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Research activities

Here is a list of some of our current research activities. Click on the project to get further details about the research or on the researcher's name to go to their home page, if they have one. A listing of our research publications is also available.

• The management of road traffic on major highways and its effects on air pollutant emissions.
• Hattan Filimban


• Modelling and control of non-linear systems.
• Periklis Kontoroupis


• Modelling and control of imperfect mixing in fluid flow systems (BBSRC studentship).
  • Phil Leigh
  
  
• Co-ordination of Ramp Metering Sites on Inter-urban motorways. (Highways Agency funded project).
• Modelling and control of imperfectly mixed mass and energy flow processes with agricultural and biological applications. (BBSRC funded project).
• Non-linear systems identification and control (EPSRC funded project).
• Identification and control of delta operator systems (completed EPSRC studentship).
• Modelling of distributed water and sediment flows (NERC funded project).
• Dr Paul McKenna


• IMPACT - Estimation of Human Impact in the Presence of Natural Fluctuations .
• Dr Renata Romanowicz


• Multivariable nonlinear control of micro-climate in a forced ventilation test chamber.
• Co-ordination of Ramp Metering Sites on Inter-urban motorways. (Highways Agency funded project).
• The development of Matlab toolboxes for time series analysis and forecasting.
• Dr James Taylor


• True Digital Control of Delta Operator Systems.
• Analysis of non-stationary and non-linear time series models, seasonal adjustment and forecasting.
• Modelling of diffusion processes in lake sediments (with Bill Davison and Hao Zhang).
• Carbon cycle modelling in lake ecosystems (with Joanna Parry and Roger Jones).
• Dr Wlodek Tych

Other recent research activities.

• Data-based mechanistic modelling of plant physiology (BBSRC studentship).
• Dr Jamie Butler


• Modelling and control of water treatment processes.
  • Farideh Ghavipanjeh
  
  
• Space-time raingauge calibration of weather radar.
• Dr Martin Lord


• Modelling and control of non-linear systems (EPSRC studentship).
  • Andrew McCabe
  
  
• Modelling and control of imperfectly mixed mass and energy flow processes with agricultural and biological applications (BBSRC funded project).
• Dr Laura Price


• Adaptive optimal control of crop production in horticultural glasshouses (BBSRC special studentship).
• Dr John Rothwell