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13 Citations
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15 December 2021

In order to improve the operating and regulation characteristics of the hydropower unit and to stabilize the load fluctuations, variable-speed pumped storage technology based on converters has been proposed and given more attention recently. However,...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,954 Views
20 Pages

9 March 2024

The benefits of variable speed centrifugal pumps include high stability, a broad operating range, and adjustable input power. In water distribution systems, the pump units are increasingly using variable speed technology. The energy-saving features a...

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  • Open Access
40 Citations
11,188 Views
20 Pages

The Benefits of Variable Speed Operation in Hydropower Plants Driven by Francis Turbines

  • Edson Bortoni,
  • Zulcy de Souza,
  • Augusto Viana,
  • Helcio Villa-Nova,
  • Ângelo Rezek,
  • Luciano Pinto,
  • Roberto Siniscalchi,
  • Rafael Bragança and
  • José Bernardes

29 September 2019

Climate change and environmental degradation has resulted in a reduction in water inflow at hydropower plants, as well as a decrease in reservoir levels. Existing hydropower plants suffer from water head reduction, mainly with decrease in efficiency...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,531 Views
16 Pages

18 June 2021

The river ecosystem has the characteristics of the coexistence of clarity and ambiguity. The starting point of eco-friendly reservoir operation is to fully consider the ecological water requirements of the lower reaches of the reservoir, so it also h...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
2,677 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of the Wind System Operation in the Optimal Energetic Area at Variable Wind Speed over Time

  • Ciprian Sorandaru,
  • Sorin Musuroi,
  • Flaviu Mihai Frigura-Iliasa,
  • Doru Vatau and
  • Marian Dordescu

27 February 2019

Due to high mechanical inertia and rapid variations in wind speed over time, at variable wind speeds, the problem of operation in the optimal energetic area becomes complex and in due time it is not always solvable. No work has been found that analyz...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,569 Views
19 Pages

5 June 2023

The stable operation of a variable frequency pump is of great importance to the management of a water supply project. Analyzing the operation performance based on monitoring data is necessary for maintaining the stable operation of a variable frequen...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,135 Views
14 Pages

12 October 2023

A large amount of energy would be consumed for open-channel water transfer projects due to the low efficiency of pumping stations. One measure to improve the efficiency of a pumping station is to install variable-frequency drives (VFDs). In this pape...

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558 Views
27 Pages

16 December 2025

The integration of Reverse Osmosis (RO) desalination with Renewable Energy (RE) sources offers a sustainable approach to freshwater production, particularly in remote and off-grid regions. However, the variable and intermittent output of RE power can...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,518 Views
19 Pages

14 December 2022

Surge is a phenomenon that limits the operating range of the compressor at low engine speeds and high boost pressure in turbocharged powertrains. This article assesses two prototype turbochargers of variable geometry orifice (VGO) which compensate fo...

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  • Open Access
28 Citations
4,570 Views
15 Pages

26 July 2018

A linguistic cubic variable (LCV) is comprised of interval linguistic variable and single-valued linguistic variable. An LCV contains decision-makers’ uncertain and certain linguistic judgments simultaneously. The advantage of the Dombi operato...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
876 Views
41 Pages

24 July 2025

We develop novel extensions in the theory of weighted Lorentz spaces. In particular, we generalize classical results by introducing variable-exponent Lorentz spaces, establish sharp constants and quantitative bounds for maximal operators, and extend...

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  • Open Access
299 Views
24 Pages

14 December 2025

Flexible grid regulation necessitates Francis turbines to operate at heads of 120–180 m (compared to the rated head of 154.6 m), breaking the designed rotational symmetry and inducing hydraulic instabilities that threaten structural integrity a...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,323 Views
12 Pages

22 November 2021

In this paper, we establish the boundedness of the Calderón operator on local Morrey spaces with variable exponents. We obtain our result by extending the extrapolation theory of Rubio de Francia to the local Morrey spaces with variable expone...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,662 Views
16 Pages

19 September 2019

The conventional microgrid (MG) price-based operation scheme with respect to the hourly market price considers only profit maximization from energy transactions and disregards variability. This causes flexibility burdens on the main grid system opera...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,336 Views
17 Pages

Boundedness of Bessel–Riesz Operator in Variable Lebesgue Measure Spaces

  • Muhammad Nasir,
  • Ali Raza,
  • Luminiţa-Ioana Cotîrlă and
  • Daniel Breaz

26 January 2025

In this manuscript, we establish the boundedness of the Bessel–Riesz operator Iα,γf in variable Lebesgue spaces Lp(·). We prove that Iα,γf is bounded from Lp(·) to Lp(·) and from Lp(·) to Lq(&...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
649 Views
16 Pages

Bessel–Riesz Operator in Variable Lebesgue Spaces Lp(·)(R+)

  • Muhammad Nasir,
  • Fehaid Salem Alshammari and
  • Ali Raza

30 May 2025

This paper investigates the Bessel–Riesz operator within the framework of variable Lebesgue spaces. We extend existing results by establishing boundedness under more general conditions. The analysis is based on the Hardy–Littlewood maxima...

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  • Open Access
24 Citations
5,435 Views
20 Pages

26 November 2020

In recent times, much attention has been paid to small hydropower plants (SHPs) with variable speed operation and different control techniques. Control complexity in SHPs is mainly caused by specific steady-state features of the water turbine, the lo...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
782 Views
23 Pages

2 November 2025

Maritime ferries increasingly operate under non-stationary hydro–meteorological conditions that complicate cost planning. This study investigates how short-term weather variability affects expenditures for a ferry on the Gdynia–Karlskrona...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,375 Views
19 Pages

24 May 2023

In this paper, we propose a parameterized variable metric three-operator algorithm for finding a zero of the sum of three monotone operators in a real Hilbert space. Under some appropriate conditions, we prove the strong convergence of the proposed a...

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  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,053 Views
13 Pages

Integral equations and inequalities have an important place in time scales and harmonic analysis. The norm of integral operators is one of the important study topics in harmonic analysis. Using the norms in different variable exponent spaces, the bou...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,397 Views
23 Pages

17 November 2021

High computation complexity restricts the application prospects of the interval type-2 fuzzy variable (IT2-FV), despite its high degree of freedom in representing uncertainty. Thus, this paper studies the fuzzy operations for the regular symmetric tr...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,255 Views
19 Pages

25 March 2024

In the present study, we use several identities from the q-calculus to define the concept of q-Hermite polynomials with three variables and present their associated formalism. Many properties and new results of q-Hermite polynomials of three variable...

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737 Views
34 Pages

In this article, we investigate the regularization and qualitative properties of parabolic Ginzburg–Landau equations in variable exponent Herz spaces. These spaces capture both local and global behavior, providing a natural framework for our an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,074 Views
23 Pages

15 May 2023

In industrial production, the effective and reliable performance of hydraulic systems is closely associated with product quality, personal safety, economic efficiency, etc. It is of utmost significance to perform the health status evaluation of syste...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,123 Views
14 Pages

In this paper, we investigate properties of solutions to a space-time fractional variable-order conformable nonlinear differential equation with a generalized tempered fractional Laplace operatorby using the maximum principle. We first establish some...

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  • Open Access
738 Views
11 Pages

Evaluation of Operator Variability and Validation of an AI-Assisted α-Angle Measurement System for DDH Using a Phantom Model

  • Yusuke Ohashi,
  • Tomohiro Shimizu,
  • Hidenori Koyano,
  • Yumejiro Nakamura,
  • Daisuke Takahashi,
  • Katsuhisa Yamada and
  • Norimasa Iwasaki

Ultrasound examination using the Graf method is widely applied for early detection of developmental dysplasia of the hip (DDH), but intra- and inter-operator variability remains a limitation. This study aimed to quantify operator variability in hip u...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,156 Views
26 Pages

18 July 2021

The underground coal gasification (UCG) represents an effective coal mining technology, where coal is transformed into syngas underground. Extracted syngas is cleaned and processed for energy production. Various gasification agents can be injected in...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,567 Views
18 Pages

In this paper, we prove the existence of at least two weak solutions to a class of singular two-phase problems with variable exponents involving a ψ-Hilfer fractional operator and Dirichlet-type boundary conditions when the term source is depende...

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  • Open Access
26 Citations
4,073 Views
24 Pages

4 March 2022

Vibration analysis is an established method for fault detection and diagnosis of rolling element bearings. However, it is an expert oriented exercise. To relieve the experts, the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques such as deep neural netw...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,398 Views
21 Pages

29 September 2024

In response to the challenges of bearing fault diagnosis under small sample sizes and variable operating conditions, this paper proposes a novel method based on the two-dimensional analysis of vibration acceleration signals and a Multi-Task Condition...

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  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,410 Views
8 Pages

A vehicle adaptive cruise system can control the speed and the safe distance between vehicles rapidly and effectively, which is an integral part of an intelligent driver assistance system. Adaptive cruise predictive control algorithms based on variab...

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623 Views
28 Pages

Effect of Different Configurations on Operating Characteristics of Rear Variable Area Bypass Injector for Adaptive Cycle Engine

  • Weitao Liu,
  • Wangzhi Zou,
  • Baotong Wang,
  • Weihan Kong,
  • Jun Lai,
  • Lei Jin and
  • Xinqian Zheng

14 October 2025

The adaptive cycle engine (ACE) can modulate thermal cycle characteristics by adjusting variable geometry components, enabling rational distribution of bypass flow rates. As a key component of the ACE, the rear variable area bypass injector (RVABI) s...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
2,749 Views
11 Pages

Heart Rate Variability and Its Associations with Organ Complications in Adults after Fontan Operation

  • Magdalena Okólska,
  • Jacek Łach,
  • Paweł T. Matusik,
  • Jacek Pająk,
  • Tomasz Mroczek,
  • Piotr Podolec and
  • Lidia Tomkiewicz-Pająk

29 September 2021

Reduction of heart rate variability (HRV) parameters may be a risk factor and precede the occurrence of arrhythmias or the development of heart failure and complications in people with postinfarct left ventricular dysfunction and after coronary arter...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
755 Views
18 Pages

5 June 2025

The sensorless control of doubly fed induction machine (DFIM) rotor magnetic flux based on a model reference adaptive system (MRAS) is proposed to improve the reliability of a large-scale variable-speed pumped storage (VSPS) system and reduce operati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,916 Views
17 Pages

The variable speed pumped storage unit with a full-size converter (FSC-VSPSU) can provide fast and flexible regulation capacity for the power grid, assisting the rapid development of the new energy-dominated power systems, and its application is grad...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,853 Views
21 Pages

11 October 2017

Condition monitoring (CM) is used to assess the health status of wind turbines (WT) by detecting turbine failure and predicting maintenance needs. However, fluctuating operating conditions cause variations in monitored features, therefore increasing...

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  • Open Access
2,552 Views
13 Pages

F-Operators for the Construction of Closed Form Solutions to Linear Homogenous PDEs with Variable Coefficients

  • Zenonas Navickas,
  • Tadas Telksnys,
  • Romas Marcinkevicius,
  • Maosen Cao and
  • Minvydas Ragulskis

21 April 2021

A computational framework for the construction of solutions to linear homogenous partial differential equations (PDEs) with variable coefficients is developed in this paper. The considered class of PDEs reads: ∂p∂t−∑j=0m∑r=0njajrtxr∂jp∂xj=0 F-operato...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
875 Views
23 Pages

WaveCORAL-DCCA: A Scalable Solution for Rotor Fault Diagnosis Across Operational Variabilities

  • Nima Rezazadeh,
  • Mario De Oliveira,
  • Giuseppe Lamanna,
  • Donato Perfetto and
  • Alessandro De Luca

This paper presents WaveCORAL-DCCA, an unsupervised domain adaptation (UDA) framework specifically developed to address data distribution shifts and operational variabilities (OVs) in rotor fault diagnosis. The framework introduces the novel integrat...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,133 Views
19 Pages

Adaptive Neuro-Fuzzy Optimization of Reservoir Operations Under Climate Variability in the Chao Phraya River Basin

  • Luksanaree Maneechot,
  • Jackson Hian-Wui Chang,
  • Kai He,
  • Maochuan Hu,
  • Wan Abd Al Qadr Imad Wan-Mohtar,
  • Zul Ilham,
  • Carlos García Castro and
  • Yong Jie Wong

9 June 2025

Reservoir operations play a pivotal role in shaping the flow regime of the Chao Phraya River Basin (CPRB), where two major reservoirs exert substantial hydrological influence. Despite ongoing efforts to manage water resources effectively, current ope...

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  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,705 Views
18 Pages

Wind Turbines Optimal Operation at Time Variable Wind Speeds

  • Mihaela-Codruta Ancuti,
  • Sorin Musuroi,
  • Ciprian Sorandaru,
  • Marian Dordescu and
  • Geza Mihai Erdodi

20 June 2020

The wind turbine’s operation is affected by the wind speed variations, which cannot be followed by the wind turbine due to the large moment of the power plant’s inertia. The method proposed in this paper belongs to the wind turbine power...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
3,456 Views
16 Pages

Penetration of variable energy resource (VER) is limited by voltage constraints in distribution systems. Hence, distributed energy storage systems (ESS) have been considered to be a promising solution owing to their fast and flexible control capabili...

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3 Citations
2,215 Views
14 Pages

Influences of a Variety of Reinforcements on the Durability of Reinforced Bitumen Sheets Operating at Variable Temperatures

  • Barbara Francke,
  • Anna Szymczak-Graczyk,
  • Barbara Ksit,
  • Jarosław Szulc and
  • Jan Sieczkowski

24 April 2023

This manuscript provides an overview of the most commonly-produced bitumen roofing sheets, focusing on the types of reinforcements used for their production and the reinforcements’ effects on the durability of tensile mechanical properties of r...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
5,169 Views
15 Pages

Decision Support for the Design and Operation of Variable Speed Pumps in Water Supply Systems

  • Dimitri Nowak,
  • Helene Krieg,
  • Michael Bortz,
  • Christian Geil,
  • Axel Knapp,
  • Harald Roclawski and
  • Martin Böhle

5 June 2018

The design and operation of water supply systems is a multicriteria task; the energy efficiency should be minimized while, at the same time, respecting technical requirements, such as the balanced operation of available pumps. On one hand, the overal...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,546 Views
18 Pages

15 October 2019

As the global energy trend continues, the importance of energy savings and efficient use is being emphasized, and the installation and operation of geothermal heat pump systems is increasing. In many buildings, where an actual geothermal heat pump sy...

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  • Open Access
4,968 Views
29 Pages

8 September 2020

Commonly, when studies deal with the effects of climate change on biodiversity, mean value is used more than other parameters. However, climate change also leads to greater temperature variability, and many papers have demonstrated its importance in...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
1,577 Views
15 Pages

6 August 2024

When the electric locomotive pantograph is dropping, the interruption of pantograph catenary contact causes electromagnetic oscillation and arcing. The frequent arc burning that occurs due to charge accumulation results in the amplitude of overvoltag...

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3 Citations
2,012 Views
16 Pages

This paper proposes a variable-power-tracking-operation-based frequency regulation scheme for a wind turbine generator (WTG) that employs a frequency-excursion-based control parameter to suppress frequency excursion under various wind speeds and dist...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,300 Views
18 Pages

27 August 2021

The maximization of output from variable renewable energy (VRE) sources considering system operational constraints (SOCs) is a traditional method for maximizing VRE generators’ profits. However, in wholesale electricity markets, VRE participation ten...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
11,228 Views
17 Pages

11 October 2013

This work describes how the design and operation parameters of the Multi-Stage Flash (MSF) desalination process are optimised when the process is subject to variation in seawater temperature, fouling and freshwater demand throughout the day. A simple...

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  • Open Access
11 Citations
4,583 Views
13 Pages

19 March 2019

Resilient water distribution systems (WDSs) need to minimize the level of service failure in terms of magnitude and duration over its design life when subject to exceptional conditions. This requires WDS design to consider scenarios as close as possi...

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