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48 Citations
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25 February 2016

Due to the increasing complexity of electromagnetic signals, there exists a significant challenge for radar emitter signal recognition. To address this challenge, multi-component radar emitter recognition under a complicated noise environment is stud...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,297 Views
21 Pages

15 December 2023

Dust plays a very important role in the Earth’s climate system by its direct and indirect effects. Deserts in northwestern China contribute a large amount of dust particles, both inland and outside, while the vertical distribution and transport...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,398 Views
24 Pages

27 June 2024

In this paper, we investigate the nonlinear characteristics of the flow in a two-dimensional and a three-dimensional counterflow model with symmetrical structures. Through numerical simulations, we obtain the velocity fields of the fluid flow in thes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,138 Views
13 Pages

MInet: A Novel Network Model for Point Cloud Processing by Integrating Multi-Modal Information

  • Yuhao Wang,
  • Yong Zuo,
  • Zhihua Du,
  • Xiaohan Song,
  • Tian Luo,
  • Xiaobin Hong and
  • Jian Wu

12 July 2023

Three-dimensional LiDAR systems that capture point cloud data enable the simultaneous acquisition of spatial geometry and multi-wavelength intensity information, thereby paving the way for three-dimensional point cloud recognition and processing. How...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
6,383 Views
13 Pages

Cells, the basic structures of all living organisms, reside in an extracellular matrix consisting of a complex three-dimensional architecture and interact with neighboring cells both mechanically and biochemically. Cell–cell and cell–extr...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,389 Views
23 Pages

20 September 2025

With the iterative evolution of SLAM (Simultaneous Localization and Mapping) technology in the robotics domain, the SLAM paradigm based on three-dimensional Gaussian distribution models has emerged as the current state-of-the-art technical approach....

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  • Open Access
599 Views
24 Pages

27 October 2025

Background: This study aimed to explore the application value of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI)-based three-dimensional segmentation and reconstruction technology for spatial structural identification and volumetric quantification of glandular and...

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  • Open Access
1,121 Views
25 Pages

Analysis of Three-Dimensional Micro-Contact Morphology of Contact Groups Based on Superpixel AMR Morphological Features and Fractal Theory

  • Jiahang Shen,
  • Defeng Cui,
  • Wenhua Li,
  • Peidong Zhao,
  • Xianchun Meng,
  • Jiyuan Cai,
  • Zheng Han and
  • Haitao Wang

6 March 2025

At the microscale, the three-dimensional morphological features of contact surfaces have a significant impact on the performance of electrical contacts. This paper aims to reconstruct the microscopic contact state of contact groups and to deeply stud...

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  • Open Access
239 Views
19 Pages

A 3D Structure Extraction Method from Multi-Depth Ocean Temperature Data

  • Xudong Luo,
  • Xin Fu,
  • Zhoushun Han,
  • Jianing Yu,
  • Hengcai Zhang,
  • Zhenghe Xu and
  • Yu Wu

6 December 2025

Understanding subsurface temperature-transition structures is essential for interpreting upper-ocean stratification; however, most existing methods rely on two-dimensional profiles and fail to resolve the full three-dimensional geometry of temperatur...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,975 Views
20 Pages

18 March 2021

The bearing capacity of CFA (Continuous Flight Auger) pile is not able to reach the design capacity if proper construction is not performed due to the soil collapse at the bottom of the pile. In this paper, three pile samples were prepared to simulat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,056 Views
15 Pages

Rapid Determination of Meteorolite Composition Based on X-ray Phase Contrast Imaging-Assisted Raman Spectroscopy

  • Hongpeng Wang,
  • Peipei Fang,
  • Yian Wang,
  • Yingjian Xin,
  • Shengjun Xiong,
  • Sicong Liu,
  • Yanling Xue,
  • Liang Zhang and
  • Xiong Wan

Returning extraterrestrial samples to Earth has become essential for future deep space exploration. Achieving a comprehensive evaluation of the physical and chemical properties of samples with minimal damage is key to analyzing extraterrestrial sampl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,702 Views
18 Pages

23 September 2019

The flow fields over a simplified 3D hill covered by vegetation have been examined by many researchers. However, there is scarce research giving the three-dimensional characteristics of the flow fields over a rough 3D hill. In this study, large eddy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
7,588 Views
18 Pages

14 October 2020

The IceWind turbine, a new type of Vertical Axis Wind Turbine, was proposed by an Iceland based startup. It is a product that has been featured in few published scientific research studies. This paper investigates the IceWind turbine’s performa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,683 Views
22 Pages

5 June 2022

The multiaxial Mises-Schleicher and Drucker-Prager unified (MSDPu) criterion has been shown to exhibit several specific features compared to other yield and failure criteria, including a nonlinear mean stress dependency, influence of the Lode angle,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,909 Views
15 Pages

Two-Dimensional Clusters of Colloidal Particles Induced by Emulsion Droplet Evaporation

  • Hai Pham-Van,
  • Linh Tran-Phan-Thuy,
  • Cuong Tran-Manh,
  • Bich Do-Danh and
  • Hoang Luc-Huy

16 January 2020

The minimization principle of the second moment of the mass distribution ( M 2 ) is responsible for the unique structure of three-dimensional clusters by using emulsion droplet evaporation. Herein we study the structure of two-dimensional clust...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,855 Views
18 Pages

20 December 2024

Three-dimensional ocean temperature field data with high temporal-spatial resolution bears a significant impact on ocean dynamic processes such as mesoscale eddies. In recent years, with the rapid development of remote sensing data, deep learning met...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,959 Views
20 Pages

Three-Dimensional Aerators: Characteristics of the Air Bubbles

  • Shuai Li,
  • Jianmin Zhang,
  • Xiaoqing Chen and
  • Jiangang Chen

12 October 2018

Three-dimensional aerators are often used in hydraulic structures to prevent cavitation damage via enhanced air entrainment. However, the mechanisms of aeration and bubble dispersion along the developing shear flow region on such aerators remain uncl...

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  • Open Access
1,381 Views
24 Pages

12 August 2025

Digital core refers to the use of three-dimensional physical imaging equipment and mathematical modeling to image the internal microstructure of a core and the use of computers to study the connectivity and pore distribution of the core microstructur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,660 Views
15 Pages

Multiscale Characterization of an Oxide Scale Formed on the Creep-Resistant ATI 718Plus Superalloy during High-Temperature Oxidation

  • Adam Kruk,
  • Aleksander Gil,
  • Sebastian Lech,
  • Grzegorz Cempura,
  • Alina Agüero and
  • Aleksandra Czyrska-Filemonowicz

23 October 2021

The ATI 718Plus® is a creep-resistant nickel-based superalloy exhibiting high strength and excellent oxidation resistance in high temperatures. The present study is focused on multiscale 2D and 3D characterization (morphological and chemical) of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,350 Views
22 Pages

27 October 2024

Climate change has increased the intensity and frequency of weather systems, increasing the risk of inundation in urban areas. To mitigate these risks, not only rivers but also entire catchments need to be managed, and the use of infiltration and ret...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
5,725 Views
21 Pages

7 December 2021

Pavement surface texture features are one of key factors affecting the skid resistance of pavement. In this study, a set of stable and reliable texture measurement equipment was firstly assembled by using the linear laser ranging sensor, control syst...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,713 Views
24 Pages

11 September 2023

Mesoscale eddies are characterized by swirling currents spanning from tens to hundreds of kilometers in diameter three-dimensional attributes holds paramount significance in driving advancements in both oceanographic research and engineering applicat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,499 Views
17 Pages

Fractal Features of Fracture Networks and Key Attributes of Their Models

  • Hugo Mondragón-Nava,
  • Didier Samayoa,
  • Baltasar Mena and
  • Alexander S. Balankin

This work is devoted to the modeling of fracture networks. The main attention is focused on the fractal features of the fracture systems in geological formations and reservoirs. Two new kinds of fracture network models are introduced. The first is ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,591 Views
18 Pages

Composite Fiber Networks Based on Polycaprolactone and Bioactive Glass-Ceramics for Tissue Engineering Applications

  • Sorin-Ion Jinga,
  • Claudiu-Constantin Costea,
  • Andreea-Ioana Zamfirescu,
  • Adela Banciu,
  • Daniel-Dumitru Banciu and
  • Cristina Busuioc

12 August 2020

In this work, composite fibers connected in three-dimensional porous scaffolds were fabricated by electrospinning, starting from polycaprolactone and inorganic powders synthesized by the sol-gel method. The aim was to obtain materials dedicated to th...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,126 Views
16 Pages

29 April 2020

In agriculture, information about the spatial distribution of plant growth is valuable for applications. Quantitative study of the characteristics of plants plays an important role in the plants’ growth and development research, and non-destruc...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,836 Views
16 Pages

29 May 2023

To address safety problems caused by goaf and water accumulation in open-pit mines, the shallow three-dimensional seismic method and transient electromagnetic method were integrated and applied to detect the mining goaf distribution scope and the wat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,364 Views
14 Pages

Structural Features of the Fragments from Cast Iron Cauldrons of the Medieval Golden Horde: Neutron Tomography Data

  • Bulat Bakirov,
  • Veronica Smirnova,
  • Sergey Kichanov,
  • Eugenia Shaykhutdinova,
  • Mikhail Murashev,
  • Denis Kozlenko and
  • Ayrat Sitdikov

The spatial arrangement of the internal pores inside several fragments of ancient cast iron cauldrons related to the medieval Golden Horde period was studied using the neutron tomography method. The high neutron penetration into a cast iron material...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,975 Views
18 Pages

The RANS equation and the RNG k-ε turbulence model were used in the three-dimensional non-constant numerical simulations of the full flow path of a vertical axial-flow pump which was carried out by applying CFX software. The velocity characte...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
7,267 Views
13 Pages

Microstructured Block Copolymer Surfaces for Control of Microbe Adhesion and Aggregation

  • Ryan R. Hansen,
  • Katherine R. Shubert,
  • Jennifer L. Morrell-Falvey,
  • Bradley S. Lokitz,
  • Mitchel J. Doktycz and
  • Scott T. Retterer

14 March 2014

The attachment and arrangement of microbes onto a substrate is influenced by both the biochemical and physical surface properties. In this report, we develop lectin-functionalized substrates containing patterned, three-dimensional polymeric structu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
3,111 Views
19 Pages

Estimation of Soil Salinity by Combining Spectral and Texture Information from UAV Multispectral Images in the Tarim River Basin, China

  • Jiaxiang Zhai,
  • Nan Wang,
  • Bifeng Hu,
  • Jianwen Han,
  • Chunhui Feng,
  • Jie Peng,
  • Defang Luo and
  • Zhou Shi

1 October 2024

Texture features have been consistently overlooked in digital soil mapping, especially in soil salinization mapping. This study aims to clarify how to leverage texture information for monitoring soil salinization through remote sensing techniques. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
49 Citations
4,819 Views
17 Pages

23 August 2021

The 21 May 2021 Maduo earthquake was the largest event to occur on a secondary fault in the interior of the active Bayanhar block on the north-central Tibetan plateau in the last twenty years. A detailed kinematic study of the Maduo earthquake helps...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,370 Views
14 Pages

4 January 2019

In order to realize automation of the pollutant emission tests of vehicles, a pedal robot is designed instead of a human-driven vehicle. Sometimes, the actual time-speed curve of the vehicle will deviate from the upper or lower limit of the worldwide...

  • Article
  • Open Access
88 Citations
7,154 Views
23 Pages

30 March 2020

Understanding a person’s feelings is a very important process for the affective computing. People express their emotions in various ways. Among them, facial expression is the most effective way to present human emotional status. We propose effi...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,693 Views
21 Pages

16 August 2024

The initial compression wave induced by a 400 km/h high-speed train entering a tunnel in two cases (offset running and center running) is investigated by overset mesh technology. The governing equations of the IDDES model for three-dimensional, unste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,823 Views
19 Pages

Content-Sensitive Multilevel Point Cluster Construction for ALS Point Cloud Classification

  • Zongxia Xu,
  • Zhenxin Zhang,
  • Ruofei Zhong,
  • Dong Chen,
  • Taochun Sun,
  • Xin Deng,
  • Zhen Li and
  • Cheng-Zhi Qin

9 February 2019

Airborne laser scanning (ALS) point cloud classification is a challenge due to factors including complex scene structure, various densities, surface morphology, and the number of ground objects. A point cloud classification method is presented in thi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,271 Views
12 Pages

High-resolution X-ray computer tomography (microCT) is a well-established technique to analyse three-dimensional microstructures in 3D non-destructive imaging. The non-destructive three-dimensional analysis of lichens is interesting for many reasons....

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
39 Citations
13,603 Views
18 Pages

15 July 2016

The cytoplasmic intermediate filament cytoskeleton provides a tissue-specific three-dimensional scaffolding with unique context-dependent organizational features. This is particularly apparent in the intestinal epithelium, in which the intermediate f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,304 Views
24 Pages

The lack of dimensionality of ocean observations makes it difficult to utilize multi-scale data assimilation to correct model errors with limited observations. Since satellite observations can provide high-resolution and time-continuous sea surface i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,047 Views
18 Pages

21 February 2022

Distributed array radar provides new prospects for three-dimensional (3D) inverse synthetic aperture radar (ISAR) imaging. The accuracy of image registration, as an essential part of 3D ISAR imaging, affects the performance of 3D reconstruction. In t...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,068 Views
30 Pages

24 June 2021

Low order models based on the Blade Element Momentum (BEM) theory exhibit modeling issues in the performance prediction of Vertical Axis Wind Turbines (VAWT) compared to Computational Fluid Dynamics, despite the widespread engineering practice of suc...

  • Review
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,526 Views
11 Pages

22 July 2020

The location of the vehicle is a basic parameter for self-driving cars. The key problem of localization is the noise of the sensors. In previous research, we proposed a particle-aided unscented Kalman filter (PAUKF) to handle the localization problem...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,847 Views
25 Pages

High-Order Finite-Element Framework for the Efficient Simulation of Multifluid Flows

  • Thibaut Metivet,
  • Vincent Chabannes,
  • Mourad Ismail and
  • Christophe Prud’homme

15 October 2018

In this paper, we present a comprehensive framework for the simulation of Multifluid flows based on the implicit level-set representation of interfaces and on an efficient solving strategy of the Navier-Stokes equations. The mathematical framework re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
1,979 Views
10 Pages

Unusual Spreading of Strain Neutral Layer in AZ31 Magnesium Alloy Sheet during Bending

  • Chao He,
  • Lintao Liu,
  • Shengwen Bai,
  • Bin Jiang,
  • Hang Teng,
  • Guangsheng Huang,
  • Dingfei Zhang and
  • Fusheng Pan

12 December 2022

In this work, we reported an unusual phenomenon of strain neutral layer (SNL) spreading in an as-rolled AZ31B magnesium alloy sheet during V-bending. The SNL on the middle symmetrical surface perpendicular to the transverse direction (TD) of the shee...

  • Article
  • Open Access
52 Citations
7,912 Views
21 Pages

Impacts of Traffic Tidal Flow on Pollutant Dispersion in a Non-Uniform Urban Street Canyon

  • Tingzhen Ming,
  • Weijie Fang,
  • Chong Peng,
  • Cunjin Cai,
  • Renaud De Richter,
  • Mohammad Hossein Ahmadi and
  • Yuangao Wen

25 February 2018

A three-dimensional geometrical model was established based on a section of street canyons in the 2nd Ring Road of Wuhan, China, and a mathematical model describing the fluid flow and pollutant dispersion characteristics in the street canyon was deve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,185 Views
16 Pages

22 April 2025

Wood displays three-dimensional characteristics at both macroscopic and microscopic scales. Accurately reconstructing its 3D structure is vital for a deeper understanding of the relationship between its anatomical characteristics and its physical and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,822 Views
14 Pages

29 October 2021

The subcellular locations of proteins are closely related to their functions. In the past few decades, the application of machine learning algorithms to predict protein subcellular locations has been an important topic in proteomics. However, most st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,403 Views
18 Pages

Characterization of Gas Seepage in the Mining Goaf Area for Sustainable Development: A Numerical Simulation Study

  • Bing Li,
  • Hao Li,
  • Yuchen Tian,
  • Helong Zhang,
  • Qingfa Liao,
  • Shiheng Chen,
  • Yinghai Liu,
  • Yanzhi Liu,
  • Shiqi Liu and
  • Sijian Zheng

17 October 2024

An in-depth understanding of gas (oxygen and methane) seepage characteristics in coal mine goafs is essential for the safe production of mines and for advancing sustainable development practices within the mining industry. However, the gas distributi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,305 Views
18 Pages

10 August 2023

The unique spatial–spectral integration characteristics of hyperspectral imagery (HSI) make it widely applicable in many fields. The spatial–spectral feature fusion-based HSI classification has always been a research hotspot. Typically, c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
1,660 Views
22 Pages

Performance of Monotonic Pile Penetration in Sand: Model Test and DEM Simulation

  • Jianxue Feng,
  • Ruiqi Luo,
  • Xiaoyu Dong,
  • Xiaoyong Zhang and
  • Quan Shen

21 October 2024

By integrating laboratory tests and three-dimensional discrete element methods, this research extensively explores the macroscopic and microscopic mechanisms of static pile penetration in standard sand. Initially, the mesoscopic parameters of standar...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
3,937 Views
19 Pages

24 April 2020

Extreme precipitation can seriously affect the ecological environment, agriculture, human safety, and property resilience. A full-scale and scientific assessment in extreme precipitation characteristics is necessary for water resources management and...

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