We present a numerical study of random packings made of nonconvex grains. These particles are built by the agglomeration of overlapping spheres in order to control their sphericity φ. The contact number C is found to...
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We present a numerical study of random packings made of nonconvex grains. These particles are built by the agglomeration of overlapping spheres in order to control their sphericity φ. The contact number C is found to be much larger than the coordination number Z, providing a significant difference with convex grains. The packing properties are found to be highly dependent on the morphological parameters of the grains : packing fractions as low as 0.3 have been reached. More importantly, the way nonconvex grains develop multiple contacts, i.e., interlocking, is found to be a relevant effect in such packings. Interlocking provides more stability to loose packings.
Wavelet analysis is a powerful tool for signal processing and mechanical equipment fault diagnosis due to the advantages of multiresolution analysis and excellent local characteristics in time-frequency domain. Wavele...
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Wavelet analysis is a powerful tool for signal processing and mechanical equipment fault diagnosis due to the advantages of multiresolution analysis and excellent local characteristics in time-frequency domain. Wavelet total variation (WATV) was recently developed based on the traditional wavelet analysis method, which combines the advantages of wavelet-domain sparsity and total variation (TV) regularization. In order to guarantee the sparsity and the convexity of the total objective function, nonconvex penalty function is chosen as a new wavelet penalty function in WATV. The actual noise reduction effect of WATV method largely depends on the estimation of the noise signal variance. In this paper, an improved wavelet total variation (IWATV) denoising method was introduced. The local variance analysis on wavelet coefficients obtained from the wavelet decomposition of noisy signals is employed to estimate the noise variance so as to provide a scientific evaluation index. Through the analysis of the numerical simulation signal and real-word failure data, the results demonstrated that the IWATV method has obvious advantages over the traditional wavelet threshold denoising and total variation denoising method in the mechanical fault diagnose.
By means of contact dynamics simulations, we investigate the shear strength and internal structure of granular materials composed of two-dimensional nonconvex aggregates. We find that the packing fraction first grows ...
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By means of contact dynamics simulations, we investigate the shear strength and internal structure of granular materials composed of two-dimensional nonconvex aggregates. We find that the packing fraction first grows as the nonconvexity is increased but declines at higher nonconvexity. This unmonotonic dependence reflects the competing effects of pore size reduction between convex borders of aggregates and gain in porosity at the nonconvex borders that are captured in a simple model fitting nicely the simulation data both in the isotropic and sheared packings. On the other hand, the internal angle of friction increases linearly with nonconvexity and saturates to a value independent of nonconvexity. We show that fabric anisotropy, force anisotropy, and friction mobilization, all enhanced by multiple contacts between aggregates, govern the observed increase of shear strength and its saturation with increasing nonconvexity. The main effect of interlocking is to dislocate frictional dissipation from the locked double and triple contacts between aggregates to the simple contacts between clusters of aggregates. This self-organization of particle motions allows the packing to keep a constant shear strength at high nonconvexity.
In the present paper, which is part III of our review concerning the theory of Φ-conjugate functions, we consider Lagrangians, duality theorems are proved and the connection to saddle point theorems is shown. By a fu...
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In the present paper, which is part III of our review concerning the theory of Φ-conjugate functions, we consider Lagrangians, duality theorems are proved and the connection to saddle point theorems is shown. By a fundamental inequality, duality theorems are proved and the connection to saddle point theorems is shown. By a fundamental inequality, duality theorems can be obtained, where results are modified given in part I and part II of our paper.
This paper presents a novel optimization method for effectively solving nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programs (NQCQP) problem. By applying a novel parametric linearizing approach, the initial NQCQP pr...
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This paper presents a novel optimization method for effectively solving nonconvex quadratically constrained quadratic programs (NQCQP) problem. By applying a novel parametric linearizing approach, the initial NQCQP problem and its subproblems can be transformed into a sequence of parametric linear programs relaxation problems. To enhance the computational efficiency of the presented algorithm, a cutting down approach is combined in the branch and bound algorithm. By computing a series of parametric linear programs problems, the presented algorithm converges to the global optimum point of the NQCQP problem. At last, numerical experiments demonstrate the performance and computational superiority of the presented algorithm.
We consider a control system described by a class of fractional semilinear evolution equations in a separable reflexive Banach space. The constraint on the control is a multivalued map with nonconvex values which is l...
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We consider a control system described by a class of fractional semilinear evolution equations in a separable reflexive Banach space. The constraint on the control is a multivalued map with nonconvex values which is lower semicontinuous with respect to the state variable. Along with the original system we also consider the system in which the constraint on the control is the upper semicontinuous convex-valued regularization of the original constraint. We obtain the existence results for the control systems and the relaxation property between the solution sets of these systems.
We study a nonlinear three-point boundary value problem of sequential fractional differential inclusions of order xi + 1 with n 1 = 2. Some new existence results for convex as well as nonconvex multivalued maps are ob...
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We study a nonlinear three-point boundary value problem of sequential fractional differential inclusions of order xi + 1 with n 1 < xi <= n, n >= 2. Some new existence results for convex as well as nonconvex multivalued maps are obtained by using standard fixed point theorems. The paper concludes with an example.
A class of constrained nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems, that is, piecewise C-2 objectives with smooth inequality constraints are discussed in this paper. Based on the VU-theory, a superlinear convergent VU-a...
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A class of constrained nonsmooth nonconvex optimization problems, that is, piecewise C-2 objectives with smooth inequality constraints are discussed in this paper. Based on the VU-theory, a superlinear convergent VU-algorithm, which uses a nonconvex redistributed proximal bundle subroutine, is designed to solve these optimization problems. An illustrative example is given to show how this convergent method works on a Second-Order Cone programming problem.
We present a new Newton-like method for large-scale unconstrained nonconvex minimization. And a new straightforward limited memory quasi-Newton updating based on the modified quasi-Newton equation is deduced to constr...
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We present a new Newton-like method for large-scale unconstrained nonconvex minimization. And a new straightforward limited memory quasi-Newton updating based on the modified quasi-Newton equation is deduced to construct the trust region subproblem, in which the information of both the function value and gradient is used to construct approximate Hessian. The global convergence of the algorithm is proved. Numerical results indicate that the proposed method is competitive and efficient on some classical large-scale nonconvex test problems.
Combined heat and power dynamic economic emission dispatch (CHPDEED) problem is a complicated nonlinear constrained multiobjective optimization problem with nonconvex characteristics. CHPDEED determines the optimal he...
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Combined heat and power dynamic economic emission dispatch (CHPDEED) problem is a complicated nonlinear constrained multiobjective optimization problem with nonconvex characteristics. CHPDEED determines the optimal heat and power schedule of committed generating units by minimizing both fuel cost and emission simultaneously under ramp rate constraints and other constraints. This paper proposes hybrid differential evolution (DE) and sequential quadratic programming (SQP) to solve the CHPDEED problem with nonsmooth and nonconvex cost function due to valve point effects. DE is used as a global optimizer, and SQP is used as a fine tuning to determine the optimal solution at the final. The proposed hybrid DE-SQP method has been tested and compared to demonstrate its effectiveness.
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