A comprehensive experimental and numerical study of Taylor–Couette flow on superhydrophobic surfaces by Ali Safari, Mohammad Hassan Saidi, Sajad Salavatidezfouli, Wei Ma, Shuhuai Yao

“…The quantitative analysis of flow patterns, vortex formation, and the Reynolds stress tensor was conducted for comparison between smooth surface and flat SHSs. The results showed that the slip velocity decreased the average velocity of the SHS rotor while increasing velocity fluctuations in the TC flow. …”
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UAV-based inspection of wind turbine blade surface defects detection technology by TAN Xingguo, ZHANG Gaoming

“…Aiming at the problems of high cost and poor working environment of large-scale wind turbine blade defect detection, a wind turbine blade surface defect detection method based on UAV image acquisition and digital image processing is proposed in this paper. …”
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Frontal variations and surface area changes of Swedish glaciers during 2017–2023 by Martin Houssais, Milan Horemuz, Jamie Barnett, Anders Bergwall, Nina Kirchner

“…In this paper, frontal variations and surface area changes for each of the years 2017–2023 are assessed for 277 Swedish glaciers, of which the majority is contained within the Randolph Glacier Inventory 7.0. …”
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The Impact of Surface Roughness on the Friction and Wear Performance of GCr15 Bearing Steel by Tiantian He, Wenbo Chen, Zeyuan Liu, Zhipeng Gong, Sanming Du, Yongzhen Zhang

“…Surface roughness plays a crucial role in determining surface quality, influencing factors such as vibration, noise, assembly precision, lubrication, and wear resistance in bearings. …”
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YOLO-RGDD: A Novel Method for the Online Detection of Tomato Surface Defects by Ziheng Liang, Tingting Zhu, Guang Teng, Yajun Zhang, Zhe Gu

“…Therefore, a defect detection model named YOLO-RGDD is proposed based on YOLOv12s to identify five types of tomato surface defects (scars, gaps, white spots, spoilage, and dents). …”
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Research on Surface Defects Classification for PET Preform by Fusing Multi-Scale Features by Chunmei Duan, Taochuan Zhang, Lei Han, Huilin Tan

“…And finally the fusion features are input into the ECOC-SVM to achieve surface defect classification of the PET preform. …”
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The seismic rupture surface model of the august 17, 2024 Shipunski, Kamchatka, earthquake by А.M. Konvisar, E.P. Timoshkina, N.N. Titkov, V.O. Mikhailov, M.S. Volkova, V.B. Smirnov, D.V. Chebrov

“…The study presents a rupture surface model of the Shipunsky earthquake. The model consists of a single plane with a dip angle of 30°, a strike of 211°, and depths ranging from 25 to 49 km. …”
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Surface Characterization of Three-Layer Organic Coating Applied on AISI 4130 Steel by Ane C. Rovani, Fernanda Kouketsu, Carlos H. da Silva, Giuseppe Pintaude

“…The thicknesses of different layers were obtained by scanning electron microscope and by the ball-cratering method. 3D surface roughness parameters were determined for each step of manufacturing, following three approaches: average values, isotropy level, and distribution of heights. …”
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Distribution of temperature field strength on the surface of graphene inclusions in a matrix composite by Igor V. Lavrov, Vladimir V. Bardushkin, Victor B. Yakovlev

“…The operator relates the field strength on the inclusion surface from the matrix side to the average field strength in the composite sample; the corresponding expression is obtained in a generalized singular approximation.Results. …”
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Global Assessment of Lake Surface Morphology and Its Impact on Water Volume Estimation by Jing Zhang, Dongli Ji, Futian Liu, Hang Ning

“…Surface elevation differences ranged from 0.016 to 2.565 m, averaging 0.221 m. …”
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Body Movement along the Surface of an Inertial Conveyor Chute under Combined Friction by Leonid Serilko, Oleg Lyashuk, Dmytro Chasov, Dmytro Serilko, Roman Ihnatiuk

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Microstructure and dynamic mechanical properties of laser alloyed coating on 97W surface by Lijuan ZHENG, Jiwei WANG, Mengqin CHEN, Yuming FU

“…In order to improve the dynamic mechanical properties of tungsten heavy alloys, 65W10Cr5V4Co2 and 65W10Cr5V4Co2 + 2% C3N4 composite coatings were prepared on the surface of 97W matrix by laser alloying process. With the help of scanning electron microscope, separated Hopkinson press rod, and other experimental instruments, the microstructure, microhardness, and dynamic compression mechanical properties of the alloyed specimens were studied, and the Johnson-Cook ontological relationship of uncoated tungsten alloy and tungsten alloy with coating was fitted by using the method of separation of variables to explore the influence of composite coatings on the dynamic mechanical properties of 97W alloy. …”
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AFQSeg: An Adaptive Feature Quantization Network for Instance-Level Surface Crack Segmentation by Shaoliang Fang, Lu Lu, Zhu Lin, Zhanyu Yang, Shaosheng Wang

“…Concrete surface crack detection plays a crucial role in infrastructure maintenance and safety. …”
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Edge-YOLO: Lightweight Multi-Scale Feature Extraction for Industrial Surface Inspection by Wang Guiqiang, Chen Junbao, Li Chengzhang, Lu Shuo

“…Comprehensive evaluation across three industrial datasets demonstrates Edge-YOLO’s effectiveness, achieving mean Average Precision (mAP@50) improvements of 2.1%, 3.5%, and 10.3% on NEU-DET, GC10-DET, and GEAR-DET datasets respectively, compared to YOLO11. …”
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Assessment of Ocular Surface Damage during the Course of Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus by Fanglin He, Zhanlin Zhao, Yan Liu, Linna Lu, Yao Fu

“…To investigate the impact of disease duration on the ocular surface during the course of type 2 diabetes mellitus compared with nondiabetic controls. …”
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The influence of resin infiltration system on enamel microhardness and surface roughness: An in vitro study by Nadia Malek Taher, Haifa Abdulrahman Alkhamis, Sarah Mesha’l Dowaidi

“…Surface hardness was determined by utilizing Vicker’s surface hardness (VHN) with a Micromet II Microhardness tester. …”
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Surface Passivation and Antireflection Behavior of ALD on n-Type Silicon for Solar Cells by Ing-Song Yu, Yu-Wun Wang, Hsyi-En Cheng, Zu-Po Yang, Chun-Tin Lin

“…For the properties of surface passivation, Si surface is effectively passivated by the 200°C deposition TiO2 thin film. …”
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Ring-Based Planning Approach for Intelligent Reflecting Surface in 6G Networks by Fan-Hsun Tseng, Hao-Kai Hong, Chi-Yuan Chen, Hsin-Hung Cho

“…Intelligent reflecting surface (IRS) is regarded as a promising technique of establishing virtual line-of-sight paths for mmWave signals. …”
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Effect of Hyperglycemia on the Total Surface Charge of the Erythrocyte Membrane in Patients with Metabolic Syndrome by V. I. Podzolkov, T. V. Koroleva, M. G. Kudryavtseva

“…To study the effect of hyperglycemia on the total surface charge of the erythrocyte membrane (SCEM) in patients with metabolic syndrome (MS).Material and methods. 112 MS patients were examined (45 men and 67 women) (mean age 61.4±7.2 years, average MS duration 8.7±5.2 years). …”
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Hydraulic River Models From ICESat‐2 Elevation and Water Surface Slope by Aske Folkmann Musaeus, Cécile Marie Margaretha Kittel, Jakob Luchner, Monica Coppo Frias, Peter Bauer‐Gottwein

“…The novel Ice, Cloud and Land Elevation Satellite 2 [ICESat‐2] lidar altimetry mission with 6 simultaneous high‐resolution laser beams provides the opportunity to define river cross‐section geometries as well as observe water surface elevation [WSE] and water surface slope spatially resolved along the river chainage. …”
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