Journals

LAST 5 YEARS (2008-2012)

McWilliam, Michael K., Curran Crawford and G. Cornelis van Kooten, "A Method for Optimizing the Location of Wind Farms", Renewable Energy, accepted February 24, 2012.

Wu, T.C. and N. Djilali, "Experimental Investigation of Water Droplet Emergence in a Model PEMFC Cathode Microchannel", J. Power Sources, accepted Feb. 7, 2012.

Optis, Michael, Karena Shaw, Peter Stephenson and Peter Wild, “Mold Growth in On-Reserve Homes in Canada: The Need for Research, Education, Policy, and Funding,” Journal of Environmental Health, Vol. 74, No. 6 (January/February 2012): 14-21.

Wang, D., S. Parkinson, W. Miao, H. Jia, C. Crawford, and N. Djilali, “Online Voltage Security Assessment Considering Comfort-constrained Demand Response Control of Distributed Heat Pump Systems,” Applied Energy, In Press, available online 23 January 2012.

Scorah, Hugh, Amy Sopinka and G Cornelis van Kooten. "The Economics of Storage, Transmission and Drought: Integrating Variable Wind Power into Spatially Separated Electricity Grids", Energy Economics 34(2): 536–541, (2012).DOI

David, N.A., N. Djilali, and P.M. Wild, “Fiber-Bragg Grating Sensor for Two-Phase Flow in Microchannels,” Microfuidics and Nanofluidics, accepted Jan. 22, 2012.

David, N.A., P.M. Wild, and N. Djilali, “Parametric Study of a Polymer-Coated Fibre-Optic Humidity Sensor,” Measurement Science and Technology, accepted Jan 5, 2012.

Barannyk, O., Buckham, B. and Oshkai P., “On performance of an oscillating plate underwater propulsion system with variable chordwise flexibility at different depths of submergence”, Journal of Fluids and Structures, Jan. 2012. - V.28. - p.152–166.

Barannyk, O., Buckham, B. and Oshkai P., “On the methodology for evaluation of dynamic effects of a surface bonded piezoelectric patch for active vibration control”, Journal of Vibration and Control, Jan. 13, 2012.

Shaw, Karena, "Climate Deadlocks: The Environmental Politics of Energy Systems", Environmental Politics, 20:5, 743-763, (2011).

Carroll, Myles, Eleanor Stephenson and Karena Shaw “BC Political Economy and the Challenge of Shale Gas: Negotiating a Post-Staples Trajectory,” Canadian Political Science Review, Vol. 5, No. 2: 165-176, 2011. http://ojs.unbc.ca/index.php/cpsr/article/view/324

MacTavish, T.; Marceau, M.; Optis, M.; Shaw, K.; Stephenson, P.; Wild, P. “A Participatory Process for the Design of Housing for a First Nations Community.” Journal of Housing and the Built Environment 2011. DOI

M. Fan, M. Maréchal, A. Finn, D.A. Harrington and A.G. Brolo, "Layer-by-Layer Characterization of a Model Biofuel Cell Anode by (in-situ) Vibrational Spectroscopy", J. Phys. Chem. C., 115, 310-316, (2011). DOI

Niquidet, Kurt, Brad Stennes and G Cornelis van Kooten. Bio-energy from Mountain Pine Beetle Timber and Forest Residuals: The Economics Story, Canadian J of Agricultural Economics 60(2) (2011): In press.

Lange, K., Sui, P.C., and Djilali, N. "Pore Scale Modeling of a PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layer: Effects of Water Vapor and Temperature.", Journal of Power Sources, Vol. 196, No. 6, 2011.

Lange, K., Misra, C., Sui, P.C., and Djilali, N. "A Numerical Study on Preconditioning and Partitioning Schemes for Reactive Transport in a PEMFC Catalyst Layer.", Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 200, No. 9-12, 2011.

Monahan, Katherine and G Cornelis van Kooten. The Economics of Tidal Stream and Wind Power: An Application to Generating Mixes in Canada, Environmental Economics 1(1): 92-101, 2010.

Beatty, S., Buckham, B., Wild, P. "Integration of a wave energy converter into the electricity supply of a remote Alaskan island," Journal of Renewable Energy, v35, n6, p1203-1213, 2010.

Velikorodny, A., G. Duck, P. Oshkai 2010 "Effect of a Flexible Wall on a Reattaching Turbulent Shear Layer", Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology-Transactions of the ASME, in press.

Boronowski, Susan, Andrew Rowe, Peter Wild and G Cornelis van Kooten, 2010. Integration of Wave Power in Haida Gwaii. Renewable Energy 35(11): 2415-2421. DOI

van Kooten, G Cornelis and Linda Wong, 2010. Economics of Wind Power when National Grids are Unreliable, Energy Policy 38: 1991-1998.DOI

Stennes, Brad, Kurt Niquidet and G Cornelis van Kooten, 2010. Implications of Expanding Bioenergy Production from Wood in British Columbia: An Application of a Regional Wood Fibre Allocation Model, Forest Science 56(4): 366-378.

Chernyavsky, B., T.C. Wu, F. Peneau, P. Benard, P. Oshkai, N. Djilali 2010 "Numerical and experimental investigation of buoyant gas release: Application to hydrogen jets", International Journal of Hydrogen Energy, in press.

Lange, K., P.C. Sui, and N. Djilali, "Pore Scale Simulation of Transport and Electrochemical Reactions in Reconstructed PEMFC Catalyst Layers", J. Electrochemical Society, 157 (10), B1434-B1442, (2010). DOI

Velikorodny, A., G. Duck, P. Oshkai 2010 “Experimental investigation of flow over a backward-facing step in proximity to a flexible wall”, Experiments in Fluids. DOI

F. Seland, R. Tunold and D.A. Harrington, Activating and Deactivating Mass Transport Effects in Methanol and Formic Acid Oxidation on Platinum Electrodes, Electrochim. Acta, 55 (2010) 3384–3391. DOI

Berejnov, V., A. Bazylak, D. Sinton and N. Djilali, "Fractal flow patterns in hydrophobic microfluidic pore networks: experimental modeling of two-phase flow in porous electrodes", J. Electrochemical Society, 157(5), B760-B767 (2010). DOI

Kim, G.S, P.C. Sui, A.A. Shah and N. Djilali, "Reduced-dimensional models for straight-channel proton exchange membrane fuel cells", J. Power Sources, 195(10), 3240-3249 (2010). DOI

Cheng, C.H., K. Malek, P.C. Sui and N. Djilali, "Effect of Pt Nano-Particle Size on the Microstructure of PEM Fuel Cell Catalyst Layers: Insights from Molecular Dynamics Simulations", Electrochimica Acta, 55(5), 1588-1597 (2010). DOI

Carl, M., N. Djilali and I. Beausoleil-Morrison, "Improved Modelling of the Fuel Cell Power Module within a System-Level Model for Solid-Oxide Fuel Cell Cogeneration Systems", J. Power Sources, 195(8), 2283-2290 (2010). DOI

Berejnov, V., D. Sinton and N. Djilali, "Structure of PEMFC Porous Electrodes: An Optical Reconstruction Technique", J. Power Sources, 195(7), 1936-1939 (2010). DOI

Sadeghi, E., M. Bahrami and N. Djilali, "Estimation of Nusselt Number in Microchannels of Arbitrary Cross-Section with Constant Axial Heat Flux", Heat Transfer Engineering, 31(8), 666-674 (2010). DOI

Oskooei, A., Sinton D., "Evaluation of Selected Viscosity Prediction Models for Water in Bitumen Emulsions", J. Petroleum Science and Engineering, 72, 128-133 (2010). DOI

Chi, P.H., S.H. Chan, F.B. Weng, A. Su, P.C. Sui and N. Djilali, "On the effects of non-uniform property distribution due to compression in the gas diffusion layer of a PEMFC", Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 35(7), 2936-2948 (2010). DOI

Zhu, X, Q. Liao, P.C. Sui and N. Djilali, "Numerical investigation of water droplet dynamics in a low-temperature fuel cell microchannel: effect of channel geometry", J. Power Sources, 195(3), 801-812 (2010). DOI

Secanell, M., R. Songprakorp, N. Djilali and A. Suleman, "Optimization of a Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell Electrode Assembly", Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 40, 563-583 (2010). DOI

van Kooten, G Cornelis and Linda Wong, 2010. Economics of Wind Power when National Grids are Unreliable, Energy Policy 38: 1991-1998.

Stennes, Brad, Kurt Niquidet and G Cornelis van Kooten, 2010. Implications of Expanding Bioenergy Production from Wood in British Columbia: An Application of a Regional Wood Fibre Allocation Model, Forest Science 56(4): 366-378.

van Kooten, G Cornelis, 2009. Wind Power: The Economic Impact of Intermittency, Letters in Spatial & Resource Sciences 3: 1-17.DOI

Prescott, Ryan and G Cornelis van Kooten, 2009. The Economics of Wind Power: Destabilizing an Electricity Grid with Renewable Power, Climate Policy 9(2): 155-168.

Péneau, F., G. Pedro, P. Oshkai, P. Bénard and N. Djilali, "Transient Supersonic Release of Hydrogen from a High Pressure Vessel: A Computational Analysis", Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 34,5817-5827 (2009). DOI

Hu, J., P.C. Sui, S. Kumar and N. Djilali, "Modelling and Simulations of Carbon Corrosion During Operation of a Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cell", Electrochimica Acta, 54, 5583-5592 (2009). DOI

David, N.A., P.M. Wild, J. Hu and N. Djilali, "In-Fibre Bragg Grating Sensors for Distributed Temperature Measurement in a PEM Fuel Cell", J. Power Sources, 192, 376-380, (2009). DOI

Minor, G., N. Djilali, D. Sinton and P. Oshkai, "Flow within a Water Droplet Subjected to an Air Stream in a Hydrophobic Microchannel", Fluid DynamicsResearch, 41(4), 045506 (2009.) DOI

R.L. Sacci and D.A. Harrington, Dynamic Impedance of Formic Acid Electrooxidation on Polycrystalline Palladium, ECS Transactions, 19 (2009) 123-129. DOI

Schwarz, D. and N. Djilali, "3D Modelling of Catalyst Layers in PEM Fuel Cells:Eeffects of Non-uniform Catalyst Loading ", Int. J. Energy Research, 33, 631-644 (2009).DOI

Bergen, A. , L. Pitt, A. Rowe, P. Wild and N. Dilali, "Transient Electrolyser Response in a Renewable-Regenerative Energy System", Int. J. Hydrogen Energy, 34, 64-70 (2009).DOI

Velikorodny, A., T. Yan, and P. Oshkai 2009 "Quantitative imaging of acoustically coupled flows over symmetrically located side branches", Experiments in Fluids. Vol. 48, pp. 245-263. DOI

Le Canut, J.-M., R. Latham, W. Mérida and D.A. Harrington, Impedance Study of Membrane Dehydration and Compression in PEM Fuel Cells, J. Power Sources, 192 (2009) 457-466. DOI

Maddaloni, J.D., A Rowe and G.C. van Kooten, 2008 “Wind Integration into Various Generation Mixtures,” Renewable Energy, 34, 3, 807-814 (2009). DOI

Kjeang E., N. Djilali, and D. Sinton, "Microfluidic Fuel Cells: A Review", J. Power Sources, 186, 2, 353-369 (2009). DOI

Bergen A., L. Pitt, A. Rowe, P. Wild and N. Djilali, "Experimental assessment of a residential scale renewable-regenerative energy system", J. Power Sources, 186, 1, 158-166 (2009). DOI

Blanchfield, J., C. Garrett, P. Wild, and A. Rowe, “Tidal Stream Power Resource Assessment for Masset Sound in Haida Gwaii,” Journal of Power and Energy, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part A, 222, 485-492, 2008.

Bazylak A., J. Heinrich, N. Djilali and D. Sinton, “Liquid water transport between graphite paper and a solid surface”, J. Power Sources, 185, 2, 1147-1153 (2008). DOI

Benitez, Liliana E, Pablo C Benitez and G Cornelis van Kooten, 2008. The Economics of Wind Power with Energy Storage, Energy Economics 30(4): 1973-1989.

Oshkai, P., and T. Yan 2008 "Experimental Investigation of Coaxial Side Branch Resonators", Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 589-603. DOI

Oshkai, P., T. Yan, A. Velikorodny, and S. VanCaeseele 2008 "Acoustic Power Calculation in Deep Cavity Flows: A Semi-Empirical Approach," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 5, May 2008. DOI

Schwarz, D. and N. Djilali, "3D modelling of catalyst layers in PEM fuel cells: effects of non-uniform catalyst loading ", Int. J. Energy Research, accepted 2008.

Maddaloni, J.D., G.C. van Kooten, and A. Rowe, “Network Constrained Wind Integration on Vancouver Island,” Energy Policy, 36, 591-602, 2008.

Rowe A., and A. Tura, “Active Magnetic Regenerator Performance Enhancement Using Passive Magnetic Materials,” Journal of Magnetism and Magnetic Materials, 320, 1357-1363, 2008.

Younis, A, R. Xu and Z. Dong, “Approximated Unimodal Region Elimination-based Global Optimisation Method for Engineering Design,” International Journal of Product Development, August, 2008.

Kjeang E., R. Michel, D. A. Harrington D. , D. Sinton and N. Djilali, "An Alkaline Microfluidic Fuel Cell based on Formate and Hypochlorite Bleach", Electrochimica Acta, 54, 698-705 (2008).

Secanell, M., R. Songprakorp, A. Suleman and N. Djilali, "Multi-Objective Optimization of a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Membrane Electrode Assembly", Energy Environ. Sci., 1, 378-388 (2008). DOI

Bazylak A., S. Berejnov, B. Markicevic, D. Sinton and N. Djilali, “Numerical and Microfluidic Pore Networks: Towards Designs for Directed Water Transport in GDLs”, Electrochimica Acta, in press. DOI

Freunberger S.A. , I.A. Schneider, P.C Sui, A. Wokaun, N. Djilali and F.N. Büchi, “Cell Interaction Phenomena in Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell Stacks”, J. Electrochem. Soc.,155 (7), B704-B714 (2008). DOI

Zhu, X., P. C. Sui, and N. Djilali, "Three Dimensional Numerical Simulations of Water Droplet Dynamics in a PEMFC Gas Channel" J. Power Sources, 181, 101-115 (2008) DOI

Berejnov, V., N. Djilali and D. Sinton, "Lab-on-chip Methodologies for the Study of Transport in Porous Media: Energy Applications." Lab on a Chip, 8, 689-693 (2008) DOI

Sui, P.C., S. Kumar and N. Djilali, “Advanced Computational Tools for PEM Fuel Cell Design - Part 2: Detailed Experimental Validation and Parametric Study”, J. Power Sources, 180 (1), 423-432 (2008) DOI

Sui, P.C., S. Kumar and N. Djilali, “Advanced Computational Tools for PEM Fuel Cell Design - Part 1: Development and Base Case Simulations”, J. Power Sources, 180 (1), 410-422 (2008) DOI

Zhu, X., P. C. Sui, and N. Djilali, "Numerical Simulation of Emergence of a Water Droplet from a Pore into a Microchannel Gas Stream" Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, 4 (6), 1613 (2008) DOI

Kjeang, E., R. Michel, D. Harrington ,N. Djilali and D. Sinton, "A Microfluidic Fuel Cell with Flow-Through Porous Electrodes", J. Am. Chem. Soc., 130 (12), 4000-4006 (2008). DOI

Sadeghi, E. , M. Baharami and N. Djilali, "Analytic Determination of the Effective Thermal Conductivity of PEM Fuel Cell Gas Diffusion Layers", J. Power Sources, 179 (1), 200-208 (2008). DOI

Djilali, N. and P. C. Sui, "Transport phenomena in fuel cells: from microscale to macroscale", Int. J. Comp. Fluid Dynamics, 22 (1-2), 115-133 (2008). DOI

Mu, D., Z.-S. Liu, C. Huang and N. Djilali, "Determination of the effective diffusion coefficient in porous media Including Knudsen effects", Microfluidics & Nanofluidics, 4 (3), 257-260 (2008). DOI

F. Seland, R. Tunold and D.A. Harrington, "Impedance Study of Formic Acid Oxidation on Platinum Electrodes", Electrochim. Acta, 53 (2008) 6851–6864. DOI

Oshkai, P., and T. Yan, "Experimental Investigation of Coaxial Side Branch Resonators,” Journal of Fluids and Structures, Vol. 24, No. 4, pp. 589-603, 2008.

Rathore, A., A.K.S. Bhat and R. Oruganti, “A Comparison of Soft Switched DC-DC Converters for Fuel cell to Utility Interface Application”, Institution of Electrical Engineers of Japan (IEEJ) Transactions on Industry Applications Society (Section D), Vol. 128-D, No. 4, April 2008, pp. 450-458.

Oshkai, P., T. Yan, A. Velikorodny, and S. VanCaeseele, "Acoustic Power Calculation in Deep Cavity Flows: A Semi-Empirical Approach," Journal of Fluids Engineering, Vol. 130, No. 5, May 2008.

Bazylak, A., D. Sinton and N. Djilali, "Dynamic water transport and droplet emergence in PEMFC gas diffusion layers", J. Power Sources, 176 (1), 240-246 (2008) DOI

Secanell, M., K, Karan, A. Suleman and N. Djilali, "Optimal Design of Ultra-Low Platinum PEMFC Anode Electrodes", J. Electrochem. Soc., 155 (2), B125–B134 (2008) DOI

Litster, S. and N. Djilali, "Theoretical Performance Analysis Of Micro-Structured Air-Breathing Fuel Cells", Electrochem. Solid-State Lett., 11 (1), B1-B5 (2008) DOI

Suleman, A., and C. Crawford, “Design and Testing of a Biomimetic Tuna Using Shape Memory Alloy Induced Propulsion,” Journal of Computers and Structures, 86(3), 491--499, 2008.

Crawford, C., and J. Platts, “Updating and Optimization of a Coning Rotor Concept,” ASME Journal of Solar Energy Engineering, 130, 2008.

Olender, D., P. Wild, P. Byrnes, D. Ouellet, and M. Sabourin, (2008) “Forces on Bars in High-Consistency Mill-Scale Refiners: Effect of Consistency,” Nordic Pulp and Paper Research Journal, 23(2):218-223.

Prairie, B., P. Wild, P. Byrnes, D. Olender, and D.W. Francis, “Forces During Bar-Passing Events in Low-Consistency Refining: Distributions and Relationships to Specific Edge Load,” Journal of Pulp and Paper Science, In Press.

Olender, D., P. Wild, and P. Byrnes, “A Piezoelectric Force Sensor for Mill-Scale Chip Refiners,” Journal of Process Mechanical Engineering, Proc. IMechE, Part E, In Press.

Soylu, S., B. Buckham, and R. Podhorodeski, “A Chattering Free Sliding Mode Controller for Underwater Vehicles with Fault-Tolerant Infinity Norm Thrust Allocation,” Ocean Engineering, in press, (accepted July 23, 2008).

Gurses, K., B. Buckham and E. Park, “Active Vibration Control at a Rotating Piezoelectric Flexible Beam Using an Array of Fibre Optic Sensors,” Mechatronics, in press (accepted 5 September 2008).

Struchtrup, H., and G. Elfring, “External Losses in High-Bypass Turbo Fan Air Engines,” International Journal of Exergy, Vol. 5, pp. 400-412, 2008.

Elfring, G., and H. Struchtrup, “Thermodynamics of Pore Wetting and Swelling in Nafion,” J. Membrane Sci., Vol. 315, pp. 125–132, 2008.