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The digital thread (DT), a new paradigm for the development of complex engineering systems, has garnered widespread attention in recent years. The DT serves as a key driver and game-changer for the digital transformation of engineering systems due to its a ...

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Probabilistic Modeling of Sediment Dynamics in Braided River Systems

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Understanding the relationship between bedload transport and morphological changes is crucial in braided river systems, particularly those on steep slopes. Despite significant research efforts in recent decades, unraveling this interplay remains a complex ...

2024

Automated segmentation and labeling of subcutaneous mouse implants at 14.1T

Gilles Bioley, Dimitri Nestor Alice Van De Ville, Cristina Ramona Cudalbu Moldovan, Maria Giulia Preti, Nicolas Gninenko

Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is a valuable tool for studying subcutaneous implants in rodents, providing non-invasive insight into biomaterial conformability and longitudinal characterization. However, considerable variability in existing image analysi ...

FRONTIERS MEDIA SA2023

Editorial: Combined water and heat integration in the process industries

François Maréchal

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Distributed adjustable robust optimal power-gas flow considering wind power uncertainty

Colin Neil Jones, Yuning Jiang

The rapid uptake of natural gas-fired units in energy systems poses significant challenges in coordinating the electricity and gas systems. Besides, the uncertainty caused by integrated renewable energy such as wind power raises more requirements on the ro ...

2022

Nanoplastics removal during drinking water treatment: Laboratory- and pilot-scale experiments and modeling

Urs von Gunten

Microplastics detected in potable water sources and tap water have led to concerns about the efficacy of current drinking water treatment processes to remove these contaminants. It is hypothesized that drinking water resources contain nanoplastics (NPs), b ...

ELSEVIER2022

Large-eddy simulation of a wind-turbine array subjected to active yaw control

Fernando Porté Agel, Mou Lin

This study validates large-eddy simulation (LES) for predicting the flow through a wind turbine array subjected to active yaw control. The wind turbine array consists of three miniature wind turbines operated in both non-yawed and yawed configurations unde ...

2022

Coupling Effects of Crosstalk and Parasitic Loss on Capacitive Micromachined Ultrasonic Transducers

Sandro Carrara, Yihe Zhao

Capacitive micromachined ultrasonic transducers (CMUTs) have been widely utilized in applications of biomolecule monitoring, ultrasound medical diagnosis, and ultrasound therapy because of their advantages in high-level integration with integrated circuits ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2022

Programmable Huygens' metasurfaces for active optical phase control

Hatice Altug, Andreas Tittl, Aleksandrs Leitis

IEEE2021

Federated Learning Over Wireless Networks: Convergence Analysis and Resource Allocation

Vincent Gramoli

There is an increasing interest in a fast-growing machine learning technique called Federated Learning (FL), in which the model training is distributed over mobile user equipment (UEs), exploiting UEs' local computation and training data. Despite its advan ...

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2021

From System Level Synthesis to Robust Closed-loop Data-Enabled Predictive Control

Colin Neil Jones, Yingzhao Lian

Willems' fundamental lemma and system level synthesis both characterize a linear dynamic system by its input/output sequences. In this work, we show that the extension of the fundamental lemma in uncertain LTI systems is equivalent to the system level synt ...

IEEE2021

Robust Phase Unwrapping via Deep Image Prior for Quantitative Phase Imaging

Michaël Unser, Matthias Lütolf, Nathalie Brandenberg, Thanh-An Michel Pham

Quantitative phase imaging (QPI) is an emerging label-free technique that produces images containing morphological and dynamical information without contrast agents. Unfortunately, the phase is wrapped in most imaging system. Phase unwrapping is the comput ...

2021

Second-order adjoint-based sensitivity for hydrodynamic stability and control

Edouard Boujo

Adjoint-based sensitivity analysis is routinely used today to assess efficiently the effect of open-loop control on the linear stability properties of unstable flows. Sensitivity maps identify regions where small-amplitude control is the most effective, i. ...

Cambridge University Press2021

Soft functional fibers for mechanical sensing and actuation

Andreas Leber

The measurement and generation of mechanical deformations is a key functionality in health monitoring, human-machine interaction, and soft robotics. However, current methods typically rely on small and hard transducers, which result in poor performance, cu ...

EPFL2021

An image-based computational hemodynamics study of the Systolic Anterior Motion of the mitral valve

Alfio Quarteroni, Luca Dede', Christian Vergara

Systolic Anterior Motion (SAM) of the mitral valve - often associated with Hypertrophic Obstructive Cardiomyopathy (HOCM) - is a cardiac pathology in which a functional subaortic stenosis is induced during systole by the mitral leaflets partially obstructi ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2020

Modelling of Textile Reinforced Concrete in bending and shear with Elastic-Cracked Stress Fields

Aurelio Muttoni, Miguel Fernández Ruiz, Patrick Lorenzo Valeri

Textile Reinforced Concrete (TRC) is emerging as a promising alternative to ordinary Reinforced Concrete for the construction of durable, lightweight and more sustainable structures, with a large potential particularly in shells and thin members. Research ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Angular Scattering Properties of Metasurfaces

Olivier Martin, Karim Achouri

This article aims at studying the angular scattering properties of bianisotropic metasurfaces and clarifying the different roles played by tangential and normal polarization densities. Different types of metasurfaces are considered for this study and are c ...

2020

Kinetics of the reaction between hydrogen peroxide and aqueous iodine: Implications for technical and natural aquatic systems

Urs von Gunten, Jaedon Shin

Oxidative treatment of iodide-containing waters can lead to a formation of potentially toxic iodinated disinfection byproducts (I-DBPs). Iodide (I-) is easily oxidized to HOI by various oxidation processes and its reaction with dissolved organic matter (DO ...

2020

Generation of hydroxyl radical during chlorination of hydroxyphenols and natural organic matter extracts

Urs von Gunten, Eva Maria Rodriguez Franco

The generation of hydroxyl radicals ((OH)-O-center dot) during the chlorination of air saturated solutions of different hydroxyphenols (hydroquinone, resorcinol, catechol, gallic and tannic acids) at pH 7 has been determined by the formation of phenol (in ...

2020

Guest Editorial Focused Section on Soft Actuators, Sensors, and Components (SASC)

Jamie Paik

IEEE-INST ELECTRICAL ELECTRONICS ENGINEERS INC2019