| MACE PGR CONFERENCE 2018 26th March 2018 George Begg Room C1 | |||
| 09:25 09:30 | Welcome | PGR Director/Head of School | |
| 09:30 10:15 | Keynote Speech | Session chair: B.D. Rogers | |
| Session 1: Building Engineering and Climate Change | Session chair: Neema Opiyo | ||
| 10:15- 11:00 | Fire resistance of composite buildings with earthquake damage to fire protection | Riza Suwondo | |
| Making hospitals resilient to climate change and its implications on Power Networks. | Ilias Gennis | ||
| Evaluating coffee stems potential for generating power in small-scale downdraft gasifiers-gas engine systems in Colombian coffee farms | Samira Garcia-Freites | ||
| 11:00 – 11:45 | Refreshment and Poster session | Session chair: Mutiu Alabi-Bello | |
| Session 2 : Wind & Geomatic Engineering | Session chair: Ilias Gennis | ||
| 11:45- 12:45 | Assessment of Offshore Wind Energy opportunities in India using WRF for resource simulation including sea breeze | Rohan Kumar | |
| Effect of foundation soil stiffness on seismic earth pressure | Junied Bakr | ||
| Upper bound solution of laterally loaded short rigid piles in undrained clay | H.Hassan | ||
| Effect of liquefaction on the seismic response of port facilities in reclaimed islands: a case study from the 2016 Kumamoto earthquake sequence | Bashar Ismael | ||
| 12:45– 14:00 | Lunch Break | ||
| Session 3: Multi-Phase Flows and Materials | Session chair: Ehimen Iyamabo | ||
| 14:00- 14:45 | Design of low residue packs by Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics (SPH)” | Aaron English | |
| Dynamic Modelling of Two-Phase Cooling Systems Using the Object-Oriented Modelling Platform EcosimPro | Viren Bhanot and Paolo Petagna | ||
| Experimental Model for Functional Evaluation of the Effects of Electrical Stimulation: Alternating Current Effects in Human Dermal Fibroblasts | Edgar A. Pina-Galan | ||
| Session 4: Innovative Manufacturing | Session chair: Alexandra Alcantara Guadardo | ||
| 14:45-15:30 | An in-situ SEM study of transverse failure in unidirectional composite laminate reinforced by Polypropylene/S-glass hybrid yarn | Chengguang Liu | |
| Tool/Chip Contact Phenomenon Modeling for Cutting Tools with Chip Breakers. | Ahmed Alghamdi | ||
| Towards real-time urban wind flow modelling using an embedded large-eddy simulation lattice Boltzmann method | Marta Camps Santasmasas | ||
| 15:30 – 16:00 | Refreshment Break | ||
| Session 5: Fluid-Structure Interaction and Turbulence | Session chair: Qiangjun Zhang | ||
| 16:00- 17:00 | Numerical simulation of turbulent flow and drop break-up in a high pressure | Ioannis Bagkeris | |
| Implementing numerical wall function for large eddy simulation in OpenFOAM” | Brendan Iyamabo | ||
| Fluid-structure interaction modelling of cardiovascular applications using discrete methods. | Benjamin Owen | ||
| Flow-Induced Instability of Flexible Filaments Hanging in Cross Flow | Jorge Silva-Leon | ||
| 17:00 – 17:05 | Closing remarks | (PGR Director and Conference Committee) | |
| 17:05- 18:00 | Networking & Chillout | ALL | |
| 18:00 – late | Evening Social event with Prizegiving | ALL | |
A PDF copy of the conference schedule for oral presentation can be found here.
| Poster Session | Session chair: Mutiu Alabi-Bello | ||
| 10:45 – 11:45 | 1 | A novel leakage detection method in pipes with flow using Acoustic Wave Propagation, Reflectometry and CFD | Mustapha Abdullahi |
| 2 | Aeromechanics of Tilt-Rotor Helicopters | Wesley Appleton | |
| 3 | Affordable housing: Different things to different policy arenas | Neema G. Opiyo | |
| 4 | Assessment of the capacity of local authorities to meet the Paris Agreement in relation to transport emissions in northern towns. | William Fitzpatrick | |
| 5 | Bioenergy Governance for Sustainable Development | Christopher Walsh | |
| 6 | Demand-response and energy justice | Philippa Calver | |
| 7 | Design of a Novel Biomimetic Robotic Hand | Yiming Zhu | |
| 8 | Element-free Galerkin method for coupled groundwater flow and contaminant transport | Tinesh Pathania | |
| 9 | Hotspot Stress Prediction for DKK CHS Joints in Offshore Wind Turbine Jackets |
Ernest Onoriode Oshogbunu | |
| 10 | Microstructure of Uranium Silicide Produced by Arc Melting | George Phillips | |
| 11 | Modelling of damage evolution in high strength concrete under uniaxial loading |
Jiaming Wang | |
| 12 | Optimization of honeycomb strength assignment for a composite energy-absorbing structure | Chengxing Yang | |
| 13 | Selection of Cutting Conditions Based on Both Minimum Cost and Energy | Haitham M ALSWAT | |
| 14 | Study the effect of stiffness of Rig by input response on resonance frequency and transmissibility of human body segments | Khuram Shahzad | |
| 15 | Sub-metering Analysis of Unregulated Energy Sources within the University of Manchester | Christina Birch | |
| 16 | Micro-orifice single-phase liquid flow in the laminar to turbulant transitional regime | Max Szolcek & Andrea Cioncolini |
Click here to find a PDF copy of the schedule for poster presentation.