Recently, the application of 3D printing in the production of curved panels has increased due to the irregular shape of free-form buildings. In general, 3D printing based on additive manufacturing (AM) methods requires various supports that cause a w...
To decrease the power deficit of a wind farm caused by wake effects, the layout optimization is a feasible way for the wind farm design stage. A suitable optimization algorithm can significantly improve the quality and efficiency of the optimization...
Wind Farm Layout Optimization (WFLO) can be useful to minimize power losses associated with turbine wakes in wind farms. This work presents a new evolutionary WFLO methodology integrated with a recently developed and successfully validated Gaussian w...
By optimizing the positions of wind turbines in a wind farm, the power loss caused by wake effects can be reduced maximally. A new methodology of layout optimization is proposed utilizing a full-field wake model that integrates the near-field and far...
Large-scale wind farms operate under highly unsteady atmospheric inflows, where transient turbulence, dynamic wake interactions, and inflow-wake coupling reduce energy production and exacerbate turbine loads. Over the past five years, advances in hig...
Wakes generated by upstream turbines in an offshore wind farm severely reduce the efficiency and power output of downstream turbines. Wind farm layout optimization offers a way to alleviate these negative impacts, where the main challenge lies in acc...
Digital technology has facilitated substantial progress in the development and implementation of virtual museums. Despite these advancements, current virtual museums continue to face challenges in spatial layout and information presentation, includin...
Reliable wind modelling is of crucial importance for wind farm development. The common practice of using sector-wise Weibull distributions has been found inappropriate for wind farm layout optimization. In this study, we propose a simple and easily i...
Facility layout in a manufacturing system is a complex production activity because decisions on layout design are influenced by numerous, ambiguous, and competing factors. This study proposes a method for determining and choosing an ideal layout usin...
The simulation of landscape pattern optimization allocation (LPOA) to achieve ecological security is an important issue when constructing regional ecological security patterns. In this study, an LPOA model was developed by integrating a binary logist...
Effective Construction Site Layout Planning (CSLP) ensures the organized placement and sizing of temporary facilities, enhancing workflow and logistical efficiency. Poorly planned layouts, however, can increase material handling times, create bottlen...
The curation design of cultural heritage sites, such as museums, influence the level of visitor satisfaction and the possibility of revisitation; therefore, an efficient exhibit layout is critical. The difficulty of determining the behavior of visito...
Currently, most studies on the optimization of wind farm layouts on flat terrain employ a discrete grid-based arrangement method and result in irregular layouts that may damage the visual appeal of wind farms. To meet the practical requirements of wi...
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With the rapid expansion of impervious surfaces, urban waterlogging has become a typical “urban disease” in China, seriously hindering the sustainable development of cities. Therefore, reducing the impact of impervious surfaces on surface...
The layout of microseismic monitoring (MSM) station networks is very important to ensure the effectiveness of source location inversion; however, it is difficult to meet the complexity and mobility requirements of the technology in this new era. This...
The encapsulation of pressure-sensitive electronic components plays a critical role in ensuring product reliability; however, the current process remains highly dependent on manual operations, leading to low efficiency and harsh working conditions. T...
In the current studies, the supercritical carbon dioxide coal-fired power generation systems show efficiency and cost advantages over the traditional steam-based power systems. However, few studies have considered simultaneously environmental and eco...
In recent years, wind farm layout optimization (WFLO) has been extendedly developed to address the minimization of turbine wake effects in a wind farm. Considering that increasing the degrees of freedom in the decision space can lead to more efficien...
A reasonable layout optimization strategy of rural residential areas can improve the quality of life of rural residents and promote rural revitalization. Evaluating the suitability of rural residential areas is the basis of layout optimization. Based...
Defanging equipment layout in multi-floor satellites consists of two primary tasks: (i) allocating the equipment to the satellite’s layers and (ii) placing the equipment in each layer individually. In reviewing the previous literature in this f...
Fabrication drawings are essential for design evaluation, lean manufacturing, and quality detection of precast concrete (PC) components. Due to the complicated shape of PC components, the fabrication drawing needs to be customized to determine manufa...
The oil jet lubrication performance of a high-speed and heavy-load gear drive is significantly influenced and determined by the oil jet nozzle layout, as there is extremely limited meshing clearance for the impinging oil stream and an inevitable bloc...
The growing participation of elderly individuals in cruise tourism introduces asymmetry in passenger mobility and perception, posing challenges for onboard emergency evacuation. To address this, an interactive cellular automata model that enables dyn...
Efficient operation of robotic manipulators in constrained workspaces requires careful coordination of robot placement, motion planning, and posture optimization. This paper presents a hierarchical optimization framework that addresses these challeng...
Offshore wind farms will have larger capacities in the future than they do today. Thus, the costs that are associated with the installation of wind turbines and the connection of power grids will be much higher, thus the location of wind turbines and...
Mountainous cities face various land use challenges, including complex topography, low land use efficiency, and the insufficient control of land use in small-scale areas at the urban fringe. Considering population changes, environmental conservation,...
The layout of emergency medical services (EMS) is of vital importance. A well-planned layout significantly impacts the timeliness of response and operational efficiency, which are crucial for saving lives and mitigating injury severity. This paper pr...
Optimal design of wind turbine placement in a wind farm is one of the most effective tools to reduce wake power losses by alleviating the wake effect in the wind farm. In comparison to the discrete grid-based wind farm design method, the continuous c...
China feeds 22 percent of people with 9 percent of the world’s cultivated land. The spatial layout optimization of cultivated land is of strategic significance to the sustainable development of socio-economy and ecology. Based on the integrated...
Prefabricated construction is being developed as one of the pathways toward circularity in the construction industry. However, compared to traditional cast-in-place construction methods, the design of prefabricated construction site layouts presents...
The problems of uneven load and low operating efficiency in the oil-gathering system of old oilfields lead to higher operating costs. In order to reduce operating costs, the layout-reconfiguration optimization model is established, and the minimum co...
Aiming to solve the problem of the low efficiency and single objective of low impact development (LID) layout, the objectives of stormwater control, water quality purification, and economic cost are selected to present the performance of LID practice...
The realistic simulation of the dynamic responses of a moving articulated vehicle has attracted considerable attention in various disciplines, with the identification of the vehicle model being the prerequisite. To this end, a double-sensor hump cali...
The implementation of the relevant management system makes the road-parking behavior standardized, while increasing the difficulty of temporary parking of operational vehicles such as taxis. Therefore, in order to improve the relevant management meas...
Waves are one of the most important factors affecting offshore marine engineering. Accurate calculation of wave distribution is an important prerequisite to ensure the safety of coastal engineering construction. Due to the influence of complex topogr...
For an actual visible light communication system, it is necessary to consider the uniformity of indoor illumination. Most of the existing optimization schemes, however, do not consider the effect of the first reflected light, and do not conform to th...
Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSSs) are widely used in many applications but can be out of use in some critical conditions. Hybrid pseudolite systems utilize ground and aero stations as pseudolites to provide positioning signals for users wit...
A factory layout is a decisive factor in the improvement of production levels, efficiency, and even in the sustainability of a company. Regardless of the type of layout to be implemented, they are typically designed to optimize the work conditions an...
The layout configuration of Vortex Induced Piezoelectric Energy Converters (VIPECs) is essential to improve its overall performance. Based on the formations of migrating geese, the configuration is characterized by two nondimensionalized layout param...
The idea of this paper comes from the need for a practical layout design for the subsea pipe line network and the power transmission network of offshore wind farms with subsea cables, which are both subsea transmission networks with line-shaped condu...
The paper describes the development of an optimization model for the layout of an industrial robot relative to known locations of served machines and operations to be performed. Robotized material handling applications, defined by trajectories (paths...
In the present study, the layout structure of an n-MOSFET, which is vulnerable to radiation, was designed in a different way to enhance its tolerance to radiation. Radiation damage assessment was conducted using modeling and simulation (M&S) tech...
With the advent and development of Industry 4.0 and 5.0, manufacturing modes have changed and numerous newly complicated and integrated village-level industrial parks have emerged in the Southeast of China, where several enterprises are gathered in t...
Precast concrete comprises the basic components of modular buildings. The efficiency of precast concrete building component production directly impacts the construction time and cost. In the processes of precast component production, mold setting has...
Huizhou villages are representatives of traditional villages and have a high historical, cultural, and tourism value. In view of the problems of low commercial efficiency due to the small scale of commercial space and the imperfect layout in Longchua...
In order to reduce the pressure on urban road traffic, multi-modal travel is gradually replacing single-modal travel. Park and ride (P + R) and kiss and ride (K + R) are effective methods to integrate car transportation and rail transit. However, the...
The exploitation and utilization of shallow geothermal energy are of great significance to realizing China’s “double carbon” goal and promoting a green economy and social development. However, many projects using ground source heat...
Utilizing the data obtained from both scanning and counting sensors is critical for efficiently managing traffic flow on roadways. Past studies mainly focused on the optimal layout of one type of sensor, and how to optimize the arrangement of more th...
Two near field models for the analysis of spatially fed planar array antennas are presented, compared and applied to a multi-frequency wideband direct layout optimization for mm-Wave 5G new radio (NR) indoor network coverage. One model is based on th...
Architects face the challenge of exploring various design solutions in the early design stage, often with conflicting optimization goals. To tackle this complexity, they need to rely on tools and methodologies during the conceptual phase to assess an...
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