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3 Citations
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22 January 2021

We study the stability of a unique weak solution to certain parabolic systems with nonstandard growth condition, which are additionally dependent on a cross-diffusion term. More precisely, we show that two unique weak solutions of the considered syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Nonlinear Differential Equations: Theory, Methods and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,882 Views
15 Pages

Convergence and Numerical Solution of a Model for Tumor Growth

  • Juan J. Benito,
  • Ángel García,
  • María Lucía Gavete,
  • Mihaela Negreanu and ,
  • Francisco Ureña and
  • Antonio M. Vargas
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

11 June 2021

In this paper, we show the application of the meshless numerical method called “Generalized Finite Diference Method” (GFDM) for solving a model for tumor growth with nutrient density, extracellular matrix and matrix degrading enzymes, [recently propo...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Partial Differential Equations in Engineering)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,075 Views
24 Pages

27 March 2024

In this paper, exact solutions of semilinear equations having exponential growth in the space variable x are found. Semilinear Schrödinger equation with logarithmic nonlinearity and third-order evolution equations arising in optics with logarith...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applications of Differential Equations in Sciences)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,788 Views
18 Pages

Outdoor Cultivation of the Microalga Chlorella vulgaris in a New Photobioreactor Configuration: The Effect of Ultraviolet and Visible Radiation

  • Alcinda P. Lopes,
  • Francisca M. Santos,
  • Tânia F. C. V. Silva,
  • Vítor J. P. Vilar and
  • José C. M. Pires

16 April 2020

Microalgae can be a future source of biomass with a wide range of applications, including its use to solve current environmental issues. One of the main variables for microalgal cultivation is the light supply: (i) its intensity that often does not p...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Energy and Environment)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,161 Views
16 Pages

Effect of Chromium Content on the Oxidation Behavior of a Ta Stabilized γ’-Strengthened Polycrystalline Co-30Ni-10Al-4W-4Ti-2Ta Alloy

  • Kun Qian,
  • Shasha Qu,
  • Lei Shu,
  • Peng Xue and ,
  • Xiaobing Li,
  • Bo Chen and
  • Kui Liu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

24 August 2022

The high-temperature oxidation behaviors of polycrystalline Co-30Ni-10Al-4W-4Ti-2Ta superalloys with Cr contents ranging from 1 to 5 at.% are characterized at 900 °C to provide benchmark data for the alloy design of the CoNi-based superalloys. Th...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advance in Corrosion and Protection of Metals)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,214 Views
21 Pages

17 May 2018

A generalisation of the Lie symmetry method is applied to classify a coupled system of reaction-diffusion equations wherein the nonlinearities involve arbitrary functions in the limit case in which one equation of the pair is quasi-steady but the oth...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Lie and Conditional Symmetries and Their Applications for Solving Nonlinear Models, II)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,970 Views
13 Pages

Selective Area Epitaxy of Highly Strained InGaAs Quantum Wells (980–990 nm) in Ultrawide Windows Using Metalorganic Chemical Vapor Deposition

  • Viktor Shamakhov,
  • Sergey Slipchenko,
  • Dmitriy Nikolaev,
  • Alexander Smirnov and ,
  • Ilya Eliseyev,
  • Artyom Grishin,
  • Matvei Kondratov,
  • Ilya Shashkin and
  • Nikita Pikhtin
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

22 August 2023

We employed the selective-area-epitaxy technique using metalorganic chemical vapor deposition to fabricate and study samples of semiconductor heterostructures that incorporate highly strained InGaAs quantum wells (980–990 nm emission wavelength...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Nanophotonics: Lasers, Gratings and Localized Surface Plasmons)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,000 Views
20 Pages

A Study of an EOQ Model of Growing Items with Parabolic Dense Fuzzy Lock Demand Rate

  • Suman Maity,
  • Sujit Kumar De,
  • Madhumangal Pal and
  • Sankar Prasad Mondal

In this article, the parabolic dense fuzzy set is defined, and its basic arithmetic operations are studied with graphical illustration. The lock set concept is incorporated in a parabolic dense fuzzy set. Then, it is applied to the problems of fisher...

(This article belongs to the Section Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,939 Views
12 Pages

Modeling Heavy Metal Sorption and Interaction in a Multispecies Biofilm

  • Berardino D’Acunto,
  • Luigi Frunzo,
  • Vincenzo Luongo and
  • Maria Rosaria Mattei

24 August 2019

A mathematical model able to simulate the physical, chemical and biological interactions prevailing in multispecies biofilms in the presence of a toxic heavy metal is presented. The free boundary value problem related to biofilm growth and evolution...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Mathematical Methods: Theory and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,175 Views
16 Pages

Comparative Simulation of Solar Adsorption and Absorption Cooling Systems with Latent Heat Storage with Erythritol and MgCl2·6H2O

  • Rosenberg J. Romero,
  • Fernando Lara,
  • Eduardo Venegas-Reyes,
  • Moisés Montiel-Gonzalez and
  • Jesús Cerezo

21 August 2025

The energy requirements for conditioning spaces have been increasing primarily due to population growth and climate change. This paper shows a comparison between an adsorption (ADC) and absorption cooling (ABC) systems to keep a building below the 25...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Engineering: Energy Conversion, Numerical Simulation, and Advanced Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
  • Best Paper Award
43 Citations
7,535 Views
24 Pages

10 January 2021

Highlights: European beech (Fagus sylvatica L.) and silver fir (Abies alba Mill.) displayed parabolic elevational trends of the cessation of xylem cell differentiation phases. Xylem phenology and growth rates of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) appea...

(This article belongs to the Section Forest Ecophysiology and Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
374 Views
17 Pages

Stable Seasonal Trends in Satellite-Derived Vegetation Indices over Vineyards: Preliminary Results from Trinity Canyon, Armenia

  • Anahit Khlghatyan,
  • Andrea Bergamaschi,
  • Andrey Medvedev,
  • Vahagn Muradyan and ,
  • Shushanik Asmaryan and
  • Fabio Dell’Acqua
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

16 July 2026

Continuous monitoring of vineyard dynamics is essential for optimizing viticultural practices and assessing plant health. While the seasonal behaviors of satellite-derived vegetation indices are widely studied, robust parametric modeling of these tem...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Drone and UAV)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
313 Views
24 Pages

Effect of Pre-Corrosion on the Fatigue Behavior of 347H Austenitic Stainless Steel at Elevated Temperature

  • Hao Chen,
  • Hai-Ying Lei,
  • Xue-Jing Sun,
  • Jian-Guo Gong and ,
  • Yu-Hui Huang and
  • Fu-Zhen Xuan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 October 2026

The combined damage induced by the nitrate molten salt corrosion and cyclic loading at elevated temperatures is an important damage issue for the reliable operation of concentrated solar power (CSP) plants. In previous works, the effect of the molten...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Failure Analysis and Evaluation of Metallic Materials)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,335 Views
12 Pages

The Preparation and Properties of Ti(Nb)-Si-C Coating on the Pre-Oxidized Ferritic Stainless Steel for Solid Oxide Fuel Cell Interconnect

  • Xichao Li,
  • Yongchen Chi,
  • Shouli Wei,
  • Xianwei Sun and ,
  • Jingxiang Zhao,
  • Qiangqiang Hou,
  • Kang Fu,
  • Zuoqiang Dai and
  • Lili Zheng
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

28 January 2024

Cr2O3 scale growth and volatilization are the main cause of the performance degradation of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) with an Fe-based ferritic stainless steel (FSS) interconnect. In this work, an amorphous Ti(Nb)-Si-C coating is prepared on the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Energy Storage Materials: Preparation, Characterization and Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,257 Views
8 Pages

23 October 2021

To investigate the growth kinetics of the reaction layer and mechanical strength of joined materials, we joined beryllium and reduced-activation ferritic–martensitic steel (F82H) by plasma sintering under various conditions and characterized the join...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
7,053 Views
8 Pages

Thermodynamic Analysis about Nucleation and Growth of Cubic Boron Nitride Crystals in the hBN-Li3N System under High Pressure and High Temperature

  • Xiao-Fei Guo,
  • Bin Xu,
  • Wen Zhang,
  • Mei-Zhe Lv and ,
  • Hong-Mei Yang and
  • Xiao-Hong Fan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

9 February 2015

The nucleation of cubic boron nitride (cBN) single crystals synthesized with lithium nitride (Li3N) as a catalyst under high pressure and high temperature (HPHT) was analyzed. Many nanometer-sized cubic boron nitride nuclei formed in the near surface...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Selected Papers from 1st International Electronic Conference on Entropy and its Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,281 Views
11 Pages

22 November 2022

A theory for crystal nucleation and growth with the recalescence front is developed. The theory is based on the saddle-point technique for evaluating a Laplace-type integral as well as the small parameter method for solving the moving boundary heat t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phase Transition in External Fields)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,468 Views
11 Pages

Coefficient Inequalities of Functions Associated with Petal Type Domains

  • Sarfraz Nawaz Malik,
  • Shahid Mahmood,
  • Mohsan Raza,
  • Sumbal Farman and
  • Saira Zainab

3 December 2018

In the theory of analytic and univalent functions, coefficients of functions’ Taylor series representation and their related functional inequalities are of major interest and how they estimate functions’ growth in their specified domains....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Inequalities)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,979 Views
14 Pages

The fungal toxin fusicoccin (FC) induces rapid cell elongation, proton extrusion and plasma membrane hyperpolarization in maize coleoptile cells. Here, these three parameters were simultaneously measured using non-abraded and non-peeled segments with...

(This article belongs to the Section Biochemistry)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
4,661 Views
28 Pages

31 January 2022

In this paper, a novel process is developed to cogenerate 4741 kg/h of methanol, 297.7 kW of electricity, and 35.73 ton/h of hot water, including a hydrogen purification system, an absorption–compression refrigeration cycle (ACRC), a regenerati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue State-of-the-Art Energy Related Technologies in Canada 2021-2022)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,006 Views
12 Pages

Crack-Growth Behavior in Thermal Barrier Coatings with Cyclic Thermal Exposure

  • Dowon Song,
  • Taeseup Song,
  • Ungyu Paik,
  • Guanlin Lyu and ,
  • Yeon-Gil Jung,
  • Baig-Gyu Choi,
  • In-Soo Kim and
  • Jing Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Crack-growth behavior in yttria-stabilized zirconia-based thermal barrier coatings (TBCs) is investigated through a cyclic thermal fatigue (CTF) test to understand TBCs’ failure mechanisms. Initial cracks were introduced on the coatings’...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Science and Technology of Thermal Barrier Coatings)
  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
6,660 Views
10 Pages

Kinetic Study of Oxide Growth at High Temperature in Low Carbon Steel

  • Sixtos Antonio Arreola-Villa,
  • Héctor Javier Vergara-Hernández,
  • Gildardo Solorio-Diáz,
  • Alejandro Pérez-Alvarado and ,
  • Octavio Vázquez-Gómez and
  • Gerardo Marx Chávez-Campos
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 January 2022

High-temperature surface oxidation kinetics were determined for low-carbon steel using a Joule heating device on hollow cylindrical specimens. The growth of the oxide layer was measured in situ between 800 and 1050 ∘C under isothermal oxidation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,785 Views
11 Pages

Study of Grain Growth in a Ni-Based Superalloy by Experiments and Cellular Automaton Model

  • Yan-Xing Liu,
  • Zhi-Jiang Ke,
  • Run-Hua Li,
  • Ju-Qing Song and
  • Jing-Jing Ruan

16 November 2021

The grain growth behavior in a typical Ni-based superalloy was investigated using isothermal heat treatment experiments over a holding temperature range of 1353–1473 K. The experimental results showed that the grain structure continuously coarsened a...

(This article belongs to the Section Manufacturing Processes and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,504 Views
16 Pages

8 March 2022

Foreign trade in subdeveloped regions may lead to serious environmental problems. The direct and possible indirect ways in which foreign trade correlates with green economic efficiency in subdeveloped regions are qualitatively analyzed. Empirical tes...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue International Trade and Foreign Direct Investment for Sustainable Development)
  • Article
  • Open Access
54 Citations
8,362 Views
11 Pages

12 September 2016

The understanding of the oxidation behaviors of as-cast and annealed high-entropy alloys (HEAs) is currently limited. This work systematically investigates the influence of annealing on the microstructures and oxidation behaviors of AlCoCrFeNi-based...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue High-Entropy Alloys (HEAs))
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
780 Views
28 Pages

Theoretical Analysis of the Jacking Force During the Vertical Pipe Jacking Process

  • Xinjiang Wei,
  • Xiao Wang,
  • Gang Wei,
  • Shaohua Li and ,
  • Zihai Yan,
  • Jiajia Yan and
  • Jingmin Xu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

With the growing scarcity of surface space, underground development has become essential for expanding human living space. Among various tunneling methods, pipe jacking stands out due to its economic advantages and minimal environmental impact. Recen...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Structures)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,403 Views
20 Pages

Stability theory offers a practical method on parametric studies that encompass scales in the boundary layer typically not captured in Large Eddy (LES) or Reynolds-Averaged Navier–Stokes (RANS) simulations. We investigated the transition modes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,342 Views
14 Pages

22 November 2024

A numerical simulation method is proposed to investigate the nonlinear growth of thermally grown oxide (TGO) on a novel coated steam dual-pipe system operating at 700 °C. Utilizing oxidation kinetics data from high-temperature water vapor experim...

(This article belongs to the Section Ceramic Coatings and Engineering Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
638 Views
16 Pages

Numerical Modeling of Oxide Scale Formation on Low-Carbon Steel Under Reheating Furnace Conditions Using Hydrogen and Natural Gas Air–Fuel and Oxy-Fuel Mixtures

  • Mario Herrera-Ortega,
  • Armin K. Silaen,
  • Nicholas J. Walla,
  • Chenn Q. Zhou and ,
  • Tomas Ekman,
  • Esin Iplik,
  • Rudiger Eichler,
  • Rafat Hirmiz,
  • Joseph Maiolo and
  • Yong Lee
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

14 May 2026

This work presents an oxidation model that integrates high-temperature steel oxidation kinetics with CFD simulations to predict oxide scale formation during steel reheating under varying combustion atmospheres in the temperature range of 800–12...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Efficient Utilization of Metal Mineral Resources and Low-Carbon Metallurgy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,525 Views
12 Pages

17 November 2022

In this paper, we derive the boundary integral equation (BIE), a single integrodifferential equation governing the evolutionary behavior of the interface function, paying special attention to the nonlinear liquidus equation and atomic kinetics. As a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Phase Transition in External Fields)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,017 Views
20 Pages

Numerical Analysis of an Osseointegration Model

  • Jacobo Baldonedo,
  • José R. Fernández and
  • Abraham Segade

5 January 2020

In this work, we study a bone remodeling model used to reproduce the phenomenon of osseointegration around endosseous implants. The biological problem is written in terms of the densities of platelets, osteogenic cells, and osteoblasts and the concen...

(This article belongs to the Section C1: Difference and Differential Equations)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,540 Views
24 Pages

Dynamics in a Chemotaxis Model with Periodic Source

  • Mihaela Negreanu and
  • Antonio M. Vargas

20 January 2022

We consider a system of two differential equations modeling chemotaxis. The system consists of a parabolic equation describing the behavior of a biological species “u” coupled to an ODE patterning the concentration of a chemical substance...

(This article belongs to the Section E3: Mathematical Biology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,236 Views
15 Pages

24 December 2020

The paper considers a new approach to modeling the relationship between the increase in woody phytomass in the pine forest and satellite-derived Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) and Land Surface Temperature (LST) (MODIS/AQUA) data. The d...

(This article belongs to the Section Biometeorology and Bioclimatology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,336 Views
17 Pages

This article examines contacting by means of ultrasonic welding between a cast aluminum winding and a copper conductor of a wheel hub drive for a passenger car. The effect of thermal stress on the formation and growth of intermetallic phases (IMC) in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Design, Analysis and Optimization of Electrical Machines and Drives for Electric Vehicles, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,151 Views
15 Pages

13 March 2023

The performance of Cu-Fe alloy is related to the solidification structure, which is directly determined by the microstructure evolution during solidification. The solidification sequence, solid–liquid interface variation, and microstructural ev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,282 Views
12 Pages

5 May 2024

This study investigated the interfacial reactions between n-type Bi2(Te,Se)3 thermoelectric material, characterized by a highly-oriented (110) plane, and pure Sn and Sn-3.0Ag-0.5Cu (wt.%) solders, respectively. At 250 °C, the liquid-state Sn/Bi2(...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Welding, Joining, and Additive Manufacturing of Metals and Alloys)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,159 Views
13 Pages

Thermal barrier coating (TBC) is a critical material in the aerospace domain to increase the lifetime of gas turbine components subjected to thermal load. The properties of TBC are strongly related to the growth of thermally grown oxide (TGO) whose m...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
11,804 Views
36 Pages

Fourier-Spectral Method for the Phase-Field Equations

  • Sungha Yoon,
  • Darae Jeong,
  • Chaeyoung Lee,
  • Hyundong Kim and ,
  • Sangkwon Kim,
  • Hyun Geun Lee and
  • Junseok Kim
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 August 2020

In this paper, we review the Fourier-spectral method for some phase-field models: Allen–Cahn (AC), Cahn–Hilliard (CH), Swift–Hohenberg (SH), phase-field crystal (PFC), and molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth. These equations are ver...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Open Source Codes for Numerical Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,442 Views
13 Pages

11 July 2022

Recent decades have witnessed the emergence of interesting models of fractional partial differential equations. In the current work, a class of parabolic equations with regularized Hyper-Bessel derivative and the exponential source is investigated. M...

(This article belongs to the Section B: Mathematics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,281 Views
13 Pages

30 November 2020

The effect of gallium on the oxide film structure and overall oxidation resistance of low melting point Sn–Bi–Zn alloys was investigated under air atmosphere using thermogravimetric analyses. The liquid alloys studied had a Ga content of...

(This article belongs to the Section Advanced Materials Characterization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
6,167 Views
17 Pages

5 May 2023

High-temperature oxidation phenomena play a crucial role in steel production and processing. The development of new alloying concepts, the modification of production routes due to the decarbonization of steelmaking, and increasing quality demands wil...

(This article belongs to the Section Corrosion and Protection)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
385 Views
19 Pages

22 August 2026

Fe-Al intermetallic coatings were fabricated on 0Cr21Al6Nb stainless steel by pack cementation to systematically investigate the effects of temperature (650–800 °C) and holding time (2–16 h) on the coating microstructure, phase consti...

(This article belongs to the Topic Advanced Manufacturing and Surface Technology, 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,331 Views
10 Pages

Carburization Kinetics of Zircalloy-4 and Its Implication for Small Modular Reactor Performance

  • Erofili Kardoulaki,
  • Najeb Abdul-Jabbar,
  • Darrin Byler,
  • Md Mehadi Hassan and ,
  • Shane Mann,
  • Tim Coons and
  • Josh White
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

12 November 2022

Carburization of cladding materials has long been a concern for the nuclear industry and has led to the restricted use of high-thermal conductivity fuels such as uranium carbides. With the rise of small modular reactors (SMRs) that frequently impleme...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,902 Views
31 Pages

Analysis of Diffusion Coefficients of Iron Monoboride and Diiron Boride Coating Formed on the Surface of AISI 420 Steel by Two Different Models: Experiments and Modelling

  • Martín Ortiz-Domínguez,
  • Ángel Jesús Morales-Robles,
  • Oscar Armando Gómez-Vargas and
  • Teresita de Jesús Cruz-Victoria

3 July 2023

In the present work, two mathematical diffusion models have been used to estimate the growth of the iron monoboride and diiron boride coating formed on AISI 420 steel. The boronizing of the steel was carried out with the solid diffusion packing metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,825 Views
16 Pages

Mathematical Modeling of Physical Capital Diffusion Using a Spatial Solow Model: Application to Smuggling in Venezuela

  • Gilberto González-Parra,
  • Benito Chen-Charpentier,
  • Abraham J. Arenas and
  • Miguel Díaz-Rodríguez

This study proposes a mathematical modeling approach for the physical capital diffusion through the borders of countries. Physical capital is considered a crucial variable for the economic growth of a nation. Here, we use an extension of the economic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
9,772 Views
13 Pages

Effects of Temperature on Growth, Molting, Feed Intake, and Energy Metabolism of Individually Cultured Juvenile Mud Crab Scylla paramamosain in the Recirculating Aquaculture System

  • Jiahao Liu,
  • Ce Shi,
  • Yangfang Ye,
  • Zhen Ma and ,
  • Changkao Mu,
  • Zhiming Ren,
  • Qingyang Wu and
  • Chunlin Wang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

23 September 2022

An eight-week experiment was conducted to investigate the effects of temperature (20, 25, 30, and 35 °C) on growth performance, feed intake, energy metabolism, antioxidant capacity, and the stress response of juvenile Scylla paramamosain in a rec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Aquaculture Ecology Research)
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,678 Views
14 Pages

12 November 2020

Light conditions and nitrogen fertilizer are crucial for plant growth, especially in the underground situations without sunlight and nitrogen deposition. In this paper, the effects of photoperiod (12 h and 16 h lighting time per day), light intensity...

  • Article
  • Open Access
425 Views
12 Pages

8 August 2026

Tool steel TD salt-bath vanadizing generally relies on expensive analytical-grade raw materials, yet systematic investigations into low-cost industrial borax-based vanadizing of 9SiCr steel remain insufficient. This work intends to optimize the indus...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,513 Views
12 Pages

Degradation of HVOF-MCrAlY + APS-Nanostructured YSZ Thermal Barrier Coatings

  • Weijie R. Chen,
  • Chao Li,
  • Yuxian Cheng,
  • Hongying Li and ,
  • Xiao Zhang and
  • Lu Wang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 July 2025

The degradation process of HVOF-MCrAlY + APS-nanostructured YSZ (APS-nYSZ) thermal barrier coatings, produced using gas turbine OEM-approved MCrAlY powders, is investigated by studying the TGO growth and crack propagation behaviors in a thermal cycli...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal Barrier Coatings: Materials, Processes, Properties and Applications)

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