Reverse electrodialysis is a promising membrane technology to generate energy from controlled mixing of water streams of different salinities. Electrical potentials generate on the ion exchange membranes (IEMs) when selective transport of cations and...
This paper presents a study on a quadrotor unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) fault-tolerant control scheme. According to the attitude model and safety control of the aircraft under the uncertainty of inertial matrix, the attitude state constraint by rein...
In this paper, some one-step iterative schemes with memory-accelerating methods are proposed to update three critical values f′(r), f″(r), and f‴(r) of a nonlinear equation f(x)=0 with r being its simple root. We can achieve high va...
The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is a versatile electromagnetic simulation technique, widely used for solving various broadband problems. However, when dealing with complex structures and large dimensions, especially when applying perf...
This study develops a Bayesian parameter identification framework that uses static strain measurements to update pipeline structural models under complex boundary conditions. Because strain responses are directly linked to internal stress states and...
Modern terminals are developing toward intelligence and ubiquitous connection. Such ICTs (intelligent connected terminals) interact more frequently with the outside world and expose new attack surfaces. IDSs (intrusion detection systems) play a vital...
With the rapid development of vehicular network technology, data sharing and collaborative training among vehicles have become key to enhancing the efficiency of intelligent transportation systems. However, the heterogeneity of data and potential Byz...
Correct ego-lane index estimation is essential for lane change and decision making for intelligent vehicles, especially in global navigation satellite system (GNSS)-challenged environments. To achieve this, we propose an ego-lane index estimation app...
Segmentation of high noise imagery like Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) images is still one of the most challenging tasks in image processing. While level set, a novel approach based on the analysis of the motion of an interface, can be used to addres...
Correlation filter (CF) based trackers have gained significant attention in the field of visual single-object tracking, owing to their favorable performance and high efficiency; however, existing trackers still suffer from model drift caused by bound...
Over-the-air federated learning (Air-FL) has emerged as a promising paradigm that integrates communication and learning, which offers significant potential to enhance model training efficiency and optimize communication resource utilization. This pap...
The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) is characterised by its simplicity, parallel processing and easy treatment of boundary conditions. It has become an alternative powerful numerical method in computational physics, playing a more and more important r...
Surface interactions occur near the land–atmosphere interface, thus affecting the temperature, convection, boundary layer, and stability of the atmosphere. A proper representation of surface interactions is a crucial component for numerical atm...
Our previous study examined the stratosphere-troposphere exchange (STE) of air mass and ozone using ERA5 and MERRA2 reanalysis data and observations for 2007–2010. Their analysis applied a lower stratosphere mass budget approach, with the 380 K...
In the deep integration process between digital infrastructure and new economic forms, structural imbalance between the evolution rate of cloud storage technology and the growth rate of data-sharing demands has caused systemic security vulnerabilitie...
This paper studies the adaptive practical tracking control (PTC) problem for a class of uncertain nonlinear systems (UNSs) with nontriangular structured uncertain terms and unknown parameters, where the boundary of nontriangular structured uncertain...
Mesh subdivision is a common mesh-processing algorithm used to improve model accuracy and surface smoothness. Its classical scheme adopts a fixed linear vertex update strategy and is implemented iteratively, which often results in excessive mesh smoo...
The aim of this technical note is to describe the Cycle 46 reference configuration of the HARMONIE-AROME convection-permitting numerical weather prediction model. HARMONIE-AROME is one of the canonical system configurations that is developed, maintai...
This paper proposes a novel method for dynamically extracting and monitoring the entrances of areas of interest (AOIs). Most AOIs in China, such as buildings and communities, are enclosed by walls and are only accessible via one or more entrances. Th...
This study investigates the impact of assimilating conventional weather observations on the wind forecast over the nearshore region of the East China Sea. Multi-level wind measurements in the boundary layer from five masts near the coast were used to...
The transformation of old and new technologies, the normalized crisis situation, and global economic integration blur industrial boundaries and cause the business pattern to fluctuate and become unsustainable, especially when considering the impact o...
We extend the 3D Lattice Boltzmann method with a deformable boundary (LBM-DB) for the computations of the full-volume colonic flow of the Newtonian fluid driven by the peristaltic segmented circular contractions which obey the three-step “intes...
Rapid urbanization has given rise to serious urban problems. It is crucial to understand the urbanization process to accurately and quickly identify boundary changes in urban built-up areas and implement planning schemes and adjustments in scientific...
Field mapping and information on agricultural landscapes is of increasing importance for many applications. Monitoring schemes and national cadasters provide a rich source of information but their maintenance and regular updating is costly and labor-...
The simulation of surface resolved particles is a valuable tool to gain more insights in the behaviour of particulate flows in engineering processes. In this work the homogenized lattice Boltzmann method as one approach for such direct numerical simu...
The new adaptive fault estimation scheme is proposed for a class of hyperbolic partial differential equations in this paper. The multiplicative actuator and sensor faults are considered. There are two cases that require special consideration: (1). on...
Surface wind speed forecast from an operational WRF Ensemble Prediction System (WEPS) was verified, and the system-bias representations of the WEPS were investigated. Results indicated that error characteristics of the ensemble 10-m wind speed foreca...
For wireless communication networks, researchers have proposed many schemes to reduce the cost of location registration and paging signals caused by the mobility of user equipment (UE). Among them, a zone-based method that designates one zone (1Z, gr...
An unconditionally stable thermal lattice Boltzmann method (USTLBM) is proposed in this paper for simulating incompressible thermal flows. In USTLBM, solutions to the macroscopic governing equations that are recovered from lattice Boltzmann equation...
Diffusion-based salient region detection methods have gained great popularity. In most diffusion-based methods, the saliency values are ranked on 2-layer neighborhood graph by connecting each node to its neighboring nodes and the nodes sharing common...
This paper investigates an L1 adaptive fault-tolerant control scheme for nonlinear systems with input constraint, external disturbances, and multiple faults, which include actuator faults and sensor faults. Faults and input constraint are important f...
Write amplification factor (WAF) is a critical performance and endurance bottleneck in flash-based solid-state drives (SSDs). Multi-streamed SSDs mitigate WAF by enabling logical data streams to be written separately, thereby improving the efficiency...
Cell-free (CF) networks can reduce cell boundaries by densely deploying base stations (BSs) with additional hardware costs and power sources. Integrating a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS) into CF networks can cost-effectively increase the ca...
In this study, the Boltzmann equation with electric acceleration term is discretized and solved by the unified gas-kinetic scheme (UGKS). The charged particle transport driven by electric field is included in the electric acceleration term. To captur...
Feature selection and continuous optimization are fundamental yet challenging tasks in machine learning and engineering design. To address premature convergence and insufficient population diversity in Student Psychology-Based Optimization (SPBO), th...