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  • Article
  • Open Access
226 Views
25 Pages

1 October 2026

In selective catalytic reduction (SCR) systems, urea-water solution (UWS) is injected upstream of the catalyst, where water evaporation, urea thermolysis, and isocyanic acid (HNCO) hydrolysis release the NH3 required for NOx reduction. Data at pressu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Heat and Mass Transfer in Process Engineering: Modern Approaches)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,538 Views
21 Pages

Experimental and Numerical Replication of Thermal Conditions in High-Pressure Die-Casting Process

  • Abdelfatah M. Teamah,
  • Ahmed M. Teamah,
  • Mohamed S. Hamed and
  • Sumanth Shankar

25 November 2025

Acquiring reliable thermal data during the high-pressure die-casting (HPDC) process remains a significant challenge due to its complexity and rapidly evolving thermal environment. In industrial settings, the influence of process parameters is typical...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Phase Flow and Heat Transfer Processes in Thermal Engineering and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
315 Views
19 Pages

Processing, Characterization, and Thermomechanical Performance of YSZ/SiCN Ceramic Matrix Composites Under Hydrogen Combustion

  • Christopher Varela,
  • Luis Longas,
  • Fahim Faysal,
  • Jayanta Bhusan Deb,
  • Yiting Wang,
  • Chiranjit Maiti,
  • Kareem Ahmed and
  • Jihua Gou

19 September 2026

Ceramic matrix composites (CMCs) are promising thermal-protection materials for hydrogen-fueled gas turbines, where components are exposed to high temperatures, steam-rich combustion products, and pressure-driven heat transfer. This study investigate...

(This article belongs to the Section Composites Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,391 Views
12 Pages

Thermal Insulation Performance of SiC-Doped Silica Aerogels under Large Temperature and Air Pressure Differences

  • Sheng-Nan Zhang,
  • Hao-Qiang Pang,
  • Ting-Hui Fan,
  • Qing Ye,
  • Qi-Lin Cai and
  • Xi Wu

20 May 2022

Silica aerogel composite is an excellent thermal insulator for spacecraft under high-temperature and complex air environments. This study intends to evaluate SiC-doped silica aerogel’s thermal insulation performance under large temperature and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
610 Views
25 Pages

Accurately predicting the temperature field of turbine blades is of great significance for evaluating the thermal reliability and service life of high-temperature components in aero-engines. However, due to the high computational cost of numerical si...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
350 Views
25 Pages

Flexible h-BN/GaN Heterostructure Thin-Film Piezoelectric Sensors for Harsh Environments

  • Yi Peng,
  • Wenwang Wei,
  • Zhi Hu,
  • Xiaolan Huang,
  • Jianzhi Bai,
  • Xifeng Xie,
  • Qunsong He,
  • Yang Zhou,
  • Bei Huang and
  • Lingyun Liu
  • + 3 authors

28 August 2026

Harsh-environment pressure sensing requires piezoelectric materials that can simultaneously withstand elevated temperature, mechanical loading, and structural degradation. GaN is a promising lead-free piezoelectric semiconductor owing to its wide ban...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue 2D Materials: Fundamentals and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
805 Views
26 Pages

7 April 2026

With the continuous expansion of deepwater oil and gas development, annular pressure buildup in gas wells has become an increasingly critical safety concern. Rupture discs, as passive pressure relief devices, have attracted attention for potential ap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Oil and Gas Drilling Processes: Control and Optimization, 2nd Edition)
  • Review
  • Open Access
605 Views
22 Pages

14 August 2026

Under high-Mach-number flight conditions, the combustion chambers of hypersonic vehicles encounter extreme thermal environments marked by unilateral heating, high-heat-flux density, and supercritical pressure. Traditional hydrocarbon fuel cooling oft...

(This article belongs to the Section Aeronautics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,426 Views
16 Pages

Accurate Measurements of a Wavelength Drift in High-Temperature Silica-Fiber Bragg Gratings

  • Sergey Dedyulin,
  • Elena Timakova,
  • Dan Grobnic,
  • Cyril Hnatovsky,
  • Andrew D. W. Todd and
  • Stephen J. Mihailov

14 April 2021

Fiber Bragg gratings (FBG) are extensively used to perform high-temperature measurements in harsh environments, however the drift of the characteristic Bragg wavelength affects their long-term stability resulting in an erroneous temperature measureme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
294 Views
19 Pages

Plasma Characteristics in Underwater Laser Welding via In Situ Observation and Optical Emission Spectroscopy

  • Chengyong Ma,
  • Jie Su,
  • Yang Yang,
  • Qiren Zhao,
  • Qing Guo,
  • Manpeng Wu and
  • Zhen Luo

9 September 2026

During underwater laser welding, the coupling among water cooling, gas–liquid interface disturbances, and metal-vapor recoil pressure means that the relationships among plasma evolution, the thermal state of the keyhole, and spatter behavior re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research Progress of Laser Welding Technology of Metals and Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
278 Views
44 Pages

14 September 2026

This paper presents a real-time browser-based platform for thermohydraulic characterization of a compact laboratory heating system, developed using the PolyVR research-grade virtual reality engine. Experimental measurements are retrieved at 1 Hz from...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
561 Views
22 Pages

High rock temperature (HRT) and its associated thermal hazards, alongside secondary mechanical risks such as swelling pressures induced in clay layers, pose severe threats to the construction safety of deep-buried tunnels. This study aims to quantita...

(This article belongs to the Section Geotechnical, Geological and Environmental Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,331 Views
17 Pages

11 November 2022

With the depletion of shallow mineral resources, the sustainable development and utilization of deep mineral resources will become a normal activity. As a type of clean energy to promote sustainable development, gas in deep coal seams has attracted w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green and Scientific Design of Deep Underground Engineering)