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Qualitative analysis of spray characteristics of impinging jets using a gelled non-Newtonian propellant simulant (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Darvan, A., Kebriaee, A., Nouri-Borujerdi, A., & Nourian, A. (2021, August). Qualitative analysis of spray characteristics of impinging jets using a gelled non-Newtonian propellant simulant. Presented at ICLASS 2021, 15th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Edinburgh, UK

The utilization of liquid and solid fuels for propulsion and combustion processes with Newtonian characteristics are widely known. However, recent studies are considering the application of shear-thinning non-Newtonian fuels as alternative simulant s... Read More about Qualitative analysis of spray characteristics of impinging jets using a gelled non-Newtonian propellant simulant.

Qualitative investigating on the effect of fine water spray and its orientation in mitigating vapour cloud explosions (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Johnson, A., Nasr, G., Nourian, A., & Abba, M. (2021, August). Qualitative investigating on the effect of fine water spray and its orientation in mitigating vapour cloud explosions. Presented at ICLASS 2021, 15th Triennial International Conference on Liquid Atomization and Spray Systems, Edinburgh, UK

For past decades, various industries, such as oil and gas, have come to realisation that using water-based spraying systems, with fine very fine droplets should be the preferred option in mitigating and suppressing the thermal explosions. Previous st... Read More about Qualitative investigating on the effect of fine water spray and its orientation in mitigating vapour cloud explosions.

Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters (2021)
Report
Torija Martinez, A., Elliott, A., Harris, L., Podwinska, Z., Welham, C., Nicholls, R., …Williams, D. Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters

• emTransit B.V (Dott) is a European mobility operator currently operating over 30,000 electric scooters in Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and now the UK. The company aims to expand its UK operations and has recently won a tender for the Tra... Read More about Generation and analysis of artificial warning sounds for electric scooters.

Numerical simulation of thermal management during natural convection in a porous triangular cavity containing air and hot obstacles (2021)
Journal Article
Chandanam, V., Venkata Lakshmi, C., Venkatadri, K., Beg, O., & Prasad, V. (2021). Numerical simulation of thermal management during natural convection in a porous triangular cavity containing air and hot obstacles. European Physical Journal Plus, 136(8), 885. https://doi.org/10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01881-3

A numerical study is presented of laminar viscous magnetohydrodynamic natural convection flow in a triangular shaped porous enclosure filled with electrically conducting air and containing two hot obstacles. The mathematical model is formulated in... Read More about Numerical simulation of thermal management during natural convection in a porous triangular cavity containing air and hot obstacles.

Analysis of cold-start NO2 and NOx emissions, and the NO2/NOx ratio in a diesel engine powered with different diesel-biodiesel blends (2021)
Journal Article
Zare, A., Stevanovic, S., Jafari, M., Verma, P., Babaie, M., Yang, L., …Bodisco, T. (2021). Analysis of cold-start NO2 and NOx emissions, and the NO2/NOx ratio in a diesel engine powered with different diesel-biodiesel blends. Environmental Pollution, 290, 118052. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2021.118052

In the transportation sector, the share of biofuels such as biodiesel is increasing and it is known that such fuels significantly affect NOx emissions. In addition to NOx emission from diesel engines, which is a significant challenge to vehicle manuf... Read More about Analysis of cold-start NO2 and NOx emissions, and the NO2/NOx ratio in a diesel engine powered with different diesel-biodiesel blends.

Computation of unsteady generalized Couette flow and heat transfer in immiscible dusty and non‐dusty fluids with viscous heating and wall suction effects using a modified cubic B‐spine differential quadrature method (2021)
Journal Article
Chandrawat, R. K., Joshi, V., Beg, O., & Tripathi, D. (2022). Computation of unsteady generalized Couette flow and heat transfer in immiscible dusty and non‐dusty fluids with viscous heating and wall suction effects using a modified cubic B‐spine differential quadrature method. Heat Transfer, 51(1), 99-139. https://doi.org/10.1002/htj.22299

AbstractIn this paper, the unsteady flow of two immiscible fluids with heat transfer is studied numerically with a modified cubic B‐spine Differential Quadrature Method. Generalized Couette flow of two immiscible dusty (fluid–particle suspension) and... Read More about Computation of unsteady generalized Couette flow and heat transfer in immiscible dusty and non‐dusty fluids with viscous heating and wall suction effects using a modified cubic B‐spine differential quadrature method.

Insights into public perceptions of Earthship buildings as alternative homes (2021)
Journal Article
Booth, C., Rasheed, S., Mahamadu, A., Horry, R., Manu, P., Gyau, K., …Georgakis, P. (2021). Insights into public perceptions of Earthship buildings as alternative homes. Buildings, 11(9), e377. https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings11090377

Sustainable futures necessitate a concomitant requirement for both sustainable buildings and sustainable behaviours under one roof. The defining principles behind Earthship buildings are to promote the use of local, recycled, waste, natural and renew... Read More about Insights into public perceptions of Earthship buildings as alternative homes.

Bioinspired actuators with intrinsic muscle-like mechanical properties (2021)
Journal Article
Liu, C., Wang, Y., Qian, Z., Wang, K., Zhao, F., Ding, P., …Ren, L. (2021). Bioinspired actuators with intrinsic muscle-like mechanical properties. iScience, 24(9), 103023. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2021.103023

Humans and animals can achieve agile and efficient movements because the muscle can operate in different modes depending on its intrinsic mechanical properties. For bioinspired robotics and prosthetics, it is highly desirable to have artificial actua... Read More about Bioinspired actuators with intrinsic muscle-like mechanical properties.

BCHealth : a novel blockchain-based privacy-preserving architecture for IoT healthcare applications (2021)
Journal Article
Mohammad Hossein, K., Esmaeili, M., Dargahi, T., Khonsari, A., & Conti, M. (2021). BCHealth : a novel blockchain-based privacy-preserving architecture for IoT healthcare applications. Computer Communications, 180, 31-47. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2021.08.011

The advancements in networking technologies have introduced the Internet of Everything (IoE) and smart living concepts. The main idea behind making everything smarter is to improve individuals’ quality of life. An excellent example of such a technolo... Read More about BCHealth : a novel blockchain-based privacy-preserving architecture for IoT healthcare applications.

Social Media and the Olympics (2021)
Presentation / Conference
Miah, A. (2021, August). Social Media and the Olympics. Presented at UK-Japan Student Conference, Tokyo

The emission factor adjustments of the passenger cars in multi-story car parks under drive modes (2021)
Journal Article
Ataei, S., Aghayan, I., Pouresmaeili, M., Babaie, M., & Hadadi, F. (2021). The emission factor adjustments of the passenger cars in multi-story car parks under drive modes. Environmental Science and Pollution Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-021-15960-6

The drive mode is an important factor that affects the adjustment requirements for emission factors of the conventional simulation methods in multi-story car parks. In order to propose comprehensive emission factor adjustments for passenger cars base... Read More about The emission factor adjustments of the passenger cars in multi-story car parks under drive modes.

Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome (2021)
Journal Article
Harrison, X., McDevitt, A., Dunn, J., Grifftihs, S., Benvenuto, C., Birtles, R., …Antwis, R. (2021). Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 288(1957), 20210552. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2021.0552

Interactions between hosts and their resident microbial communities are a fundamental component of fitness for both agents. Though recent research has highlighted the importance of interactions between animals and their bacterial communities, compara... Read More about Fungal microbiomes are determined by host phylogeny and exhibit widespread associations with the bacterial microbiome.

Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers (2021)
Journal Article
Broadhurst, H., Gregory, L., Bleakley, E., Perkins, J., Lavin, J., Bolton, P., …McDevitt, A. (2021). Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers. Science of the Total Environment, 801, 149724. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.149724

Finding more efficient ways to monitor and estimate the diversity of mammalian communities is a major step towards their management and conservation. Environmental DNA (eDNA) from river water has recently been shown to be a viable method for biomonit... Read More about Mapping differences in mammalian distributions and diversity using environmental DNA from rivers.

Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia (2021)
Thesis
Barber, E. (in press). Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia. (Dissertation). University of Salford

VAP is described as a pneumonic lung infection afflicting those that have been mechanically ventilated typically with an endotracheal tube. Unfortunately, there is no singular diagnostic test for VAP (Grossman & Fein, 2000) or ‘gold standard’ for the... Read More about Assessment of an ex vivo porcine lung model to investigate host-microbe interactions in cases of ventilator associated pneumonia.

Low-cost multisensor integrated system for online walking gait detection (2021)
Journal Article
Yan, L., Wei, G., Hu, Z., Xiu, H., Wei, Y., & Ren, L. (2021). Low-cost multisensor integrated system for online walking gait detection. Journal of Sensors, 2021, 6378514. https://doi.org/10.1155/2021/6378514

A three-dimensional motion capture system is a useful tool for analysing gait patterns during walking or exercising, and it is frequently applied in biomechanical studies. However, most of them are expensive. This study designs a low-cost gait detect... Read More about Low-cost multisensor integrated system for online walking gait detection.

Estuarine molecular bycatch as a landscape-wide biomonitoring tool (2021)
Journal Article
Mariani, S., Harper, L., Collins, R., Baillie, C., Wangensteen, O., McDevitt, A., …Genner, M. (2021). Estuarine molecular bycatch as a landscape-wide biomonitoring tool. Biological Conservation, 261, 109287. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109287

Environmental DNA analysis is rapidly transforming biodiversity monitoring and bolstering conservation applications worldwide. This approach has been assisted by the development of metabarcoding PCR primers that are suited for detection of a wide ran... Read More about Estuarine molecular bycatch as a landscape-wide biomonitoring tool.

Novel copper-catalysed coupling reactions of diphenylmethane (2021)
Thesis
Breski, A. (in press). Novel copper-catalysed coupling reactions of diphenylmethane. (Dissertation). University of Salford

In this thesis, a novel synthesis of the drug fendiline was attempted. Fendiline was sold commercially as an angina therapeutic, and recent studies have shown that it is also anti-malarial and has activity against cancers with a high mortality rate.... Read More about Novel copper-catalysed coupling reactions of diphenylmethane.

Acceptance determinants of 5G services (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Maroof, R., Akour, I., Aljanada, R., Alfaisal, A., Alfaisal, R., Aburayya, A., & Salloum, S. (in press). Acceptance determinants of 5G services. International journal of data and network science (Online), 5(4), 613-628. https://doi.org/10.5267/j.ijdns.2021.8.006

5G is a revolutionary development in network technologies which is gradually becoming very common among people contributing significantly in different fields such as education, industry, agriculture, health, tourism and military. Currently, 5G is an... Read More about Acceptance determinants of 5G services.

Microstructural, mechanical and physical assessment of Portland Cement Concrete pavement modified by sodium acetate under various curing conditions (2021)
Journal Article
Al-Kheetan, M., Ghaffar, S., Awad, S., Chougan, M., Byzyka, J., & Rahman, M. (2021). Microstructural, mechanical and physical assessment of Portland Cement Concrete pavement modified by sodium acetate under various curing conditions. Infrastructures, 6(8), e113. https://doi.org/10.3390/infrastructures6080113

Portland Cement Concrete (PCC) pavement was studied with incorporation of an environmentally friendly eco-additive, sodium acetate (C2H3NaO2). This additive was added to PCC pavement in three different percentages of 2%, 4% and 6% of binder weight. F... Read More about Microstructural, mechanical and physical assessment of Portland Cement Concrete pavement modified by sodium acetate under various curing conditions.