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10 Citations
3,608 Views
11 Pages

This paper aims to simplify the continuity conditions of Bézier curves. For this purpose, a special family of Bézier curves with three parameters, to be called adjustable Bézier curves, is constructed. They have the same structure as the quartic Bézi...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,535 Views
24 Pages

The local controlled generalized H-Bézier model is one of the most useful tools for shape designs and geometric representations in computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), which is owed to its good geometric properties, e.g., symmetry and shape...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,576 Views
28 Pages

The skyline query processing problem has been well studied for many years. The literature on skyline algorithms so far mainly considers static query points on static attributes. With the popular usage of mobile devices along with the increasing numbe...

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  • Open Access
37 Citations
5,977 Views
31 Pages

12 June 2020

The main objective of this paper is to construct the various shapes and font designing of curves and to describe the curvature by using parametric and geometric continuity constraints of generalized hybrid trigonometric Bézier (GHT-Bézi...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,217 Views
16 Pages

20 October 2021

In order to solve the problem of geometric design and architectural design of complex engineering surface, we introduce the parametric and geometric continuity constraints of generalized C-Bézier curves and surfaces with shape parameters. Firstly, ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,242 Views
32 Pages

Generalized Fractional Bézier Curve with Shape Parameters

  • Syed Ahmad Aidil Adha Said Mad Zain,
  • Md Yushalify Misro and
  • Kenjiro T. Miura

2 September 2021

The construction of new basis functions for the Bézier or B-spline curve has been one of the most popular themes in recent studies in Computer Aided Geometric Design (CAGD). Implementing the new basis functions with shape parameters provides a differ...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,092 Views
18 Pages

Explicit Continuity Conditions for G1 Connection of S-λ Curves and Surfaces

  • Gang Hu,
  • Huinan Li,
  • Muhammad Abbas,
  • Kenjiro T. Miura and
  • Guoling Wei

13 August 2020

The S-λ model is one of the most useful tools for shape designs and geometric representations in computer-aided geometric design (CAGD), which is due to its good geometric properties such as symmetry, shape adjustable property. With the aim to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,397 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Dynamic Behavior of Spray Boom under Step Excitation

  • Junchao Yan,
  • Xinyu Xue,
  • Longfei Cui,
  • Suming Ding,
  • Wei Gu and
  • Feixiang Le

28 October 2021

Dynamic behavior modeling and parameter optimization of the spray boom based on multi-body vibration were developed to study the influence of the boom sprayer’s motion in a complex working environment on the dynamic behavior of the spray boom. First,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,912 Views
13 Pages

To improve the characteristics of a tractor power transmission system, make the transmission system not only meet the geometric principle but also meet the working speed requirements of the tractor, realize the continuous adjustment of the speed rati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,549 Views
17 Pages

15 June 2018

This paper aims to illustrate how SABO (Semi-Analytical method for Barrier Option pricing) is easily applicable for pricing floating strike Asian barrier options with a continuous geometric average. Recently, this method has been applied in the Black...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
4,865 Views
25 Pages

Geometric Modeling Using New Cubic Trigonometric B-Spline Functions with Shape Parameter

  • Abdul Majeed,
  • Muhammad Abbas,
  • Faiza Qayyum,
  • Kenjiro T. Miura,
  • Md Yushalify Misro and
  • Tahir Nazir

24 November 2020

Trigonometric B-spline curves with shape parameters are equally important and useful for modeling in Computer-Aided Geometric Design (CAGD) like classical B-spline curves. This paper introduces the cubic polynomial and rational cubic B-spline curves...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,074 Views
21 Pages

Invariant Image Representation Using Novel Fractional-Order Polar Harmonic Fourier Moments

  • Chunpeng Wang,
  • Hongling Gao,
  • Meihong Yang,
  • Jian Li,
  • Bin Ma and
  • Qixian Hao

23 February 2021

Continuous orthogonal moments, for which continuous functions are used as kernel functions, are invariant to rotation and scaling, and they have been greatly developed over the recent years. Among continuous orthogonal moments, polar harmonic Fourier...

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  • Open Access
1,527 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2024

Historically and to date, the continuity equation (C.E.) has served as a consistency criterion for the development of physical theories. In this paper, we study the C.E. employing the mathematical framework of space–time algebra (STA), showing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,509 Views
22 Pages

1 April 2020

The parametric method of product design is a pivotal and practical technique in computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and used in many manufacturing sectors. In this paper, we presented a novel parametric method to design a kitchen produc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,406 Views
21 Pages

9 September 2021

Generally speaking, it is difficult to compute the values of the Gaussian quantum discord and Gaussian geometric discord for Gaussian states, which limits their application. In the present paper, for any (n+m)-mode continuous-variable system, a compu...

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  • Open Access
1,224 Views
25 Pages

The shape design and optimization of complex disk curves is a crucial and intractable technique in computer-aided design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM). Based on disk Wang–Ball (DWB) curves, this paper defines a novel combined disk Wang–Ball...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,627 Views
15 Pages

1 August 2020

Calcifying marine green algae of genus Halimeda have siphonous thalli composed of repeated segments. Their outer surface is formed by laterally appressed peripheral utricles which often form a honeycomb structure, typically with varying degrees of as...

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  • Open Access
703 Views
26 Pages

16 September 2025

In this paper, we present a transient-format time-continuous Galerkin finite element method for fully intrinsic geometrically exact beam equations that are energy-consistent. Within the grid of space and time, we derive governing equations for elemen...

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  • Open Access

The Impact of Geometric Continuities (C1, C2, and C3) on the Trajectories of Industrial Robots

  • Cozmin Adrian Cristoiu,
  • Marius-Valentin Drăgoi,
  • Roxana-Mariana Nechita,
  • Bogdan Nicolae Stoian,
  • Cristina Luciana Dudici,
  • Roxana-Adriana Puiu and
  • Gabriel Petrea

This article presents a mathematical analysis of the geometric continuity of industrial robot trajectories, highlighting the influence of continuity conditions on velocity, acceleration, and vibration profiles. This study proposes an original approac...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,370 Views
25 Pages

Discussed is the implementation of a continuation technique for the analysis of nonlinear structural problems, which is capable of accounting for geometric and dissipative requirements. The strategy can be applied for solving quasi-static problems, w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,796 Views
14 Pages

Geometric Partition Entropy: Coarse-Graining a Continuous State Space

  • Christopher Tyler Diggans and
  • Abd AlRahman R. AlMomani

8 October 2022

Entropy is re-examined as a quantification of ignorance in the predictability of a one dimensional continuous phenomenon. Although traditional estimators for entropy have been widely utilized in this context, we show that both the thermodynamic and S...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,318 Views
14 Pages

The likelihood ratio for a continuous gravitational wave signal is viewed geometrically as a function of the orientation of two vectors; one representing the optimal signal-to-noise ratio, and the other representing the maximised likelihood ratio or...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,823 Views
23 Pages

25 October 2018

The modeling of free-form engineering complex curves is an important subject in product modeling, graphics, and computer aided design/computer aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM). In this paper, we propose a novel method to construct free-form complex curv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,713 Views
19 Pages

19 December 2024

External gear pumps with an involute tooth profile are used in many applications because of their simple shape, low production cost, and excellent reliability. However, they can be characterized by the generation of vibration and noise, due to the pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,047 Views
16 Pages

11 April 2022

Cranial implants, especially custom made implants, are complex, important and necessary in craniofacial fracture restoration surgery. However, the classical procedure of the manual design of the implant is time consuming and complicated. Different co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,419 Views
13 Pages

20 April 2020

In this work, a systematic approach based on the geometric observer is proposed to design a model-based soft sensor, which allows the estimation of quality indexes in a bioreactor. The study is focused on the structure design problem where the set of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5,810 Views
13 Pages

Nanoparticle-Surface Interactions in Geometrical Separation Devices

  • Anthony P. Malanoski,
  • Brandy J. Johnson,
  • Jeffrey S. Erickson,
  • Carrie K. Sun,
  • Connie S. Scoggins,
  • Mansoor Nasir,
  • Jason E. Bongard and
  • Martin H. Moore

11 September 2015

This study sought to demonstrate the impact of surface-target interactions in a device bearing geometrical features through evaluations of chemical modification to the surface and alteration of the charge state of both surface and targets. The moveme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
2,342 Views
13 Pages

31 August 2022

In this paper, we establish new generalizations of the Hermite-Hadamard-type inequalities. These inequalities are formulated in terms of modules of certain powers of proper functions. Generalizations for convex functions are also considered. As appli...

  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
3,424 Views
17 Pages

Generalized Developable Cubic Trigonometric Bézier Surfaces

  • Muhammad Ammad,
  • Md Yushalify Misro,
  • Muhammad Abbas and
  • Abdul Majeed

31 January 2021

This paper introduces a new approach for the fabrication of generalized developable cubic trigonometric Bézier (GDCT-Bézier) surfaces with shape parameters to address the fundamental issue of local surface shape adjustment. The GDCT-B&e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,411 Views
15 Pages

Bicubic Splines for Fast-Contracting Control Nets

  • Kȩstutis Karčiauskas,
  • Kyle Shih-Huang Lo,
  • Erkan Gunpinar and
  • Jörg Peters

9 June 2024

Merging parallel quad strips facilitates narrowing surface passages, and allows a design to transition to a simpler shape. While a number of spline surface constructions exist for the isotropic case where n pieces join, few existing spline constructi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,660 Views
23 Pages

31 August 2024

This article analyses and evaluates the model used by the Jastrzebie Coal Company in Poland to forecast the values of continuous deformations of land surfaces caused by underground mining. Particular attention is paid to the values of terrain inclina...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,722 Views
21 Pages

15 September 2023

Fifth generation (5G) networks support ultra-reliable low-latency communications (URLLC) and enhanced mobile broadband (eMBB). The coexistence of URLLC and eMBB is often organized by non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA), giving priority to URLLC and...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,741 Views
16 Pages

Geometric Mean Serum Cotinine Concentrations Confirm a Continued Decline in Secondhand Smoke Exposure among U.S. Nonsmokers—NHANES 2003 to 2018

  • Kevin T. Caron,
  • Wanzhe Zhu,
  • John T. Bernert,
  • Lanqing Wang,
  • Benjamin C. Blount,
  • Kristin Dortch,
  • Ronald E. Hunter,
  • Tia Harmon,
  • J. Ricky Akins and
  • Connie S. Sosnoff
  • + 3 authors

The objective of this study was to examine long-term trends in serum cotinine (COT) concentrations, as a measure of secondhand smoke (SHS) exposure, in U.S. nonsmokers using data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys (NHANES) fro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,074 Views
24 Pages

A Continuous, Semi-Automated Workflow: From 3D City Models with Geometric Optimization and CFD Simulations to Visualization of Wind in an Urban Environment

  • Martina E. Deininger,
  • Maximilian von der Grün,
  • Raul Piepereit,
  • Sven Schneider,
  • Thunyathep Santhanavanich,
  • Volker Coors and
  • Ursula Voß

The concept and implementation of Smart Cities is an important approach to improve decision making as well as quality of life of the growing urban population. An essential part of this is the presentation of data from different sources within a digit...

  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,652 Views
30 Pages

20 December 2019

A major neglected weakness of many ecological models is the numerical method used to solve the governing systems of differential equations. Indeed, the discrete dynamics described by numerical integrators can provide spurious solution of the correspo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,307 Views
12 Pages

Non-Standard Analysis for Regularization of Geometric-Zeno Behaviour in Hybrid Systems

  • Ayman Aljarbouh,
  • Muhammad Fayaz and
  • Muhammad Shuaib Qureshi

Geometric-Zeno behaviour is a highly challenging problem in the analysis (including simulation) of hybrid systems. Geometric-Zeno can be defined as an infinite number of discrete mode switches in a finite time interval. Typically, for hybrid models e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,457 Views
12 Pages

On a Surface Associated with Pascal’s Triangle

  • Valeriu Beiu,
  • Leonard Dăuş,
  • Marilena Jianu,
  • Adela Mihai and
  • Ion Mihai

19 February 2022

An open problem in reliability theory is that of finding all the coefficients of the reliability polynomial associated with particular networks. Because reliability polynomials can be expressed in Bernstein form (hence linked to binomial coefficients...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
9,999 Views
13 Pages

16 January 2019

The objective of this paper is to propose a mathematical interpretation of the continuous geometric proportion (Timaeus, 32a) with which Plato accomplishes the goal to unify, harmonically and symmetrically, the Two Opposite Elements of Timaeus Cosmos...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,560 Views
28 Pages

25 July 2024

Machine vision is a desirable non-contact measurement method for hot forgings, as image segmentation has been a challenging issue in performance and robustness resulting from the diversity of working conditions for hot forgings. Thus, this paper prop...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,706 Views
18 Pages

Numerical Continuation of Limit Cycle Oscillations and Bifurcations in High-Aspect-Ratio Wings

  • Andrew J. Eaton,
  • Chris Howcroft,
  • Etienne B. Coetzee,
  • Simon A. Neild,
  • Mark H. Lowenberg and
  • Jonathan E. Cooper

This paper applies numerical continuation techniques to a nonlinear aeroelastic model of a highly flexible, high-aspect-ratio wing. Using continuation, it is shown that subcritical limit cycle oscillations, which are highly undesirable phenomena prev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
342 Views
22 Pages

24 December 2025

This expository paper provides a unified and pedagogical introduction to optimal quantization for probability measures supported on spherical curves and discrete subsets of the sphere, emphasizing both continuous and discrete settings. We first prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
1,631 Views
21 Pages

Construction of Local-Shape-Controlled Quartic Generalized Said-Ball Model

  • Jiaoyue Zheng,
  • Xiaomin Ji,
  • Zhaozhao Ma and
  • Gang Hu

19 May 2023

Said-Ball curves and surfaces are extensively applied in the realm of geometric modeling. Their appearance is only decided by the control points, which produces a great deal of inconvenience for the shape design of sophisticated products. To overcome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,878 Views
22 Pages

16 August 2023

As virtual reality and 3D-modeling technology continue to advance, the amount of digital geometric media data is growing at an explosive rate. For example, 3D meshes, an important type of digital geometric media, can precisely record geometric inform...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,704 Views
24 Pages

26 July 2024

In this paper, we propose a discrete Hamilton–Jacobi theory for (discrete) Hamiltonian dynamics defined on a (discrete) contact manifold. To this end, we first provide a novel geometric Hamilton–Jacobi theory for continuous contact Hamilt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,154 Views
14 Pages

Curve and Surface Geometric Modeling via Generalized Bézier-like Model

  • Moavia Ameer,
  • Muhammad Abbas,
  • Kenjiro T. Miura,
  • Abdul Majeed and
  • Tahir Nazir

24 March 2022

Generalized Bernstein-like functions (gB-like functions) with different shape parameters are used in this work. Parametric and geometric conditions in generalized form are developed. Some numerical examples of the parametric continuity (PC) and geome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,121 Views
24 Pages

17 January 2023

In this paper, a space-time finite element method based on a Galerkin-weighted residual method is proposed to solve the nonlinear fully intrinsic equations of geometrically exact beam which are first-order partial differential equations about time an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,070 Views
13 Pages

14 February 2022

As a very common type of laser additive manufacturing technology, laser material deposition (LMD) is widely used, having exceptional application advantages including surface enhancing, repairing damaged parts with high value-add, and building functio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,020 Views
13 Pages

15 November 2024

This article investigates the spatial decay properties and continuous dependence on the basic geometric structure. Assuming that the total potential energy is bounded and the homogeneous Dirichlet condition is satisfied on the side of the solution wi...

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