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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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Yujing Jiang, Baocheng Li, Changsheng Wang, Hengjie Luan, Sunhao Zhang, Qinglin Shan and Xianzhen Cheng
To study the shear deformation and failure characteristics of a wellbore and the interaction mechanism with its surrounding rocks induced by a layer slip during natural gas hydrates (NGHs) extraction, this paper conducted a numerical simulation study of ...
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Jiang Wang, Kai Hu, Kechen Tang, Yubing Xing, Yani Xiao, Yutian Liu, Yonggao Yan and Dongwang Yang
Air conditioning has become a necessity in people?s daily life. The performance of the compressor determines the energy efficiency ratio of this electrical equipment, but the heat generated during the operation of its internal core power components will ...
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Jianian He, Yicheng Li, Shuhong Lin, Xian Dong and Shizhe Chen
Two types of lateral resistance structural systems, namely unstiffened steel plate shear walls (USPSWs) and stiffened steel plate shear walls (SSPSWs), are typically used in high-rise structures. Numerous experimental and numerical studies have been cond...
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Dalia Sabina Cimpean
The unavailability of energy has become a major challenge to industry in the last years, as an important percentage of the generated energy is dissipated as heat in transport. Since heat transfer processes are irreversible, the role of entropy generation...
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Tatjana Kokina and Frederic Dias
The main goal of the paper is to compare the effects of the wave spectrum, computed using the Discrete Interaction Approximation (DIA) and the Webb?Resio?Tracy (WRT) methods, on statistical wave properties such as skewness and kurtosis in the context of ...
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R. William Nelson and Gustavious P. Williams
We apply minimum kinetic energy principles from classic mechanics to heterogeneous porous media flow equations to derive and evaluate rotational flow components to determine bounding homogenous representations. Kelvin characterized irrotational motions i...
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Zhanzhong Yin, Zhaosheng Huang, Hui Zhang and Dazhe Feng
In the current design method of the eccentrically braced frame structure, the energy dissipation link and the frame beam are both designed as a whole. It is difficult to accurately assess the degree of damage through this method, and it is also hard to r...
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Ishwar Joshi, Wenhong Dai, Ahmed Bilal, Akhanda Raj Upreti and Ziming He
Regime channels are important for stable canal design and to determine river response to environmental changes, e.g., due to the construction of a dam, land use change, and climate shifts. A plethora of methods is available describing the hydraulic geome...
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Mahdi Abkar
A large-eddy simulation (LES) study of vertical-axis wind turbine wakes under uniform inflow conditions is performed. Emphasis is placed on exploring the effects of subgrid-scale (SGS) modeling on turbine loading as well as on the formation and developme...
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