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Aaron A. Akin, Gia Nguyen and Aleksey Y. Sheshukov
Soil erosion by water on agricultural hillslopes leads to numerous environmental problems including reservoir sedimentation, loss of agricultural land, declines in drinking water quality, and requires deep understanding of underlying physical processes f...
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Bofu Zheng, Dan Wang, Yuxin Chen, Yihui Jiang, Fangqing Hu, Liliang Xu, Jihong Zhang and Jinqi Zhu
Background: Vegetation roots are considered to play an effective role in controlling soil erosion by benefiting soil hydrology and mechanical properties. However, the correlation between soil hydrology and the mechanical features associated with the vari...
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Robert J. Weaver and Abigail L. Stehno
Mangroves offer vital ecological advantages including air and water filtration, coastal and estuarine habitat provision, sediment stabilization, and wave energy dissipation. Their intricate root systems play a key role in safeguarding shorelines from tsu...
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Han Zheng, Shanglin Yang, Yue Yu and Lei Zhang
Mode (de)multiplexer is an essential device in integrated multimode photonic systems. Here, we present a dual-mode (de)multiplexer that separates two input modes, TE0 and TE1, into two output ports while converting TE1 to TE0 mode. Based on the adjoint a...
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Xianghua Chen, Wenxin Chen, Liyuan Zhao and Yekai Chen
The rapid pace of urbanization has led to an increasing frequency of road collapses, posing a significant threat to urban traffic safety. Underground pipeline leakage stands out as the primary cause of such collapses. This paper presents a macroscopic an...
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Haimei Yang, Hongbang Liang, Xingshuang Liu and Mingsi Li
Desert vegetation in the outer transition zone of an arid oasis serves as a protective barrier against wind and sand, safeguarding the oasis ecosystem. However, intensive agricultural water usage within the oasis has led to water depletion, posing a thre...
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Zhimeng Zhao and Qinghe Wang
Preferential flow is the most common form of water loss occurring at the interface between rock and soil (hereinafter referred to as ?rock?soil interface?) in karst areas, and it is also one of the important factors causing soil water leakage into the un...
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Boris Chubarenko, Dmitry Domnin, Franz-Georg Simon, Philipp Scholz, Vladimir Leitsin, Aleksander Tovpinets, Konstantin Karmanov and Elena Esiukova
The most massive design on the Baltic shore used geosynthetic materials, the landslide protection construction in Svetlogorsk (1300 m long, 90,000 m2 area, South-Eastern Baltic, Kaliningrad Oblast, Russian Federation) comprises the geotextile and the ero...
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Tong Wu, Shang Shi, Minghao Ren, Jingwen Wang and Jinyu Dong
Long-term erosion of granite?a type of hard rock?by hydrothermal fluids and tectonic movement can lead to a fragmentation of the internal structure of the original rock, transfer/replacement of mineral elements, and alteration of the rock?s basic propert...
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Lilei Chen, Yue Sun, Chao Wang, Peng Sha, Huijun Jin, Minghao Liu and Anyuan Li
Using high-precision CT scanning equipment, two series of tests on frost and salt weathering were conducted to investigate the characteristics of pore change in tuff. Experiments on frost and salt aging were performed with pieces of tuff from the same ar...
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