School of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Optimising for Sustainability as an Objective Function Within Airline Fleet Scheduling: An Ireland-EU Mobility Case Study
(2024)This work developed a simulation tool that incorporates both airline operations and aircraft specific capabilities when investigating the environmental and economic sustainability pathways for short haul aviation. A ... -
Evaluation of the GEKO Turbulence Model for Whole Aircraft Drag Prediction
(2025)The aim of this study was to evaluate the Generalized k-ω (GEKO) turbulence model’s ability to be calibrated to improve the accuracy of the resolved drag polar for a whole aircraft geometry. The GEKO turbulence model ... -
Advanced Propulsion System Evaluation for Real-World Short-Haul Operations: Open Rotor vs. UHBPR Turbofan
(2024)This study aims to evaluate the real-world benefits of two advanced propulsion system concepts through enhanced coupling of aircraft conceptual design and flight operations. Baseline aircraft models of the B737-NG and ... -
Enhancement of 5-Fluorouracil Drug Delivery in a Graphene Oxide Containing Electrospun Chitosan/PVP Construct
(2024)Electrospun nanofibrous mats, consisting of chitosan (CS) and polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP), were constructed with the addition of graphene oxide (GO) for enhancement of delivery of the 5-Fluorouracil (5-Fu) chemotherapy ... -
Examining barriers to electric vehicle adoption using vehicle and charging infrastructure data, owenership cost analysis, and electrical grid demand and environmental impact analyses
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2016)This thesis reports the results of research on the analysis of data emerging from electric vehicles (EV) and charging infrastructure and the applications of the data on the study of the impacts increasing numbers of EVs ... -
Towards the improved representation of manual window operation in open plan office buildings
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2017)Manually operated windows have an important part to play in the future of building development and design. This research sets out to improve the way in which manual window control is represented in building simulation ... -
Optimisation of earthworks for road schemes
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2016)The principal objective of this thesis is the development of a stochastic risk assessment methodology for earthworks for roads schemes. The proposed methodology is intended to make the best possible use of past investigation ... -
Distribution design for Bayesian knowledge processing in multiple participant systems
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2017)Knowledge processing in an optimal way is of great importance in decision making. In this thesis, we propose a consistent Bayesian mechanism for processing knowledge via the design of the probability distribution. Bayes' ... -
Spectrum sharing techniques for radar bands
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2017)Facing increasing difficulties at providing additional spectrum to commercial broadband providers, regulators have begun shifting their efforts towards the study and development of innovative spectrum access models that ... -
Numerical investigation of Reynolds number and pitch ratio effect on lock-in ability of an aeroacoustic field in ducted flows
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2016)Tube arrays in ducted flow often experience aeroacoustic resonance. This phenomena is initiated through a mechanism of lock-in during which, the flow induced acoustic field modifies the frequency of vortex shedding not ... -
Impact of highway drainage on wetland margins
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering, 2017)The aim of this PhD is the development of a mimerical model tool to design and manage wetlands in relation to roads development through understanding their hydrological processes. The research is evaluating the hydraulic ... -
Decoding the neurophysiology of auditory scene analysis with EEG
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2016)How humans solve the cocktail party problem remains unknown; that is, our ability to attend to a single speaker in a noisy environment, such as a cocktail party. However, progress has been made recently thanks to the ... -
The development of a computational model of an osteochondral defect
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2016)Osteochondral defects arise in the knee after structural damage penetrates through the hyaline cartilage and into the underlying subchondral bone. The current surgical options used to treat this condition have limited ... -
Video Compression Artifact Suppression Using Perceptual Criteria
(Trinity College Dublin. School of Engineering. Discipline of Electronic & Elect. Engineering, 2025)This thesis explores the application of perceptually motivated optimization techniques in training neural networks for suppressing video compression artifacts. These techniques aim to align optimization criteria with the ... -
Towards stem cell regeneration of the nucleus pulposus of the invertebral disc
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering, 2016)Low back pain resulting from intervertebral disc (IVD) degeneration is a significant epidemiological problem and economic burden worldwide. IVD degeneration initiates within the nucleus pulposus (NP), a highly hydrated ... -
Evaluation of an Additive-Manufactured Acoustic Metamaterial as an Nacelle Liner using the Active Noise Control Fan
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2023)This paper examines the performance of a 3D printed acoustic metamaterial as an acoustic treatment for aircraft engine nacelles in the Advanced Noise Control Fan. As the level of air travel continues to increase, so too ... -
Broadband Duct Noise Reduction Using Multi-chamber Micro-perforated Panel Absorbers
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2024)This study explores the efficacy of Multi-chamber Micro-perforated Panel Absorbers (MC- MPPAs), a newly identified metamaterial, as a liner for attenuating noise within duct walls. The project aimed to develop MC-MPPA ... -
Air Curtains as Flow Control Low Noise Technologies for Landing Gear Noise Reduction
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2024)This paper examines the use of different air curtain nozzles to reduce the aerodynamic noise radiated from a modified LAGOON landing gear, as tested in the EU funded H2020 collaborative research project: INVENTOR, ... -
Low-frequency Broadband Noise Absorption of Multi-chamber Micro-perforated Pane Absorbers in Normal and Grazing Acoustic Incidence
(American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics, 2023)This paper presents a significant advancement in micro-perforated panel absorber technologies. Two distinct types of sub-wavelength multi-chamber micro-perforated panel absorbers (MC-MPPA) for low-frequency broadband noise ... -
Embedding spectrum sharing into LTE-Advanced
(Trinity College (Dublin, Ireland). Department of Electronic & Electrical Engineering, 2016)Society needs more spectrum. It is required to support continuous data growth, a greater number of mobile connections, smarter devices with more powerful computing capabilities and the emergence of new applications/technologics. ...
