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Gang Xue, Jian Qin, Zhenquan Zhang, Shuting Huang and Yanjun Liu
To obtain the optimal mooring mode and the best-matching wave condition of an eccentric rotor wave energy converter (ERWEC), a physical model of the ERWEC was developed. Ten mooring modes and eight wave conditions were set up. Several experiments were ca...
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Yu-Jeong Lee, Sang-Hee Kim, Ji-Hye Ryu and Kweon-Hyoung Lee
The world is emphasizing the need for building design that considers energy performance to deal with climate problems. South Korea has constantly been tightening the design standards for saving building energy but with a focus on thermal performance and ...
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Yufan He, Can Luo, Li Cheng, Yandong Gu and Bin Gu
The shaft-type tubular pumping station has the remarkable characteristics of a large flow rate and high efficiency. It can realize the functions of irrigation, pumping, and drainage through pumping and generating conditions considering tides. Moreover, i...
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Kunda Chamatete and Çaglar Yalçinkaya
Three-dimensional concrete printing (3DCP) is of great interest to scientists and the construction industry to bring automation to structural engineering applications. However, studies on the thermal performance of three-dimensional printed concrete (3DP...
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Davinder Malhotra and Srinivas Nippani
This study investigates the risk-adjusted performance of energy equity mutual funds across a 23-year period, employing the Cumulative Wealth Index (CWI) to gauge their long-term performance relative to benchmark indices. Despite inherent volatility due t...
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Alexey Lastovetsky and Ravi Reddy Manumachu
The energy consumption of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) presents a new grand technological challenge. The two main approaches to tackle the challenge include the development of energy-efficient hardware and software. The development of ...
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Muhammad Waqas Zaffar, Ishtiaq Haasan and Abdul Razzaq Ghumman
The present study investigated the performance of three different stilling basins, i.e., modified United State Bureau of Reclamation (USBR) Type III, USBR Type II, and wedge-shaped baffle blocks (WSBB), using FLOW-3D scour models. Field data of the river...
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Vidhya Maney Surendran, Chandramathy Irulappan, Vijayalaxmi Jeyasingh and Velraj Ramalingam
This study aims to propose building envelope retrofit packages for existing naturally ventilated school buildings in the hot?humid climatic region of Chennai, India. Indoor thermal parameters were collected through field studies from nine sample classroo...
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Siliang Yang, Francesco Fiorito, Alistair Sproul and Deo Prasad
Energy used in buildings is mainly attributed to provide the desired thermal comfort, which could result in an increase in carbon emission and, in turn, lead to further environmental degradation. A Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Double-Skin Façade (BIP...
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Cheng Lin and Yunting Lin
Recently, metaheuristic algorithms have been recognized as applicable techniques for solving various computational complexities in energy problems. In this work, a powerful metaheuristic technique called the water cycle algorithm (WCA) is assessed for an...
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Madison Likins-White, Robert C. Tenent and Zhiqiang (John) Zhai
Insulating glass unit (IGU) degradation has been studied extensively. However, there is limited understanding of how present durability evaluation standards relate to product lifetime. Furthermore, there is debate on how to quantify performance of instal...
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Svetlana Pushkar
The Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design for Existing Buildings (LEED-EB) version 3 (v3) and version 4 (v4) gold-certified office space certification strategies in Spain have not yet been studied. The two purposes of this study were to evaluate ...
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Yibing Xue and Wenhan Liu
Atriums play an irreplaceable role within the plan of modern commercial buildings. However, the presence of skylights makes the atrium suffer from unfavorable conditions such as overheating, high energy consumption, and glare, which can be partially redu...
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Jan Kosny, Jay Thakkar, Tlegen Kamidollayev, Margaret J. Sobkowicz, Juan Pablo Trelles, Cordula Schmid, Sampson Phan, Saibhargav Annavajjala and Peter Horwath
PCMs are attractive for the future generation of buildings, where energy efficiency targets and thermal comfort expectations are increasingly prioritized. Experimental analysis of local thermal processes in these dynamic components and whole-building ene...
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Pengxuan Wang, Yixi Wang, Weijun Gao, Tongyu Xu, Xindong Wei, Chunyan Shi, Zishu Qi and Li Bai
In cold regions, due o the impact of climatic conditions, the heat load in winter and the cooling load in summer are unbalanced. In the long-term operation of the ground-source heat pump (GSHP), the soil heat imbalance phenomenon has still not been succe...
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Yi Wang, Bin Guo, Fengmei Jing and Yunlei Mei
In order to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the influence of winglets on the hydrodynamic performance and flow field characteristics of tidal current energy turbines, two different shapes of winglets are designed, and numerical simulation resu...
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Giuseppe Santarsiero, Antonio D?Angola, Giuseppe Ventura, Angelo Masi, Vincenzo Manfredi, Valentina Picciano and Andrea Digrisolo
There are many existing buildings for which seismic rehabilitation interventions are required, especially in earthquake-prone areas like Italy. At the same time, the deep energy crisis that Europe is facing highlights the need for sustainable techniques ...
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Lingbo Nan, Yumeng Wang, Diyi Chen, Weining Huang, Zuchao Zhu and Fusheng Liu
Traditional centrifugal pump performance prediction (CPPP) employs the semi-theoretical and semi-empirical approaches; however, it can lead to many prediction errors. Considering the superiority of deep learning when applied to nonlinear systems, in this...
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Amany Khalil, Anas M. Hosney Lila and Nouran Ashraf
The climate change crisis has resulted in the need to use sustainable methods in architectural design, including building form and orientation decisions that can save a significant amount of energy consumed by a building. Several previous studies have op...
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Alexandre F. Santos, Pedro D. Gaspar, Heraldo J. L. de Souza, João M. L. P. Caldeira and Vasco N. G. J. Soares
This study discusses the choice of dehumidification systems for high-moisture indoor environments, such as indoor swimming pools, supported by an eco-energetic performance comparison. Initially, the causes of the high relative humidity and condensation i...
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