Enhancement of refrigerant-side condensation heat transfer performance of additively-manufactured air-cooled heat exchangers by Goh, Chok Khai

“…For the pressure drop of the refrigerant, the higher mass flux of 80 kg/m2 ⋅ s showed a higher pressure drop than that of the lower mass flux of 45 kg/m2 ⋅ s. On the numerical front, a new micro-channel was designed, consisting of a cross-finned and twisted tube setup. …”
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Site leaching model and climate change impacts of an expanding coastal dumpsite by Wang, Yijie

“…A simple yet universal coupled model, incorporating geometric modeling, Hydrologic Evaluation of Landfill Performance (HELP) Model version 4.0, and numerical models is proposed and validated by site monitoring data. …”
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Deep learning-based algorithm for synthetic aperture radar despeckling by Wang, Yuxuan

“…In recent years, the rapid development of deep learning technologies has produced numerous outstanding models that have achieved remarkable success in natural image processing. …”
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Seismic performance of RC structural squat walls with limited transverse reinforcement by Xiang, Weizheng

“…In this study, both experimental and numerical investigations of local and global responses of such RC walls under cyclic loadings have been presented in detail. …”
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Design of IIR filters by optimization techniques by Wang, Zhe.

“…At each time, only the coefficients of the numerator and one second-order factor are optimized. …”
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Small scale 3D jet scour by Nuramirah Suyin Zaihan

“…Numerous studies have been conducted on scouring in a laboratory setting and most of them have been centered on the idea of providing and proposing a realistic estimate to the scour formed. …”
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Development of biomimetic 3D cancer platform for drug testing by Ker, Sia Fong

“…Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition plays an important role in tumour metastasis as well as in tumour recurrence, the conversion of epithelial cells to mesenchymal cells can result in the acquisition of migratory and invasive properties. There are numerous studies on how stiffness of extracellular matrix, signals from the environment, type of extracellular matrix and the presence of integrins can affect cell behavior and migration. …”
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Development of compact power electronics inverter using gallium nitride (GaN) devices by Sinurat, Hendry Donald Hanesty

“…Demand of more ‘technological’ and ‘suit-in-extreme-operation’ electronic devices is climbing up like never before. Numerous numbers of electrical drives and machines are designed and produced to run under certain high level of frequency and temperature. …”
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Task-orientated human-robot teleoperation using wearable sensors by Teoh, Yee Seng

“…With the desire of solving numerous problems arise in hazardous environment where human alone unable to accomplish the required tasks, teleoperation using real-time robots have been deployed into the dangerous or inaccessible workspace. …”
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An investigation into air traffic control communications protocols by Ang, Kenneth Patrick

“…Mental model errors are eliminated since 2D display only provides numerical data on altitude level. It also leads to a clearer interpretation of the situation at aircraft holding areas in the event of a delay to land and the landing phase of a flight and improved situational awareness which leads to quicker detection of potential conflicts. …”
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An experimental and simulation study of chip transportation behaviour in gundrilling by Tnay, Guan Leong

“…Based on the findings, a computational fluid dynamic (CFD) numerical model was developed to predict the lateral drag forces with respect to the particle Reynolds number. …”
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Coupled partitioned fluid-motion solver in modelling the response of marine structures by Chow, Jeng Hei

“…The additional cubic interpolation of wave data onto the numerical wave generation paddles helped preserve the accuracy of the transfer, especially for directional waves. …”
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Small scale yielding analysis for a disclination-nucleated Zener-Stroh crack interacting with a circular inclusion by Fan, M., Zhang, Yan Mei, Xiao, Zhong Min

“…Von Mises yielding criterion is applied in the plastic zone area to judge the yielding occurrence. Numerical results are given to study the influence of the disclination strength, disclination dipole arm as well as material properties on the stress intensity factor (SIF), plastic zone size (PZS), and crack tip opening displacement (CTOD). …”
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Overcoming endurance issue : UAV-enabled communications with proactive caching by Xu, Xiaoli, Zeng, Yong, Guan, Yong Liang, Zhang, Rui

“…As the formulated problem is NP-hard in general, we propose efficient algorithms to find high-quality approximate solutions for it. Numerical results are provided to corroborate our study and show the great potential of proactive caching for overcoming the endurance issue in UAV-enabled communications.…”
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Nanoscale vibration characterization of multi-layered graphene sheets embedded in an elastic medium by Lin, R. M.

“…Natural frequencies and their associated vibration modes of practical interest of single-layered and triple-layered graphene sheets, as well as general MLGSs that are embedded in an elastic medium are established. Numerical simulations are conducted to examine the effects of van der Waals (vdW) interactions, which are present as bonding forces between the layers, on nanoscale vibration natural frequencies and their mode shapes. …”
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Evaporation prediction of ethanol droplet by statistical rate theory by Mao, Wenjian

“…Evaporation parameters, which are vapor phase interfacial temperature, liquid phase interfacial temperature, vapor phase pressure and drop size radius, are numerical analysed through SRT approach. For vapor phase and liquid phase interfacial temperature, the evaporation flux is slightly decreased when the vapor phase interfacial temperature is increasing. …”
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Accelerating black objects and their holographic duals by Boido, A

“…These allow us to recover previously known results for numerous explicit supergravity solutions and to significantly generalize them to various other compactifications.…”

Investigating graph neural networks and classical feature-extraction techniques in activity-cliff and molecular property prediction by Dablander, MF

“…<p>Molecular featurisation refers to the process of transforming molecular data into numerical feature vectors. It is one of the key research areas in molecular machine learning and computational drug discovery. …”

Online optimisation of the CLIC drive beam bunch train recombination at CTF3 by Gamba, D

“…A custom methodol- ogy is used to analyse the problem, both from a theoretical and a numerical point of view. The aim is to provide first-order orbit and transverse optics constraints, which can be used as guidelines during the set-up of the beam recombination process. …”

Understanding the disease mechanisms of cerebellar ataxia through induced pluripotent stem cell models by Wong, M

“…<p>The cerebellar ataxias are a heterogeneous group of incurable disorders that are characterised by progressive dysfunction and degeneration of Purkinje cells. Although numerous causative genes have been identified, the underlying pathogenic mechanisms remain incompletely understood, due to the limited availability of human brain tissue and the lack of reliable disease models. …”