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5 November 2026

This study proposes a non-uniform meshing strategy for finite element (FE) discretization aimed at improving mechanical accuracy under controlled nodal budgets in structural analyses with localized field gradients. Unlike quasi-uniform meshing, the p...

(This article belongs to the Topic Mathematical, Computational and Data-Driven Methods in Mechanics, Engineering and Applied Sciences)
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3 Citations
2,421 Views
15 Pages

18 August 2021

In this work, stable and convergent numerical schemes on nonuniform time meshes are proposed, for the solution of distributed-order diffusion equations. The stability and convergence of the numerical methods are proven, and a set of numerical results...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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4 September 2025

This paper presents a novel non-uniform, non-stationary Loop subdivision that directly interpolates arbitrary initial triangular meshes. This subdivision is derived by assigning distinct parameters for “vertex-point” and “edge-point...

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14 Citations
5,890 Views
22 Pages

9 May 2018

The use of multiple-level non-uniform rectangular mesh in coupled flow and sediment transport modeling is preferred to achieve high accuracy in important region without increasing computational cost greatly. Here, a robust coupled hydrodynamic and no...

(This article belongs to the Section Hydraulics and Hydrodynamics)
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4 July 2026

This paper develops a compact analytical framework for multiquadric radial basis function–Hermite finite difference (MQ RBF–HFD) approximations on nonuniform meshes. The main contributions are a unified local operator formulation, uniform...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Mathematics and Its Applications in Numerical Analysis, 2nd Edition)
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10 Citations
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21 Pages

In this paper, we are interested in the effective numerical schemes of the time-fractional Black–Scholes equation. We convert the original equation into an equivalent integral-differential equation and then discretize the time-integral term in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Evolutionary Equations and Modeling of Dissipative Processes)
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4 Citations
3,678 Views
13 Pages

Efficient Parallel FDTD Method Based on Non-Uniform Conformal Mesh

  • Kaihui Liu,
  • Tao Huang,
  • Liang Zheng,
  • Xiaolin Jin and ,
  • Guanjie Lin,
  • Luo Huang,
  • Wenjing Cai,
  • Dapeng Gong and
  • Chunwang Fang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 May 2024

The finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method is a versatile electromagnetic simulation technique, widely used for solving various broadband problems. However, when dealing with complex structures and large dimensions, especially when applying perf...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Parallel Computing and Grid Computing: Technologies and Applications)
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1 Citations
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This paper develops a fully discrete finite element scheme for the fractional wave equation with order α∈(1,2), whose solution typically exhibits a weak singularity near the initial time t=0. By introducing an auxiliary variable, we first...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Solution and Applications of Fractional Differential Equations, 3rd Edition)
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4 Citations
3,557 Views
23 Pages

In this paper, efficient methods seeking the numerical solution of a time-fractional fourth-order differential equation with Caputo’s derivative are derived. The solution of such a problem has a weak singularity near the initial time t=0. The C...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Fractional Dynamics 2021)
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3 Citations
3,726 Views
14 Pages

28 August 2023

A neural-network-assisted numerical method is proposed for the solution of Laplace and Poisson problems. Finite differences are applied to approximate the spatial Laplacian operator on nonuniform grids. For this, a neural network is trained to comput...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Optimization and Algorithms)
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17 August 2026

In this paper, we consider a nonlinear fractional superdiffusion equation involving a Caputo derivative of order α∈(1,2). Solutions to this class of problems typically exhibit weak singularities near the initial time. To handle this singul...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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1 Citations
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22 Pages

16 January 2023

For non-uniform control polygons, a parameterized four-point interpolation curve ternary subdivision scheme is proposed, and its convergence and continuity are demonstrated. Following curve subdivision, a non-uniform interpolation surface ternary sub...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computer-Aided Geometric Design)
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4 Citations
5,817 Views
14 Pages

14 December 2018

A finite-difference approach with non-uniform meshes was presented for simulating magnetotelluric responses in 2D structures. We presented the calculation formula of this scheme from the boundary value problem of electric field and magnetic field, an...

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54 Citations
8,749 Views
16 Pages

12 June 2018

The present paper deals with the numerical solution of time-fractional advection–diffusion equations involving the Caputo derivative with a source term by means of an unconditionally-stable, implicit, finite difference method on non-uniform gri...

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19 Citations
3,947 Views
25 Pages

27 October 2021

We consider the predictor-corrector numerical methods for solving Caputo–Hadamard fractional differential equations with the graded meshes logtj=loga+logtNajNr,j=0,1,2,…,N with a≥1 and r≥1, where loga=logt0<logt1<⋯<logtN=logT is a partition...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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1 Citations
1,313 Views
20 Pages

2 November 2025

In this paper, we introduce the development of the Finite Difference Matrix Operators (FDMO) algorithm for solving the three-dimensional (3D) electromagnetic problem governed by the Laplace–Poisson equation. Specifically, we propose a novel approach...

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4 Citations
2,720 Views
22 Pages

This paper aims to numerically study the time-fractional Allen-Cahn equation, where the time-fractional derivative is in the sense of Caputo with order α∈(0,1). Considering the weak singularity of the solution u(x,t) at the starting time,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Solution and Applications of Fractional Differential Equations)
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29 November 2024

An efficient approximation is developed for the Laplacian operator by merging the advances of finite difference and finite element approximations. This approach is applicable to a general quadrilateral grid. The optimal coefficients for the approxima...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Optimization in Honor of the 60th Birthday of Marko M. Mäkelä)
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1 Citations
1,554 Views
22 Pages

Greedy-VoI Time-Mesh Design for Rolling-Horizon EMS: Optimizing Block-Variable Granularity and Horizon Under Compute Budgets

  • Gregorio Fernández,
  • J. F. Sanz Osorio,
  • Adrián Alarcón,
  • Miguel Torres and
  • Alfonso Calavia

Rolling-horizon energy management systems (EMSs) and model predictive control (MPC) for microgrids in smart cities face a fundamental trade-off: finer temporal discretization improves operational performance but rapidly increases the size of the opti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Smart Sustainable Cities: Pioneering Novel Frontiers for Green Urban Living)
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3 Citations
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25 Pages

A Novel Temperature Reconstruction Method for Acoustic Pyrometry Under Strong Temperature Gradients and Limited Measurement Points

  • Jingkao Tan,
  • Lehang Chen,
  • Na Li,
  • Qulan Zhou and ,
  • Zhongquan Gao and
  • Jie Zhou
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 April 2025

Acoustic pyrometry (AP) is a promising methodology for high-quality temperature field reconstruction, which is widely used in the monitoring of atmosphere, room, and furnace. However, most of the existing acoustic reconstruction algorithms are develo...

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1 Citations
2,658 Views
16 Pages

Integrating a Stabilized Radial Basis Function Method with Lattice Boltzmann Method

  • Saleh A. Bawazeer,
  • Saleh S. Baakeem and
  • Abdulmajeed A. Mohamad

4 February 2022

The lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) has two key steps: collision and streaming. In a conventional LBM, the streaming is exact, where each distribution function is perfectly shifted to the neighbor node on the uniform mesh arrangement. This advantage m...

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11 Citations
3,884 Views
15 Pages

A Local Adaptive Mesh Refinement for JFO Cavitation Model on Cartesian Meshes

  • Wanjun Xu,
  • Kang Li,
  • Zhengyang Geng,
  • Mingjie Zhang and
  • Jiangang Yang

22 October 2021

Nonuniform mesh is beneficial to reduce computational cost and improve the resolution of the interest area. In the paper, a cell-based adaptive mesh refinement (AMR) method was developed for bearing cavitation simulation. The bearing mesh can be opti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Tribology: Latest Advances and Prospects)
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7 Citations
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13 Pages

Boundary Deformation Measurement by Mesh-Based Digital Image Correlation Method

  • Lu Wang,
  • Guangyan Liu,
  • Tongzhen Xing,
  • Haibin Zhu and
  • Shaopeng Ma

23 December 2020

Digital image correlation (DIC) is a popular photomechanics method for deformation measurement. The conventional subset-based DIC method obtains the displacement vectors at the subset centers, but cannot calculate the deformation on the specimen edge...

(This article belongs to the Section Mechanical Engineering)
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78 Citations
10,889 Views
20 Pages

23 October 2018

A parameterization modeling method based on finite element mesh to create complex large-scale lattice structures for AM is presented, and a corresponding approach for size optimization of lattice structures is also developed. In the modeling method,...

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1 Citations
1,367 Views
14 Pages

This paper considers the multi-term subdiffusion equation with weakly singular solutions. In order to use sparser meshes near the initial time, a novel scheme (which we call the corrected L1 scheme) on graded meshes is constructed to estimate the mul...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Exploration and Analysis of Higher-Order Numerical Methods for Fractional Differential Equations)
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6 Citations
2,480 Views
18 Pages

6 November 2022

The paper is aimed at an assessment of the importance of the coordinate system (Cartesian vs. cylindrical) assumed for simulations of free-round jets. The research is performed by applying the large eddy simulation method with spatial discretisation...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Theory and Applications of High-Order Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics)
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6 Citations
4,647 Views
21 Pages

RANS-Based Modelling of Turbulent Flow in Submarine Pipe Bends: Effect of Computational Mesh and Turbulence Modelling

  • Qi Yang,
  • Jie Dong,
  • Tongju Xing,
  • Yi Zhang and ,
  • Yong Guan,
  • Xiaoli Liu,
  • Ye Tian and
  • Peng Yu
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Pipe bend is a critical integral component, widely used in slurry pipeline systems involving various engineering applications, including natural gas hydrate production. The aim of this study is to assess the capability of RANS-based CFD models to cap...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Fluid Mechanics II)
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Implicit 3D Orebody Boundary Modeling Based on Adaptive Finite Difference Method

  • Zhangang Wang,
  • Yu Yan,
  • Jia He,
  • Shizhan Zhang and ,
  • Zixun Zhang and
  • Liangjia Xie
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18 May 2026

Three-dimensional (3D) orebody boundary modeling primarily relies on spatial interpolation methods, such as radial basis functions (RBFs). However, these methods struggle with large datasets and require gradient or normal constraints for stable geome...

(This article belongs to the Topic Big Data and AI for Geoscience)
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16 Citations
3,438 Views
19 Pages

29 September 2022

This paper presents a ε-uniform and reliable numerical scheme to solve second-order singularly perturbed Volterra–Fredholm integro-differential equations. Some properties of the analytical solution are given, and the finite difference s...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Methods and Applications for Differential Problems)
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4 November 2026

To evaluate the influence of tooth surface wear on face gear dynamics, this study proposes a coupled wear–dynamics modeling method. A phase-dependent backlash model is developed to preserve the meshing-phase modulation induced by nonuniform wea...

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8 Citations
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14 Pages

Two non-uniform meshes used as part of the finite difference method to resolve singularly perturbed mixed-delay differential equations are studied in this article. The second-order derivative is multiplied by a small parameter which gives rise to bou...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Insights into Nonlinear Coupled Differential Equations with Its Applications)
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3 Citations
2,445 Views
13 Pages

A nonlinear fractional differential equation with a Caputo derivative of order α is studied. This problem is discretized by using the L1 scheme on an arbitrary nonuniform mesh. By utilizing the Taylor expansion with integral remainder term, an...

(This article belongs to the Section Numerical and Computational Methods)
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1 Citations
2,132 Views
15 Pages

Helical gear transmissions in wind turbine gearboxes operate under high torque, variable speed, and complex rolling–sliding contact conditions, where friction-induced wear evolves in a spatially non-uniform manner. However, most existing dynami...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Free Vibration and Dynamic Characteristics of Microheterogeneous Materials and Structures)
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13 Citations
6,216 Views
21 Pages

Numerical simulations are crucial for fast and accurate estimations of the flow characteristics in many engineering applications such as atmospheric boundary layers around buildings, external aerodynamics around vehicles, and pollutant dispersion. In...

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Research on Ship Hull Hybrid Surface Mesh Generation Algorithm Based on Ship Surface Curvature Features

  • Wenyang Duan,
  • Peixin Zhang,
  • Kuo Yang,
  • Limin Huang and ,
  • Yuanqing Sun and
  • Jikang Chen
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Mesh generation is a critical preprocessing step in Computational Fluid Dynamics. In ship hydrodynamics, existing mesh generation methods lack adaptability to complex hull surface geometries, necessitating repeated optimization. To address these issu...

(This article belongs to the Section Ocean Engineering)
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7 Citations
2,926 Views
16 Pages

A structured mesh generation method based on an improved ray-tracing technique is proposed for finite time difference domain (FDTD) simulation in this paper. This method converts the triangular faces provided by the STL file into the structured mesh...

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4 Citations
2,754 Views
12 Pages

In this work, we propose a fast scheme based on higher order discretizations on graded meshes for resolving the temporal-fractional partial differential equation (PDE), which benefits the memory feature of fractional calculus. To avoid excessively in...

(This article belongs to the Topic Fractal and Design of Multipoint Iterative Methods for Nonlinear Problems)
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5 Citations
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Experimental Study on Effective Propping of Multi-Level Fractures Using Micro-Proppants

  • Xiao Sun,
  • Jingfu Mu,
  • Xing Guo,
  • Bo Cao and ,
  • Tang Tang and
  • Tao Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

8 August 2025

In deep shale gas fracturing, the narrow width of micro fractures presents a challenge for conventional proppants (40/70 mesh, 70/140 mesh), which often fail to enter branch fractures, resulting in inadequate effective support volume. To address this...

(This article belongs to the Section Energy Systems)
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19 Citations
5,188 Views
17 Pages

Efficient and Accurate 3-D Numerical Modelling of Landslide Tsunami

  • Guodong Li,
  • Guoding Chen,
  • Pengfeng Li and
  • Haixiao Jing

29 September 2019

High-speed and accurate simulations of landslide-generated tsunamis are of great importance for the understanding of generation and propagation of water waves and for prediction of these natural disasters. A three-dimensional numerical model, based o...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Numerical Modelling of Wave Fields and Currents in Coastal Area)
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GeoSparseNet: A Multi-Source Geometry-Aware CNN for Urban Scene Analysis

  • Muhammad Kamran Afzal,
  • Weiquan Liu,
  • Yu Zang,
  • Shuting Chen and ,
  • Hafiz Muhammad Rehan Afzal,
  • Jibril Muhammad Adam,
  • Bai Yang,
  • Jonathan Li and
  • Cheng Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

21 May 2024

The convolutional neural networks (CNNs) functioning on geometric learning for the urban large-scale 3D meshes are indispensable because of their substantial, complex, and deformed shape constitutions. To address this issue, we proposed a novel Geome...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Point Cloud Processing with Machine Learning)
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3 Citations
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21 Pages

Cross-Mesh Clock Network Synthesis

  • Wei-Kai Cheng,
  • Zih-Ming Yeh,
  • Hsu-Yu Kao and
  • Shih-Hsu Huang

11 August 2023

In the clock network design, the trade-off between power consumption and timing closure is an important and difficult issue. The clock tree architecture has a shorter wire length and better power consumption, but it is more difficult to achieve timin...

(This article belongs to the Section Computer Science & Engineering)
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Aerospace2026, 13(11), 1041;https://doi.org/10.3390/aerospace13111041 
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8 November 2026

Repeated computational fluid dynamics (CFD)-based aerodynamic optimization requires both a compact design space and an inexpensive mesh-update procedure. This study presents a reduced-parameter-to-mesh framework in which low-dimensional variables act...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Fluid Flow Modeling and Next-Generation Engineering Simulations and Optimization in Aerospace Applications)
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5 Citations
1,604 Views
40 Pages

21 January 2025

To study the aerodynamic and vibration characteristics of iced conductors under the influence of wind fluctuations, a harmonic superposition method is used to simulate nonuniform wind speeds. A user-defined function is written on the basis of the sec...

(This article belongs to the Section A3: Wind, Wave and Tidal Energy)
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7 Citations
6,665 Views
26 Pages

Meshing Stiffness Calculation of Disposable Harmonic Drive under Full Load

  • Yuxin Zhang,
  • Xudong Pan,
  • Yuefeng Li,
  • Guanglin Wang and
  • Guicheng Wu

10 April 2022

Mechanical equipment in the field of aerospace that is used only once is called disposable machinery. As a piece of typical disposable machinery, disposable harmonic gear exhibit stiffness failure with a large load. This manuscript distinguishes disp...

(This article belongs to the Section Machine Design and Theory)
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7 Citations
3,393 Views
14 Pages

11 March 2023

Stiffness is the main internal excitation of gear system vibration and is the basis for studying the static and dynamic characteristics of the system. Based on the relationship between thermal stress and strain in plane strain theory and combined wit...

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13 Citations
5,080 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...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Shallow Water Equations in Hydraulics: Modeling, Numerics and Applications)
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3 Citations
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21 Pages

25 April 2023

In this study, a numerical solution for degenerate space–time fractional advection–dispersion equations is proposed to simulate atmospheric dispersion in vertically inhomogeneous planetary boundary layers. The fractional derivative exists...

(This article belongs to the Section E: Applied Mathematics)
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4 Citations
1,500 Views
14 Pages

The Influence of Local Constraints on Solvent Motion in Polymer Materials

  • Krzysztof Hałagan,
  • Przemysław Duniec,
  • Marcin Kozanecki and
  • Andrzej Sikorski

25 September 2024

The influence of obstacles in the form of polymer chains on the diffusion of a low-molecular-weight solvent was the subject of this research. Studies were performed by computer simulations. A Monte Carlo model—the Dynamic Lattice Liquid algorit...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Computational Modeling and Simulation of Polymers and Biopolymers)
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2 Citations
1,664 Views
17 Pages

A Numerical Gear Rolling Test Method for Face-Hobbed Hypoid Gears

  • Jinfu Du,
  • Hong Mao,
  • Yongxiang Liu and
  • Qunlin Zhang

13 September 2023

A numerical gear rolling test (NGRT) method for actual tooth surfaces was proposed. The non-uniform rational B-spline (NURBS) fitting method was adapted to reconstruct the actual tooth surface, and the instant meshing point as well as the transmissio...

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19 Citations
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Context-Based Dynamic Meshed Backhaul Construction for 5G Heterogeneous Networks

  • Gia Khanh Tran,
  • Ricardo Santos,
  • Hiroaki Ogawa,
  • Makoto Nakamura and ,
  • Kei Sakaguchi and
  • Andreas Kassler
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Five-G heterogeneous network overlaid by millimeter-wave (mmWave) access employs mmWave meshed backhauling as a promising cost-efficient backhaul architecture. Due to the nature of mobile traffic distribution in practice which is both time-variant an...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications and Networking)

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