2022 July - 162 articles
This paper analyses the production availability and the associated maintenance costs of an offshore wind turbine with a horizontal axis configuration using Petri Nets modelling with Monte Carlo Simulation. For this purpose, different features are imp...
Export competitiveness is an important factor for national development and economic growth. The craft product market is one of the commodities with high growing value. Thus, many craft product companies are encouraged to export their products to fore...
To investigate the main modes of interannual variation of chlorophyll-a (Chla) with seasonal evolution and its variation cycle in the North Indian Ocean based on satellite-derived products during 1998–2016, a season-reliant empirical orthogonal funct...
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Netting damage limits the safe development of marine aquaculture. In order to identify and locate damaged netting accurately, we propose a detection method using an improved Mask R-CNN. We create an image dataset of different kinds of damage from a m...
To address the poor effect of optical/visual guidance used in AUV terminal docking with strong background light and turbid water quality, an underwater electromagnetic guidance method based on the magnetic dipole model is proposed in this paper. Acco...
Passive acoustic monitoring is becoming an important tool to study the ecosystem thanks to technological improvements, high temporal resolution, relatively low cost and time effort, and the zero impact on environment and animal behavior [...]
Maritime traffic has increased considerably in recent years, making energy efficiency and navigation safety of ships more crucial than ever. Hence, a two-time scale model based on the Taylor expansion boundary element method (TEBEM) is proposed to pr...
Hydrogen is considered to the ultimate solution to achieve carbon emission reduction due to its wide sources and high calorific value, as well as non-polluting, renewable, and storable advantages. This paper starts from the coastal areas, uses offsho...
Due to COVID-19 barriers, the needs of international container ports have become more important than in the past. Therefore, it is very critical and essential for the scientific developments of port-logistics. To gain the scientific developments of p...
High fluvial input combined with specific topographic and oceanographic settings in the Caspian Sea create favorable conditions for contourite deposition. For the first time in its middle portion, contourite deposits have been observed in high-resolu...
Recent field and modeling studies have shown that barrier island resiliency is sensitive to sediment fluxes from the shoreface, making it important to evaluate how shoreface sediment availability varies in coastal systems. To do this, we assessed sho...
In recent years, tapping the sea for potable water has gained prominence as a potential source of water. Since seawater intake systems are often used in the infrastructure industry, ensuring proper efficiency in different operating conditions is very...
The colonial ascidian Botryllus schlosseri possesses an innate immunity, which plays fundamental roles in its survival, adaptability, worldwide spread and ecological success. Three lines of differentiation pathways of circulating haemocytes are known...
The k-nearest neighbors (KNN) algorithm is a non-parametric supervised machine learning classifier; which uses proximity and similarity to make classifications or predictions about the grouping of an individual data point. This ability makes the KNN...
Development of intelligent ships requires marine diesel engine simulation models of high accuracy and fast response. In addition, with advent of tighter shipping air emissions regulations, such models are required to have emission prediction capabili...
As a ubiquitous movement in the ocean, tides are vital for marine life and numerous marine activities such as fishing and ocean engineering. Tidal dynamics are complicated in the East Asian marginal seas (EAMS) due to changing complex topography and...
Resonance causes extreme stress, acceleration of fatigue, and reduction in lifespan of offshore wind structures. The main factors that cause resonance are environmental loads such as wind and waves, and dynamic loads caused by rotor movement. Estimat...
The wet/dry point treatment method of FVCOM was applied to simulate the tide-induced flooding/drying process in the estuarine–tidal-creek–saltmarsh complex of the Okatee/Colleton River Estuary, South Carolina. The simulation results were...
Compared with traditional underwater equipment powered by propeller, the manta-ray-inspired vehicle with MPF mode (Median fin/paired fin) has the advantages of stable swimming attitude, high maneuverability, and low noise, etc. As one of the sources...
Quality issues concerning very low-sulfur fuel oil (VLSFO) have increased significantly since the IMO sulfur-limit regulation became mandatory in 2020, as most VLSFO is produced by blending high-sulfur fuel oil (HSFO) with VLSFO. For instance, the co...
Aiming at the problem that multi-ship target detection and tracking based on cameras is difficult to meet the accuracy and speed requirements at the same time in some complex scenes, an improved YOLOv4 algorithm is proposed, which simplified the netw...
Recent developments in power electronics, energy storage systems, and renewable energy; increased market demands for more efficient and cleaner electric power to meet stricter environmental regulations; and development in gigawatt (GW)-class DC (dire...
Path planning is the precondition for Hybrid Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (HAUV) to enter the submerged area to undertake a mission. The influence of ocean currents on HAUV should be further investigated to obtain a time-optimal path. The improved...
Pine Island Glacier (PIG) is one of the largest contributors to sea level rise in Antarctica. Continuous thinning and frequent calving imply significant destabilization of Pine Island Glacier Ice Shelf (PIGIS). To understand the mechanism of its acce...
Using the local multiscale energy and vorticity analysis (MS-EVA) and based on the global high-resolution ocean reanalysis product GLORYS12V1 for 20 years, this study investigates the energy transfers and conversions of Kuroshio in the Luzon Strait a...
This study presents the redesign of an existing autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) with limited maneuverability, transforming it into a platform optimized for autonomous, near-seabed visual imaging missions. This work describes the enhancement of th...
Offshore structures exist in a variety of forms, and they are used for a variety of functions in varied sea depths. These structures are tailored for certain environments and sea depths. Different actions for suitable equipment selection, platform ty...
This paper introduces the concept of R4 (road-rail-ro-ro), a concept increasingly used in transport and logistics research circles that defines the modern concept of the transport chain as it passes through the intermodal use of rail, road, and ship...
The world’s largest living glass sponge reefs, located in the Hecate Strait and Queen Charlotte Sound off British Columbia, are impacted by bottom contact fishing gear. The existing Adaptive Management Zones (AMZs) for the protection of these r...
Manoeuvrability is one of the important ship hydrodynamic performances. That is closely related to the safety and economy of navigation. The development of a high-accuracy and high-efficiency numerical method to compute the forces and moments on mano...
Unmanned surface vehicles frequently encounter foggy weather when performing surface object tracking tasks, resulting in low optical image quality and object recognition accuracy. Traditional defogging algorithms are time consuming and do not meet re...
Grain size is the basic property of intertidal zone sediment. Grain size acts as an indicator of sedimentary processes and geomorphological evolution under human and nature interactions. The remote sensing technique provides an alternative for sedime...
The sandeel species (Ammodytes spp.) occupy a critical ecological position in connecting lower trophic levels to higher ones. However, they are strongly affected by the marine environment and their catch rates are trending downward. In this study, th...
Ice-induced vibration is one of the major risks that face the offshore platform located in cold regions. In this paper, the gated recurrent neural network (GRNN) is utilized to predict and suppress the response of offshore platforms subjected to ice...
For unmanned surface vehicles (USVs), perception and control are commonly performed in embedded devices with limited computing power. Sea surface object detection can provide sufficient information for USVs, while most algorithms have poor real-time...
Sea level rise (SLR) due to climate change is expected to alter tidal processes and energy transport, disproportionately affecting coastal communities. Utilizing a nested hydrodynamics model, we provided an integrated investigation of tidal responses...
Recent research on robotic fish mainly focused on the bionic structure design and realizing the movement with smart materials. Although many robotic fish have been proposed, most of these works were oriented toward shallow water environments and are...
In this study, the viability of harnessing wind energy for offshore oil and gas (O&G) platforms as a micro-grid solution in low wind speed regions to power O&G platforms is explored. However, wind, as a renewable energy, is known to be highly...
This study aimed to present the criteria for the collision avoidance of maritime autonomous surface ships (MASS) in restricted areas. The criteria were presented via ship domains, and a seafarers’ awareness-based ship domain (SASD) that dynamic...
The Devonian–Carboniferous transition was marked by a series of perturbations in the geological and biological evolution. The palaeontological data from Transcaucasia allowed the bryozoan diversity dynamics on the northern Gondwanan margin (sou...
This paper studies the fast finite-time path following of underactuated unmanned surface vehicles (USV) with sideslip compensation, time-varying disturbances and input saturation. In the guidance module, the fast finite-time predictor-based line-of-s...
Sargassum fusiforme is a commercially important brown seaweed that has experienced significant population reduction both from heavy exploitation and degradation of the environment. Cultivated breed strains are also in a state of population mixing. Th...
Integrating innovative solutions for ship design has always been a great challenge for the maritime sector due to complex design and construction processes. With this scenario in mind, the objective of this study was to develop a procedure to evaluat...
Age and growth of blue antimora Antimora rostrata were examined in the waters off New Zealand and Macquarie Island (southwestern Pacific). Samples off Macquarie Island were collected from bycatch in the Patagonian toothfish longline fishery. Individu...
One specimen of the shortfin neoscopelid Neoscopelus microchir Matsubara, 1943, has been recorded for the first time on the Porcupine Bank, southwestern Ireland, providing a new northern limit of distribution for the eastern Atlantic. Morphometric an...
To reduce the cooperative positioning error and improve the navigation accuracy, a single master–slave AUV cooperative navigation method is proposed in this paper, which mainly focuses on planning the optimal path of the master AUV by the time...
The acceleration characteristics of a water jet-propelled ship during startup are related to its performance under mooring conditions. Water jet propulsion cavitation during startup increases the vibration and noise of the whole ship. Therefore, accu...
An accurate prediction of the ultimate strength of lashing devices and deck structures is important to ensure the safety of the crews and carrying ships. In this study, finite element analysis using ABAQUS/implicit was performed to investigate the ul...
Tidal current asymmetry, an important factor for waterborne substance transport, is strongly affected by the changing shoreline. Lingding Bay (LDB), located in the center of the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, has suffered great shoreline...
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