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Mass-spring models are essential for the description of sloshing resonances in engineering. By experimentally measuring the liquid's centre of mass in a horizontally oscillated rectangular tank, we show that low-amplitude sloshing obeys the…
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Friction modeling has always been a challenging problem due to the complexity of real physical systems. Although a few state-of-the-art structured data-driven methods show their efficiency in nonlinear system modeling, deterministic…
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Our ability to numerically model and understand the complex flow behavior of solid-bearing suspensions has increased significantly over the last couple of years, partly due to direct numerical simulations that compute flow around individual…
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