Structures can be regarded as distributed-parameter systems characterized by mass, damping, and stiffness distributions. A perturbation technique converging iteratively to the parameter distributions is presented. The...
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Structures can be regarded as distributed-parameter systems characterized by mass, damping, and stiffness distributions. A perturbation technique converging iteratively to the parameter distributions is presented. The technique is based on the finite element method and does not require a full array of measurements.
A mathematical model of a gas-fired heater is used to estimate fuel input trajectories that minimize fuel consumption. The model has distributed parameters and an active surface temperature constraint. Optimal control...
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A mathematical model of a gas-fired heater is used to estimate fuel input trajectories that minimize fuel consumption. The model has distributed parameters and an active surface temperature constraint. Optimal control theory is used to establish a two-point boundary value problem that is solved by a combination of shooting and relaxation. The shooting algorithm is an extension of the algorithm previously reported by the same authors [3]. The relaxation algorithm is based on a method for inverting a sparse band diagonal matrix. The calculations confirm that as the time available to warm a batch plant increases so the amount of fuel necessary for the task decreases.
The study of population growth reveals that the behaviors that follow the power law appear in numerous biological, demographical, ecological, physical and other contexts. Parabolic models appear to be realistic approx...
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The study of population growth reveals that the behaviors that follow the power law appear in numerous biological, demographical, ecological, physical and other contexts. Parabolic models appear to be realistic approximations of real-life replicator systems, while hyperbolic models were successfully applied to problems of global demography and appear relevant in quasispecies and hypercycle modeling. Nevertheless, it is not always clear why non-exponential growth is observed empirically and what possible origins of the non-exponential models are. In this paper the power equation is considered within the frameworks of inhomogeneous population models;it is proven that any power equation describes the total population size of a frequency-dependent model with Gamma-distributed Malthusian parameter. Additionally, any super-exponential equation describes the dynamics of inhomogeneous Malthusian density-dependent population model. All statistical characteristics of the underlying inhomogeneous models are computed explicitly. The results of this analysis show that population heterogeneity can be a reasonable explanation for power law accurately describing total population growth. (C) 2014 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
The average power-handling capability (APHC) of the signal line in finite-ground coplanar waveguides (FGCPWs) on polyimide and GaAs substrates is evaluated in this paper. In our approach, the ohmic loss of metal lines...
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The average power-handling capability (APHC) of the signal line in finite-ground coplanar waveguides (FGCPWs) on polyimide and GaAs substrates is evaluated in this paper. In our approach, the ohmic loss of metal lines is characterized in different ways, and the effects of an irregular edge shape are also considered. The rise in temperature of the signal line is determined by single- and double-layer thermal models, with the temperature-dependent properties of the thermal conductivity of GaAs material treated appropriately. Parametric studies are carried out to investigate the overall effects of signal-line width, thickness, conductivity, edge-shape angle, and polyimide thickness on APHC. Some possible ways to enhance the APHC of these FGCPWs are also proposed. (c) 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
Dendritic and axonal processes of nerve cells, along with the soma itself, have membranes with spatially distributed densities of ionic channels of various kinds. These ionic channels play a major role in characterizi...
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Dendritic and axonal processes of nerve cells, along with the soma itself, have membranes with spatially distributed densities of ionic channels of various kinds. These ionic channels play a major role in characterizing the types of excitable responses expected of the cell type. These densities are usually represented as constant parameters in neural models because of the difficulty in experimentally estimating them. However, through microelectrode measurements and selective ion staining techniques, it is known that ion channels are non-uniformly spatially distributed. This paper presents a non-optimization approach to recovering a single spatially non-uniform ion density through use of temporal data that can be gotten from recording microelectrode measurements at the ends of a neural fiber segment of interest. The numerical approach is first applied to a linear cable model and a transformed version of the linear model that has closed-form solutions. Then the numerical method is shown to be applicable to non-linear nerve models by showing it can recover the potassium conductance in the Morris-Lecar model for barnacle muscle, and recover the spine density in a continuous dendritic spine model by Baer and Rinzel. (c) 2004 Published by Elsevier Inc.
Asymmetric coupled lines (CLs) with double shielding in an inhomogeneous dielectric medium are studied. They have specific properties that allow the creation of impedance-transforming directional couplers with a given...
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Asymmetric coupled lines (CLs) with double shielding in an inhomogeneous dielectric medium are studied. They have specific properties that allow the creation of impedance-transforming directional couplers with a given directivity type. The proposed models and synthesis techniques take into account both electric asymmetry and dielectric inhomogeneity. Numerical simulations and measurements prove the correctness of the general theory, and the possibility of creating co-, contra-, and trans-directional couplers with impedance-transforming and phase-shifting properties. The results will be useful for finding new design solutions for next-generation microwave circuits.
In this paper a mathematical model enabling the analysis of the heat-flow phenomena occurring in the waterwalls of the combustion chambers of the boilers for supercritical parameters is proposed. It is a one-dimension...
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In this paper a mathematical model enabling the analysis of the heat-flow phenomena occurring in the waterwalls of the combustion chambers of the boilers for supercritical parameters is proposed. It is a one-dimensional model with distributed parameters based on the solution of equations describing the conservation laws of mass, momentum, and energy. The purpose of the numerical calculations is to determine the distributions of the fluid enthalpy and the temperature of the waterwall pipes. This temperature should not exceed the calculation temperature for particular category of steel. The derived differential equations are solved using two methods: with the use of the implicit difference scheme, in which the mesh with regular nodes was applied, and using the Runge-Kutta method. The temperature distribution of the waterwall pipes is determined using the CFD. All thermophysical properties of the fluid and waterwall pipes are computed in real-time. The time-spatial heat transfer coefficient distribution is also computed in the on-line mode. The heat calculations for the combustion chamber are carried out with the use of the zone method, thus the thermal load distribution of the waterwalls is known. The time needed for the computations is of great importance when taking into consideration calculations carried out in the on-line mode. A correctly solved one-dimensional model ensures the appropriately short computational time.
We formulated a structured population model with distributed parameters to identify mechanisms that contribute to gene expression noise in time-dependent flow cytometry data. The model was validated using cell populat...
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We formulated a structured population model with distributed parameters to identify mechanisms that contribute to gene expression noise in time-dependent flow cytometry data. The model was validated using cell population-level gene expression data from two experiments with synthetically engineered eukaryotic cells. Our model captures the qualitative noise features of both experiments and accurately fit the data from the first experiment. Our results suggest that cellular switching between high and low expression states and transcriptional re-initiation are important factors needed to accurately describe gene expression noise with a structured population model. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
Based on the distributed parameters extracted and the thermal model proposed to calculate the rise in temperature, the average power handling capabilities (APHCs) of finite-ground thin-film microstrip lines (TFMLs) on...
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Based on the distributed parameters extracted and the thermal model proposed to calculate the rise in temperature, the average power handling capabilities (APHCs) of finite-ground thin-film microstrip lines (TFMLs) on Benzocyclobutene (BCB) and polyimide films over ultra-wide frequency ranges are investigated. Numerical results are given to show the enhancement in APHCs achieved by choosing appropriate metallization conductivity and thickness, BCB thermal conductivity, and polyimide thickness etc. It is believed that the proposed approach is useful in the design of practical TFML circuits.
The attenuation and slow-wave characteristics in an inverted embedded metal-insulator-semiconductor (IEM-MIS) microstrip line are investigated in this paper, based on the extracted frequency-dependent distributed para...
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The attenuation and slow-wave characteristics in an inverted embedded metal-insulator-semiconductor (IEM-MIS) microstrip line are investigated in this paper, based on the extracted frequency-dependent distributed parameters, that is, per-unit-length series resistance and inductance, shunt capacitance, and conductance of the structure. Parametric studies are performed to show the combined effects of different parameters, such as strip thickness, width, conductivity, embedding depth, and. silicon conductivity and its thickness, on the mode attenuation constant and slow-wave factor (SWF). (C) 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
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