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Using Machine Learning to Classify Ambient Underwater Noise at Floating Offshore Wind Farms
Offshore Wind Farms as a Growing Source of Renewable Energy Offshore wind development continues to grow, providing an important source of renewable energy, with global capacity expected ...
Can Santa Visit Edinburgh? Or will the original ‘Windy City’ keep him from landing?
A Detailed Pedestrian Comfort Wind Microclimate Simulation Feasibility Study As the Xi team counts down the days until Christmas, concern was raised at our weekly meeting. “Will ...
Modelling Lithium Ion Batteries
Modelling Lithium Ion Batteries Batteries are extremely complex systems, and because of that there’s always room for improvement. Indeed, that’s why lithium-ion battery research and development is a massive ...
Overcome your Manufacturing and Prototyping Supply Chain Issues with Simulation
Reduce risks related to supply chain shortages using simulation. Model your original design, analyse performance & make more informed business decisions. What Types of projects can be affected by ...
Introduction to Technology Readiness Levels (TRL)
Improving cost-benefit ratio and reducing risk are key aims for a technology developer when working to get a product to market. This is as true of the early stage ...
Virtual prototyping at a time of social distancing
At Xi, we have a lot of experience working remotely on design and engineering projects. Many companies are having to adapt to new work practices after the Covid-19 outbreak. ...
Machine Learning for Real-Time Acoustic Monitoring
Noise Characterization for Science and Engineering Noise Characterization for Science and Engineering Understanding the causes and properties of noise sources is important in a wide variety of fields, ...
What are Nematic Liquid Crystals? A Brief History and Applications
Most people have, at some stage, been taught that matter exists in one of three states: solids, liquids, and gases. This rather simplified system of classification of matter has been ...
Auditory localization and binaural audio
Auditory localisation and binaural audio The term localisation refers to the ability of humans to determine the location of the source of sound that they hear. Humans achieve this ...
