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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,757 Views
22 Pages

17 May 2019

The seismic response behavior of fluid-saturated porous media (FSPM) has been a critical subject in the area of soil dynamics and geotechnical earthquake engineering. In this paper, the numerical study of the seismic response of the FSPM is performed...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,466 Views
21 Pages

7 January 2025

The traditional finite element program is executed on the CPU; however, it is challenging for the CPU to compute the ultra-large scale finite element model. In this paper, we present a set of efficient algorithms based on GPU acceleration technology...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,151 Views
17 Pages

8 June 2022

Power flow reliability, voltage security and transmission congestion management are paramount operational issues in a power system. Flexible AC transmission system (FACTS) controllers are suitable technologies that can provide compensation and dynami...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,427 Views
27 Pages

5 November 2020

The triggering and spreading of volumetric waves in soils, namely pressure (P) and shear (S) waves, developing from a point source of a dynamic load, are analyzed. Wave polarization and shear wave splitting are innovatively reproduced via a three-dim...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
2,617 Views
23 Pages

21 April 2023

Two main topics are addressed in the present paper, first, a rigorous qualitative study of a second-order reaction–diffusion problem with non-linear diffusion and cubic-type reactions, as well as inhomogeneous dynamic boundary conditions. Under...

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  • Open Access
1,894 Views
18 Pages

23 June 2023

This paper presents a novel modular voltage control algorithm for optimal scheduling of a distribution system’s load tap changers to minimize the number of tap changes while maintaining a voltage deviation (VD) around a desired target. To this...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,993 Views
14 Pages

Novel Non-Viral Vectors Based on Pluronic® F68PEI with Application in Oncology Field

  • Inês Silva,
  • Cátia Domingues,
  • Ivana Jarak,
  • Rui A. Carvalho,
  • Rosemeyre A. Cordeiro,
  • Marília Dourado,
  • Francisco Veiga,
  • Henrique Faneca and
  • Ana Figueiras

5 December 2022

Copolymers composed of low-molecular-weight polyethylenimine (PEI) and amphiphilic Pluronics® are safe and efficient non-viral vectors for pDNA transfection. A variety of Pluronic® properties provides a base for tailoring transfection efficac...

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  • Open Access
494 Views
24 Pages

This study presents a fractional-order dynamical model for diabetes progression, formulated by extending an existing obesity model using the Atangana–Baleanu fractional derivative, termed the Atangana–Baleanu Fractional Diabetes Model (AB...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,557 Views
29 Pages

26 December 2024

The elevated penetration of renewable energy has seen a significant increase in the integration of inverter-based resources (IBRs) into the electricity network. According to various industrial standards on interconnection and interoperability, IBRs s...

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  • Open Access
2,561 Views
29 Pages

A Spectral/hp-Based Stabilized Solver with Emphasis on the Euler Equations

  • Rakesh Ranjan,
  • Lucia Catabriga and
  • Guillermo Araya

8 January 2024

The solution of compressible flow equations is of interest with many aerospace engineering applications. Past literature has focused primarily on the solution of Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) problems with low-order finite element and finite vol...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,157 Views
18 Pages

23 April 2024

The paper concerns a nonlinear second-order system of coupled PDEs, having the principal part in divergence form and subject to in-homogeneous dynamic boundary conditions, for both θ(t,x) and φ(t,x). Two main topics are addressed here, as f...

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  • Open Access
268 Views
14 Pages

Eco-Friendly Antifouling Coatings Based on Macroalgal Extracts from Ulva ohnoi and Asparagopsis taxiformis

  • Lorenzo Maria Ruggeri,
  • Carlo Maffei,
  • Domenico Prisa,
  • Francesco Crea and
  • Damiano Spagnuolo

The increasing environmental impact of synthetic antifouling paints has stimulated the search for natural, eco-friendly alternatives. In this study, alcoholic and aqueous extracts of the macroalgae Ulva ohnoi and Asparagopsis taxiformis were evaluate...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,634 Views
16 Pages

3 November 2022

Porous inserts and nanofluids are among the conventional methods for the amelioration of heat transfer in industrial systems. The heat transfer rate could also be improved by utilizing porous substances with a higher thermal conductivity in these sys...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,068 Views
31 Pages

YOLO-SRMX: A Lightweight Model for Real-Time Object Detection on Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

  • Shimin Weng,
  • Han Wang,
  • Jiashu Wang,
  • Changming Xu and
  • Ende Zhang

5 July 2025

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) face a significant challenge in balancing high accuracy and high efficiency when performing real-time object detection tasks, especially amidst intricate backgrounds, diverse target scales, and stringent onboard comput...