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  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,484 Views
15 Pages

4 November 2021

Due to their convenience, water measuring structures have become an important means of measuring water in irrigation canal systems However, relevant research on upstream and downstream water-depth monitoring point locations is scarce. Our study aims...

  • Article
  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,413 Views
15 Pages

Correction of Flow Curves and Constitutive Modelling of a Ti-6Al-4V Alloy

  • Ming Hu,
  • Limin Dong,
  • Zhiqiang Zhang,
  • Xiaofei Lei,
  • Rui Yang and
  • Yuhui Sha

10 April 2018

Isothermal uniaxial compressions of a Ti-6Al-4V alloy were carried out in the temperature range of 800–1050 °C and strain rate range of 0.001–1 s−1. The effects of friction between the specimen and anvils as well as the increase in temperature caused...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
7,193 Views
20 Pages

8 April 2019

Simulation studies were performed on filling imbalance in geometrically balanced injection molds. A special simulation procedure was applied to simulate properly the phenomenon, including inertia effects and 3D tetrahedron meshing as well as meshing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,629 Views
26 Pages

Discharge Coefficient and Pressure Loss Characteristics of Multi-Branch Oil Jet Nozzles

  • Yanyang Zhang,
  • Xinyuan Yang,
  • Hongmei Wu,
  • Xin Huang,
  • Yu Dai and
  • Xiang Zhu

4 September 2025

In aeronautic industry applications, multi-branch oil jet nozzles are commonly employed to supply lubricating oil, ensuring adequate thermal regulation and friction control for high-speed gears or bearings. The geometric and operational parameters of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,978 Views
18 Pages

30 July 2018

The disadvantage of radar measurements is that the obtained rainfall data is imprecise. Therefore, the use of radar data in hydrological applications usually requires correction. The main aim of the study was to verify and optimize various methods of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,256 Views
23 Pages

Influence of Flow Disturbances behind the 90° Bend on the Indications of the Ultrasonic Flow Meter with Clamp-On Sensors on Pipelines

  • Piotr Synowiec,
  • Artur Andruszkiewicz,
  • Wiesław Wędrychowicz,
  • Piotr Piechota and
  • Elżbieta Wróblewska

28 January 2021

The subject matter of the article concerns velocities/flow rate measurements in the area of disturbed flows-behind the 90° bend. They were conducted by means of an ultrasonic flowmeter with clamp-on sensors on pipeline, for water and two different Re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,299 Views
19 Pages

Simple Empirical Relation for an Evacuated-Tube Solar Collector Performance Prediction from Solar Intensity

  • Nattapat Pongboriboon,
  • Wei Wu,
  • Walairat Chandra-ambhorn,
  • Patthranit Wongpromrat and
  • Eakarach Bumrungthaichaichan

28 August 2023

In this paper, the effect of solar intensity on the heat pipe tip temperature in a heat pipe type—evacuated-tube solar collector (HP-ETSC) was investigated. A simple relation was proposed, relating the solar intensity to the heat pipe tip tempe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,399 Views
13 Pages

27 April 2022

The application of sludge in the manufacture of ceramic material provides an outlet for waste disposal. In this study, we aimed to produce a new lightweight aggregate applications in concrete. The influence of burning temperature on the ignition loss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,237 Views
21 Pages

28 July 2019

Diffuse correlation spectroscopy (DCS) has widely been used as a non-invasive optical technique to measure tissue perfusion in vivo. DCS measurements are quantified to yield information about moving scatterers using photon diffusion theory and are th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,127 Views
20 Pages

This paper presents an improved k-ω SST turbulence model to enhance the simulation accuracy of Bluff Body Bypassing Problems (BBBPs) within the Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) framework. Although RANS methods are computationally ef...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,075 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...

  • Article
  • Open Access
79 Citations
5,684 Views
15 Pages

Thermal Analysis of Nanofluid Flow over a Curved Stretching Surface Suspended by Carbon Nanotubes with Internal Heat Generation

  • Fitnat Saba,
  • Naveed Ahmed,
  • Saqib Hussain,
  • Umar Khan,
  • Syed Tauseef Mohyud-Din and
  • Maslina Darus

8 March 2018

We have investigated a two-dimensional radiative flow of a boundary layer nature. The fluid under consideration is carbon nanotube (CNT)-based nanofluid and it flows over a curved surface. The heat transfer through the flow is analyzed under the infl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
5,545 Views
8 Pages

19 March 2016

Isothermal compression tests of BSTMUF601 super-alloy in the temperature range of 950 °C–1200 °C and at the strain rates of 0.2 s−1, 5 s−1, 10 s−1 were performed on a Gleeble-1500D thermo-mechanical simulator. Based on the hyperbolic sine function, t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
329 Views
17 Pages

28 February 2026

The objective of this research is to analyze the impact of consumer price index, exchange rate, broad money supply, and export on tax revenue in Cambodia. The short-run effects from the ARDL cointegration model suggest that inflation negatively influ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,859 Views
20 Pages

16 November 2022

In order to improve the efficiency of the system and promote its application in other industries, the performance of a thermoelectric subcooled CO2 transcritical heat pump system was studied. A simulation model of the system was established using ste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,342 Views
24 Pages

Dynamic Modeling of Heat Exchangers Based on Mechanism and Reinforcement Learning Synergy

  • Hao Sun,
  • Zile Jia,
  • Meng Zhao,
  • Jiayuan Tian,
  • Dan Liu and
  • Yifei Wang

The current lack of a high-precision, real-time model applicable to the control optimization process of heat exchange systems, especially the difficulty in determining the overall heat transfer coefficient K of heat exchanger operating parameters in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,880 Views
17 Pages

Soft Sensor of Heating Extraction Steam Flow Rate Based on Frequency Complementary Information Fusion for CHP Plant

  • Liang Tian,
  • Xinping Liu,
  • Huanhuan Luo,
  • Tuoyu Deng,
  • Jizhen Liu,
  • Guiping Zhou and
  • Tianting Zhang

11 June 2021

Heating extraction steam (HEXTR) flow rate is the key parameter to determine the heat load of a combined heat and power (CHP) plant and the safe operation area of the steam turbine of CHP plant. Due to the difficulty of direct measurement, a soft mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,585 Views
18 Pages

27 March 2025

Due to moisture migration effects, thermal and moisture bridges tend to form at building joints, thereby increasing the thermal conductivity coefficient of construction materials. To examine the influence of moisture transfer on the thermal performan...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,501 Views
15 Pages

Research on the Measurement Method of Feeding Rate in Silage Harvester Based on Components Power Data

  • Fengzhu Wang,
  • Jizhong Wang,
  • Yuxi Ji,
  • Bo Zhao,
  • Yangchun Liu,
  • Hanlu Jiang and
  • Wenhua Mao

For existing problems, such as the complex interactions between a crop and a machine, the measuring difficulty and the limited measurement precision of the feeding quantity within the corn silage harvester, a method of feeding rate measurement based...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,762 Views
17 Pages

19 January 2024

High-temperature compression tests on Mg-11.5Li-2.5Zn-0.35Al-0.3Y (in wt.%) were carried out on a Gleeble-3500 thermal simulator. Flow stress and microstructural evolution were analyzed at different temperatures (T = 473 K, 523 K, 573 K, and 623 K) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,062 Views
22 Pages

5 March 2020

The recently developed GENTOP (Generalized Two Phase Flow) concept, which is based on the multifield Euler‒Euler approach, was applied to model a free-surface vortex—a flow situation that is relevant for hydraulic intake. A new bubble entrainme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,048 Views
14 Pages

21 November 2022

The most popular sap flow measurement technique uses thermal dissipation probes. Differences in wood characteristics and the natural temperature gradient between probes have affected the accuracy and applicability of the sap flow equation. In additio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,497 Views
48 Pages

23 December 2022

In the present study, numerical simulations are performed to identify the role of Reynolds number (Re), Richardson number (Ri) and free-stream orientations (α) on flow structures, aerodynamic parameters and heat transfer characteristics for the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,023 Views
26 Pages

1 December 2022

The present work numerically investigates the flow behavior of Newtonian fluid between rotating disk systems. Rotating disk flow is an embranchment of fundamental flow research, which forms the theoretical basis for the flow media in many disk-type h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,311 Views
18 Pages

20 January 2023

In water resources management, it is essential to have a full and complete set of hydrological parameters to create accurate models. Especially for long-term data, any shortcomings may need to be filled using the appropriate methods. Moving the recor...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,434 Views
20 Pages

Viscosity Loss and Hydraulic Pressure Drop on Multilayer Separate Polymer Injection in Concentric Dual-Tubing

  • Yi Zhang,
  • Jiexiang Wang,
  • Peng Jia,
  • Xiao Liu,
  • Xuxu Zhang,
  • Chang Liu and
  • Xiangwei Bai

2 April 2020

Multilayer separate polymer injection in concentric dual-tubing is a special method for enhancing oil recovery in later development stage of the multilayer formation. During the injection process, heat exchange occurs among the inner tubing, tubing a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
4,187 Views
21 Pages

24 July 2023

Measuring the shear viscosity of polymeric melts is an extensive effort frequently performed in high-pressure capillary rheometers, where the pressures required to push the melt through a capillary at various temperatures and volumetric flow rates ar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,016 Views
27 Pages

18 November 2021

A hybrid H2–air kinetic scheme of 11 species and 15 reactions is developed, which is capable of simulating the high-temperature air reaction flows and H2–O2 combustion flows respectively or simultaneously. Based on the Gupta scheme, the mole fraction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,425 Views
22 Pages

20 October 2022

Compared with traditional forming technology, ultrasonic vibration-assisted plastic forming technology can improve the forming conditions and obtain better surface quality of the workpiece. However, the mechanism and theory of ultrasonic action have...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
552 Views
28 Pages

Hierarchical Line Loss Allocation Methods for Low-Voltage Distribution Networks with Distributed Photovoltaics

  • Qingjiong Peng,
  • Haobo Zhang,
  • Haotian Cai,
  • Hongwe Li,
  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Xiangang Peng and
  • Zhuoli Zhao

22 October 2025

The bidirectional power flows and time-varying characteristics generated by distributed photovoltaic integration into low-voltage distribution networks pose accuracy and fairness challenges to traditional line loss allocation methods. Existing method...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,106 Views
18 Pages

Microstructure Evolution and Constitutive Model of Spray-Formed 7055 Forging Aluminum Alloy

  • Yu Deng,
  • Huyou Zhao,
  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Mingliang Cui,
  • Xuanjie Zhao,
  • Jiansheng Zhang and
  • Jie Zhou

1 September 2025

The thermal deformation behaviour of a spray-formed 7055 as-forged aluminium alloy was studied using isothermal hot-press tests under different deformation conditions (strain rates of 0.01, 0.1, 1, and 10 s−1, temperatures of 340, 370, 400, 430...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,731 Views
17 Pages

Secondary Motion of Non-Spherical Particles in Gas Solid Flows

  • Cihan Ates,
  • Joel Arweiler,
  • Habeb Hadad,
  • Rainer Koch and
  • Hans-Jörg Bauer

30 April 2023

Objective of this study is to investigate the effect of secondary motion of particles in multiphase gas-solid flows parametrically and test the relative impacts of particle shape and orientation information on particle distribution. For that purpose,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,294 Views
17 Pages

4 January 2017

In this paper, an aqueous solution of xanthan gum (XG) at a weight fraction as high as 0.2% was elected as the non-Newtonian base liquid, the multi-walled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) dispersed into non-Newtonian XG aqueous at different weight factions...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,713 Views
19 Pages

3 August 2022

In the Northern China Plain (NCP), sunken solar greenhouses (SSG) are now increasingly being used for vegetable cultivation in winter due to low winter temperatures. Investigating plant transpiration and determining crop coefficients are helpful when...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,538 Views
15 Pages

Identification of Preferential Runoff Belts in Jinan Spring Basin Based on Hydrological Time-Series Correlation

  • Shuyao Niu,
  • Longcang Shu,
  • Hu Li,
  • Hua Xiang,
  • Xin Wang,
  • Portia Annabelle Opoku and
  • Yuxi Li

17 November 2021

The Jinan karst system is one of the typical karst systems in North China. The karst springs in Jinan are important historical heritage in China. However, in recent years, due to urbanization and the excessive exploitation of groundwater resources in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,185 Views
24 Pages

22 January 2024

This study proposes a simulation technique for investigating a battery thermal management system based on direct refrigerant cooling (BTMS-DRC). The main focus is to investigate the temperature uniformity and working temperature of the module housing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,713 Views
23 Pages

Characterization of the Aeration and Hydrodynamics in Vertical-Wheel Bioreactors

  • Pedro M. Neto,
  • Diogo E. S. Nogueira,
  • Yas Hashimura,
  • Sunghoon Jung,
  • Bruno Pedras,
  • Mário N. Berberan-Santos,
  • Tiago Palmeira,
  • Brian Lee,
  • Joaquim M. S. Cabral and
  • Carlos A. V. Rodrigues
  • + 1 author

In this work, the oxygen transport and hydrodynamic flow of the PBS Vertical-Wheel MINI 0.1 bioreactor were characterized using experimental data and computational fluid dynamics simulations. Data acquired from spectroscopy-based oxygenation m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
5,207 Views
9 Pages

Neglected Comorbidity of Chronic Heart Failure: Iron Deficiency

  • Hana Manceau,
  • Jérome Ausseil,
  • Damien Masson,
  • Jean-Paul Feugeas,
  • Bernard Sablonniere,
  • Régis Guieu,
  • Hervé Puy and
  • Katell Peoc’h

5 August 2022

Iron deficiency is a significant comorbidity of heart failure (HF), defined as the inability of the myocardium to provide sufficient blood flow. However, iron deficiency remains insufficiently detected. Iron-deficiency anemia, defined as a decrease i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
351 Views
21 Pages

4 March 2026

Myocardial infarction (MI) is a life-threatening cardiovascular disorder caused by a partial or complete interruption of oxygenated blood flow to the myocardium, leading to high mortality rates if not diagnosed promptly. Although electrocardiogram (E...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,524 Views
20 Pages

The online dynamic collection of irrigation and plant physiological information is crucial for the precise irrigation management of nutrient solutions and efficient crop cultivation in vegetable soilless substrate cultivation facilities. In this stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,022 Views
13 Pages

CFD Modeling of Heat Exchanger with Small Bent Radius Coils Using Porous Media Model

  • Sergey Dmitriev,
  • Andrey Kurkin,
  • Aleksandr Dobrov,
  • Denis Doronkov,
  • Aleksey Pronin and
  • Dmitry Solntsev

28 April 2023

The efficiency of heat transfer in air-cooled heat exchangers of various industrial facilities depends on the flow rate of the coolant, its inlet temperature and ambient temperature. These parameters are transient and depend both on the features of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
530 Views
25 Pages

28 January 2026

Precise identification of weeds at the maize seedling stage is pivotal for implementing Site-Specific Weed Management and minimizing herbicide environmental pollution. However, the performance of existing lightweight detectors is severely bottlenecke...