Semi-Active Damping of Vibrations. Prestress Accumulation-Release Strategy Development by A. Mroz, A. Orlowska, J. Holnicki-Szulc

“…The strain energy is converted into kinetic energy of higher modes of vibration which is suppressed with structural damping or by means of a damping device. …”
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Numerical Modeling of the Fluid Flow in Continuous Casting Tundish with Different Control Devices by Zhu He, Kun Zhou, Shuang Liu, Wei Xiong, Baokuan Li

“…With a turbulence inhibitor, the velocity of metal which flows directly toward the tundish floor is smaller and the turbulence kinetic energy of the melt top surface is lower than the other two arrangements.…”
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An accurate approximate analysis of the large-amplitude asymmetric vibrations of a dielectric elastomer balloon by Akuro Big-Alabo, Chukwuebuka Francis Abah, Tobinson Alaso Briggs

“…The results revealed that increasing either of the applied voltage or static internal pressure results to lesser stiffness response, lower frequency of vibration, lower maximum kinetic energy and shorter range of initial stretch values for stable vibrations. …”
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A General Fourier Formulation for In-Plane and Out-of-Plane Vibration Analysis of Curved Beams by Rui Nie, Tianyun Li, Xiang Zhu, Huihui Zhou

“…Firstly, based on the generalized shell theory, considering the shear and inertial effects of curved beam structures, as well as the coupling effects of displacement components, the kinetic energy and strain potential energy of the curved beam are obtained. …”
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A Magnetically Capsule Robot for Biomedical Application by Qiang Fu, Xi Zhang, Songyuan Zhang, Chunliu Fan, Zhuocong Cai, Lili Wang

“…This paper is based on the kinetic energy theorem, combined with the principle of spiral mechanism in mechanical design foundation to construct a calculation method of energy utilization and to improve the control effect of capsule robot, suitable for the human gastrointestinal tract precise control of capsule robot to perform a variety of complex tasks. …”
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Study on the Influence of Missile Cabin on Fragment Velocity under Explosive Detonation Impact by Xin Li, Weili Wang, Zhengfeng Liang, Jun Dong, Jiaojiao Tang

“…In this paper, based on the law of conservation of energy, the theoretical equation of fragment velocity considering the kinetic energy of cabin debris was deduced. Then, the rationality of the theoretical formula is validated through the static explosion experiments of two prototype warheads, one with a titanium alloy cabin and the other without any cabin. …”
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Study on an Axial Flow Hydraulic Turbine with Collection Device by Yasuyuki Nishi, Terumi Inagaki, Kaoru Okubo, Norio Kikuchi

“…We propose a new type of portable hydraulic turbine that uses the kinetic energy of flow in open channels. The turbine comprises a runner with an appended collection device that includes a diffuser section in an attempt to improve the output by catching and accelerating the flow. …”
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Pengujian Turbin Air Pusaran Gravitasi dengan Variasi Overlap Ratio Rotor by Muhammad Luthfi, Meri Rahmi, Rachmatullah -

“…The gravitational water vortex turbine is a turbine system that can convert the energy from artificial water vortex by means of the drained water through the basin outlet to the kinetic energy of rotor rotation. This type of turbine system is able to produce energy despite the low head of water flow. …”
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The application of laws of conservation of energy and momentum during trenchless horizontal laying of communications by D. I. Chernyavsky, D. D. Gapon

“…This makes it possible to estimate the efficiency of the transport of kinetic energy from the hammer to the pipe as penetration of the pipe into the ground increases.…”
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Spectral Flux Decomposition in a Wind‐Driven Channel Flow With Near‐Inertial Waves by Michal Shaham, Roy Barkan

“…Abstract In recent years it has become evident that the spatiotemporal distribution of oceanic kinetic energy (KE) is strongly influenced by the interactions between oceanic mesoscale eddies, submesoscale currents, and near‐inertial waves (NIWs). …”
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Simulation Analysis of a Multiple-Vehicle, High-Speed Train Collision Using a Simplified Model by Suchao Xie, Weilin Yang, Ping Xu

“…Comparative analysis of the collisions between a single railway vehicle (including head and intermediate vehicles before, and after, simplification) and a rigid wall showed that variations in impact kinetic energy, internal energy, and impact force (after simplification) are consistent with those of the unsimplified model. …”
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Mathematical Simulations and On-Road Experimentations of the Vibration Energy Harvesting from Mining Dump Truck Hydro-Pneumatic Suspension by Wenguang Wu, Sha Zhang, Zhiyong Zhang

“…In this manner, a quarter-truck model was built and the kinetic energy method that can be used to calculate the power of the dissipated energy was proposed. …”
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Large-Eddy Simulation of the Flow Past a Circular Cylinder at Re = 130,000: Effects of Numerical Platforms and Single- and Double-Precision Arithmetic by Dmitry A. Lysenko

“…Numerical simulations of sub-critical flow past a circular cylinder at Reynolds number <inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mrow><mi mathvariant="normal">R</mi><mi mathvariant="normal">e</mi></mrow></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula> = 130,000 are performed using two numerical platforms: the commercial, Ansys Fluent, and the open-source, OpenFOAM (finite volume method and large-eddy simulation based on a differential equation for the sub-grid kinetic energy). An overview of the available experimental data and similar large-eddy simulation studies is presented. …”
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Uniformity of working processes of jet and vortex ejectors, vortex tube and Hartmann–Sprenger pipe by V. I. Kuznetsov, V. V. Makarov

“…The influence of viscosity, tangential stresses, and the gradient of linear and angular velocities on the transfer of kinetic energy from a high-pressure to a low-pressure gas is shown. …”
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Permeability Characteristics of Water-Sand Seepage in Fracture by Experiment by Yu Liu, Shuncai Li, Wei Li, Zhihao Luo, Liming Wu, Zhipeng Xu

“…The average velocity and turbulent kinetic energy distribution of the water-sand fluid on the fracture cross section are greatly affected by the particle size and concentration of the volume of sand. …”
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Study on Failure Characteristics and Rock Burst Mechanism of Roadway Roof under Cyclic Dynamic Load by Chunmei Zheng, Jiayan Zheng, Xiaojuan Peng, Lei Zhou

“…The crack field, stress field, displacement field, and kinetic energy of roadway surrounding rock disturbed by cyclic dynamic load were analyzed, and the disaster mechanism of roadway impacting roof instability was discussed. …”
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The State-of-the-Art Brief Review on Piezoelectric Energy Harvesting from Flow-Induced Vibration by Hongjun Zhu, Tao Tang, Huohai Yang, Junlei Wang, Jinze Song, Geng Peng

“…Nevertheless, such fluid-structure coupling process continuously extracts the kinetic energy from ambient fluid flow, presenting the conversion potential from the mechanical energy to electricity. …”
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Turbulence Modeling Using Z-F Model and RSM for Flow Analysis in Z-SHAPE Ducts by Mohammed Karbon, Ahmad K. Sleiti

“…It is found that the turbulent kinetic energy production in ζ equation is much easier to reproduce accurately. …”
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Macroscopic neutrinoless double beta decay: Long range quantum coherence by Gordon Baym, Jen-Chieh Peng

“…The distinct signature of MDBD is that the total kinetic energy of the two electrons equals twice the endpoint energy of single beta decay. …”
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An Enhanced Factor Analysis of Performance Degradation Assessment on Slurry Pump Impellers by Shilong Sun, Peter W. Tse, Y. L. Tse

“…Slurry pumps, such as oil sand pumps, are widely used in industry to convert electrical energy to slurry potential and kinetic energy. Because of adverse working conditions, slurry pump impellers are prone to suffer wear, which may result in slurry pump breakdowns. …”
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