The adsorption of H2O, NH3 and HCOOH as polar molecules and C6H6 and CH4 as non-polar ones on a series of zig-zag (6,0) single-walled boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) both being defect-free (P_BNNT) and containing defects at the nanotube walls has bee...
The wave period is a wave parameter that is significantly influenced by factors such as wind speed and bottom topography. Previous research on wave period parameterization has primarily focused on wind-dominated sea areas and may not be applicable to...
Polylactic acid (PLA) scaffolds with triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structures have become ideal scaffolds in the field of bone defect repair due to their good designability, connectivity, biocompatibility, and degradability. However, it is c...
The Nitrates Directive aims (a) to protect water quality across Europe from nitrates originating from agricultural sources that pollute ground and surface water, and (b) to promote good farming practices. One of the most controversial measures of the...
A fully resolved (FR) NREL 5 MW turbine model is employed in two unsteady Reynolds-averaged Navier–Stokes (URANS) simulations (one with and one without the turbine tower) of a periodic atmospheric boundary layer (ABL) to study the performance o...
The plasma membrane forms the boundary between a living entity and its environment and acts as a barrier to permeation and flow of substances. Several computational means of calculating permeability have been implemented for molecular dynamics (MD) s...
Preharvest threshing is a harvesting method that focuses on collecting rice grains while leaving the rice straw unharvested. Investigating the interaction mechanism between the machine and rice during the operation process and its correlation with ha...
Excess pressure within water distribution systems not only increases the risk for water losses through leakages but provides the potential for harnessing excess energy through the installation of energy recovery devices, such as turbines or pump-as-t...
The study of hidden attractors plays a very important role in the engineering applications of nonlinear dynamical systems. In this paper, a new three-dimensional (3D) chaotic system is proposed in which hidden attractors and self-excited attractors a...
Straw mulching is an effective agricultural technology to reduce soil water loss in arid and semi-arid areas. Herein, the soil temperature and soil water content of bare land (LD) and 5 cm (JG5), 10 cm (JG10), 15 cm (JG15), 20 cm (JG20) and 30 cm (JG...
Plain or crude Monte Carlo simulation (CMC) is commonly applied for estimating multi-period tail risk measures such as value-at-risk (VaR) and expected shortfall (ES). After fitting a volatility model to the past history of returns and estimating the...
Unstable water injection is widely used in low-permeability shale oil reservoirs, but its performance under the combined effects of stress sensitivity and threshold pressure gradient remains uncertain. This study aims to determine how these two mecha...
Accurate monthly runoff simulation is the foundation of watershed water resources management and flood–drought disaster prevention. To address the issues that traditional machine learning models struggle to capture long-term dependencies in run...
This research employs numerical simulations and scenario analysis to assess a supply chain model’s economic and environmental performance operating under stochastic market demand, with inventory levels managed by a periodic review (R, s, S) inv...
Single-crystal Ni-base superalloys, consisting of a two-phase γ/
To predict and explore the return period wind speed distribution in Beijing urban area, based on the short-term measured wind speed record, the measured independent storm peak samples are extracted and the Monte–Carlo numerical simulation metho...
System operators have moved towards the integration of renewable resources. However, these resources make network management unstable as they have variations in produced energy. Thus, some strategic plans, like demand response programs, are required...
The present work is dedicated to turbulence synthesis tailored to lateral periodic boundary conditions for direct noise computations through compressible large eddy simulations. Synthetic turbulence can be essential for aeroacoustic applications when...
The paper focuses on thermal and mechanical analysis of Periodic Surface Structure (PSS). PSS is a continuous surface with a specific topology that is mathematically formulated by geometric factors. Cubic P-surface (“primitive”), D-surface (“diamond”...
A pathogen, healthy, latently infected, infectious, and diseased plant (PHLID) model for botanical epidemics was defined for tomato bacterial canker (TBC) caused by the pathogenic plant bacteria, Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm)....
The startup period, one of several transient operations in a centrifugal pump, takes note of some problems with these devices. Sometimes a transient high pressure and high flow rate over a very short period of time are required at the startup process...
Coal mining causes overlying rocks to collapse and be destroyed. Overburdened crevasses provide a channel for gas discharge, which is a serious safety hazard. To study the evolution characteristics and migration pattern of overburdened fissures durin...
This paper develops explicit equations for setting the reorder point s and the order-up-to level S in a periodic-review (R, s, S) inventory policy in a lost-sales environment. The objective is to support direct policy parameterization from demand lev...
In this paper, we rigorously prove that unpredictable oscillations take place in the dynamics of Hopfield-type neural networks (HNNs) when synaptic connections, rates and external inputs are modulo periodic unpredictable. The synaptic connections, ra...
Building envelopes play a pivotal role in influencing building energy consumption. Among its components, the roof, as a critical element, directly absorbs solar radiation and serves as a primary medium for external heat exchange. Its thermal performa...
Periodic electric fields are found in many kinds of plasmas and result from the presence of collective fields amplified by plasma instabilities, or they are created by external sources such as microwave generators or lasers. The spectral lines emitte...
Tourist congestion and load imbalance during peak periods pose critical challenges to the safe operation and experience assurance of large scenic areas. To address the limitations of traditional management approaches in capturing the dynamic and stoc...
In our research, our goal was to develop a characterization method that can be universally applied to periodic cell structures. Our work involved the accurate tuning of the stiffness properties of cellular structure components that can significantly...
Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structures provide complex, continuous, and periodic surfaces whose geometric and thermal responses depend on topology and design parameters. This study examines five TPMS families, Gyroid, Diamond, Lidinoid, Sp...
There is a huge family of recurrent functions, which starts with equilibria and ends with Poisson stable functions. They are fundamental in theoretical and application senses, and they admit a famous history. Recently, we have added the unpredictable...
Landslides triggered by extreme rainfall often cause severe casualties and property losses. Therefore, it is essential to accurately assess and predict building vulnerability under landslide scenarios for effective risk mitigation. This study propose...
This study is to inspect the voids between the concrete containment building and the containment liner plate (CLP) in the light-water reactor type nuclear power plant with lock-in thermography (LIT) inspection technology. For that, a finite element m...
This study presents a seismic fragility analysis of reinforced concrete column–steel beam (RCS) frame structures using an enhanced version of the Park–Ang damage model. The applicability of various seismic intensity measures (IMs) in frag...
Additive manufacturing enables the fabrication of lightweight structures with complex geometries, offering significant potential in aerospace and biomedical applications. Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) lattice structures are of particular int...
In free-running ship simulations, PID control gains for rudder and propeller revolution are often selected based on empirical experience without a standardized procedure, leading to inconsistent results under varying operational conditions. This stud...
This study evaluates the effects of sampling interval and averaging period on the assessment of extreme synoptic-scale mean wind speeds for structural design, excluding hurricanes and mesoscale events, to focus on correction factors for the standard...
The effect of periodic shear on strain localization in disordered solids is investigated using molecular dynamics simulations. We consider a binary mixture of one million atoms annealed to a low temperature with different cooling rates and then subje...
To realize the high-performance load torque tracking of an electric dynamic load simulator system with random measurement noises and strong position disturbances, a PD-type iterative learning control (ILC) algorithm with adaptive learning gains is pr...
This study numerically investigated how varying pulse durations of water mist systems influence fire dynamics in long, narrow underground enclosures. A Fire Dynamics Simulator (FDS) model was built to represent a pulse-actuated, fine water mist test...
Equipment failure is the leading cause of industrial operational disruption, with unplanned downtime accounting for up to 11% of manufacturing revenue, highlighting the need for effective proactive maintenance strategies, such as protective sensors t...
This article investigates the qualitative properties of solutions to a general difference equation. Studying the properties of solutions to general difference equations greatly contributes to the development of theoretical methods and provides many p...
Temperature is one of the main loads of super-high arch dams. (1) Background: a super-high arch dam in southwest China was taken as an example in this paper and the temporal-spatial evolution law of dam temperature was analyzed based on the monitorin...
In this article, we formulated a mathematical model to describe SARS-CoV-2 development in humans, accounting for the dynamics of susceptible and infected epithelial cells, viral particles, ACE2 receptors, cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTLs), and antibodie...
San Salvador Metropolitan Area (MASS) is an urbanized territory in the country of El Salvador, located between the San Salvador volcano and the Ilopango caldera, in a sub-flat area called “Valle de las Hamacas” (Valley of the Hammocks). T...
The spatial variation characteristics of near-fault velocity pulses lack in-depth understanding, and it is difficult to consider this feature in probabilistic seismic hazard analysis and the ground motion input for structural seismic analysis. Based...
This study proposes a hedging rule model which is composed of a two-period reservior operation model considering the damage depth and hedging rule parameter optimization model. The former solves hedging rules based on a given poriod’s water supply we...
Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is gaining importance as sensing tool. However, wide application of the SERS technique suffers mainly from limitations in terms of uniformity of the plasmonics structures and sensitivity for low concentratio...
Silicates are among the most abundant and important inorganic materials, not only in the Earth’s crust, but also in the interstellar medium in the form of micro/nanoparticles or embedded in the matrices of comets, meteorites, and other asteroid...
The high cost of air conditioning during the summer makes it crucial to develop strategies to reduce energy use in buildings, especially in hot arid climates. Nanomaterial-based external window insulation is considered an effective method for achievi...
Effective temperature control measures are crucial for achieving temperature regulation and preventing cracking in the dam body during the construction of large-volume concrete gravity dams. Due to the low ambient temperatures in winter, it is especi...
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