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  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,794 Views
19 Pages

22 April 2023

The spectrophotometric methods of determination of the active pharmaceutical ingredients meloxicam and nimesulide were reviewed and a simple UV-spectrophotometric method for the determination of these active pharmaceutical ingredients in industrial e...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemistry & Material Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,606 Views
15 Pages

17 November 2012

The present work reports a rapid reversed-phase high-performance liquid chromatography (RP-HPLC) method for the simultaneous determination of 12 beta-lactam components for cleaning validation and cross-contamination. A strategic experimental approach...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
863 Views
51 Pages

Cuttings-Bed Dynamics and Wellbore Cleaning: A Critical Review of Multiscale Modeling, Multiphase Flow, and Cross-Scale Validation

  • Zijian Li,
  • Bo Zhang,
  • Liping Jiang,
  • Tao Yang,
  • Tai Luo,
  • Xianping Cao,
  • Xu Yang,
  • Gao Li,
  • Hongtao Li and
  • Stephen Butt
  • + 1 author

9 July 2026

Reliable wellbore cleaning remains difficult in deviated, horizontal, extended-reach, deep, and ultra-deep wells because the downhole distribution and mechanical state of cuttings beds cannot usually be observed directly. This review examines cutting...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Oil Reservoir Simulation and Multiphase Flow)
  • Article
  • Open Access
288 Views
21 Pages

Turkish Adaptation of the Clean Food Consumerism Scale: A Validity and Reliability Study

  • Simge Sipahi Uygur,
  • Nihan Çakır Biçer,
  • Ece Öneş,
  • Sena Roberts,
  • Selen Köksal,
  • Perim Fatma Türker and
  • Murat Baş

5 October 2026

Background: Clean food consumerism reflects consumers’ preferences for foods perceived as natural, authentic, transparent, and health-promoting. This study aimed to culturally adapt the Clean Food Consumerism Scale (CFCS) into Turkish and evalu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Policy and Consumer Behavior: Measuring the Shift Toward Sustainable Eating)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,177 Views
19 Pages

Simulation of the Working Volume Reduction through the Bioconversion Model (BioModel) and Its Validation Using Biogas Plant Data for the Prediction of the Optimal Reactor Cleaning Period

  • Maria-Athina Tsitsimpikou,
  • Sotirios D. Kalamaras,
  • Antonios A. Lithourgidis,
  • Anastasios Mitsopoulos,
  • Lars Ellegaard,
  • Irini Angelidaki and
  • Thomas A. Kotsopoulos

21 November 2023

The present study focuses on the working volume reduction of anaerobic reactors in biogas plants, which is caused by inorganic material accumulation and inadequate mixing and affects methane production and plant profitability. Precipitation phenomena...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Renewable Energy Technologies for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,030 Views
24 Pages

21 April 2026

Surface anomalies such as dust accumulation and bird droppings on photovoltaic (PV) panels can significantly reduce their energy production and lead to inefficient maintenance decisions. This paper proposes a vision-based deep learning framework for...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Engineering and Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,859 Views
25 Pages

A Standardized Framework for Cleaning Non-Normal Yield Data from Wheat and Barley Crops, and Validation Using Machine Learning Models for Satellite Imagery

  • Patricia Arizo-García,
  • Sergio Castiñeira-Ibáñez,
  • Enric Cruzado-Campos,
  • Beatriz Ricarte,
  • Constanza Rubio and
  • Alberto San Bautista

5 February 2026

Modern combine harvesters can collect real-time geolocated yield data, but it is subject to errors. Various protocols have been proposed to clean this data, each with varying levels of complexity. This data is valuable for precision agriculture to im...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Integrating Yield Maps, Soil Data, and IoT for Smarter Farming)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,972 Views
24 Pages

Background/Objectives: Manual preparation of semisolid formulations (creams, ointments, gels) is prone to variability in mixing energy and time, which may compromise uniform API distribution. This study aimed to evaluate an Electronic Mortar and Pest...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extemporaneous Formulations: Filling the Gap in the Pharmaceutical Industry with Personalized Medicines, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
16,222 Views
22 Pages

5 May 2025

Data cleaning remains one of the most time-consuming and critical steps in modern data science, directly influencing the reliability and accuracy of downstream analytics. In this paper, we present a comprehensive evaluation of five widely used data c...

(This article belongs to the Section Information Systems and Data Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,370 Views
18 Pages

RL-Based Sim2Real Enhancements for Autonomous Beach-Cleaning Agents

  • Francisco Quiroga,
  • Gabriel Hermosilla,
  • German Varas,
  • Francisco Alonso and
  • Karla Schröder

27 May 2024

This paper explores the application of Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) and Sim2Real strategies to enhance the autonomy of beach-cleaning robots. Experiments demonstrate that DRL agents, initially refined in simulations, effectively transfer their n...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Autonomous Vehicles and Robotics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,886 Views
28 Pages

The Impact of Intellectual Capital on Dynamic Innovation Performance: An Overview of Research Methodology

  • Mostafa A. Ali,
  • Nazimah Hussin,
  • Hossam Haddad,
  • Nidal Mahmoud Al-Ramahi,
  • Tareq Hammad Almubaydeen and
  • Ibtihal A. Abed

Research technique is a critical component of every study, and, therefore, determining the method of research is a crucial step in that process. This paper serves as an introduction to the design of an investigation method for the impacts of intellec...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,159 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2022

Flame retardants are added to consumer products to retard the ignition of combustible materials. Technical mixtures of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCDD) were massively used for several decades. They are bioaccu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Environmental Monitoring and Analysis of Persistent Organic Pollutants)
  • Article
  • Open Access
512 Views
28 Pages

15 July 2026

Ports and industrial regions increasingly call clean-fuel projects “hubs,” although the market functions behind those projects are often still being developed. In Ulsan, this language has shifted from the Northeast Asian Oil Hub to an oil...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Sustainability)
  • Article
  • Open Access
957 Views
15 Pages

Standardization of an Effective Disinfection Methodology Against Microorganisms Isolated from a Pharmaceutical Industry Facility as a Contamination Control Strategy

  • Amanda Silva Costa,
  • Luciana Veloso da Costa,
  • Rebeca Vitória da Silva Lage de Miranda,
  • Talita Bernardo Valadão,
  • Stephen James Forsythe and
  • Marcelo Luiz Lima Brandão

Inadequate surface sanitization represents a significant risk to sterility assurance and regulatory compliance. Therefore, an effective cleaning and disinfection program is a critical component of contamination control strategies in pharmaceutical fa...

(This article belongs to the Section Drugs Standards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,448 Views
14 Pages

Indoor air quality (IAQ) is crucial for occupant health and sustainable urban living. Given the significant time spent indoors in urban areas, maintaining IAQ mitigates health risks and enhances quality of life. This study evaluates the effectiveness...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
1,150 Views
1 Page

The interaction of active pharmaceutical ingredients with various surfaces and solutions are of high interest in pharmaceutical industry in particular with respect to development of new formulations, new packaging material [1] and cleaning validation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
377 Views
16 Pages

An Evidence-Based LLM Framework for Expert-Validated Clean Architecture Conformance Assessment in Enterprise Software Systems

  • Eder Jahir Gonzalez Bravo,
  • Gabriel Chavira Juarez,
  • Eduardo Alvarez Navarro,
  • Adriana Montoto Gonzalez and
  • Jose Luis Diaz Juarez

28 September 2026

Architectural erosion and technical debt make it difficult to preserve intended design principles in long-lived enterprise software systems. Clean Architecture offers principles for separating business rules from frameworks, persistence and interface...

(This article belongs to the Topic Recent Advances in AI-Enhanced Software Engineering and Web Services)
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
648 Views
21 Pages

8 June 2026

The modern food industry faces increasing pressure to reduce environmental impacts, while at the same time preserving product safety, quality, nutritional value, and industrial relevance. This review synthesizes three related pillars of sustainable f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainable Food Processing and Chemical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Citations
19,264 Views
19 Pages

30 June 2020

This study investigated the inter-day and intra-device reliability, and criterion validity of six devices for measuring barbell velocity in the free-weight back squat and power clean. In total, 10 competitive weightlifters completed an initial one re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Perspectives in Resistance Training)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,705 Views
14 Pages

28 May 2023

The aim of this study was the optimization of the clean–up step in the widely applied QuEChERS method for the determination of 39 representative multiclass pesticides in olive oil with Ultra-High-Performance Chromatography–Orbitrap Mass S...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Chemical Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
8,272 Views
19 Pages

16 October 2019

Fouling accumulation in pipelines is a well-known problem in industry across various applications. The build-up of fouling within a pipe can reach a detrimental state, leading to pipe blockages that, in turn, result in pipe bursts. As pipelines trans...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
14,778 Views
17 Pages

Measuring Green Marketing: Scale Development and Validation

  • Neringa Vilkaite-Vaitone,
  • Ilona Skackauskiene and
  • Gonzalo Díaz-Meneses

19 January 2022

Academics and practitioners are paying increasing attention to green marketing as lesser damage to the environment and future generations become a priority in a current complex business environment. Despite the expanding studies in this field, there...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Circular Economy and Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,891 Views
12 Pages

Evaluation of an Optical Sorter Effectiveness in Separating Maize Seeds Intended for Sowing

  • Dan Cujbescu,
  • Florin Nenciu,
  • Cătălin Persu,
  • Iuliana Găgeanu,
  • Gheorghe Gabriel,
  • Nicolae-Valentin Vlăduț,
  • Mihai Matache,
  • Iulian Voicea,
  • Augustina Pruteanu and
  • Sorin Petruț Boruz
  • + 2 authors

2 August 2023

The current study focuses on analyzing the impact of integrating an optical sorter in a seed-separation technological flow, in terms of increasing the quality of the maize seeds appropriate for sowing. The study showed that there are situations when...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Review
  • Open Access
234 Views
16 Pages

From Proxy to Impact: Evidence Translation in Functional Photovoltaic Cover Glass Coatings

  • Dunia K. Mahdi,
  • Hiba A. Jasim,
  • Omar A. Aldhaibani,
  • Zainab H. Mahmood and
  • Abdul Rahman S. Juma

2 October 2026

Functional coatings for photovoltaic (PV) cover glass are often supported by optical, photocatalytic, wettability, or dust removal measurements, but these endpoints do not by themselves establish PV performance, field persistence, maintenance reducti...

(This article belongs to the Section Photovoltaics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,765 Views
18 Pages

18 August 2023

A multi-residue method was developed to identify and quantify pharmaceutical drug residues in full-fat milk, using a modified QuEChERS extraction procedure and sonication combined with Ultra-High-Performance Liquid Chromatography–High-Resolutio...

(This article belongs to the Section Analytical Chemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,843 Views
41 Pages

MatriGrid® Based Biological Morphologies: Tools for 3D Cell Culturing

  • Patrick Mai,
  • Jörg Hampl,
  • Martin Baca,
  • Dana Brauer,
  • Sukhdeep Singh,
  • Frank Weise,
  • Justyna Borowiec,
  • André Schmidt,
  • Johanna Merle Küstner and
  • Andreas Schober
  • + 7 authors

Recent trends in 3D cell culturing has placed organotypic tissue models at another level. Now, not only is the microenvironment at the cynosure of this research, but rather, microscopic geometrical parameters are also decisive for mimicking a tissue...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Approaches in 3D in vitro Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8,627 Views
11 Pages

An Alternative Approach to Validate the Cleaning Efficiency of a Skin Cleansing Wipe

  • Arnold Marisa,
  • Wisdom Shadrach,
  • Kerrie Holohan,
  • Abed Alkarem Abu Alhaija,
  • Emer Gilligan,
  • Jill Sommerville,
  • Niall Burke and
  • Tim Yeomans

1 October 2024

A key functionality for cleansing wipes is their efficiency in removing dirt and microbial contamination from the skin to safe or non-detectable levels, traditionally determined using the gravimetric method, which has been reported to be prone to exp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Current and Future Trends in Cosmetics Research: The 10th Anniversary of Cosmetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
696 Views
32 Pages

Synergistic Design and Optimization of a Zero-Residue Self-Cleaning System for Wheat Breeding Trial-Plot Combine Harvesters

  • Zenghui Gao,
  • Cheng Yang,
  • Nan Xu,
  • Chao Xia,
  • Dongwei Wang,
  • Changjie Han and
  • Shuqi Shang

21 March 2026

Field breeding trial-plot harvesting is one of the key processes in crop breeding, as any mixing between varieties during harvest directly leads to the invalidation of breeding data. Therefore, achieving zero-residue self-cleaning inside the machine...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,140 Views
21 Pages

Design of a Reconfigurable Wall Disinfection Robot

  • Ash Wan Yaw Sang,
  • Chee Gen Moo,
  • S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon,
  • M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala and
  • Mohan Rajesh Elara

11 September 2021

During a viral outbreak, such as COVID-19, autonomously operated robots are in high demand. Robots effectively improve the environmental concerns of contaminated surfaces in public spaces, such as airports, public transport areas and hospitals, that...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
10,134 Views
17 Pages

Impact of pH on the Stability and the Cross-Reactivity of Ochratoxin A and Citrinin

  • Ingrid Bazin,
  • Virginie Faucet-Marquis,
  • Marie-Carmen Monje,
  • Micheline El Khoury,
  • Jean-Louis Marty and
  • Annie Pfohl-Leszkowicz

28 November 2013

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by several fungi contaminating crops. In several countries, the maximum permitted levels of mycotoxins are found in foodstuffs and feedstuffs. The common strategy of mycotoxin analysis involves extraction...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Ochratoxins Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,951 Views
22 Pages

A Novel Path Planning Strategy for a Cleaning Audit Robot Using Geometrical Features and Swarm Algorithms

  • Thejus Pathmakumar,
  • M. A. Viraj J. Muthugala,
  • S. M. Bhagya P. Samarakoon,
  • Braulio Félix Gómez and
  • Mohan Rajesh Elara

16 July 2022

Robot-aided cleaning auditing is pioneering research that uses autonomous robots to assess a region’s cleanliness level by analyzing the dirt samples collected from various locations. Since the dirt sample gathering process is more challenging,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors Technologies Applied in Mobile Robot)
  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
13,171 Views
32 Pages

5 June 2019

Currently, Cambodia does not have sustainable city indicators, and green and clean city indicators are also limited compared to UN Sustainable Development Goal 11 (SDG 11) indicators. Therefore, this research aims to develop sustainable city indicato...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Urban and Rural Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,095 Views
18 Pages

Design and Implementation of a 3-DOF Modular High-Rise Façade-Cleaning Robot with an XYZ Motion Module

  • Pingtan Fang,
  • Chaofeng Liu,
  • Shengcong Li,
  • Yujun Li,
  • Fujun Yang,
  • Yang Liu,
  • Longhui Shao,
  • Zhiyuan Chen and
  • Mingheng Yu

1 April 2025

In recent years, the increasing construction of high-rise buildings has led to the widespread use of glass curtain walls. Regular cleaning is essential to maintain their aesthetic appeal and functionality. However, manual cleaning methods pose signif...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,070 Views
19 Pages

A Reinforcement Learning Based Dirt-Exploration for Cleaning-Auditing Robot

  • Thejus Pathmakumar,
  • Mohan Rajesh Elara,
  • Braulio Félix Gómez and
  • Balakrishnan Ramalingam

13 December 2021

Cleaning is one of the fundamental tasks with prime importance given in our day-to-day life. Moreover, the importance of cleaning drives the research efforts towards bringing leading edge technologies, including robotics, into the cleaning domain. Ho...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,470 Views
16 Pages

6 September 2022

Inaccurate and untimely adjustments of cleaning parameters during the operation of wheat combine harvesters lead to high cleaning losses and impurity rates. For this reason, a self-made 4 L-2.5 threshing and cleaning experiment table was employed for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Agriculture 4.0 – the Future of Farming Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
3,918 Views
40 Pages

10 March 2024

The focus on emerging contaminants (ECs) in wastewater has intensified due to the considerable risks they present to human health and wildlife. This paper presents the results of the technical–economic assessment of the Clean Up solution, carri...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydro-Economic Models for Sustainable Water Resources Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,491 Views
17 Pages

Autonomous UAV System for Cleaning Insulators in Power Line Inspection and Maintenance

  • Ricardo Lopez Lopez,
  • Manuel Jesus Batista Sanchez,
  • Manuel Perez Jimenez,
  • Begoña C. Arrue and
  • Anibal Ollero

20 December 2021

The inspection and maintenance tasks of electrical installations are very demanding. Nowadays, insulator cleaning is carried out manually by operators using scaffolds, ropes, or even helicopters. However, these operations involve potential risks for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Sensors Technologies Applied in Mobile Robot)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,279 Views
17 Pages

17 April 2025

Surface quality monitoring has become increasingly important in the laser cleaning process. Currently, most research focuses on cleaning contaminants such as oxides and paints, while studies on the cleaning of marine biofilm layers from metal surface...

(This article belongs to the Section Metals and Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,570 Views
16 Pages

19 May 2022

The application of hole cleaning devices can effectively solve the hole cleaning problem during the drilling of horizontal wells. Improving the hole cleaning performance is directly related to subsequent drilling time and cost. In this paper, the sol...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multiphase and Granular Flows)
  • Article
  • Open Access
45 Citations
8,780 Views
13 Pages

6 September 2022

In light of the fact that increasing consumer emphasis is being placed on the concepts of safety, health, and environmental protection, and that consumer groups are now attentive to the issues of “greenism” and sustainable development, th...

(This article belongs to the Section Nutritional Policies and Education for Health Promotion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
6,820 Views
18 Pages

Optimum Driving of Ultrasonic Cleaner Using Impedance and FFT Analysis with Validation of Image Processing of Perforated Foils

  • Muhammad Usman Khan,
  • Faisal Rehman,
  • Mohsin Saleem,
  • Hassan Elahi,
  • Tae Hyun Sung and
  • Hamid Jabbar

9 June 2023

Over the past decade, ultrasonic cleaners have been widely used in many industries. Now, this technology is finding its way into homes for vegetable, fruit, and clothes cleaning. In widely used ultrasonic cleaners, piezoelectric transducers are exter...

(This article belongs to the Section Acoustics and Vibrations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,069 Views
8 Pages

15 May 2024

The German health authorities’ guidelines for medical devices in 2012 highlighted the importance of cleaning ultrasound probes, emphasizing their validation and reliability. In addition to automated and validated options, alternative manual met...

(This article belongs to the Section Hygiene in Healthcare Facilities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,414 Views
24 Pages

30 July 2025

Many hospitals still lack digital traceability in hygiene and cleaning management, leading to operational inefficiencies and inconsistent quality control. This study aims to establish cleaning and hygiene processes in healthcare services that are pla...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Blockchain and Smart Contracts with Diverse Domains Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
5,510 Views
22 Pages

23 April 2021

Professional cleaning and safe social distance monitoring are often considered as demanding, time-consuming, repetitive, and labor-intensive tasks with the risk of getting exposed to the virus. Safe social distance monitoring and cleaning are emergin...

(This article belongs to the Section Remote Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,013 Views
24 Pages

Design and Implementation of a Low-Water-Consumption Robotic System for Cleaning Residential Balcony Glass Walls

  • Maria-Alexandra Mielcioiu,
  • Petruţa Petcu,
  • Dumitru Nedelcu,
  • Augustin Semenescu,
  • Narcisa Valter and
  • Ana-Maria Nicolau

16 January 2026

Manual window cleaning in high-rise urban buildings is labor-intensive, risky, and resource-inefficient. This study addresses these challenges by investigating a resource-aware mechatronic architecture through the design, development, and experimenta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,450 Views
13 Pages

Design and Efficacy of Custom-Made Cleaning Splints for the Approximal Plaque Removal—A Laboratory Study

  • Stefan Rues,
  • Theresa Becker,
  • Valentin Bartha,
  • Marcia Spindler,
  • Sebastian Hetzler,
  • Diana Wolff,
  • Peter Rammelsberg and
  • Andreas Zenthöfer

19 December 2024

Objectives: Cleaning splints (CSs) can facilitate interdental brush (IDB) insertion and guide IDBs during cleaning movement. Cleaning efficacy with and without CSs was to be assessed and compared for a fully dentate (FD) and a partially edentulous (P...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oral Hygiene: Updates and Clinical Progress)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,888 Views
19 Pages

An Autonomous Robot-Aided Auditing Scheme for Floor Cleaning

  • Thejus Pathmakumar,
  • Manivannan Kalimuthu,
  • Mohan Rajesh Elara and
  • Balakrishnan Ramalingam

24 June 2021

Cleaning is an important factor in most aspects of our day-to-day life. This research work brings a solution to the fundamental question of “How clean is clean” by introducing a novel framework for auditing the cleanliness of built infrastructure usi...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensors and Robotics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,396 Views
28 Pages

A Novel Efficient Borehole Cleaning Model for Optimizing Drilling Performance in Real Time

  • Mohammed Al-Rubaii,
  • Mohammed Al-Shargabi,
  • Dhafer Al-Shehri,
  • Abdullah Alyami and
  • Konstantin M. Minaev

30 June 2023

The drilling industry has evolved significantly over the years, with new technologies making the process more efficient and effective. One of the most crucial issues of drilling is borehole cleaning, which entails removing drill cuttings and keeping...

(This article belongs to the Topic Petroleum and Gas Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,526 Views
15 Pages

Experimental Evaluation of Dry and Contactless Cleaning Methods for the Production of Digital Vehicle Dashboards

  • Patrick Brag,
  • Yvonne Holzapfel,
  • Marcel Daumüller,
  • Ralf Grimme,
  • Uwe Mai and
  • Tobias Iseringhausen

Pillar-to-pillar dashboards have become common in modern electric vehicles. These dashboards are made of liquid crystal displays (LCDs), of which backlight units (BLUs) are an integral part. Particulate contamination inside BLUs can lead to either an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
371 Views
23 Pages

Investigation of Turbulent Skin Friction Behaviour over Coated, Biofouled, and Laser-Cleaned Marine Surfaces

  • Amir Bordbar,
  • Konstantinos Georgoulas,
  • Amin Nazemian,
  • Myo Zin Aung,
  • Mina Tadros,
  • Vasili Savitski,
  • Andrew Gardner,
  • Saishuai Dai and
  • Evangelos Boulougouris

31 August 2026

This study investigates the turbulent skin friction behaviour of original coated, slime/algae-covered, and laser-cleaned marine surfaces through a combined experimental and numerical approach under fully developed channel flow conditions. Numerical v...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Studies in Ship Fluid Mechanics)

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