Rana Muhammad Zulqarnain¹, Wen-Xiu Ma^1,2,3,*, Imran Siddique⁴, Hijaz Ahmad^5,6, Sameh Askar⁷

CMES-Computer Modeling in Engineering & Sciences, Vol.139, No.2, pp. 1829-1862, 2024, DOI:10.32604/cmes.2023.030687

Abstract Green supplier selection is an important debate in green supply chain management (GSCM), attracting global attention from scholars, especially companies and policymakers. Companies frequently search for new ideas and strategies to assist them in realizing sustainable development. Because of the speculative character of human opinions, supplier selection frequently includes unreliable data, and the interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft set (IVPFSS) provides an exceptional capacity to cope with excessive fuzziness, inconsistency, and inexactness through the decision-making procedure. The main goal of this study is to come up with new operational laws for interval-valued Pythagorean fuzzy soft numbers (IVPFSNs) and create two interaction… More >

Yue Cui^1,*, Liyuan Wang², Jian Wu¹, Haisheng Liu¹, Di Wu¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.20, No.1, pp. 165-177, 2024, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.030311

Abstract This study aims to improve the performances of the high-pressure water descaling technology used in steel hot rolling processes. In particular, a 2050 mm hot rolling line is considered, and the problem is investigated by means of a fluid–structure interaction (FSI) method by which the descaling effect produced by rolling coils with different section sizes is examined. Assuming a flat fan-shaped nozzle at the entrance of the R1R2 roughing mill, the out- flow field characteristics and the velocity distribution curve on the strike line (at a target distance of 30–120 mm) are determined. It is found that the velocity in… More >

M. Muzaffar Hameed^1,2, Rodina Ahmad^1,*, Laiha Mat Kiah¹, Ghulam Murtaza³, Noman Mazhar¹

CMC-Computers, Materials & Continua, Vol.76, No.1, pp. 1267-1289, 2023, DOI:10.32604/cmc.2023.035063

Abstract Offline signature verification (OfSV) is essential in preventing the falsification of documents. Deep learning (DL) based OfSVs require a high number of signature images to attain acceptable performance. However, a limited number of signature samples are available to train these models in a real-world scenario. Several researchers have proposed models to augment new signature images by applying various transformations. Others, on the other hand, have used human neuromotor and cognitive-inspired augmentation models to address the demand for more signature samples. Hence, augmenting a sufficient number of signatures with variations is still a challenging task. This study proposed OffSig-SinGAN: a deep… More >

Yue Cui^1,*, Liyuan Wang², Jixing Ru³, Jian Wu¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.19, No.6, pp. 1573-1584, 2023, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2023.024873

Abstract Gases containing sulfur oxides can cause corrosion and failure of bellows used as furnace blowers in high-temperature environments. In order to mitigate this issue, the behavior of an effective blast furnace blower has been examined in detail. Firstly, the Sereda corrosion model has been introduced to simulate the corrosion rate of the related bellows taking into account the effects of temperature and SO₂ gas; such results have been compared with effective measurements; then, the average gas velocity in the pipeline and the von Mises stress distribution of the inner draft tube have been analyzed using a Fluid-Structure Interaction model. Finally,… More >

Adi Azriff Basri^1,6,*, Mohammad Zuber², Ernnie Illyani Basri¹, Muhammad Shukri Zakaria⁵, Ahmad Fazli Abd Aziz³, Masaaki Tamagawa⁴, Kamarul Arifin Ahmad^1,6

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.17, No.3, pp. 531-553, 2021, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2021.010925

Abstract Paravalvular Leakage (PVL) has been recognized as one of the most dangerous complications in relation to Transcathether Aortic Valve Implantation (TAVI) activities. However, data available in the literature about Fluid Structure Interaction (FSI) for this specific problem are relatively limited. In the present study, the fluid and structure responses of the hemodynamics along the patient aorta model and the aortic wall deformation are studied with the aid of numerical simulation taking into account PVL and 100% TAVI valve opening. In particular, the aorta without valve (AWoV) is assumed as the normal condition, whereas an aorta with TAVI 26 mm for… More >

Mohamad Shukri Zakaria^1,*, Haslina Abdullah², Azmi Nordin¹, Syazwati Ahmad Zaki¹

FDMP-Fluid Dynamics & Materials Processing, Vol.17, No.1, pp. 171-179, 2021, DOI:10.32604/fdmp.2021.010974

Abstract This study deals with the interaction of blood flow with the wall aorta, i.e., the boundary of the main artery that transports blood in the human body. The problem is addressed in the framework of computational fluid dynamics complemented with (FSI), i.e., a fluid-structure interaction model. Two fundamental types of wall are considered, namely a flexible and a rigid boundary. The resulting hemodynamic flows are carefully compared in order to determine which boundary condition is more effective in reproducing reality. Special attention is paid to wall shear stress (WSS), a factor known for its ability to produce atherosclerosis and bulges.… More >

Rivera MC¹, ER Wright¹, MC Fabrizio², G Freixá¹, R Cabalini¹, SE Lopez³

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.82, pp. 227-234, 2013, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2013.82.227

Abstract Damping off is a frequent disease that kills seedlings. Cultural and biological controls are the only tools in organic crops to manage this disease, and only empirical information is available on the efficiency of plant preparations. This work evaluates the effects of fermented onion decoctions on the growth of Rhizoctonia solani and Sclerotium rolfsii and disease incidence. Broth (B) and sterilized broth (SB) were respectively obtained by boiling chopped yellow onions in water, and incubating for 14 days at room temperature, with or without subsequent sterilization. The pathogens were grown on potato dextrose agar supplemented with B and SB, diluted… More >

Zúñiga-Mendoza E, LF Ceja-Torres

Phyton-International Journal of Experimental Botany, Vol.86, pp. 7-13, 2017, DOI:10.32604/phyton.2017.86.007

Abstract In vitro tests were carried out, to evaluate the antagonist capacity of a strain of Trichoderma isolated from soil in La Cienega de Chapala, Michoacán, Mexico against Sclerotium cepivorum and Sclerotium rolfsii, casual agents of onion rot, an important disease in Mexico and the rest of the world. Percentages of radial growth inhibition (PRGI) were calculated every 24 h, until a rate of antagonism was obtained according to the Bell’s scale, as well as the percentages of inhibition of the production of sclerotia and their parasitism. The PRGI was 17.4% against S. rolfsii and 22.2% against S. cepivorum after 48… More >

Wei Sun^1,*

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, Suppl.2, pp. 64-64, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.08533

Abstract Fluid–structure interaction (FSI) is a common phenomenon in biological systems. FSI problems of practical interest, such as fish/mammalian swimming, insect/bird flight, and human cardiac blood flow and respiration often involve multiple 3D immersed bodies with complex geometries undergoing very large structural displacements, and inducing very complex flow phenomena. Simulation of heart valve FSI is a technically challenging problem due to the large deformation of the valve leaflets through the cardiac fluid domain in the atrium and ventricular chambers.
Recently, we developed a FSI computational framework [1] for modeling patient-specific left heart (LH) dynamics using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) for… More >

Liang Wang¹, Haibo Jia², Luping He², Rui Lv¹, Xiaoya Guo³, Chun Yang^4,5, Don P. Giddens^6,7, Habib Samady⁶, Akiko Maehara⁸, Gary S. Mintz⁸, Dalin Tang^1,*,5

Molecular & Cellular Biomechanics, Vol.16, Suppl.2, pp. 23-24, 2019, DOI:10.32604/mcb.2019.07522

Abstract Plaque erosion, one of the primary causes for coronary thrombosis, is responsible for about one third of the patients with acute coronary syndrome (ACS) [1]. Histological studies characterized the eroded plaque as a plaque with following morphological features: 1) plaque intima having direct contact with intraluminal thrombus due to the absence of endothelium or endothelial injury; 2) without rupture in the fibrous cap; 3) abundance of proteoglycans and smooth muscle cells on the luminal surface under the thrombus [2]. These characteristics has been applied in in vivo diagnosis of plaque erosion using optical coherence tomography (OCT) imaging technology and specific… More >