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Quench Detection and Temperature Measurement With Fiber Optic Sensors

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For the EU DEMO conductor testing, a temperature sensor based on Fiber Bragg Grating (FBG) optical fiber is studied at the EPFL Swiss Plasma Center. The SULTAN test facility has been upgraded to use fiber optic sensor for temperature monitoring and quench ...

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Moulding and Microfluidic Wet Spinning of the Soft Polymer Optical Fibers for Sensory Applications

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Polymer optical fibre (POFs) based wearable sensors have attracted a lot of attention in the field of healthcare and biomedical applications. They are in particular envision as the next generation of sensors for the continuous, real-time n ...

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In recent years, soft robotics has surged in applications like wearables, drones, smart fabrics, and medical instruments. Due to their compliance, these devices excel in tasks demanding dexterity and adaptability, such as manipulation, locomotion, crash re ...

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Partial discharge localization in power transformer tanks using machine learning methods

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Error estimates for SUPG-stabilised Dynamical Low Rank Approximations

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We perform an error analysis of a fully discretised Streamline Upwind Petrov Galerkin Dynamical Low Rank (SUPG-DLR) method for random time-dependent advection-dominated problems. The time integration scheme has a splitting-like nature, allowing for potenti ...

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Parametric Wavelength Conversion in Waveguiding Structures: Efficiency, Bandwidth and Polarization

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All-Dielectric Nanophotonic via Glass Fluid Instabilities

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Euclid: The search for primordial features

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Adaptive Finite Elements with Large Aspect Ratio. Application to Aluminium Electrolysis

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The goal of this work is to use anisotropic adaptive finite elements for the numerical simulation of aluminium electrolysis. The anisotropic adaptive criteria are based on a posteriori error estimates derived for simplified problems. First, we consider an ...

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Weak correlations between visual abilities in healthy older adults, despite long-term performance stability

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Process development of pre-impregnated hybrid thin-ply composites

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Tunable pump compression and fast modulation for pulsed THz generation

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