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Tidal resource extraction in the Pentland Firth, UK: Potential impacts on flow regime and sediment transport in the Inner Sound of Stroma by Martin-Short, R., Hill, J., Kramer, S.C., Avdis, A., Allison, P.A., Piggott, M.D.

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Design optimisation and resource assessment for tidal-stream renewable energy farms using a new continuous turbine approach by Funke, S.W., Kramer, S.C., Piggott, M.D.

“…This paper presents a new approach for optimising the design of tidal stream turbine farms. In this approach, the turbine farm is represented by a turbine…”
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Integration of cost modelling within the micro-siting design optimisation of tidal turbine arrays by Culley, D.M., Funke, S.W., Kramer, S.C., Piggott, M.D.

“…The location of individual turbines within a tidal current turbine array – micro-siting – can have a significant impact on the power that the array may extract…”
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The trade-off between tidal-turbine array yield and environmental impact: A habitat suitability modelling approach by du Feu, R.J., Funke, S.W., Kramer, S.C., Hill, J., Piggott, M.D.

“…In the drive towards a carbon-free society, tidal energy has the potential to become a valuable part of the UK energy supply. Developments are subject to…”
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The trade-off between tidal-turbine array yield and impact on flow: A multi-objective optimisation problem by du Feu, R.J., Funke, S.W., Kramer, S.C., Culley, D.M., Hill, J., Halpern, B.S., Piggott, M.D.

“…This paper introduces a new approach for investigating trade-offs between different societal objectives in the design of tidal-turbine arrays. This method is…”
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A surrogate-model assisted approach for optimising the size of tidal turbine arrays by Culley, D.M., Funke, S.W., Kramer, S.C., Piggott, M.D.

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A finite element formulation to model the flow of flotation foams by Brito-Parada, P.R., Kramer, S.C., Wilson, C.R., Pain, C.C., Neethling, S.J., Cilliers, J.J.

“…In this paper, a numerical model for the flow of foams in flotation cells in up to three dimensions is described. By using finite elements to solve Laplace's…”
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Solving the Poisson equation on small aspect ratio domains using unstructured meshes by Kramer, S.C., Cotter, C.J., Pain, C.C.

“…We discuss the ill-conditioning of the matrix for the discretised Poisson equation in the small aspect ratio limit, and motivate this problem in the context of…”
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Efficient economic optimisation of large-scale tidal stream arrays by Goss, Z.L., Coles, D.S., Kramer, S.C., Piggott, M.D.

“…As the tidal energy industry moves from demonstrator arrays comprising just a few turbines to large-scale arrays made up of potentially hundreds of turbines,…”
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Do mantle plumes preserve the heterogeneous structure of their deep-mantle source? by Jones, T.D., Davies, D.R., Campbell, I.H., Wilson, C.R., Kramer, S.C.

“…It has been proposed that the spatial variations recorded in the geochemistry of hotspot lavas, such as the bilateral asymmetry recorded at Hawaii, can be…”
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Application of the immersed-body method to simulate wave–structure interactions by Viré, A., Spinneken, J., Piggott, M.D., Pain, C.C., Kramer, S.C.

“…This study aims at demonstrating the capability of the immersed-body method to simulate wave–structure interactions using a non-linear finite-element model. In…”
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A wetting and drying algorithm with a combined pressure/free-surface formulation for non-hydrostatic models by Funke, S.W., Pain, C.C., Kramer, S.C., Piggott, M.D.

“…► A wetting and drying method for the Navier–Stokes equations is developed. ► The domain is horizontally fixed but moves vertically with the free-surface…”
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Integrated design, evaluation, and decision making for small satellite design by Ashby, G.F., Kramer, S.C.

“…The design process of complex systems can be made more effective if the designers have the ability to create, evaluate, and trade-off preliminary designs in a…”
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Gain scheduling optimization by genetic algorithms by Martin, R.C., Kramer, S.C.

“…Gain scheduling is a simple and common means of providing adaptive control by varying controller parameters based on measurements of key system variables…”
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Bayesian parameter estimation by Kramer, S.C., Sorenson, H.W.

“…Taking the Bayesian approach in solving the discrete-time parameter estimation problem has two major results: the unknown parameters are legitimately included…”
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A comparison of guided and unguided anti-missile kinetic kill countermeasures by Cherry, M.C., Kramer, S.C., Hagan, J.J.

“…Modern Surface to Air Missiles (SAMs) present a significant threat to today's military and civilian aircraft. Current countermeasure systems such as flares and…”
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Ganglienblockade: Neurolyse des Plexus coeliacus by Krämer, S.C., Meier, R., Seifarth, H.

“…Zusammenfassung Klinisches Problem Therapierefraktäre und schwere rezidivierende Schmerzen im Oberbauch stellen insbesondere beim nicht operablen…”
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Using the nominal operating point as a design variable for gain scheduled controllers by Martin, R.C., Kramer, S.C.

“…One approach to designing gain scheduled controllers is to decompose them into an inner loop scheduled so that the closed inner loop response is as close as…”
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