The objective of this study was the development and verification of a model of soil moisture decrease during dry spells—SMDS. The analyses were based on diurnal information of the occurrence of atmospheric precipitation and diurnal values of so...
The Yellow River alluvial silt has unique engineering properties and is unstable when encountering moisture. The mechanical properties of silt subgrade can be impaired by the increase in moisture content due to rainwater infiltration, which has a neg...
This study presents the formulation and development of a Reactive Engineering Approach (REA) kinetic model to characterize the drying kinetics of Trona across diverse experimental scenarios. By integrating fundamental reaction principles with experim...
This article refers to the aspects of energy consumption and comminution effectiveness in the mineral processing sector through the evaluation of limestone crushing in a high-pressure grinding roll. The investigative program included a series of crus...
This study investigated Sitka spruce (Picea sitchensis (Bong.) Carr.) specimens from the same batch over a moisture-content range of 2%–12%. Under free–free boundary conditions with non-contact magnetic excitation, the first- to fifth-ord...
Oscillation drying is one of the possible approaches for reducing drying time and limiting drying defects of hardwood timber. This study aimed to design oscillation-drying schedules for beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) timber using the response surface met...
Soil moisture plays a significant role in surface energy balance and material exchange. Synthetic aperture radar (SAR) provides a promising data source to monitor soil moisture. However, soil surface roughness is a key difficulty in bare soil moistur...
The soil moisture from the South-to-North Water Diversion Middle Route Project is assessed in this study. Complex and variable geological conditions complicate the prediction of soil moisture in the study area. To achieve this aim, we carried out res...
Soil moisture is not only an essential component of the water cycle in terrestrial ecosystems but also a major influencing factor of regional climate. In the soil hydrothermal process, soil moisture has a significant regulating effect on surface temp...
In this study, the moisture sources acting over each sea (Weddell, King Haakon VII, East Antarctic, Amundsen-Bellingshausen, and Ross-Amundsen) of the Southern Ocean during 1980–2015 are identified with the FLEXPART Lagrangian model and by usin...
Data acquisition and an efficient processing method for hydrological model initialization, such as soil moisture and parameter value identification are critical for a physics-based distributed watershed modelling of flood and flood related disasters...
Accurate identification of mattic epipedon degradation is critically important for addressing ecological issues such as the weakening of alpine grassland carbon sink capacity and reduced soil and water conservation. However, efficient and rapid metho...
Soil moisture plays a significant role in the global hydrological cycle, which is an important component of soil parameterization. Remote sensing is one of the most important methods used to estimate soil moisture. In this study, we developed a new n...
Knowledge of the thermal and dielectric properties of wolfberries is essential for understanding the heat transfer and the interaction between the electromagnetic field (10–3000 MHz) and the sample during radio frequency (RF) and microwave (MW)...
Drought stress significantly limits the function and stability of desert ecosystems. This research examines the distribution characteristics of soil moisture across different microtopographic types in the semi-fixed dunes located at the southeastern...
In the process of applying high-frequency heating technology to wood drying, controlling the material temperature affects both drying speed and drying quality. Therefore, research on the heat transfer mechanism of high-frequency heating of wood is of...
A study on the effect of the physical properties and moisture sorption isotherm of palm kernels constitutes the critical criteria in evaluating the drying performance. The drying was evaluated as a function of moisture content (MC) in the range of 0....
The Water Cloud Model (WCM) provides a simple and effective framework for quantifying vegetation canopy absorption and scattering components and has been widely applied to active microwave-based soil moisture retrieval on vegetated areas. However, un...
This study addresses the challenge of accurately estimating hourly flow and soil moisture by integrating the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) with a Land Surface Model (LSM). Our approach enhances SWAT by incorporating spatially distributed soil...
The hygrothermal aging model, based on Fick’s second law of diffusion, characterizes the degradation of engineering constants in T700 carbon fiber/epoxy resin composites. It focuses on changes in the tensile modulus, shear modulus, and transver...
The surface fine dead fuel moisture content (FFMC) is an important factor in predicting forest fire risk and is influenced by various meteorological factors. Many prediction methods rely on temperature and humidity as factors, resulting in poor model...
Coal-rock combination refers to the coal and rock as a whole, and the failure of the whole structure of the combination is the main cause for the instability of the deep underground engineering. In deep underground engineering, the coal-rock combinat...
Drying kinetics and the moisture distribution map of radish slabs under different drying methods (hot-air drying (HAD), microwave drying (MD), and hot-air and microwave combination drying (HMCD)) were determined and visualized by hyperspectral image...
In this work, we modelled the response of soil water repellency (SWR) persistence to the decrease in moisture in drying soils, and we explored the implication of soil particle size distribution and specific surface area on the SWR severity and persis...
The impact of climate change on surface runoff and soil moisture in the source region of the Yellow River is analyzed, which will provide a scientific basis for the rational use and protection of water resources in the source area. In this paper, the...
By using a coupled land surface-atmosphere model with initial conditions of varying resolution and ensembles of systematically changed soil moisture, convective-scale simulations of a typical frontal rainstorm in the Yangtze River Basin are collected...
To estimate the potential risks of plant diversity reduction and soil salinization in the Bosten Lake Basin, the dynamic changes in the plant community and species diversity affected by soil moisture and salinity were analyzed from 2000 to 2020 based...
This study examined how temperature, cheese mass and moisture content impact moisture loss rate in various cheeses during baking. Understanding these factors is essential for determining the browning properties of cheese during baking. Eight cheese t...
The Propopis tamarugo Phil, also known as Tamarugo, is an endemic and protected tree that survives in the Atacama Desert—a hyper arid and highly saline environment. The Tamarugo is threatened because of groundwater overexploitation, and its pre...
Honeycomb weathering is a common phenomenon found on various rock surfaces all around the world. However, honeycomb formation mechanisms are still poorly understood. In this study, we propose a model describing moisture transport within the sandstone...
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Soil moisture plays an important role in ecology, hydrology, agriculture and climate change. This study proposes a soil moisture prediction model, based on the depth and water balance equation, which integrates the water balance equation with the sea...
To study the heat and moisture transfer behavior in sea cucumbers with heat pump convective drying, a multi-physical field coupled model including the velocity field, temperature field, and dilute matter transfer in the porous media of sea cucumbers...
The size distribution, total particle mass concentration (TPMC), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) value, and total Benzo[a]pyrene Toxic Equivalence (BaPTE) concentration of smoke particles from palm oil sewage sludge (POSS) bio-char combustion...
The moisture content is closely related to the shear creep deformation behavior of soft rock, and the linear creep deformation behavior of soft rock can be described by the classical Nishihara model. However, its accuracy in describing accelerated no...
Currently, soil-moisture data extracted from microwave data suffer from poor spatial resolution. To overcome this problem, this study proposes a method to downscale the soil moisture spatial resolution. The proposed method establishes a statistical r...
This paper presents the results of research on the influence of the moisture content in a filament made of ABS polymer on the properties of products manufactured using FDM (fused deposition modeling). Tests were carried out on a standard printer, usi...
This research was undertaken to evaluate the influence of the extrusion process on the sorption behavior of deproteinized sunflower meal (DSM). A patterned food extrudate (PFE), prepared from a mixture of DSM and corn grits (1:1), was obtained, and t...
The shaft resistance of cast-in-place piles in permafrost regions is commonly estimated using the initial moisture content and frozen-soil strength parameters obtained during site investigation. However, concrete hydration heat disturbs the temperatu...
Over the past four decades, satellite observations have shown intensified global greening. At the same time, widespread browning and reversal of or stalled greening have been reported at high latitudes. One of the main reasons for this browning/lack...
Water and water transfer are the keys of the concrete durability problem; the non-uniform moisture transfer caused by the concrete micro–meso structure has a great effect on the drying shrinkage crack, transfers of inimical ions, etc. For the n...
Soil moisture content has a direct effect on the growth rate and survival rate of trees. However, previous studies on soil moisture have often focused on the topsoil, lacking effective monitoring of long-term dynamic changes in deep soil layers. In t...
Municipal solid waste (MSW) composition and properties play a critical role in determining the efficiency and environmental impact of waste incineration processes. However, the effects of moisture variation in MSW on combustion performance in full-sc...
The heat and moisture transfer process in deformable porous media commonly exists in material drying, solid waste treatment, bioengineering, and so on. The transfer process is accompanied by deformation of the solid skeleton and pore interface struct...
In this study, a WRF (Weather Research and Forecasting) model is used as a cloud-resolving model to simulate a squall line observed on 20 May 2011 in the Southern Great Plains (SGP) of the United States. The model output is then used to examine the r...
Seven composite models of meta-aramid fibers with different moisture contents were studied using molecular dynamics simulation. The effects of moisture on the thermal stability and mechanical properties of the fibers and their mechanisms were analyze...
The study investigates the influence of near-surface atmospheric parameters on land surface processes at the land–atmosphere interface through the offline simulation of the 2D Noah Land Surface Model-based High-Resolution Land Data Assimilation...
Buckwheat grains will suffer varying degrees of damage during the threshing process. Damaged grains are prone to changes in nutritional quality during storage. To explore the relationship between the threshing damage mechanism and nutritional quality...
In order to investigate the cumulative deformation characteristics of silt soil in highway subgrade engineering, dynamic triaxial tests were carried out to examine the influences of dynamic stress, confining pressure, and moisture content on the cumu...
To understand the moisture transfer mechanism of walnuts during the combination of hot air (HA) and microwave–vacuum (MV) drying (HA-MVD) process, the drying characteristics and moisture diffusion characteristics of walnut during HA-MVD were in...
This study aimed to characterize the stress relaxation of wheat kernels of different hardness and varying moisture contents using generalized Maxwell models with three, five, and seven elements. Single-kernel stress relaxation tests were conducted un...
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