Numerical Assessment of the Thermal Performance of Microchannels with Slip and Viscous Dissipation Effects by Pamela Vocale, Gian Luca Morini

“…Microchannels are widely used across various industries, including pharmaceuticals and biochemistry, automotive and aerospace, energy production, and many others, although they were originally developed for the computing and electronics sectors. …”
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Stress Distribution and Mechanical Behaviour of Rock Mass Containing Two Openings Underground: Analytical and Numerical Studies by Lihai Tan, Gaofeng Wang, Ting Ren, Linming Dou, Xiaohan Yang, Shikang Song

“…In addition, large-scale numerical models were further established for the two-opening system by means of the PFC-FLAC coupling method, in which the stress evolution, failure patterns, and acoustic emission (AE) events were presented. …”
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Experimental analysis of streamlines around single and double piers with submerged vanes in a sharp U-shaped flume by Neda Safaripour, Mohammad Vaghefi, Amin Mahmoudi

“…In the scour hole, radial velocities were negative, while tangential and vertical velocities were positive, resulting in the formation of clockwise vortices in these regions.…”
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Dynamic Fracture Criteria Evaluation of Bridge Structural Steel by Antanas Žiliukas, Marius Gintalas

“…Theoretical solutions were confirmed by experimental data obtained from Three-Point Bend tests of rectangular cross section specimens with V form notch. …”
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Quantitative study on weak magnetic detection defects of metal structure based on IWOA-BP algorithm by FAN Meng, TONG Bo, GAO Chen, YAO Zhongyuan, ZHANG Yu, HU Bo

“…In view of the poor effect and low efficiency of BP neural network in parameter adjustment, the improved whale optimization algorithm (IWOA) based on Sine chaotic mapping was adopted to optimize the BP neural network parameter adjustment mode, giving consideration to global optimization while improving the local optimization ability, and then the optimal parameters searched by IWOA were assigned to BP neural network, improving the quality of initial network parameters.The length, width and depth of the artificial rectangular slot were quantified by inversion. …”
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PENENTUAN BENTUK DAN UKURAN PLOT CONTOH OPTIMAL PENGUKURAN KEANEKARAGAMAN SPESIES TUMBUHAN DI HUTAN PEGUNUNGAN BAWAH by M. Adlan Ali, Agus Hikmat, Yanto Santosa

“…The optimal dimensions plot for measurement the plant diversity are rectangular shape with dimensions of length adhering the contour with a size 50x200 m2.…”
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Machine vision-based detection of key traits in shiitake mushroom caps by Jiuxiao Zhao, Jiuxiao Zhao, Wengang Zheng, Wengang Zheng, Yibo Wei, Yibo Wei, Qian Zhao, Qian Zhao, Jing Dong, Jing Dong, Xin Zhang, Xin Zhang, Mingfei Wang, Mingfei Wang

“…After conducting correlation analysis between phenotypic features and shiitake mushroom caps weight, four most correlated phenotypic features were identified: Area, Perimeter, External rectangular width, and Long axis; they were divided into four groups based on their correlation rankings. …”
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Muscle twitch thresholds depending on the direction of current stimulation by Dölker Eva-Maria, Haueisen Jens

“…For the warning patterns, no considerable differences were found regarding the evaluation of alertness, discomfort, and urgency and no differences were found for muscle twitching. …”
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Elastic modulus and flexural strength comparisons of high-impact and traditional denture base acrylic resins by Nour M. Ajaj-ALKordy, Mohannad H. Alsaadi

“…Materials and methods: Rectangular strips of Lucitone 199 and Rodex (10 samples each) were fabricated and stored in artificial saliva at 37 °C for 2 weeks. …”
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PRE-SERVICE TEACHERS’ SYMBOLIC-VISUAL REPRESENTATION SKILLS IN ADDING AND SUBTRACTING FRACTIONS by Arwan Mhd. Said, Purwanto Purwanto, Erry Hidayanto, Rustanto Rahardi

“…The participants consisted of two males and fifteen females. The study data were gathered using a fraction problem-solving test. …”
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Nonlinear analysis of pile raft foundations under eccentric loads by Khalid Qasim Hussein, Dr. Rafi’ M. Sulaiman Al-Ne’aimi

“…The piles in the pile group foundation are modeled as embedded pile elements. Several parameters were investigated through a rigorous parametric study, such as the pile spacing-diameter ratio (s/dpile), the number of piles, and the pile slenderness ratio (l/dpile) in a square pile configuration with all piles of equal length, on the behavior of un-piled and pile raft foundations of rectangular shape in the plan under eccentric load. …”
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Nonlinear Frequency Conversion of Dissipative Soliton Resonance Pulses Using the Second Harmonic Generation Effect by Piotr Bojes, Piotr Jaworski, Karol Krzempek

“…Periodically poled lithium niobate crystals with appropriate periods were used as the nonlinear medium. Dissipative soliton resonance pulses with central wavelengths of 532 nm and 780 nm and pulse energies of 0.15 μJ and 0.02 μJ were generated as the result of the second harmonic generation effects. …”
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RESEARCH ON FREE VIBRATION CHARACTERISTICS OF THIN PLATE STRUCTURES BASED ON IMPROVED FOURIER SERIES by WU Baoning, LIU Fang, DONG Rong, NIE Shaoqing, LIU Yafei

“…Finally, the classical boundary conditions and elastic boundary conditions were used as examples to calculate and analyze. The calculation efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method were verified by comparison with the results of finite element simulation and existing literature. …”
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Electric and mechanical properties of Pb(Fe$_{0.5}$Nb$_{0.5}$)O$_{3}$ ferroelectric ceramics by Radosław Zachariasz, Jan Ilczuk

“…PFN powders were dried and formed in samples in shape of discs (10$\times$1) mm$^3$ and rectangular bars (26$\times$10$\times$1) mm$^3$. …”
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Mechanical Performance Investigation of a Flat-Roof and Four-Slope Folded Plate Structure by Yan Yang, Meng Zhan, Yanfei Huang

“…Then, the static load tests and ANSYS finite element analysis were implemented, and the results were compared. …”
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Three-Dimensionally Printed Resonator with Piezoelectric Actuation and Machine Learning Calibration for In-Line Density–Viscosity Sensing by Víctor Corsino, Víctor Ruiz-Díez, Mario Ramírez-Palma, Javier Toledo, José Manuel Gilpérez, José Luis Sánchez-Rojas

“…Three-dimensionally printed cuboid-shaped flow cells featuring a rectangular vibrating plate in one of the sides, actuated by PZT piezoelectric films, were designed, fabricated, and tested. …”
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Impact of nonlocal electron heat transport on ablative hydrodynamic instability growth seeded by localized perturbations by Jun Li, Zhu Lei, Zhiyuan Li, Rui Yan, Bin Zhao, Yunxing Liu, Chuang Xue, Zhu Chen, Jiwei Li, Junfeng Wu, Lifeng Wang, Shiyang Zou

“…Direct-drive, planar target ablative hydrodynamic instability growth simulations were performed to study the evolution of localized perturbations at peak drive intensities of ignition designs. …”
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PSWF signal based continuous phase modulation and its spectrum performance analysis by Dawei YANG, Chuanhui LIU, Jiafang KANG

“…Prolate spheroidal wave function (PSWF) signals are the best energy-gathering signals in the time-frequency domain,here is an exploratory application of PSWF signals to continuous phase modulation technology.Firstly,the process of generating CPM modulated signals based on PSWF signals was described.Secondly,a calculation method for the power spectral density of CPM modulated signals based on PSWF using the autocorrelation function method was given.Finally,combined with numerical calculation and analysis,the power spectral density and signal occupied bandwidth characteristics of minimum frequency shift keying,sinusoidal frequency shift keying,Gaussian filtered minimum shift keying and CPM modulation signal based on Gaussian function were compared.Numerical calculation results show that the PSWF signal can obtain CPM modulation signal with better spectral performance and energy concentration,compared with rectangular pulse,raised cosine pulse,Gaussian pulse and Gauss-like pulse as the baseband frequency modulation signal of CPM.…”
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Method for extracting light stripes of wheel profiles from consecutive frames in complex background by LEI Yongwei, LEI Lei, SONG Dongli, LIN Hanxiao

“…By setting filter conditions for rectangular areas, light stripe zones were quickly segmented within complex backgrounds, eliminating the need to repeatedly input threshold parameters, thus enhancing the algorithm’s adaptability and reliability. …”
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HEAT EXCHANGE AND AERODYNAMICS OF THE COMBINED TUBING BUNDLES WITH CROSS INCLINED FINS by Knyazyuk V. I, Lagutin A. E., Stoyanov P. F.

“…The impact of tubes arrangement in a bundle on energy performance of heat exchanger were analyzed using complete and local heat modeling methods at a stationary heat flux. …”
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