• A diffuse interface model of interfaces: Grain boundaries in silicon nitride 

  Bishop CM; Cannon RM; Carter WC (Elsevier BV, 2005)

  A diffuse-interface model for interfaces in multi-component systems with energetic contributions from chemistry, defects, structure, orientation, electrostatics and gradients is proposed. The energy minimizing profiles of ...

• Thermodynamic properties of gases 

  Couldwell, C.M. (University of Canterbury, 1975)

  In chemical engineering, there is a need to understand p-V-T-x properties of gases for design purposes. These properties have been the subject of study since the classical work of Robert Boyle in 1662. Other major advances ...

• The spontaneous heating of coal: large scale laboratory assessment and supporting theory 

  Chen, Xiao Dong (University of Canterbury, 1991)

  In this thesis the spontaneous heating of coal is considered to be the phenomena in which a sufficiently large quantity of coal (often many tonnes), will rise from ambient temperature and eventually go on fire if exposed ...

• Seismic performance evaluation of steel moment frames infilled with plywood shear walls 

  Dong W; Li M; Kho D; He M; Li Z (2019)

  This paper presents seismic performance evaluation and design of timber-steel hybrid shear walls consisting of steel moment frames infilled with plywood shear walls. The hybrid system can be easily incorporated into ...

• Dynamic wetting of an occlusion after droplet impact 

  Rashidian H; Sellier M; Mandin P (Elsevier BV, 2019)

  © 2018 Elsevier Ltd This paper investigates how and under which conditions the lamella of an impacting droplet is punctured by the presence of a small occlusion. Better understanding the conditions which lead to the rupture ...

• Modelling ripple morphodynamics driven by colloidal deposition 

  Hewett JN; Sellier M (Elsevier BV, 2018)

  © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Fluid dynamics between a particle–laden flow and an evolving boundary are found in various contexts. We numerically simulated the morphodynamics of silica particle deposition from flowing water within ...

• Consistent formulation of the power-law rheology and its application to the spreading of non-Newtonian droplets 

  Devaud L; Sellier M; Al-Behadili AR (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2018)

  © 2018, Springer Nature B.V. In this work, we introduce a general form of the Navier-Stokes equations for Generalized Newtonian fluids with an Ostwald power-law. The derivation, based on the covariant formalism, is ...

• Continuous Grain Size Gradients in Austenitic Incoloy 800H: Design, Processing, and Characterization 

  Bishop CM; Mucalo SP; Kral MV; Lewis DJ (Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2020)

  © 2020, The Minerals, Metals & Materials Society and ASM International. Grain size variations are common in thermomechanically processed alloys with non-uniform cold work. A method to produce samples with grain size ...

• Assessing the Impact of Electric Vehicle Chargers on a Low Voltage Distribution System 

  Watson N (2018)

• The role of faceting in biaxially textured thin films: columnar morphology and abnormal tilting 

  Huang Y; Masters S; Krumdieck S; Bishop C (2020)

  The ground-breaking properties of biaxially textured thin films have attracted increasing attention to the characterization and growth theory of their crystal morphologies. In particular, multi-faceted columnar structures ...

• A Systematic Methodology for Developing Bowtie in Risk Assessment: Application to Borescope Inspection 

  Aust J; Pons D (MDPI AG, 2020)

  <jats:p>Background—Bowtie analysis is a broadly used tool in risk management to identify root causes and consequences of hazards and show barriers that can prevent or mitigate the events to happen. Limitations of the method ...

• Analysis of lightning generated over-voltages on voltage regulating devices in distribution system with centralized wind turbine generators 

  Goud RD; Rayudu R; Moore CP; Emmanuel M (IEEE, 2018)

  © 2018 IEEE. The effect of global warming is expected to increase the number of lightning strikes with the capacity to alter the operations of power lines and voltage regulating devices. This problem is exacerbated by the ...

• An integrated platform enabling optogenetic illumination of Caenorhabditis elegans neurons and muscular force measurement in microstructured environments 

  Qiu Z; Tu L; Huang L; Zhu T; Nock V; Yu E; Liu X; Wang W (AIP Publishing, 2015)

  Optogenetics has been recently applied to manipulate the neural circuits of Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) to investigate its mechanosensation and locomotive behavior, which is a fundamental topic in model biology. ...

• Slug Self-Propulsion in a Capillary Tube Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation 

  Khodabocus MI; Sellier M; Nock V (Hindawi Limited, 2016)

  © 2016 M. I. Khodabocus et al. A composite droplet made of two miscible fluids in a narrow tube generally moves under the action of capillarity until complete mixture is attained. This physical situation is analysed here ...

• Marangoni-induced actuation of miscible liquid droplets on an incline 

  Ng VV; Sellier M; Nock V (PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD, 2016)

  © 2016 Elsevier Ltd. This paper reports on the self-propulsion of a droplet up an incline, confined on a polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) channel rendered hydrophilic through combined oxygen plasma and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) ...

• Through-Mask Electrochemical Micromachining of Aluminum in Phosphoric Acid 

  Baldhoff T; Nock V; Marshall AT (The Electrochemical Society, 2017)

  © The Author(s) 2017. Published by ECS. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License (CC BY). Aluminum micro-channels have been machined in phosphoric acid via ...

• Investigation of the adhesive from Hormosira banksii germlings and its performance over different material surfaces and topographies 

  Dimartino S; Mather AV; Nowell-Usticke JS; Fischer B; Nock V (Elsevier BV, 2017)

  © 2017 Elsevier Ltd Adhesives produced by marine organisms possess the ability to adsorb robustly and under water to a range of substrates, in a range of environmental conditions and undergo curing under water. In the ...

• Scaling Laws of Droplet Coalescence: Theory and Numerical Simulation 

  Khodabocus MI; Sellier M; Nock VM (Hindawi Limited, 2018)

  Copyright © 2018 M. Irshad Khodabocus et al. When two Newtonian liquid droplets are brought into contact on a solid substrate, a highly curved meniscus neck is established between the two which transforms the bihemispherically ...

• A simple model of fully-faceted grain growth and coarsening with non-linear growth laws 

  Bishop CM; Satet RL; Cannon RM; Carter WC; Roosen AR (Carl Hanser Verlag, 2005)

  A numerical simulation of the growth and coarsening of completely faceted particles in a two-dimensional closed system is described. The particles grow from a supersaturated solution with driving forces including an ...

• High speed computer-aided optimization in engineering 

  Marks, Terence William (University of Canterbury, 1972)

  The rapid growth of electronic computers over the past two decades has made available to engineers a powerful tool for control system design. Accompanying this growth has developed the art of algorithm design so that best ...

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