Academic Articles & Research Papers

Scalable micro/nanostructured superhydrophobic surface modifications for enhanced energy efficiency and heat transfer performance in stainless steel and titanium

Condensation refers to the change of a substance from a gaseous phase to a liquid phase, an example of which is the condensation of water vapor in nature. Condensation is used in many industries, such as energy generation and seawater desal...

Analysis of factors affecting energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Thailand's road passenger transport

The transport sector is one of the important contributors of increasing energy consumption and CO2 emissions in Thailand. Due to rapid development of transport infrastructure and technologies, patterns of energy consumption in this sector, ...

Fuzzy Constrained Predictive Optimal Control of High Speed Train with Actuator Dynamics

We investigate the problem of fuzzy constrained predictive optimal control of high speed train considering the effect of actuator dynamics. The dynamics feature of the high speed train is modeled as a cascade of cars connected by flexible c...

Implementing an Adaptive Thrust Distribution Algorithm on the Robust Control System for Serial Split-Hull Underwater Vehicles

This paper discusses designing and implementing an adaptive thrust distribution algorithm on the already robust control system for serial split-hull underwater vehicles to maximise operational efficiency. Split-hull underwater vehicles are ...

REDUCING CLIMATE IMPACTS ON WATER RESOURCES AS THE LEGAL AND ECONOMIC BASIS FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SECURITY IN THE EU CANDIDATE COUNTRIES: THE CASE OF UKRAINE

As climate change is one of the greatest challenges of our time, the legal and economic issues of global environmental security deserve high praise. In the area of industrial competitiveness, where the negative effects of global climate cha...

A Novel Networking Scheme for Hierachical Heterogenous Cellular Network Based on the Phantom Cell Architecture

The deployment of hierarchical heterogeneous cellular network（HCN）using overlapping small cells is identified as one of the major components in solving future cellular capacity and energy efficiency problems. An enhanced networking scheme f...

Performance Analysis of a Combined Solar-Assisted Heat Pump Heating System in Xi’an, China

This study proposed a combined solar-assisted heat pump (SAHP) system that could operate in the serial mode or parallel mode. For this proposed system, a stable year-round operation could be achieved without the assistance of electric heati...

Study of the Architecture of a Smart City

In recent years, we are experiencing a digital revolution in many contexts, the digitalization of industry (Industry 4.0), the digitalization of public administrations, the digitalization of people and things (Internet of Things) and, of co...

A Comparison of Energy Consumption and Quality of Solutions in Evolutionary Algorithms

Evolutionary algorithms are extensively used to solve optimisation problems. However, it is important to consider and reduce their energy consumption, bearing in mind that programming languages also significantly affect energy efficiency. T...

Collisions and particle dynamics around black holes surrounded by PFDM in STVG

Abstract Testing dark matter effects on gravity around black holes in the framework of gravity theories through observational data is an essential task of relativistic astrophysical studies. In this work, we first obtain a new spacetime sol...

Cascaded Dual-Observer-Based Decoupled Estimation of Mass and Track Gradient for Permanent-Magnet-Driven Electric Monorail Cranes

Precise data regarding the overall mass of the machinery and the gradient of the track are crucial for optimizing the control of monorail cranes and enhancing energy efficiency. Within the context of electric monorail cranes (EMCs), accurat...

Photonic Neural Networks: A Survey

Photonic solutions are today a mature industrial reality concerning high speed, high throughput data communication and switching infrastructures. It is still a matter of investigation to what extent photonics will play a role in next-genera...

An Energy Efficient Distance-Aware Routing Algorithm with Multiple Mobile Sinks for Wireless Sensor Networks

Traffic patterns in wireless sensor networks (WSNs) usually follow a many-to-one model. Sensor nodes close to static sinks will deplete their limited energy more rapidly than other sensors, since they will have more data to forward during m...

IEEE Access Special Section Editorial: Toward Service-Centric Internet of Things (IoT): From Modeling to Practice

The Internet of Things (IoT) refers to an emerging paradigm to seamlessly and ubiquitously integrate a large number of smart things with intra/inter links to the physical and cyber worlds. Sensor-enabled communication technologies connect b...

Overview of Tensor-Based Cooperative MIMO Communication Systems—Part 1: Tensor Modeling

Due to increasingly strong and varied performance requirements, cooperative wireless communication systems today occupy a prominent place in both academic research and industrial development. The technological and economic challenges for fu...

Building integrated renewable energy

About one-third of the primary energy in the world is consumed by buildings. A large amount of CO 2 emission due to building energy consumption has threatened the sustainable development of the world. Improvement on the building energy perf...

Life cycle assessment of a renewable energy generation system with a vanadium redox flow battery in a NZEB household

Buildings are responsible for a significant part of the global energy consumption. Besides the need to improve their energy efficiency, new buildings also need to generate their own energy, preferably from renewable sources, to become more ...

The Economics of Renewable Energy

Greater use of renewable energy is seen as a key component of any move to combat climate change, and is being aggressively promoted as such by the new U.S. administration and by other governments.Yet there is little economic analysis of ren...

Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy

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