Study on the radial composite piezoelectric ceramic transducer in radial vibration

A new type of radial composite piezoelectric transducer in radial vibration is developed and analyzed. The radial composite transducer consists of a piezoelectric ceramic thin ring polarized in the thickness direction and a metal thin circular ring. They are connected together and excited to vibrate in the radial direction. The radial vibrations of a piezoelectric ceramic thin ring and a metal thin circular ring are analyzed, respectively. Their radial electro-mechanical equivalent circuits are obtained. Based on the electro-mechanical equivalent circuits and using the boundary conditions between the piezoelectric ceramic thin ring and the metal thin circular ring in the radial direction, the electro-mechanical equivalent circuit of the radial composite piezoelectric transducer is derived out and the resonance frequency equation is obtained. The relationship between the resonance frequency and the geometrical dimensions of the transducer is analyzed. Some radial composite piezoelectric transducers are designed and manufactured. The resonance frequencies and the anti-resonance frequencies, the electro-mechanical equivalent circuit parameters are measured. The effective electro-mechanical coupling coefficient and the mechanical quality factor are calculated. It is illustrated that the measured radial resonance frequencies are in good agreement with the theoretical results from the resonance frequency equation.     

An Extremal Problem Arising in the Dynamics of Two-Phase Materials That Directly Reveals Information about the Internal Geometry

In two-phase materials, each phase having a non-local response in time, it has been found that for some driving fields the response somehow untangles at specific times, and allows one to directly infer useful information about the geometry of the material, such as the volume fractions of the phases. Motivated by this, and to obtain an algorithm for designing appropriate driving fields, we find approximate, measure independent, linear relations between the values that Markov functions take at a given set of possibly complex points, not belonging to the interval [-1,1] where the measure is supported. The problem is reduced to simply one of polynomial approximation of a given function on the interval [-1,1] and, to simplify the analysis, Chebyshev approximation is used. This allows one to obtain explicit estimates of the error of the approximation, in terms of the number of points and the minimum distance of the points to the interval [-1,1]. Assuming this minimum distance is bounded below by a number greater than 1/2, the error converges exponentially to zero as the number of points is increased. Approximate linear relations are also obtained that incorporate a set of moments of the measure. In the context of the motivating problem, the analysis also yields bounds on the response at any particular time for any driving field, and allows one to estimate the response at a given frequency using an appropriately designed driving field that effectively is turned on only for a fixed interval of time. The approximation extends directly to Markov-type functions with a positive semidefinite operator valued measure, and this has applications to determining the shape of an inclusion in a body from boundary flux measurements at a specific time, when the time-dependent boundary potentials are suitably tailored. © 2022 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

Confidence intervals and ellipsoids for estimable functions and estimable vectors in models with orthogonal block structure

Sub-models of mixed linear models are considered. The independence of these sub-models leads to sufficient statistics for the parameters relevant for their densities. Using pivot variables, confidence regions are obtained as well hypothesis testing for variance components, estimable functions, and estimable vectors. In addition, to compare the estimators and the models, we present the histograms with the empirical joint densities for positive and negative parts of the estimators. The figures, for the two-dimensional charts, contain the corresponding UMVUE and are all unimodal with the UMVUE near the mode. The nearness of the estimators and the modes validates the presented methodology and allows the safe use of induced densities. A numerical example applied to real data is presented.     

A new operational vector approach for time-fractional subdiffusion equations of distributed order based on hybrid functions

This research study deals with the numerical solutions of linear and nonlinear time-fractional subdiffusion equations of distributed order. The main aim of our approach is based on the hybrid of block-pulse functions and shifted Legendre polynomials. We produce a novel and exact operational vector for the fractional Riemann–Liouville integral and use it via the Gauss–Legendre quadrature formula and collocation method. Consequently, we reduce the proposed equations to systems of equations. The convergence and error bounds for the new method are investigated. Six problems are tested to confirm the accuracy of the proposed approach. Comparisons between the obtained numerical results and other existing methods are provided. Numerical experiments illustrate the reliability, applicability, and efficiency of the proposed method.     

Several improved asymptotic normality criteria and their applications to graph polynomials

As widely regarded, one of the most classical and remarkable tools to measure the asymptotic normality of combinatorial statistics is due to Harper's real-rooted method proposed in 1967. However, this classical theorem exists some obvious shortcomings, for example, it requests all the roots of the corresponding generating function, which is impossible in general.Aiming to overcome this shortcoming in some extent, in this paper we present an improved asymptotic normality criterion, along with several variant versions, which usually just ask for one coefficient of the generating function, without knowing any roots. In virtue of these new criteria, the asymptotic normality of some usual combinatorial statistics can be revealed and extended. Among which, we introduce the applications to matching numbers and Laplacian coefficients in detail. Some relevant conjectures, proposed by Godsil (Combinatorica, 1981) and Wang et al. (J. Math. Anal. Appl., 2017), are generalized and verified as corollaries.     

Electromagnetic fields simulating a rotating sphere and its exterior with implications to the modeling of the heliosphere

Vector displacements expressed in spherical coordinates are proposed. They correspond to electromagnetic fields in vacuum that globally rotate about an axis and display many circular patterns on the surface of a ball. The fields satisfy the set of Maxwell's equations, and some connections with magnetohydrodynamics can also be established. The solutions are extended with continuity outside the ball. In order to avoid peripheral velocities of arbitrary magnitude, as it may happen for a rigid rotating body, they are organized to form successive encapsulated shells, with substructures recalling ball-bearing assemblies. A recipe for the construction of these solutions is provided by playing with the eigenfunctions of the vector Laplace operator. Some applications relative to astronomy are finally discussed.     

Weighted Composition Operators from the Bloch Spaces to Weighted Hardy Spaces on Bounded Symmetric Domains*

Let B_E be a bounded symmetric domain realized as the unit open ball of JB*-triples.The authors will characterize the bounded weighted composition operator from the Bloch space B(BE) to weighted Hardy space H_v^∞ in terms of Kobayashi distance.The authors also give a sufficient condition for the compactness,and also give the upper bound of its essential norm.As a corollary,they show that the boundedness and compactness are equivalent for composition operator fromB(B...     

A non-overlapping domain decomposition dual reciprocity method for solving the forward–backward heat equation in two-dimension

We apply a boundary element dual reciprocity method (DRBEM) to the numerical solution of the forward–backward heat equation in a two-dimensional case. The method is employed for the spatial variable via the fundamental solution of the Laplace equation and the Crank–Nicolson finite difference scheme is utilized to treat the time variable. The physical domain is divided into two non-overlapping subdomains resulting in two standard forward and backward parabolic equations. The subproblems are then treated by the underlying method assuming a virtual boundary in the interface and starting with an initial approximate solution on this boundary followed by updating the solution by an iterative procedure. In addition, we show that the time discrete scheme is unconditionally stable and convergent using the energy method. Furthermore, some computational aspects will be suggested to efficiently deal with the formulation of the proposed method. Finally, two forward–backward problems, for which the exact solution is available, will be numerically solved for two different domains to demonstrate the efficiency of the proposed approach.     

基于连续小波变换下的土壤有害元素砷含量估测

与传统检测方法相比,利用高光谱技术进行土壤有害元素砷含量的估算,具有快速、准确,成本低的特点,可对干旱区绿洲土壤有害元素砷污染进行动态监测。基于新疆渭干河-库车河三角洲绿洲耕层土壤样品的采集,获取土壤光谱数据和有害元素砷含量。通过bior1.3,db4,gaus4和mexh这4种小波基函数对土壤原始光谱反射率进行连续小波变换,并将变换后光谱数据与有害元素砷进行相关分析,以筛选出的敏感小波系数为自变量,采用偏最小二乘回归、支持向量机回归、BP神经网络和随机森林回归方法对有害元素砷含量进行高光谱反演。研究结果显示：（1）4种小波基函数在3~8尺度的光谱分解效果明显优于其他尺度,特别是4~6尺度的连续小波变换有效提升了光谱反射率与土壤有害元素砷之间的相关性,通过显著性检验的小波系数数量有了明显增多（p<0.01）,在可见光的400~700 nm以及近红外的1 100~1 700和2 200~2 400 nm附近具有较强的相关性;（2）通过比较4种小波基函数对光谱数据中有效信息的辨识能力,认为小波基函数bior1.3和mexh要优于db4和gaus4,其中bior1.3的光谱分解效果最好,gaus4相对最弱;通过bior1.3第5尺度的光谱变换,与土壤有害元素砷显著相关的波段数量最多,为507个（p<0.01）;（3）比较4种建模方法的反演结果发现,SVMR,BPNN和RFR模型相较于PLSR模型具有更强的估测能力,模型的估测精度更高。综合分析各模型的稳定性及估测精度后,认为bior1.3-25-RFR模型可作为研究区土壤有害元素砷的最佳估测模型。该模型的训练集和验证集的R2分别为0.893和0.639,RMSE为1.075和1.651 mg·kg-1,RPD分别为2.89和1.64,表明模型估测效果较好,稳定性较强。采用合适的小波基函数进行连续小波变换可减少土壤高光谱数据中的白噪声,挖掘出土壤光谱数据中的有效信息,对土壤有害元素砷含量的准确估测提供有力的技术保障。     

Deuteron electromagnetic form factors and tensor polarization observables in the framework of the hard-wall AdS/QCD model

We study the electromagnetic form factors and tensor polarization observables of the deuteron in the framework of the hard-wall AdS/QCD model. We find a profile function for the bulk twist \begin{document}$\tau=6$\end{document} vector field, which describes the deuteron on the boundary and fix the infrared boundary cut-off of AdS space in accordance with the ground state mass of the deuteron. We obtain the deuteron charge monopole, quadrupole, and magnetic dipole form factors and tensor polarization observables from the bulk Lagrangians for the deuteron and photon field interactions. We plot the momentum transfer dependence of the form factors and tensor polarization observables and compare our numerical results with those in the soft-wall model and experimental data.