Two new high-performance bidirectional mixed radix-2n serial-serial multipliers are presented. The new designs have improved the area-time performance by ~31% when compared with existing radix-2n serial-serial multipliers. ...
The composition of a soundfield containing complex nearfield sources has interesting musical applications. A method is presented here using freefield expansions about exterior points of a harmonic multipole field. A ...
Energy and water are interconnected natural resources and are vital utilities utilised by organisations to enable their business delivery. Managing these resources within the United Kingdom ‘UK’ is currently focused on ...
Knowledge Transfer Partnerships can raise the profile of the host organisation and provide greater access to new areas of knowledge and influence. They provide additional skills and opportunities for existing staff to ...
This paper studies the energy implications of HVAC system configuration by analysing energy balance and psychrometrics of typical and innovative systems. Three criteria have been established: (1) the ability to minimize ...
Energy management of heating, ventilating and air-conditioning (HVAC) systems is a primary concern in building projects, since the energy consumption in electricity has the highest percentage in HVAC among all building ...
Building energy demand is the amount of heating and cooling energy required to deliver the desired indoor conditions. It is dependent on various building parameters such as building fabrics, glazing percentage, occupancy ...
A hybrid plasma surface alloying process has been developed for austenitic stainless steels to improve their surface hardness, wear resistance and corrosion resistance. The process is carried out at temperatures below 450 ...