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23 Citations
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Discrete Missing Data Imputation Using Multilayer Perceptron and Momentum Gradient Descent

  • Hu Pan,
  • Zhiwei Ye,
  • Qiyi He,
  • Chunyan Yan,
  • Jianyu Yuan,
  • Xudong Lai,
  • Jun Su and
  • Ruihan Li

28 July 2022

Data are a strategic resource for industrial production, and an efficient data-mining process will increase productivity. However, there exist many missing values in data collected in real life due to various problems. Because the missing data may re...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,441 Views
10 Pages

5 September 2022

Gradient nano-grained (GNG) metals have shown high synergetic strength and good ductility due to their unique gradient microstructure. In this study, the mechanical behavior of gradient nano-grained metals was investigated by three-dimensional discre...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,746 Views
21 Pages

Estimation of Combustion Parameters from Engine Vibrations Based on Discrete Wavelet Transform and Gradient Boosting

  • Achilles Kefalas,
  • Andreas B. Ofner,
  • Gerhard Pirker,
  • Stefan Posch,
  • Bernhard C. Geiger and
  • Andreas Wimmer

1 June 2022

An optimal control of the combustion process of an engine ensures lower emissions and fuel consumption plus high efficiencies. Combustion parameters such as the peak firing pressure (PFP) and the crank angle (CA) corresponding to 50% of mass fraction...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,945 Views
15 Pages

Early Detection of Parkinson’s Disease Using Fusion of Discrete Wavelet Transformation and Histograms of Oriented Gradients

  • Himanish Shekhar Das,
  • Akalpita Das,
  • Anupal Neog,
  • Saurav Mallik,
  • Kangkana Bora and
  • Zhongming Zhao

11 November 2022

Parkinson’s disease primarily affects people in their later years, and there is no cure for this disease; however, the proper medication of patients can lead to a healthy life. Appropriate care and treatment of Parkinson’s disease can be...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,027 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2022

The total heat exchange factor is one of the most important thermal physical parameters in the heat transfer model for a reheating furnace machine. In this paper, a novel general strategy, which is combined with the first-optimize-then-discretize (FO...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,502 Views
13 Pages

Locally Exact Integrators for the Duffing Equation

  • Jan L. Cieśliński and
  • Artur Kobus

10 February 2020

A numerical scheme is said to be locally exact if after linearization (around any point) it becomes exact. In this paper, we begin with a short review on exact and locally exact integrators for ordinary differential equations. Then, we extend our app...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,223 Views
21 Pages

25 December 2022

The paper studies numerical methods that preserve a Lyapunov function of a dynamical system, i.e., numerical approximations whose energy decreases, just like in the original differential equation. With this aim, a discrete gradient method is implemen...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,891 Views
16 Pages

Research on the Processing Method of Acoustic Focusing Cavities Based on the Temperature Gradient

  • Liqun Wu,
  • Yafei Fan,
  • Hongcheng Wang,
  • Linan Zhang,
  • Yizheng Sheng,
  • Yajing Wang and
  • Yaxing Wang

21 June 2021

Aiming at the key factors affecting the quality and efficiency of high-energy in-beam machining, this paper studies the broadband acoustic focusing effect based on a discrete temperature gradient. Firstly, the basic theory and mathematical model of t...

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  • Open Access
90 Citations
11,937 Views
18 Pages

17 January 2018

Battery impedance is essential to the management of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles (EVs), and impedance characterization can help to monitor and predict the battery states. Many studies have been undertaken to investigate impedance chara...

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  • Open Access
2,723 Views
15 Pages

11 December 2021

We address the basic question in discrete Morse theory of combining discrete gradient fields that are partially defined on subsets of the given complex. This is a well-posed question when the discrete gradient field V is generated using a fixed algor...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,157 Views
27 Pages

Energetic-Property-Preserving Numerical Schemes for Coupled Natural Systems

  • Mizuka Komatsu,
  • Shunpei Terakawa and
  • Takaharu Yaguchi

14 February 2020

In this paper, we propose a method for deriving energetic-property-preserving numerical schemes for coupled systems of two given natural systems. We consider the case where the two systems are interconnected by the action–reaction law. Although...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,678 Views
13 Pages

A DWT-Based Approach with Gradient Analysis for Robust and Blind Medical Image Watermarking

  • Khaled Hebbache,
  • Belal Khaldi,
  • Oussama Aiadi and
  • Ali Benziane

17 July 2024

The growing adoption of telemedicine necessitates robust security measures for medical images during transmission. This paper proposes a novel blind watermarking system for medical images that utilizes both image gradients and the Discrete Wavelet Tr...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,714 Views
15 Pages

24 May 2024

Utilizing the discrete fracture model (DFM), a transient flow model is established for fractured horizontal wells in tight oil reservoirs, accounting for threshold pressure gradient (TPG), stress sensitivity effect, hydraulic fracture parameters, and...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,252 Views
18 Pages

6 January 2024

Biometric recognition techniques have become more developed recently, especially in security and attendance systems. Biometrics are features attached to the human body that are considered safer and more reliable since they are difficult to imitate or...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,302 Views
25 Pages

30 September 2020

Efficient Robust Design Optimization (RDO) strategies coupling a parsimonious uncertainty quantification (UQ) method with a surrogate-based multi-objective genetic algorithm (SMOGA) are investigated for a test problem in computational fluid dynamics...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,350 Views
22 Pages

BSDR: A Data-Efficient Deep Learning-Based Hyperspectral Band Selection Algorithm Using Discrete Relaxation

  • Mohammad Rahman,
  • Shyh Wei Teng,
  • Manzur Murshed,
  • Manoranjan Paul and
  • David Brennan

4 December 2024

Hyperspectral band selection algorithms are crucial for processing high-dimensional data, which enables dimensionality reduction, improves data analysis, and enhances computational efficiency. Among these, attention-based algorithms have gained promi...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,963 Views
19 Pages

22 November 2019

The prediction of protein–ligand binding sites is important in drug discovery and drug design. Protein–ligand binding site prediction computational methods are inexpensive and fast compared with experimental methods. This paper proposes a...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,756 Views
16 Pages

27 November 2023

Understanding the fluid pattern is of special significance for estimating the hydraulic conductivity of fractured rock masses. The nonlinearity of fluid flow in discrete fracture networks (DFNs) originates from inertial effects and is enhanced by com...

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  • Open Access
1,131 Views
21 Pages

19 August 2024

The HZ 26-B buried hill reservoir is located in the eastern part of the South China Sea. This reservoir is characterized by the development of natural fractures, a high density, and a complex geological structure, featuring an upper condensate gas la...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,586 Views
11 Pages

Identifying motor imagery (MI) electroencephalogram (EEG) is an important way to achieve brain–computer interface (BCI), but its applicability is heavily dependent on the performance of feature extraction procedure. In this paper, a feature ext...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,286 Views
11 Pages

15 December 2023

The paper proposes a new method for solving the parameter identification problem for a class of discrete-time linear stochastic systems with multiplicative and additive noises using a numerical gradient-based optimization. The constructed method is b...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,483 Views
40 Pages

18 June 2015

In this paper, we study Amari’s natural gradient flows of real functions defined on the densities belonging to an exponential family on a finite sample space. Our main example is the minimization of the expected value of a real function defined on th...

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  • Open Access
133 Citations
8,558 Views
21 Pages

30 July 2020

Bearing fault diagnosis at early stage is very significant to ensure seamless operation of induction motors in industrial environment. The identification and classification of faults helps to undertook maintenance operation in an efficient manner. Th...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,074 Views
17 Pages

The COVID-19 pandemic created abnormal credit risk conditions that did not align well with pre-2020 credit scores. Since the pandemic, most organizations have either excluded the period 2020–2021 from their modeling or included it without adjus...

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  • Open Access
30 Citations
3,558 Views
15 Pages

28 February 2021

High-precision and high-density three-dimensional point cloud models usually contain redundant data, which implies extra time and hardware costs in the subsequent data processing stage. To analyze and extract data more effectively, the point cloud mu...

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  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,481 Views
26 Pages

3 June 2020

Ultrasound (US) imaging can examine human bodies of various ages; however, in the process of obtaining a US image, speckle noise is generated. The speckle noise inhibits physicians from accurately examining lesions; thus, a speckle noise removal meth...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,610 Views
16 Pages

Although the grid convergence index is a widely used for the estimation of discretization error in computational fluid dynamics, it still has some problems. These problems are mainly rooted in the usage of the order of a convergence variable within t...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,277 Views
16 Pages

Design of CO2 Huff-n-Puff Parameters for Fractured Tight Oil Reservoirs Considering Geomechanical Effects

  • Yicun Xia,
  • Xiankang Xin,
  • Gaoming Yu,
  • Yanxin Wang,
  • Zexuan Lei and
  • Liyuan Zhang

6 December 2024

CO2-Huff-n-Puff (CO2-HnP) is an effective method for improving oil recovery in conventional reservoirs and has been widely applied to tight oil reservoirs. Recently, there has been a series of studies published on the oil increase mechanism and huff-...

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  • Open Access
755 Views
28 Pages

Gradient accumulation enables training large-scale deep learning models under GPU memory constraints by aggregating gradients across multiple microbatches before parameter updates. Standard gradient accumulation treats all microbatches uniformly thro...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,029 Views
19 Pages

24 December 2020

This paper investigates the asymptotical behavior of the equilibrium of linear classical duopolies by reconsidering the two-delay model with two different positive delays. In a two-dimensional analysis, the stability switching curves were first analy...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,272 Views
20 Pages

Spatial optimization is an integral part of GIS and spatial analysis. It involves making various decisions in space, ranging from the location of public facilities to vehicle routing and political districting. While useful, such problems (especially...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,260 Views
15 Pages

22 August 2024

In this study, the energy control and asymptotic stability of the 1D sine-Gordon equation were investigated from the viewpoint of numerical approximation. An order reduction method was employed to transform the closed-loop system into an equivalent s...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,736 Views
20 Pages

3 January 2024

Ill-posed problems arise in many areas of science and engineering. Tikhonov is a usual regularization which replaces the original problem by a minimization problem with a fidelity term and a regularization term. In this paper, a tensor t-production s...

  • Feature Paper
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577 Views
20 Pages

11 November 2025

Stochastic differential equations (SDEs) with multiple conserved quantities are ubiquitous in scientific fields, modeling systems from molecular dynamics to celestial mechanics. While geometric numerical integrators that preserve single invariants ar...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
911 Views
25 Pages

24 April 2025

Acoustic pyrometry (AP) is a promising methodology for high-quality temperature field reconstruction, which is widely used in the monitoring of atmosphere, room, and furnace. However, most of the existing acoustic reconstruction algorithms are develo...

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  • Open Access
318 Views
22 Pages

6 February 2026

To examine how grain-size distribution affects the mechanical response and fracture behavior of Lac du Bonnet (LdB) granite under uniaxial compression, numerical simulations were conducted using the particle flow code (PFC) with a grain-based model....

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,593 Views
29 Pages

28 September 2025

Controlled demolition is a critical engineering practice that enables the safe and efficient dismantling of structures while minimizing risks to the surrounding environment. This study presents, for the first time, a detailed, structured framework fo...

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  • Open Access
2,693 Views
16 Pages

19 July 2021

The deformation of a solid due to changing boundary conditions is described by a deformation gradient in Euclidean space. If the deformation process is reversible (conservative), the work done by the changing boundary conditions is stored as potentia...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,253 Views
18 Pages

Control and Optimization of Interfacial Flows Using Adjoint-Based Techniques

  • Alexandru Fikl,
  • Vincent Le Chenadec and
  • Taraneh Sayadi

10 September 2020

The applicability of adjoint-based gradient computation is investigated in the context of interfacial flows. Emphasis is set on the approximation of the transport of a characteristic function in a potential flow by means of an algebraic volume-of-flu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,205 Views
23 Pages

This paper investigates the problem of real-time parameter identification for ship maneuvering parameters and wave peak frequency in an ocean environment. Based on the idea of Euler discretion, a combined model of ship maneuvering and wave peak frequ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,341 Views
22 Pages

Performance Assessment of Algorithms for Building Energy Optimization Problems with Different Properties

  • Binghui Si,
  • Zhichao Tian,
  • Wenqiang Chen,
  • Xing Jin,
  • Xin Zhou and
  • Xing Shi

20 December 2018

Assessing the performance of algorithms in solving building energy optimization (BEO) problems with different properties is essential for selecting appropriate algorithms to achieve the best design solution. This study begins with a classification of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
12,828 Views
20 Pages

MAMGD: Gradient-Based Optimization Method Using Exponential Decay

  • Nikita Sakovich,
  • Dmitry Aksenov,
  • Ekaterina Pleshakova and
  • Sergey Gataullin

Optimization methods, namely, gradient optimization methods, are a key part of neural network training. In this paper, we propose a new gradient optimization method using exponential decay and the adaptive learning rate using a discrete second-order...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,831 Views
14 Pages

Due to the progress in global warming, the frequency, duration and intensity of climate extremes are increasing. As one of these extremes, heat waves influence the well-being of human beings and increase societies’ energy consumption. The Water...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,975 Views
20 Pages

Numerical Solution of the Cauchy Problem for the Helmholtz Equation Using Nesterov’s Accelerated Method

  • Syrym E. Kasenov,
  • Aigerim M. Tleulesova,
  • Ainur E. Sarsenbayeva and
  • Almas N. Temirbekov

23 August 2024

In this paper, the Cauchy problem for the Helmholtz equation, also known as the continuation problem, is considered. The continuation problem is reduced to a boundary inverse problem for a well-posed direct problem. A generalized solution to the dire...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,922 Views
11 Pages

18 November 2022

In this study, we devised a method for the design of continuous phase-only holographic masks that map laser light to arbitrary target illumination patterns, which have a wide range of applications. In this method, the discrete gradient of a holograph...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,973 Views
15 Pages

We solve numerically a forest management optimization problem governed by a nonlinear partial differential equation (PDE), which is a size-structured population model. The formulated problem is supplemented with a natural constraint for a solution to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
6,255 Views
17 Pages

1 May 2020

Crack growth kinetics in crystalline materials is examined both from the point of continuum mechanics and discrete dislocation dynamics. Kinetics ranging from the Griffith crack to continuous elastic-plastic cracks are analyzed. Initiation and propag...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,362 Views
11 Pages

20 October 2020

This work is devoted to the modeling and investigation of the architecture design for the delayed recurrent neural network, based on the delayed differential equations. The usage of discrete and distributed delays makes it possible to model the calcu...

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  • Open Access
479 Views
23 Pages

13 November 2025

This study is devoted to the quasi-optimal convergence analysis of a family of adaptive nonconforming elements with high-order terms, which preserve weak continuities. In contrast with the nonconforming P1 element (Crouzeix–Raviart element) the...

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