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Lin Sun, Junchao Li and Haoyu Lin
Earthquakes impact the stability of municipal solid waste (MSW) landfills, especially those with high water levels, and may further lead to disastrous landslides. Numerical analysis offers an efficient and cost-effective way to study the seismic stabilit...
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Weihao Cao, Guangli Cheng, Bao Liu and Yangfan Cai
The current time-domain solution methods for the wavefield equations of a single medium do not apply to the wavefield equations of shallow water seismic with a fluid?elastomer coupling. To solve this problem, based on the explicit central difference meth...
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Ziyou Zhou, Wenfeng Liu, Hailong Huang, Xiaolong Ding and Xintian Li
In this paper, the solar absorption level of PEDOT:PSS/Ge organic and inorganic hybrid solar cells (HSCs) with different parameters of cruciform microstructure (CM) is studied, using the finite-difference time domain (FDTD) method. The light absorption i...
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Miguel Ruiz Cabello, Antonio J. Martín Valverde, Borja Plaza, Malte Frövel, David Poyatos, Amelia R. Bretones, Alberto G. Bravo and Salvador G. García
Efficiently modeling thin features using the finite-difference time-domain (FDTD) method involves a considerable reduction in the spatial mesh size. However, in real-world scenarios, such reductions can lead to unaffordable memory and CPU requirements. I...
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Wenle Gao, Yuming Kou, Tongqing Yan, Hong Sun and Saijiang Li
Blasting demolition plays an important role in building demolition, and numerical-simulation methods can facilitate the optimization of blasting-demolition schemes. To study the influence of the delay-time differences between columns on the blasting and ...
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Sabrina Demarie, Jean Renaud Pycke, Alessia Pizzuti and Veronique Billat
Pacing strategy refers to the distribution of effort and speed throughout the race to achieve optimal performance. This study aims to understand whether the choice of pacing strategy in swimming depends on the length of competitions and how sex, age, and...
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Shihao Wang, Xiangyu Yu, Philip H. Winterfeld and Yu-Shu Wu
Real-time simulation of hydraulic fracturing operations is of critical importance to the field-scale stimulation applications. In this paper, we present an efficient yet reasonably accurate program for the numerical modeling of dynamic fractures. Our pro...
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Jiaqi Dong, Zengzeng Lian, Jingcheng Xu and Zhe Yue
The Ultra-Wideband (UWB) indoor positioning method is widely used in areas where no satellite signals are available. However, during the measurement process of UWB, the collected data contain random errors. To alleviate the effect of random errors on pos...
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Chrisoula Alexandraki, Michael Starakis, Panagiotis Zervas and Rolf Bader
Percussionists use a multitude of objects and materials, mounted on their instruments, to achieve a satisfying sound texture. This is a tedious process as there are no guidelines suggesting how to manipulate a percussion instrument to adjust its perceptu...
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Piotr Górniak
In the paper, the author deals with modeling the stochastic behavior of ordinary patch antennas in terms of the mean and standard deviation of their reflection coefficient |S11| under the geometrical uncertainty associated with their manufacturing proces...
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Katja Stampka and Ennes Sarradj
To model the vibration and structure-borne sound excitation and propagation of a railway rail, it can be modeled as an infinite beam on an elastic foundation. Existing analytical or numerical models are either formulated in the frequency domain or consid...
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Iro Malefaki and Kostas Belibassakis
Biomimetic flapping-foil thrusters can operate efficiently while offering desirable levels of thrust required for the propulsion of a small vessel or an Autonomous Underwater Vehicle (AUV). These systems have been studied both as main propulsion devices ...
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Weili Liu, Jing Zhang, Wei Wei, Tao Qin, Yuanchen Fan, Fei Long and Jing Yang
The technology of wireless sensor networks (WSNs) is developing rapidly, and it has been applied in diverse fields, such as medicine, environmental control, climate prediction, monitoring, etc. Location is one of the critical fields in WSNs. Time differe...
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Alberto Battistel, Peter Paul Pott and Knut Möller
Worldwide, lung cancer is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death. Detected by computer tomography, it is usually removed through thoracoscopic surgery. During the surgery the lung collapses requiring some strategies to track or localize th...
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Ching-Tang Hung, Wei-Yen Chu, Wei-Lun Li, Yen-Hsiang Huang, Wei-Chun Hu and Chi-Fang Chen
In recent years, Taiwan?s government has focused on policies regarding offshore wind farming near the Indo-Pacific humpback dolphin habitat, where marine mammal observation is a critical consideration. The present research developed an algorithm called N...
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Heather Lai and Brian Hamilton
Computer modeling in acoustics allows for the prediction of acoustical defects and the evaluation of potential remediations. In this article, computer modeling is applied to the case of a barrel-vaulted sanctuary whose architectural design and constructi...
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Kihyun Kim, Semyung Wang, Homin Ryu and Sung Q. Lee
This paper proposes a new method to estimate the position of an object and a silent person with a home security system using a loudspeaker and an array of microphones. The conventional acoustic-based security systems have been developed to detect intrude...
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Jieru Chi, Lei Guo, Aurelien Destruel, Yaohui Wang, Chunyi Liu, Mingyan Li, Ewald Weber, Qinghuo Liu, Jie Yang, Xuegang Xin and Feng Liu
Magnetic Resonance-Electrical Properties Tomography (MR-EPT) is a method to reconstruct the electrical properties (EPs) of bio-tissues from the measured radiofrequency (RF) field in Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI). Current MR-EPT approaches reconstruct ...
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Paolo Marzioli, Fabio Santoni and Fabrizio Piergentili
Time Difference of Arrival (TDOA) networks could support spacecraft orbit determination or near-space (launcher and suborbital) vehicle tracking for an increased number of satellite launches and space missions in the near future. The evaluation of the ge...
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Jose Rabadan, Victor Guerra, Carlos Guerra, Julio Rufo and Rafael Perez-Jimenez
In this work, a new Time Difference of Arrival (TDoA) scheme for distance measurement based on Optical Camera Communication (OCC) systems is proposed. It relies on the use of optical pulses instead of radio-frequency signals as the time reference trigger...
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