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  • Open Access
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Multi-Region OpenFOAM Solver Development for Compact Toroid Transport in Drift Tube

  • Kun Bao,
  • Feng Wang,
  • Chengming Qu,
  • Defeng Kong and
  • Jian Song

5 July 2025

Compact toroid (CT) injection, with its characteristics of high plasma density and extremely high injection velocity, is considered a highly promising method for core fueling in fusion reactors. Previous studies have lacked investigation into the tra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,065 Views
16 Pages

TDP-43 forms aggregates in the neurons of patients with several neurodegenerative diseases. Human TDP-43 also aggregates and is toxic in yeast. Here, we used a yeast model to investigate (1) the nature of TDP-43 aggregates and (2) the mechanism of TD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,578 Views
13 Pages

The metastable vaterite polymorph of calcium carbonate (CaCO3) holds significant practical importance, particularly in regenerative medicine, drug delivery, and various personal care products. Controlling the size and morphology of vaterite particles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,784 Views
15 Pages

Magnetic toroidal multipoles have recently emerged as key descriptors of unconventional cross-correlation phenomena in antiferromagnetic systems. Among them, the rank-2 magnetic toroidal quadrupole, which is characterized as a time-reversal-odd polar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,992 Views
18 Pages

Wrinkling of Toroidal Shells in Free Hydroforming

  • Xiaobin Liu,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Ming Zhan,
  • Xilu Zhao,
  • Wenwei Wu and
  • Kaiwei Xu

In this study, we investigated toroidal shell wrinkling in free hydroforming. We specifically focused on toroidal shells with a regular hexagonal cross-section. Membrane theory was used to examine the distribution of stress and yield load in both pre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
712 Views
22 Pages

Hydrodynamics of Toroidal Vortices in Torque-Flow Pumps

  • Ivan Pavlenko,
  • Vladyslav Kondus and
  • Roman Puzik

21 October 2025

This study investigates the role of toroidal vortex formation in torque-flow pumps and its influence on pump performance. A mathematical model of viscous fluid motion in toroidal coordinates was developed to describe the two-stage energy transfer mec...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
1,117 Views
8 Pages

Toroidal vortices, as intriguing topological structures, play a fundamental role across a wide range of physical fields. In this study, we theoretically propose a family of structured optical toroidal vortices as generalized forms of toroidal vortice...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,888 Views
19 Pages

Analysis and Evaluation of Aerodynamic Noise Characteristics of Toroidal Propeller

  • Wei Wei,
  • Yuanqing Ma,
  • Shiyi Wei,
  • Dongsheng Wang,
  • Meng Guo and
  • Qingdong Yan
Drones2024, 8(12), 753;https://doi.org/10.3390/drones8120753 
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12 December 2024

Toroidal propellers, a new type of drone propellers capable of significantly reducing noise, offer new possibilities for future low-altitude flying platforms. In this study, a numerical model was established to analyze the aerodynamic noise of the to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,427 Views
16 Pages

Hydrodynamic Performance and Vortex Structure Analysis of a Toroidal Propeller

  • Jie Bai,
  • Yunhai Li,
  • Xiaohui Liu,
  • Hongliang Zhang and
  • Liuzhen Ren

Because of their distinctive toroidal blade configuration, toroidal propellers can improve propulsion efficiency, reduce underwater noise, and enhance blade stability and strength. In recent years, they have emerged as an extremely promising novel un...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,929 Views
12 Pages

29 October 2024

The magnetic toroidal dipole moment, which is induced by a vortex-type spin texture, manifests itself in parity-breaking physical phenomena, such as a linear magnetoelectric effect and nonreciprocal transport. We elucidate that a staggered alignment...

  • Article
  • Open Access
541 Views
14 Pages

Manufacturing of Rotational Toroidal Shells in Coin Minting

  • Luís M. Alves,
  • Paulo Alexandrino and
  • Sónia Pereira

8 July 2025

A novel forming process was developed to create rotating elements in collector coins by shaping thin-walled tubes into toroidal shells in a single stage. This process introduces new aesthetic effects and functionalities to the coin market. By control...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,648 Views
20 Pages

Buckling of Hydroformed Toroidal Pressure Hulls with Octagonal Cross-Sections

  • Xiaobin Liu,
  • Jian Zhang,
  • Chenyang Di,
  • Ming Zhan and
  • Fang Wang

4 September 2022

This paper is devoted to the hydroforming performances of toroidal pressure hulls with octagonal cross-sections, together with the buckling performances of hydroformed hulls. The octagonal cross-sections of toroidal preforms are inscribed from the ci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,689 Views
26 Pages

22 November 2024

Toroidal propellers hold significant potential as underwater propulsion systems compared to traditional propellers, primarily due to their unique shape, which effectively reduces and minimizes hydrodynamic noise and enhances structural stability and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,979 Views
8 Pages

8 February 2023

A graph G has a (d,h)-decomposition if there is a pair (D,F) such that F is a subgraph of G and D is an acyclic orientation of G−E(F), where the maximum degree of F is no more than h and the maximum out-degree of D is no more than d. This paper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,061 Views
9 Pages

Low-Loss Dual-Band Transparency Metamaterial with Toroidal Dipole

  • Tianyu Xiang,
  • Tao Lei,
  • Ting Chen,
  • Zhaoyang Shen and
  • Jing Zhang

19 July 2022

In this paper, a low-loss toroidal dipole metamaterial composed of four metal split ring resonators is proposed and verified at microwave range. Dual-band Fano resonances could be excited by normal incident electromagnetic waves at 6 GHz and 7.23 GHz...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
11,810 Views
19 Pages

A Study on a Slotless Brushless DC Motor with Toroidal Winding

  • Ho-Young Lee,
  • Seung-Young Yoon,
  • Soon-O Kwon,
  • Jin-Yeong Shin,
  • Soo-Hwan Park and
  • Myung-Seop Lim

21 October 2021

In this study we developed a brushless DC (BLDC) slotless motor with toroidal winding. The proposed toroidal winding is a method of winding a coil around a ring-type stator yoke in the circumferential direction. As there is no need for a slot or toot...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,046 Views
9 Pages

Toroidal Vortices of Energy in Tightly Focused Second-Order Cylindrical Vector Beams

  • Sergey S. Stafeev,
  • Elena S. Kozlova and
  • Victor V. Kotlyar

In this paper, we simulate the focusing of a cylindrical vector beam (CVB) of second order, using the Richards–Wolf formula. Many papers have been published on focusing CVB, but they did not report on forming of the toroidal vortices of energy (TVE)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,525 Views
15 Pages

Hydroforming of Toroidal Bellows: Process Simulation and Quality Control

  • Mengsi Ye,
  • Huifang Li,
  • Yougang Wang and
  • Caifu Qian

31 December 2020

Having higher capacity to undertake pressures and larger compensation ability compared with the U-shape bellows, toroidal or Ω-shape bellows are being more and more widely used in engineering. The wave-shape and wall thickness reduction of bell...

  • Article
  • Open Access
639 Views
33 Pages

12 November 2025

Toroidal propellers have emerged as a promising substitute for next-generation marine propulsors due to their potential advantages in hydrodynamic efficiency and noise control. This article presents a hydrodynamic analysis of toroidal propellers usin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,212 Views
21 Pages

26 December 2022

This study determined the buckling characteristics of sphere-segmented toroidal shells subjected to external pressure. The proposed toroidal vessel comprises six spheres and six rings. Two laboratory models with the same nominal dimensions were manuf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,190 Views
25 Pages

25 April 2024

Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) simulations were utilized in this study to comprehensively explore the fluid dynamics within an accelerated toroidal vessel, specifically those central to Particle Imaging Velocimetry Gyroscope (PIVG) technology. To...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,094 Views
37 Pages

4 February 2025

A high-frequency model of the toroidal powder core inductor with litz wire winding is presented. In the analyzed model, the power losses that occurred in both the winding and the magnetic core were taken into account. A new method of determining the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,489 Views
13 Pages

13 April 2023

The jet impact from a collapsing bubble is an important mechanism of structural damage in underwater explosions and cavitation erosion. The Boundary Integral Method (BIM) is widely used to simulate nonspherical bubble dynamic behaviors due to its hig...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,706 Views
11 Pages

28 November 2024

This study investigates the movements of particles in an accelerated toroidal flow channel filled with water, with specific applications for a particle imaging velocimetry gyroscope (PIVG). We used computational fluid dynamics (CFD) to simulate parti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,334 Views
13 Pages

Camera Path Generation for Triangular Mesh Using Toroidal Patches

  • Jinyoung Choi,
  • Kangmin Kim,
  • Seongil Kim,
  • Minseok Kim,
  • Taekgwan Nam and
  • Youngjin Park

5 January 2024

Triangular mesh data structures are principal in computer graphics, serving as the foundation for many 3D models. To effectively utilize these 3D models across diverse industries, it is important to understand the model’s overall shape and geom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
558 Views
13 Pages

29 July 2025

In this study, the tool axis inclination angle with respect to the surface normal is used to compare the wear of spherical and toroidal milling cutters. Five different surface types were machined in this investigation using three toroidal and three s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,004 Views
11 Pages

Meta-Atoms with Toroidal Topology for Strongly Resonant Responses

  • Odysseas Tsilipakos,
  • Zacharias Viskadourakis,
  • Anna C. Tasolamprou,
  • Dimitrios C. Zografopoulos,
  • Maria Kafesaki,
  • George Kenanakis and
  • Eleftherios N. Economou

17 February 2023

A conductive meta-atom of toroidal topology is studied both theoretically and experimentally, demonstrating a sharp and highly controllable resonant response. Simulations are performed both for a free-space periodic metasurface and a pair of meta-ato...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,157 Views
22 Pages

Optimal Roving Winding on Toroidal Parts of Composite Frames

  • Jaroslav Mlýnek,
  • Seyed Saeid Rahimian Koloor and
  • Roman Knobloch

28 July 2023

Frames made of polymer composites are increasingly used in the aerospace, automotive, and agricultural industries. A frequently used technology in the production line of composite frames is winding rovings onto a non-load-bearing frame to form the st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,145 Views
16 Pages

11 December 2017

A microfluidic system provides an excellent platform for cellular studies. Most importantly, a three-dimensional (3D) cell culture model reconstructs more accurately the in vivo microenvironment of tissue. Accordingly, microfluidic 3D cell culture de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
973 Views
26 Pages

11 September 2025

The population activity of grid cells from a single module is topologically constrained to a toroidal manifold. Our work proposes an improved version of Gardner’s earlier model, which can account for both geometric properties and force field dy...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,579 Views
22 Pages

Drying of Lignite of Various Origins in a Pilot Scale Toroidal Fluidized Bed Dryer using Low Quality Heat

  • Halina Pawlak–Kruczek,
  • Michał Czerep,
  • Lukasz Niedzwiecki,
  • Emmanouil Karampinis,
  • Ioannis Violidakis,
  • Ioannis Avagianos and
  • Panagiotis Grammelis

27 March 2019

An experimental study was carried out for lignites of different places of origin, i.e., Poland, Greece, Romania and Australia, using a toroidal bed dryer. The effect of the temperature on the drying efficiency, including the loss of moisture content...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,292 Views
15 Pages

17 December 2022

The rapid electrokinetic patterning (REP) technique has been demonstrated to enable dynamic particle manipulation in biomedical applications. Previous studies on REP have generally considered particles with a size less than 5 μm. In this study, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
6,428 Views
16 Pages

26 November 2024

This paper delves into the effects of a toroidal propeller’s geometrical characteristics on its thrust and efficiency. The focus is on three distinct numerical distributions: the outward inclination angle, the pitch angle, and the number of bla...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
11,440 Views
14 Pages

A Novel Direct-Drive Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor with Toroidal Windings

  • Caixia Gao,
  • Mengzhen Gao,
  • Jikai Si,
  • Yihua Hu and
  • Chun Gan

29 January 2019

A direct-drive motor has the merits of low speed, high torque, and elimination of mechanical deceleration mechanisms, and is widely used in various fields. A novel direct-drive permanent magnet synchronous motor is presented herein, in which all coil...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,829 Views
12 Pages

20 January 2025

The radiation mode of the interaction between electromagnetic waves and materials has always been a research hotspot in nanophotonics, and bound states in the continuum (BICs) belong to one of the nonradiative modes. Owing to their high-quality facto...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,069 Views
10 Pages

We proposed an infrared narrowband metamaterial perfect absorber (MPA) which is induced by toroidal dipole resonance in a dielectric-metal hybrid system. The MPA is composed of amorphous-silicon (a-Si) nanodisk quadrumer clusters, dielectric spacer,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,129 Views
17 Pages

Research on Load-Sharing Technology of Toroidal Planetary Worm Based on Sliding Oil Film Supporting Roller

  • Meijiao Mao,
  • Shiping Yang,
  • Mengyu Dong,
  • Min Li,
  • Xiaogao Chen,
  • Xin Liu and
  • Changjiang Qin

In the manufacturing and assembly of a toroidal drive mechanism, errors have a great influence on the load sharing of the mechanism. In order to improve the load-sharing characteristics of the mechanism, a floating oil film structure system is design...

  • Article
  • Open Access
250 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Objective Structural Optimization of a 10 kV/1 MVar Superconducting Toroidal Air-Core Reactor

  • Qingchuan Xu,
  • Haoyang Tian,
  • Honglei Li,
  • Lei Su,
  • Bengang Wei,
  • Shuhao Peng,
  • Jie Sheng and
  • Zhijian Jin

28 November 2025

With the increase in urban cableization rate and cable length, the overvoltage problem caused by the capacitive effect becomes more and more serious. To limit overvoltage and achieve regional reactive power balance, shunt reactors are installed in su...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,609 Views
18 Pages

The superconducting magnet energy storage (SMES) has become an increasingly popular device with the development of renewable energy sources. The power fluctuations they produce in energy systems must be compensated with the help of storage devices. A...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
581 Views
12 Pages

23 February 2025

Given a graph G = (V, E), the edge set can be partitioned into k dimensions, for a positive integer k. The set of all i-dimensional edges of G is a subset of E(G) denoted by Ei. A Hamiltonian cycle C on G contains all vertices on G. Let Ei(C) = E(C)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,925 Views
19 Pages

Toroidal CO2 Plasma Sources with Low- and High-Frequency Power Coupling Configurations for Improved Energy Transfer Efficiencies

  • E. J. Devid,
  • W. A. Bongers,
  • P. W. C. Groen,
  • M. van Ginkel,
  • S. J. Doyle,
  • F. M. A. Smits,
  • C. F. A. M. van Deursen,
  • K. Serras,
  • S. Labeur and
  • M. A. Gleeson
  • + 1 author

24 July 2024

Electrodeless Low-Frequency (LF)/Radio-Frequency (RF) plasma sources often suffer from low power coupling efficiencies due to the lack of overlapping field with the dynamic plasma load. However, the power supplies for these plasma sources typically h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,394 Views
21 Pages

Modelling of the Face-Milling Process by Toroidal Cutter

  • Marcin Płodzień,
  • Łukasz Żyłka and
  • Antun Stoić

2 April 2023

When face milling using a toroidal cutter, with a change in the depth of the cut, the entering angle varies as well. An experimental test of the influence of cutting parameters, such as the depth of the cut and the feed per tooth on the cutting force...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,428 Views
8 Pages

1 August 2003

Geometrical and building parameters have a strong influence on magnetic performance of toroidal wound cores made from grain oriented 3% SiFe electrical steel. From a sample of 40 cores with dimensions ranging from 35 to 160 mm outer diameter, 25 to 1...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,185 Views
20 Pages

Analysis and Verification of Leakage Inductance Calculation in DAB Converters Based on High-Frequency Toroidal Transformers under Different Design Scenarios

  • Haris Ataullah,
  • Taosif Iqbal,
  • Ihsan Ullah Khalil,
  • Al-Sharef Mohammad,
  • Nasim Ullah and
  • Mohamed Emad Farrag

25 August 2022

High-frequency transformers are becoming an essential component in the integration of power resources that rely on power electronic converters; their efficiency and performance are influenced by parasitic characteristics in the interface. In this art...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
5,176 Views
12 Pages

23 April 2022

Josephson junctions are essential ingredients in the superconducting circuits used in many existing quantum technologies. Additionally, ultracold atomic quantum gases have also become essential platforms to study superfluidity. Here, we explore the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,894 Views
10 Pages

Dual Toroidal Dipole Resonance Metamaterials under a Terahertz Domain

  • Shuang Wang,
  • Song Wang,
  • Quan Li,
  • Xiaoli Zhao and
  • Jianyu Zhu

19 October 2018

We proposed and fabricated a flexible, planar, U-shape-modified structure metamaterial (MM) that was composed of two metallic pattern layers separated by a polyimide layer, where each metallic pattern layer consists of two U-shaped split ring resonat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,061 Views
14 Pages

The One-Fault Dimension-Balanced Hamiltonian Problem in Toroidal Mesh Graphs

  • Justie Su-Tzu Juan,
  • Hao-Cheng Ciou and
  • Meng-Jyun Lin

9 January 2025

Finding a Hamiltonian cycle in a graph G = (V, E) is a well-known problem. The challenge of finding a Hamiltonian cycle that avoids these faults when faulty vertices or edges are present has been extensively studied. When the edge set of G is partiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
4,622 Views
11 Pages

Active photonics based on graphene has attracted wide attention for developing tunable and compact optical devices with excellent performances. In this paper, the dynamic manipulation of electromagnetically induced transparency (EIT) with high qualit...

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