Heat pumps are increasingly becoming a key solution in the quest for decarbonization, offering a significant advantage over traditional boilers due to their superior energy efficiency. Not only can heat pumps provide ...
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Heat pumps are increasingly becoming a key solution in the quest for decarbonization, offering a significant advantage over traditional boilers due to their superior energy efficiency. Not only can heat pumps provide both heating and cooling, but they also achieve thermal efficiencies exceeding 500%, which can seem to defy conventional expectations. The outdoor unit of a heat pump consists of about twenty main components, one of which is a complex network of copper pipes and sheets welded to valves, connectors, and other fittings. This set involves over thirty welded joints, highlighting a significant opportunity for reducing manufacturing time through process optimization. Copper is a critical material extensively used in various applications due to its excellent thermal and electrical conductivity. However, these very properties make welding copper particularly challenging, especially when aiming to automate and streamline industrial processes. Traditionally, connecting copper pipes and fittings is done through brazing, yet alternative methods such as LASER welding, electron beam welding, resistance welding, friction welding, and ultrasonic welding also exist. This study focuses on the ultrasonic welding of copper, aiming to identify the optimal parameters that maximize the mechanical strength of overlapping joints and ensure effective tube sealing. Experimental results showed that for copper sheets, the best shear strength was 277 MPa, that is 97.7
%
of the parent metal, with ductile rupture, achieved with a welding time of 3 seconds and a pressure of 6 bar. For tube sealing, the optimal conditions were a welding time of 3 seconds and a pressure of 4 bar. For both scenarios, the same variables were used, retention time of 0.62 s, initial pressure of 2 bar, retention pressure of 2 bar and sonotrode rising pressure of 3 bar. The analysis reveals that ultrasonic welding of copper can achieve both robust mechanical strength and reliable sealing, making it a promis
The human factor plays a relevant role in all manual or partially automatic production systems, specially, the ones showing reliable and balanced dynamics. In the literature, parametric or survey-based models are quit...
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The human factor plays a relevant role in all manual or partially automatic production systems, specially, the ones showing reliable and balanced dynamics. In the literature, parametric or survey-based models are quite common for performance evaluation of production workers. In this work, multi-directional efficiency analysis is used instead, for root cause analysis of product reworks and bottlenecks occurrence, according to four worker-related parameters: experience time, wage, delay time and response time. The approach allows to identify individual inefficiencies per tuple worker/working shift and to cluster them according to similar inefficiency parameters. In addition, this work opens a path to new applications of multi-directional efficiency analysis to problems in the manufacturing industry.
In this paper we present a variant of the McEliece cryptosystem that possesses several interesting properties, including a reduction of the public key for a given security level. In contrast to the classical McEliece ...
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Using the Ernst formalism, a novel solution of vacuum general relativity was recently obtained [Phys. Rev. D 106, 064014 (2022)], describing a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in a nonasymptotically flat rotatin...
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Using the Ernst formalism, a novel solution of vacuum general relativity was recently obtained [Phys. Rev. D 106, 064014 (2022)], describing a Schwarzschild black hole (BH) immersed in a nonasymptotically flat rotating background, dubbed swirling universe, with the peculiar property that north and south hemispheres spin in opposite directions. We investigate the null geodesic flow and, in particular, the existence of light rings in this vacuum geometry. By evaluating the total topological charge w, we show that there exists one unstable light ring (w=−1) for each rotation sense of the background. We observe that the swirling background drives the Schwarzschild BH light rings outside the equatorial plane, displaying counterrotating motion with respect to each other, while (both) corotating with respect to the swirling universe. Using backward ray-tracing, we obtain the shadow and gravitational lensing effects, revealing a novel feature for observers on the equatorial plane: the BH shadow displays an odd Z2 (north-south) symmetry, inherited from the same type of symmetry of the spacetime itself: a twisted shadow.
Ultracompact objects with light rings (LRs) but without an event horizon could mimic black holes (BHs) in their strong gravity phenomenology. But are such objects dynamically viable? Stationary and axisymmetric ultrac...
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Ultracompact objects with light rings (LRs) but without an event horizon could mimic black holes (BHs) in their strong gravity phenomenology. But are such objects dynamically viable? Stationary and axisymmetric ultracompact objects that can form from smooth, quasi-Minkowski initial data must have at least one stable LR, which has been argued to trigger a spacetime instability; but its development and fate have been unknown. Using fully nonlinear numerical evolutions of ultracompact bosonic stars free of any other known instabilities and introducing a novel adiabatic effective potential technique, we confirm the LRs triggered instability, identifying two possible fates: migration to nonultracompact configurations or collapse to BHs. In concrete examples we show that typical migration (collapse) timescales are not larger than ∼103 light-crossing times, unless the stable LR potential well is very shallow. Our results show that the LR instability is effective in destroying horizonless ultracompact objects that could be plausible BH imitators.
This paper is an exploration of the faithful transitive permutation representations of the orientation-preserving automorphisms groups of highly symmetric toroidal maps and hypermaps. The main theorems of this paper g...
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This review article is dedicated to Professor Stefan Samko on the occasion of his 80th birthday. It contains some biographic snippets of S. Samko, as well as a bird’s-eye view on his research during the last decade. ...
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This paper is devoted to investigate necessary conditions of optimality for the fractional Herglotz problem, involving a general form of a tempered fractional derivative. We obtain the transversality conditions in the...
This paper is devoted to investigate necessary conditions of optimality for the fractional Herglotz problem, involving a general form of a tempered fractional derivative. We obtain the transversality conditions in the case of free endpoints and we study the necessary condition of optimality in the presence of higher-order derivatives.
This paper presents necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for variational problems involving distributed-order fractionals derivatives with arbitrary smooth kernels and generalized Lagrangians. Many important...
This paper presents necessary and sufficient optimality conditions for variational problems involving distributed-order fractionals derivatives with arbitrary smooth kernels and generalized Lagrangians. Many important results from the fractional calculus of variations can be obtained from our main results.
The study aims to provide an overview of the design and analysis of the differential system of the Nonlinear Combined Drug Therapy Mathematical (NCDTM) model for HIV Infection. This is achieved by utilizing the artifi...
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