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3 Citations
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A Multi-Domain Model for Variable Gap Iron-Cored Wireless Power Transmission System

  • Federico Maria Reato,
  • Simone Cinquemani,
  • Claudio Ricci,
  • Jan Misfatto and
  • Matteo Calzaferri

31 January 2023

Wireless power transfer (WPT) devices represent one of the most efficient and increasingly used technologies for the transfer of data and power in the near-field range. This work analyzes and describes a new type of device: a ferrite-cored, variable...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
9,473 Views
16 Pages

20 September 2018

The concept of a Self-Excited Induction Generator (SEIG) has introduced the concept of the placement of an induction machine for power generation in an isolated mode with external capacitance. The produced output voltage and generated frequency in an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
650 Views
20 Pages

Development of Hourly Resolution Air Temperature Across Titicaca Lake on Auxiliary ERA5 Variables and Machine Learning-Based Gap-Filling

  • Jimmy W. Sirpa-Poma,
  • Juan Calle,
  • Elvis Uscamayta-Ferrano,
  • Jorge Molina-Carpio,
  • Frederic Satgé,
  • Osmar Cuentas Toledo,
  • Ricardo Duran,
  • Paula Pacheco Mollinedo,
  • Riaz Hussain and
  • Ramiro Pillco-Zolá

24 November 2025

This article presents an innovative procedure that combines advanced quality control (QC) methods with machine learning (ML) techniques to produce reliable, continuous, high-resolution meteorological data. The approach was applied to hourly air tempe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
5,496 Views
11 Pages

21 December 2019

This paper presents an air-gap magnetic field manipulation by optimized coil currents for a magnetic force enhancement in electromechanical devices. The external coil is designed near the device air-gap for manipulating the magnetic field distributio...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
5,525 Views
10 Pages

Air-Gap Interrogation of Surface Plasmon Resonance in Otto Configuration

  • Yeonsu Lee,
  • Jiwon Kim,
  • Sungmin Sim,
  • Ignacio Llamas-Garro and
  • Jungmu Kim

21 August 2021

In this study, a micromachined chip in Otto configuration with multiple air-gaps (1.86 μm, 2.42 μm, 3.01 μm, 3.43 μm) was fabricated, and the resonance characteristics for each air-gap was measured with a 980 nm laser source. To verify the variabilit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,882 Views
15 Pages

10 February 2023

Air quality data sets are widely used in numerous analyses. Missing values are ubiquitous in air quality data sets as the data are collected through sensors. Recovery of missing data is a challenging task in the data preprocessing stage. This task be...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,336 Views
20 Pages

Reconstruction of Hourly Gap-Free Sea Surface Skin Temperature from Multi-Sensors

  • Qianguang Tu,
  • Zengzhou Hao,
  • Dong Liu,
  • Bangyi Tao,
  • Liangliang Shi and
  • Yunwei Yan

15 November 2024

The sea surface skin temperature (SSTskin) is of critical importance with regard to air–sea interactions and marine carbon circulation. At present, no single remote sensor is capable of providing a gap-free SSTskin. The use of data fusion techn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,284 Views
21 Pages

18 February 2023

Continuous meteorological variable time series are highly demanded for various climate related studies. Five statistical models were tested for application of temporal gaps filling in time series of surface air pressure, air temperature, relative air...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,033 Views
19 Pages

2 July 2020

The paper firstly summarizes a simple analytical model of the air gap flux-density distribution for isotropic permanent magnet (PM) synchronous machines, in the presence of static eccentricity. The model was proposed by the authors in a previous pape...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,785 Views
28 Pages

10 August 2022

Increasing power densities of electric machines in e-vehicles in addition to the resulting quest for enhanced cooling concepts are bringing forward the importance of defining adequate heat transfer correlations in air gaps. This is a highly challengi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,232 Views
14 Pages

27 February 2023

The thermal protection performance of fire suit is vital to the safety of firefighters. Using certain physical properties of fabrics to evaluate their thermal protection performance speeds up the process. This work aims to develop a TPP value predict...

  • Article
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,962 Views
19 Pages

3 January 2018

Tuned mass damper (TMD) is a widely used vibration control device, consisting of a mass, some springs and damping elements. Viscous damper is mostly used as a damping element; however, it has many unsustainable problems, e.g., poor durability, sensit...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,115 Views
28 Pages

25 October 2023

As the effects of climate change and urbanisation intensify, liveability and comfort in outdoor spaces decrease. Because of large spaces exposed to solar radiation and low crossing of airflows, courtyard buildings are extremely vulnerable in this reg...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
5,016 Views
23 Pages

Input-Adaptive Proxy for Black Carbon as a Virtual Sensor

  • Pak Lun Fung,
  • Martha A. Zaidan,
  • Salla Sillanpää,
  • Anu Kousa,
  • Jarkko V. Niemi,
  • Hilkka Timonen,
  • Joel Kuula,
  • Erkka Saukko,
  • Krista Luoma and
  • Tareq Hussein
  • + 3 authors

28 December 2019

Missing data has been a challenge in air quality measurement. In this study, we develop an input-adaptive proxy, which selects input variables of other air quality variables based on their correlation coefficients with the output variable. The proxy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,482 Views
22 Pages

10 March 2025

Air pollution is a critical global issue affecting sustainable development, and effectively addressing air pollution requires consumers to improve air quality through daily pro-environmental behaviors. This study aims to explore the influence mechani...

  • Article
  • Open Access
589 Views
19 Pages

Two-Dimensional Analytical Magnetic Field Calculation in a Brushless Doubly Fed Reluctance Machine

  • Slimane Tahi,
  • Cherif Guerroudj,
  • Smail Mezani,
  • Rachid Ibtiouen and
  • Noureddine Takorabet

7 October 2025

This paper proposes a 2D semi-analytical model based on the subdomain method for the performance analysis of a brushless doubly fed reluctance machine (BDFRM) with a salient pole rotor. In particular, assuming an infinite magnetic permeability of the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
4,041 Views
17 Pages

Characterization of Polydioxanone in Near-Field Electrospinning

  • William E. King,
  • Yvonne Gillespie,
  • Keaton Gilbert and
  • Gary L. Bowlin

18 December 2019

Electrospinning is a popular method for creating random, non-woven fibrous templates for biomedical applications, and a subtype technique termed near-field electrospinning (NFES) was devised by reducing the air gap distance to millimeters. This decre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,206 Views
23 Pages

21 January 2021

In this article, we present a numerical model of a magnetic abrasive finishing station, which was analyzed using the finite element method (FEM). The obtained results were compared with the real values measured on an experimental station of our own d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
980 Views
24 Pages

14 May 2025

Accurate estimation of ambient PM2.5 concentrations is crucial for assessing air quality and health risks, particularly in regions with limited ground-based monitoring. Satellite-retrieved data products, such as top-of-atmosphere reflectance (TOAR) a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,028 Views
18 Pages

22 November 2022

The existing heat dissipation research on double disk magnetic couplers ignores the coupling influence of electromagnetic temperature–stress and other multiphysics fields, and the error between the calculation and analysis results and the measu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,457 Views
14 Pages
Electronics2024, 13(24), 4899;https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics13244899 
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12 December 2024

In the valve hall of the converter station of a UHV transmission project at high altitudes, the shielding sphere and the wall/floor form a large-size sphere–plane long air gap. Burr defects on the surface of the shielding sphere can affect its...

  • Review
  • Open Access
17 Citations
4,819 Views
24 Pages

30 January 2021

Air pollution has received increasing attention in recent years, particularly in China, due to the rapid industrialisation that has wrought intense levels of air pollution. A number of studies, therefore, have been devoted to quantifying the impacts...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,058 Views
14 Pages

28 August 2020

A permanent magnet synchronous motor (PMSM) has advantages in applications such as electric vehicles and all-electric-aircraft because of its inherent characteristics of high power density. In order to further improve its power density, this paper pr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,495 Views
19 Pages

Control Strategies for Highly Gyroscopic Outer Rotors with Diametral Enlargement in Active Magnetic Bearings

  • Timo Hopf,
  • Michael Richter,
  • Benedikt Schüßler and
  • Stephan Rinderknecht

15 March 2022

Flywheels are used for peak shaving or load smoothing to generate a higher efficiency and a more stable power supply. Therefore, this paper investigates highly integrated outer rotor flywheels levitated by active magnetic bearings (AMB). Due to the h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,831 Views
25 Pages

Instantaneous Electromagnetic Torque Components in Synchronous Motors Fed by Load-Commutated Inverters

  • Gabriel Ekemb,
  • Fouad Slaoui-Hasnaoui,
  • Joseph Song-Manguelle,
  • P. M. Lingom and
  • Issouf Fofana

31 May 2021

This paper proposes time-domain analytical expressions of the instantaneous pulsating torque components in a synchronous machine air gap when supplied by a load-commutated-inverter (LCI) system. The LCI technology is one of the most used variable fre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
4,652 Views
13 Pages

20 December 2020

For years, urban air quality networks have been set up by private organizations and governments to monitor toxic gases like NO2. However, these networks can be very expensive to maintain, so their distribution is usually widely spaced, leaving gaps i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
26 Citations
11,239 Views
17 Pages

A New Adaptive Self-Tuning Fourier Coefficients Algorithm for Periodic Torque Ripple Minimization in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM)

  • Alfonso Gómez-Espinosa,
  • Víctor M. Hernández-Guzmán,
  • Manuel Bandala-Sánchez,
  • Hugo Jiménez-Hernández,
  • Edgar A. Rivas-Araiza,
  • Juvenal Rodríguez-Reséndiz and
  • Gilberto Herrera-Ruíz

19 March 2013

A New Adaptive Self-Tuning Fourier Coefficients Algorithm for Periodic Torque Ripple Minimization in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSM) Torque ripple occurs in Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors (PMSMs) due to the non-sinusoidal flux dens...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,106 Views
19 Pages

26 November 2022

This paper presents a new topology of an axial flux-switching memory machine with series-type permanent magnets (SPMs) to improve the flux regulation capability. The key idea was to combine low coercive force (LCF) PMs, which can be magnetized and de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,890 Views
23 Pages

This paper aims to investigate how air pollution may affect corporate green financial constraints. We assume that poor air quality can enhance the pressure of governments on environmental protection, which creates easier access to financing for firms...

  • Article
  • Open Access
28 Citations
5,922 Views
23 Pages

The Short-Term Effects of Experimental Forestry Treatments on Site Conditions in an Oak–Hornbeam Forest

  • Bence Kovács,
  • Flóra Tinya,
  • Erika Guba,
  • Csaba Németh,
  • Vivien Sass,
  • András Bidló and
  • Péter Ódor

5 July 2018

Forest management alters forest site; however, information is still limited about how different silvicultural treatments modify abiotic conditions. We compared the effects of four treatments from three different forestry systems on forest microclimat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,778 Views
22 Pages

Exploring the Spatial Variability of Air Pollution Using Mobile BC Measurements in a Citizen Science Project: A Case Study in Mechelen

  • Martine Van Poppel,
  • Jan Peters,
  • Stijn Vranckx,
  • Jo Van Laer,
  • Jelle Hofman,
  • Bram Vandeninden,
  • Charlotte Vanpoucke and
  • Wouter Lefebvre

25 June 2024

Mobile monitoring is used as an additional tool to collect air quality data at a high spatial resolution and to complement data from fixed air quality stations. Citizens are interested in contributing to air quality monitoring, and while the availabi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,460 Views
33 Pages

Air Quality Modeling with the Use of Regression Neural Networks

  • Szymon Hoffman,
  • Mariusz Filak and
  • Rafał Jasiński

Air quality is assessed on the basis of air monitoring data. Monitoring data are often not complete enough to carry out an air quality assessment. To fill the measurement gaps, predictive models can be used, which enable the approximation of missing...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,200 Views
17 Pages

Modeling and Analysis of New Power Devices Based on Linear Phase-Shifting Transformer

  • Jie Xue,
  • Jinghong Zhao,
  • Sinian Yan,
  • Hanming Wang,
  • Changduo Zhou,
  • Dongao Yan and
  • Hansi Chen

12 August 2022

With the rapid development of new power systems, various new power devices have also been developed. It is very important to establish analytical models of new power devices to ensure or even improve the reliability and stability of the power system....

  • Article
  • Open Access
25 Citations
10,373 Views
27 Pages

15 March 2020

Two air pollutants, oxides of nitrogen (NOx) and particulate matter (PM10), are monitored and modelled employing Airviro air quality dispersion modelling system in Sheffield, United Kingdom. The aim is to determine the most significant emission sourc...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
8,858 Views
25 Pages

The Impact of Urban Transportation Infrastructure on Air Quality

  • Yujing Guo,
  • Qian Zhang,
  • Kin Keung Lai,
  • Yingqin Zhang,
  • Shubin Wang and
  • Wanli Zhang

13 July 2020

While previous study has confirmed significant correlation between infrastructure construction and air quality, little is known about the nature of the relationship. In this paper, we intend to fill this gap by using the Panel Smooth Transition Regre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,969 Views
15 Pages

Dynamic Quality of an Aerostatic Thrust Bearing with a Microgroove and Support Center on Elastic Suspension

  • Vladimir Kodnyanko,
  • Stanislav Shatokhin,
  • Andrey Kurzakov,
  • Lilia Strok,
  • Yuri Pikalov,
  • Iakov Pikalov,
  • Olga Grigorieva and
  • Maxim Brungardt

25 June 2021

The disadvantage of aerostatic bearings is their low dynamic quality. The negative impact on the dynamic characteristics of the bearing is exerted by the volume of air contained in the bearing gap, pockets, and microgrooves located at the outlet of t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
76 Citations
13,398 Views
22 Pages

Building Resilient Cities: Climate Change and Health Interlinkages in the Planning of Public Spaces

  • Eleonora Orsetti,
  • Nicola Tollin,
  • Martin Lehmann,
  • Vanessa Agudelo Valderrama and
  • Jordi Morató

Greenhouse gases emissions resulting from the combustion of fossil fuels are worsening air quality and affecting the climate system. While climate change impacts on meteorological variables affects air quality by altering the concentration and distri...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,078 Views
18 Pages

Influence of Parameters on the Excitation Power of Third Harmonic Brushless Hybrid Excitation Generator

  • Yonghong Xia,
  • Jianxin Xu,
  • Jinhui Hu,
  • Yeguo Yu,
  • Ying Chen and
  • Jingming Zhang

29 November 2024

Hybrid-excited generators have a wide voltage regulation capability or a wide range of variable-speed constant-voltage output capability, providing a significant advantage in the new energy power generation field. To achieve the optimal design of bru...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,781 Views
25 Pages

Spatial Analysis of Air Pollutants in an Industrial City Using GIS-Based Techniques: A Case Study of Pavlodar, Kazakhstan

  • Ruslan Safarov,
  • Zhanat Shomanova,
  • Yuriy Nossenko,
  • Eldar Kopishev,
  • Zhuldyz Bexeitova and
  • Ruslan Kamatov

9 September 2024

The given research employs high-resolution air quality monitoring and contemporary statistical methods to address gaps in understanding the urban air pollution in Pavlodar, a city with a significant industrial presence and promising touristic potenti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,133 Views
22 Pages

The Spatiotemporal Variability of Ozone and Nitrogen Dioxide in the Po Valley Using In Situ Measurements and Model Simulations

  • Stiliani Musollari,
  • Andreas Pseftogkas,
  • Maria-Elissavet Koukouli,
  • Astrid Manders,
  • Arjo Segers,
  • Katerina Garane and
  • Dimitris Balis

21 May 2025

The Po Valley is depicted in the literature as a region with one of the most severe air pollution profiles in Europe, frequently exceeding the permitted statutory concentration limits for several air pollutants. The aim of this paper is to present an...

  • Entry
  • Open Access
2,025 Views
9 Pages

The suggested methodology for the characterization of temperature extrema presents a multistep preprocessing procedure intended to derive extrema time series of correctly identified and thermally defined daily air temperature extrema pairs. The under...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
5,980 Views
17 Pages

Introducing State-of-the-Art Deep Learning Technique for Gap-Filling of Eddy Covariance Crop Evapotranspiration Data

  • Lior Fine,
  • Antoine Richard,
  • Josef Tanny,
  • Cedric Pradalier,
  • Rafael Rosa and
  • Offer Rozenstein

28 February 2022

Gaps often occur in eddy covariance flux measurements, leading to data loss and necessitating accurate gap-filling. Furthermore, gaps in evapotranspiration (ET) measurements of annual field crops are particularly challenging to fill because crops und...

  • Systematic Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,474 Views
28 Pages

Indoor Environmental Monitoring and Chronic Respiratory Diseases: A Systematic Review

  • Patricia Camacho-Magriñán,
  • Diego Sales-Lerida,
  • Antonio León-Jiménez and
  • Daniel Sanchez-Morillo

Chronic respiratory diseases (CRD), which include Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) and asthma, are significant global health issues, with air quality playing a vital role in exacerbating these conditions. This systematic review explores h...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,890 Views
15 Pages

8 October 2024

In this paper, we explore the benefits of using a magnetostrictive component in a variable reluctance energy harvester. The intrinsic magnetic field bias and the possibility to utilize magnetic force to achieve pre-stress leads to a synergetic combin...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,025 Views
24 Pages

30 December 2021

The Electrically Excited Doubly Salient Variable Reluctance Machine (EEDSVRM) is a new type of brushless machine designed according to the principle of air gap reluctance change. There is neither permanent magnet steel nor excitation winding on the r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
11,513 Views
18 Pages

15 December 2009

The interaction between economic integration and environmental policy has become an important issue in the last few years. Despite the considerable scholarly attention this topic attracted, actual government responses in terms of environmental policy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,099 Views
18 Pages

3 April 2025

In transmission lines, the discharge characteristics of long air gaps significantly influence the design of external insulation. Existing machine learning models for predicting breakdown voltage are typically limited to single gaps and do not account...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,009 Views
30 Pages

15 July 2025

Accurate short-term forecasting of photovoltaic power generation is vital for the operational stability of isolated energy systems, especially in regions with increasing renewable energy penetration. This study presents a novel AI-based forecasting f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,739 Views
17 Pages

19 April 2023

Shale oil and gas production areas are especially active in Texas. The Eagle Ford Shale in south central Texas contributes substantially to US oil and gas production; it has repeatedly been the focus of air quality studies due to its associated emiss...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,148 Views
18 Pages

20 July 2021

Obtaining large-scale, long-term, and spatial continuous soil moisture (SM) data is crucial for climate change, hydrology, and water resource management, etc. ESA CCI SM is such a large-scale and long-term SM (longer than 40 years until now). However...

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