Localized nonlinear modes, or solitons, are obtained for the two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with various external potentials that possess large variations from periodicity, i.e., vacancy defects, ...
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Localized nonlinear modes, or solitons, are obtained for the two-dimensional nonlinear Schrödinger equation with various external potentials that possess large variations from periodicity, i.e., vacancy defects, edge dislocations, and quasicrystal structure. The solitons are obtained by employing a spectral fixed-point computational scheme. Investigation of soliton evolution by direct numerical simulations shows that irregular-lattice solitons can be stable, unstable, or undergo collapse.
The cost of implementing real-time monitoring and control of industrial processes is a significant barrier for many companies. Acoustic techniques provide complementary information to optical spectroscopic sensors and...
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The cost of implementing real-time monitoring and control of industrial processes is a significant barrier for many companies. Acoustic techniques provide complementary information to optical spectroscopic sensors and have a number of advantages: they are relatively inexpensive, can be applied non-invasively, are non-destructive, multi-point measurements are possible, opaque samples can be analysed in containers that are made from opaque materials (e.g. steel or concrete) and the analysis can be conducted in real-time. In this paper a new theoretical model is proposed which describes the transport of particles in a stirred reactor, their collision with the reactor walls, the subsequent vibrations which are then transmitted through the vessel walls, and their detection by an ultrasonic transducer. The particle-wall impact is modelled using Hertz-Zener impact theory. Experimental data is then used in conjunction with this (forward) model to form an inverse problem for the particle size distribution using a least squares cost function. Application of an integral smoothing operator to the power spectra greatly enhances the accuracy and robustness of the approach. One advantage of this new approach is that since it operates in the frequency domain, it can cope with the industrially relevant case of many particle-wall collisions. The technique will be illustrated using data from a set of controlled experiments. In the first instance a set of simplified experiments involving single particles being dropped in air onto a substrate are utilised. The second set of experiments involves particles in a carrier fluid being stirred in a reactor vessel. In each case the approach is able to successfully recover the associated particle size
Extended sufficient conditions for the observation of linear time invariant systems with unknown inputs are formulated. A new observation scheme is proposed. An additional linear term ensuring global stability is incl...
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Extended sufficient conditions for the observation of linear time invariant systems with unknown inputs are formulated. A new observation scheme is proposed. An additional linear term ensuring global stability is included for this sake in the differentiation algorithm based on high-order sliding-modes. The global robust finite-time-convergent estimation of observable states and unknown inputs is obtained, exact in the absence of measurement noises. Under the detectability conditions the whole state is asymptotically estimated. The accuracy of the estimation in the presence of bounded deterministic Lebesgue-measurable noises and discrete sampling is worked out
In recent years, the X-architecture is introduced to obtain better performance for integrated circuit physical design. This paper reformulates the global routing problem in X-architecture under the liquid routing mode...
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(纸本)9780780394513
In recent years, the X-architecture is introduced to obtain better performance for integrated circuit physical design. This paper reformulates the global routing problem in X-architecture under the liquid routing model. Then, a dynamic resource assignment (Dra) method is presented to reduce potential vias. At last, a global router called DraXRouter, is designed, in which we adopt a dynamic-tabulist-based tree construction algorithm and a stochastic optimization strategy to gain high quality routing solution. Tested on ISPD'98 benchmarks, DraXRouter achieves better routing performance compared with two recent global routers.
In this paper, we show the relationship between two algorithms and optimization problems that are the subject of recent attention in the networking and control literature. First, we obtain some results on averaging al...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1424401704;9781424401703
In this paper, we show the relationship between two algorithms and optimization problems that are the subject of recent attention in the networking and control literature. First, we obtain some results on averaging algorithms over acyclic digraphs with fixed and controlled-switching topology. Second, we discuss continuous and discrete coverage control laws. Further, we show how discrete coverage control laws can be cast as averaging algorithms over discrete Voronoi graphs
States with private correlations but little or no distillable entanglement were recently reported. Here, we consider the secure distribution of such states, i.e., the situation when an adversary gives two parties such...
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States with private correlations but little or no distillable entanglement were recently reported. Here, we consider the secure distribution of such states, i.e., the situation when an adversary gives two parties such states and they have to verify privacy. We present a protocol which enables the parties to extract from such untrusted states an arbitrarily long and secure key, even though the amount of distillable entanglement of the untrusted states can be arbitrarily small.
In tightly confined one-dimensional (1D) systems, the effective Coulomb interaction is greatly enhanced and optical transitions generally lead to the formation of strongly bound excitons. When more than one exciton is...
In tightly confined one-dimensional (1D) systems, the effective Coulomb interaction is greatly enhanced and optical transitions generally lead to the formation of strongly bound excitons. When more than one exciton is present, the Coulomb interaction also leads to rapid exciton-exciton annihilation through an Auger recombination process. This effect, which may be significant even at low exciton densities, can be described by a rate law governing two-body interactions. The Auger recombination rate for excitons in a strongly confined 1D system is analyzed. The rate increases sharply with exciton binding energy, but varies only weakly with temperature. An explicit expression for the Auger recombination rate in terms of the exciton binding energy, optical matrix element and reduced carrier mass is derived for a two-band model in which the Coulomb interaction is approximated by a point-contact potential. Results for the prototypical 1D system of single-walled carbon nanotubes are obtained and compared with experiment.
In this study, we assessed the possibility of using the GREENLAB model to quantitatively simulate adaptive responses of tomato plants competing for light. The model was able to reproduce modifications induced by a red...
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In this study, we assessed the possibility of using the GREENLAB model to quantitatively simulate adaptive responses of tomato plants competing for light. The model was able to reproduce modifications induced by a reduction of plant spacing in dry matter production and in the allocation pattern. However, the analysis of parameter stability showed that some parameters were environment dependent and that an adjustment of model formalisms was required to explicitly represent the plant response. Model parameters also proved to be sensitive to the data acquisition procedure. We confirmed that target files composed of dry matter records lead to parameters that were better indicators of the carbohydrates metabolism at all densities.
Despite of promising results in research, advanced control strategies fail to gain trust in wastewater treatment practice. Due to the sensitivity of the biological processes to disturbances, operators are often unable...
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ISBN:
(纸本)1424308526
Despite of promising results in research, advanced control strategies fail to gain trust in wastewater treatment practice. Due to the sensitivity of the biological processes to disturbances, operators are often unable to find the causes of faults due to the lack of effective real-time on-line monitoring. Strategies for on-line monitoring are therefore essential to enhance biological process control. Therefore, a suitable multivariate soft-sensor is desired for fault detection and control for a pilot-scale sequencing batch reactor (SBR) system to allow effluent quality to be estimated well before off-line analysis is finished. For this purpose, several multivariate methods are available, including (linear) partial least squares (PLS), Neural Net PLS (NNPLS) and Kernel PLS (KPLS). While non-linear extensions of PLS such as NNPLS require fitting of non-linear functions, KPLS does not. KPLS is based on a non-linear transformation of the process data, followed by the fitting of a linear PLS model between the transformed inputs and outputs. PLS, NNPLS and KPLS were compared regarding their ability to predict effluent quality data and their computational requirements. While (linear) PLS and NNPLS lead to acceptable prediction, KPLS results in poor model performance. Moreover, the computational requirement of KPLS were large compared to PLS and NNPLS. When comparing PLS and NNPLS to each other, it was found that NNPLS leads to the best possible prediction given the experimental data set, while the extra computational requirements are minimal.
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