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27 Citations
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19 Pages

15 February 2018

Two challenges exist for modeling gas transport in shale. One is the existence of complex gas transport mechanisms, and the other is the impact of hydraulic fracture networks. In this study, a truly three dimensional semianalytical model was develope...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,481 Views
16 Pages

Bistable metal shells with a fully closed unfolded geometry are of great interest as lightweight construction parts which could be transported without housing and unfolded at the construction place. In order to achieve the effect of bistability in me...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,264 Views
17 Pages

A Unified High-Order Semianalytical Model and Numerical Simulation for Bistable Polymer Composite Structures

  • Min Sun,
  • Weiliang Gao,
  • Zheng Zhang,
  • Hongcheng Shen,
  • Yisong Zhou,
  • Huaping Wu and
  • Shaofei Jiang

20 February 2022

Bistable polymer composite structures are morphing shells that can change shape and maintain two stable configurations. At present, mainly two types of bistable polymer composite structures are being studied: cross-ply laminates and antisymmetric cyl...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,644 Views
19 Pages

22 April 2024

Structures composed of aviation aluminium alloys, characterized by their limited rigidity and thin-walled configurations, frequently exhibit deformation after processing. This paper presents an investigation into T-shaped components fabricated from p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,353 Views
34 Pages

26 January 2023

This article presents a comparison between layered models of a railway track. All analyses are based on semianalytical approaches to show how powerful they can be. Results are presented in dimensionless form, making them applicable to a wide range of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,283 Views
17 Pages

Semi-Analytical Model for Heat and Mass Transfer Evaluation of Vapor Bubbling

  • Giuseppe Starace,
  • Lorenzo Carrieri and
  • Gianpiero Colangelo

2 March 2020

Multi-stage refrigeration systems cover a wide range of possibilities and are diffusing more and more. The idea that inspired this work derived from the need to have a tool to model the energy behavior of the intercooler inside a multi-stage refriger...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,913 Views
20 Pages

20 July 2020

Given reliable parameters, a newly developed semianalytic model could offer an efficient option to predict the performance of the multi-fractured horizontal wells (MFHWs) in unconventional gas reservoirs. However, two major challenges come from the a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,991 Views
16 Pages

15 February 2023

The productivity prediction of gas wells in carbonate gas reservoirs is greatly affected by the characteristics of gas–water two-phase flow and fracture seepage parameters. Compared with numerical simulation, the productivity prediction based o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,375 Views
17 Pages

A Semi-Analytical Model for Studying the Transient Flow Behavior of Nonuniform-Width Fractures in a Three-Dimensional Domain

  • Yanzhong Liang,
  • Xuanming Zhang,
  • Wenzhuo Zhou,
  • Qingquan Li,
  • Jia Li,
  • Yawen Du,
  • Hanxin Cai and
  • Bailu Teng

5 December 2023

In the fracture propagation model, the assumption that hydraulic fractures with non-uniform widths have been successfully utilized to predict fracture propagation for decades. However, when one conducts post-fracture analysis, the hydraulic fracture...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,025 Views
21 Pages

20 October 2023

The productivity prediction of deep coalbed methane (CBM) wells is significantly influenced by gas-water two-phase flow characteristics and seepage parameters of the fracture network. While numerical simulations offer a comprehensive approach, analyt...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,823 Views
18 Pages

A Semi-Analytical Model of Contaminant Transport in Barrier Systems with Arbitrary Numbers of Layers

  • Moisés A. C. Lemos,
  • Camilla T. Baran,
  • André L. B. Cavalcante and
  • Ennio M. Palmeira

25 November 2023

In regions with sanitary landfills, unsuitable liner designs can result in significant soil and groundwater contamination, leading to substantial environmental remediation costs. Addressing this challenge, we propose a semi-analytical model for solut...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,287 Views
33 Pages

13 September 2023

Accurate and reliable wave forecasting is crucial for optimizing the performance of various marine operations, such as offshore energy production, shipping, and fishing. Meanwhile, predicting wave height and wave energy is crucial for achieving susta...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,127 Views
15 Pages

Calibration of Fermi Velocity to Explore the Plasmonic Character of Graphene Nanoribbon Arrays by a Semi-Analytical Model

  • Talia Tene,
  • Marco Guevara,
  • Edwin Viteri,
  • Alba Maldonado,
  • Michele Pisarra,
  • Antonello Sindona,
  • Cristian Vacacela Gomez and
  • Stefano Bellucci

13 June 2022

We present an analysis of the electronic and plasmonic behavior of periodic planar distributions of sufficiently wide graphene nanoribbons, for which a thorough ab initio investigation is practically unfeasible. Our approach is based on a semi-analyt...

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  • Open Access
232 Views
9 Pages

26 December 2025

In this study, a new semi-analytical model was developed that can calculate the output voltage of low-power microwave rectifiers as a function of frequency and input power. The model integrates diode rectification characteristics and frequency-depend...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,606 Views
20 Pages

Semi-Analytical Model for the Evaluation of Shoreline Recession Due to Waves and Sea Level Rise

  • Francesco Marini,
  • Sara Corvaro,
  • Stefania Rocchi,
  • Carlo Lorenzoni and
  • Alessandro Mancinelli

17 April 2022

The climate change process is leading to an increase in the sea level and the storm intensity. The associated shoreline recession can damage coastal facilities and also beaches protected by submerged/emerged breakwaters whose defense action can becom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,201 Views
26 Pages

2 April 2023

Unconventional well technology is often used as one of the most important means to reduce costs and increase efficiency in oil fields. There are many methods for unconventional well type optimization, but there are relatively few studies on whether t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
32 Citations
10,104 Views
25 Pages

A Semi-Analytical Model for Remote Sensing Retrieval of Suspended Sediment Concentration in the Gulf of Bohai, China

  • Jin-Ling Kong,
  • Xiao-Ming Sun,
  • David W. Wong,
  • Yan Chen,
  • Jing Yang,
  • Ying Yan and
  • Li-Xia Wang

28 April 2015

Suspended sediment concentration (SSC) is one of the most critical parameters in ocean ecological environment evaluation and it can be determined using ocean color remote sensing (RS). The purpose of this study is to develop a model that provides a r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,620 Views
17 Pages

Pulse-Modulation Eddy Current Evaluation of Interlaminar Corrosion in Stratified Conductors: Semi-Analytical Modeling and Experiments

  • Zhengshuai Liu,
  • Yong Li,
  • Shuting Ren,
  • Yanzhao Ren,
  • Ilham Mukriz Zainal Abidin and
  • Zhenmao Chen

1 May 2022

Interlaminar corrosion (ILC) poses a severe threat to stratified conductors which are broadly employed in engineering fields including aerospace, energy, etc. Therefore, for the pressing concern regarding the safety and integrity of stratified conduc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,937 Views
19 Pages

5 September 2024

This paper presents an innovative and comprehensive methodology for loaded tooth contact analysis (LTCA) of spiral bevel gears, integrating ease-off surface computation with high-precision virtual generating tooth surfaces. The methodology integrates...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,185 Views
19 Pages

12 January 2023

The accuracy of the relationship between formation pressure and water saturation has a direct impact on predicting the production performance of coal reservoirs. As a result, researchers are becoming more interested in this connection. The most commo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,236 Views
23 Pages

31 January 2024

Adsorbed gas may account for a significant part of the gas resources in shale gas and coalbed methane plays. Understanding gas sorption behaviors and integrating gas desorption into analytical reservoir modeling and an associated transient performanc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
370 Views
24 Pages

31 December 2025

The global transition toward electrification has accelerated the need for high-performance, sustainable electric machine designs. Emerging manufacturing techniques, particularly additive manufacturing, have enabled the development of complex and unco...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,972 Views
17 Pages

17 January 2023

Due to the unique structure of tensile sheet specimens with a circular hole (CHS specimen), a novel method is proposed to predict the large-range uniaxial stress-strain relations of elastic-plastic materials analytically. Based on the energy equivale...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,334 Views
18 Pages

31 May 2019

The mathematical models of productivity calculation for complex structural wells mainly focus on the single well or the regular well pattern. Previous research on the seepage theory of complex structural wells and vertical wells in mixed well pattern...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,416 Views
19 Pages

13 December 2024

This study presents an analytical model for two-dimensional pollutant transport within a three-layer composite liner system, which comprises a geomembrane (GM), a geosynthetic clay liner (GCL), and a soil liner (SL), with particular attention to defe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,196 Views
23 Pages

Pressure Transient Performance for a Horizontal Well Intercepted by Multiple Reorientation Fractures in a Tight Reservoir

  • Guoqiang Xing,
  • Shuhong Wu,
  • Jiahang Wang,
  • Mingxian Wang,
  • Baohua Wang and
  • Jinjian Cao

6 November 2019

A fractured horizontal well is an effective technology to obtain hydrocarbons from tight reservoirs. In this study, a new semi-analytical model for a horizontal well intercepted by multiple finite-conductivity reorientation fractures was developed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,352 Views
31 Pages

24 May 2022

The objective of this work is to innovatively apply the boundary element method (BEM) as a general modeling strategy to deal with complicated reservoir modeling problems, especially those related to reservoir heterogeneity and fracture systems, which...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
7,461 Views
17 Pages

8 June 2020

Water clarity, commonly measured as the Secchi disk depth ( Z s d ), is an important parameter that depicts water quality in aquatic ecosystems. China’s new generation Advanced HyperSpectral Imager (AHSI) on board the GF-5 satellite has...

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
5,829 Views
13 Pages

Force Prediction for Incremental Forming of Polymer Sheets

  • Gustavo Medina-Sanchez,
  • Alberto Garcia-Collado,
  • Diego Carou and
  • Rubén Dorado-Vicente

3 September 2018

Incremental sheet forming (ISF) is gaining attention as a low cost prototyping and small batch production solution to obtain 3D components. In ISF, the forming force is key to define an adequate setup, avoiding damage and reducing wear, as well as to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,293 Views
15 Pages

11 February 2022

Water transparency (or Secchi disk depth: ZSD) is a key parameter of water quality; thus, it is very important to routinely monitor. In this study, we made four efforts to improve a state-of-the-art ZSD estimation algorithm that was developed in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,173 Views
13 Pages

12 December 2021

The spontaneous-emission enhancement effect of a single metallic rectangular-aperture optical nanoantenna on a SiO2 substrate was investigated theoretically. By considering the excitation and multiple scattering of surface plasmon polaritons (SPPs) i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,592 Views
13 Pages

4 January 2022

Many models for accurately predicting the performance of gasket plate heat exchangers were developed in the last decades, grouped in three categories: empirical, semi-analytical or theoretical/numerical, with the view to saving materials and energy t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,372 Views
25 Pages

Nonlinear Analytical Procedure for Predicting Debonding of Laminate from Substrate Subjected to Monotonic or Cyclic Load

  • Marco Lamberti,
  • Francesco Ascione,
  • Annalisa Napoli,
  • Ghani Razaqpur and
  • Roberto Realfonzo

6 December 2022

The bonding of steel/fiber-reinforced polymer (SRP/FRP) laminate strips to concrete/masonry elements has been found to be an effective and efficient technology for improving the elements’ strength and stiffness. However, premature laminate&ndas...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
5,846 Views
10 Pages

The jointed rigid pavement is currently evaluated by the Falling weight deflectometer which is rather slow for the testing of the jointed pavements. Continuous nondestructive evaluation of rigid pavements with a rolling wheel deflectometer can be use...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,407 Views
15 Pages

Fracture Detection and Numerical Modeling for Fractured Reservoirs

  • Lihua Zuo,
  • Xiaosi Tan,
  • Wei Yu and
  • Xiaodong Hu

26 January 2019

The subsurface fractures could impact the fluid mechanisms dramatically, which makes the modeling of the hydraulic and natural fractures an essential step for fractured reservoirs simulations. However, because of the complexities of fracture patterns...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,991 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2020

Steam-assisted gravity drainage (SAGD) is one of the most successful thermal enhanced oil recovery (EOR) methods for cold viscose oils. Several analytical and semi-analytical models have been theorized, yet the process needs more studies to be conduc...

  • Data Descriptor
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,050 Views
18 Pages

Dataset for Electronics and Plasmonics in Graphene, Silicene, and Germanene Nanostrips

  • Talia Tene,
  • Nataly Bonilla García,
  • Miguel Ángel Sáez Paguay,
  • John Vera,
  • Marco Guevara,
  • Cristian Vacacela Gomez and
  • Stefano Bellucci

30 January 2024

The quest for novel materials with extraordinary electronic and plasmonic properties is an ongoing pursuit in the field of materials science. The dataset provides the results of a computational study that used ab initio and semi-analytical computatio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,877 Views
18 Pages

19 November 2021

In this study, the dynamics of a diffusive Lotka–Volterra three-species system with delays were explored. By employing the Galerkin Method, which generates semi-analytical solutions, a partial differential equation system was approximated throu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,032 Views
25 Pages

Proving Surface Plasmons in Graphene Nanoribbons Organized as 2D Periodic Arrays and Potential Applications in Biosensors

  • Talia Tene,
  • Marco Guevara,
  • Jiří Svozilík,
  • Diana Coello-Fiallos,
  • Jorge Briceño and
  • Cristian Vacacela Gomez

Surface-plasmon-based biosensors have become excellent platforms for detecting biomolecular interactions. While there are several methods to exciting surface plasmons, the major challenge is improving their sensitivity. In relation to this, graphene-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
4,838 Views
19 Pages

γ-ray and ν Searches for Dark-Matter Subhalos in the Milky Way with a Baryonic Potential

  • Moritz Hütten,
  • Martin Stref,
  • Céline Combet,
  • Julien Lavalle and
  • David Maurin

The distribution of dark-matter (DM) subhalos in our galaxy remains disputed, leading to varying γ -ray and ν flux predictions from their annihilation or decay. In this work, we study how, in the inner galaxy, subhalo tidal disrup...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,802 Views
16 Pages

Remote Estimation of the Particulate Phosphorus Concentrations in Inland Water Bodies: A Case Study in Hongze Lake

  • Chenggong Du,
  • Kun Shi,
  • Naisen Liu,
  • Yunmei Li,
  • Heng Lyu,
  • Chen Yan and
  • Jinheng Pan

9 August 2022

Phosphorus is the most important nutrient associated with lake eutrophication and changes in cyanobacterial blooms, and particulate phosphorus (PP) is the main form of phosphorus found in highly turbid inland waters. Therefore, it is urgent to monito...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,270 Views
21 Pages

23 April 2021

The main research purpose of this work was to study the elasto-plastic responses of some fundamental steel structural elements exhibiting stochastic volumetric microvoids. The constitutive model of the steel material was consistent with the determini...

  • Article
  • Open Access
760 Views
24 Pages

4 August 2025

Forest trees have emerged as a promising passive solution for mitigating low-frequency ground vibrations generated by railway operations, offering ecological and cost-effective advantages. This study proposes a three-dimensional semi-analytical metho...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
4,052 Views
21 Pages

Assessment of Estimated Phycocyanin and Chlorophyll-a Concentration from PRISMA and OLCI in Brazilian Inland Waters: A Comparison between Semi-Analytical and Machine Learning Algorithms

  • Thainara Munhoz Alexandre de Lima,
  • Claudia Giardino,
  • Mariano Bresciani,
  • Claudio Clemente Faria Barbosa,
  • Alice Fabbretto,
  • Andrea Pellegrino and
  • Felipe Nincao Begliomini

26 February 2023

The aim of this work is to test the state-of-the-art of water constituent retrieval algorithms for phycocyanin (PC) and chlorophyll-a (chl-a) concentrations in Brazilian reservoirs from hyperspectral PRISMA images and concurrent in situ data. One nea...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,043 Views
18 Pages

2 November 2022

This work presents a semi-analytical method for laminar steady-state channel and pipe flows of viscoelastic fluids using the Linear Phan-Thien-Tanner (LPTT) constitutive equation, with solvent viscosity contribution. For the semi-analytical method va...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,803 Views
12 Pages

12 December 2022

The knowledge of the solar irradiation components is required by most solar applications. When only the global horizontal irradiance is measured, this one is typically broken down into its fundamental components, beam and diffuse, by applying an empi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
864 Views
22 Pages

21 October 2025

This study proposes a semi-analytic harmonic modeling method that significantly improves the accuracy and efficiency of complex magnetic field modeling by integrating numerical and analytical approaches. Compared to traditional methods such as the eq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
82 Views
48 Pages

20 January 2026

Accurate prediction of the rocking and sliding response of free-standing rigid blocks under seismic excitation remains challenging, particularly in regimes where rocking and sliding are strongly coupled and motion mode transitions occur. This study p...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
3,772 Views
20 Pages

14 December 2018

The embedded discrete fracture model (EDFM) combines the advantages of previous numerical models for fractured reservoirs, achieving a good balance between calculation cost and simulation accuracy. In this work, an integrally embedded discrete fractu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,098 Views
26 Pages

24 January 2023

The design and processing algorithm of oceanic LIDAR requires an effective lidar simulator. Currently, most simulation methods for lidar signal propagation in seawater use elastic scattering. In this study, a new semi-analytical Monte Carlo (MC) mode...

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