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28 August 2026

Frost heave in seasonally frozen loess regions is fundamentally governed by pore water migration towards the freezing front driven by temperature gradients, forming ice lenses that damage engineered infrastructure. Because both freezing intensity and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Freeze–Thaw Dynamics and Water Pathways: Vulnerability of Infrastructures and Disasters in Mines in Cold Regions)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,537 Views
20 Pages

Spatial–Temporal Physics-Constrained Multilayer Perceptron for Aircraft Trajectory Prediction

  • Zhongnan Zhang,
  • Jianwei Zhang,
  • Yi Lin,
  • Kun Zhang and ,
  • Xuemei Zheng and
  • Dengmei Xiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

10 September 2025

Aircraft trajectory prediction (ATP) is a critical technology for air traffic control (ATC), safeguarding aviation safety and airspace resource management. To address the limitations of existing methods—kinetic models’ susceptibility to e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,450 Views
20 Pages

This study investigates how incorporating physical constraints can enhance the performance of machine learning models by ensuring that geotechnical drilling data predictions align with known physical conditions at the site. Machine learning-predicted...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
616 Views
25 Pages

Physics-Constrained AI-Assisted Flowing Material Balance for Productivity Evaluation During High-Volume, Long-Duration Flowback in Ultra-Deep Wells

  • Jiaqi Li,
  • Feiwen Wang,
  • Wan Zhu,
  • Kun Ning and ,
  • Lingyu Mu,
  • Guotao Yuan and
  • Gang Hui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

16 August 2026

High-volume, long-duration flowback in ultra-deep fractured wells couples pressure, rate, water production, fracture conductivity, and stress-sensitive reservoir properties, making it difficult for pressure transient analysis (PTA), flowing material...

(This article belongs to the Section AI-Enabled Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
714 Views
24 Pages

Intelligent Intermittent Production Optimization for Low-Permeability Reservoirs: A Hybrid Physics-Constrained Machine Learning Approach with Dual-Curve Intersection Control

  • Jinfeng Yang,
  • Guocheng Wang,
  • Jingwen Xu,
  • Heng Zhang and ,
  • Xiaolong Wang,
  • Zhangying Han and
  • Gang Hui
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

1 May 2026

The efficient development of low-permeability reservoirs is critically constrained by severe geological heterogeneity, marginal permeability (<10 mD), and the consequent prevalence of low-productivity wells. Conventional intermittent production ma...

(This article belongs to the Section Petroleum and Low-Carbon Energy Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
759 Views
27 Pages

2 April 2026

The continuous prediction and uncertainty quantification of unconfined compressive strength (UCS) and the fracture-related index of anisotropy (FRIA) are essential for optimizing drilling operations and hydraulic fracturing design in shale gas develo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
919 Views
34 Pages

Mitigating Overfitting and Physical Inconsistency in Flood Susceptibility Mapping: A Physics-Constrained Evolutionary Machine Learning Framework for Ungauged Alpine Basins

  • Chuanjie Yan,
  • Lingling Wu,
  • Peng Huang,
  • Jiajia Yue and ,
  • Haowen Li,
  • Chun Zhou,
  • Congxiang Fan,
  • Yinan Guo and
  • Li Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

7 April 2026

Flood susceptibility mapping in high-altitude ungauged basins faces a structural dichotomy: physically based models often suffer from systematic biases due to uncertain satellite precipitation, whereas data-driven models are prone to overfitting and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Urban Flood Risk Assessment and Management)
  • Article
  • Open Access
436 Views
47 Pages

An Uncertainty-Aware Decision-Support System for Composite-Property Prediction with Physically Admissible Conformal Intervals

  • Magzhan Sarsenbay,
  • Serik Zhuzbayev,
  • Gulmira Baenova,
  • Gulnur Alkhanova and ,
  • Rozamgul Niyazova and
  • Askar Bakytzhan
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

24 September 2026

Machine-learning surrogates predict composite properties but report no calibrated reliability and may violate physics. Bound-constrained conformal prediction confines intervals to physical bounds but assumes them exact. This paper keeps the corridor...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Decision Intelligence: Machine Learning for Optimization and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
146 Views
32 Pages

31 October 2026

The selectivity of a molecularly imprinted polymer (MIP) is decided the moment its functional monomer is chosen, yet that choice is still made largely by trial and error and without any statement of confidence, so a confident but wrong pick can commi...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence in Polymers)
  • Article
  • Open Access
68 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2026

Machine-learning performance estimates for densely sampled thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) data depend on whether individual observations or complete thermograms are withheld. Six regression models were evaluated on seven thermograms from untreated,...

(This article belongs to the Section Biocomposites)
  • Article
  • Open Access
618 Views
38 Pages

Dynamic Assessment of Near-Surface Icing Risk in High-Mountain Regions Using Multi-Source Remote Sensing and an Energy–Moisture Coupling Model

  • Yanrun Ren,
  • Jie Liu,
  • Yaonan Zhang,
  • Jingqi Liu and ,
  • Yufang Min and
  • Minghao Ai
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 June 2026

In summary, near-surface icing risk in complex alpine terrain is jointly controlled by freezing conditions, moisture supply, freeze–thaw transitions, and topographic energy processes. Traditional approaches relying on sparse station data or sin...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Remote Sensing for High-Mountain Hazards)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,000 Views
20 Pages

1 January 2026

Bond wire degradation represents the predominant failure mechanism in IGBT modules, accounting for approximately 70% of power converter failures and posing significant reliability challenges in modern power electronic systems. Existing monitoring tec...

(This article belongs to the Section A: Physics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,291 Views
25 Pages

3 January 2026

Quantitative precipitation estimation (QPE) from radar reflectivity is fundamental for weather nowcasting and water resource management. Conventional Z-R relationship formulas, derived from Rayleigh scattering theory, rely heavily on empirical parame...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI Applications to Remote Sensing of Cloud and Precipitation: Monitoring, Modeling, and Prediction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
719 Views
35 Pages

Reconstruction of the Vertical Distribution of Suspended Sediment Using Support Vector Machines

  • Fanyi Zhang,
  • Jinyang Lv,
  • Qiang Yuan,
  • Yuke Wang and ,
  • Yuncheng Wen,
  • Mingyan Xia,
  • Zelin Cheng and
  • Zhe Yu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

Accurately quantifying vertical sediment transport rates in large seaward rivers is vital for estimating basin-scale water and sediment fluxes and assessing riverbed evolution. Traditional multi-point velocity and suspended sediment concentration (SS...

(This article belongs to the Section Coastal Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,599 Views
24 Pages

4 January 2025

Single-sided formwork supporting systems (SFSSs) play a crucial role in the urban construction of retaining walls using cast-in-place concrete. By supporting the formwork from one side, an SFSS can minimize its spatial footprint, enabling its closer...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Research on Emerging Technologies for Structural Design, Inspection, and Maintenance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
217 Views
22 Pages

1 October 2026

Image-based structural damage assessment requires automated methods that respect physical constraints. We formulate graph-neural-network message passing as a pseudo-time iteration of a monotone operator on a spatial-region graph. Under non-negative p...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Graph-Based Machine Learning Techniques)
  • Article
  • Open Access
539 Views
50 Pages

Trip-End Battery State of Charge Prediction for Electric Vehicles Using a Physics-Constrained Machine Learning Stacking Ensemble

  • Dmytro Tymoshchuk,
  • Oleh Lyashuk,
  • Pavlo Maruschak,
  • Dmytro Mironov and
  • Vitaliy Tymoshchuk

23 September 2026

This study proposes an approach for predicting the state of charge (SoC) of an electric vehicle battery at the end of an individual operational interval using parameters available before the start of the trip. The input features included the initial...

(This article belongs to the Section Intelligent and Connected Mobility)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,244 Views
15 Pages

24 April 2026

This study aimed to develop and validate a physics-informed neural network (PINN) framework for data-efficient and physically consistent process optimization in the laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) of Inconel 718 (IN718) superalloy. Laser powder bed fu...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Additive Manufacturing of Metallic Materials: Experiments and Modelling)
  • Article
  • Open Access
286 Views
22 Pages

A Fracture Mode-Constrained Physics-Informed Machine Learning Framework for Predicting Acoustic Emission Energy of Coal Gangue Backfill

  • Jiahui Li,
  • Pengfei Wu,
  • Jiaxu Jin,
  • Bing Liang and ,
  • Zhiqiang Lv and
  • Shenghao Zuo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

30 September 2026

Coal gangue backfill serves as a primary supporting structure for overlying strata in mined-out areas, and its internal damage evolution is directly associated with the safety and stability of mining operations. Acoustic emission (AE) technology prov...

  • Article
  • Open Access
636 Views
34 Pages

Physically Constrained and Location-Aware Machine Learning for Joint Prediction of Clay Compression and Recompression Indices

  • Abdelatif Zeroual,
  • Abolfazl Baghbani,
  • Aissa Lahlouhi,
  • Arash Aminaee and ,
  • Firas Daghistani and
  • Hossam Abuel-Naga
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

14 July 2026

Compression index (Cc) and recompression index (Cur) are essential parameters in one-dimensional consolidation and settlement analysis, yet their direct determination from oedometer testing is time-consuming, costly, and often limited by sparse recom...

  • Proceeding Paper
  • Open Access
1,396 Views
15 Pages

Accurate photovoltaic (PV) power prediction under limited experimental data remains a significant challenge, particularly when purely data-driven models generate predictions that violate fundamental physical constraints. This study proposes a physics...

(This article belongs to the Proceedings of The 1st International Online Conference on Designs)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,092 Views
15 Pages

27 May 2026

Organic solar cells (OSCs) have emerged as a competitive alternative to conventional silicon-based photovoltaics for their inexpensive production, versatility, and reduced energy consumption. However, it is still challenging to accurately assess thei...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Algorithms for Electrical and Electronic Engineering with a Focus on Renewable Energy Sources (2nd Edition))
  • Review
  • Open Access
145 Views
38 Pages

Hybrid AI-Physics Modeling in Geotechnical Engineering: A Next-Generation Review of Theory-Guided Machine Learning for Smart and Resilient Infrastructure

  • Duaa Al-Jeznawi,
  • Musab Aied Qissab Al-Janabi,
  • Ismacahyadi Bagus Mohamed Jais,
  • Hasan Ali Abbas and ,
  • Shahbaz Ahmad and
  • Luís Filipe Almeida Bernardo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Machine learning (ML) has emerged as a transformative tool in geotechnical engineering, offering data-driven alternatives to traditional empirical and analytical approaches. This paper presents a critical narrative review of recent advances in theory...

  • Article
  • Open Access
364 Views
30 Pages

8 September 2026

Extracting Cole–Cole relaxation parameters from broadband dielectric spectroscopy (BDS) of cross-linked polyethylene (XLPE) cable insulation is ill-conditioned when the dispersion peak lies outside the instrument frequency window. This paper pr...

(This article belongs to the Section Electronic Materials, Devices and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
904 Views
27 Pages

13 May 2026

Purely data-driven machine-learning methods are currently limited by weak physical interpretability; meanwhile, the sparsity of well-site data in oil and gas fields further degrades the prediction performance of deep learning models for reservoir see...

(This article belongs to the Section Petroleum and Low-Carbon Energy Process Engineering)
  • Article
  • Open Access

An Intelligent Approach for Predicting Precision Machining of Wire EDM Process Using Machine Learning

  • Shahana Bano,
  • Muhammad Younas,
  • Taimoor Asim,
  • Priyanshi Kumari and
  • Priyanshu Mishra

Electrical Discharge Machining (EDM) is widely used for precision machining of intricate parts in many industrial applications. The process output and machining performance of the EDM process are highly affected by the complexity of the EDM process a...

  • Review
  • Open Access
471 Views
24 Pages

4 September 2026

Subsurface thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) coupled processes are fundamental to geomechanics, yet conventional mesh-based methods face high computational costs and limited efficiency in strongly nonlinear simulations and inverse problems. This review e...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Energy, Physics, Environment, and Systems)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,324 Views
24 Pages

9 September 2025

Modern automotive steering systems exhibit inherent bilateral symmetry characteristics that can be mathematically described using group theory. When component failures occur, these systems experience quantifiable symmetry-breaking patterns that serve...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry in Fault Detection, Diagnosis, and Prognostics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
452 Views
25 Pages

19 August 2026

Non-recurrent congestion (NRC), caused by unforeseen events such as crashes, lane closures, and adverse weather, accounts for approximately half of all delays on urban freeways, yet it remains difficult to distinguish from routine congestion at recur...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Symmetry/Asymmetry in Intelligent Transportation System)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,813 Views
32 Pages

Bias Correction of SMAP L2 Sea Surface Salinity Based on Physics-Informed Neural Network

  • Minghui Wu,
  • Zhenyu Liang,
  • Senliang Bao,
  • Huizan Wang and ,
  • Yulin Liu,
  • Ziyang Zhang and
  • Qitian Xuan
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

18 September 2025

Sea surface salinity (SSS) observations play a crucial role in the study of ocean circulation, climate variability, and marine ecosystems. However, current satellite SSS products suffer from systematic biases due to factors such as radio frequency in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Artificial Intelligence and Big Data for Oceanography (2nd Edition))
  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
7,729 Views
27 Pages

20 October 2025

This review surveys recent progress in hybrid artificial intelligence (AI) approaches for gas turbine intelligent digital twins, with an emphasis on models that integrate physics-based simulations and machine learning. The main contribution is the in...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Innovations in Turbomachinery Flow Modeling and Design Optimization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
70 Views
18 Pages

Physics-Informed Machine Learning for Polymer Drag Reduction: Bridging Laboratory Turbulent Pipe Flow and Field-Scale Crude Oil Pipeline Operation

  • Hongyan Li,
  • Xingjian Deng,
  • Jiatong Wang,
  • Yuxia Wang and ,
  • Xiaodong Dai,
  • Kun Liu,
  • Anqi Liu and
  • Yangchen Shi
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

10 November 2026

Polymeric drag-reducing agents (DRAs) can significantly suppress turbulent friction in crude oil pipelines. However, the design of field dosing strategies still relies on empirical rules because laboratory-scale drag-reduction (DR) measurements fail...

(This article belongs to the Topic Petroleum and Gas Engineering, 2nd edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,046 Views
24 Pages

18 July 2025

The design of materials with programmable degradation profiles presents a fundamental challenge in pattern recognition across molecular space, requiring the identification of complex structure–property relationships within an exponentially larg...

(This article belongs to the Section Sensor Materials)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,723 Views
16 Pages

Cascade Reservoir Outflow Simulation Based on Physics-Constrained Random Forest

  • Zehui Zhou,
  • Lei Yu,
  • Yu Zhang,
  • Benyou Jia and ,
  • Luchen Zhang and
  • Shaoze Luo
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 July 2025

Accurate reservoir outflow simulation is crucial for water resource management. However, traditional machine learning-based simulation methods have not sufficiently considered the physical constraints of reservoir operation, which may lead to unreali...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Surface Water and Groundwater Simulation in River Basin)
  • Article
  • Open Access
395 Views
31 Pages

Simulation of Dripping Faucet Chaos Based on Physics-Informed Neural Networks

  • Jingmin Liang,
  • Qiyue Ma,
  • Yixiang Deng,
  • Chao Gao and ,
  • Chenyang Zhao,
  • Fenglong Wang,
  • Chengbo Duan,
  • Chunlong Xu and
  • Zhen Wang
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

9 September 2026

Dripping faucets exhibit chaotic dynamics with order–chaos transitions and multi-field coupling. This study built a physics-informed neural network (PINN) model using high-speed camera and numerical simulation data. The model incorporates physi...

(This article belongs to the Section Mathematical and Computational Fluid Mechanics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
653 Views
36 Pages

1 July 2026

Five-axis CNC machining involves strong coupling among machining quality, material removal efficiency, and operational safety, making it difficult to obtain adaptive and feasible process parameters using conventional scalar-objective optimization met...

(This article belongs to the Section Process Control, Modeling and Optimization)
  • Review
  • Open Access
617 Views
61 Pages

18 August 2026

With the acceleration of global urbanization and the large-scale development of underground spaces, underground engineering faces extremely complex and variable geological environments and high-risk construction disturbances. The widespread applicati...

(This article belongs to the Section Construction Management, and Computers & Digitization)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,515 Views
16 Pages

Machine-Learning Algorithm and Decline-Curve Analysis Comparison in Forecasting Gas Production

  • Dan-Romulus Jacota,
  • Cristina Roxana Popa,
  • Maria Tănase and
  • Cristina Veres

3 March 2026

This study utilizes machine-learning algorithms to reinterpret existing datasets originally plotted using Decline-Curve Analysis (DCA), aiming to enhance predictive accuracy without requiring new field-data acquisition. Historical production records...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Artificial Intelligence in Industrial Process Modelling and Optimization (2nd Edition))
  • Review
  • Open Access
486 Views
43 Pages

Shale-Gas-Related Induced Seismicity: Geospatial Patterns, Forecasting Approaches and Risk Governance

  • Jinhong Wang,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Peng Han,
  • Weiwei Wu and ,
  • Lingyuan Meng and
  • Changsheng Jiang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

26 September 2026

As global energy systems pursue lower-carbon transition pathways, the rapid expansion of shale-gas development has increased subsurface fluid injection, intensifying concerns about induced seismicity and associated seismic risk. Although regional stu...

(This article belongs to the Section Multidisciplinary Applications)
  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
15 Citations
7,820 Views
36 Pages

7 August 2025

Surrogate modelling is increasingly used in engineering to improve computational efficiency in complex simulations. However, traditional data-driven surrogate models often face limitations in generalizability, physical consistency, and extrapolation&...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Intelligent Systems and Tools for Optimal Design in Mechanical Engineering and Their Practical Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
815 Views
30 Pages

Two-dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, known collectively as MXenes, are attractive photocatalyst candidates because their surface chemistry and atomic composition can be tuned over a wide compositional window. A crucial design quant...

  • Article
  • Open Access
67 Citations
7,006 Views
20 Pages

9 November 2020

In solid mechanics, data-driven approaches are widely considered as the new paradigm that can overcome the classic problems of constitutive models such as limiting hypothesis, complexity, and accuracy. However, the implementation of machine-learned a...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Physics and Theory)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,094 Views
19 Pages

Prediction of the Permeability Tensor of Marine Clayey Sediment during Cyclic Loading and Unloading of Confinement Pressure Using Physical Tests and Machine Learning Techniques

  • Peng Cui,
  • Jiaxin Zhou,
  • Ruiqian Gao,
  • Zijia Fan and ,
  • Ying Jiang,
  • Hui Liu,
  • Yipei Zhang,
  • Bo Cao,
  • Kun Tan and
  • Xianhui Feng
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

12 April 2024

In this study, a method was introduced to validate the presence of a Representative Elementary Volume (REV) within marine clayey sediment containing cracks during cyclic loading and unloading of confinement pressure. Physical testing provided the bas...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Coast Sediment Dynamics: Historical Development, Current Situation and Perspectives)
  • Article
  • Open Access
341 Views
25 Pages

23 September 2026

Predicting the terminal settling velocity of particles in non-Newtonian fluids remains a persistent challenge in multiphase flow modeling, with applications spanning chemical processing, mineral processing, and geophysical fluid dynamics. Traditional...

(This article belongs to the Section Fluid Science and Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,827 Views
17 Pages

Mobile devices could augment their ability via cloud resources in mobile cloud computing environments. This paper developed a novel two-layered reinforcement learning (TLRL) algorithm to consider task offloading for resource-constrained mobile device...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,107 Views
27 Pages

25 March 2026

Metal additive manufacturing (MAM) enables the production of complex, high-value components for sectors such as aerospace, energy, and biomedical engineering. However, its large-scale industrial adoption remains constrained by internal defects, resid...

  • Article
  • Open Access
322 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2026

Atmospheric precipitable water vapor (PWV) is an essential geophysical parameter for weather forecasting, climate change research and hydrological studies. Spaceborne passive microwave sensors support all-weather PWV observation, yet accurate retriev...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,246 Views
56 Pages

Machine Learning-Driven Multi-Source Remote Sensing for Surface Water Quality Retrieval: Progress and Prospects

  • Qiquan He,
  • Dunliang Wang,
  • Fangfang Ji,
  • Lin Zhu and ,
  • Rui Li,
  • Ting Tian,
  • Qing Zhang,
  • Yueyue Tao and
  • Miao He
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

18 July 2026

Surface water quality is critical to ecosystem health and sustainable development, yet conventional monitoring falls short of spatiotemporally continuous assessment. Remote sensing coupled with machine learning has become a powerful paradigm for larg...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue AI-Driven Multi-Process Synergy in Watershed Systems: Intelligent Diagnosis for River–Lake Ecology)
  • Technical Note
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,279 Views
15 Pages

A Deep Learning Gravity Inversion Method Based on a Self-Constrained Network and Its Application

  • Shuai Zhou,
  • Yue Wei,
  • Pengyu Lu,
  • Guangrui Yu and ,
  • Shuqi Wang,
  • Jian Jiao,
  • Ping Yu and
  • Jianwei Zhao
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 March 2024

Gravity inversion can be used to obtain the spatial structure and physical properties of subsurface anomalies through gravity observation data. With the continuous development of machine learning, geophysical inversion methods based on deep learning...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Multi-Data Applied to Near-Surface Geophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
923 Views
24 Pages

Product Cost Estimation for Manufacturing Platforms

  • Massimiliano Ceppi,
  • Mumtaz Alam Hafiz,
  • Federico Scalzo,
  • Barbara Motyl and
  • Marco Sortino

Manufacturing-as-a-service (MaaS) platforms require fast and accurate manufacturing cost estimation to support quotation and resource allocation across distributed networks. However, existing machine learning approaches are often constrained by limit...

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