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  • Open Access
57 Citations
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17 Pages

Resistance is one of the important performance indicators of ships. In this paper, a prediction method based on the Radial Basis Function neural network (RBFNN) is proposed to predict the resistance of a 13500 transmission extension unit (13500TEU) c...

  • Review
  • Open Access
9 Citations
6,059 Views
35 Pages

Fault Diagnosis for Rotating Machinery Based on Dimensionless Indices: Current Status, Development, Technologies, and Future Directions

  • Qinghua Zhang,
  • Naiquan Su,
  • Binbin Qin,
  • Guoxi Sun,
  • Xiaoyuan Jing,
  • Shaolin Hu,
  • Yebin Cai and
  • Lingmeng Zhou

13 December 2024

Operational safety and reliability have become increasingly paramount in large and complex rotating machinery in industrial manufacturing. Recent strides in data-driven fault diagnosis have significantly advanced the fields of machinery health assess...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,018 Views
21 Pages

Similarity and Froude Number Similitude in Kinematic and Hydrodynamic Features of Solitary Waves over Horizontal Bed

  • Chang Lin,
  • Ming-Jer Kao,
  • James Yang,
  • Rajkumar Venkatesh Raikar,
  • Juan-Ming Yuan and
  • Shih-Chun Hsieh

16 August 2021

This study presents, experimentally, similarity and Froude number similitude (FNS) in the dimensionless features of two solitary waves propagating over a horizontal bed, using two wave gauges and a high-speed particle image velocimetry (HSPIV). The t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
2,956 Views
20 Pages

The current analysis deals with radiative aspects of magnetohydrodynamic boundary layer flow with heat mass transfer features on electrically conductive Williamson nanofluid by a stretching surface. The impact of variable thickness and thermal conduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,539 Views
13 Pages

Experimental Investigation of a Prototype Thermal Refuge for Trout

  • Rajib Uddin Rony,
  • Adam C. Gladen and
  • Jeremy Kientz

4 August 2022

Recent years have seen an increase in surface water temperatures in several streams and fisheries, which has a detrimental effect on cold-water species such as trout. One possibility to resolve this issue is to create localized refugia of colder wate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,432 Views
25 Pages

On Process Intensification through Membrane Storage Reactors

  • John Lowd,
  • Theodore Tsotsis and
  • Vasilios I. Manousiouthakis

In this work, a dynamic, one-dimensional, first principle-based model of a novel membrane storage reactor (MSR) process is developed and simulated. The resulting governing equations are rendered dimensionless and are shown to feature two dimensionles...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,883 Views
24 Pages

Heat Transfer Estimation in Flow Boiling of R134a within Microfin Tubes: Development of Explainable Machine Learning-Based Pipelines

  • Shayan Milani,
  • Keivan Ardam,
  • Farzad Dadras Javan,
  • Behzad Najafi,
  • Andrea Lucchini,
  • Igor Matteo Carraretto and
  • Luigi Pietro Maria Colombo

16 August 2024

The present study is focused on identifying the most suitable sequence of machine learning-based models and the most promising set of input variables aiming at the estimation of heat transfer in evaporating R134a flows in microfin tubes. Utilizing th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,692 Views
14 Pages

24 February 2023

Disruption prediction and mitigation is of key importance in the development of sustainable tokamak reactors. Machine learning has become a key tool in this endeavour. In this paper, multiple machine learning models are tested and compared. A focus h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,009 Views
17 Pages

Many advanced driver assistance schemes or autonomous vehicle controllers are based on a motion model of the vehicle behavior, i.e., a function predicting how the vehicle will react to a given control input. Data-driven models, based on experimental...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,768 Views
28 Pages

26 June 2023

The bearing fault diagnosis of petrochemical rotating machinery faces the problems of large data volume, weak fault feature signal strength and susceptibility to noise interference. To solve these problems, current research presents a combined ICEEMD...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,945 Views
17 Pages

19 September 2020

The proppant transportation is a typical two-phase flow process in a complex cross fracture network during hydraulic fracturing. In this paper, the proppant transportation in cross fractures is investigated by the computational fluid dynamics (CFD) m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,308 Views
23 Pages

Analysis of Dynamic Response of a Two Degrees of Freedom (2-DOF) Ball Bearing Nonlinear Model

  • Bartłomiej Ambrożkiewicz,
  • Grzegorz Litak,
  • Anthimos Georgiadis,
  • Nicolas Meier and
  • Alexander Gassner

15 January 2021

Often the input values used in mathematical models for rolling bearings are in a wide range, i.e., very small values of deformation and damping are confronted with big values of stiffness in the governing equations, which leads to miscalculations. Th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
53 Citations
3,238 Views
13 Pages

Heat Transfer of Hybrid Nanomaterials Base Maxwell Micropolar Fluid Flow over an Exponentially Stretching Surface

  • Piyu Li,
  • Faisal Z. Duraihem,
  • Aziz Ullah Awan,
  • A. Al-Zubaidi,
  • Nadeem Abbas and
  • Daud Ahmad

4 April 2022

A numerical investigation of three-dimensional hybrid nanomaterial micropolar fluid flow across an exponentially stretched sheet is performed. Recognized similarity transformations are adopted to convert governing equations from PDEs into the set ODE...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,764 Views
17 Pages

Spacers are designed to create a feed channel, but they are also obstacles to the flow in spiral wound membrane modules. The geometry of the feed spacer influences the flow pattern, which was investigated by using a three-dimensional Computational Fl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,973 Views
20 Pages

18 March 2024

As an essential reference to bridge dynamic characteristics, the identification of bridge frequencies has far-reaching consequences for the health monitoring and damage evaluation of bridges. This study proposes a uniform scheme to identify bridge fr...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,149 Views
12 Pages

30 August 2023

This study aims to develop a straightforward and practical formula to estimate transverse dispersion coefficients in meandering natural rivers, a critical factor for predicting solute transport. We present a novel expression for the transverse disper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,486 Views
14 Pages

9 June 2022

In this study, the equivalent bending stiffness of cement-bonded joints connecting the porcelain bushing and flange in ultra-high voltage (UHV) electrical equipment was investigated. A mechanical bending model of the joint was developed based on its...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,585 Views
17 Pages

30 November 2022

Fin is an efficient and straightforward way to enhance heat transfer rate. When the heat source varies dramatically in a very short time, non-Fourier heat conduction should be considered. In the paper, taking advantage of numerical stability and no i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,767 Views
24 Pages

9 November 2022

For solitary waves on a horizontal bed, the study deals experimentally with the high ratio of wave height (H0) to still water depth (h0) that amplifies the wave nonlinearity. The value of H0/h0 tested in a wave flume ranges from 0.050 to 0.550, indic...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
264 Citations
8,719 Views
10 Pages

Flame Retardancy Index for Thermoplastic Composites

  • Henri Vahabi,
  • Baljinder K. Kandola and
  • Mohammad Reza Saeb

1 March 2019

Flame Retardancy Index, FRI, was defined as a simple yet universal dimensionless criterion born out of cone calorimetry data on thermoplastic composites and then put into practice for quantifying the flame retardancy performance of different polymer...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,549 Views
20 Pages

Computational Modeling of Hybrid Sisko Nanofluid Flow over a Porous Radially Heated Shrinking/Stretching Disc

  • Umair Khan,
  • Aurang Zaib,
  • Anuar Ishak,
  • Fahad S. Al-Mubaddel,
  • Sakhinah Abu Bakar,
  • Hammad Alotaibi and
  • Hassan M. Aljohani

13 October 2021

The present study reveals the behavior of shear-thickening and shear-thinning fluids in magnetohydrodynamic flow comprising the significant impact of a hybrid nanofluid over a porous radially shrinking/stretching disc. The features of physical proper...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,001 Views
19 Pages

10 June 2025

The development of shale gas relies on hydraulic fracturing technology and requires the injection of a large amount of fracturing fluid. The well shut-off period after fracturing can promote water infiltration and suction. Optimizing the well shut-of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,075 Views
18 Pages

17 April 2020

The non-Newtonian nanofluid flow becomes increasingly important in enhancing the thermal management efficiency of microscale devices and in promoting the exploration of the thermal-electric energy conversion process. The effect of streaming potential...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
9,233 Views
18 Pages

Dynamically Scaled Model Experiment of a Mooring Cable

  • Lars Bergdahl,
  • Johannes Palm,
  • Claes Eskilsson and
  • Jan Lindahl

The dynamic response of mooring cables for marine structures is scale-dependent, and perfect dynamic similitude between full-scale prototypes and small-scale physical model tests is difficult to achieve. The best possible scaling is here sought by me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,383 Views
21 Pages

Pressure Drop Estimation of Two-Phase Adiabatic Flows in Smooth Tubes: Development of Machine Learning-Based Pipelines

  • Farshad Bolourchifard,
  • Keivan Ardam,
  • Farzad Dadras Javan,
  • Behzad Najafi,
  • Paloma Vega Penichet Domecq,
  • Fabio Rinaldi and
  • Luigi Pietro Maria Colombo

11 August 2024

The current study begins with an experimental investigation focused on measuring the pressure drop of a water–air mixture under different flow conditions in a setup consisting of horizontal smooth tubes. Machine learning (ML)-based pipelines ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,976 Views
19 Pages

Aeolian Ripple Migration and Associated Creep Transport Rates

  • Douglas J. Sherman,
  • Pei Zhang,
  • Raleigh L. Martin,
  • Jean T. Ellis,
  • Jasper F. Kok,
  • Eugene J. Farrell and
  • Bailiang Li

Wind-formed ripples are distinctive features of many sandy aeolian environments, and their development and migration are basic responses to sand transport via saltation. Using data from the literature and from original field experiments, we presented...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,345 Views
19 Pages

Applications of Fractional Partial Differential Equations for MHD Casson Fluid Flow with Innovative Ternary Nanoparticles

  • Muhammad Imran Asjad,
  • Rizwan Karim,
  • Abid Hussanan,
  • Azhar Iqbal and
  • Sayed M. Eldin

10 January 2023

This study deals with the modeling issues of the transport problem with a fractional operator. The fractional model with generalized Fourier’s law is discussed for Casson fluid flow over a flat surface. The dimensionless governing model is solv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,366 Views
42 Pages

A Unified General Resistance Formula for Uniform Coarse Porous Media

  • Juan Carlos López,
  • Miguel Ángel Toledo,
  • Rafael Moran and
  • Luis Balairón

13 October 2023

Many authors studied the nonlinear relationship between seepage velocity and hydraulic gradient in coarse granular materials. They managed different approaches and variables to define the resistance formula applicable to that type of granular media....

  • Communication
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,542 Views
14 Pages

Design, Analysis, and Optimization of a Plasmonic Slot Waveguide for Mid-Infrared Gas Sensing

  • Parviz Saeidi,
  • Bernhard Jakoby,
  • Gerald Pühringer,
  • Andreas Tortschanoff,
  • Gerald Stocker,
  • Jasmin Spettel,
  • Florian Dubois,
  • Thomas Grille and
  • Reyhaneh Jannesari

18 May 2022

In this work, we investigated the optimization of a plasmonic slot waveguide (PSWG) in the mid-IR region particularly for a representative wavelength of 4.26 µm, which is the absorption line of CO2 and thus particularly relevant for application...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
2,607 Views
24 Pages

26 July 2022

Current research proposes a model for assessing the flow properties and heat transmission from hybridized nanofluids to solar collectors (SCs). A theoretical investigation that was based on the application of alumina-water (Al2O3-H2O) conventional na...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,753 Views
27 Pages

9 November 2022

In this paper, Feature Engineering (FE) was applied to Landslide Susceptibility Mapping (LSM), while the most suitable conditioning feature dataset and analysis method were tested and analyzed. Tianshui city was taken as the study area, three types o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,382 Views
17 Pages

20 December 2022

Fiber aggregation in nanocomposites has an important effect on macroscopic electrical performance. To quantitatively evaluate its effect, an index to characterize the degree of aggregation is imperative and, ideally, it should have three features sim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,894 Views
23 Pages

10 January 2021

Salient features of hybrid nanofluid (MoS2-SiO2/water) for Darcy–Forchheimer–Brinkman porous space with variable characteristics is examined. Heat transfer analysis subject to viscous dissipation, nonlinear thermal radiation, and heat gen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,204 Views
20 Pages

Significance of Convection and Internal Heat Generation on the Thermal Distribution of a Porous Dovetail Fin with Radiative Heat Transfer by Spectral Collocation Method

  • G. Sowmya,
  • Maha M. A. Lashin,
  • M. Ijaz Khan,
  • R. S. Varun Kumar,
  • K. C. Jagadeesha,
  • B. C. Prasannakumara,
  • Kamel Guedri,
  • Omar T Bafakeeh,
  • El Sayed Mohamed Tag-ElDin and
  • Ahmed M. Galal

17 August 2022

A variety of methodologies have been used to explore heat transport enhancement, and the fin approach to inspect heat transfer characteristics is one such effective method. In a broad range of industrial applications, including heat exchangers and mi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
6,017 Views
28 Pages

24 January 2020

The working fluid selection is one of the most important issues faced when designing Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) systems. The choice of working fluid is dictated by different criteria. The most important of them are safety of use, impact on the envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
786 Views
33 Pages

17 June 2025

This study presents, for the first time, a detailed linear stability analysis (LSA) of bedform evolution under low-flow conditions using a one-dimensional vertically averaged and moment (1D-VAM) approach. The analysis focuses exclusively on bedload t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,718 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2020

Accurate and real-time recognition of rice plants is the premise underlying the implementation of precise weed control. However, achieving desired results in paddy fields using the traditional visual method is difficult due to the occlusion of rice l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,892 Views
20 Pages

Three-Dimensional Simulations of Wind Effects on Green Island Wake

  • Tien-Hung Hou,
  • Jen-Yi Chang,
  • Chia-Cheng Tsai and
  • Tai-Wen Hsu

29 October 2020

The aim of the present study is to apply the three-dimensional Princeton Ocean Model to study the wind effects on Kuroshio-induced island wake in the lee of Green Island, Taiwan. Numerical results indicate that the effect of NE winds squeezes the Kur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,363 Views
29 Pages

Bioconvection in Cross Nano-Materials with Magnetic Dipole Impacted by Activation Energy, Thermal Radiation, and Second Order Slip

  • Zahra Abdelmalek,
  • Kamel Al-Khaled,
  • Hassan Waqas,
  • A. Aldabesh,
  • Sami Ullah Khan,
  • Sa’ed A. Musmar and
  • Iskander Tlili

16 June 2020

Ferro liquids derive their magneto–viscous behavior from the suspended magnetic nanomaterial that enables tunable changes in temperature, as well as nano-structured fluid characteristics. A theoretical model that depicts the bioconvection flow...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,731 Views
20 Pages

Exploration of Temperature Distribution through a Longitudinal Rectangular Fin with Linear and Exponential Temperature-Dependent Thermal Conductivity Using DTM-Pade Approximant

  • Ravikumar Shashikala Varun Kumar,
  • Rangaswamy Naveen Kumar,
  • Ganeshappa Sowmya,
  • Ballajja Chandrappa Prasannakumara and
  • Ioannis E. Sarris

26 March 2022

The present study elaborates on the thermal distribution and efficiency of a longitudinal rectangular fin with exponentially varying temperature-dependent thermal conductivity and heat transfer coefficient concerning internal heat generation. Also, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,715 Views
17 Pages

31 March 2022

Frequency response analysis under uncertainty is computationally expensive. Low-rank approximation techniques can significantly reduce the solution times. Thin perforated cylinders, as with all shells, have specific features affecting the approximati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,950 Views
14 Pages

Analysis of Dynamics in Multiphysics Modelling of Active Faults

  • Sotiris Alevizos,
  • Thomas Poulet,
  • Manolis Veveakis and
  • Klaus Regenauer-Lieb

22 September 2016

Instabilities in Geomechanics appear on multiple scales involving multiple physical processes. They appear often as planar features of localised deformation (faults), which can be relatively stable creep or display rich dynamics, sometimes culminatin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,967 Views
19 Pages

Estimation of Wind Speed Based on Schlieren Machine Vision System Inspired by Greenhouse Top Vent

  • Huang Li,
  • Angui Li,
  • Linhua Zhang,
  • Yicun Hou,
  • Changqing Yang,
  • Lu Chen and
  • Na Lu

3 August 2023

Greenhouse ventilation has always been an important concern for agricultural workers. This paper aims to introduce a low-cost wind speed estimating method based on SURF (Speeded Up Robust Feature) feature matching and the schlieren technique for airf...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,013 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2022

The present study focuses on the examination of the propagation of plane surface waves on a coated half-space, which is accompanied by the magnetic field force, and the normal mechanical loading, due to Winkler’s elastic foundation. The study i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
6,424 Views
20 Pages

1 May 2021

Most artificial river wave technologies require a drop in the riverbed to generate recreational surf waves; herein a new technology is introduced that can be used on a flat bed. The mechanism includes an adjustable ramp, transition and kicker, which...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,917 Views
15 Pages

Dimensionless Correlations for Natural Convection Heat Transfer from a Pair of Vertical Staggered Plates Suspended in Free Air

  • Alessandro Quintino,
  • Marta Cianfrini,
  • Ivano Petracci,
  • Vincenzo Andrea Spena and
  • Massimo Corcione

15 July 2021

Buoyancy-induced convection from a pair of staggered heated vertical plates suspended in free air is studied numerically with the main scope to investigate the basic heat and momentum transfer features and to determine in what measure any independent...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
3,377 Views
15 Pages

Mixed Convective Flow of Micropolar Nanofluid across a Horizontal Cylinder in Saturated Porous Medium

  • Ahmed M. Rashad,
  • Waqar A. Khan,
  • Saber M. M. EL-Kabeir and
  • Amal M. A. EL-Hakiem

2 December 2019

The micropolar nanofluids are the potential liquids that enhance the thermophysical features and ability of heat transportation instead of base liquids. Alumina and Titania nanoparticles are mixed in a micropolar fluid. The impact of convective bound...

  • Article
  • Open Access
65 Citations
4,016 Views
17 Pages

Aspects of Chemical Entropy Generation in Flow of Casson Nanofluid between Radiative Stretching Disks

  • Nargis Khan,
  • Iram Riaz,
  • Muhammad Sadiq Hashmi,
  • Saed A. Musmar,
  • Sami Ullah Khan,
  • Zahra Abdelmalek and
  • Iskander Tlili

25 April 2020

The appropriate utilization of entropy generation may provoke dipping losses in the available energy of nanofluid flow. The effects of chemical entropy generation in axisymmetric flow of Casson nanofluid between radiative stretching disks in the pres...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,489 Views
14 Pages

25 March 2020

Recently, nanoparticles have supplied diverse challenges in the area of science. The nanoparticles suspended in several conventional fluids can convert the fluids flow and heat transmission features. In this investigation, the mathematical approach i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
4,502 Views
15 Pages

18 November 2019

The current continuation aim is to explore the rheological consequences of Eyring Powell nanofluid over a moving surface in the presence of activation energy and thermal radiation. The bioconvection of magnetized nanoparticles is executed with the ev...

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