Challenging Students to View the Concept of Area in Triangles in a Broad Context: Exploiting the Features of Cabri-II

This study focuses on the constructions in terms of area and perimeter in equivalent triangles developed by students aged 12–15 years-old, using the tools provided by Cabri-Geometry II [Labore (1990). Cabri-Geometry (software), Université de Grenoble]. Twenty-five students participated in a learning experiment where they were asked to construct: (a) pairs of equivalent triangles “in as many ways as possible” and to study their area and their perimeter using any of the tools provided and (b) “any possible sequence of modifications of an original triangle into other equivalent ones”. As regards the concept of area and in contrast to a paper and pencil environment, Cabri provided students with different and potential opportunities in terms of: (a) means of construction, (b) control, (c) variety of representations and (d) linking representations, by exploiting its capability for continuous modifications. By exploiting these opportunities in the context of the given open tasks, students were helped by the tools provided to develop a broader view of the concept of area than the typical view they would construct in a typical paper and pencil environment.     

Method of lines with boundary elements for 1‐D transient diffusion‐reaction problems

Time‐dependent differential equations can be solved using the concept of method of lines (MOL) together with the boundary element (BE) representation for the spatial linear part of the equation. The BE method alleviates the need for spatial discretization and casts the problem in an integral format. Hence errors associated with the numerical approximation of the spatial derivatives are totally eliminated. An element level local cubic approximation is used for the variable at each time step to facilitate the time marching and the nonlinear terms are represented in a semi‐implicit manner by a local linearization at each time step. The accuracy of the method has been illustrated on a number of test problems of engineering significance. © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2006     

Roles of SiH4 and SiF4 in growth and structural changes of poly-Si films

The structural properties of polycrystalline silicon films, prepared by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition system, with different flow rates of SiH₄/SiF₄ mixtures at 300 °C were investigated. This study indicates that the low hydrogen coverage on the growing surface, under optimum fluorine radicals, will be leaded to an improvement of crystallized area as compared with case of high hydrogen coverage surface. Moreover, the studies of the role of SiH₄ and SiF₄ radicals show that the SiH₄ radicals are important in the nucleation and growth of grains. However, SiF₄ radicals are effective in the structural change of grain boundaries regions and by this way, in the present system, establish the growth of grains under the dominant 〈1 1 0〉 direction. The stress investigation indicates that addition of high flow rate of SiF₄ in amorphous film, results in the nearly stress free films. Finally, we found that the changes in g-value reflect the changes in the intrinsic compressive and tensile stress in the both polycrystalline and amorphous silicon films.     

超尺寸物品装箱问题及其算法

本文探讨一类新装箱问题-超尺寸物品装箱问题。针对实际解决该问题的两涉法，我们提出了一个评价效率更高的目标函数，证明了在此目标函数下两步法的渐近最坏比不小于2，并给出了渐近量坏比与拆分次数的关系。最后本文提出了一种不同于两步法的新在线算法MA，证明了在新目标函数下其渐近最坏比不超过7/4。     

下料问题的优化模型及其快速算法

结合生产实际中具体的下料问题,本文建立了该类问题的优化模型,并提出下料方式的遴选三准则,即高利用率优先准则,长度优先准则和时间优先准则.运用本文的算法对一维下料的利用率高达99.6%,机器时间4秒.对二维的利用率为98.9%,机器时间约7秒.     

量子位Heisenberg XX开链中边界量子位之间的纠缠

Heisenberg 开链对研究量子态在自旋链上的传递有重要的意义.本文研究了五量子位Heisenberg XX 开链中边界量子位之间的纠缠，在该系统中引入了磁杂质和系统杂质且它们之间满足线性关系时，该系统可以精确求解，此时边界量子位之间存在纠缠.选择合适的杂质参数和磁场参数，该边界纠缠的最大值可达到0.5. 关键词： Heisenberg XX开链 边界纠缠 杂质     

Clifford分析中无界域上正则函数的边值问题

在引入修正Cauchy核的基础上,讨论了无界域上正则函数的带共轭值的边值问题：a(t)Φ (t) b(t)Φ (t) c(t)Φ-(t) d(t)Φ=g(t)．首先给出了无界域上正则函数的Plemelj公式,然后利用积分方程方法和压缩不动点原理证明了问题解的存在唯一性．     

考虑货架存放期的经济批量排产问题的求解

在化工、造纸、制药、钢铁等工业生产中，一台设备或一条生产线可以生产多种产品的情况很常见。在生产中，如何安排各类产品的生产顺序以及生产数量显得十分重要。这类问题通常称作经济批量排产问题，这类问题是生产库存中的经典问题。本文研究的经济批量排产问题考虑了产品货架存放期因素，针对以往研究的不足，本文提出用批量变动方法求解该类问题，由计算结果显示，按照这种排产方法花费的成本要低于其他两种经济批量排产问题常用的方法。     

TWO-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR A CLASS OF SECOND-ORDER DIFFERENCE EQUATIONS

In this paper, we apply a critical point theorem and obtain the condition for the existence of three solutions to two-point boundary value problem of a second order nonlinear difference equation.     

Mathematical modeling of flows through inelastic porous solids

We propose a framework, based on classical mixture theory, to describe the isothermal flow of an incompressible fluid through a deformable inelastic porous solid. The modeling of the behavior of the inelastic solid takes into account changes in the elastic response due to evolution in the microstructure of the material. We apply the model to a compression layer problem. The mathematical problem generated by the model is a free boundary problem.