider uniform, steady flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds numbers 26, 36 and 40 before the flow becomes unsteady. Model the flow by using eulerlets, new Green’s functions for Euler flow. This is the first time this eulerlet model has been us... Read More about Using eulerlets to model steady uniform flow past a circular cylinder.

Modelling and simulation for the joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of production systems (2018)
Presentation / Conference
Zahedi-Hosseini, F. (2018, December). Modelling and simulation for the joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of production systems. Presented at Winter Simulation Conference 2018, Gothenburg, Sweden

Simulation methodologies are developed to model the joint optimization of preventive maintenance and spare parts inventory for a specific industrial plant under different production configurations. First, spare parts provisioning for a single-line sy... Read More about Modelling and simulation for the joint maintenance-inventory optimisation of production systems.

Subzone control method of stratum ventilation for thermal comfort improvement (2018)
Journal Article
Zhang, S., Cheng, Y., Oladokun, M., & Lin, Z. (2019). Subzone control method of stratum ventilation for thermal comfort improvement. Building and Environment, 149, 39-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.buildenv.2018.11.041

The conventional control method of a collective ventilation (e.g., stratum ventilation) controls the averaged thermal environment in the occupied zone to satisfy the averaged thermal preference of a group of occupants. However, the averaged thermal e... Read More about Subzone control method of stratum ventilation for thermal comfort improvement.

Supercritical heat transfer characteristics of couple stress convection flow from a vertical cylinder using an equation of state approach (2018)
Journal Article
Basha, H., Reddy, G., Narayanan, N., & Beg, O. (2019). Supercritical heat transfer characteristics of couple stress convection flow from a vertical cylinder using an equation of state approach. Journal of Molecular Liquids, 277(Mar 19), 434-452. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.molliq.2018.11.165

The present work describes numerical simulations of the supercritical heat transfer characteristics of couple stress fluid flow from a vertical cylinder using the equation of state approach. Redlich-Kwong (RK-EOS) and Van der Waals (VW-EOS) equations... Read More about Supercritical heat transfer characteristics of couple stress convection flow from a vertical cylinder using an equation of state approach.

Optimization of CO2 production rate for firefighting robot applications using response surface methodology (2018)
Journal Article
Ajala, M., Khan, M., Shafie, A., Salami, M., Mohamad Nor, M., & Oladokun, M. (2018). Optimization of CO2 production rate for firefighting robot applications using response surface methodology. Cogent Engineering, 5(1), 1555744. https://doi.org/10.1080/23311916.2018.1555744

A carbon dioxide gas-powered pneumatic actuation has been proposed as a suitable power source for an autonomous firefighting robot (CAFFR), which is designed to operate in an indoor fire environment in our earlier study. Considering the consumption r... Read More about Optimization of CO2 production rate for firefighting robot applications using response surface methodology.

Detection of Osteoporosis from Percussion Responses Using an Electronic Stethoscope and Machine Learning (2018)
Journal Article

Osteoporosis is an asymptomatic bone condition that affects a large proportion of the elderly population around the world, resulting in increased bone fragility and increased risk of fracture. Previous studies had shown that the vibroacoustic respons... Read More about Detection of Osteoporosis from Percussion Responses Using an Electronic Stethoscope and Machine Learning.