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  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
5,132 Views
24 Pages

Physical simulations aim at modeling and computing spatio-temporal phenomena. As the simulations depend on initial conditions and/or parameter settings whose impact is to be investigated, a larger number of simulation runs is commonly executed. Analy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from IVAPP 2018)
  • Article
  • Open Access
944 Views
23 Pages

9 May 2026

Food Loss and Waste (FLW) remain major challenges for global food security, environmental sustainability, and economic stability, with nearly one-third of food produced each year being lost or wasted. Although many technologies exist to mitigate FLW,...

(This article belongs to the Section Sustainable Food)
  • Article
  • Open Access
243 Views
39 Pages

2 October 2026

Urban intersections in rapidly growing cities frequently experience persistent oversaturation, resulting in excessive delay and queue growth. This study develops and evaluates an adaptive Mamdani fuzzy logic traffic signal controller for oversaturate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
47 Citations
5,648 Views
18 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Flood Intrusion Process under Malfunction of Flood Retaining Facilities in Complex Subway Stations

  • Zhiyu Lin,
  • Shengbin Hu,
  • Tianzhong Zhou,
  • Youxin Zhong and ,
  • Ye Zhu,
  • Lei Shi and
  • Hang Lin
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

In recent years, heavy rain and waterlogging accidents in subway stations have occurred many times around the world. With the comprehensive development trend of underground space, the accidents caused by flood flow intruding complex subway stations a...

(This article belongs to the Topic New Trends in Rock Materials Mechanics and Engineering Geology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
275 Views
27 Pages

Continuous optimization now draws on a large and growing number of competing metaheuristic families, including differential-evolution lineages, covariance-matrix adaptation strategies, swarm-intelligence methods, and simulated annealing, yet no singl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
66 Citations
4,035 Views
18 Pages

Experimental and Mathematical Study of Flexible–Rigid Rail Vehicle Riding Comfort and Safety

  • Sunil Kumar Sharma,
  • Rakesh Chandmal Sharma,
  • Yeongil Choi and
  • Jaesun Lee

22 April 2023

This paper analyses the dynamic behavior of a rail vehicle using experimental and simulation analysis on a multi-rigid–flex body model. The mathematical models are developed considering the car body, bogie frame, and wheel axle for rail vehicle...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems for Railway Infrastructure)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,012 Views
14 Pages

23 February 2024

This paper presents an innovative approach to enhance the assimilation of high-resolution simulated observations, specifically targeting Surface Water Ocean Topography (SWOT) Ka-band Radar Interferometer Sea Surface Height (SSH) products, within the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing in Oceanography: Prospects and Challenges II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
43 Citations
8,415 Views
20 Pages

6 September 2019

The increasing demand for renewable and sustainable energy sources has encouraged the development of small run-of-river plants. Preliminary studies are required to assess the technical and economic feasibility of such plants. In this context, the ide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,084 Views
19 Pages

Multi-Agent Variational Approach for Robotics: A Bio-Inspired Perspective

  • Imran Mir,
  • Faiza Gul,
  • Suleman Mir,
  • Laith Abualigah and ,
  • Raed Abu Zitar,
  • Abdelazim G. Hussien,
  • Emad Mahrous Awwad and
  • Mohamed Sharaf
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

This study proposes an adaptable, bio-inspired optimization algorithm for Multi-Agent Space Exploration. The recommended approach combines a parameterized Aquila Optimizer, a bio-inspired technology, with deterministic Multi-Agent Exploration. Stocha...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nature-Inspired Computer Algorithms)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,635 Views
11 Pages

Multi-Load Mode Analysis for Electric Vehicle Wireless Supply System

  • Cheng Jiang,
  • Yue Sun,
  • Zhihui Wang and
  • Chunsen Tang

24 July 2018

When electric vehicles (EVs) run on the wireless power supply coils, the multi-load working mode will appear, showing that that more than one EV is collecting energy from one coil. Aiming at the stability problem of multi-load mode, this paper mainly...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,186 Views
19 Pages

Assessing the Potential of IMERG and TMPA Satellite Precipitation Products for Flood Simulations and Frequency Analyses over a Typical Humid Basin in South China

  • Shanhu Jiang,
  • Yu Ding,
  • Ruolan Liu,
  • Linyong Wei and ,
  • Yating Liu,
  • Mingming Ren and
  • Liliang Ren
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 September 2022

The availability of the new generation Integrated Multi-satellitE Retrievals for Global Precipitation Measurement (IMERG) V06 products facilitates the utility of long-term higher spatial and temporal resolution precipitation data (0.1° × 0....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing of Water Cycle Components and Its Application in Hydrological Modeling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,604 Views
26 Pages

27 August 2024

The safety of lithium-ion batteries is critical to the safety of battery electric vehicles (BEVs). The purpose of this work is to develop a method to predict battery thermal runaway in full electric vehicle crash simulation. The thermal–electri...

(This article belongs to the Section Vehicle Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4,735 Views
17 Pages

LiBAT: A High-Performance AC Battery System for Transport Applications

  • Alejandro Cárdenas Miranda,
  • Jan Dahlhaus,
  • Obrad Dordevic,
  • Julia Eckhardt and ,
  • Victor Faessler,
  • Jean-Marc Le-Peuvedic,
  • Paul Howard Riley and
  • Josef Wasner
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 June 2023

The paper proposes a novel battery design for high-performance transport applications that is immersion-cooled and switched by a multi-level inverter. Advantages of the proposed AC battery design in terms of weight, modularity, scalability, performan...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Battery System Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
242 Views
36 Pages

16 October 2026

Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Digital Twins require persistent geospatial infrastructures that connect semantic, spatial, temporal, environmental, road-reference, and 3D urban information across simulation and visualization. This study proposes a database-...

(This article belongs to the Topic The Geography of Digital Twin: Concepts, Architectures, Modeling, AI and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,179 Views
38 Pages

8 January 2025

The main objective of this paper is to present a methodology for the reliable estimation of the energy consumption of electric vehicles, focusing on the main electrical subsystems of passenger cars. This paper presents a comparative analysis of the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,970 Views
19 Pages

Contrastive Numerical Investigations on Thermo-Structural Behaviors in Mass Concrete with Various Cements

  • Wei Zhou,
  • Chuqiao Feng,
  • Xinghong Liu,
  • Shuhua Liu and ,
  • Chao Zhang and
  • Wei Yuan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 May 2016

This work is a contrastive investigation of numerical simulations to improve the comprehension of thermo-structural coupled phenomena of mass concrete structures during construction. The finite element (FE) analysis of thermo-structural behaviors is...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Materials Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,907 Views
21 Pages

Influence of Wheel-Rail Contact Algorithms on Running Safety Assessment of Trains under Earthquakes

  • Guanmian Cai,
  • Zhihui Zhu,
  • Wei Gong,
  • Gaoyang Zhou and ,
  • Lizhong Jiang and
  • Bailong Ye
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

22 April 2023

Accurate running safety assessment of trains under earthquakes is crucial to ensuring the safety of line operation. Extreme contact behaviors such as wheel flange contact and wheel jump during earthquakes will directly affect the running safety of tr...

(This article belongs to the Collection Analysis of Dynamics of Railway Vehicles)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,787 Views
22 Pages

A Web GIS Platform to Modeling, Simulate and Analyze Flood Events: The RiverCure Portal

  • Alberto Rodrigues da Silva,
  • Jacinto Estima,
  • Jorge Marques,
  • Ivo Gamito and ,
  • Alexandre Serra,
  • Leonardo Moura,
  • Ana Margarida Ricardo,
  • Luís Mendes and
  • Rui M. L. Ferreira
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

Flood events are becoming more severe, causing significant problems to human communities, including physical, psychological, and material damage. For both flood forecasting in emergency response situations and flood mapping, georeferencing and data c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
150 Citations
11,600 Views
23 Pages

Assessment of GPM and TRMM Multi-Satellite Precipitation Products in Streamflow Simulations in a Data-Sparse Mountainous Watershed in Myanmar

  • Fei Yuan,
  • Limin Zhang,
  • Khin Wah Wah Win,
  • Liliang Ren and ,
  • Chongxu Zhao,
  • Yonghua Zhu,
  • Shanhu Jiang and
  • Yi Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

22 March 2017

Satellite precipitation products from the Global Precipitation Measurement (GPM) mission and its predecessor the Tropical Rainfall Measuring Mission (TRMM) are a critical data source for hydrological applications in ungauged basins. This study conduc...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing Precipitation Measurement, Validation, and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
4,773 Views
31 Pages

30 June 2020

This paper presents a workflow for B-rep solid model generation of organic objects using T-splines constructed with quad-meshes. The aim is the creation of geometrically and topologically consistent B-rep solid models of heritage objects featuring or...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,884 Views
6 Pages

26 October 2023

Simulation and optimization have become common tasks in engineering practice due to their advantages, namely cost reduction and unlimited testing prior to manufacturing. Over the last few years, personal computers have become powerful enough to run c...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th International Electronic Conference on Applied Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
5,095 Views
16 Pages

16 April 2020

Artificial tracer tests constitute one of the most powerful tools to investigate solute transport in conduit-dominated karstic aquifers. One can retrieve information about the internal structure of the aquifer directly by a careful analysis of the re...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Karstic Hydrogeology)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
2,073 Views
4 Pages

This work investigates the hydrodynamics of jet wiping, a coating process in which a thin slot gas jet impinges on a coating film dragged by a moving strip; thus, reducing the coating thickness and developing a run-back flow. The interaction between...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 4th XoveTIC Conference)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,854 Views
18 Pages

11 August 2023

Turnouts are the weak spot in high-speed rail systems, and it is simple for the phenomenon of the wheel–rail force and the carbody lateral acceleration over-limit to arise when the train passes through, which affects the service life of the rai...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Signal Analysis and Fault Diagnosis in Mechanical Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
411 Views
30 Pages

Protein chromatography, the process of separating desired proteins from other elements in a chemical solution, is used widely in the manufacturing of biotherapeutics. Many parameters involved in this process must be tested extensively during process...

(This article belongs to the Section Engineering)
  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,651 Views
8 Pages

Data for complex plasma–wall interactions require long-running and expensive computer simulations of codes like EIRENE or SOLPS. Furthermore, the number of input parameters is large, which results in a low coverage of the (physical) parameter s...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 41st International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,637 Views
23 Pages

20 February 2024

Bearing, as one of the core parts of rotating machinery, has a running state which is related to the overall operation of the system. Due to the bearing structure and its complex operating environment, running condition monitoring and fault diagnosis...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,690 Views
17 Pages

9 October 2024

In order to improve the control performance of automatic train operation (ATO) in urban rail trains, five typical operating sequences of urban rail trains were studied. Under the condition of meeting the safety and comfort principles of train operati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,384 Views
41 Pages

25 April 2022

Continuous rotor dynamics remains stagnant. In this paper, aim at multi-span and multi-disc rotor-bearing system, the continuous rotor dynamic analysis method (CRDAM) is proposed. The force acting on the shaft by the rotating eccentric disc is simula...

(This article belongs to the Topic Dynamical Systems: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
27 Citations
4,434 Views
21 Pages

Creep-Based Reliability Evaluation of Turbine Blade-Tip Clearance with Novel Neural Network Regression

  • Chun-Yi Zhang,
  • Jing-Shan Wei,
  • Ze Wang,
  • Zhe-Shan Yuan and ,
  • Cheng-Wei Fei and
  • Cheng Lu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 October 2019

To reveal the effect of high-temperature creep on the blade-tip radial running clearance of aeroengine high-pressure turbines, a distributed collaborative generalized regression extremum neural network is proposed by absorbing the heuristic thoughts...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Mathematics and Computer Methods in Materials, Mechanics and Engineering )
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,494 Views
21 Pages

Kinematics Analysis and Trajectory Planning of 6-DOF Hydraulic Robotic Arm in Driving Side Pile

  • Mingjie Feng,
  • Jianbo Dai,
  • Wenbo Zhou,
  • Haozhi Xu and
  • Zhongbin Wang

15 March 2024

Given the difficulty in manually adjusting the position and posture of the pile body during the pile driving process, the improved Denavit-Hartenberg (D-H) parameter method is used to establish the kinematics equation of the mechanical arm, based on...

(This article belongs to the Section Robotics, Mechatronics and Intelligent Machines)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,122 Views
15 Pages

17 October 2018

The permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) with dual-rotating rotors is a typical nonlinear multi-variable coupled system. It is sensitive to load disturbances and the change of interior parameters. The traditional proportional-integral (PI) contr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
540 Views
17 Pages

PSO-Based Accuracy Optimization of Parallel Mass Flow Controllers in Multi-Component Gas Mixing Systems

  • Hong Chang,
  • Xiaopei Wang,
  • Yi Ma,
  • Maojun Tian and ,
  • Hao Yu,
  • Dejun Huang and
  • Yiqiang Pei
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

20 July 2026

Accurate gas mass flow allocation is important for multi-component gas mixing systems and fuel-cell test benches, especially when a wide total-flow range is covered by several parallel mass flow controllers (MFCs). This study evaluates the coordinate...

(This article belongs to the Section Chemical Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,513 Views
27 Pages

23 December 2019

The point detections obtained from radars or sonars in surveillance environments include clutter measurements, as well as target measurements. Target tracking with these data requires data association, which distinguishes the detections from targets...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Innovative Target Tracking Techniques for Modern Radar and Sonar Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,249 Views
13 Pages

25 July 2023

For multi-modular nuclear power plants under the scheme of multiple nuclear steam supply system (NSSS) modules driving a single steam turbine, the NSSS modules are coupled tightly with each other by the common turbine, giving more complex normal oper...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nuclear Power Instrumentation and Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,658 Views
20 Pages

23 April 2019

Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs) are prone to failures and malicious attacks. Trust evaluation is becoming a new method for fault detection in WSNs. In our previous work, a comprehensive trust model based on multi-factors was introduced for fault dete...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Networks)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
8,383 Views
25 Pages

In this paper, we investigate the problem of grasping previously unseen objects in unstructured environments which are cluttered with multiple objects. Object geometry, reachability, and force-closure analysis are considered to address this problem....

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,368 Views
12 Pages

31 December 2021

Computational decision-making in “real world” environmental and sustainability contexts frequently requires the need to contrast numerous uncertain factors and difficult-to-capture dimensions. Monte Carlo simulation modelling has frequently been empl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sustainability Analysis and Environmental Decision-Making Using Simulation, Optimization, and Computational Analytics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,922 Views
18 Pages

2 September 2020

Railway wheel tread flat is one of the main faults of railway wheels, which brings great harm to the safety of vehicle operation. In order to detect wheel flats dynamically and quantitatively when trains are running at high speed, a new wheel flat de...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,868 Views
18 Pages

Training of Classification Models via Federated Learning and Homomorphic Encryption

  • Eduardo Angulo,
  • José Márquez and
  • Ricardo Villanueva-Polanco

9 February 2023

With the rise of social networks and the introduction of data protection laws, companies are training machine learning models using data generated locally by their users or customers in various types of devices. The data may include sensitive informa...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Federated and Distributed Learning in IoT)
  • Article
  • Open Access
35 Citations
5,085 Views
14 Pages

29 July 2019

In many complex manufacturing environments, the running equipment must be monitored by Wireless Sensor Networks (WSNs), which not only requires WSNs to have long service lifetimes, but also to achieve rapid and high-quality transmission of equipment...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Monitoring and Control in the Future Internet of Things)
  • Article
  • Open Access
34 Citations
8,822 Views
19 Pages

24 February 2017

A physically-based, distributed-parameter hydrologic model was used to simulate a recent flood event in the city of Hafr Al Batin, Saudi Arabia to gain a better understanding of the runoff generation and spatial distribution of flooding. The city is...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Remote Sensing/GIS in Water Resources and Flooding Risk Managements)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,911 Views
11 Pages

19 April 2023

Data for complex plasma–wall interactions require long-running and expensive computer simulations. Furthermore, the number of input parameters is large, which results in low coverage of the (physical) parameter space. Unpredictable occasions of...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue MaxEnt 2022—the 41st International Workshop on Bayesian Inference and Maximum Entropy Methods in Science and Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,876 Views
27 Pages

A Unified Switched Nonlinear Dynamic Model of an Electric Vehicle for Performance Evaluation

  • Dibyendu Khan,
  • Kuntal Mandal,
  • Anjan Kumar Ray and
  • Abdelali El Aroudi

The advanced modeling and estimation of overall system dynamics play a vital role in electric vehicles (EVs), as the selection of components in the powertrain and prediction of performance are the key market qualifiers. The state-space averaged model...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design and Applications of Nonlinear Circuits and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,246 Views
22 Pages

23 November 2023

This paper proposes a B-spline trajectory algorithm to realize multi-axis trajectory interpolation and analyzes the operating accuracy in an embedded system. However, the existing trajectory generation method needs to use computer-aided manufacturing...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,610 Views
26 Pages

16 November 2019

To ensure that the shaft boring machine (SBM) runs along the pre-designed axis steadily, the role of the attitude measurement system is essential, but its accuracy and reliability cannot be guaranteed. Currently, there is no effective technology to m...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Sensors)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,694 Views
15 Pages

Quadratic Forms in Random Matrices with Applications in Spectrum Sensing

  • Daniel Gaetano Riviello,
  • Giusi Alfano and
  • Roberto Garello

12 January 2025

Quadratic forms with random kernel matrices are ubiquitous in applications of multivariate statistics, ranging from signal processing to time series analysis, biomedical systems design, wireless communications performance analysis, and other fields....

(This article belongs to the Section Statistical Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,122 Views
18 Pages

Multi-Objective Machine Learning Optimization of Cylindrical TPMS Lattices for Bone Implants

  • Mansoureh Rezapourian,
  • Ali Cheloee Darabi,
  • Mohammadreza Khoshbin and
  • Irina Hussainova

This study presents a multi-objective optimization framework for designing cylindrical triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattices tailored for bone implant applications. Using an artificial neural network (ANN) as a surrogate model trained on si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimicry and Functional Materials: 5th Edition)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,271 Views
12 Pages

18 February 2023

The multi-rate repetitive controller (MRC) can achieve zero steady-state error in tracking the reference current signal of grid-connected inverters, save the settling time effectively, and improve the running speed. However, when the grid frequency f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Control Techniques of Power Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
3,890 Views
18 Pages

16 March 2023

Trajectory planning and avoidance of tipping are the main keys to success in the mobile dual-arm manipulation, especially when the dual-arm or moving platform is running fast. The forces and moments between wheel-terrain and body-arm have been analyz...

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