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Aerodynamic shape optimization of porous fences with curved deflectors using surrogate modelling
Wind fences are commonly used to mitigate dust emission from coal stockpiles in an open storage yard. There has substantial progress in the...
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Element Length Calculation for Isogeometric Discretization and Complex Geometries
Flow computations with semi-discrete and space–time (ST) methods have been relying on, as core methods, variational multiscale methods and, more...
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Introduction
Fractional-order (FO) calculus has developed for more than 300 years, but it has not attracted much attention until recent decades. Compared with the...
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Multi-objective optimization of layout with functional constraints
The conventional layout problem is concerned with finding the arrangements of components inside the container to optimize objectives under...
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Smooth Poly-hypar Surface Structures: Freeform Shells Based on Combinations of Hyperbolic Paraboloids
This article presents a new approach to the design of freeform shells: smooth poly-hypar surface structures. As combinations of hyperbolic...
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Designing emergency flood evacuation plans using robust optimization and artificial intelligence
This paper offers a new robust mathematical model for designing an efficient flood evacuation plan in disasters. The mathematical model takes a set...
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Commodities
In this chapter, we outline the basic concepts and instruments related to commodities. For a more detailed introduction.
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Earthquakes—Management of Threats: A Holistic Approach
Seismic risk assessment tools provide reliable information and near-real-time ground-motion and damage estimates in the aftermath of an earthquake....
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Develo** Housing at Sea: A Case for Humanitarian Assistance and Residency Vessels
The ship** industry, and especially, the cruise and ferry sector have experienced substantial blue growth in recent years. This chapter aims to...
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Advanced IGA Mesh Generation and Application to Structural Vibrations
In this chapter, we present a workflow for Isogeometric Analysis (IGA) that incorporates an advanced mesh generation method Otoguro et al. (Comput...
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Analysis of Income and Expenditure of Households in Peninsular Malaysia
Income and expenditure issues in Malaysia had been recently discussed by many researchers as these are the basis of every sustainable economy....
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Distributing Battery Swap** Stations for Electric Scooters in an Urban Area
We investigate the problem of setting up battery swap** stations for electric scooters in an urban area from a computational optimization point of...
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High-dimensional estimation of quadratic variation based on penalized realized variance
In this paper, we develop a penalized realized variance (PRV) estimator of the quadratic variation (QV) of a high-dimensional continuous Itô...
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Analysis of water wave interaction with multiple submerged porous reef balls
This paper investigates the interaction of water waves with a group of submerged porous reef balls, which are hemispheres with centers lying on a...
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Optimizing microgrid deployment for community resilience
The ability to (re)establish basic community infrastructure and governmental functions, such as medical and communication systems, after the...
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From Pallets to Puppies: Using Insights from Logistics to Save Animals
The Kentucky Humane Society (KHS) is a private, nonprofit organization dedicated to saving every healthy, behaviorally sound animal that they take...
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The Dome as Minimal Housing Unit: “Ghibli” and “D-Home” Prototypes
In this paper are presented two domed minimal housing units: Ghibli and D-Home. Both prototypes were outlined from the discretization of a domed...
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A Grammatical Note on Utzon’s Vaults
This paper outlines an analysis of Utzon’s process of ideating vault through the lens of shape grammar, from investigating the eureka moment of the...
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Planktos: An Agent-Based Modeling Framework for Small Organism Movement and Dispersal in a Fluid Environment with Immersed Structures
Multiscale modeling of marine and aerial plankton has traditionally been difficult to address holistically due to the challenge of resolving...
