3-Dimensional CFD simulation and experimental analysis on performance of a new diffuser and wind channel for a micro wind turbine by Darvishi, Zeinab, Najafi, Gholamhassan, Ghobadian, Barat, Nor Azwadi, Che Sidik, Rizalman, Mamat, Mohd Fairusham, Ghazali, Hoseini, Seyed Salar

“…As a result of numerical analysis and experimental investigation, by using the new diffuser and the new fabricated wind channel, the wind velocity between blades of the microturbine is 4.5 times more than the inlet velocity of the wind channel.…”
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Investigation on the mechanical and water absorption properties of eco-friendly bricks produced from waste polypropylene (PP) Bumper by Ong, Hueiruey, Wan Mohd Eqhwan, Iskandar, Mohamad Abid, Yunos, Muhammad Faiz, Mohd Zaki, Khan, Md Maksudur Rahman, Hong, Chi Shein, Mohd Syahiful Adlan, Maarof, Nora Fandy, Ismail

“…In particular, the plastic bricks with minimal inclusion of 5 % bitumen exhibited the highest compressive strength of 8.532 MPa and flexural strength of 1.287 MPa while maintaining low water absorption of 0.04 %. …”
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Effect of Zn nanoparticle-doped flux on mechanical properties of SAC305 solder joint after electromigration by Bashir, Muhammad Nasir, Khan, Niaz Bahadur, Bashir, Shahid, Khan, Abdul Faheem, Quazi, Moinuddin Mohammed, Gul, Mustabshirha, Wakeel, Saif, Hafiz Muhammad, Saad

“…The electromigration test was conducted in the silicon oil bath at a maintained temperature of 80 ± 5 °C. Tensile test was conducted before and after electromigration tests for undoped and Zn nanoparticle-doped solder joints. …”
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Effect of porous density of twisted tape inserts on heat transfer performance inside a closed conduit by Rahman, Md Tauhidur, Habib, Khairul, Quader, Md Niamul, Aslfattahi, Navid, Kadirgama, Kumaran, Das, Likhan

“…The assessment of PEC emphasizes the superiority of high porosity TTI, demonstrating their significant performance increase potential of over 6.44 % over low porosity TTI and a staggering 62.5 % above typical TTI. In conclusion, high porosity TTI emerges as a potential solution for improving heat transfer efficiency and overall system performance in a variety of industrial applications, promising enhanced energy efficiency and superior performance.…”
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Effect of graphene addition on microstructure and mechanical properties of cast aluminium alloy composite by Mohammad Na’aim, Abd Rahim, Mohd Shukor, Salleh, Saifudin Hafiz, Yahaya, Subramonian, Sivarao, Liew, Pay Jun, Azrin Hani, Abdul Rashid, Syarifah Nur Aqida, Syed Ahmad, Al-Zubaidi, Salah Salman

“…A Taguchi method with two parameters and four levels was used to determine the optimum amounts of graphene nanoplatelets (GNPs) (0.1, 0.25, 0.5, and 0.6 wt%) and stirring duration (1, 2, 4, and 8 minutes). …”
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Enhancing solar photovoltaic efficiency: A computational fluid dynamics analysis by Rai, Rahool, Mangi, Fareed Hussain, Ahmed, Kashif, Sudhakar, Kumarasamy

“…The CFD analysis revealed that the most effective cooling condition occurred with a 5 mm thick water film and a Reynolds number of 10. …”
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Implementation of Vision-Based Navigation for Pedestrian Environments by Anderson, Connor William

“…Full end-to-end navigation was demonstrated in a crowded environment with 5 pedestrians, with only one collision out of 13 trials.…”
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Harnessing Geothermal Energy Potential from High-Level Nuclear Waste Repositories by Sarsenbayev, Dauren, Zheng, Liange, Ermakova, Dinara, Sharipov, Rashid, Wainwright, Haruko M.

“…Our study—for the first time—introduces a conceptual model of a binary-cycle geothermal system powered by the heat produced by HLW. TOUGHREACT V3.32 software was used to model the heat transfer resulting from radioactive decay to the surrounding geological media. …”
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Observation of the B+ c → J/ψπ+π 0 decay by Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W., Abellan Beteta, C., Abudinén, F., Ackernley, T., Adams, J. A., Adefisoye, A. A., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adlarson, P., Agapopoulou, C., Aidala, C. A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Akiba, K., Albicocco, P.

“…The first observation of the B c + → J / ψ π + π 0 $$ {B}_c^{+}\to J/\psi {\pi}^{+}{\pi}^0 $$ decay is reported with high significance using proton-proton collision data, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 9 fb−1, collected with the LHCb detector at centre-of-mass energies of 7, 8, and 13 TeV. The ratio of its branching fraction relative to the B c + → J / ψ π + $$ {B}_c^{+}\to J/\psi {\pi}^{+} $$ channel is measured to be B B c + → J / ψ π + π 0 B B c + → J / ψ π + = 2.80 ± 0.15 ± 0.11 ± 0.16 , $$ \frac{{\mathcal{B}}_{B_c^{+}\to J/\psi {\pi}^{+}{\pi}^0}}{{\mathcal{B}}_{B_c^{+}\to J/\psi {\pi}^{+}}}=2.80\pm 0.15\pm 0.11\pm 0.16, $$ where the first uncertainty is statistical, the second systematic and the third related to imprecise knowledge of the branching fractions for B+ → J/ψK*+ and B c + → J / ψ π + $$ {B}_c^{+}\to J/\psi {\pi}^{+} $$ decays, which are used to determine the π0 detection efficiency. …”
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Robust assessment of railway vehicle safety risks in operation using a proposed data-driven wheel profile generation approach: Design of computer experiments and surrogate models by Braga, Joaquim A.P., Costa, João N., Ambrósio, Jorge, Frey, Daniel, Andrade, António R.

“…The applied methods consist of: (i) selection of predictors and pre-processing, based on literature, standards and a purely data-driven approach to generate wheel profiles; (ii) space-filling design, using Latin hypercube sampling; (iii) obtaining vehicle responses and post-processing, using a multibody dynamics commercial software and according to standards; (iv) surrogate modelling, using Gaussian processes and linear models; (v) sensitivity analysis, through Sobol indices; (vi) safety assessment, analysing response surfaces. …”
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Cryptography in the Wild: An Empirical Analysis of Vulnerabilities in Cryptographic Libraries by Blessing, Jenny, Specter, Michael A., Weitzner, Daniel J.

“…Cryptographic design and implementation issues make up 27.5% of vulnerabilities across all libraries, with side-channel attacks providing a further 19.4%. …”
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No Pain, No Gain—Giving Real-Time Emotional Feedback in a Virtual Mirror Improves Collaboration in Virtual Teamwork by Schneider, Nicklas, Vazquez, Ignacio, Gloor, Peter A.

“…In an experiment with 28 teams (84 participants), teams collaborated over Zoom (version 5.16.6) to set up a virtual Mars station using custom simulation software (Mars Star City, version 4.0). …”
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Practical Rateless Set Reconciliation by Yang, Lei, Gilad, Yossi, Alizadeh, Mohammad

“…We show the real-world benefits of Rateless IBLT by applying it to synchronize the state of the Ethereum blockchain, and demonstrate 5.6× lower end-to-end completion time and 4.4× lower communication cost compared to the system used in production.…”
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Comprehensive analysis of local and nonlocal amplitudes in the B0 → K*0μ+μ− decay by Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W., Abellan Beteta, C., Abudinén, F., Ackernley, T., Adefisoye, A. A., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adlarson, P., Agapopoulou, C., Aidala, C. A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Akiba, K., Albicocco, P., Albrecht, J.

“…The Wilson Coefficients 10 , ′9 and ′10 are all in better agreement than 9 with the Standard Model and the global significance is at the level of 1.5σ. The model used also accounts for nonlocal contributions from B0 → K*0[τ+τ − → μ+μ−] rescattering, resulting in the first direct measurement of the bsττ vector effective-coupling 9𝜏 .…”
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Learning heterogeneous reaction kinetics from X-ray videos pixel by pixel by Zhao, Hongbo, Deng, Haitao Dean, Cohen, Alexander E, Lim, Jongwoo, Li, Yiyang, Fraggedakis, Dimitrios, Jiang, Benben, Storey, Brian D, Chueh, William C, Braatz, Richard D, Bazant, Martin Z

“…Experimental characterizations of such materials by operando microscopy produce rich image datasets3,4,5,6, but data-driven methods to learn physics from these images are still lacking because of the complex coupling of reaction kinetics, surface chemistry and phase separation7. …”
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Theory of Layered-Oxide Cathode Degradation in Li-ion Batteries by Oxidation-Induced Cation Disorder by Zhuang, Debbie, Bazant, Martin Z

“…In the case of nickel-rich oxides, we hypothesize that nickel with a high concentration of defects is driven into the bulk by electrostatic forces as oxidation reactions at the solid-electrolyte interface reduce nickel and either evolve oxygen or oxidize the organic electrolyte at high potentials (&gt;4.4 V vs Li/Li<jats:sup>+</jats:sup>). The model is used in battery cycling simulations to describe the extent of cathode degradation when using different voltage cutoffs, in agreement with experimental observations that lower-voltage cycling can substantially reduce cathode degradation. …”
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Modeling the Impact of Electrolyte Flow on Heat Management in a Li-Ion Convection Cell by Gao, Weiran, Drake, Javit, Brushett, Fikile R

“…In a simulated exemplary 5.7-C case, a LIB cell with stationary electrolyte must stop discharging at only 54% of its capacity due to cell temperature rise to an upper threshold (325 K); with sufficient electrolyte flow (∼1 μm s−1 for a single cell, or a residence time of ∼200 s), the cell can be maintained below 315 K while delivering 98% of its capacity. …”
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Studies on stereospecific diketopiperazine oxidation and applications to the synthesis of complex epidithiodiketopiperazines by Walker, Katherine L.

“…Studies on Stereospecific Diketopiperazine C–H Hydroxylation Mechanistic investigation of the permanganate-mediated hydroxylation reaction of 2,5-diketopiperazines (DKPs) is discussed. The course of the hydroxylation reaction with three permanganate oxidants examined in our total synthesis of naturally occurring epipolythiodiketopiperazines (ETPs) is investigated with respect to the activity of the different oxidants, as well as the stereochemical outcome and the configurational stability of the product diols. …”
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Experimental Constraints on Melting Processes in the Earth and Small Rocky Bodies by Hoyos Muñoz, Susana

“…In Chapter 2, I define the crystallization sequence and petrogenesis of the young mare basalts collected by the Chang'e 5 mission and propose a model for melt generation in the Moon at ~ 2Ma. …”
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Expanding the structural diversity of discrete polymers accessible through iterative exponential growth by Khokhlov, Khrystofor

“…Furthermore, the same reactions can be integrated in the synthesis of other IEG architectures (2A/4A/5A), thus expanding the structural diversity and readily accessible substrate scope for atomically defined macromolecules. …”
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