Research List

This study investigated the characteristics of convective heat transfer and fluid flow for a heated plate surrounded by unheated plates aligned at angles to the flow direction inside a rectangular duct. The plates were arrayed in two main geometries: inline and staggered. Flow deflections within the array of aligned plates [...]

Monitoring marine biodiversity is costly and practical solutions have to be implemented to identify species and their preferred habitats, particularly in this era of rapid global change. Citizen science has proven to be effective and with high potential for monitoring efforts, and has been extensively applied to biodiversity. We have [...]

Marine biofouling has significant environmental and industrial impacts. Biofouling is considered a specific problem for a wide range of coastal and marine industries, including aquaculture, shipping activities and ports. Colonization and growth of biofouling depend on the complex interactions of biological, physical and chemical factors. Anthropogenic disturbances from coastal modification [...]

Objective: To evaluate the fatty acid contents of raw white sardinella fish and their two fermented products, fish paste (Tareeh) and fish sauce (Mehiawah). Design: A Prospective Experimental Basic Science Study. Setting: University of Bahrain, Bahrain. Method: Four raw Oom fish, four fish paste, and four fish sauce samples were [...]

In the last years, oil spill detection by hyperspectral imaging has been transferred from experimental to operational. In this paper, researchers attempted to use and compare four classification approaches for the identification of oil spills. The hyperspectral image classification approaches ‘namely’ are support vector machine (SVM), parallelepiped, minimum distance (MD) [...]

The Kingdom of Bahrain has an annual rainfall of about 78 mm with limited surface water resources and poor underground recharge. The rapid increase in urbanization, during the last 20 years, has increased the demands for additional water supplies. Recycling of such limited resources would also necessitate monitoring effluents coming [...]

The Kingdom of Bahrain, as many other countries suffers from land scarcity, caused by the overpopulation. This directed them to substitute city designing, based on fundamentals of sustainability. Unfortunately, Government had only one quick solution to accommodate the swift urbanization and that was land reclamation upon the surrounding Gulf water. [...]

Algae are living organisms with high nutritional benefits. As such, algae are considered a solution to malnutrition and starvation. Individuals in the Gulf Corporation Council (GCC) region have limited food resources and face problems linked to malnutrition. Therefore, the introduction of a new food to their diet, such as algae, [...]

The objective of this paper is to analyze temporal and seasonal trends of air pollution in Bahrain between 2006 and 2012 by utilizing datasets from five air quality monitoring stations. The non-parametric and robust Theil-Sen approach is employed to study quantitatively temporal variations of particulate matter (PM10 and PM2.5), nitrogen [...]

The objective of this paper is to map possible subsurface dumpsites of solid waste in the Kingdom of Bahrain. Due to limited land availability, random garbage dumping for waste disposal and reclamation has occurred in the past and continues to occur in the Kingdom. Consequently, the process causes economic stress, [...]