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An Adaptive Local Time-Stepping Method Applied to Storm Surge Inundation Simulation

  • Pubing Yu,
  • Tao Ji,
  • Xiuguang Wu,
  • Yifan Chen and
  • Guilin Liu

27 February 2025

This study proposes an adaptive local time stepping (LTS) method based on a two-dimensional shallow water model for simulating multi-scale storm surge inundation in coastal regions. By dynamically monitoring the variation in the proportion of dry/wet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,184 Views
24 Pages

17 April 2020

The engineering applications of two-dimensional (2D) hydrodynamic models are restricted by the enormous number of meshes needed and the overheads of simulation time. The aim of this study is to improve computational efficiency and optimize the balanc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,068 Views
21 Pages

A shallow water equations-based model with an improved local time-stepping (LTS) scheme is developed for modeling coastal hydrodynamics across multiple scales, from large areas to detailed local regions. To enhance the stability of the shallow water...

  • Article
  • Open Access
922 Views
13 Pages

9 September 2025

Alongside the development of smart water management and digital twin construction, hydrodynamic models have become a critical scientific tool in flood forecasting, with increasing attention and research focused on model computational efficiency. At t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,792 Views
25 Pages

20 May 2021

In this paper, a computationally efficient shallow water model is developed for sediment transport in the Yangtze Estuary by considering mixed cohesive and non-cohesive sediment transport. It is firstly shown that the model is capable of reproducing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,717 Views
16 Pages

A GPU-Accelerated and LTS-Based Finite Volume Shallow Water Model

  • Peng Hu,
  • Zixiong Zhao,
  • Aofei Ji,
  • Wei Li,
  • Zhiguo He,
  • Qifeng Liu,
  • Youwei Li and
  • Zhixian Cao

15 March 2022

This paper presents a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit)-accelerated and LTS (Local-time-Step)-based finite volume Shallow Water Model (SWM). The model performance is compared against the other five model versions (Single CPU versions with/without LTS, M...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,135 Views
25 Pages

29 March 2025

A GPU-accelerated shallow water model with a local time-step (LTS) is employed in this work to examine how the Coriolis forces affect the tidal level difference and, consequently, the water–sediment exchange between Hangzhou Bay (HZB) and the Y...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,097 Views
18 Pages

26 November 2018

This study discusses the localization problem based on time delay and Doppler shift for a far-field scenario. The conventional location methods employ two steps that first extract intermediate parameters from the received signals and then determine t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,020 Views
16 Pages

Multi-Sensor Passive Localization Using Direct Position Determination with Time-Varying Delay

  • Shangyu Zhang,
  • Zhen Huang,
  • Xuefeng Feng,
  • Jiazhi He and
  • Lei Shi

29 March 2019

This paper focuses on passive emitter localization using moving sensors. The increase in observation time is beneficial to improve the localization accuracy, but it could cause deterioration of the relative motion between the emitter and the sensors,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
228 Views
26 Pages

14 January 2026

Rapid detection and follow-up of electromagnetic (EM) counterparts to gravitational wave (GW) signals from binary neutron star (BNS) mergers are essential for constraining source properties and probing the physics of relativistic transients. Observat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,887 Views
16 Pages

Method for Direct Localization of Multiple Impulse Acoustic Sources in Outdoor Environment

  • Milan Mišković,
  • Nenad Vukmirović,
  • Dragan Golubović and
  • Miljko Erić

11 August 2022

A method for the direct outdoor localization of multiple impulse acoustic sources by a distributed microphone array is proposed. This localization problem is of great interest for gunshot, firecracker and explosion detection localization in a civil e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,741 Views
32 Pages

This article presents an efficient method for the numerical modeling of time fractional mixed diffusion and wave-diffusion equations with two Caputo derivatives of order 0<α<1, and 1<β<2. The numerical method is based on the La...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,593 Views
12 Pages

Single-Sensor EMI Source Localization Using Time Reversal: An Experimental Validation

  • Hamidreza Karami,
  • Mohammad Azadifar,
  • Zhaoyang Wang,
  • Marcos Rubinstein and
  • Farhad Rachidi

8 October 2021

The localization of electromagnetic interference (EMI) sources is of high importance in electromagnetic compatibility applications. Recently, a novel localization technique based on the time-reversal cavity (TRC) concept was proposed using only one s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,840 Views
26 Pages

Resource Optimization Using a Step-by-Step Scheme in Wireless UWB Sensing and Localization Networks

  • Ruihang Zhang,
  • Jiayan Yang,
  • Mu Jia,
  • Tingting Zhang and
  • Yachuan Bao

21 March 2024

Wireless localization and target sensing both rely on precise extraction of parameters such as signal amplitude, propagation delay, and Doppler shift from the received signals. Due to the high multi-path resolution and strong penetration, both locali...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,547 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2021

The knowledge of the exact position and orientation of a sensor with respect to a source (distribution) is essential for the correct solution of inverse problems. Especially when measuring with magnetic field sensors, the positions and orientations o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,612 Views
25 Pages

Multi-Information Fusion Indoor Localization Using Smartphones

  • Suqing Yan,
  • Chunping Wu,
  • Xiaonan Luo,
  • Yuanfa Ji and
  • Jianming Xiao

3 March 2023

Accurate indoor localization estimation has important social and commercial values, such as indoor location services and pedestrian retention times. Acoustic-based methods can achieve high localization accuracies in specific scenarios with special eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
3,949 Views
16 Pages

13 April 2021

Underwater source localization is an important task, especially for real-time operation. Recently, machine learning methods have been combined with supervised learning schemes. This opens new possibilities for underwater source localization. However,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,280 Views
20 Pages

26 August 2025

The performance of passive target localization is significantly influenced by the positions of unmanned aerial vehicle swarms (UAVs). In this paper, we investigate the problem of UAV path optimization to enhance the localization accuracy. Firstly, a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,667 Views
13 Pages

Nonlinear Dynamic Process Monitoring Based on Two-Step Dynamic Local Kernel Principal Component Analysis

  • Hairong Fang,
  • Wenhua Tao,
  • Shan Lu,
  • Zhijiang Lou,
  • Yonghui Wang and
  • Yuanfei Xue

7 May 2022

Nonlinearity may cause a model deviation problem, and hence, it is a challenging problem for process monitoring. To handle this issue, local kernel principal component analysis was proposed, and it achieved a satisfactory performance in static proces...

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  • Article
  • Open Access
55 Citations
6,917 Views
20 Pages

Mapping Soil Organic Carbon for Airborne and Simulated EnMAP Imagery Using the LUCAS Soil Database and a Local PLSR

  • Kathrin J. Ward,
  • Sabine Chabrillat,
  • Maximilian Brell,
  • Fabio Castaldi,
  • Daniel Spengler and
  • Saskia Foerster

20 October 2020

Soil degradation is a major threat for European soils and therefore, the European Commission recommends intensifying research on soil monitoring to capture changes over time and space. Imaging spectroscopy is a promising technique to create spatially...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,625 Views
21 Pages

This paper investigates the problem of fixed-time distributed time-varying optimization of a nonlinear fractional-order multiagent system (FOMAS) over a weight-unbalanced directed graph (digraph), where the heterogeneous unknown nonlinear functions a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
6,641 Views
19 Pages

29 November 2021

In this paper, an AGV path planning method fusing multiple heuristics rapidly exploring random tree (MH-RRT) with an improved two-step Timed Elastic Band (TEB) is proposed. The modified RRT integrating multiple heuristics can search a safer, optimal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,579 Views
15 Pages

28 July 2023

This paper focuses on the weighted complementarity problem (WCP), which is widely used in the fields of economics, sciences and engineering. Not least because of its local superlinear convergence rate, smoothing Newton methods have widespread applica...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,274 Views
19 Pages

Location of Moving Targets in Substation Non-Line-of-Sight Environment

  • Yubo Wang,
  • Weimin Yang,
  • Zheng Wang,
  • Wenjun Zhou,
  • Liang Li and
  • Hongsen Zou

3 December 2019

In substations, a localization system based on a wireless sensor network (WSN) is a challenge, because the propagation of the measured signal could be blocked by various devices. In other words, non-line-of-sight (NLOS) propagation, where the signal...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,298 Views
14 Pages

Bottom-Pressure Development Due to an Abrupt Slope Reduction at Stepped Spillways

  • Mohammad J. Ostad Mirza Tehrani,
  • Jorge Matos,
  • Michael Pfister and
  • Anton J. Schleiss

24 December 2021

Fluctuating bottom-pressures on stepped chutes are relevant for the spillway design. An abrupt slope reduction causes a local alteration of the bottom-pressure development. Little information is available regarding the air–water flow properties...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,816 Views
24 Pages

18 May 2022

A time-domain adaptive algorithm was developed for solving elasto-dynamics problems through a mixed meshless local Petrov-Galerkin finite volume method (MLPG5). In this time-adaptive algorithm, each time-dependent variable is interpolated by a time s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,881 Views
12 Pages

High-Order Schemes for Nonlinear Fractional Differential Equations

  • Omar Alsayyed,
  • Fadi Awawdeh,
  • Safwan Al-Shara’ and
  • Edris Rawashdeh

We propose high-order schemes for nonlinear fractional initial value problems. We split the fractional integral into a history term and a local term. We take advantage of the sum of exponentials (SOE) scheme in order to approximate the history term....

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,754 Views
21 Pages

OPT-FRAC-CHN: Optimal Fractional Continuous Hopfield Network

  • Karim El Moutaouakil,
  • Zakaria Bouhanch,
  • Abdellah Ahourag,
  • Ahmed Aberqi and
  • Touria Karite

18 July 2024

The continuous Hopfield network (CHN) is a common recurrent neural network. The CHN tool can be used to solve a number of ranking and optimization problems, where the equilibrium states of the ordinary differential equation (ODE) related to the CHN g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,500 Views
21 Pages

A Reduced Sparse Dictionary Reconstruction Algorithm Based on Grid Selection

  • Zhiqi Gao,
  • Caimei Zhao,
  • Pingping Huang,
  • Wei Xu and
  • Weixian Tan

24 February 2024

A sparse dictionary reconstruction algorithm based on grid selection is introduced to solve the grid mismatch when using the sparse recovery space time adaptive processing (SR-STAP) algorithm. First, the atom most closely related to clutter is select...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,107 Views
20 Pages

7 November 2022

Based on the direct differentiation method, sensitivity analysis of transient responses with respect to local nonlinearity is developed in this paper. Solutions of nonlinear equations and time-domain integration are combined to compute the response s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,728 Views
27 Pages

13 July 2023

In this work, we consider a polymer flooding process in heterogeneous media. A system of equations for pressure, water saturation, and polymer concentration describes a mathematical model. For the construction of the fine grid approximation, we use a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,212 Views
27 Pages

Dynamic 3D Point-Cloud-Driven Autonomous Hierarchical Path Planning for Quadruped Robots

  • Qi Zhang,
  • Ruiya Li,
  • Jubiao Sun,
  • Li Wei,
  • Jun Huang and
  • Yuegang Tan

Aiming at effectively generating safe and reliable motion paths for quadruped robots, a hierarchical path planning approach driven by dynamic 3D point clouds is proposed in this article. The developed path planning model is essentially constituted of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
2,726 Views
21 Pages

3 June 2020

Due to the intermittency and randomness of photovoltaic (PV) power, the PV power prediction accuracy of the traditional data-driven prediction models is difficult to improve. A prediction model based on the localized emotion reconstruction emotional...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,304 Views
16 Pages

Computational Vibro-Acoustic Time Reversal for Source and Novelty Localization

  • Christos G. Panagiotopoulos,
  • Spyros Kouzoupis and
  • Chrysoula Tsogka

12 October 2022

Time reversal has been demonstrated to be effective for source and novelty detection and localization. We extend here previous work in the case of a coupled structural-acoustic system, to which we refer to as vibro-acoustic. In this case, novelty mea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
808 Views
24 Pages

7 August 2025

Distributed acoustic sensing shows great potential for pipeline monitoring. However, internally deployed and unfixed sensing cables are highly susceptible to disturbances from water flow noise, severely challenging impact source localization. This st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
6,854 Views
12 Pages

21 October 2015

Power system transient stability analysis requires an appropriate integration time step to avoid numerical instability as well as to reduce computational demands. For fast system dynamics, which vary more rapidly than what the time step covers, a fra...

  • Article
  • Open Access
40 Citations
8,044 Views
19 Pages

RF-Based Location Using Interpolation Functions to Reduce Fingerprint Mapping

  • Santiago Ezpeleta,
  • José M. Claver,
  • Juan J. Pérez-Solano and
  • José V. Martí

27 October 2015

Indoor RF-based localization using fingerprint mapping requires an initial training step, which represents a time consuming process. This location methodology needs a database conformed with RSSI (Radio Signal Strength Indicator) measures from the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,971 Views
20 Pages

A Novel EM-Type Algorithm to Estimate Semi-Parametric Mixtures of Partially Linear Models

  • Sphiwe B. Skhosana,
  • Salomon M. Millard and
  • Frans H. J. Kanfer

22 February 2023

Semi- and non-parametric mixture of normal regression models are a flexible class of mixture of regression models. These models assume that the component mixing proportions, regression functions and/or variances are non-parametric functions of the co...

  • Article
  • Open Access
414 Views
12 Pages

28 October 2025

The hysteresis model can be used to accurately predict the magnetic hysteresis characteristics of ferromagnetic materials. Incorporating the hysteresis model into finite element calculations enables precise prediction of field distributions, voltage...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,218 Views
17 Pages

13 March 2025

To improve the accuracy and completeness of three-dimensional sculpture reconstruction, this study proposes a global–local two-step scanning method for industrial robot-based scanning. First, a global model is generated through stepped rotary s...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,422 Views
16 Pages

13 January 2023

Visual localization, i.e., the camera pose localization within a known three-dimensional (3D) model, is a basic component for numerous applications such as autonomous driving cars and augmented reality systems. The most widely used methods from the l...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,549 Views
17 Pages

Applying Decision Transformers to Enhance Neural Local Search on the Job Shop Scheduling Problem

  • Constantin Waubert de Puiseau,
  • Fabian Wolz,
  • Merlin Montag,
  • Jannik Peters,
  • Hasan Tercan and
  • Tobias Meisen

1 March 2025

Background: The job shop scheduling problem (JSSP) and its solution algorithms have been of enduring interest in both academia and industry for decades. In recent years, machine learning (ML) has been playing an increasingly important role in advanci...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,301 Views
20 Pages

Simulation-Assisted Determination of the Start-Up Time of a Polymer Electrolyte Fuel Cell

  • Merit Bodner,
  • Željko Penga,
  • Walter Ladreiter,
  • Mathias Heidinger and
  • Viktor Hacker

26 November 2021

Fuel starvation is a major cause of anode corrosion in low temperature polymer electrolyte fuel cells. The fuel cell start-up is a critical step, as hydrogen may not yet be evenly distributed in the active area, leading to local starvation. The prese...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,955 Views
23 Pages

Two-Step Approach toward Alignment of Spatiotemporal Wide-Area Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Imageries

  • Hyeonseok Lee,
  • Semo Kim,
  • Dohun Lim,
  • Seoung-Hun Bae,
  • Lae-Hyong Kang and
  • Sungchan Kim

12 February 2023

Recently, analysis and decision-making based on spatiotemporal unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) high-resolution imagery are gaining significant attention in smart agriculture. Constructing a spatiotemporal dataset requires multiple UAV image mosaics tak...

  • Concept Paper
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,732 Views
16 Pages

Comprehensive Numerical Analysis of Finite Difference Time Domain Methods for Improving Optical Waveguide Sensor Accuracy

  • M. Mosleh E. Abu Samak,
  • A. Ashrif A. Bakar,
  • Muhammad Kashif and
  • Mohd Saiful Dzulkifly Zan

9 April 2016

This paper discusses numerical analysis methods for different geometrical features that have limited interval values for typically used sensor wavelengths. Compared with existing Finite Difference Time Domain (FDTD) methods, the alternating direction...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,248 Views
20 Pages

19 August 2024

When the near-field and far-field information of a target is uncertain, it is necessary to choose a suitable localization method. The modified polar representation (MPR) method integrates the two scenarios and achieves a unified localization with dir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,867 Views
33 Pages

A Positioning and Navigation Method Combining Multimotion Features Dead Reckoning with Acoustic Localization

  • Suqing Yan,
  • Xiaoyue Xu,
  • Xiaonan Luo,
  • Jianming Xiao,
  • Yuanfa Ji and
  • Rongrong Wang

15 December 2023

Accurate location information can offer huge commercial and social value and has become a key research topic. Acoustic-based positioning has high positioning accuracy, although some anomalies that affect the positioning performance arise. Inertia-ass...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,302 Views
28 Pages

Novel High-Precision and High-Robustness Localization Algorithm for Underwater-Environment-Monitoring Wireless Sensor Networks

  • Junling Ma,
  • Jiangfeng Xian,
  • Huafeng Wu,
  • Yongsheng Yang,
  • Xiaojun Mei,
  • Yuanyuan Zhang,
  • Xinqiang Chen and
  • Chao Zhou

In marine ecological environment monitoring, the acquisition of node location information is crucial, and the absence of location information can render the collected data meaningless. Compared to the rest of the distance-based localization methods,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,449 Views
18 Pages

A Coupled Approach to Compute the Dislocation Density Development during Czochralski Growth and Its Application to the Growth of High-Purity Germanium (HPGe)

  • Wolfram Miller,
  • Andrejs Sabanskis,
  • Alexander Gybin,
  • Kevin-P. Gradwohl,
  • Arved Wintzer,
  • Kaspars Dadzis,
  • Jānis Virbulis and
  • Radhakrishnan Sumathi

28 September 2023

The evolution of the dislocation density during Czochralski growth is computed by the combination of global thermal calculations and local computation of the stress and dislocation density in the crystal. The global simulation was performed using the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,892 Views
20 Pages

SAM-Net: Spatio-Temporal Sequence Typhoon Cloud Image Prediction Net with Self-Attention Memory

  • Yanzhao Ren,
  • Jinyuan Ye,
  • Xiaochuan Wang,
  • Fengjin Xiao and
  • Ruijun Liu

12 November 2024

Cloud image prediction is a spatio-temporal sequence prediction task, similar to video prediction. Spatio-temporal sequence prediction involves learning from historical data and using the learned features to generate future images. In this process, t...

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