Numerical analysis of the impact of water temperature setpoint and energy strategies on indoor pool performanceIndoor swimming pools (ISPs) consume significant amounts of electrical and thermal energy to ensure the heating of water and air, ventilation, and maintaining adequate humidity levels. This is…Younes Benakcha, Matthieu Labat, Ion Hazyuk et al.·Dec 2, 2025SaveLearn
Investigation of Al-Si-Cu alloys as phase change materials for high temperature thermal energy storageThe present work explores the suitability of Al-Cu-Si ternary alloys as hightemperature metallic phase change materials (PCMs) for thermal energy storage systems (TESS) operating between 550_C and…Laura Teodorescu, {Á}ngel Serrano, Kyran Williamson et al.·Dec 1, 2025SaveLearn
Does a Curved Mirror Honestly Reflect Your Identity? A Study of Multipole Images in Front of a Grounded SphereThe method of image charges is a powerful and elegant technique in electrostatics, commonly used to determine the electric field generated by point charges near conductors of various shapes. While…Farhang Loran, Saman Moghimi-Araghi·Nov 29, 2025SaveLearn
A Unified Variational Framework for Planar Elastica with General Distributed LoadsWe present a simple variational framework for planar elastica that enables distributed energies, such as gravitational loading or magnetic body torques, to be incorporated in a modular and unified…Yimu Mao, Christopher Tropp·Nov 28, 2025SaveLearn
Generalizing Shell Theorem to Constant Curvature Spaces in All Dimensions and TopologiesA gravitational potential has the spherical property when the field outside any uniform spherical shell is indistinguishable from that of a point mass at the center. We present the general potentials…Ava K. Tse, Olivia M. Markowich, Trung V. Phan·Nov 25, 2025SaveLearn
Infinite self energy?The notion of an infinite electromagnetic self energy of point charges (presumably electrons) is accepted by many electromagnetic textbooks. See, for instance,jdj,dg,rf. However, each of these…Jerrold Franklin·Nov 24, 2025SaveLearn
To the theory of helical waveguidesIt makes sense to consider a helical waveguide with a fine pitch approximately, replacing the turns with anisotropic conductivity: infinite along the turns and zero across them. This approach has…A. S. Yurkov·Nov 24, 2025SaveLearn
Resolving Kane's Puzzle in Oblique Collisions of Rigid BodiesWe examined the asymmetric deformation in collisions and the transition conditions from oblique to normal collisions and non-collisions to address the problem of oblique collisions of rigid bodies in…Xueqiang Wang, Qi Su, Siping Li·Nov 22, 2025SaveLearn
A reinterpretation of classical magnetism via the regular representation of displacement currentThe displacement current, introduced by Maxwell, has long caused confusion regarding its relationship to the magnetic field. To develop a new understanding of classical magnetism, this work first…Jin Jer Huang·Nov 18, 2025SaveLearn
On Universal Deformations and Material Preferred Directions in Anisotropic Cauchy ElasticityIn this paper we study universal deformations in anisotropic Cauchy elasticity. We show that the universality constraints of hyperelasticity and Cauchy elasticity for transversely isotropic,…Seyedemad Motaghian, Arash Yavari·Nov 17, 2025SaveLearn
Capabilities and limitations of pure-shear based macroscopic forming simulations for 0/90 biaxial non-crimp fabricsMacroscopic modeling of a non-crimp fabric's (NCF's) forming behavior is challenging as it strongly depends on the textile architecture, fiber type, and stitching type. While shear is the main…Bastian Schäfer, Dominik Dörr, Naim Naouar et al.·Nov 17, 2025SaveLearn
Fundamental Topics in Continuum Mechanics: Grand Ideas, Errors & HorrorsShortly after the middle of the past century, a comprehensive presentation of Continuum Mechanics was written under supervision of Clifford Ambrose Truesdell III in two volumes of Siegfried Fluegge's…Giovanni Romano, Raffaele Barretta·Nov 11, 2025SaveLearn
Multifunctional Lightweight Radiators for Small-Satellite Thermal ControlThermal management in small satellites is constrained by limited radiative area and strict mass budgets, necessitating the development of radiator structures that are simultaneously lightweight,…Karl Pederson, Sam Keller, Daniel Kindem et al.·Nov 10, 2025SaveLearn
Do Discrete Fine-Scale Mechanical Models with Rotational Degrees of Freedom Homogenize Into a Cosserat or a Cauchy Continuum?This article answers the question of whether homogenization of discrete fine-scale mechanical models, such as particle or lattice models, gives rise to an equivalent continuum that is of Cauchy-type…Jan Eliáš, Gianluca Cusatis·Nov 9, 2025SaveLearn
Fundamentals of Antenna Bandwidth and Quality FactorAfter a brief history of the development of quality factor, useful expressions are derived for the robust input-impedance Qz(w) quality factor that accurately determines the VSWR fractional bandwidth…Arthur D. Yaghjian·Nov 7, 2025SaveLearn
Interstitial dual-mode ultrasound with a 3-mm MR-compatible catheter for image-guided HIFU and directional in-vitro tissue ablationsCurrent interstitial techniques of tumor ablation face challenges that ultrasound technologies could meet. The ablation radius and directionality of the ultrasound beam could improve the efficiency…Thomas Biscaldi, Romain l'Huillier, Laurent Milot et al.·Nov 6, 2025SaveLearn
Coherent control of magnon-polaritons using an exceptional pointThe amplitude of resonant oscillations in a non-Hermitian environment can either decay or grow in time, corresponding to a mode with either loss or gain. When two coupled modes have a specific…N. J. Lambert, A. Schumer, J. J. Longdell et al.·Nov 5, 2025SaveLearn
Characterization Of Cyclic Hygrothermal Swelling And Shrinkage Behavior Of Balsa Wood And Gfrp-Balsa Sandwich StructuresThe objective of developing bio-based composite sandwich structures with greener core materials is to facilitate the decarbonization of industries such as aviation and maritime. This field of…Yuan Wu, Pascal Casari, Jamal Fajoui et al.·Nov 4, 2025SaveLearn
Comment on "Absence of a consistent classical equation of motion for a mass-renormalized point charge"Here we comment on the paper by Arthur D. Yaghjian, Phys. Rev. E 78, 046606 (2008) (arXiv:0805.0142). The author provides an equation of motion for a point charged particle in a certain regime of…Paweł Zin, Maciej Pylak·Nov 3, 2025SaveLearn
Path-Dependent Energy Lagrangian for Irreversible Thermomechanical SystemsWe present a minimal Path-Dependent Energy Lagrangian (PDEL) that generates, from a single action, the balance equations of mechanics and the entropy/heat equation for irreversible thermomechanical…Huilong Ren·Nov 1, 2025SaveLearn
Mechanically concealed holesWhen a hole is introduced into an elastic material, it will usually act to reduce the overall mechanical stiffness. A general ambition is to investigate whether a stiff shell around the hole can act…Kanka Ghosh, Andreas M. Menzel·Oct 31, 2025SaveLearn
Quantification of the Influence of Morphologies on Laser Cutting QualityLaser cutting is an old and multi-physical process that was quickly adopted by the metallurgical industry. However, this fast industrialisation has had a significant impact on quality control.…Maria Ramard, Romain Laniel, Mathieu Miroir et al.·Oct 31, 2025SaveLearn
On the perturbed harmonic oscillator and celestial mechanicsWe study the influence of perturbations in the three dimensional isotropic harmonic oscillator problem considering different perturbing force laws and apply our results in the context of celestial…J. Oliveira-Cony, C. Farina·Oct 29, 2025SaveLearn
Approaching the Thermodynamic Limit of an Ideal GasFor a gas confined in a container, particle-wall interactions produce modifications to the partition function involving the average surface density of gas particles. While such correlations have a…Prabal Adhikari, Brian Tiburzi, Sona Baghiyan·Oct 28, 2025SaveLearn
Analytic Harmonic Tunable Closed Orbits of Trapped N-Body SystemsThe motion of each particle in an N body system of identical masses interacting via an attractive or repulsive pairwise linear force law, the "Swarm," and with an external attractive or repulsive…Joseph West·Oct 28, 2025SaveLearn