In this paper, we investigate an iterative incomplete lower and upper (ILU) factorization preconditioner for partial-differential equation systems. We discretize the partial-differential equations into linear equation systems. An iterative scheme of...
Background: The primary aim of this study was to confirm the validity of intraoperative lung ultrasound (ILU) as a safe and effective method of localization for difficult to visualize pulmonary nodules during Video-Assisted Thoracoscopic Surgery (VAT...
Jacobian-free Newton Krylov (JFNK) is an attractive method to solve nonlinear equations in the nuclear engineering community, and has been successfully applied to steady-state neutron diffusion k-eigenvalue problems and multi-physics coupling problem...
Evaluation of intensive land use (ILU) over long time series is essential for the rational use of land and urban development. We propose a novel framework for analyzing ILU in the Pearl River Delta (PRD) region of China. First, we used Google Earth E...
The Chinese government is committed to its goal of building a resource-saving and environmentally friendly society (RES). The hope is that establishing an RES will accelerate social and economic development, improve resource utilization, and transfor...
In the last two decades, there has been an increased interest in the application of lung ultrasound (LUS), especially intraoperatively, owing to its safety and simple approach to detecting and assessing pulmonary nodules. This review focuses on recen...
Multicomponent reactive transport modeling is a powerful tool for the comprehensive analysis of coupled hydraulic and biochemical processes. The performance of the simulation model depends on the accuracy of related model parameters whose values are...
Newton’s method has been widely used in simulation multiphase, multicomponent flow in porous media. In addition, to solve systems of linear equations in such problems, the generalized minimal residual method (GMRES) is often used. This paper analyzed...
Medical imaging analysis plays a pivotal role in modern healthcare, with physicians relying heavily on radiologists for disease diagnosis. However, many hospitals face a shortage of radiologists, leading to long queues at radiology centers and delays...
Microcystins are produced by multifaceted organisms called cyanobacteria, which are integral to Africa’s freshwater environments. The excessive proliferation of cyanobacteria caused by rising temperature and eutrophication leads to the producti...
(1) Background: Exploring the interactive relationship between intensive land use (ILU) and tourism industry development (TID) is of vital significance to promote the high-quality and sustainable development of tourism and the urban economy. (2) Meth...
Katanin, is a microtubule severing protein that orchestrates microtubule organization throughout the plant cell cycle. Taking into consideration the role of the microtubule cytoskeleton in the stomatal development, the Arabidopsis thaliana katanin mu...
GPU cards have been used for scientific calculations for many years. Despite their ever-increasing performance, there are cases where they may still have problems. This article addresses possible performance and memory issues and their solutions that...
The Eustachian tube (ET) has a key role in the pathogenesis of otitis media. Until now, there has been a lack of meaningful imaging methods to investigate the ET and its surrounding tissue. The aim of the current study was to investigate the possibil...
Coastal aquifers are critical freshwater resources that face increasing threats from contamination and saltwater intrusion. Traditional approaches for characterizing these aquifers are challenged by complex dynamics, high-dimensional parameter spaces...
5 September 2021
China’s industry is still in the middle of industrialization. Land use activities are crucial to the growth of carbon emissions. However, few scholars focus on the influence mechanism between industrial land use efficiency (ILUE) and industrial carbo...
With the development of the smart logistics industry, the demand for intelligent loading and unloading (ILU) within urban supply chains (USCs) is increasing. However, few studies have examined the critical success factors (CSFs) for enhancing ILU in...
Revealing the relationship between intensive land use (ILU) and land ecological security (LES) is crucial for achieving high-quality land resource development and ensuring the sustainability of land ecosystems, especially in arid regions with fragile...
4 March 2023
Soil–crop system models are effective tools for optimizing water and nitrogen application schemes, saving resources and protecting the environment. To guarantee model prediction accuracy, we must apply parameter optimization methods for model c...
China has experienced rapid industrial growth over the last three decades, leading to diverse social and environmental issues. In the new industrialization era, it is urgent to quantify industrial land use (ILU) dynamics for sustainable industrial ma...
Background: Video-assisted thoracic surgery (VATS) has become the gold-standard approach for lung resections. Given the impossibility of digital palpation, we witnessed the progressive development of peri-centimetric and deeply located pulmonary nodu...
The joint estimation of groundwater contaminant source characteristics and hydraulic conductivity is of great significance for reactive contaminant transport models in heterogeneous subsurface media. The accurate determination of the sorption paramet...
Despite the unprecedented rate of urbanization throughout the world, human society is still facing the challenge of coordinating urban socioeconomic development and ecological conservation. In this article, we integrated socioeconomic data and spatia...
The efficacy of Krylov subspace solvers is strongly dependent on the preconditioner applied to solve the large sparse linear systems of equation for electromagnetic problems. In this study, we present a three-dimensional (3-D) plane wave electromagne...
In finite element simulation and analysis, increasing simulation scales place high demands on the preconditioning and solution process of linear matrices. However, the most commonly used preconditioning methods for incomplete LU factorization usually...
Understanding the impact of different bridging groups in the two-step polymerization of poly(ethylene glycol) (PEG)-incorporated polyimide (PI) materials is significant. It is known that the proton exchange membranes (PEMs) used in industry today can...
This paper proposes an indoor location-based augmented reality framework (ILARF) for the development of indoor augmented-reality (AR) systems. ILARF integrates an indoor localization unit (ILU), a secure context-aware message exchange unit (SCAMEU),...
This work reports on municipal sludge hygienization using electron beams. Three types of sewage sludge from two municipal wastewater treatment plants were tested: preliminary sludge with 4% TS, postflotation sludge with 2.5% TS and thickened prelimin...
Palladium is a noble metal of the platinum group metals (PGMs) with a high value and major industrial applications. Due to the scarce palladium resources, researchers’ attention is currently focused on Pd ions recovery from secondary sources. R...
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KANECS is a 3D multigroup neutronics code based on the Simplified Spherical Harmonics (SPN) approximation and the Continuous Galerkin Finite Element Method (CGFEM). In this work, the code is extended to solve the time-dependent neutron kinetics by im...
Foodborne pathogens remain a significant global challenge, contributing to widespread illness and considerable food losses. This study investigates the effects of electron-beam irradiation on beef quality and safety using a pulsed high-frequency line...
This study presents a comparative analysis of the physicochemical, microbiological, and microstructural characteristics of feed products subjected to electron beam irradiation using the ILU-10 accelerator, as well as non-irradiated samples stored und...
The traditional three-dimensional (3D) magnetotelluric (MT) forward modeling using Krylov subspace algorithms has the problem of low modeling efficiency. To improve the computational efficiency of 3D MT forward modeling, we present a novel geometric...
This work aims to supplement the realization and validation of a higher-order well-balanced unstructured finite volume (FV) scheme, that has been relatively recently presented, for numerically simulating weakly non-linear weakly dispersive water wave...
The ability to model fluid flow and heat transfer in process equipment (e.g., shell-and-tube heat exchangers) is often critical. What is more, many different geometric variants may need to be evaluated during the design process. Although this can be...
Anthropogenic land cover change is one of the primary sources of increasing carbon emissions and affects the potential of terrestrial ecosystems to store carbon and act as carbon sinks. As a necessary means to reduce land expansion, land-use intensif...
Reducing post-harvest losses of cereal crops is a key challenge for ensuring global food security amid the limited arable land and growing population. This study investigates the effectiveness of electron beam irradiation (5 MeV, ILU-10 accelerator)...
Solid-phase synthesis of lithium-titanium ferrite by electron-beam heating of a Fe2O3–Li2CO3–TiO2 initial reagents mixture with different history (powder, compact, mechanically activated mixture) was studied using X-ray diffraction, therm...