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A Method for Estimating Annual Energy Production Using Monte Carlo Wind Speed Simulation

  • Birgir Hrafnkelsson,
  • Gudmundur V. Oddsson and
  • Runar Unnthorsson

13 April 2016

A novel Monte Carlo (MC) approach is proposed for the simulation of wind speed samples to assess the wind energy production potential of a site. The Monte Carlo approach is based on historical wind speed data and reserves the effect of autocorrelatio...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,771 Views
41 Pages

12 September 2019

With the growth of air traffic demand in busy airspace, there is an urgent need for airspace sectorization to increase air traffic throughput and ease the pressure on controllers. The purpose of this paper is to develop a method framework that can pe...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,655 Views
13 Pages

18 January 2022

Supplement 1 to the ‘Guide to the expression of uncertainty of measurement’ describes a Monte Carlo method as a general numerical approach to uncertainty evaluation. Application of the approach typically delivers a large number of values...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,226 Views
14 Pages

23 January 2023

Financial derivatives have developed rapidly over the past few decades due to their risk-averse nature, with options being the preferred financial derivatives due to their flexible contractual mechanisms, particularly Asian options. The Black–S...

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  • Open Access
33 Citations
14,569 Views
19 Pages

New Approaches to Project Risk Assessment Utilizing the Monte Carlo Method

  • Andrea Senova,
  • Alica Tobisova and
  • Robert Rozenberg

5 January 2023

An environment of turbulence in the market in recent years and increasing inflation, mainly as a result of the post-COVID period and the ongoing military operation in Ukraine, represents a significant financial risk factor for many companies, which h...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,910 Views
26 Pages

22 April 2021

The kinetics of the hydrolysis and polycondensation reactions of saccharides have made the subject of numerous studies, due to their importance in several industrial sectors. The present work, presents a novel kinetic modeling framework that is speci...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,436 Views
16 Pages

Prediction of Wave Energy Transformation Capability in Isolated Islands by Using the Monte Carlo Method

  • Deivis Avila,
  • Graciliano Nicolás Marichal,
  • Ramón Quiza and
  • Felipe San Luis

7 September 2021

In this work, a mathematical computer simulation model is used to predict the possible energy generated from different Waves Energy Converters (WECs) in the Canary Islands. The Monte Carlo Method is the computer simulation model proposed to predict t...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
9,944 Views
21 Pages

26 May 2017

In Japan, there are four methods of calculating water supply demands for office buildings based on SHASE-S 206 and two methods based on the design standard of Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism (MLIT). However, these methods were...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,861 Views
16 Pages

An Integral-Equation-Based Variance Reduction Method for Accelerated Monte Carlo Simulations

  • David Hevisov,
  • Dominik Reitzle,
  • André Liemert and
  • Alwin Kienle

21 December 2023

In this work, we introduce a novel variance reduction approach utilising the integral formulation of the radiative transfer equation to calculate the radiance in a planar symmetric slab geometry. Due to its integral nature, our method offers a fundam...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
4,588 Views
21 Pages

The stochastic distributed placement of vacancy defects has evident effects on graphene mechanical property, which is a crucial and challenged issue in the field of nanomaterial. Different from the molecular dynamic theory and continuum mechanics the...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,644 Views
15 Pages

8 December 2018

Water–rock interaction in surface and subsurface environments occurs in complex multicomponent systems and involves several reactions, including element transfer. Such kinetic information is obtained by fitting a forward model into the temporal...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,819 Views
12 Pages

Three-Dimensional Simulation of DRIE Process Based on the Narrow Band Level Set and Monte Carlo Method

  • Jia-Cheng Yu,
  • Zai-Fa Zhou,
  • Jia-Le Su,
  • Chang-Feng Xia,
  • Xin-Wei Zhang,
  • Zong-Ze Wu and
  • Qing-An Huang

9 February 2018

A three-dimensional topography simulation of deep reactive ion etching (DRIE) is developed based on the narrow band level set method for surface evolution and Monte Carlo method for flux distribution. The advanced level set method is implemented to s...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,891 Views
8 Pages

29 June 2019

This paper considers a method of the calculation of probability of the exit from a band of the solution of a stochastic differential equation. The method is based on the approximation of the solution of the considered equation by a process which is r...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,941 Views
15 Pages

12 July 2022

The Monte Carlo simulation is a popular statistical method to estimate the effect of uncertainties on the solutions of nonlinear partial differential equations, but it requires a huge computational cost of the deterministic model, and the convergence...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,443 Views
12 Pages

Minimally Active Neutralization of Acid Mine Drainage through the Monte Carlo Method

  • Kevinstiv Castro Huaman,
  • Yaneth Vasquez Olivera,
  • Vidal Aramburu Rojas,
  • Luis Arauzo,
  • Carlos Raymundo Ibañez and
  • Francisco Dominguez

7 October 2023

The necessity of mining valuable metals must be balanced with the safe and effective disposal or remediation of the resulting waste. Water, one of our most valuable resources, is a major component of the mining process, and its post-operation storage...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,718 Views
14 Pages

21 May 2020

Since the atmosphere has a strong scattering effect on ultraviolet light, the transmission of non-line-of-sight (NLOS) signals can be realized in the atmosphere. In previous articles, ultraviolet (UV) light atmospheric scattering has been characteriz...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
6,590 Views
17 Pages

21 November 2017

This paper experiments an artificial neural networks model with Bayesian approach on a small real estate sample. The output distribution has been calculated operating a numerical integration on the weights space with the Markov Chain Hybrid Monte Car...

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  • Open Access
244 Citations
11,383 Views
19 Pages

Sustainable Queuing-Network Design for Airport Security Based on the Monte Carlo Method

  • Xiangqian Xu,
  • Zhexuan Zhou,
  • Yajie Dou,
  • Yuejin Tan and
  • Tianjun Liao

23 January 2018

The design of airport queuing networks is a significant research field currently for researchers. Many factors must to be considered in order to achieve the optimized strategies, including the passenger flow volume, boarding time, and boarding order...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,209 Views
25 Pages

9 August 2025

When vehicles fly at hypersonic speeds, a high-temperature flow field forms and emits intense radiation across some spectral bands. This strong flow field can be seen as a point source and is transmitted to high altitudes through the radiative transf...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,716 Views
15 Pages

Simulation of the Long-Term Toxicity Towards Bobwhite Quail (Colinus virginianus) by the Monte Carlo Method

  • Nadia Iovine,
  • Alla P. Toropova,
  • Andrey A. Toropov,
  • Alessandra Roncaglioni and
  • Emilio Benfenati

26 December 2024

In this study, models for NOEL (No Observed Effect Level) and NOEC (No Observed Effect Concentration) related to long-term/reproduction toxicity of various organic pesticides are built up, evaluated, and compared with similar models proposed in the l...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,501 Views
16 Pages

As a new testing technology, large-scale ship model tests on the sea are advantageous in addressing the scale effect in ship models and in simulating ship navigation conditions. In this study, the uncertainty of a ship model propulsion test on the se...

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  • Open Access
43 Citations
6,907 Views
24 Pages

State of the Art Monte Carlo Method Applied to Power System Analysis with Distributed Generation

  • Tiago P. Abud,
  • Andre A. Augusto,
  • Marcio Z. Fortes,
  • Renan S. Maciel and
  • Bruno S. M. C. Borba

29 December 2022

Traditionally, electric power systems are subject to uncertainties related to equipment availability, topological changes, faults, disturbances, behaviour of load, etc. In particular, the dissemination of distributed generation (DG), especially those...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,906 Views
11 Pages

10 December 2021

The energy eigenvalues of the ground state helium atom and lowest two excited states corresponding to the configurations 1s2s embedded in the plasma environment using Hulthén, Debye–Hückel and exponential cosine screened Coulomb mod...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,298 Views
15 Pages

Local Monte Carlo Method for Fatigue Analysis of Coarse-Grained Metals with a Nanograined Surface Layer

  • Xiang Guo,
  • Qiuqiu Sun,
  • Tao Yang,
  • George J. Weng,
  • Cunbo Zhang and
  • Xiqiao Feng

22 June 2018

The fatigue resistance of coarse-grained (CG) metals can be greatly improved by introducing a nanograined surface layer. In this study, the Weibull distribution is used to characterize the spatially-random fracture properties of specimens under axial...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,671 Views
15 Pages

19 April 2023

For the sake of understanding the mechanism of deep subcriticality and high heterogeneity of neutron fluence rate in time–space on the neutron kinetics of the Accelerator-driven Subcritical Reactor Subcritical Reactor (ADSR) under varied beam t...

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  • Open Access
812 Views
25 Pages

10 October 2025

Reliable toxicity assessments are essential for protecting biological processes in wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). This study focuses on quantifying the measurement uncertainty of the ISO 8192:2007 method, which determines the inhibition of oxyg...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,273 Views
15 Pages

Urban transformations require balancing private real estate interests with the provision of public spaces that enhance sustainability and ecosystem services. This study proposes a probabilistic model to assess the feasibility of transforming buildabl...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,515 Views
16 Pages

30 June 2020

Based on fifty one groups of data on direction distribution measured from buoy sites, several important spectrum parameters including distribution characteristics of the measured data’s spectrum, the Wen’s direction spectrum and the Donel...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,271 Views
14 Pages

29 September 2020

The paper presents a procedure for the determination of uncertainties in the modeling of surface roughness in the turning of NiTi alloys. The presented procedure is applicable both to the analysis of the measurement values of the two main roughness f...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,934 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2018

Recently, the cooling load forecasting for the short-term has received increasing attention in the field of heating, ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC), which is conducive to the HVAC system operation control. The load forecasting based on weath...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,366 Views
18 Pages

23 October 2023

The high-temperature strain gauge is a sensor for strain measurement in high-temperature environments. The measurement results often have a certain divergence, so the uncertainty of the high-temperature strain gauge system is analyzed theoretically....

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,213 Views
19 Pages

7 January 2022

The existence of pores is a very common feature of nature and of human life, but the existence of pores will alter the mechanical properties of the material. Therefore, it is very important to study the impact of different influencing factors on the...

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2,340 Views
20 Pages

18 August 2022

The scattering of gases on solid surfaces plays a vital role in many advanced technologies. In this study, the scattering behavior of helium on graphene surfaces was investigated, including the thermal accommodation coefficient (TAC), outgoing zenith...

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2 Citations
2,739 Views
15 Pages

1 March 2023

Thermal reduction by enhancing heat-generation phonon scattering can improve thermoelectric performance. In this paper, the phonon transport subjected to internal heat generation in two-dimensional nanoscale thermoelectric phononic crystals is invest...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,929 Views
14 Pages

Optimizing Air Pollution Modeling with a Highly-Convergent Quasi-Monte Carlo Method: A Case Study on the UNI-DEM Framework

  • Venelin Todorov,
  • Slavi Georgiev,
  • Ivan Georgiev,
  • Snezhinka Zaharieva and
  • Ivan Dimov

29 June 2023

In this study, we present the development of an advanced air pollution modeling approach, which incorporates cutting-edge stochastic techniques for large-scale simulations of long-range air pollutant transportation. The Unified Danish Eulerian Model...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,537 Views
13 Pages

26 March 2021

Understanding light transportation in skin tissues can help improve clinical efficacy in the laser treatment of dermatosis, such as port-wine stains (PWS). Patient-specific cross-bridge PWS vessels are structurally complicated and considerably influe...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,814 Views
20 Pages

18 October 2024

The High-Temperature Gas-Cooled Pebble Bed Reactor (HTG-PBR) is notable in the advanced reactor realm for its online refueling capabilities and inherent safety features. However, the multiphysics coupling nature of HTG-PBR, involving neutronic analys...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,266 Views
7 Pages

9 August 2019

The solution of a wide class of applied problems can be represented as an integral over the trajectories of a random process. The process is usually modeled with the Monte Carlo method and the integral is estimated as the average value of a certain f...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,137 Views
20 Pages

24 August 2024

To diagnose diabetes early or to maintain stable blood glucose levels in diabetics, blood glucose levels should be frequently checked. However, the only way to check blood glucose levels regularly is to use invasive methods, such as pricking the fing...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,783 Views
23 Pages

13 February 2018

Pressures on water resources, which have increased significantly nowadays mainly due to rapid urbanization, population growth and climate change impacts, necessitate the development of innovative wastewater treatment and reuse technologies. In this c...

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  • Open Access
461 Views
23 Pages

Stability Assessment of Reservoir Bank Anti-Dip Slopes Using a Modified Goodman–Bray Method and Monte Carlo Simulation

  • Junheng Chen,
  • Jiawen Zhou,
  • Nan Jiang,
  • Haibo Li,
  • Yuxiang Hu,
  • Hongyu Luo and
  • Jieyuan Zhang

18 February 2026

Toppling failure is a fundamental mode of instability in rock slopes and occurs predominantly in reservoir bank anti-dip bedded rock masses. Reservoir impoundment changes seepage conditions and weakens slopes, whereas discontinuity non-persistence in...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,846 Views
18 Pages

25 January 2021

The incidence of skin cancer is increasing with the recent increase in UV exposure. The treatment of skin cancer generally proceeds through an excision of the tumor area, which causes bleeding into the affected area and surrounding tissues, and there...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,501 Views
11 Pages

30 May 2022

The paper presents a program for simulating electron scattering in layered materials ProxyFn. Calculations show that the absorbed energy density is three-dimensional, while the contribution of the forward-scattered electrons is better described by a...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,655 Views
16 Pages

2 October 2021

In this paper, the study of the influence of the matrix structure (mxm) of thin-film, rotation angle (α), magnetic field (B), and size (D) of Fe2O3 nanoparticle on the magnetic characteristic quantities such as the magnetization oriented z-direction...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,014 Views
15 Pages

9 July 2021

Randomized clinical trials (RCTs) evaluating the effectiveness of interventions to promote fruit and vegetable (FV) consumption usually report intention-to-treat (ITT) analysis as the main outcome. These analyses compare the randomly assigned groups...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,336 Views
18 Pages

Water environment carrying capacity (WECC) is an effective indicator that can help resolve the contradiction between social and economic development and water environment pollution. Considering the complexity of the water environment and socioeconomi...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,171 Views
18 Pages

7 March 2023

The flood peak is commonly estimated using the rational method for the design of hydraulic structures. The method is mainly used in a deterministic context. However, there is often uncertainty in flood predictions, which should be incorporated in the...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
7,349 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2017

It is important to determine the soil–water characteristic curve (SWCC) for analyzing slope seepage and stability under the conditions of rainfall. However, SWCCs exhibit high uncertainty because of complex influencing factors, which has not been pre...

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3 Citations
2,597 Views
14 Pages

22 July 2022

Groundwater contaminant transport modeling is a vitally important topic. Since modeled processes include uncertainties, Monte Carlo methods are adopted to obtain some statistics. However, accurate models have a substantial computational cost. This dr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,699 Views
17 Pages

6 March 2025

High-temperature strain gauges are widely used in the strain monitoring of the hot-end components of aero-engines. In the application of strain gauges, the calibration of the gauge factor (GF) is the most critical link. Evaluating the uncertainty of...

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