2026 June-2 - 81 articles
Break-bulk cargo operations are characterized by high variability and complex resource synchronization, yet they have received limited research attention compared to containerized logistics. This paper proposes an integrated lean-informed simulation...
Reliable age information is needed for fisheries assessment, but conventional otolith reading requires trained readers and considerable time. This study evaluated whether convolutional neural networks could classify reader-assigned age classes of Jap...
To address the demand for high-precision, high-efficiency, and standardized hydrographic information in intelligent shipping, this study systematically investigates key technologies for high-resolution hydrographic data parsing and intelligent inform...
The deployment of offshore wind farms (OWFs) has increased impressively over the last decade. While a group of frontrunner countries has led early deployment, the offshore wind sector is expanding to new regions; the Thracian Sea represents a promisi...
In this study, three-dimensional P- and S-wave velocity structures and P- and S-wave velocity ratio variations in the crust and upper mantle beneath the Marmara Region and the Sea of Marmara were modeled using the Poisson tomography method in the fie...
This paper addresses the bidirectional multi-chamber lock scheduling problem by formulating a multi-objective mixed-integer linear programming (MILP) model that simultaneously minimizes average ship waiting time and maximizes chamber utilization. A t...
The generation of high-quality maritime samples is gradually becoming a key and challenging issue, due to the data thirst for training maritime intelligent models. However, existing methods mainly focus on static sample generation, which cannot meet...
Accurate prediction of overpressured formations in deepwater is important for drilling safety and reservoir evaluation. However, conventional two-step inversion workflows are affected by cumulative errors and parameter crosstalk, which limits their a...
In the context of global climate warming, sea surface temperature (SST) rise and sea level (SL) rise are projected to amplify typhoon-related marine dynamic disaster risks. These are idealized sensitivity experiments designed to isolate the individua...
Oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converters equipped with dielectric elastomer generators (DEGs) represent a promising technology for harnessing ocean wave energy. This study emphasises the critical role of functional specifications in guid...
Pre-Cenomanian Nubia sandstone is recognized one of the most prolific reservoirs in the Gulf of Suez, Egypt. Accurately determining its reservoir rock type (RRT) is crucial for reservoir characterization and modeling, especially when the reservoir is...
Comprehensive biological and ecological data are essential for the appropriate stock management of Solenocera alticarinata Kubo, 1949. The lack of ecological knowledge on S. alticarinata, a species of potential economic value in the East China Sea, l...
Cruise ship fire evacuation is affected not only by fire product spread, but also by how evacuation information is delivered and how passenger flow is organized. However, existing fire evacuation studies have mainly focused on fire products or indivi...
This study consists of two main components. The first part establishes a seakeeping assessment method, while the second part focuses on hull-form optimization with seakeeping performance as the objective. For the seakeeping analysis, the Lewis confor...
Reservoir effectiveness in marine shales is controlled not only by pore volume but also by pore-fluid occurrence, pore–throat connectivity, and mineral–organic matter coupling. In this study, the Permian Gufeng Formation shales from the E...
Wave overtopping is one of the most complex coastal hazards to characterize in field conditions due to its high non-linearity and the interaction between unsteady hydrodynamics and wave–structure processes. To get insights into the underlying o...
Technological advances in hardware and software have enabled the development of novel in situ plankton imaging systems to investigate the spatial and temporal distribution of plankton communities. State-of-the-art machine learning approaches have bee...
Mass–balance discrepancies exist between estimated land-based inputs and observed marine plastic inventories. While current global mass–balance models predominantly treat the open ocean as a passive terminal sink, they overlook the rapid...
The toroidal propeller, as a high-performance propulsor with a unique geometric configuration, presents challenges in parameterizing its complex geometry and conducting design optimization. This paper proposes a hybrid Free-Form Deformation (FFD) bas...
Slamming-induced whipping has been recognized as a key contributor to fatigue damage of large ships operating under severe sea states. However, accurate prediction of whipping responses remains challenging because of complex nonlinear fluid–str...
Water channel experiments were conducted to investigate the influence of aspect ratio (H/D = 0.9–1.9) on the flow-induced motion (FIM) and hydrokinetic energy conversion performance of an elastically mounted circular cylinder with T-shaped atta...
Ammonia is a promising zero-carbon energy carrier for maritime decarbonisation, but its deployment is limited by safety risks that are not adequately addressed by conventional marine fuel safety frameworks. This study critically reviews safety assess...
Maintaining structural stability and reliable mooring performance remains a key challenge for offshore floating photovoltaic (FPV) systems. This study investigates the coupled hydrodynamic and mooring behavior of a novel large-scale hexagonal rigid F...
This study presents field measurements for a non-conventional mobile square cylinder fish enclosure, with permeable ends, evaluated under both towed and moored conditions at a semi-open ocean test site. Novelty lies within the enclosure design that e...
To address the risks of cross-border transmission of pathogenic microorganisms posed by the failure or non-compliance of shipboard ballast water treatment systems, ports urgently require efficient and flexible emergency response solutions. This study...
In this paper, an adaptive tracking control technique is proposed to stabilize the yaw angle of an unmanned surface vessel (USV) system subject to input saturation and external disturbances. Unlike existing saturation systems and disturbance rejectio...
Offshore rocket launches offer advantages such as unrestricted launch locations, convenient recovery, large effective payload capacity, and long satellite service life. However, due to the complex marine environment, variations in wind, waves, and cu...
This paper examines how inflow-state discretisation affects wake-loss and annual energy production (AEP) estimates for offshore wind farms. A reproducible workflow is presented for constructing weighted inflow-state ensembles from long-term offshore...
Wave height is a critical parameter for marine hazard warning systems and the structural safety of offshore engineering. The Bohai Sea and its surrounding region is an important economic hub in northern China and serves as the maritime route for the...
Accurate vessel traffic flow prediction provides an important data basis for intelligent shipping management, including maritime traffic monitoring, navigational risk awareness, waterway organization, and emission-related assessment. Although recent...
Under climate change, the increasing typhoon intensity poses a severe threat to fishery harbor safety through storm surges and extreme waves. Traditional empirical management approaches fail to capture the complex wave-surge coupling inside harbors,...
Fish observation is a key component of marine ecological monitoring and is valuable for understanding ecological processes and fish population dynamics. In practical applications, observation equipment is often constrained by limited memory and compu...
Marine application of electrical assets can be challenging considering the upgraded targets in terms of increasing voltage, power, temperature, specific weight, dynamics, reliability and resilience. Research work has restarted, based at least on rece...
Fast, convergent local-mode expansions of nonlinear water waves are discussed for the representation of the velocity and stream function. Subsequently, the representations are used to derive and study a novel nonlinear coupled-mode system of differen...
Cavitating jet impingement is a key phenomenon in marine and ocean engineering that is responsible for cavitation-induced material erosion while also being harnessed for surface treatment applications. However, decoupling these concurrent effects is...
A shaft-rate electric field (SREF) is a weak characteristic signal generated by moving ships in the ocean, serving as a key physical feature in underwater target detection and identification. Based on the generation mechanism of shaft-frequency elect...
In deepwater oil and gas development, conventional well-by-well drilling and completion involve repeated equipment deployment, resulting in low efficiency. The Liza project in the Stabroek Block, Guyana, adopts a batch drilling and completion mode, s...
Orthorhombic normal fault networks in sedimentary basins and their formation mechanisms are of significant geological importance. Orthorhombic normal fault networks and planar H-shaped normal fault networks (HNF) developed in distinct locations along...
The Bahía Blanca marshes are highly productive ecosystems that act as carbon sinks and support a diverse community of halophytic plants, including species of Distichlis, Spartina, Sarcocornia, among others. Marine fungi inhabit these ecosystem...
The operational profiles of both commercial and naval ships encompass a range of speeds below the service speed. On the way to estimating their performance at these speeds, the varying effect of hull roughness should be quantified. Roughness constitu...
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Distributed passive acoustic tracking is an important technique for detecting and localizing a non-cooperative underwater target, in which the frequency difference of arrival (FDOA) is a widely used measurement. FDOA reflects the differences in the t...
Offshore renewable energy is widely recognised as a critical pathway for decarbonising electricity systems, but the integration of floating offshore wind turbines with wave energy converters remains technically challenging. This paper presents a stru...
Underwater object detection using forward-looking sonar presents fundamental challenges absent from terrestrial imagery: low-contrast single-channel inputs, multi-scale acoustic shadows, and object classes spanning a wide range of acoustic scattering...
Marine propulsion shaft alignment is affected by bearing offsets, hull deformation, thermal growth, and condition-dependent propeller and gear loads. An alignment scheme optimized for a single condition may therefore lead to unbalanced bearing reacti...
To improve the path-following performance of an underactuated autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) under varying path geometries and desired velocities, this study proposes a direct X-rudder control method based on Task-Informed Inductive-Bias Conserv...
The accurate prediction of resistance and running attitudes of high-speed planing crafts is of great significance for the improvement of ship hydrodynamics. In this study, the lab model tests and computational fluid dynamics (CFD) methods are employe...
Lightweight design of the skeletal structure is a critical challenge in the development of Blended-Wing-Body Underwater Gliders (BWBUGs). However, existing studies often rely on empirically derived configurations for parameter optimization, which lim...
Utilizing underwater vehicles for hydropower infrastructure inspection is increasingly vital. However, these GNSS-denied and confined environments pose significant navigation challenges: Inertial Navigation Systems (INSs) suffer cumulative drift, Dop...
Underwater acoustic (UWA) channels are inherently complex, with pronounced variability arising from multipath propagation, time variability, Doppler effects, and nonstationary ocean conditions. Such variability often leads to unstable communication r...
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