It has been more than a decade since sequential indicator simulation was proposed to model geological features. Due to its simplicity and easiness of implementation, the algorithm attracts the practitioner’s attention and is rapidly becoming av...
Maximum loads acting on aircraft structures generally arise when the aircraft is undergoing some form of acceleration, such as during landing. Landing, especially when considering rotorcrafts, is thus crucial in determining the operational load spect...
In order to analyze the influence of uncertainty and an operation strategy on the reliability of a standalone microgrid, a reliability evaluation method based on a sequential Monte Carlo (SMC) simulation was developed. Here, the duty cycles of a micr...
The interlayer shear weakness zone (ISWZ) is a deformation zone in stratified rock masses, with different width and spacing, due to tectonic stresses. It represents the main flow path in rocks due to higher permeability compared with massive rocks. T...
As the number and capacity of photovoltaic (PV) power stations increase, it is of great significance to evaluate the PV-connected power systems in an effective, reasonable, and quick way. In order to overcome the challenge of PV’s time-sequenti...
The traditional classical sampling statistics method ignores the spatial location relationship of survey samples, which leads to many problems. This study aimed to propose a spatial sampling method for sampling estimation and optimization of forest b...
Heavy metal contamination in urban topsoil is one of the most serious environmental threats to children’s health, particularly through ingestion, dermal contact, and inhalation exposure routes. The objectives of this study were: (1) to assess t...
Toxic trace elements in farmland soils are potential threats to human health. In this study, we collected soil samples from the farmlands of southern Guangzhou. We used a sequential indicator simulation (SIS) to deal with the problem of skewed distri...
Tension-leg platform (TLP) horizontal-axis wind turbines (TLP-HAWTs) have become increasingly important in deep-water offshore wind energy development. However, their performance is strongly affected by coupled platform motions induced by wind and wa...
The enzymatic reactivation process enables the recovery of catalytic activity for inactive biocatalysts. However, its effect on the specific productivity of the processes has not been studied. The main objective of this work was to evaluate the speci...
Heterogeneity-preserving property models of subsurface regions are commonly constructed by means of sequential simulations. Sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS) and direct sequential simulation (DSS) draw values from a local probability density funct...
A traditional indifference zone (IZ) approach selects the best treatment, with a preset high probability of correct selection when the best one is much better than the second-best in line. Customarily, the effect size is the difference between the be...
Predicting how microstructure dimensions affect the response of flexible capacitive pressure sensors can guide sensor design. Large deformation and contact, however, complicate the construction of dielectric and air domains from the deformed mechanic...
Freight movement has always been, and always will be an essential activity. Freight transport is one of the most challenging sectors to transition to net-zero carbon. Traffic assignment, mode allocation, network planning, hub location, train scheduli...
To reveal the evolution of overburden movement, slope deformation, and fracture damage during highwall mining, a physical similarity model was established based on the geological conditions of the Heishan Open-Pit Mine, Xinjiang. The excavation exten...
During hydraulic fracturing, the aperture of hydraulic fractures will shrink by the in-situ stress, but will not fully close because of the existence of proppant inside the fracture. In previous studies, few people noticed the existence of proppant,...
As an important geophysical data processing technique, seismic inversion estimates subsurface rock properties with seismic observations. However, anisotropic inversion, intended for a vertical transverse isotropy (VTI) media that primarily describes...
Sequential renewal of historic courtyard compounds requires coordinated decisions on heritage character conservation, liveability enhancement, and long-term operation and maintenance, while interventions made at one stage can alter subsequent renewal...
The reliability assesment of large power systems, particularly when considering both generation and transmission facilities, is a computationally demanding and complex problem. The sequential Monte Carlo simulation is arguably the most versatile appr...
In this technical note, a geostatistical model was applied to explore the spatial distribution of source rock data in terms of total organic carbon weight concentration. The median polish kriging method was used to approximate the “row and column eff...
Submarine mast covers are critical cantilever appendages subjected to extreme hydrostatic pressure during submerged transit. To ensure structural reliability and control internal defects inherent in heavy-section casting, an integrated design-to-manu...
This paper presents practical methods for the sequential generation or simulation of a Gaussian two-dimensional random field. The specific realizations typically correspond to geospatial errors or perturbations over a horizontal plane or grid. The er...
Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) models for reliability evaluation, as well as other power system simulation studies, are typically characterized by two key variables: State of Charge (SOC), representing the stored energy in MWh, and Injected Pow...
This study investigates the residual stresses arising from welding and machining processes, recognizing their adverse implications in manufacturing. Employing experimental analysis and simulation techniques, the research scrutinizes residual stress a...
In the geostatistical modeling and characterization of natural resources, the traditional approach for determining the spatial distribution of a given deposit using stochastic sequential simulation is to use the existing experimental data (i.e., dire...
Joint estimation of groundwater contaminant source characteristics and hydraulic conductivity is of great significance for contaminant transport models in heterogeneous subsurface media. As for accurate characterization of hydraulic conductivities, b...
This article studies the location–price Hotelling game. Numerous studies have been conducted on the Hotelling game with simultaneous decisions; however, in real-life scenarios, decisions are frequently sequential. Unfortunately, studies on the...
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...
A comprehensive mathematical model of electroslag remelting with two series-connected electrodes (TSCE-ESR) was constructed based on sequential coupling method. The influence of droplet effect on electroslag remelting process (ESR) was considered in...
This paper presents a novel adaptation of the conventional approximate Bayesian computation sequential Monte Carlo (ABC-SMC) sampling algorithm for parameter estimation in the presence of uncertainties, coined combinatorial ABC-SMC. Inference of this...
This study illustrates the application of conditional simulations to calculate the uncertainty associated with the thickness of bauxite ores. The bauxite deposit of Rondon do Pará in northern Pará State, Brazil, is characterized by a we...
Despite the fact that cascade reservoirs are built in a large number of river basins nowadays, there is still an absence of studies on sequential embankment dam-break in cascade reservoirs. Therefore, numerical simulations and risk analyses of cascad...
This paper analyzes the performance of a two-stage sequential hybrid MTS/MTO production system in which the order decoupling point is positioned between the manufacturing and assembly stages. In this configuration, the production control task separat...
As an effective active remote sensing technology for the exploration of shallow underground targets, ground-penetrating radar (GPR) is a detection method that can be used to obtain information about the characteristics of underground targets by trans...
Tight oil reservoirs offer significant development potential. Due to the pronounced capillary forces in their nanopores, phase behavior differs markedly from that in conventional reservoirs, challenging traditional equations of state and numerical si...
With the increasing complexity of reservoir formation mechanisms and the increasing difficulty of exploration, accurate reservoir prediction is critical for oil and gas exploration. However, traditional methods struggle to simultaneously achieve mult...
Uncertainty assessment is an essential part of modeling and mapping the spatial variability of key soil properties, such as texture. The study aimed to compare sequential Gaussian simulation (SGS) and turning bands simulation (TBS) for assessing the...
Nursing students encounter several challenges as they progress through their educational journey, particularly in integrating theoretical knowledge with practical applications using simulation-based learning (SBL). This study aimed to comprehensively...
Water Alternating Gas (WAG) injection is a well-established enhanced oil recovery technique that improves sweep efficiency by combining the favorable displacement characteristics of waterflooding and gas injection. This work presents a sequential Pic...
This study developed an integrated strategy for outdoor photo-fermentative biohydrogen production by Rhodopseudomonas pentothenatexigens KKU-SN1/1 through low-cost medium optimization, repeated-batch operation, modular bioreactor simulation, and biom...
With the development of acoustic simulation methods in recent decades, it has become feasible to simulate the sound pressure distribution of loudspeakers before actually setting physical speakers and measuring the sound field. The parametric array lo...
Simulation-based clinical education is a useful strategy for teaching, learning, and assessing clinical competence in health professions education. However, the use of simulation-based clinical nursing education (SBCNE) in low-resource settings such...
With the rapid development of global trade, a large number of goods and resources are imported and exported via seaports. Multiple thermal loads and renewable energy merge into seaports, making the energy supply and demand structure increasingly comp...
In this paper, micro droplets are generated in a microfluidic focusing contactor and then they move sequentially in a free-flowing mode (no wall contact). For this purpose, two different micro-flow glass devices (hydrophobic and hydrophilic) were use...
Reinforcement learning is a crucial area of machine learning, with a wide range of applications. To conduct experiments in this research field, it is necessary to define the algorithms and parameters to be applied. However, this task can be complex b...
Research Highlights: Modelling species’ distribution and productivity is key to support integrated landscape planning, species’ afforestation, and sustainable forest management. Background and Objectives: Maritime pine (Pinus pinaster Aiton) forests...
Tumour size is an important prognostic factor in breast cancer, but its association with survival may be non-linear. Fractional polynomials provide a parsimonious approach for modelling such effects; however, the conventional Royston–Altman pro...
Response Surface Methodology (RSM) is a method that uses a combination of statistical techniques and experimental design for modelling and optimization problems. Many researchers have studied the integration of heuristic methods and RSM in recent yea...
Practitioners often neglect the uncertainty inherent to models and their inputs. Point Estimate Methods (PEMs) offer an alternative to the common, but computationally demanding, method for assessing model uncertainty, Monte Carlo (MC) simulation. PEM...
Sequential cross-linked and annealed ultra-high-molecular-weight polyethylene (SX-PE) is known as a low-wear articulating partner, especially for total hip endoprostheses. Aging of polymeric materials, irrespective of if induced by shelf or in vivo l...
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