• Issues relating to licensing and liability for small modular reactors in Africa 

  Nicholls, D.; Maqabuka, B.G.; Connell, S.H.; Naidoo, P.; Slabber, Johan F.M. (CIGRE, 2023-12)

  The internationally accepted nuclear regulation policy is for each country to undertake first principle analysis and approvals for the technical design and operating rules, benchmarking against nationally determined ...
• Automated learning rates in machine learning for dynamic mini-batch sub-sampled losses 

  Kafka, Dominic (University of Pretoria, 2020-12)

  Learning rate schedule parameters remain some of the most sensitive hyperparameters in machine learning, as well as being challenging to resolve, in particular when mini-batch subsampling is considered. Mini-batch sub-sampling ...
• Modelling and multi-objective optimisation of heat transfer characteristics and pressure drop of nanofluids in microtubes 

  Meyer, Marcel (University of Pretoria, 2020-02)

  A literature study was performed on the inner mechanisms of nanofluids and flow in microchannels. With ever changing technology, the need for smaller and more efficient devices has come about in the last couple of years. ...
• Pulsating nanofluid-jet impingement cooling and its hydrodynamic effects on heat transfer 

  Atofarati, Emmanuel Olawaseyi; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Meyer, Josua P. (Elsevier, 2024-04)

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• Two phase simulation of solar still in the presence of phase change materials in its bottom and aluminum nanoparticles in the water 

  Mustafa, Jawed; Alqaed, Saeed; Sharifpur, Mohsen (Elsevier, 2023-09)

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• Hydrodynamic effects of hybrid nanofluid jet on the heat transfer augmentation 

  Atofarati, Emmanuel Olawaseyi; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Meyer, Josua P. (Elsevier, 2023-11)

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• Experimental investigations of particle sizes effects on exergy and entropy characteristics of AL2O3 - MWCNT hybrid nanofluid along the transitional flow regime 

  Ibrahim, Ibrahim Umar; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Meyer, Josua P. (Elsevier, 2023-11)

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• Effect of phase change materials on lithium-Ion plate batteries 

  Mustafa, Jawed; Alqaed, Saeed; Husain, Shahid; Jamil, Basharat; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Cheraghian, Goshtasp (MDPI, 2023-01-15)

  This paper presents the simulations of the cooling system of a battery pack (BTPC) consisting of lithium-ion (LIN) plate batteries. The BTPC includes six battery cells (BTCL) in two rows with three BTCLs, which are placed ...
• Reflecting on a community of practice for engineering education research capacity in Africa : who are we and where are we going? 

  Matemba, Esther; Smith, Lelanie; Inglis, Helen Mary; Mogashana, Disaapele; Jansen, Lauren; Gwynne-Evans, Alison; Campbell, Anita L.; Kwuimy, Cedrick; Nassar, Shamim; Magara, Irene; Kloot, Bruce; Hattingh, Teresa; Raji, Atanda; Musa, Tagwa; Nyamapfene, Abel (Taylor and Francis, 2023)

  The Engineering Education Research Network in Africa (EERN-Africa) was created to enable connections between practitioners and researchers with a shared interest in African engineering education contexts. Recognising the ...
• Numerical investigation of the effect of rectangular and semicircular cavities filled with phase change materials installed on the solar wall 

  Mustafa, Jawed; Alqaed, Saeed; Almehmadi, Fahad Awjah; Husain, Shahid; Jamil, Basharat; Sharifpur, Mohsen (Springer, 2024)

  The use of alternative energy sources, particularly solar energy, in buildings is rising and spreading around the globe. In this paper, a solar wall is analyzed using a numerical method. On the wall, a number of obstacles ...
• Optimization of window solar gain for a building with less cooling load 

  Mustafa, Jawed; Alqaed, Saeed; Sharifpur, Mohsen; Meyer, Josua P. (Elsevier, 2024-01)

  Considering solar gain through the window (SGW), this study investigated the effects of installing shading on cooling load. Approving energy analysis for the base building (without shading), the cooling, heating, and annual ...
• Synchronous median instantaneous power spectrum-gram (SM-IPSgram) : A filter banks decomposition for identifying informative frequency band and a weighting function 

  Sibanda, Thato (Elsevier, 2024-04)

  Over the years, informative frequency band (IFB) identification techniques emerged with the aim of guaranteeing optimal demodulation-band for the diagnostics of rotating machinery. A measured vibration signal from complex ...
• Analysis of natural convection and the generation of entropy within an enclosure filled with nanofluid-packed structured pebble beds subjected to an external magnetic field and thermal radiation 

  Hashemi-Tilehnoee, Mehdi; Seyyedi, Seyyed Masoud; Del Barrio, Elena Palomo; Sharifpur, Mohsen (Elsevier, 2023-12)

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• Modelling and optimization of residual stress induction on laser-worked X12Cr turbine blades 

  Fameso, Festus Oluwadare; Desai, Dawood Ahmed; Kok, Schalk; Armfield, Dylan; Newby, Mark (Erol Kurt, 2023)

  The energy and power industry conventionally depends on large-scale turbomachinery to meet the ever-growing global energy demands. However, unplanned in-service failures remain a threat to sustainability with safety and ...
• Analysis of magneto-natural-convection flow in a semi-annulus enclosure filled with a micropolar-nanofluid; a computational framework using CVFEM and FVM 

  Seyyedi, Seyyed Masoud; Hashemi-Tilehnoee, M.; Palomo del Barrio, E.; Dogonchi, A.S.; Sharifpur, Mohsen (Elsevier, 2023-02)

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• Articulated vehicle stability control using brake-based torque vectoring on trailer using nonlinear model predictive control 

  Catterick, Jamie; Botha, Theunis R.; Els, P.S. (Pieter Schalk) (SAE International, 2023)

  Unstable articulated vehicles pose a serious threat to the occupants driving them as well as the occupants of the vehicles around them. Articulated vehicles typically experience three types of instability: snaking, ...
• Impact of wind on crash-landing mortality in grey-headed albatrosses Thalassarche chrysostoma breeding on Marion Island 

  Schoombie, Janine; Schoombie, S.; Connan, Maelle; Jones, C.W.; Risi, M.; Craig, K.J. (Kenneth); Smith, Lelanie; Ryan, P.G.; Shepard, E.L.C. (Inter Research, 2023-11)

  Albatrosses exploit winds to travel vast distances across the ocean. Their morphology is adapted for low-cost dynamic soaring flight, but these adaptations confer low manoeuvrability, which may be risky when flying over ...
• Latent indicators for temporal-preserving latent variable models in vibration-based condition monitoring under non-stationary conditions 

  Balshaw, Ryan; Heyns, P.S. (Philippus Stephanus); Wilke, Daniel Nicolas; Schmidt, Stephan (Elsevier, 2023-09)

  Condition-based monitoring for critical assets is reliant on the quality of the indicators used for condition inference. These indicators must be sensitive to the development of faults under constant and non-stationary ...
• An anomalous frequency band identification method utilising available healthy historical data for gearbox fault detection 

  Schmidt, Stephan; Gryllias, Konstantinos C. (Elsevier, 2023-11)

  Informative frequency band identification methods are used to automatically design bandpass filters to enhance fault signatures in vibration measurements. Blind and targeted features can be used to guide the frequency band ...
• Cyclomap : a new phase-cycle analysis to study the kinematics of gears and bearings 

  Sibanda, Thato; Schmidt, Stephan (Elsevier, 2023-12)

  The object of this paper is to propose a new phase-cycle analysis for gear and bearing diagnostics of rotating machinery which synthesises the theory of angle-time cyclostationary (AT-CS). The motivation for this research ...

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