Paper Collection—Award Winning Papers in Physical Sciences
We are pleased to announce that 15 papers in the field of Physical Sciences have been selected as the 2024 Best Paper Award winners.
Entropy:
“The Free Energy Principle for Perception and Action: A Deep Learning Perspective”
by Pietro Mazzaglia, Tim Verbelen, Ozan Çatal and Bart Dhoedt
Entropy 2022, 24(2), 301; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24020301
“Power-Optimal Control of a Stirling Engine’s Frictional Piston Motion”
by Raphael Paul, Abdellah Khodja, Andreas Fischer, Robin Masser and Karl Heinz Hoffmann
Entropy 2022, 24(3), 362; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24030362
“Quantum Coherences and Classical Inhomogeneities as Equivalent Thermodynamics Resources”
by Andrew Smith, Kanupriya Sinha and Christopher Jarzynski
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 474; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040474
“Recasting the (Synchrosqueezed) Short-Time Fourier Transform as an Instantaneous Spectrum”
by Steven Sandoval and Phillip L. De Leon
Entropy 2022, 24(4), 518; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24040518
“Metacognition as a Consequence of Competing Evolutionary Time Scales”
by Franz Kuchling, Chris Fields and Michael Levin
Entropy 2022, 24(5), 601; https://doi.org/10.3390/e24050601
Fluids:
“A Direct-Forcing Immersed Boundary Method for Incompressible Flows Based on Physics-Informed Neural Network”
by Yi Huang, Zhiyu Zhang and Xing Zhang
Fluids 2022, 7(2), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids7020056
“Current Trends in Fluid Research in the Era of Artificial Intelligence: A Review”
by Filippos Sofos, Christos Stavrogiannis, Kalliopi K. Exarchou-Kouveli, Daniel Akabua, George Charilas and Theodoros E. Karakasidis
Fluids 2022, 7(3), 116; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids7030116
“Computational Investigation of the Aerodynamics of a Wheel Installed on a Race Car with a Multi-Element Front Wing”
by Carlo Cravero and Davide Marsano
Fluids 2022, 7(6), 182; https://doi.org/10.3390/fluids7060182
Fractal and Fractional:
“Fractal Analysis on Surface Topography of Thin Films: A Review”
by Wenmeng Zhou, Yating Cao, Haolin Zhao, Zhiwei Li, Pingfa Feng and Feng Feng
Fractal Fract. 2022, 6(3), 135; https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract6030135
“Examining the Position of Wright’s Fallingwater in the Context of His Larger Body of Work: An Analysis Using Fractal Dimensions”
by Josephine Vaughan and Michael J. Ostwald
Fractal Fract. 2022, 6(4), 187; https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract6040187
“Zener Model with General Fractional Calculus: Thermodynamical Restrictions”
by Teodor M. Atanackovic and Stevan Pilipovic
Fractal Fract. 2022, 6(10), 617; https://doi.org/10.3390/fractalfract6100617
Photonics:
“Modulators in Silicon Photonics—Heterogenous Integration & and Beyond”
by Jack Mulcahy, Frank H. Peters and Xing Dai
Photonics 2022, 9(1), 40; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9010040
“Recent Advances in 850 nm VCSELs for High-Speed Interconnects”
by Hao-Tien Cheng, Yun-Cheng Yang, Te-Hua Liu and Chao-Hsin Wu
Photonics 2022, 9(2), 107; https://doi.org/10.3390/photonics9020107
Universe:
“PBH Formation from Spherically Symmetric Hydrodynamical Perturbations: A Review”
by Albert Escrivà
Universe 2022, 8(2), 66; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8020066
by Gerard ’t Hooft
Universe 2022, 8(10), 537; https://doi.org/10.3390/universe8100537