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Top 5 Research Topics
ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)
Optimisation | Operations Research | Applied Mathematics | Applied Statistics | Numerical and Computational Mathematics | Applied Mathematics not elsewhere classified
ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)
Energy Conservation and Efficiency in Transport | Energy Systems Analysis | Expanding Knowledge in the Mathematical Sciences |
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Publications
Synthesis of a novel reactive flame retardant containing phosphaphenanthrene and triazine-trione groups and its application in unsaturated polyester resin
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 14-03-2018
Facile Synthesis of Cobalt-Doped Porous Composites with Amorphous Carbon/Zn Shell for High-Performance Microwave Absorption
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 14-02-2020
DOI: 10.3390/NANO10020330
Abstract: A facile method for the preparation of microwave absorbers with low density, high microwave absorptivity, and broad band is of paramount importance to the progress in practical application. Herein, commonly-used metal organic frameworks (MOFs) prepared just by mechanical stirring in methanol at room temperature were chosen as sacrificial templates to synthesize porous carbon composites with tunable dielectric and magnetic properties. With the replacement of Co atoms on the surface of zeolitic imidazolate framework-67 (ZIF-67) by Zn atoms, a Co-doped porous carbon composite with a low-dielectric amorphous carbon/Zn shell was constructed after annealing, leading to excellent impedance matching condition. Consequently, the as-obtained composite (Co/C@C-800) shows marvelous microwave absorption properties with an absorption capacity of −43.97 dB and a corresponding effective absorption bandwidth of 4.1 GHz, far exceeding that of the traditional porous carbon and composites directly derived from ZIF-67. The results provide a convenient way to modify MOFs for enhanced microwave absorption materials from the synergy of dielectric and magnetic losses.
Optimisation of Storage for Concentrated Solar Power Plants
Publisher: MDPI AG
Date: 12-12-2014
Design of the Body and Structure for a Practical and Highly Efficient Solar-Electric Sports Car
Publisher: SAE International
Date: 13-05-2022
DOI: 10.4271/2022-01-5038
Study on properties of flame-retardant cyanate esters modified with DOPO and triazine compounds
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 21-06-2018
DOI: 10.1002/PAT.4368
Synergistic effect between a novel triazine-based flame retardant and DOPO/HPCP on epoxy resin
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 11-07-2018
DOI: 10.1002/PAT.4400
The viability of electrical energy storage for low-energy households
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2017
Thermal energy storage for industrial thermal loads and electricity demand side management
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2022
Orienting solar panels to minimise power shortfall
Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
Date: 12-2019
Energy-Efficient Train Control
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
The two-train separation problem on non-level track—driving strategies that minimize total required tractive energy subject to prescribed section clearance times
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2018
Optimal driving strategies for two successive trains on level track subject to a safe separation condition
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 07-2015
An optimal battery interchange policy for an electric car powered by a mobile solar power station
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 13-01-2008
Optimal Strategies for Energy-Efficient Train Control
Publisher: Birkhäuser Boston
Date: 2023
Efficient vehicle haulage in underground mines
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 06-2012
Pattern recognition and segmentation of smart meter data
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 27-05-2014
Controlling stored energy in a concentrating solar thermal power plant to maximise revenue
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Date: 05-2015
Local energy minimization in optimal train control
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2009
Optimal running time supplement distribution in train schedules for energy-efficient train control
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2020
Energy-efficient train control: The two-train separation problem on level track
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 11-2015
3D-structured assembly of RGO and Ag nanowires for enhanced microwave absorption performance epoxy composites
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 26-04-2019
Estimating the robustness of train plans for single-line corridors with crossing loops
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 26-10-2010
Optimal Driving Strategies for a Fleet of Trains on Level Track with Prescribed Intermediate Signal Times and Safe Separation
Publisher: Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS)
Date: 03-2023
Abstract: We propose an analytic solution to the problem of finding optimal driving strategies that minimize total tractive energy consumption for a fleet of trains traveling on the same track in the same direction subject to clearance-time equality constraints that ensure safe separation and compress the headway timespan. We assume the track is ided into sections by a set of trackside signals at fixed positions. For each intermediate signal there is an associated signal segment consisting of the two adjacent sections. Successive trains are safely separated only if the leading train leaves the signal segment before the following train enters. Although the fleet can be safely separated by a complete set of clearance times and associated clearance-time inequality constraints the problem of finding optimal schedules with safe separation rapidly becomes intractable as the number of trains and signals increases. The main difficulty is in distinguishing between active equality constraints and inactive inequality constraints. The curse of dimensionality means it is not feasible to check every different combination of active constraints, find the optimal strategies for each train, optimize the corresponding prescribed times and calculate the cost. Nevertheless we can formulate and solve an alternative problem with active clearance-time equality constraints for successive trains defined at selected signals. We show that this problem can be formulated as an unconstrained convex optimization and propose a solution algorithm that finds the optimal schedule and the associated optimal strategies for each train. Finally we find optimal schedules for a case study using realistic parameters on a busy metropolitan line.
Optimal driving strategy for a solar car on a level road
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 1997
Targeted Traction Power Modulation of High-Speed Trains for Stabilization of Electric Supply Network with the Electric Flexibility
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 11-2022
Estimating energy savings from a train driving advice system
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 17-07-2022
DOI: 10.21914/ANZIAMJ.V63.17209
Abstract: TTG Energymiser is an in-cab system that provides real-time driving advice to train drivers with the aim of reducing energy use subject to meeting the train schedule. A survey of the efficacy of Energymiser has been undertaken, to provide evidence for marketing claims. Results from 23 different trials are analysed, where 16 of the trials were on passenger routes and 7 were on freight routes. Each trial consists of many trips, with Energymiser activated for around half, and yields an estimate of the change in energy use when Energymiser is used. A Bayesian hierarchical model is fitted to the 16 estimates from passenger routes and provides an estimate of the mean saving and the standard deviation of in idual trials about the mean. The mean saving is 7.2% and the standard deviation of in idual trials is estimated as 3.3%. The corresponding mean and standard deviation for freight routes are 8.4% and 5.8%, respectively. References A. Albrecht, P. Howlett, P. Pudney, X. Vu, and P. Zhou. The key principles of optimal train control—Part 2: Existence of an optimal strategy, the local energy minimization principle, uniqueness, computational technique. Transport. Res. B: Method. 94 (2016), pp. 509–538. doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2015.07.024. A. Albrecht, P. Howlett, P. Pudney, X. Vu, and P. Zhou. The key principles of optimal train control—Part 1: Formulation of the model, strategies of optimal type, evolutionary lines, location of optimal switching points. Transport. Res. B: Method. 94 (2016), pp. 482–508. doi: 10.1016/j.trb.2015.07.023. A. Gelman, J. B. Carlin, H. S. Stern, D. B. Dunson, A. Vehtari, and D. B. Rubin. Bayesian Data Analysis. Chapman and Hall/CRC Press, 2012. doi: 10.1201/b16018 C. Röver. Bayesian random-effects meta-analysis using the bayesmeta R package. J. Stat. Software 93.6 (2020), pp. 1–51. doi: 10.18637/jss.v093.i06
Energy-efficient train control
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-1994
A Greedy Algorithm for Constraint Principal Curves
Publisher: International Academy Publishing (IAP)
Date: 05-2014
The cost-time curve for an optimal train journey on level track
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 27-08-2016
Minimisation of Fuel Consumption
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Estimating the robustness of long-haul train plans
Publisher: SAGE Publications
Date: 09-2013
Abstract: In Australia, and elsewhere, the movement of trains on long-haul rail networks is usually planned in advance. Typically, a train plan is developed to confirm that the required train movements and track maintenance activities can occur. The plan specifies when track segments will be occupied by particular trains and maintenance activities. On the day of operation, a train controller monitors and controls the movement of trains and maintenance crews, and updates the train plan in response to unplanned disruptions. It can be difficult to predict how good a plan will be in practice. The main performance indicator for a train service should be reliability – the proportion of trains running the service that complete at or before the scheduled time. We define the robustness of a planned train service to be the expected reliability. The robustness of in idual train services and for a train plan as a whole can be estimated by simulating the train plan many times with random, but realistic, perturbations to train departure times and segment durations, and then analysing the distributions of arrival times. This process can also be used to set arrival times that will achieve a desired level of robustness for each train service.
THE COST–TIME CURVE FOR AN OPTIMAL TRAIN JOURNEY ON LEVEL TRACK
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-2016
DOI: 10.1017/S1446181116000092
Abstract: In this paper, we show that the cost of an optimal train journey on level track over a fixed distance is a strictly decreasing and strictly convex function of journey time. The precise structure of the cost–time curves for in idual trains is an important consideration in the design of energy-efficient timetables on complex rail networks. The development of optimal timetables for busy metropolitan lines can be considered as a two-stage process. The first stage seeks to find optimal transit times for each in idual journey segment subject to the usual trip-time, dwell-time, headway and connection constraints in such a way that the total energy consumption over all proposed journeys is minimized. The second stage adjusts the arrival and departure times for each journey while preserving the in idual segment times and the overall journey times, in order to best synchronize the collective movement of trains through the network and thereby maximize recovery of energy from regenerative braking. The precise nature of the cost–time curve is a critical component in the first stage of the optimization.
Control strategies of domestic electrical storage for reducing electricity peak demand and life cycle cost
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 12-2015
The impact of missing or incorrect addresses
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 16-08-2016
Low content Ag-coated poly(acrylonitrile) microspheres and graphene for enhanced microwave absorption performance epoxy composites
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 24-04-2018
Optimal real-time junction scheduling for trains with connected driver advice systems
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2018
Optimal Driving Strategies for Two Successive Trains on Level Track With Safe Separation
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2022
Generating Train Plans with Problem Space Search
Publisher: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
Date: 2008
Benefits of a driver advice system for light rail commuter lines
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 1990
Measurement of nuclear modification factors of ϒ(1S), ϒ(2S), and ϒ(3S) mesons in PbPb collisions at
Publisher:
Elsevier BV
Date:
03-2019
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2019
Determining the best type of defending missile for cooperative missile defence
Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
Date: 08-2023
Synthesis of Fe@Ni nanoparticles-modified graphene/epoxy composites with enhanced microwave absorption performance
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 18-11-2018
Preparation of flame-retardant cyanate ester resin combined with phosphorus-containing maleimide: Flame-retardant property low dielectric constant loss
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 03-03-2018
Enhanced microwave absorption property of epoxy nanocomposites based on PANI@Fe 3 O 4 @CNFs nanoparticles with three-phase heterostructure
Publisher: IOP Publishing
Date: 09-02-2018
Preparation of flame-retardant cyanate ester with low dielectric constants and dissipation factors modified with novel phosphorus-contained Schiff base
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 13-07-2018
Scheduling trains with cross entropy optimisation
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 21-06-2010
Circular dichroism under high pressure
Publisher: Elsevier
Date: 2002
Generating synthetic five-minute solar irradiance values from hourly observations
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2017
Mining sequencing to control blend quality
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 22-03-2018
Existence of an Optimal Strategy
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Flame-retardant performance and mechanism of epoxy thermosets modified with a novel reactive flame retardant containing phosphorus, nitrogen, and sulfur
Publisher: Wiley
Date: 31-08-2018
DOI: 10.1002/PAT.4145
Necessary Conditions for an Optimal Strategy
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Determination of Optimal Driving Strategies
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Evaluating the utility of passive thermal storage as an energy storage system on the Australian energy market
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2021
Critical Speeds and Strategies of Optimal Type
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
The Train Control Problem
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Modelling the Train Control Problem
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
The cost differential for an optimal train journey on level track
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 06-2023
Stochastic Optimal Control of a Solar Car
Publisher: Springer US
Date: 2001
Practical Driving Strategies
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Critical Speed Control of a Solar Car
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 2002
Constrained Optimisation — An Intuitive View
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
An optimal train journey with bounds on energy consumption during specified intermediate time intervals
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 09-2023
Synthesis of s-triazine based tri-imidazole derivatives and their application as thermal latent curing agents for epoxy resin
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 04-2018
Design of hierarchical 1D–2D NiCo2O4 as high-performance microwave absorber with strong loss and wide absorbing frequency
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Date: 08-08-2019
Control strategies of domestic electrical storage for reducing electricity peak demand and life cycle cost
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Constraint local principal curve: Concept, algorithms and applications
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 05-2016
Optimal driving strategies for a train journey with non-zero track gradient and speed limits
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
Date: 03-1999
Energy-efficient train control: From local convexity to global optimization and uniqueness
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 10-2013
A strategy for using cooperating missiles for missile defence
Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
Date: 16-04-0004
Using maximum power to save energy
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 10-2014
Optimising passing bay locations and vehicle schedules in underground mines
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 02-2013
DOI: 10.1057/JORS.2012.42
A More General Model
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Multilinear Karhunen-Loève Transforms
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
Date: 2022
Non-Constant Gradient
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Continuously Varying Gradient
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Practical Strategy Optimisation
Publisher: Springer London
Date: 1995
Efficient Admission Control based on Predicted Traffic Characteristics
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 2007
The key principles of optimal train control—Part 2: Existence of an optimal strategy, the local energy minimization principle, uniqueness, computational techniques
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Passing bays in an underground mine
Publisher: Informa UK Limited
Date: 03-2010
The key principles of optimal train control—Part 1: Formulation of the model, strategies of optimal type, evolutionary lines, location of optimal switching points
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 12-2016
Optimal train control: Analysis of a new local optimization principle
Publisher: IEEE
Date: 06-2011
Optimal driving strategies for a train journey with speed limits
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (CUP)
Date: 07-1994
DOI: 10.1017/S0334270000010225
Abstract: How should a vehicle he driven to minimise fuel consumption? In this paper we consider the case where a train is to be driven along a straight, level track, but where speed limits may apply over parts of the track. The journey is to be completed within a specified time using as little fuel as possible. For a journey without speed limits, the optimal driving strategy typically requires full power, speed holding, coasting and full braking, in that order. The holding speed and braking speed can be determined from the vehicle characteristics and the time available to complete the journey. If the vehicle has discrete control settings, the holding phase should be approximated by alternate coast and power phases between two critical speeds. For a journey with speed limits, a similar strategy applies. For each given journey time there is a unique holding speed. On intervals of track where the speed limit is below the desired holding speed, the speed must be held at the limit. If braking is necessary on an interval, the speed at which braking commences is determined in part by the holding speed for the interval. For vehicles with discrete control, speed-holding is approximated by alternate coast and power phases between two critical speeds, or between a lower critical speed and the speed limit.
Scheduling electric vehicles with shared charging stations
Publisher: Australian Mathematical Publishing Association, Inc.
Date: 05-10-2016
Generating synthetic sequences of global horizontal irradiation
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 03-2018
Maximising revenue via optimal control of a concentrating solar thermal power plant with limited storage capacity
Publisher: Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET)
Date: 05-2016
Using building cooling for load shifting on a 5-minute wholesale energy market
Publisher: Elsevier BV
Date: 08-2023
An optimised strategy for using cooperating missiles for missile defence
Publisher: Modelling and Simulation Society of Australia and New Zealand
Date: 08-2023
Energy-Efficient Driving for a Single Train
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Date: 2023
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