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A flood vulnerability index for coastal cities and its use in assessing climate change impacts by Balica, S. F., Wright, N. G., van der Meulen, F.

“…Worldwide, there is a need to enhance our understanding of vulnerability and to develop methodologies and tools to assess vulnerability. One of the most…”
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Flood vulnerability indices at varying spatial scales by Balica, S F, Douben, N, Wright, N G

“…Populations around the world are vulnerable to natural disasters. Such disasters are occurring with increased frequency as a consequence of socio-economic and…”
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On the use of the k– ε model in commercial CFD software to model the neutral atmospheric boundary layer by Hargreaves, D.M., Wright, N.G.

“…The k– ε model is routinely used by wind engineers to computationally model the atmospheric boundary layer (ABL). Commercial software is typically used, with…”
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Unexpected change in the electron affinity of diamond caused by the ultra-thin transition metal oxide films by Tiwari, Amit K., Goss, J. P., Briddon, P. R., Horsfall, A. B., Wright, N. G., Jones, R., Rayson, M. J.

“…The energetics and electronic properties of oxides of selected transition metals (Cu, Ni, Ti and Zn) adsorbed onto a diamond (001) surface are examined using…”
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Physical complexity to model morphological changes at a natural channel bend by Guan, M., Wright, N. G., Sleigh, P. A., Ahilan, S., Lamb, R.

“…This study developed a two‐dimensional (2‐D) depth‐averaged model for morphological changes at natural bends by including a secondary flow correction. The…”
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Radiometric Calibration of the Advanced Wind Scatterometer Radar ASCAT Carried Onboard the METOP-A Satellite by Wilson, J J W, Anderson, C, Baker, M A, Bonekamp, H, Saldaña, J Figa, Dyer, R G, Lerch, J A, Kayal, G, Gelsthorpe, R V, Brown, M A, Schied, E, Schutz-Munz, S, Rostan, F, Pritchard, E W, Wright, N G, King, D, Onel, Ü

“…The Advanced Wind Scatterometer (ASCAT) is a six-beam spaceborne radar instrument designed to measure wind fields over the oceans. An ASCAT instrument is…”
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Case Study of the Use of Remotely Sensed Data for Modeling Flood Inundation on the River Severn, U.K by Wright, N. G, Villanueva, I, Bates, P. D, Mason, D. C, Wilson, M. D, Pender, G, Neelz, S

“…A methodology for using remotely sensed data to both generate and evaluate a hydraulic model of floodplain inundation is presented for a rural case study in…”
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Parametric and physically based modelling techniques for flood risk and vulnerability assessment: A comparison by Balica, S.F., Popescu, I., Beevers, L., Wright, N.G.

“…Floods are one of the most common and widely distributed natural risks to life and property. There is a need to identify the risk in flood-prone areas to…”
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An unstructured finite-volume algorithm for predicting flow in rivers and estuaries by Sleigh, P.A, Gaskell, P.H, Berzins, M, Wright, N.G

“…A numerical algorithm is presented for the solution of geometrically challenging two-dimensional river and estuary flows, based on an adaptive triangular…”
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Time accurate local time stepping for the unsteady shallow water equations by Crossley, A. J., Wright, N. G.

“…Two time accurate local time stepping (LTS) strategies originally developed for the Euler equations are presented and applied to the unsteady shallow water…”
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Dose Rate Linearity in 4H-SiC Schottky Diode-Based Detectors at Elevated Temperatures by Mohamed, N. S., Wright, N. G., Horsfall, A. B.

“…The outstanding material properties make silicon carbide radiation hard and this ability has enabled it to be demonstrated in a range of detector structures…”
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Device processing and characterisation of high temperature silicon carbide Schottky diodes by Vassilevski, K.V., Nikitina, I.P., Wright, N.G., Horsfall, A.B., O’Neill, A.G., Johnson, C.M.

“…High temperature silicon carbide diodes with nickel silicide Schottky contacts were fabricated by deposition of titanium–nickel metal film on 4H-SiC epitaxial…”
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Stage-Discharge Prediction for Converging Compound Channels with Narrow Floodplains by Naik, B, Khatua, K. K, Wright, N. G, Sleigh, A

“…AbstractMomentum transfer between a main channel and side floodplains tends to increase the floodplain shear and decrease the main channel shear. The increase…”
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DNA-Templated Semiconductor Nanoparticle Chains and Wires by Dong, L., Hollis, T., Connolly, B. A., Wright, N. G., Horrocks, B. R., Houlton, A.

“…Highly organized CdS growth by DNA templating is used to produce either linear arrangements of Q‐particles along the DNA strands or continuous conducting…”
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Prediction of barrier inhomogeneities and carrier transport in Ni-silicided Schottky diode by Saha, A.R., Dimitriu, C.B.-, Horsfall, A.B., Chattopadhyay, S., Wright, N.G., O’Neill, A.G., Maiti, C.K.

“…Based on Quantum Mechanical (QM) carrier transport and the effects of interface states, a theoretical model has been developed to predict the anomalous…”
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Determination of the adhesion energy of graphene on SiC(0001) via measurement of pleat defects by Wells, G. H., Hopf, T., Vassilevski, K. V., Escobedo-Cousin, E., Wright, N. G., Horsfall, A. B., Goss, J. P., O'Neill, A. G., Hunt, M. R. C.

“…Pleat defects in graphene grown on SiC(0001) were studied and used to determine the adhesion energy between few-layer graphene (3 ± 1 monolayers) and the…”
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Three-Dimensional Hydrodynamics of Meandering Compound Channels by Morvan, H, Pender, G, Wright, N. G, Ervine, D. A

“…The velocity field in meandering compound channels with overbank flow is highly three dimensional. To date, its features have been investigated experimentally…”
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High temperature measurements of metal contacts on epitaxial graphene by Nagareddy, V. K., Nikitina, I. P., Gaskill, D. K., Tedesco, J. L., Myers-Ward, R. L., Eddy, C. R., Goss, J. P., Wright, N. G., Horsfall, A. B.

“…Electrical characteristics of Cr/Au and Ti/Au metal contacts on epitaxial graphene on 4H-SiC showed significant variations in resistance parameters at 300 K…”
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Application of the k–ω turbulence model for a wind-induced vibration study of 2D bluff bodies by Sun, D., Owen, J.S., Wright, N.G.

“…This paper is concerned with the question of an appropriate turbulence model for the computational modelling of bridge deck aero-elasticity. A detailed…”
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Forming-Free Reversible Bipolar Resistive Switching Behavior in Al-Doped HfO2 Metal–Insulator–Metal Devices by Mahapatra, R., Horsfall, A. B., Wright, N.G.

“…Resistive switching (RS) characteristics are investigated in fabricated Al-doped HfO 2 metal–insulator–metal devices. It is proposed that oxygen vacancies in…”
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