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  • Prediction of earnings per share for industry 
    Jadhav, Swati; He, Hongmei; Jenkins, Karl (IEEE, 2016-08-01)
    Prediction of Earnings Per Share (EPS) is the fundamental problem in finance industry. Various Data Mining technologies have been widely used in computational finance. This research work aims to predict the future EPS with ...
  • The shock Hugoniot of hydroxy-terminated polybutadiene 
    Meziere, Y.; Akavhan, J.; Stevens, G. S.; Millett, J. C. F.; Bourne, N. K. (AIP, 2004-08-04)
    The response of polymers to shock loading is becoming of increasing importance, both as binder systems in plastic-bonded explosives (PBXs) and as structural materials in their own right. In this paper, we report on the ...
  • A review of fatigue performance of bolted connections in offshore wind turbines 
    Lochan, Sharda; Mehmanparast, Ali; Wintle, John (Elsevier, 2019-08-25)
    Flanged bolted connections are used in offshore wind turbines to connect the monopile to the transition piece, and the transition piece to the tower. Forces and moments generated by the effects of winds, waves and currents ...
  • Technical note: recent experiences of helicopter main rotor blade damage 
    Weber, Simone; Lone, Mudassir M.; Cooke, Alastair (Vertical Flight Society, 2019-08-01)
    Results of a survey investigating commonly occurring minor rotor blade damage incidents are presented in this paper. Over 100 participants worldwide ranging from test pilots to commercial pilots and licensed engineers ...
  • Unsteady swirl distortion characteristics for S-ducts using Lattice Boltzmann and time-resolved, stereo PIV methods 
    Guerrero-Hurtado, Manuel; Zachos, Pavlos; MacManus, David G.; Migliorini, Matteo; Trapani, Giuseppe (AIAA, 2019-08-16)
    The unsteady flowfields generated by convoluted aero engine intakes are major sources of instabilities that can compromise the performance of the downstream turbomachinery components. This highlights theneed for high spatial ...
  • The impact of inlet boundary layer thickness on the unsteady aerodynamics of S-duct intakes 
    Migliorini, Matteo; Zachos, Pavlos; MacManus, David G (AIAA, 2019-09-16)
    The need to reduce aero-engine emissions and direct operating costsis driving the civil aerospace sectortowards considering more integrated propulsion systems. Many of the proposed novel aircraft architectures employ ...
  • Heat transfer across a fractal surface 
    Frank, Michael; Papanikolaou, Michail; Drikakis, Dimitris; Salonitis, Konstantinos (American Institute of Physics (AIP), 2019-10-02)
    The effects of surface irregularities and imperfections on the thermal resistance at a solid-liquid interface have been investigated using molecular dynamics. The molecular model comprises liquid argon confined between ...
  • Extraction and analysis of micro-Doppler signatures by the Empirical Mode Decomposition 
    Brewster, Amy; Balleri, Alessio (IEEE, 2015-06-25)
    A set of experimental trials was conducted with a 10 GHz continuous wave radar to collect micro-Doppler signatures of a large single, double and triple bladed rotating fin and a sized miniature helicopter. We analysed the ...
  • Low-boom low-drag optimization in a multidisciplinary design analysis optimization environment 
    Sun, Yicheng; Smith, Howard (Elsevier, 2019-09-20)
    This paper introduces a multidisciplinary design analysis and optimization environment called GENUS. The GENUS aircraft design environment’s key features are that it is modular, expandable, flexible, independent, and ...
  • Carbonation of lime-based materials under ambient conditions for direct air capture 
    Erans, María; Nabavi, Seyed Ali; Manović, Vasilije (Elsevier, 2019-09-07)
    Carbonation of lime-based materials at high temperatures has been extensively explored in the processes for decarbonisation of the power and industrial sectors. However, their capability to capture carbon dioxide from air ...
  • Aerodynamic interference for aero-engine installations 
    Stankowski, Tomasz P.; MacManus, David G.; Sheaf, Christopher T. J.; Grech, Nicholas (AIAA, 2016-01-02)
  • Aerodynamics of aero-engine installation 
    Stankowski, Tomasz P.; MacManus, David G.; Sheaf, Christopher T. J.; Grech, Nicholas (AIAA, 2016-01-02)
    Small internal combustion engines, particularly those ranging in power from 1 kW to 10 kW, propel many remotely piloted aircraft (RPA) platforms that play an increasingly significant role in the Department of Defense. ...
  • Flow distortion measurements in convoluted aero engine intakes 
    Zachos, Pavlos K.; MacManus, David G.; Chiereghin, Nicola (AIAA, 2015-06-19)
    The unsteady flow fields generated by convoluted aero engine intakes are major sources of instabilities that can compromise the performance of the down stream turbo machinery components. Hence, there exists a need for high ...
  • Complex aero-engine intake ducts and dynamic distortion 
    MacManus, David G.; Chiereghin, Nicola; Gil-Prieto, Daniel; Zachos, Pavlos K. (AIAA, 2015-06-19)
    For many embedded and partially-embedded engine systems, the complexity of the flow field associated with convoluted intakes presents an area of notable research challenges. The convolution of the intake duct introduces ...
  • The development of a simple method for drag estimation for wedge-like fairings in hypersonic flow 
    Roussel, Alexandre; Prince, Simon; Viguer, Matthieu; Kshitij, Abhinav; Stollery, John; Garry, Kevin (ICAS, 2016-09-30)
    The addition of wedge-like fairings onto the side of missiles and space launch vehicles, to shield devices such as cameras or reaction jet nozzles, creates additional drag, particularly when in supersonic/hypersonic flow. ...
  • Assessment of thermo-electric power plants for rotorcraft application 
    Roumeliotis, Ioannis; Mourouzidis, Christos; Zafferetti, Mirko; Deniz, Unlu; Broca, Olivier; Pachidis, Vassilios (ASME, 2019-10-01)
    This paper assesses a parallel electric hybrid propulsion system utilizing simple and recuperated cycle gas turbine configurations. An adapted engine model capable to reproduce a turboshaft engine steady state and transient ...
  • Soil and transport factors in potential distribution systems for biofertilisers derived from palm oil mill residues in Malaysia 
    Truckell, Ian G.; Shah, Hamid Ullah; Baillie, Ian C.; Hallett, Stephen H.; Sakrabani, Ruben (Elsevier, 2019-10-08)
    Oil palm provides an important source of edible oils and fats, accounting for >30% of total global production and >55% of the international trade in these foodstuffs. The palms produce fresh fruit bunches, comprising several ...
  • Metal additive manufacturing in the commercial aviation industry: A review 
    Gisario, Annamaria; Kazarian, Michele; Martina, Filomeno; Mehrpouya, Mehrshad (Elsevier, 2019-09-27)
    The applications of Additive Manufacturing (AM) have been grown up rapidly in various industries in the past few decades. Among them, aerospace has been attracted more attention due to heavy investment of the principal ...
  • Optical investigation of three-dimensional human skin equivalents: a pilot study 
    Kallepalli, Akhil; McCall, Blake; James, David B.; Junaid, Sarah; Halls, James; Richardson, Mark A. (Wiley-VCH Verlag, 2019-10-08)
    Human skin equivalents (HSEs) are three‐dimensional living models of human skin that are prepared in vitro by seeding cells onto an appropriate scaffold. They recreate the structure and biological behaviour of real skin, ...
  • Parametric evaluation of S-CO2 Brayton cycles for bottoming applications 
    Brighenti, Giovanni; Anselmi, Eduardo; Zachos, Pavlos (2016-10-11)
    Parametric design studies for the preliminary assessment of physical footprint of Supercritical CO2 power plants are presented herein. The aim of the study is to quantify trade-offs between cycle efficiency and plant ...