2026 July-1 - 111 articles
Reliable battery state awareness is essential for energy management and power allocation in hybrid electric ships. However, battery management systems are increasingly exposed to False Data Injection Attacks (FDIAs) in intelligent connected environme...
Multi-scale vortex structures constitute the intrinsic skeleton of turbulent flows and govern the energy cascade process in oceanic turbulence. Elucidating their evolutionary dynamics is crucial for understanding turbulent mixing and transport. In th...
To investigate the age and growth characteristics of the pointhead flounder (Cleisthenes pinetorum) in the West Sea (Yellow Sea) of Korea, samples were collected from bottom trawl vessels throughout 2019. A total of 1116 individuals (1015 females and...
This study develops a systematic framework for assessing the temporal dynamics of tropical cyclone (TC) risk in the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area (GBA) from 2013 to 2023. A unified composite index was constructed by integrati...
Accurate and robust localization is essential for intelligent vessels operating in complex marine and port environments. However, single-sensor localization is often affected by limited observation range, environmental occlusion, local interference,...
The paper examines the morphodynamic development of reed-dominated phytogenic shores of the Dniprovsko–Buzky Liman, the largest river-mouth system in the northwestern Black Sea region. Based on field observations and analysis of Landsat and Sen...
Leading-edge tubercles provide a bio-inspired modification for regulating the hydrodynamic performance of marine propellers, but their controllable generation on complex three-dimensional blades remains insufficiently studied. This study develops a p...
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Deep-sea transportation is faced with complex navigation environments, long voyages, limited emergency response resources, and interacting safety risks. Existing studies have mainly focused on individual risk factors, while the correlations and coupl...
Non-uniform sound velocity profiles (SVPs) cause sound-ray refraction and propagation-path bending. The straight-line mapping among propagation time, propagation distance, and target position is, therefore, disrupted, leading to systematic errors in...
Cooperative encirclement using multiple unmanned underwater vehicles (UUVs) is a critical task in underwater base defense, yet existing approaches typically rely on static risk rules that cannot fuse multi-source information dynamically and decouple...
To address the problem of three-dimensional (3D) localization in underwater environments, this paper proposes a 3D positioning method based on magnetic induction communication (MI in short). Dual transmitters equipped with 3D coils are used to transm...
This paper analyzes the fatigue loads of wind turbines in a floating offshore wind farm (FOWF) whose layout can be reconfigured. Such wind farm reconfiguration will be useful for wake effect mitigation in varying wind conditions. As an example FOWF,...
Suspension docking systems offer significant application potential in autonomous underwater docking operations because of their deployment and recovery convenience. This study investigated the interaction between an axisymmetric, underactuated autono...
Submarine pockmarks are typical seafloor micro-geomorphic landforms formed by deep fluid seepage and sediment erosional processes. Based on high-resolution multibeam bathymetric data, multi-channel seismic sections and sediment core data, the present...
Floating offshore platforms are subjected to significant impact loads from ocean currents, which pose considerable challenges to the safety of floating offshore wind turbines. To address this issue, this study develops a novel infill criterion framew...
Subsea tunnels constructed by the drill-and-blast method are increasingly required in modern infrastructure and are often exposed to high groundwater pressure and fractured rock conditions. In such environments, external water pressure acting on init...
Underwater acoustic (UWA) sensor and control links carry mostly short messages (below ∼10 kB) over time-varying, low-SNR multipath channels, which is a regime where forward error correction (FEC) operates on short, finite blocks where a single st...
To investigate the coupled evolution of cavity morphology, hydrodynamic characteristics, and motion behavior during the wide-speed-range acceleration of an underwater hypervelocity vehicle, a numerical framework for supercavitating multiphase flow wa...
The distinct engineering advantages of Oscillating Water Column (OWC) systems have driven substantial academic interest lately. This work examines the onshore U-shaped OWC (U-OWC), selected for its cost-effective installation integrated with existing...
The rapid cryospheric transformation of the Arctic presents complex challenges for global supply chains, necessitating data-driven decision-making frameworks to optimize route planning and resource allocation. Standard aggregate statistics fail to ca...
Coral sands are critical in the construction of islands and harbors in tropical regions. Studying their dispersal, specifically the movement of ‘sedimentary clouds’ during marine dumping/dredging operations, is essential for optimizing co...
In increasingly complex navigation environments, maritime traffic supervision needs to look beyond the instantaneous collision risk of individual-ship pairs. A multi-ship scene may become difficult to monitor because of vessel aggregation, spatial co...
Coastal water quality in the Bothnian Sea is shaped by interactions among local nutrient inputs, internal nutrient cycling, and basin-scale phosphorus enrichment, complicating the assessment and management of eutrophication. This study analyses long-...
To address localization error accumulation in autonomous underwater vehicle (AUV) swarms due to underwater acoustic communication interruptions, this paper proposes a cooperative localization method that integrates Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) predi...
Subsea blowout preventer (BOP) hydraulic control systems are safety-critical subsystems whose performance directly affects well control capability and emergency actuation reliability. Maintaining hydraulic integrity is essential because leakage-induc...
For autonomous maritime perception and situational awareness, the end-to-end multi-object tracking paradigm has achieved complete learning, from image sequences to tracking results, reducing the reliance on manually designed association rules and hol...
Anchoring systems for deep-water floating structures must withstand complex, hydro-mechanical (H-M) coupled uplift forces throughout an operational life extending over decades, yet fundamental understanding of this complicated H-M behavior remains in...
Under 10 min sparse Automatic Identification System (AIS) sampling, the reliability of point-wise motion statistics degrades substantially, and conventional classification methods rely on trajectory interpolation, which may introduce spurious motion...
Heterogeneities of Late Cretaceous tropical carbonate platforms of the Middle East are yet to be fully understood. The analysis of carbonate microfacies with materials obtained from exploration wells can contribute to filling the noted gap. The prese...
To improve emergency response efficiency in passenger ship fire accidents and ensure the life safety of passengers and crew, this paper proposes a dynamic route planning model for passenger ship fire evacuation that accounts for fire spread. Firstly,...
The rapid growth in vessel size associated with global maritime trade is placing increasing pressure on port infrastructure worldwide. In Brazil, many existing ports face structural limitations due to insufficient navigational depth and limited oppor...
The integration of wave energy converters with offshore wind foundations offers a potential route to improving the utilization of offshore renewable energy infrastructure. This study numerically investigates the power-load characteristics of fixed os...
Ship personnel detection is the core technology for building intelligent ship monitoring systems. It safeguards navigation safety and standardizes deck work management. Current human detection algorithms perform poorly in complex marine service envir...
Suspended sediment in tidal flows progressively erodes composite turbine blades, with the leading edge being the most vulnerable region. While solid-particle erosion has been studied extensively for metallic components, predictive frameworks for fibr...
Autonomous underwater glider fleets are increasingly deployed to observe mesoscale eddies, yet a methodology for evaluating observation quality under uncertainty remains lacking. This paper presents SCOPE, a framework integrating uncertainty propagat...
By integrating ecological spatial data, offshore wind energy development zones, and the marine spatial planning (MSP) framework, it is possible to assess the relationship among Taiwan’s offshore renewable energy development, risks to marine bio...
Side-by-side mooring alongside a quay is an effective strategy to enhance berth utilization and port efficiency. However, in confined waters, hydrodynamic interactions among adjacent ships and the quay wall can significantly alter ship motions, wave...
Visual perception is an important component of close-range maritime situational awareness, particularly when conventional sources such as AIS and radar are delayed, incomplete, or unavailable. Ship wakes provide motion-related visual cues, but their...
Accurate vessel trajectory prediction from Automatic Identification System (AIS) records is important for maritime traffic monitoring, route planning, and intelligent vessel traffic management. However, reliable prediction remains challenging for lon...
The South Atlantic is a classic region of hotspot volcanism, with numerous intraplate magmatic structures, such as the Walvis Ridge, Rio Grande Rise, Fernando de Noronha Ridge, and Victoria-Trinda Ridge. These structures record mantle plume activity...
Accurate three-dimensional temperature and salinity initial fields are essential for regional short-term ocean forecasting, but subsurface constraints remain limited in the Western Indian Ocean because in situ profiles are sparse and satellite observ...
The 2011 Penglai (PL) 19-3 oil spills in China’s Bohai Sea, resulting from two subsea accidents within a month and contaminating 6200 km2, represent the nation’s worst offshore pollution disaster. Yet, systemic analysis of lessons learned...
Sea turtles are increasingly regarded as indicators of coastal ecosystem health, as their clinical condition and disease profiles reflect prolonged exposure to environmental pressures in impacted marine habitats. Wildlife rehabilitation facilities pl...
Shipboard DC microgrids face critical stability challenges including low-inertia-induced voltage fluctuations and impedance mismatch caused by constant power loads (CPLs), which severely threaten system stability. Existing virtual DC machine (VDCM) c...
To investigate the influence of propeller rotational speed on the flooding process, sailing trajectory, and motion responses of a damaged surface naval ship under various sea conditions, numerical simulations were conducted using STAR-CCM+. The study...
Underwater image super-resolution plays an important role in marine exploration, as it aims to recover clearer and higher-resolution images from degraded low-resolution observations. However, in underwater environments, this task is particularly chal...
An improved availability–dependability–capability (ADC) assessment framework is proposed for evaluating the mission effectiveness of solar-powered unmanned surface vehicles (USVs) under the coupled effects of hardware state transitions an...
Recent advances in satellite measurements make satellites suitable candidates for monitoring the ocean environment, especially in the case of offshore wave resources. In this context, the present work aims to evaluate the accuracy of the wave dataset...
Floating liquefied natural gas (FLNG) facilities integrate natural gas liquefaction, storage, and offloading into a single vessel. During ship-to-ship (STS) side-by-side offloading, an LNG carrier (LNGC) moors alongside the FLNG to transfer liquefied...
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