College of Engineering: Recent submissions
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Acoustic Performance Evaluation of Dense-Graded Asphalt Pavements in Qatar
( Hindawi , 2021 , Article)There is pressing and growing demand from the public to design and construct roads with a low noise level. This paper investigated the acoustic performance of asphalt pavements in the State of Qatar to assist transport ... -
Various potential techniques to reduce the water footprint of microalgal biomass production for biofuel-A review
( Elsevier B.V. , 2020 , Article Review)Due to their rapid growth rates, high lipid productivity, and ability to synthesize value-added products, microalgae are considered as the potential biofuel feedstocks. However, among the several bottlenecks that are ... -
Nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria as a potential resource for efficient biodiesel production
( Elsevier Ltd , 2020 , Article)The incessant utilization of non-renewable energy sources persistently pollutes the earth's atmosphere and thus requires the immediate substitution by renewable energy sources such as biofuel. In this study, several ... -
Machine Learning Techniques for Detecting Attackers during Quantum Key Distribution in IoT Networks with Application to Railway Scenarios
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Article)Internet of Things (IoT) deployments face significant security challenges due to the limited energy and computational power of IoT devices. These challenges are more serious in the quantum communications era, where certain ... -
An Anchor-Based Localization in Underwater Wireless Sensor Networks for Industrial Oil Pipeline Monitoring
( IEEE Canada , 2022 , Article)Industries need solutions that can automatically monitor oil leakage from deployed underwater pipelines and to rapidly report any damage. The location prediction of mineral reservoirs like oil, gas, or metals in deep water ... -
Multilayered-quality education ecosystem (MQEE): an intelligent education modal for sustainable quality education
( Springer , 2021 , Article)Sustainable quality education is a big challenge even for the developed countries. In response to this, education 4.0 is gradually expanding as a new era of education. This work intends to unfold some hidden parameters ... -
A Natural User Interface and Blockchain-Based In-Home Smart Health Monitoring System
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference)In this paper, we propose a gesture-based secure interaction system with smart home IoT health devices to support elderly people or people with special needs. The framework uses a decentralized blockchain consensus for ... -
Experimental Setup for Measuring Relaxation from EEG Signals during Immersion in VR Environments
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2022 , Conference)According to the Global Organization for Stress, 80 percent of people are stressed at work and according to the American Institute of Stress, stress causes 48 percent of people to have difficulty sleeping. Relaxation reduces ... -
Lightweight IoT Malware Detection Solution Using CNN Classification
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2020 , Conference)Internet of Things (IoT) is becoming more frequently used in more applications as the number of connected devices is in a rapid increase. More connected devices result in bigger challenges in terms of scalability, ... -
A Lightweight Central Learning Approach for Arrhythmia Detection from ECG Signals
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2021 , Conference)With the development of Internet-of-Things (IoT) applications, the concept of smart healthcare applications has gradually emerged to be the main factor in medicine. In fact, this raises the need to have a secure system ... -
Novel Task Allocation Method for Emergency Events under Delay-Cost Tradeoff
( IEEE , 2022 , Conference)With the emergence of three new paradigms, namely the Internet of Things (IoT), cloud/edge computing and mobile social networks; Mobile Crowd Sensing (MCS) has emerged as a potential approach for data collecting in numerous ... -
Correction to: Multilayered-quality education ecosystem (MQEE): an intelligent education modal for sustainable quality education
( Springer , 2021 , Article)The original version of this article unfortunately contained an error and it has been corrected with this erratum. The Acknowledgements section was missing from this article and should have read "The third author acknowledges ... -
Investigating the effect of the air inlet temperature on the combustion characteristics of a spark ignition engine fueled by biogas
( Wiley-Blackwell , 2020 , Article)This work has conducted a numerical study using AVL-Boost engine simulation utilizing biogas (CH4 and CO2)–air mixtures in a SI engine model. The effect of varying the air manifold temperature from 25 to 50°C on the ... -
Turbulence effects on the autoignition of DME in a turbulent co-flowing jet
( Elsevier , 2017 , Article)Dimethyl ether (DME) autoignition in turbulent co-flowing jets with preheated air is studied using the one-dimensional turbulence (ODT) model. We investigate the effects of molecular and turbulent transport on the autoignition ... -
Development of an Air-Cooled Induction Manifold for Diesel Engines in Hot and Humid Climate
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2022 , Article)Extreme weather conditions in the Gulf, Qatar, have been taken as an example in this study, tend to be hot and humid mostly throughout the year, especially in the summer. Such weather negatively affects the performance and ... -
Effect of Utilizing a Novel Intake Manifold Design on Smoke Emissions and Particulate Size Distributions of a Gas-to-Liquid Diesel Engine
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2021 , Article)Smoke emissions and particulate matter (PM) size distributions were investigated on a direct-injection (DI) single-cylinder diesel engine running on both gas-to-liquid (GTL) and diesel fuels utilizing a novel spiral-helical ... -
Development of Machine Learning Models for Studying the Premixed Turbulent Combustion of Gas-To-Liquids (GTL) Fuel Blends
( Springer Nature , 2024 , Article)Studying the spatial and temporal evolution in turbulent flames represents one of the most challenging problems in the combustion community. Based on previous 3D numerical analyses, this study aims to develop data-driven ... -
Transient 3D simulations of turbulent premixed flames of gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel in a fan-stirred combustion vessel
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)This work aims to conduct turbulent flame studies of GTL fuel and 50/50 diesel-GTLblend and compare them to diesel under a wide range of equivalence ratio (0.7 < Ф < 1.3) and turbulence intensities (0.5 m/s < u′ < 3.0 m/s). ... -
Turbulent Flames in Enclosed Combustion Chambers: Characteristics and Visualization - A Review
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2020 , Article)Remarkable progress has been achieved in measuring the flame propagation rate accurately under laminar conditions, which can be used to predict turbulent flame propagation rates using some correlations fitted to experimental ... -
Combustion and emissions of a gas-to-liquid diesel engine utilizing optimized spiral-helical intake manifold designs
( American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) , 2021 , Article)Two simultaneous strategies were used to reduce diesel engine emissions. Optimized manifold designs were used with gas-to-liquid (GTL) fuel and its blend with diesel fuel. Six new spiral-helical manifolds were tested, which ...
