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On the Non-Dimensional Modelling of Friction Hysteresis of Conformal Rough Contacts

  • Kristof Driesen,
  • Sylvie Castagne,
  • Bert Lauwers and
  • Dieter Fauconnier

Friction hysteresis, ingaphenomenon observed when a sliding contact is subjected to an oscillatory motion has significant implications in fields such as tribology and robotics. Understanding and quantifying friction hysteresis is essential for improv...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Computational Studies in Frictional Contact)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,878 Views
18 Pages

Non-Dimensional Star-Identification

  • Carl Leake,
  • David Arnas and
  • Daniele Mortari

9 May 2020

This study introduces a new “Non-Dimensional” star identification algorithm to reliably identify the stars observed by a wide field-of-view star tracker when the focal length and optical axis offset values are known with poor accuracy. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Attitude Sensors)
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  • Open Access
617 Views
35 Pages

Dimensional and Non-Dimensional Implementations for the Differentially Heated Square Cavity Benchmark: Accuracy and Computational Efficiency

  • Fernando I. Molina-Herrera,
  • Hugo Jiménez-Islas,
  • María L. López-González,
  • Nora E. Maldonado-Sierra and ,
  • Pedro Yañez-Contreras,
  • Francisco J. Santander-Bastida,
  • Juan M. Oliveros-Muñoz and
  • Norma L. Flores-Martínez
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

This study presents a numerical comparison of dimensional and non-dimensional implementations of the classical benchmark problem of steady natural convection in a two-dimensional differentially heated square cavity over the Rayleigh-number range 103...

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  • Open Access
19 Citations
3,281 Views
21 Pages

CFD Based Non-Dimensional Characterization of Energy Dissipation Due to Verticle Slosh

  • Michael Dennis Wright,
  • Francesco Gambioli and
  • Arnaud George Malan

5 November 2021

We present the CFD based non-dimensional characterization of violent slosh induced energy dissipation due a tank under vertical excitation. Experimentally validated CFD is used for this purpose as an ideally suited and versatile tool. It is thus firs...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Computational Fluid Dynamics to Practical Engineering and Environmental Flows)
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  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,728 Views
14 Pages

Open Channel Sluice Gate Scouring Parameters Prediction: Different Scenarios of Dimensional and Non-Dimensional Input Parameters

  • Ali A. Yousif,
  • Sadeq Oleiwi Sulaiman,
  • Lamine Diop,
  • Mohammad Ehteram and ,
  • Shamsuddin Shahid,
  • Nadhir Al-Ansari and
  • Zaher Mundher Yaseen
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 February 2019

The determination of scour characteristics in the downstream of sluice gate is highly important for designing and protection of hydraulic structure. The applicability of modern data-intelligence technique known as extreme learning machine (ELM) to si...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Water Resources Management Strategy Under Global Change)
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  • Open Access
77 Citations
15,914 Views
20 Pages

20 October 2020

Apart from complex numerical models to predict the tribological behavior of elastohydrodynamically lubricated contacts, non-dimensional similarity groups and analytically solvable proximity equations can be used to estimate integral fluid film parame...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue In Commemoration of Professor Duncan Dowson: Tribology: Hydrodynamics, Elastohydrodynamics and Biotribology)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,440 Views
13 Pages

The scaling of large structures to investigate their aerodynamics in wind tunnels is a common and robust procedure to estimate important magnitudes, including pressure coefficients. Different aspects can affect the estimation of pressure coefficients...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
9,019 Views
20 Pages

26 September 2023

It is extremely important to gather the viscosity behavior of fluids accurately for industries and academia. There is no better method than viscosity measurement to detect changes in the specific characteristics of the materials. However, viscosity m...

(This article belongs to the Topic Applied Heat Transfer)
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  • Open Access
228 Views
24 Pages

23 October 2026

This study proposes a nondimensional physics-informed neural network (Nd-PINN) framework for predicting the infrared radiation characteristics of low-Earth-orbit satellites under complex space thermal environments. The Laplace heat conduction equatio...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced AI and Robotic Technologies for Spacecraft Modelling, Optimization, and Decision-Making)
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1 Citations
4,447 Views
10 Pages

18 February 2022

The study’s main aim was to predict the penetrant residual velocity, with it being a vital output parameter in the projectile target interaction. The ballistics have been probed on a wide spectrum of impact velocities for different applications...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy System Design)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,499 Views
16 Pages

Optimal Placement of Viscoelastic Vibration Dampers for Kirchhoff Plates Based on PSO Method

  • Agnieszka Lenartowicz,
  • Maciej Przychodzki,
  • Michał Guminiak and
  • Tomasz Garbowski

3 November 2021

The main subject of this study is to determine the optimal position of a fixed number of viscoelastic dampers on the surface of a thin (Kirchhoff-Love) plate. It is assumed that the dampers are described according to the generalized Maxwell model. In...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,670 Views
18 Pages

29 October 2022

Steel box structures widely exist in vehicles, ships, and buildings, and internal explosions are one of the primary ways to destroy such targets. In this study, a rapid prediction method for the damage degree evaluation of steel box structures subjec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vehicle Crashworthiness and Lightweight Design)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,746 Views
25 Pages

Empirical Modelling of Ice-Jam Flood Hazards Along the Mackenzie River in a Changing Climate

  • Karl-Erich Lindenschmidt,
  • Sergio Gomez,
  • Jad Saade,
  • Brian Perry and
  • Apurba Das

1 August 2025

This study introduces a novel methodology for assessing ice-jam flood hazards along river channels. It employs empirical equations that relate non-dimensional ice-jam stage to discharge, enabling the generation of an ensemble of longitudinal profiles...

(This article belongs to the Section New Sensors, New Technologies and Machine Learning in Water Sciences)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,195 Views
15 Pages

27 May 2024

Many communities along rivers in the Northwest Territories do not have water-level gauges, making flood hazard analyses difficult at these sites. These include the communities of Jean Marie River, Tulita and Fort Good Hope on the Mackenzie River, Nah...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advancing the Monitoring and Modelling of Freshwater Systems with New Remote Sensing Technologies)
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  • Open Access
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Reconciling Eulerian and Lagrangian Water Exchange Diagnostics in Wind-Driven Coastal Oceanography

  • Ruijin Zhang,
  • Jiaxu Duan,
  • Yunchuang Huang,
  • Baoming Zhang and ,
  • Sien Yan and
  • Kun Zheng
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 October 2026

A long-standing challenge in coastal oceanography is the quantitative divergence between Eulerian concentration-based formulations and Lagrangian particle-tracking frameworks, which frequently yield inconsistent water exchange diagnostics for the sam...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,481 Views
16 Pages

Deduction of the Dimensionless Groups and Type Curves of Temperature Profiles in Two-Layer Soils with Water Flow at Depth

  • Iván Alhama,
  • José Antonio Jiménez-Valera,
  • Manuel Cánovas and
  • Francisco Alhama

11 January 2024

In the common hydrogeologic scenarios of horizontal groundwater flow and a water table below the surface, the steady-state 2D thermal field resulting from the coupling between water flow and heat flow and transport gives rise to a vertical temperatur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,124 Views
34 Pages

28 December 2025

Accurately predicting machining-induced deformation is crucial for high-precision CNC turning, particularly when working with dissimilar metallic alloys. This study presents a novel, data-driven framework that integrates empirical deformation analysi...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Manufacturing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,388 Views
21 Pages

1 September 2025

Thin-walled structures have been extensively adopted as energy absorbers in various engineering fields. The energy accumulated in the coal and rock is released instantly, resulting in varying degrees of damage and failure to support equipment. To imp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biomimetic Energy-Absorbing Materials or Structures)
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  • Open Access
1,705 Views
23 Pages

9 January 2025

The interaction between surface water and groundwater has been extensively studied due to its water management implications and the potential environmental impacts arising from it. Experimental studies and numerical modeling have supported analytical...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,304 Views
18 Pages

30 November 2023

Theoretical and non-dimensional investigations have been performed to study the vibration control potential of approaches that are not only based on viscoelastic but also on endochronic elements. The latter are known from the endochronic theory of pl...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,496 Views
16 Pages

9 August 2020

The normalization of dimensionless groups that rule the system of nonlinear coupled ordinary differential equations defined by the Lotka–Volterra biological or chemical oscillator has been derived in this work by applying a normalized nondimens...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Analytical Approaches to Nonlinear Dynamical Systems and Applications)
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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,083 Views
12 Pages

28 May 2022

The nonlinear flow law and soil boundaries greatly affect the dissipation process of soil consolidation. Thus, to study the impact of nonlinear flow under impeded drainage boundaries, the classical non-Darcian flow model described by non-Newtonian in...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
8,561 Views
15 Pages

20 May 2020

This paper presents the change of non-dimensional characteristics and thermal behavior of different sized tilting pad journal bearings (TPJBs) with the same Sommerfeld number. A three-dimensional (3D) TPJB numerical model is provided considering the...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,791 Views
13 Pages

Nondimensional Characterization of the Operational Envelope of a Wet Friction Clutch

  • Nikolaos Rogkas,
  • Christos Vakouftsis,
  • Georgios Vasileiou,
  • Christos Manopoulos and
  • Vasilios Spitas

In recent years, multidisc wet friction clutches are used in demanding powertrains of automatic and dual clutch transmissions targeting high efficiency and smoothness during gearshift. However, the developed flow pattern between the clutch discs is s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from the 8th International Conference on Experiments/Process/System Modeling/Simulation/Optimization (IC-EPSMSO 2019))
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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,608 Views
16 Pages

Mathematical Modeling and Analysis Using Nondimensionalization Technique of the Solidification of a Splat of Variable Section

  • Juan Francisco Sánchez-Pérez,
  • Guillermo Jorde-Cerezo,
  • Adrián Fernández-Roiz and
  • José Andrés Moreno-Nicolás

19 July 2023

In this work, the solidification and cooling process of an irregularly shaped splat is modeled using the network simulation method. The procedure for its implementation, which uses the finite difference method and optimized circuit analysis algorithm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Problems in Materials Science)
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  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,723 Views
17 Pages

A Study Using the Network Simulation Method and Nondimensionalization of the Fiber Fuse Effect

  • Juan Francisco Sanchez-Pérez,
  • Joaquín Solano-Ramírez,
  • Fulgencio Marín-García and
  • Enrique Castro

26 December 2024

This paper presents an innovative approach to modelling the fiber optic fusion effect using the Network Simulation Method (NSM). An analogy between the heat conduction equations and electrical circuits is developed, allowing a complex physical proble...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Mathematical Models and Simulations, 2nd Edition)
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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,649 Views
15 Pages

15 November 2023

Dropwise condensation (DWC) of steam over hybrid hydrophobic–hydrophilic surfaces is numerically investigated via a phenomenological, Lagrangian model. The full non-dimensionalization of the heat transfer model, needed to determine the droplet...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Contact Line Dynamics and Droplet Spreading)
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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,790 Views
20 Pages

Phenomenological Nondimensional Parameter Decomposition to Enhance the Use of Simulation Modeling in Fire Probabilistic Risk Assessment of Nuclear Power Plants

  • Sari Alkhatib,
  • Tatsuya Sakurahara,
  • Seyed Reihani,
  • Ernest Kee and ,
  • Brian Ratte,
  • Kristin Kaspar,
  • Sean Hunt and
  • Zahra Mohaghegh
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

2 July 2024

Simulation modeling is crucial in support of probabilistic risk assessment (PRA) for nuclear power plants (NPPs). There is a challenge, however, associated with simulation modeling that relates to the time and resources required for collecting data t...

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4 Citations
4,625 Views
10 Pages

The surface profile of the film formed by spin coating is experimentally investigated in this paper. The unavoidable wavy form at the surface was observed when the ultraviolet curable resin was used. In addition, the surface thickness variation was d...

(This article belongs to the Topic Inorganic Thin Film Materials)
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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,235 Views
191 Pages

Integration in non-integer-dimensional spaces (NIDS) is actively used in quantum field theory, statistical physics, and fractal media physics. The integration over the entire momentum space with non-integer dimensions was first proposed by Wilson in...

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1,370 Views
17 Pages

Plasmon Dispersion in Two-Dimensional Systems with Non-Coulomb Interaction

  • Levente Máthé,
  • Ilinca Lianu,
  • Adrian Calborean and
  • Ioan Grosu

15 November 2025

We theoretically study plasmon dispersion within the random-phase approximation in two-dimensional systems, including undoped and doped monolayer graphene at zero and finite temperatures, and hole- and electron-doped monolayer XSe (X=In,Ga) and disor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Electrolytes and Energy Storage Materials (2nd Edition))
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  • Review
  • Open Access
14 Citations
7,613 Views
25 Pages

Recent Progress of Non-Volatile Memory Devices Based on Two-Dimensional Materials

  • Jiong Pan,
  • Zeda Wang,
  • Bingchen Zhao,
  • Jiaju Yin and ,
  • Pengwen Guo,
  • Yi Yang and
  • Tian-Ling Ren
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 September 2024

With the development of artificial intelligence and edge computing, the demand for high-performance non-volatile memory devices has been rapidly increasing. Two-dimensional materials have ultrathin bodies, ultra-flattened surfaces, and superior physi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Research in Microelectronics and Electronics)
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  • Open Access
2,289 Views
12 Pages

Non-Dimensional Analysis of Diffusion Characteristics in Polymer Electrolyte Membrane Fuel Cells with Mismatched Anodic and Cathodic Flow Channels

  • Hyeok Kim,
  • Geonhwi Kim,
  • Jaeyeon Kim,
  • Dasol Kim and ,
  • Obeen Kwon,
  • Hongnyoung Yoo,
  • Hyeonjin Cha,
  • Heesoo Choi and
  • Taehyun Park
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

20 December 2021

Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells were analyzed to investigate changes in the structure of the flow field and operating conditions. The cell performance, which was controlled by adjusting the width of the cathodic channel, improved as the backp...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,101 Views
27 Pages

One concern in the field of Horizontal Axis Wind Turbines (HAWTs) is what control strategies are needed to handle gust pulses in the wind to prevent extreme oscillations of the blades to reduce fatigue stress, prevent blade rupture, and extend the tu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
12,515 Views
22 Pages

Fully-Non-Contact Masking-Based Holography Inspection on Dimensionally Responsive Artwork Materials

  • Vivi Tornari,
  • Eirini Bernikola,
  • Austin Nevin,
  • Eleni Kouloumpi and ,
  • Michalis Doulgeridis and
  • Costas Fotakis
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 December 2008

Environmental control in galleries and museums is a necessity and is informed by the knowledge of ongoing processes of deterioration which can threaten the integrity and stability of artworks. Invisible dimensional changes in many works of art occur...

(This article belongs to the Section Physical Sensors)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,799 Views
25 Pages

Three-Dimensional Non-Uniform Sampled Data Visualization from Multibeam Echosounder Systems for Underwater Imaging and Environmental Monitoring

  • Wenjing Cao,
  • Shiliang Fang,
  • Chuanqi Zhu,
  • Miao Feng and ,
  • Yifan Zhou and
  • Hongli Cao
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

15 January 2025

This paper proposes a method for visualizing three-dimensional non-uniformly sampled data from multibeam echosounder systems (MBESs), aimed at addressing the requirements of monitoring complex and dynamic underwater flow fields. To tackle the challen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Ocean Remote Sensing Based on Radar, Sonar and Optical Techniques)
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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,807 Views
20 Pages

Non-Contact Dimensional Quality Inspection System of Prefabricated Components Using 3D Matrix Camera

  • Wanqing Lyu,
  • Xiwang Chen,
  • Wenlong Han,
  • Kun Ni and ,
  • Rui Jing,
  • Lin Tong,
  • Junzheng Pan and
  • Qian Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Dimensional quality inspection of prefabricated components is crucial for ensuring building quality and safety. Currently, manual measurement methods are predominantly used in dimensional quality inspection of prefabricated components, which are both...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligence and Automation in Construction Industry)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,801 Views
19 Pages

6 July 2020

Information causality measures have proven to be very effective in uncovering the connectivity patterns of multivariate systems. The non-uniform embedding (NUE) scheme has been developed to address the “curse of dimensionality”, since the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Information Theory and Economic Network)
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  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,062 Views
20 Pages

25 June 2021

This paper was aimed at finding out the solution to the problem of insufficient dimensional accuracy caused by non-linear shrinkage deformation during injection molding of small module plastic gears. A practical numerical approach was proposed to cha...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Processing and Engineering)
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  • Open Access
465 Views
28 Pages

nD-NDHS: An n-Dimensional Non-Degenerate Hyperchaotic System with Controllable All-Positive Lyapunov Exponents

  • Xiaobing Liu,
  • Qing Ye,
  • Jinnan Li,
  • Wei Liu and ,
  • Zhimin Yuan,
  • Qian Zhou and
  • Zebin Song
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2026

Constructing scalable, non-degenerate, and intensity-tunable high-dimensional hyperchaotic maps is a key challenge for chaotic cryptography. Existing n-dimensional real-valued chaotic systems frequently suffer from dynamical degradation, limited adju...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Dynamical Systems: Stability, Bifurcation, and Chaos with Applications)
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7 Citations
3,417 Views
15 Pages

For a three-dimensional wide-angle synthetic aperture radar (SAR) with non-uniform sampling, it is necessary to divide its large aperture into several small sub-apertures before imaging due to the anisotropic characteristics of the target. The existi...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
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  • Open Access
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Fractal charge distributions (FCD) can be described by models with non-integer dimensional spaces (NIDS) and a special form of density of states. The NID linear space and integration over the NID space have been suggested in quantum field theory by W...

(This article belongs to the Section Complexity)
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3 Citations
2,560 Views
18 Pages

21 September 2022

This paper builds two detailed examples of generalized normal in non-Euclidean spaces, i.e., the hyperbolic and elliptic geometries. In the hyperbolic plane we define a n-sided hyperbolic polygon P, which is the Euclidean closure of the hyperbolic pl...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Gravity Research)
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  • Open Access
11 Citations
12,213 Views
18 Pages

Experimental and Mathematical Tools to Predict Droplet Size and Velocity Distribution for a Two-Fluid Nozzle

  • Sadegh Poozesh,
  • Nelson K. Akafuah,
  • Heather R. Campbell,
  • Faezeh Bashiri and
  • Kozo Saito

3 December 2020

Despite progress in laser-based and computational tools, an accessible model that relies on fundamentals and offers a reasonably accurate estimation of droplet size and velocity is lacking, primarily due to entangled complex breakup mechanisms. There...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical and Computational Fluid Mechanics)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,031 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2023

Depth–discharge rating is required at gauged and ungauged locations for hydrologic modeling of alluvial systems to evaluate streamflow and manage regional water resources. Spanning low to high-flow conditions, manual field measurements are used...

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  • Open Access
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20 Pages

Chiral Symmetry in Implicit Regularization: A Review

  • Adriano Cherchiglia,
  • Ricardo J. C. Rosado,
  • Marcos Sampaio and
  • Brigitte Hiller

15 January 2026

Chiral interactions pose significant challenges for regularization due to the γ5 Dirac matrix, which is intrinsically four-dimensional. Dimensional regularizations, while widely employed in gauge theories, encounter challenges when treating &ga...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances of Asymmetry/Symmetry in High Energy Physics)
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  • Open Access
585 Views
23 Pages

2 March 2026

To meet the requirements of effectiveness and strength in actual engineering, based on the dynamic fracture characteristics, the dynamic propagation of orthogonal anisotropic interface cracks in piezoelectric bimaterials was analyzed. By performing L...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanics of Materials)
  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,603 Views
27 Pages

Occam’s Razor for Big Data? On Detecting Quality in Large Unstructured Datasets

  • Birgitta Dresp-Langley,
  • Ole Kristian Ekseth,
  • Jan Fesl,
  • Seiichi Gohshi and ,
  • Marc Kurz and
  • Hans-Werner Sehring
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

29 July 2019

Detecting quality in large unstructured datasets requires capacities far beyond the limits of human perception and communicability and, as a result, there is an emerging trend towards increasingly complex analytic solutions in data science to cope wi...

(This article belongs to the Section Computing and Artificial Intelligence)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,807 Views
12 Pages

Experimental Measurement of Steady and Transient Liquid Coiling with High-Speed Video and Digital Image Processing

  • Frank Austin Mier,
  • Raj Bhakta,
  • Nicolas Castano,
  • John Garcia and
  • Michael J. Hargather

15 December 2018

Liquid coiling occurs as a viscous fluid flows into a stagnant reservoir causing a localized accumulation of settling material, which coils into a stack as it accumulates. These coiling flows are broadly characterized into three primary coiling regim...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,280 Views
23 Pages

23 March 2025

As resources are extracted from the deeper sections of a mine, the ventilation network becomes increasingly complex. Consequently, determining the optimal installation location for speed-measuring equipment that accurately reflects the average wind s...

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