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First Study of Bubble Error Artifacts in Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA)-Based Tapped Delay-Line Time-to-Digital Converters with Sum-of-Ones Decoder on Xilinx 28 nm 7-Series FPGA

  • Nicola Lusardi,
  • Fabio Garzetti,
  • Gabriele Fiumicelli,
  • Mattia Morabito and ,
  • Gabriele Bonanno,
  • Enrico Ronconi,
  • Andrea Costa and
  • Angelo Geraci
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) are increasingly vital in modern measurement systems, with Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs) offering a cost-effective platform despite challenges in asynchronous circuit design. Among various solutions, Tapped...

(This article belongs to the Section Circuit and Signal Processing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,450 Views
33 Pages

Optimal Implementation of Tapped Delay Line Time-to-Digital Converters in 20 nm Xilinx UltraScale FPGAs

  • Mattia Morabito,
  • Nicola Lusardi,
  • Fabio Garzetti,
  • Gabriele Fiumicelli and ,
  • Gabriele Bonanno,
  • Enrico Ronconi,
  • Andrea Costa and
  • Angelo Geraci
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

11 December 2024

This study investigated implementation strategies to optimize the precision of Tapped Delay Line (TDL) Time-to-Digital Converters (TDCs) designed for Xilinx 20 nm UltraScale Field-Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGAs). This optimization process aims to br...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue System-on-Chip (SoC) and Field-Programmable Gate Array (FPGA) Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,165 Views
28 Pages

The 12 November 2025 Ugly Duckling Geomagnetic Storm: From the Sun to the Earth

  • Yury Yasyukevich,
  • Ekaterina Danilchuk,
  • Aleksandr Beletsky,
  • Egor Borvenko and ,
  • Aleksandr Chernyshov,
  • Victor Fainshtein,
  • Vera Ivanova,
  • Denis Khabituev,
  • Marina Kravtsova and
  • Sergey Yazev
  • + 12 authors+ 7 authors

27 February 2026

The 12 November 2025 G4 geomagnetic storm—the third most intense of solar cycle 25—was triggered by a complex shock-ICME (interplanetary coronal mass ejection) structure as a result of three ICMEs and driven shocks that arrived on 11&ndas...

(This article belongs to the Section Environmental Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
7,534 Views
19 Pages

17 September 2016

The parameters of gas-liquid two-phase flow bubbles in field coalbed methane (CBM) wells are of great significance for analyzing coalbed methane output, judging faults in CBM wells, and developing gas drainage and extraction processes, which stimulat...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
72 Citations
6,050 Views
17 Pages

Prediction and Sensitivity Analysis of Bubble Dissolution Time in 3D Selective Laser Sintering Using Ensemble Decision Trees

  • Hai-Bang Ly,
  • Eric Monteiro,
  • Tien-Thinh Le,
  • Vuong Minh Le and ,
  • Morgan Dal,
  • Gilles Regnier and
  • Binh Thai Pham
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

10 May 2019

The presence of defects like gas bubble in fabricated parts is inherent in the selective laser sintering process and the prediction of bubble shrinkage dynamics is crucial. In this paper, two artificial intelligence (AI) models based on Decision Tree...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selective Laser Sintering (SLS) of Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,174 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2024

This study investigates bubble size measurements, bubble characteristics, and the relationship between key operating variables and gas dispersion properties in column flotation. As the frother concentration increased to 120 ppm, the bubble size distr...

(This article belongs to the Section Separation Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,216 Views
12 Pages

2 September 2024

In the ocean, bubbles rarely appear alone and are often not evenly distributed, which makes it complicated to predict the effect of ocean bubbles on sound propagation. To solve this problem, researchers have tried to use approximations such as equiva...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,302 Views
11 Pages

4 November 2021

The use of optical fiber probe in two-phase flow measurements is very frequently encountered, especially in the applications of chemical engineering and petroleum industries. In this work, the influence of bubble piercing signals caused by bubble def...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fiber Optic Sensors and Applications 2021–2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,769 Views
17 Pages

24 November 2022

Minerals flotation is a widely used process to produce base metal concentrates through the selective capture of particles on the surface of bubbles. The process performance depends on the size distribution of the bubble population generated by gas di...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Hydrodynamics and Gas Dispersion in Flotation)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,619 Views
21 Pages

Competing macroeconomic hypotheses have been developed to explain the US housing market and possible bubble behavior. We employ both seasonally adjusted (SA) and non-seasonally adjusted (NSA) monthly data for about 30 independent variables to examine...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: Journal of Risk and Financial Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,999 Views
13 Pages

11 September 2025

This study presents a novel mathematical model for bubble cavitation, demonstrating its application in the numerical simulation of steam bubble dynamics within hydrodynamic cavitation phenomena. While previous research has largely focused on the nega...

(This article belongs to the Section Fluid Science and Technology)
  • Comment
  • Open Access
1,197 Views
2 Pages

This letter addresses errors in the statistical analysis found in a paper addressing pulmonary diffusing capacity and decompression sickness. Our re-analysis could not confirm any of the significant statistical contrasts described for the bubble data...

  • Article
  • Open Access
75 Citations
13,704 Views
12 Pages

Sentiment-Induced Bubbles in the Cryptocurrency Market

  • Cathy Yi-Hsuan Chen and
  • Christian M. Hafner

Cryptocurrencies lack clear measures of fundamental values and are often associated with speculative bubbles. This paper introduces a new way of testing for speculative bubbles based on StockTwits sentiment, which is used as the transition variable i...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Alternative Assets and Cryptocurrencies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
850 Views
47 Pages

Numerical Evaluation and Assessment of Key Two-Phase Flow Parameters Using Four-Sensor Probes in Bubbly Flow

  • Guillem Monrós-Andreu,
  • Carlos Peña-Monferrer,
  • Raúl Martínez-Cuenca,
  • Salvador Torró and
  • Sergio Chiva

9 December 2025

Intrusive phase-detection probes remain a standard tool for local characterization of gas–liquid bubbly flows, but their accuracy is strongly affected by probe geometry and bubble–probe interaction kinematics. This work presents a Monte C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Flow Measurement)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,968 Views
16 Pages

25 April 2018

Bubbly flows are commonly used in various applications and their measurement is an important research topic. The ultrasound pulse-echo technique allows for the detection of each bubble and the measurement of the position of its surface. However, so f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ultrasonic Sensors 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
780 Views
17 Pages

26 May 2026

In a steel continuous casting mold, argon bubbles injected through the submerged entry nozzle undergo transport, coalescence, and turbulent breakup, producing a polydisperse bubble swarm that affects flow stability and defect formation. In this study...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Simulation and Modeling Technologies of Metallurgical Processes—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
249 Views
30 Pages

8 October 2026

Bitcoin bubbles exhibit locally explosive dynamics, but identifying past episodes does not establish their predictability. We combine the generalized supremum augmented Dickey–Fuller test with nine probabilistic learners and three probability-o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Time Series Analysis: Methods, Applications and Emerging Trends)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,367 Views
17 Pages

27 August 2025

This study employs a numerical simulation approach to investigate argon bubble flow behavior within a steel continuous casting mold, with a focus on the impact of bubble swarm correction models. Three scenarios are compared: one without any correctio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Simulation and Modeling Technologies of Metallurgical Processes—2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,182 Views
19 Pages

21 July 2023

Accurate measurements of the bubble size distribution (BSD) are crucial for investigating gas–liquid mass transfer mechanisms and describing the characteristics of chemical production. However, measuring the BSD in high-density bubbly flows rem...

(This article belongs to the Collection Computer Vision Based Smart Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,800 Views
18 Pages

4 January 2020

The present study used a sparged bubble column to study the mixing of a passive scalar under bubble-induced diffusion. The effect of gas superficial velocity (up to 69 mm/s) and external vertical vibrations (amplitudes up to 10 mm, frequency <23 H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coupled Flow and Heat or Mass Transport)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,573 Views
15 Pages

30 September 2019

In order to obtain a high-accuracy and adaptable condensation phase change model, this paper selects the Nusselt number correlation formula that Kim proposed based on the experimental data and adjusts the Nusselt number in the bubble condensation pro...

(This article belongs to the Section I: Energy Fundamentals and Conversion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,208 Views
21 Pages

5 May 2021

Accurate estimation of crude oil Bubble Point Pressure (Pb) plays a vital rule in the development cycle of an oil field. Bubble point pressure is required in many petroleum engineering calculations such as reserves estimation, material balance, reser...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,242 Views
18 Pages

NewApproach to Predict the Motion Characteristics of Single Bubbles in Still Water

  • Bin Deng,
  • Ren Jie Chin,
  • Yao Tang,
  • Changbo Jiang and
  • Sai Hin Lai

23 September 2019

Under the action of gravity, buoyancy, and surface tension, bubbles generated by wave breaking will rupture and polymerize, causing the occurrence of high-speed jets and strong turbulence in nearby water bodies, which in turn affects sea–air ex...

(This article belongs to the Section Earth Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,522 Views
12 Pages

Design and Verification of Experimental Device for Pressurized Bubbling Absorption and Transport Characteristics in Vacuum Environment

  • Jialiang Gao,
  • Gang Wang,
  • Jitong Li,
  • Xiaoyan Cui and ,
  • Yaxuan Xiong,
  • Xiaoshu Lü and
  • Xuejing Zhang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

To explore the dynamics of flow and heat transfer behaviors associated with bubbles during solution absorption in a vacuum environment, we present the design of an experimental setup for measuring the absorption and transport properties of bubbles in...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,460 Views
19 Pages

18 January 2023

The measurement of the two-phase contact area is very important to determine the heat transfer coefficient in the process of direct contact heat transfer, but the direct measurement of the two-phase contact area is a difficult problem. The experiment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Analysis of Heat Transfer and Energy Conversion)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,563 Views
13 Pages

The movement of the gas–liquid interface caused by the movement of the bubble position will have an impact on the starting conditions for particle migration. This article quantifies the influence of moving bubbles on the starting conditions of partic...

  • Review
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
76 Citations
17,461 Views
41 Pages

3 March 2023

Bubble columns are used in many different industrial applications, and their design and characterisation have always been very complex. In recent years, the use of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) has become very popular in the field of multiphase...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,821 Views
37 Pages

16 January 2026

This study aims to enhance the efficiency of hydrogen production through alkaline water electrolysis by analyzing hydrogen bubble dynamics using high-speed image processing and machine learning algorithms. The experiments were conducted to evaluate t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Electrical and Electronic Engineering with a Focus on Renewable Energy Sources (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
6,756 Views
21 Pages

Equation of State Associated with Activity Coefficient Model Based on Elements and Chemical Bonds

  • Xinyu Li,
  • Baowei Niu,
  • Wenjiao Ma,
  • Wenying Zhao and ,
  • Xiaoyan Sun,
  • Li Xia and
  • Shuguang Xiang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

15 May 2023

A new element- and chemical bond-dependent GE-EoS model(SRK-UNICAC) is proposed to consider the deviation of the vapor and liquid phases from the ideal state. The SRK-UNICAC model combines the UNICAC model and the SRK cubic equation of state. It uses...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Process Systems Engineering for Chemical Process Safety and Environmental Protection)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,335 Views
18 Pages

7 November 2019

Air bubble is a manufacturing defect that is common to composite wind turbine blades, which might evolve into cracks, leading to failure under load. The evolution and critical state of air bubble are studied to establish a condition assessment method...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,603 Views
9 Pages

30 June 2024

In the modern aerospace industry, the importance of a lubrication system is self-evident for aero-engines, and the aero-engine bearing chamber return line is an even more challenging environment, as it involves a complex two-phase flow. The designer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Research of Heat Transfer in Heterogeneous Flows)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,060 Views
18 Pages

22 May 2025

The identification of leakage sources in underwater natural gas pipelines (UNGPs) remains a critical challenge due to complex environmental conditions. In this study, we propose a novel simulation–optimization method, integrating numerical bubb...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI, Machine Learning and Digital Twin Applications in Water)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,339 Views
10 Pages

22 December 2022

Hydrogen is receiving growing interest as an energy carrier to facilitate the shift to a green economy. However, hydrogen may cause the significant degradation of mechanical properties of structural materials, premature strain localisation, crack nuc...

(This article belongs to the Section Metal Failure Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
651 Views
19 Pages

25 June 2026

Gas–solid bubbling fluidized beds involving Geldart Group B particles are fundamental to numerous industrial thermochemical processes, where bubble dynamics dictate the efficiency of heat and mass transfer. However, accurately predicting these...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Particle and Powder Technology: Theory, Methods, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
5,589 Views
16 Pages

17 May 2019

It is difficult to manually process and analyze large amounts of data. Therefore, to solve a given problem, it is easier to reach the solution by studying the data obtained from the environment of the problem with computational intelligence methods....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optimization of Heat and Mass Exchange)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,376 Views
14 Pages

Intraocular Pressure Study in Ex Vivo Pig Eyes by the Laser-Induced Cavitation Technique: Toward a Non-Contact Intraocular Pressure Sensor

  • Santiago Camacho-Lopez,
  • Carlos Andrés Zuñiga-Romero,
  • Luis Felipe Devia-Cruz,
  • Carolina Alvarez-Delgado and ,
  • Marcos Antonio Plata-Sanchez and
  • Leopoldo Martinez-Manuel
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

27 March 2020

Traditional applanation tonometry techniques lack the necessary accuracy and reliability for measuring the intraocular pressure (IOP), and there is still a need for a reliable technique for in vivo diagnosis. A single laser-induced cavitation bubble...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomedical Optics and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,569 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2023

Single Snorkel Furnace (SSF) vacuum refining furnace is a novel external refining equipment for high clean steel production. RH is a molten steel refining technology developed by Rheinstahl-Heraeus company. Compared with the traditional RH furnace, t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Molten Metal Refining Process)
  • Article
  • Open Access
593 Views
22 Pages

A Coarse-to-Fine Framework for Oil–Water Interface Measurement in Small-Caliber Transparent Test Tubes

  • Bo Zhou,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Jigang Zou,
  • Zhandong Lv and ,
  • Weijie Zhang,
  • Ruihan Wang and
  • Shengwei Meng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

3 June 2026

Accurate oil–water interface measurement in small transparent test tubes is important for subsequent volume readout in laboratory analysis. However, manual observation and conventional vision-based methods are easily affected by illumination va...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,240 Views
18 Pages

19 January 2023

Experimental studies have revealed that the introduction of a small amount (0.5% by volume) of permanent and chemically inert gas bubbles leads to the intensification of droplets disintegration in a liquid–liquid system (emulsification) in a pu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
200 Views
19 Pages

30 September 2026

Deep and ultra-deep reservoirs are increasingly important, while gas kicks remain a major well-control risk. Accurate prediction of gas migration velocity across different wellbore inclinations is essential for locating the influx front, enabling tim...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Research on Marine and Deep Oil & Gas Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,700 Views
16 Pages

7 November 2024

(1) Background: Ultrashort high-energy laser pulses may cause interaction mechanisms, including photodisruption and plasma-induced ablation in the medium. It is not always easy to distinguish between these two processes, as both interaction mechanism...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Visual Optics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,008 Views
11 Pages

11 August 2024

The lubricating oil system is a significant component of aviation engine lubrication and cooling, and the scavenge pipe is an essential component of the lubricating oil system. Accurately identifying and understanding the flow state of the scavenge p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vortex Flow Phenomena and Physics of Aerospace Engineering Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,969 Views
16 Pages

22 May 2025

LED polymer multilayer films offer clear advantages over single-layer coatings, such as minimized particle settling, finer control over particle distribution, and more precise spectral tuning. However, the standard “coat–dry–coat&rd...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Membranes and Films)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,888 Views
16 Pages

Electrochemical machining (ECM) is an essential method for machining miniature bearing outer rings on the high-temperature-resistant nickel-based alloy GH4169. However, the influence of electrolyte temperature distribution and bubble rate distributio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Manufacturing Technology and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
460 Views
22 Pages

Particle-Scale Local Flow Disturbances Induced by Feed-Particle Size and Shape in a Gas–Solid Fluidized Bed

  • Zengqiang Chen,
  • Shuai Zhou,
  • Yadong Zhang,
  • Guangqing Zhu and ,
  • Bin Li,
  • Dingjie Zhang and
  • Enhui Zhou
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

During coal beneficiation in a gas–solid fluidized bed, coarse feed particles act as moving intruders whose size and shape can reorganize the local gas–solid flow field. This study combines particle-surface differential-pressure measureme...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficient Separation of Coal and Mineral Resources)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,985 Views
18 Pages

4 September 2023

In electrical impedance tomography (EIT) detection of industrial two-phase flows, the Gauss-Newton algorithm is often used for imaging. In complex cases with multiple bubbles, this method has poor imaging accuracy. To address this issue, a new algori...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensing and Imaging)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,135 Views
25 Pages

19 May 2023

Based on the principle of Contactless Conductivity Detection (CCD), a new contactless cross-correlation velocity measurement system with a three-electrode construction is developed in this work and applied to the contactless velocity measurement of g...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors and Signal Analysis for Dynamic Measurement in Industrial Process)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,594 Views
26 Pages

Pipeline Two-Phase Flow Pressure Drop Algorithm for Multiple Inclinations

  • Andrés Cepeda-Vega,
  • Rafael Amaya-Gómez,
  • Miguel Asuaje,
  • Carlos Torres and ,
  • Carlos Valencia and
  • Nicolás Ratkovich
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 May 2022

A Generalized Additive Model (GAM) is proposed to predict the pressure drop in a gas–liquid two-phase flow at horizontal, vertical, and inclined pipes based on 21 different dimensionless numbers. It is fitted from 4605 points, considering a flu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Processing and Conversion of Oil and Gas: Modeling, Control, Simulation and Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,357 Views
22 Pages

Correction Method for Initial Conditions of Underwater Explosion

  • Zeyu Jin,
  • Wentao Xu,
  • Caiyu Yin,
  • Zhiyang Lei and
  • Xiangshao Kong

In numerical simulations of underwater explosions, inaccuracies in the parameters of the Jones–Wilkins–Lee (JWL) equation of state often result in significant deviations between predicted shock wave pressure peaks or bubble pulsation peri...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,937 Views
19 Pages

Photoelectric Sensor for Fast and Low-Priced Determination of Bi- and Triphasic Segmented Slug Flow Parameters

  • Niclas von Vietinghoff,
  • Waldemar Lungrin,
  • Raphael Schulzke,
  • Jonas Tilly and
  • David W. Agar

4 December 2020

Applying multiphase systems in microreactors leads to an intensification of heat and mass transport. Critical aspects of the well-studied segmented slug-flow, such as bubble generation and pump control, can be automated, provided a robust sensor for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microfluidic Sensors 2022)

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