Monthly Archive: March 2020

Mar 17

Group behavior and tolerance of Eurasian minnow (Phoxinus phoxinus) in response to tones of differing pulse repetition rate

Research Article  Helen A. L. Currie1,b),  Paul R. White2,c),  Timothy G. Leighton2,d), and  Paul S. Kemp1,e) The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America > Volume 147, Issue 3 > 10.1121/10.0000910 Published Online: 17 March 2020 ABSTRACT Behavioral guidance systems are commonly used in freshwater fish conservation. The biological relevance of sound to fish and recorded responses to human-generated noise …

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Mar 10

A theoretical analysis of the fluid-solid interactions governing the removal of woody debris jams from cylindrical bridge piers

A theoretical analysis of the fluid-solid interactions governing the removal of woody debris jams from cylindrical bridge piers Diego Panici, Gustavo De Almeida Published: 10 Mar 2020 Journal of Fluid Mechanics, vol. 886, A19. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.1048 Abstract This paper proposes a theoretical model to describe previous laboratory observations of the dynamics of debris accumulations around bridge …

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Mar 10

A theoretical analysis of the fluid-solid interactions governing the removal of woody debris jams from cylindrical bridge piers

Research Article Panici, D. & De Almeida, G., Published on 10 Mar 2020, In : Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 886, 21 p., A19. Abstract This paper proposes a theoretical model to describe previous laboratory observations of the dynamics of debris accumulations around bridge piers of cylindrical shape. The model is based on the assumption that the observed dynamics is mainly …

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Mar 06

CDT SIS student researching how microplastics can end up in farmland

Freya Radford is a second year PhD student part of CDT in Sustainable Infrastructure Systems and based in Geography and Environmental Science. Freya is researching micro-plastic pollution in agricultural land through organic fertilisers made from sewage sludge.

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