Breaks, cuts, and patterns

We generalize the concept of a break by considering pairs of arbitrary rounds. We show that a set of home-away patterns minimizing the number of generalized breaks cannot be found in polynomial time, unless P=NP. When all teams have the same break set, the decision version becomes easy; optimizing remains NP-hard.     

Shedding patterns of the near-wake vortices behind a circular cylinder

The unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations have been accurately solved for the laminar flow past a circular cylinder in the Reynolds number range 50–200. A direct elliptic solver called the SEVP is used to rapidly advance the streamfunction in time, facilitating the overall convergence to the fully periodic or quasi-steady state. A new integral-series method is developed for the far-field streamfunction condition on a finite two-dimensional computational domain. The use of fourth-order Hermitian relations for the convection terms in the conservation-form vorticity transport equation has also contributed to the good comparison of the present results with the earlier experimental data. The vortex-shedding patterns visualized by the experimentalist are numerically reproduced here in the given Reynolds number range. Discussions that may be helpful in interpreting the behaviour of the shedding frequency are presented in the main text.     

一类特殊函数的[n/n]Padé逼近

本文对［ｎ／ｎ］Ｐａｄé逼近进行探讨，证明了Ｐｎ（ｘ）／Ｑｎ（ｘ）是函数ｆ（ｘ）在ｘ＝０处的［ｎ／ｎ］Ｐａｄé逼近，而Ｑｎ（ｘ）＝Ｐｎ（－ｘ）的充要条件是ｆ（ｘ）ｆ（－ｘ）＝１，从而使这一类函数的［ｎ／ｎ］Ｐａｄé逼近计算量减少一半．     

A new family of heavy transition metal coordination compounds and its application,I. Design,synthesis and characterization of volatile organohafnium precursors

The first three representatives of a new family of volatile organohafnium compounds suitable as metallo-organic chemical vapour deposition precursors were synthesized. A combination of cyclopentadienyl and alkoxo-ligands with a bicyclo[2.2.1]heptanc framework was used. Volatility at relatively low temperatures for hafnium compounds was found and the precursors were characterized by elemental analysis and spectroscopic methods (IR, ¹H and ¹³C NMR, mass spectrometry and mass-analysed ion kinetic energy spectroscopy). The outlook for use in hafnium functional materials synthesis was derived from the fragmentation data.     

Abduction-induction (generalization) processes of elementary majors on figural patterns in algebra

The article deals with issues concerning the abductive-inductive reasoning of 42 preservice elementary majors on patterns that consist of figural and numerical cues. We discuss: ways in which the participants develop generalizations about classes of abstract objects; abductive processes they exhibit which support their induction leading to a generalization; ways they justify their generalizations in the abductive stage, and; the effects of figural and numerical cues in the manner they construct a plausible abductive generalization. Two types of abductions are explored, model-based and manipulative. A proposed abductive-inductive reasoning process for pattern sequences is presented and discussed in the concluding section.     

Pattern’s reliability importance under dependence condition and different information levels

Using martingale methods in reliability theory we developed the Barlow and Proschan reliability importance of a pattern to the system reliability under dependence conditions. We allowed several levels of information to calculate the importance measure.     

基于龙基光栅塔尔博特效应的长焦距测量

提出通过对龙基光栅的塔尔博特效应所产生的莫尔条纹角度的计量来测量长焦距的方法。并在此基础上推导了长焦距的计算公式，分析了这种方法的测量误差。这种长焦距测量方法具有实时测量、精度高的特点。     

SMALE HORSESHOES AND CHAOS IN DISCRETIZED PERTURBED NLS SYSTEMS(Ⅰ)-POINCAR(E) MAP

The existence of Smale horseshoes for a certain discretized perturbed nonlinear Schroedinger(NLS) equations was established by using n-dimensional versions of the Conley-Moser conditions. As a result, the discretized perturbed NLS system is shown to possess an invariant set Λ on which the dynamics is topologically conjugate to a shift on four symbols.     

Heat transfer measurements and correlations for air–water flow of different flow patterns in a horizontal pipe

Heat transfer coefficients were measured and new correlations were developed for two-phase, two-component (air and water) heat transfer in a horizontal pipe for different flow patterns. Flow patterns were observed in a transparent circular pipe using an air–water mixture. Visual identification of the flow patterns was supplemented with photographic data, and the results were plotted on the flow regime map proposed by Taitel and Dukler and agreed quite well with each other. A two-phase heat transfer experimental setup was built for this study and a total of 150 two-phase heat transfer data with different flow patterns were obtained under a uniform wall heat flux boundary condition. For these data, the superficial Reynolds number ranged from 640 to 35,500 for the liquid and from 540 to 21,200 for the gas. Our previously developed robust two-phase heat transfer correlation for a vertical pipe with modified constants predicted the horizontal pipe air–water heat transfer experimental data with very good accuracy. Overall the proposed correlations predicted the data with a mean deviation of 1.0% and an rms deviation of 12%.