The majority of existing numerical simulations of the effect of bridge piers on water’s movement are based on a limited number of bridge piers at a laboratory scale. Furthermore, some 2D numerical simulations for actual bridge projects have def...
Marine renewable energy, including tidal renewable energy, is one of the less exploited sources of energy that could contribute to energy demand, while reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Amongst several proposals to build tidal range structure (TRS),...
Distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks often use botnets to generate a high volume of packets and adopt controlled zombies for flooding a victim’s network over the Internet. Analysing the multiple sources of DDoS attacks typically involves reco...
Background: Liquefied natural gas (LNG) distribution in archipelagic regions involves complex trade-offs between transportation, infrastructure investment, and contractual arrangements. While most optimisation studies focus on seller-managed Delivery...
With the increasing interdependence among energies (e.g., electricity, natural gas and heat) and the development of a decentralised energy system, a novel retail pricing scheme in the multi-energy market is demanded. Therefore, the problem of designi...
Techno-economic models for optimised utilisation of jatropha oil under an out-grower farming scheme were developed based on different considerations for oil and by-product utilisation. Model 1: Out-grower scheme where oil is exported and press cake u...
Network intrusion detection systems that employ existing IP traceback (IPTBK) algorithms are generally unable to trace multiple attack sources. In these systems, the sampling mechanism only screens parts of the routing information, which leads to the...
Due to their unique structural and operational characteristics, stadiums create substantial environmental impacts throughout their lifecycle. Assessing the environmental sustainability (ES) of stadiums is important to identify opportunities for targe...
Jinan, China, is famous for its springs. However, societal and economic development over the past decades has detrimentally altered the natural water cycle in the spring area. Managed aquifer recharge (MAR) is an effective measure to ensure the norma...
Distributed generation (DG) is an important issue for distribution networks for power loss improvement. However, the location and size of generators remain a challenge for existing techniques. This work investigates the optimal placement of a distrib...
Energy-saving and energy-recovery strategies represent key factors to achieve operational cost reductions within rail systems’ management tasks. However, in altering service features, they also affect passenger satisfaction. This paper investig...
Rural dwellings are often self-designed and self-built by their owners, with construction decisions based on experience and imitation of nearby buildings. As existing advanced design methods are often too complex or resource-intensive for rural conte...
This paper presents a unified analytical and computational framework for the study of typhoid fever transmission dynamics governed by a Caputo fractional-order compartmental model of order
In this study, the design of a flexible cable–strut tensile structure was optimised according to the importance of elements to achieve high structural robustness. First, the importance coefficients of elements were determined by comparing their...
Pressure control in water distribution networks (WDNs) is one of the interventions commonly employed to improve the reliability and sustainability of water supply. Various approaches have been proposed to solve the problem of pressure control. Howeve...
To improve agricultural production efficiency, increase farmers’ income, and promote sustainable development, we established a multi-objective optimisation model for crop planting structure in an irrigation area using the grey wolf optimisation...
To study the optimal design of the section of the double-system composite guideway under the economic, steel consumption, and carbon emission characteristics, this paper introduced the multi-objective constrained optimisation model, which was establi...
Large-scale wind power grid integration will greatly change the system current distribution, making it difficult for the reactive power regulator to adjust to the optimal state. In this paper, an integrated reactive power optimisation method based on...
In this work, we present a resource allocation scheme for managing trade-offs between total throughput maximisation and system fairness in a non-orthogonal multiple access (NOMA) system for 5G networks. Our proposed approach is designed to improve th...
Due to the high penetration of renewable energy sources into the electrical power network, overcurrent relays coordination with highly sensitive and selective protection systems are now two of the most important power protection concerns. In this res...
2 February 2024
Double-Wall Effusion Cooling schemes present an opportunity for aeroengine designers to achieve high overall cooling effectiveness and convective cooling efficiency in High-Pressure Turbine blades with reduced coolant usage compared to conventional c...
The simulation of complex engineering components and structures under loads requires the formulation and adequate calibration of appropriate material models. This work introduces an optimisation-based scheme for the calibration of viscoelastic materi...
Sheet-metal forming is one of the most important manufacturing processes in the automotive industry. This study proposes a multiobjective optimisation scheme that controls both sheet-metal formability and springback. First, the mechanical properties...
The Internet of Things (IoT) connects billions of sensors to share and collect data at any time and place. The Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) is one of the most important IoT applications. IoT supports AMI to collect data from smart sensors,...
To cope with the highly stochastic nature of wind speed, we explored the development of a predictive methodology. Considering an absence of studies pertaining to wind speed prediction that utilise state-of-the-art fuzzy models, the proposed approach...
Dynamic and real-time MRI (rtMRI) of human speech is an active field of research, with interest from both the linguistics and clinical communities. At present, different research groups are investigating a range of rtMRI acquisition and reconstructio...
In this paper, an optimisation procedure is introduced that uses a significantly cheaper, and CFD-free, objective function for aerodynamic optimisation than conventional CFD-driven approaches. Despite the reduced computational cost, we show that this...
NHS England designs and administers improvement and assurance schemes that include elements to incentivize prudent use of antimicrobials, optimise patient outcomes, minimise avoidable exposure to antimicrobials, and reduce selection pressure for anti...
Aiming at the problems of a fragile ecological environment, water shortage and system uncertainty in inland arid irrigation districts in Xinjiang, this study takes sustainable development as the guide, selects the Tailan River Irrigation District in...
In past decades, the deployment of renewable-energy-based power generators, namely solar photovoltaic (PV) power generators, has been projected to cause a number of new difficulties in planning, monitoring, and control of power distribution grids. In...
The evident need for improving the existing building stock still suffers from important barriers, such as the fragmentation of the value chain, the lack of information regarding some solutions, and the lack of confidence with respect to energy saving...
As electric buses become increasingly integrated into urban public transport systems, research on their role in transfer networks remains limited. Passengers often encounter extended waiting times during transfers, raising equity concerns. This study...
25 April 2022
In this paper, a fuzzy mathematical programming method is introduced on the basis of the interval two-stage stochastic programming (ITSP) optimisation model for the wetland ecological water replenishment scheme in Boluo Lake National Nature Reserve....
The practicality of post-quantum lattice-based schemes is crucial for their real-world applications. Integrating these schemes requires efficient implementations through hardware, software, and algorithmic optimisation to achieve the necessary speed...
Demand Response (DR) is a fundamental aspect of the smart grid concept, as it refers to the necessary open and transparent market framework linking energy costs to the actual grid operations. DR allows consumers to directly or indirectly participate...
As a result of transportation integration, the role of highway passenger transport hubs has changed dramatically; these nodes act as important links to construct a seamless regional comprehensive passenger transport system which reflects the coordina...
Impact force is the most common form of load which acts on engineering structures and presents a great hidden risk to the healthy operation of machinery. Therefore, the identification or monitoring of impact forces is a significant issue in structura...
Generative design techniques together with the rapid development of additive manufacturing represent a revolution in the field of structural optimisation processes. In this study, a static structural and modal analysis was integrated to drive a multi...
In this paper, we propose a secure protocol to compute the quadratic optimisation problem under a three-party outsourcing architecture in the scenario of cyber-physical systems. To enable real-world implementation, we propose an encoding framework th...
This paper presents an investigation into the parasitic capacitance of an RF contact scheme for lumped-element EAMs. Test structures are fabricated to analyse this parasitic capacitance via
The incorporation of renewable energy into power systems poses serious challenges to the transmission and distribution power system operators (TSOs and DSOs). To fully leverage these resources there is a need for a new market design with improved coo...
Quantum sensing and quantum metrology propose schemes for the estimation of physical properties, such as lengths, time intervals, and temperatures, achieving enhanced levels of precision beyond the possibilities of classical strategies. However, such...
Excessive sedimentation in sand-laden rivers significantly hinders the normal operation and overall effectiveness of reservoirs. This is observed particularly in plain-type sand-laden reservoirs where weak hydraulic conditions in the reservoir area c...
For mine ventilation-on-demand (VOD) scenarios, conventional joint optimisation of airflow augmentation and energy saving in mine ventilation systems is often constrained in practical engineering applications by shrinkage of the feasible region, limi...
Optimisation has been with us since before the first humans opened their eyes to natural phenomena that inspire technological progress. Nowadays, it is quite hard to find a solver from the overpopulation of metaheuristics that properly deals with a g...
The autonomous navigation and environment exploration of mobile robots are carried out on the premise of the ability of environment sensing. Simultaneous localisation and mapping (SLAM) is the key algorithm in perceiving and mapping an environment in...
The sequence of reservoir operations has a profound influence on the regulation and storage capacity of reservoir groups to effectively utilise the natural water inflow and external water transfer in the basin, especially for reservoir groups with wa...
A novel full-envelope controller for an over-actuated fixed-wing vectored thrust eVTOL aircraft is presented. It proposes a generic control architecture, which is applicable to piloted, semi-automatic, and fully automated flight, consisting of an air...
Automatic deep architecture generation is a challenging task, owing to the large number of controlling parameters inherent in the construction of deep networks. The combination of these parameters leads to the creation of large, complex search spaces...
On the energy markets, conscious customers may exist who are not only interested in minimising the cost of energy purchase, but, simultaneously, in optimising some other quality criteria (arising from ecological concerns, or social responsibility of...
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