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9 Citations
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23 Pages

6 October 2023

Due to the maneuver and overload requirements of aircraft, it is inevitable that supersonic fins experience high angles of attack (AOAs) and viscous effects at high altitudes. The local piston theory with viscous correction (VLPT) is introduced and m...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
612 Views
20 Pages

6 August 2025

This work analyzes the aero-elastic oscillations of cantilever beams reinforced by carbon nanotubes (CNTs). Four different distributions of single-walled CNTs are assumed as the reinforcing phase, in the thickness direction of the polymeric matrix. A...

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  • Open Access
3,973 Views
13 Pages

6 November 2019

The dimensionless productivity index is an important indicator for measuring the oil production capacity of oilfields. The traditional calculation method of the dimensionless productivity index is not suitable for the continuous multiple development...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,960 Views
18 Pages

27 September 2022

In order to investigate flutter characteristics of thin-walled panels with elastically supported boundaries, a method for dealing with the stiffness matrix constraint relationship is developed based on penalty functions. Combined with the first-order...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,656 Views
25 Pages

24 November 2022

Mass attachments may exist in the design and use of an aircraft panel, such as sensor layout, internal wiring, surface icing, etc. These mass attachments can change the flutter characteristics of the panel in supersonic flight and have important impa...

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  • Open Access
759 Views
23 Pages

2 October 2025

In this study, the nonlinear forced vibration response of fiber-reinforced laminated composite beams coated with functionally graded materials (FGMs) is investigated under the combined action of aero-thermoelastic loads and a concentrated harmonic ex...

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  • Open Access
700 Views
19 Pages

5 November 2025

Cavitation phenomenon in piston pumps not only causes vibration and noise but also leads to component damage. Conventional diagnostic methods suffer from low accuracy, while deep learning approaches lack interpretability. To address these limitations...

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  • Open Access
369 Views
20 Pages

28 November 2025

In naval and ocean engineering, accurate simulation of incident waves is essential for predicting the motion response of offshore structures. Traditional wave generation methods, such as piston- and flap-type wave makers, often face challenges in acc...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,350 Views
33 Pages

25 November 2024

According to the Donnell–Mushtari shell theory, this work presents a closed-form solution procedure for free vibration of open laminated circular cylindrical shells with arbitrary homogeneous boundary conditions (BCs). The governing differentia...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,101 Views
16 Pages

9 December 2020

The original water distribution characteristic plays an important role in the fracturing liquid retention in actual tight reservoirs. In this paper, an analytical model was proposed to characterize the water distribution and its effect on the spontan...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,990 Views
15 Pages

Flutter of a Plate at High Supersonic Speeds

  • Aziz Sezgin,
  • Birkan Durak,
  • Alaattin Sayın,
  • Huseyin Yildiz,
  • Hasan Omur Ozer,
  • Lutfi Emir Sakman,
  • Sule Kapkin and
  • Erol Uzal

5 June 2024

The vibrations of plate structures placed in a supersonic flow was considered. The undisturbed fluid flow was parallel to the plate. This type of problem is especially important in the aerospace industry, where it is named panel flutter. It has been...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,234 Views
17 Pages

31 May 2023

In internal combustion piston engines, the formation of an oil film is completely different from that seen in industrial machines. The molecular adhesion force at the interface between the surface coating of engine parts and the lubricating oil deter...

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  • Open Access
174 Citations
12,984 Views
44 Pages

15 April 2016

On the basis of introducing the origin and development of finite time thermodynamics (FTT), this paper reviews the progress in FTT optimization for internal combustion engine (ICE) cycles from the following four aspects: the studies on the optimum pe...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,845 Views
18 Pages

Train-Induced Unsteady Airflow in a Metro Tunnel with a Ventilation Shaft

  • Fei Wang,
  • Xingsen He,
  • Lin Xu,
  • Shengzhong Zhao and
  • Miaocheng Weng

10 October 2024

To ensure only one train operates in each ventilation section within an extra-long tunnel, a ventilation shaft was typically installed to divide the entire tunnel into multiple sections. Given the crucial role of piston wind in the metro tunnel envir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,396 Views
16 Pages

29 November 2022

A piston wear fault is a major failure mode of axial piston pumps, which may decrease their volumetric efficiency and service life. Although fault detection based on machine learning theory can achieve high accuracy, the performance mainly depends on...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,140 Views
16 Pages

Assessment of the Dynamics Flow Field of Port Plate Pair of an Axial Piston Pump

  • Lingxiao Quan,
  • Haihai Gao,
  • Changhong Guo and
  • Shichao Che

8 January 2020

This paper aims at studying the dynamic fluid evolution process of port plate pair of an axial piston pump. First of all, The Renormalization Group k-ε model (RNG k-ε model) is implemented to simulate the dynamic flow distribution and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,653 Views
26 Pages

Discussion on Piston-Type Phase Ambiguity in a Coherent Beam Combining System

  • Haolong Jia,
  • Jing Zuo,
  • Qiliang Bao,
  • Chao Geng,
  • Yihan Luo,
  • Ao Tang,
  • Jing Jiang,
  • Feng Li,
  • Jianpeng Ren and
  • Xinyang Li

17 January 2022

Coherent beam combining (CBC) with closely arranged centrosymmetric arrays is a promising way to obtain a high-brightness laser. An essential task in CBC is to actively control the piston phases of the input beams, maintaining the correct phasing to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,140 Views
16 Pages

The Influence of Iron Content on the Porosity of AlSi9 Alloy Intended for Alfining Piston Ring Inserts

  • Jarosław Piątkowski,
  • Stanisław Roskosz,
  • Wiktoria Sapota and
  • Sebastian Stach

24 October 2024

Due to its tendency to increase the power of engines, improving their reliability and operational efficiency, the compression ring in combustion engine pistons is embedded in a cast iron insert, which is subjected to the process of “alfining&rd...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,436 Views
14 Pages

Advanced Control Systems for Axial Piston Pumps Enhancing Variable Mechanisms and Robust Piston Positioning

  • Yuan Feng,
  • Zhang Jian,
  • Jiayang Li,
  • Zhang Tao,
  • Yuhang Wang and
  • Jingwei Xue

26 August 2023

Axial piston pumps provide a number of benefits, including strong pressure resistance, high efficiency, high transmission power, a broad speed range, and a long lifespan. These characteristics have led to their widespread usage in naval applications,...

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  • Open Access
446 Views
16 Pages

Influence of the Pre-Compensation Profile on the Dynamics and Friction Performance of the Piston Skirt–Cylinder Liner System in a Diesel Engine

  • Yuhua Bi,
  • Xinpei Lin,
  • Shaohua Liu,
  • Mingchao Tang,
  • Yueshan Yang,
  • Haining He,
  • Lizhong Shen and
  • Guoqiang Zhang

5 November 2025

A coordinated profile co-optimization strategy for the piston–liner pair was introduced to simultaneously reduce friction losses and dynamic excitation. Based on the main parameters of the engine. Lubrication theory and the finite element metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,589 Views
25 Pages

Stability Analysis of the Secondary Motion of a Textured Piston

  • Igal Cohen,
  • Shachar Tresser and
  • Roman Goltsberg

Piston–cylinder pairs are very common in industrial mechanisms. While a piston is primarily designed for axial reciprocating motion, the occurrence of secondary motions—lateral and rotational—due to the small clearance between the p...

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  • Open Access
50 Citations
5,774 Views
18 Pages

Intelligent Fault Diagnosis of Hydraulic Piston Pump Based on Wavelet Analysis and Improved AlexNet

  • Yong Zhu,
  • Guangpeng Li,
  • Rui Wang,
  • Shengnan Tang,
  • Hong Su and
  • Kai Cao

14 January 2021

Hydraulic piston pump is the heart of hydraulic transmission system. On account of the limitations of traditional fault diagnosis in the dependence on expert experience knowledge and the extraction of fault features, it is of great meaning to explore...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,677 Views
16 Pages

Analysis and Development of a Small-Scale Supercritical Carbon Dioxide (sCO2) Brayton Cycle

  • Raj C. Patel,
  • Diego C. Bass,
  • Ganza Prince Dukuze,
  • Angelina Andrade and
  • Christopher S. Combs

13 May 2022

Carbon dioxide’s (CO2) ability to reach the supercritical phase (7.39 MPa and 304.15 K) with low thermal energy input is an advantageous feature in power generation design, allowing for the use of various heat sources in the cycle. A small-scal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,884 Views
12 Pages

Measurement of Piston Pin-Bore Oil Film Pressure under Engine Operation

  • Takumi Iwata,
  • Michiyasu Owashi,
  • Masakuni Oikawa,
  • Yuji Mihara,
  • Kunihiko Kobayashi and
  • Naoki Yamakawa

13 October 2022

Thin-film sensors were used to measure the oil film pressure distribution at the piston pin-bore interface in order to ascertain the stress distribution on the piston pin of a gasoline engine during actual operation. Thin-film sensors have been manuf...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
6,927 Views
17 Pages

Nonlinear Behavior of High-Intensity Ultrasound Propagation in an Ideal Fluid

  • Jitendra A. Kewalramani,
  • Zhenting Zou,
  • Richard W. Marsh,
  • Bruce G. Bukiet and
  • Jay N. Meegoda

3 March 2020

In this paper, nonlinearity associated with intense ultrasound is studied by using the one-dimensional motion of nonlinear shock wave in an ideal fluid. In nonlinear acoustics, the wave speed of different segments of a waveform is different, which ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,804 Views
19 Pages

5 March 2018

Power output ( P ), thermal efficiency ( η ) and ecological function ( E ) characteristics of an endoreversible Dual-Miller cycle (DMC) with finite speed of the piston and finite rate of heat transfer are investigated by applying finite t...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,465 Views
16 Pages

18 November 2021

Extended-reach horizontal wells are critical for the development of unconventional reservoirs. Dual-channel drill pipe drilling has a great advantage in improving the horizontal section length, while the research on its mechanical extended-reach limi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,156 Views
16 Pages

Deterministic Simulation of Surface Textures for the Piston Ring/Cylinder Liner System in a Free Piston Linear Engine

  • Felipe Kevin Correia Luz,
  • Francisco J. Profito,
  • Marcelo Braga dos Santos,
  • Samuel A. N. Silva and
  • Henara Lillian Costa

The use of synthesis gas (SYNGAS) from waste gasification has been pointed out as a key strategy to help the energy transition. However, SYNGAS’ low calorific power is considered a difficult obstacle to its technological use in internal combust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,882 Views
14 Pages

14 March 2020

We investigate linear and nonlinear poroacoustic waveforms under the Rubin–Rosenau– Gottlieb (RRG) theory of generalized continua. Working in the context of the Cauchy problem, on both the real line and the case with periodic boundary con...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
5,292 Views
18 Pages

The displacement micropump with passive check valves is an attractive solution for precise insulin infusion in patients with type I diabetes. Unlike most insulin pumps that push insulin from a cartridge using a piston, a displacement micropump will f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,338 Views
14 Pages

Theoretical and Numerical Study on Dynamic Response of Propellant Actuator

  • Pengzhao Xu,
  • Ning Zhao,
  • Kunlin Shi,
  • Shaokang Cui,
  • Chi Chen and
  • Jun Liu

28 October 2022

In order to solve the complexity of the structure, assembly process, component contact state and working process of the propellant actuator by conventional methods, a novel design method based on theoretical and numerical analysis was proposed. The i...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,201 Views
16 Pages

Aerothermoelastic Analysis of Conical Shell in Supersonic Flow

  • Min Wang,
  • Leilei Zeng,
  • Changying Zhao,
  • Shupeng Sun and
  • Yang Yang

12 April 2023

The aerothermoelastic behavior of a conical shell in supersonic flow is studied in the paper. According to Love’s first approximation shell theory, the kinetic energy and strain energy of the conical shell are expressed and the aerodynamic mode...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,445 Views
15 Pages

16 August 2022

Through the comparison of fatigue properties of components made of composite materials and high-strength structural steel materials, this study proves that composite materials can replace traditional steel materials used in the production of mechanic...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,476 Views
23 Pages

Synergetic Synthesis of Nonlinear Laws of Throttle Control of a Pneumatic Drive

  • Elena Obukhova,
  • Gennady E. Veselov,
  • Pavel Obukhov,
  • Alexey Beskopylny,
  • Sergey A. Stel’makh and
  • Evgenii M. Shcherban’

9 February 2022

Currently, a significant trend in control in robotic systems is developing and improving linear and nonlinear control algorithms to improve the overall quality of production with high accuracy and adaptability. The present study considers a synergist...

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  • Open Access
758 Views
34 Pages

Computational Method for Dynamic Analysis of Multibody Systems with Deformable Elements

  • Sorin Dumitru,
  • Nicolae Dumitru,
  • Cristian Copilusi and
  • Adrian Sorin Rosca

31 August 2025

The dynamics of mechanical systems with fast motions and dynamic loads are strongly influenced by the deformability of kinematic elements. The finite element method and the superposition of rigid body motion with deformable body motion allow us to de...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,040 Views
16 Pages

29 November 2022

Numerical and analytical investigations were performed to study the panel flutter generated by the coupling of elastic and aerodynamic loads with thermal loads. Based on large deflection theory and piston aerodynamic theory, the nonlinear dynamic dif...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,296 Views
15 Pages

11 September 2021

A smart-skin antenna structure is investigated for active flutter control with piezoelectric sensors and actuators. The skin antenna is designed as a multilayer sandwich structure with a dielectric polymer to perform the role of antenna or radar stru...

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  • Open Access
1,299 Views
13 Pages

30 November 2024

The stability of a nonlinear aero-thermo-elastic panel in supersonic flow is analyzed numerically. In light of Hamilton’s principle, the governing equation of motion for a two-dimensional aero-thermo-elastic panel is established taking geometri...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,003 Views
24 Pages

The purpose of this study is to build a parametric algorithm combining analytical results and Machine Learning in order to improve the tribological performance of coated piston rings and thrust bearings in mixed lubrication using different synthetic...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,623 Views
17 Pages

Study on the Lubricating Characteristics of the Oil Film of the Slipper Pair in a Large Displacement Piston Pump

  • Liping Xu,
  • Jiaheng Chen,
  • Donglin Li,
  • Liang Zhang,
  • Yaowei Jia,
  • Fuhang Guo and
  • Jian Li

8 December 2023

Due to the large size of the bottom surface, the slipper pair of the large displacement piston pump (LDPP) will form a larger linear speed difference in the inner and outer positions of the slipper relative to the center of the swash plate during hig...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,779 Views
15 Pages

19 December 2022

The steering mechanism of ship steering gear is generally driven by a hydraulic system. The precise control of the hydraulic cylinder in the steering mechanism can be achieved by the target rudder angle. However, hydraulic systems are often described...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
5,900 Views
13 Pages

5 March 2018

An irreversible Maisotsenko reciprocating Brayton cycle (MRBC) model is established using the finite time thermodynamic (FTT) theory and taking the heat transfer loss (HTL), piston friction loss (PFL), and internal irreversible losses (IILs) into con...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
5,915 Views
16 Pages

Aerothermoelasticity plays a vital role in the design and optimisation of hypersonic aircraft. Furthermore, the transient and nonlinear effects of the harsh thermal and aerodynamic environment a lifting surface is in cannot be ignored. This article i...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,790 Views
26 Pages

Hypersonic vehicles are susceptible to considerable aerodynamic heating and noticeable aerothermoelastic effects during flight due to their high speeds. Functionally graded materials (FGMs), which enable continuous changes in material properties by v...

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  • Open Access
346 Views
27 Pages

29 September 2025

In this paper, a full-domain stochastic response analysis is performed based on the meshless method to reveal the time–frequency dynamic characteristics, including the power spectral density (PSD) responses in the frequency domain and the evolv...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,005 Views
20 Pages

15 September 2024

To address the problem of predicting machining quality for critical features in the manufacturing process of mechanical products, a method that combines information entropy and XGBoost (version 2.1.1) hyperparameter optimization is proposed. Initiall...

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  • Open Access
21 Citations
2,221 Views
11 Pages

1 December 2011

The interaction between regular water waves and the oscillating water column (OWC) geometry is presented in this work. The OWC has a vertical cylindrical geometry, with walls of negligible thickness. Water waves are generated in a numerical wave tank...

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  • Open Access
45 Citations
5,088 Views
23 Pages

18 April 2018

A fixed, concentric, cylindrical oscillating water column (OWC) wave energy converter (WEC) is proposed for shallow offshore sites. Compared with the existing shoreline OWC device, this wave energy device is not restricted by the wave directions and...

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  • Open Access
727 Views
27 Pages

5 September 2025

In response to the urgent need for performance predictions of damaged aerospace structures, this study undertakes a comprehensive investigation into the flutter characteristics of damaged variable-stiffness composite laminate (VSCL) plates. The gover...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,067 Views
21 Pages

This study is concerned with the generation and propagation of strongly nonlinear waves in shallow water. A numerical wave flume is developed where nonlinear waves of solitary and cnoidal types are generated by use of the Level I Green-Naghdi (GN) eq...

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