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Ocean Observations
edited by Chung-Ru Ho
submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4169
Keywords: ocean observation  ; maritime safety  ; marine engineering  ; maritime planning  ; maritime construction  ; ocean observation instruments and technology  ; battery capacity  ; data storage  ; ocean energy ocean observation systems  ; ocean observation results  ; ocean observation applications
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Marine Technology: Latest Advancements and Prospects
edited by Shen Li, Mingxin Li and Do Kyun Kim
submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 3666
Keywords: fluid– structure interaction; limit state-based structural design; wind/wave/tidal energy systems and structures; digital twin; decarbonization of maritime transport; structural monitoring and inspection; hybrid simulation; automatic control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Advanced Technologies for Maritime and Underwater Archaeology—2nd Edition submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2885
Keywords: underwater cultural heritage; virtual and augmented reality; marine robotics; artificial intelligence; underwater 3D imaging; conservation; diagnostics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)
Application of CFD Simulations to Marine Hydrodynamic Problems (2nd Edition) submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1566
Keywords: marine hydrodynamics; fluid– structure interaction; computational fluid mechanics; environmental fluid mechanics; coastal engineering; ocean engineering; ship waves; waterway; waves hydrodynamics; naval hydrodynamics
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Effects of Ocean Plastic Pollution on Aquatic Life
edited by Samantha Garrard
submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1219
Keywords: marine plastic pollution; microplastics; nanoplastics; plastic debris; ADLFG; modelling sources; transport and fate of plastics; AI and machine learning; ecotoxicology; ecosystem functioning; systems thinking
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Pollution)
Performance and Emission Characteristics of Marine Engines submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1067
Keywords: marine engines; maritime; decarbonization; optimization; performance; emissions
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
New Biomonitoring Methodologies for Key Coastal and Estuary Species and Habitats
edited by , and Luis Machado
submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 1054
Keywords: coastal and estuarine habitats; ecosystem assessment health; global change; key species; DNA-based tools; remote sensing; machine learning algorithms; acoustic assessments; photographic assessments; biosurveillance
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Ecology)
Monitoring of Ocean Surface Currents and Circulation submission deadline 1 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 318
Keywords: ocean surface currents; currents; circulation; remote sensing; numerical modeling
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
Evolution and Ecology of Crustaceans and Their Applications
edited by
submission deadline 5 Oct 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 12664 | Submission Open
Keywords: arthropods; bioinspiration; biomimetics; crustacea; extremophiles; genetic diversity; identification; microbiomes; phylogeny; speciation; stable isotope
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
High-Efficient Exploration and Development of Oil & Gas from Ocean—2nd Edition
edited by , and Guodong Cui
submission deadline 5 Oct 2024 | 9 articles | Viewed by 8394 | Submission Open
Keywords: gas hydrate; shale oil; shale gas; tight gas; tight oil; coalbed gas; CCUS
(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)
Marine and Coastal Hazards: Risk Identification, Monitoring, Assessment and Management submission deadline 5 Oct 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 4680 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine and coastal hazards; risk assessment; marine meteorology; rip current; freak waves
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Hazards)
Advanced Research on the Sustainable Maritime Transportation (2nd Edition)
edited by , and
submission deadline 5 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 4097 | Submission Open
Keywords: sustainable maritime transportation; green shipping; energy efficiency; alternative fuels; emission reduction; maritime safety; maritime accident; port; environmental impact; feasibility study
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Navigation and Detection Fusion for Autonomous Underwater Vehicles
edited by and Jianjun Ni
submission deadline 5 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 3584 | Submission Open
Keywords: path planning; tracking control; underwater image processing; information fusion; underwater target recognition; Multi-AUV
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Ocean Internal Waves and Circulation Dynamics in Climate Change
edited by
submission deadline 5 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 768 | Submission Open
Keywords: internal wave; circulation/eddy; mixing; observation or modeling; case studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
Advances in Underwater Acoustic Communication and Ocean Sensor Networks
edited by Huafeng Wu and Dezhi Han
submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6151 | Submission Open
Keywords: underwater acoustic communication (UAC); Ocean Sensor Network (OSN); underwater/surface wireless sensor networks (UWSNs/SWSNs); UWSN/SWSN security; Ad-hoc network; channel estimation; MAC and routing protocol; target localization in UWSNs/SWSNs; ocean big data; UWSN/SWSN signal processing; intelligent-ship-aided UWSNs/SWSNs; artificial intelligence in UACs; autonomous underwater/surface vehicle (AUV/ASV)-aided ocean exploration; ocean observation network; polar communication and networking; marine communication and navigation; ocean data processing
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
Computational Fluid Dynamics Simulation of Floating Offshore Structures—2nd Edition
edited by , and
submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | 6 articles | Viewed by 5780 | Submission Open
Keywords: CFD simulation; floating offshore structures; ocean engineering; hydrodynamics and propulsion
(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
Applications of Artificial Intelligence in Marine Machinery submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2592 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine machinery; artificial intelligence; smart maintenance; intelligent condition monitoring; performance optimization; fuel consumption optimization; emission control; reliability engineering; machine learning; deep learning
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Hydrodynamics and Water Quality in Coastal Systems: Numerical Modelling and Observations
edited by and
submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 2121 | Submission Open
Keywords: water quality; numerical modelling; nutrients; oxygen; coastal systems
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
Intelligent Approaches to Marine Engineering Research submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1883 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine robotics; intelligent techniques applied to power system and power distribution; intelligent techniques applied guidance; navigation; and control; maritime autonomous surface ships (MASSs); renewable energy; hybrid energy systems; offshore and tidal energy; floating offshore wind turbine; oscillating water columns; smart maintenance; offshore wind energy; energy storage technology; energy management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Recent Advances in Autonomous Underwater Vehicles submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 187 | Submission Open
Keywords: vehicle design and modeling; guidance; navigation; and control; mission planning and control; underwater communication; sensor fusion; 3D simulation environments; datasets; multivehicle systems; cooperative control
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Coastal Landslides and Hazard Assessment
edited by Claire Dashwood
submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 181 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal landslide; hazard assessment; monitoring; mitigation; resilience
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Hazards)
Exploring Offshore Wind Innovation: Breakthroughs in Renewable Energy Research
edited by Alessandro Fontanella
submission deadline 10 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open
Keywords: offshore wind energy; turbine technology; environmental impact; atmosphere; scalability; experiments
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Safety and Reliability of Ship and Ocean Engineering Structures
edited by Xiangshao Kong and Weiguo Wu
submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 4691 | Submission Open
Keywords: ship safety; ocean engineering structure safety; risks and reliability; material selection; monitoring system; maintenance; standards
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Nonlinear Wave–Structure Interactions and the Development of Advanced Numerical Models
edited by Xingya Feng and
submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 3222 | Submission Open
Keywords: offshore hydrodynamics; wave-structure interactions; nonlinear free surface; higher-order effect; higher harmonics; nonlinear simulations
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Applications of Bubble Dynamics in Ocean Engineering: Theory, Experiment and Simulation
edited by Xiao Huang, and
submission deadline 15 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1309 | Submission Open
Keywords: bubble dynamics; cavitation; ultrasonic bubbles; ultra-fine bubbles; air-gun bubbles; underwater explosion bubbles; bubbly flow
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Advances in Marine Mechanical and Structural Engineering—2nd Edition
edited by , and
submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 2363 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine structure; strength assessment; structural design; advanced material and structure; structural optimization
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Advanced Research in Flexible Riser and Pipelines
edited by and Weidong Ruan
submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 872 | Submission Open
Keywords: offshore risers; pipelines and moorings; flexible pipes and umbilical cables; section design; installation technique; dynamics response; fatigue analysis; structure stability and safety; structural analysis and optimization; subsea engineering and polar engineering; pipe– soil interaction
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Advances in Wireless Communication Technology in Oceanic Turbulence
edited by Dajun Liu
submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 690 | Submission Open
Keywords: underwater optical wireless communications; oceanic turbulence; partially coherent beam; vortex beam; structured light; OAM; BER; outage probability; beam propagation
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Movable Coastal Structures and Flood Protection
edited by Alexander M.R. Bakker
submission deadline 20 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 240 | Submission Open
Keywords: compound events; operational reliability; storm surge barriers; flood protection; flood risk; critical coastal structures; extremes
(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
Innovative Technologies in Safety and Reliability of Marine Engineering
edited by , Yu Wu and
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 2172 | Submission Open
Keywords: the safety; reliability; and resilience analysis of novel marine engineering equipment; reliability analyses of underwater structures; safety and reliability issues in deep-sea mining; safety analyses of ships and marine engineering in polar waters; safety analyses of maritime autonomous surface ships; automation and artificial intelligence
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Coastal Evolution and Erosion under Climate Change
edited by
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 821 | Submission Open
Keywords: coastal erosion; climate change; coastal resilience; coastal morphodynamics; super typhoons; harbor siltation; high swell
(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
Prevention and Control of Biofouling in Marine Environment
edited by and Kelli Z. Hunsucker
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 647 | Submission Open
Keywords: biofouling; novel materials; environmental health; novel ecosystems; antibiofouling; environmental pollution
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)
The Interaction between Atmospheric and Oceanic Dynamics at Mesoscale and Small Scale
edited by and Jian Shi
submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 628 | Submission Open
Keywords: atmospheric dynamics; oceanic dynamics; air-sea interaction; remote sensing; numeric model; fluid computation; artificial intelligence; climate change; polar region
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean and Global Climate)
Marine Benthos Biodiversity and Conservation submission deadline 25 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 199 | Submission Open
Keywords: marine benthos; climate change; marine bioindicators; marine ecosystem; benthic biodiversity; restoration; monitoring plan; marine heatwaves; habitat loss; alien species
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
Research Progress in Wave–Structure Interactions in Nearshore Areas
edited by , Baoyu Ni and Yuriy A. Semenov
submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 896 | Submission Open
Keywords: wave energy converters; offshore wind farms; coastal structures; polar engineering; surface and submerged vehicles; wave impact on offshore structures; non-linear waves
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Maritime Communication Networks and 6G Technologies
edited by Anastasios E. Giannopoulos, and
submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 230 | Submission Open
Keywords: maritime communication networks (MCNs); machine learning and MCNs; 6G technologies in MCNs; multi-hop relaying techniques for MCNs; measurements and channel modeling for MCNs; radio resource management algorithms for MCNs
Advances in Observing and Understanding Ocean Turbulent Flow
edited by and Dossmann Yvan
submission deadline 30 Oct 2024 | Viewed by 123 | Submission Open
Keywords: turbulence mixing; dispersion processes in the ocean; data-driven prediction model; sensing and measurements
(This special issue belongs to the Section Physical Oceanography)
Advances in Ship and Marine Hydrodynamics submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 10394 | Submission Open
Keywords: hydrodynamics; ships; floating structures; optimization; seakeeping; resistance; propulsion; maneuvering; high-speed craft; case studies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
5th International Workshop on Taxonomy of Atlanto-Mediterranean Deep-Sea & Cave Sponges
edited by , and Marco Bertolino
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 4 articles | Viewed by 9064 | Submission Open
Keywords: Porifera;   ; Taxonomy; Deep-habitats; Spicules; Marine caves; Twilight zone; Mesophotic
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
Advance in Sedimentology and Coastal and Marine Geology—2nd Edition
edited by
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 7 articles | Viewed by 6700 | Submission Open
Keywords: sedimentology; facies analysis; seismic stratigraphy; sequence stratigraphy; habitat mapping; stratigraphic and sedimentary geology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Geological Oceanography)
Biodiversity and Population Ecology of Marine Invertebrates submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4269 | Submission Open
Keywords: biodiversity hotspots; population dynamics; ecological interactions; habitat diversity; biogeography; environmental impact; ecosystem engineers; biodiversity indices
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Biology)
Hydrodynamics and Water Environment Characteristics in Coastal Areas submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1793 | Submission Open
Keywords: near-shore hydrodynamics; water quality; coastal structures; coastal ecosystem; sediment transport; adaptation to climate change; coastal management
(This special issue belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
Modelling Techniques for Floating Offshore Wind Turbines
edited by and Petter Andreas Berthelsen
submission deadline 31 Oct 2024 | 2 articles | Viewed by 1510 | Submission Open
Keywords: floating offshore wind turbine; numerical modelling; experimental modelling; fully coupled dynamics; wave– structure hydrodynamics; aero-elastic dynamics; control strategies
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Nutrition and Physiology of Marine Fish
edited by , Yuanyuan Zhang and
submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | 1 articles | Viewed by 880 | Submission Open
Keywords: fish; nutrition; metabolism; physiology; nutrients; feeding
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Aquaculture)
Environmental Radioactivity and Its Applications in Marine Areas
edited by Viena Puigcorbé, Olivier Radakovitch, and Maxi Castrillejo
submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 338 | Submission Open
Keywords: ocean tracers; radionuclides; environmental radioactivity
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)
Green Shipping Corridors and GHG Emissions
edited by Junkeon Ahn
submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 326 | Submission Open
Keywords: decarbonization; GHG emissions; green fuel supply chain; green shipping strategy; sustainable maritime transportation; net-zero
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Progress in Sensor Technology for Ocean Sciences
edited by
submission deadline 1 Nov 2024 | Viewed by 322 | Submission Open
Keywords: sensor; oceanographic instrument; instrument network; calibration; uncertainty
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
Next-Generation Sustainable Marine Fisheries and Aquaculture Engineering submission deadline 5 Nov 2024 | 8 articles | Viewed by 9552 | Submission Open
Keywords: flexible net structure; open-sea aquaculture; fluid– structure interaction; wave– structure interaction; net cage/closed fish cage; selective and low-impact fishing gear; environment– aquaculture interaction; fish school behaviour; recirculating aquaculture system; offshore aquaculture and renewable energy production
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Aquaculture)
Sustainable Shipping: Alternative Fuels and Technologies for Marine Applications submission deadline 5 Nov 2024 | 5 articles | Viewed by 6484 | Submission Open
Keywords: alternative fuels; LNG; LPG; (bio)methanol; biofuels; hydrogen; ammonia; e-fuels; non-conventional technologies; sustainable shipping; maritime transport technology
(This special issue belongs to the Section Marine Environmental Science)
Powering the Seas: Revolutionizing Shipboard Power Systems with Advanced Control, Alternative Fuels, and Renewable Energy
edited by , and
submission deadline 5 Nov 2024 | 3 articles | Viewed by 4383 | Submission Open
Keywords: shipboard power systems; advanced control; alternative fuels; renewable energy; maritime applications; energy efficiency; resilience; stability; biofuels; liquified natural gas; hydrogen fuel; solar power; wind power; wave energy
(This special issue belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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