Abstract: Existing wave energy converters (WECs) are limited by high unit energy costs, narrow bandwidths, and vulnerability to seawater corrosion, making it difficult for wave energy to compete with solar and wind energy. This paper ...

Abstract: Difficulties often arise when we apply the gradient type algorithms employing penalty functions to optimal control problems with variable final time. There is another class of optimal control ...

Abstract: A numerical study is conducted for the Joule heating effects on fluid flow and heat transfer of radiatively participating magnetohydrodynamics (MHD) under different levels of thermal radiation considering the Hall effects ...

Abstract: This article proposes an adaptive fractionalorder fastterminaltype sliding mode control method to solve the trajectory tracking problem of the underwater vehiclemanipulator system in the presence of large dynamic uncertainties ...

Abstract: This article proposes an adaptive fractional-order fast-terminal-type sliding mode control method to solve the trajectory tracking problem of the underwater vehicle-manipulator system in the presence of large dynamic ...

Abstract: In a highly competitive and demanding micro-electronics market, non-destructive testing (NDT) technology has been widely applied to defect detection and evaluation of micro-electronic packaging. However, the trend of ...

Abstract: Thermoelastohydrodynamic (TEHD) mixed lubrication characteristics of a step-combined rod seal under high-pressure and high-speed conditions are analyzed in this article. A novel TEHD mixed lubrication model for combined ...

Abstract: Laboratory experiments were conducted to investigate the run-up of internal solitary waves (ISWs) on steep uniform slopes in a two-layered fluid system with a free surface. A 12 m long wave ...