Theses from 2023
Investigating the wettability effect on gas hydrate bearing sediments, Ghazanfer R. Abbasi
Nanoparticle-based cutting fluids in drilling: A recent review, Amna Adil, Taha Baig, Furqan Jamil, Muhammad Farhan, Muhammad Shehryar, Hafiz Muhammad Ali, and Shahab Khushnood
Electrospun nanofiber composite membranes for geothermal brine treatment with lithium enrichment via membrane distillation, Morteza Afsari, Qiyuan Li, Elika Karbassiyazdi, Ho Kyong Shon, Amir Razmjou, and Leonard D. Tijing
Recent advances in the development of enzymatic paper-based microfluidic biosensors, Marzieh Aghababaie, Elnaz Sarrami Foroushani, Zinat Changani, Zahra Gunani, Mahsa Salehi Mobarakeh, Hanieh Hadady, Mohammad Khedri, Reza Maleki, Mohsen Asadnia, and Amir Razmjou
Temperature uniformity, correlations and the flow field in swirling impinging jets, Zahir U. Ahmed and Yasir M. Al-Abdeli
Heat transfer augmentation and entropy generation analysis of Microchannel Heat Sink (MCHS) with symmetrical ogive-shaped ribs, Kareem Akhtar, Haseeb Ali, Israr Ud Din, Azed Abbas, Muhammad Zeeshan Zahir, Faraz Ahmad, Fayyaz Alam, Nasir Shah, and Muhammad Aamir
Hydrogen, carbon dioxide, and methane adsorption potential on Jordanian organic-rich source rocks: Implications for underground H2 storage and retrieval, Amer Alanazi, Hussein Rasool Abid, Muhammad Usman, Muhammad Ali, Alireza Keshavarz, Volker Vahrenkamp, Stefan Iglauer, and Hussein Hoteit
Influence of organics and gas mixing on hydrogen/brine and methane/brine wettability using Jordanian oil shale rocks: Implications for hydrogen geological storage, Amer Alanazi, Nurudeen Yekeen, Mujahid Ali, Muhammad Ali, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Alireza Keshavarz, Stefan Iglauer, and Hussein Hoteit
Saudi Arabian basalt/CO2/brine wettability: Implications for CO2 geo-storage, Muhammad Ali, Nurudeen Yekeen, Amer Alanazi, Alireza Keshavarz, Stefan Iglauer, Thomas Finkbeiner, and Hussein Hoteit
Influence of organic matter on CO2 and H2 wettability of petroleum reservoirs, Mujahid Ali
A comprehensive review of interwell interference in shale reservoirs, Tareq Mohammed Al-Shami, Shiferaw Regassa Jufar, Sunil Kumar, Hesham Abdulelah, Mohammed Bashir Abdullahi, Sameer Al-Hajri, and Berihun Mamo Negash
Organic-rich source rock/H2/brine interactions: Implications for underground hydrogen storage and methane production, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Israa S. Abu-Mahfouz, Nurudeen Yekeen, and Domenik Wolff-Boenisch
Experimental insights into limestone-hydrogen interactions and the resultant effects on underground hydrogen storage, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Hani Al-Mukainah, and Nurudeen Yekeen
Impact of carbonate mineral heterogeneity on wettability alteration potential of surfactants, Ahmed AlZaabi, Muhammad Arif, Mujahid Ali, Ahmed Adila, Yawar Abbas, Ravi Shankar Kumar, Alireza Keshavarz, and Stefan Iglauer
Predicting and validating the load-settlement behavior of large-scale geosynthetic-reinforced soil abutments using hybrid intelligent modeling, Muhammad Nouman Amjad Raja, Syed Taseer Abbas Jaffar, Abidhan Bardhan, and Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Using magnesium oxide nanoparticles in a magnetic field to enhance oil production from oil-wet carbonate reservoirs, F. Amrouche, M. J. Blunt, Stefan Iglauer, M. Short, T. Crosbie, E. Cordero, and D. Xu
Organic ligand-facilitated in situ exsolution of CoFe alloys over Ba0.5Sr0.5Co0.8Fe0.2O3−δperovskite toward enhanced oxygen electrocatalysis for rechargeable Zn-air batteries, Yasir Arafat, Muhammad Rizwan Azhar, Yijun Zhong, Ryan O'Hayre, Moses O. Tadé, and Zongping Shao
Flow characteristics of narrow vegetated open channels, Arslan Arshad
A review of hydrogen/rock/brine interaction: Implications for hydrogen geo-storage, Masoud Aslannezhad, Muhammad Ali, Azim Kalantariasl, Mohammad Sayyafzadeh, Zhenjiang You, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Impact of PAM-ZnO nanocomposite on oil recovery, Fatemeh O. Asl, Ghasem Zargar, Abbas K. Manshad, Muhammad Arif, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Performance of 3D printed columns using self-sensing cementitious composites, Cynthia D. Atkinson and Farhad Aslani
Multiple re-configurable intelligent surfaces based physical layer eavesdropper detection for V2I communications, Hina Ayaz, Muhammad Waqas, Ghulam Abbas, Ziaul Haq Abbas, and Muhammad Bilal
Improved rate of secret key generation using passive re-configurable intelligent surfaces for vehicular networks, Hina Ayaz, Muhammad Waqas, Ghulam Abbas, Ziaul Haq Abbas, Muhammad Bilal, and Kyung-Sup Kwak
Effect of organic acids on CO2 trapping in carbonate geological formations: Pore-scale observations using NMR, Auby Baban, Mujahid Ali, Muhammad Arif, Alireza Keshavarz, Robert Amin, and Stefan Iglauer
Residual trapping of CO2 and enhanced oil recovery in oil-wet sandstone core – a three-phase pore-scale analysis using NMR, Auby Baban, Alireza Keshavarz, Robert Amin, and Stefan Iglauer
AAKE-BIVT: Anonymous authenticated key exchange scheme for blockchain-enabled internet of vehicles in smart transportation, Akhtar Badshah, Muhammad Waqas, Fazal Muhammad, Ghulam Abbas, Ziaul Haq Abbas, Shehzad Ashraf Chaudhry, and Sheng Chen
Effect of 3d printing parameters on the fatigue properties of parts manufactured by fused filament fabrication: A review, Hamed Bakhtiari, Muhammad Aamir, and Majid Tolouei-Rad
Shale wettability characteristics via air/brines and air/oil contact angles and influence of controlling factors: A case study of Lower Indus Basin, Pakistan, Darya Khan Bhutto, Abdul Majeed Shar, Ghazanfer Raza Abbasi, and Ubedullah Ansari
General doping chemistry of carbon materials, Mohammad Boshir Ahmed, Jahangir Alom, Md Saif Hasan, Md Asaduzzaman, Md Saifur Rahman, Raqibul Hossen, Mohammad Abu Hasan Johir, Mohammad Taufiq Alam, John L. Zhou, Yanqiu Zhu, and Masoumeh Zargar
Balanced strength-ductility combination and good recoverable strain of Ni50.7Ti49.3 alloy fabricated by high scanning velocity in selective laser melting, W. S. Cai, Y. Luo, A. Yan, L. M. Kang, Lai-Chang Zhang, C. Suryanarayana, and C. Yang
An optimal strategy for UAV-assisted video caching and transcoding, A. H. M. Ahmadullah Chowdhury, Irfanul Islam, M. Ishtiaque A. Zahed, and Iftekhar Ahmad
Metastable pitting corrosion behavior and characteristics of passive film of laser powder bed fusion produced Ti–6Al–4V in NaCl solutions with different concentrations, Yu-Wei Cui, Liang-Yu Chen, Yu-Hang Chu, Lina Zhang, Ruifeng Li, Sheng Lu, Liqiang Wang, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Response of the metastable pitting corrosion of laser powder bed fusion produced Ti–6Al–4v to H+ concentration changes, Yuwei Cui, Liangyu Chen, Liqiang Wang, Jun Cheng, and Laichang Zhang
Monitoring fluid migration using in-situ nuclear magnetic resonance core flooding system integrated with fiber optic sensors: A proof of concept, Bruno da Silva Falcão, Lionel Esteban, Ausama Giwelli, Yevhen Kovalyshen, Stephen Banks, Ahmed Al-Yaseri, Alireza Keshavarz, and Stefan Iglauer
Performance evaluation of solar still using energy storage biomaterial with porous surface: An experimental study and environmental analysis, Ramasamy Dhivagar, Shahin Shoeibi, Seyed Masoud Parsa, Siamak Hoseinzadeh, Hadi Kargarsharifabad, and Mehdi Khiadani
Assessment of human health risk due to leachate contaminated soil at solid waste dumpsite, Kanpur (India), A. Dixit, D. Singh, and Sanjay K. Shukla
Behaviour and material properties of versaloc semi-interlocking mortarless masonry, Sonam Dorji, Hossein Derakhshan, David P. Thambiratnam, Tatheer Zahra, and Alireza Mohyeddin
Experiments into the interaction of side dilution jets with bluff-body stabilised annular jets, Syed Ehtisham Gillani and Yasir M. Al-Abdeli
Assessment of the interfacial properties of various mineral/hydrogen/water systems, Hamid Esfandyari, Mirhasan Hosseini, Muhammad Ali, Stefan Iglauer, Manouchehr Haghighi, and Alireza Keshavarz
ZnHCF@PB nanoparticles with reduced bandgap as a promising photocatalyst for the degradation of conventional and emerging water contaminants, Hira Fatima, Muhammad Rizwan Azhar, Chencheng Cao, and Zongping Shao
Preparation of TiNbTaZrMo high-entropy alloy with tunable Young's modulus by selective laser melting, Junyi Feng, Daixiu Wei, Peilei Zhang, Zhishui Yu, Changxi Liu, Weijie Lu, Kuaishe Wang, Hua Yan, Laichang Zhang, and Liqiang Wang
Encapsulation of orange peel oil in biopolymeric nanocomposites to control its release under different conditions, Sanaz Ghasemi, Elham Assadpour, Mohammad Saeed Kharazmi, Shima Jafarzadeh, Masoumeh Zargar, and Seid Mahdi Jafari
Effect of side dilution jets on the velocity field and mixing in swirl and bluff-body stabilised annular confined flows, Syed Ehtisham Gillani, Yasir M. Al-Abdeli, and Zhao F. Tian
Synergistic effects of microplastics and organic foulants on the performance of forward osmosis membranes, Mitra Golgoli, Mehdi Khiadani, Tushar Kanti Sen, Amir Razmjou, Michael L. Johns, and Masoumeh Zargar
Molecular mechanisms of microplastics degradation: A review, Mahsa Golmohammadi, Seyedeh Fatemeh Musavi, Meysam Habibi, Reza Maleki, Mitra Golgoli, Masoumeh Zargar, Ludovic F. Dumée, Saeid Baroutian, and Amir Razmjou
Network load prediction and anomaly detection using ensemble learning in 5G cellular networks, Usman Haider, Muhammad Waqas, Muhammad Hanif, Hisham Alasmary, and Saeed Mian Qaisar
Texture-based latent space disentanglement for enhancement of a training dataset for ANN-based classification of fruit and vegetables, Khurram Hameed, Douglas Chai, and Alexander Rassau
A novel approach for optimal sizing of stand-alone solar PV systems with power quality considerations, Aakash Hassan, Octavian Bass, Yasir M. Al-Abdeli, Martin Masek, and Mohammad A. S. Masoum
An improved genetic algorithm based fractional open circuit voltage MPPT for solar PV systems, Aakash Hassan, Octavian Bass, and Mohammad A. S. Masoum
Cobalt oxide functionalized ceramic membrane for 4-hydroxybenzoic acid degradation via peroxymonosulfate activation, Rajan Arjan Kalyan Hirani, Hong Wu, Abdul Hannan Asif, Nasir Rafique, Lei Shi, Shu Zhang, Zhentao Wu, Lai-Chang Zhang, Shaobin Wang, Yu Yin, Martin Saunders, and Hongqi Sun
Calcite-fluid interfacial tension: H2 and CO2 geological storage in carbonates, Mirhasan Hosseini, Muhammad Ali, Jalal Fahimpour, Alireza Keshavarz, and Stefan Iglauer
Site selection of combined offshore wind and wave energy farms: A systematic review, Shabnam Hosseinzadeh, Amir Etemad-Shahidi, and Rodney A. Stewart
Formation of face-centered cubic phase in Ti35 alloy under In situ heating transmission electron microscopy, Jianan Hu, Mengmeng Yang, Wenlong Xiao, Hao Wang, Dehai Ping, Chengze Liu, Shewei Xin, Songquan Wu, Kai Zhang, Yi Yang, Lai-Chang Zhang, and Aijun Huang
Using nanomaterials as excellent immobilisation layer for biosensor design, Azeez Olayiwola Idris, Seyi Philemon Akanji, Benjamin O. Orimolade, Foluke Omobola Grace Olorundare, Shohreh Azizi, Bhekie Mamba, and Malik Maaza
Interfacial tensions of (brine + H2 + CO2) systems at gas geo-storage conditions, Zoha Dalal Isfehani, Ali Sheidaie, Mirhasan Hosseini, Jalal Fahimpour, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Green synthesis of nanomaterials for smart biopolymer packaging: Challenges and outlooks, Shima Jafarzadeh, Majid Nooshkam, Masoumeh Zargar, Farhad Garavand, Sabyasachi Ghosh, Milad Hadidi, and Mehrdad Forough
Use of polyethylene terephthalate fibres for mitigating the liquefaction-induced failures, Arpit Jain, Satyendra Mittal, and Sanjay K. Shukla
Concise summary of existing correlations with thermophysical properties of seawater with applications: A recent review, Furqan Jamil, Hafiz Muhammad Ali, and Mehdi Haji Khiadani
Lithium-decorated SiB monolayer for reversible hydrogen storage: High-capacity realization through strain engineering, Minming Jiang, Jiang Xu, Paul Munroe, and Zong-Han Xie
Experiments and modelling into air staging in a fixed bed biomass combustor, Awais Junejo
Secondary air induced flow structures and mixing in a fixed bed combustor, Awais Junejo, Sergio Chapela, Jacobo Porteiro, and Yasir Al-Abdeli
Scratch adhesion evaluation of diamond like carbon coatings with alternate hard and soft multilayers, Mohammad Sharear Kabir, Zhifeng Zhou, Zonghan Xie, and Paul Munroe
Identity-based edge computing anonymous authentication protocol, Naixin Kang, Zhenhu Ning, Shiqiang Zhang, Sadaqat ur Rehman, and Muhammad Waqas
Experimental study on the effect of fracture surface morphology on plugging zone strength based on 3D printing, Yili Kang, Hexiang Zhou, Chengyuan Xu, Xinglin Yang, and Zhenjiang You
A juxtaposed review on adsorptive removal of PFAS by metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with carbon-based materials, ion exchange resins, and polymer adsorbents, Elika Karbassiyazdi, Medha Kasula, Sweta Modak, Jasneet Pala, Mohammad Kalantari, Ali Altaee, Milad Rabbani Esfahani, and Amir Razmjou
Predictive models for concrete cone capacity of cast-in headed anchors in geopolymer concrete, Trijon Karmokar, Alireza Mohyeddin, and Jessey Lee
Predictive models for concrete cone capacity of cast-in headed anchors in geopolymer concrete, Trijon Karmokar, Alireza Mohyeddin, and Jessey Lee
Tensile performance of cast-in headed anchors in ambient-temperature cured fly ash-based geopolymer concretes with varying fracture energies, Trijon Karmokar, Alireza Mohyeddin, and Jessey Lee
Tensile performance of cast-in headed anchors in geopolymer concrete, Trijon R. Karmokar
M3T: Multi-class multi-instance multi-view object tracking for embodied aI tasks, Mariia Khan, Jumana Abu-Khalaf, David Suter, and Bodo Rosenhahn
Additive manufacturing of metallic glasses and high-entropy alloys: Significance, unsettled issues, and future directions, Haishun Liu, Dengfeng Yang, Qi Jiang, Yangyang Jiang, Weiming Yang, Lin Liu, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Exploring the potential of FSW-ed Al–Zn–Mg–Cu-based composite reinforced by trace in-situ nanoparticles in manufacturing workpiece with customizable size and high mechanical performances, Tian-Shu Liu, Feng Qiu, Hong-Yu Yang, Shuan Liu, Qi-Chuan Jiang, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Insights into the influences of nanoparticles on microstructure evolution mechanism and mechanical properties of friction-stir-welded Al 6061 alloys, Tian-Shu Liu, Feng Qiu, Hong-Yu Yang, Shi-Li Shu, Jian-Feng Xie, Qi-Chuan Jiang, and Lai-Chang Zhang
Corrosion behavior of novel titanium-based composite with engineering 3D artificial nacre-like structures, Y. J. Lu, X. C. Liu, Y. J. Liu, X. Wu, Y. Jiang, Z. Liu, J. X. Lin, and Laichang Zhang
Tribological behaviour of Ti/HA and Ti/SiO2 functionally graded materials fabricated at different strain rates, G. H. Majzoobi, K. Rahmani, M. Mohammadi, Hamed Bakhtiari, and R. Das
Performance evaluation of silica-graphene quantum dots for enhanced oil recovery from carbonate reservoirs, Mehran Mirzavandi, Jagar A. Ali, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Barham Majeed, Barham Sabir Mahmood, Amir H. Mohammadi, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Influence of henna extracts on static and dynamic adsorption of sodium dodecyl sulfate and residual oil recovery from quartz sand, Mohd Syazwan Mohd Musa, Priveqa Yaashini Gopalan, Nurudeen Yekeen, and Ahmed Al-Yaseri
Teleoperation enhancement for improved control of unmanned ground vehicles through video transformation and deep learning based future frame prediction, Md Moniruzzaman
Long future frame prediction using optical flow informed deep neural networks for enhancement of robotic teleoperation in high latency environments, Md Moniruzzaman, Alexander Rassau, Douglas Chai, and Syed M. S. Islam
Interfacial tension reduction of hybrid crude-oil/mutual-solvent systems under the influence of water salinity, temperature and green SiO2/KCl/Xanthan nanocomposites, Fatemeh Motraghi, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Majid Akbari, Jagar A. Ali, S. Mohammad Sajadi, Stefan Iglauer, and Alireza Keshavarz
Elucidating the sorption mechanisms of environmental pollutants using molecular simulation, Seyedeh Zahra Mousavi, Hamid Reza Shadman, Meysam Habibi, Mohsen Didandeh, Arash Nikzad, Mahsa Golmohammadi, Reza Maleki, Wafa Ali Suwaileh, Alireza Khataee, Masoumeh Zargar, and Amir Razmjou
Hydrogen storage in depleted gas reservoirs: A comprehensive review, Nasiru S. Muhammed, Md Bashirul Haq, Dhafer A. Al Shehri, Amir Al-Ahmed, Mohammad M. Rahman, Ehsan Zaman, and Stefan Iglauer
Prediction models of shielding effectiveness of carbon fibre reinforced cement-based composites against electromagnetic interference, Shilpa Narayanan, Yifan Zhang, and Farhad Aslani
Red beet plant as a novel source of natural surfactant combined with ‘Smart Water’ for EOR purposes in carbonate reservoirs, Milad Norouzpour, Amin Azdarpour, Moein Nabipour, Rafael M. Santos, Abbas Khaksar Manshad, Stefan Iglauer, Hamed Akhondzadeh, and Alireza Keshavarz
Peak to average power ratio reduction in spectrally efficient FDM using repeated clipping and filtering, Buthaina Mosa Omran, Yamaan Esmiel Majeed, and Iftekhar Ahmad
Solar-light-responsive nanomaterials for the photoelectrocatalytic degradation of stubborn pollutants, Benjamin O. Orimolade, Azeez O. Idris, Seyi Philemon Akanji, Folahan A. Adekola, Shohreh Azizi, Malik Maaza, and Bhekie Mamba
An insight into failure of iron ore mine tailings dams, Francis Otieno and Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Impacts of relative permeability hysteresis, wettability, and injection/withdrawal schemes on underground hydrogen storage in saline aquifers, Bin Pan, Kai Liu, Bo Ren, Mingshan Zhang, Yang Ju, Jianwei Gu, Xueying Zhang, Christopher R. Clarkson, Katriona Edlmann, Weiyao Zhu, and Stefan Iglauer
Performance evaluation of using evacuated tubes solar collector, perforated fins, and pebbles in a solar still – experimental study and CO2 mitigation analysis, Hitesh Panchal, Ali Sohani, Nguyen Van Nguyen, Shahin Shoeibi, Mehdi Khiadani, Pham Quang Huy, Siamak Hoseinzadeh, Abd Elnaby Kabeel, Saboor Shaik, and Erdem Cuce
Aminosilica-functionalized CO3O4 nanostructures in proton exchange mixed matrix membranes for enhanced separation efficiency of direct methanol fuel cells, Kolsoum Pourzare, Masoumeh Zargar, Saeed Farhadi, Mohammad M. Hassani Sadrabadi, and Yaghoub Mansourpanah
Key communication technologies, applications, protocols and future guides for IoT-assisted smart grid systems: A review, Md Ohirul Qays, Iftekhar Ahmad, Ahmed Abu-Siada, Md Liton Hossain, and Farhana Yasmin
Corrosion behavior and mechanism of laser powder bed fusion produced CoCrW in an acidic NaCl solution, P. Qin, L. Y. Chen, Y. J. Liu, C. H. Zhao, Hongqi Sun, and Laichang Zhang
Advances in metal organic framework (MOF) – Based membranes and adsorbents for lithium-ion extraction, Silvia Raggam, Munirah Mohammad, Youngwoo Choo, Gayathri Naidu, Masoumeh Zargar, Ho-Kyong Shon, and Amir Razmjou
Stability analysis of anchor-reinforced soil slopes with Taylor's stability chart, Ahmad Rajabian and Sanjay Kumar Shukla
Placement and sizing of utility-size battery energy storage systems to improve the stability of weak grids, Andre F. Ramos, Iftekhar Ahmad, Daryoush Habibi, and Thair S. Mahmoud
In Focus: Application of resilient environmental technologies for waste utilization and resource recovery, Eldon R. Rene, Weifang Ma, Li Shu, and Veeriah Jegatheesan
A study into the use of torrefied biomass in a fixed bed biomass combustor, Sajid Riaz
Partially oxidative torrefaction of woody biomass pellets: Burning behaviour and emission analysis, Sajid Riaz, Yasir M. Al-Abdeli, and Ibukun Oluwoye
Influence of PV/T waste heat on water productivity and electricity generation of solar stills using heat pipes and thermoelectric generator: An experimental study and environmental analysis, Shahin Shoeibi, Mohammad Saemian, Mehdi Khiadani, Hadi Kargarsharifabad, and Seyed Ali Agha Mirjalily
Investigating pH and other electrical properties of potassium salt solutions, Li Shu, Xi Lu, Veeriah Jegatheesan, and Leonardo Jegatheesan