Parametric Centers for Trigonometric Abel Equations

This article is devoted to one-dimensional perturbative theory on R × S ¹. There is a recursive formula for the successive obstructions to parametric center at any order of the perturbation parameter. The first obstruction is studied by means of complex analysis techniques. This extends to the trigonometric case what was done previously for the polynomial case (Israel J. Math. 142, 273–283, 2004). This article is dedicated to Professor Zhang Zhi-Fen on the occasion of her 80th Birthday     

Numerical study of concentrated fluid–particle suspension flow in a wavy channel

The particle migration effects and fluid–particle interactions occurring in the flow of highly concentrated fluid–particle suspension in a spatially modulated channel have been investigated numerically using a finite volume method. The mathematical model is based on the momentum and continuity equations for the suspension flow and a constitutive equation accounting for the effects of shear‐induced particle migration in concentrated suspensions. The model couples a Newtonian stress/shear rate relationship with a shear‐induced migration model of the suspended particles in which the local effective viscosity is dependent on the local volume fraction of solids. The numerical procedure employs finite volume method and the formulation is based on diffuse‐flux model. Semi‐implicit method for pressure linked equations has been used to solve the resulting governing equations along with appropriate boundary conditions. The numerical results are validated with the analytical expressions for concentrated suspension flow in a plane channel. The results demonstrate strong particle migration towards the centre of the channel and an increasing blunting of velocity profiles with increase in initial particle concentration. In the case of a stenosed channel, the particle concentration is lowest at the site of maximum constriction, whereas a strong accumulation of particles is observed in the recirculation zone downstream of the stenosis. The numerical procedure applied to investigate the effects of concentrated suspension flow in a wavy passage shows that the solid particles migrate from regions of high shear rate to low shear rate with low velocities and this phenomenon is strongly influenced by Reynolds numbers and initial particle concentration. Copyright © 2008 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

一类Lotka—Volterra型捕食与被捕食系统的Flip分岔

本文利用中心流形定理和映射的分岔理论,研究了一类离散的捕食与被捕食系统的Flip分岔的存在性与稳定性,并给出了数值模拟的结果。     

循环图C(10,2)与路P_n的笛卡尔积的交叉数

证明了循环图C(10,2)与路P_n的笛卡尔积的交叉数是10n及循环图C(2m,2)的一点悬挂和两点悬挂的交叉数分别是m,2m.     

Optimal uncertainty size in distributionally robust inverse covariance estimation

In a recent paper, Nguyen et al. (2018) built a distributionally robust estimator for the precision matrix of the Gaussian distribution. The distributional uncertainty size is a key ingredient in the construction of this estimator. We develop a statistical theory which shows how to optimally choose the uncertainty size to minimize the associated Stein loss. Surprisingly, rather than the expected canonical square-root scaling rate, the optimal uncertainty size scales linearly with the sample size.     

Assortment planning for vertically differentiated products under a consider-then-choose model

Consider-then-choose models, borne out by empirical literature in marketing and psychology, note that customers follow a two-stage procedure to choose among alternatives. In this paper, we consider the assortment optimization problem of a retailer who manages a category of vertically differentiated products under customers’ consider-then-choose behavior. We characterize some structural results of the optimal assortment and find that the problem can be solved as the shortest path problem. Also, we develop an efficient algorithm to identify an optimal assortment.     

Center positioning of circular interference fringe patterns for fine measurement

A kind of center positioning method of the circular interference fringe patterns was reported in this paper. The whole process was programmed by Matlab for processing the gray-scale images without denoising preprocessing and binary format transformation. The gradient vector field (GVF) based on a complex-valued cost function was used to extract the skeletons of circular interference fringe patterns, and the coordinate of the center was calculated by statistical method in which partial skeletons were selected to calculate the center according to the space topological relationship. Finally, subpixel accuracy and perfect anti-noise ability of the proposed method are demonstrated by the simulation and experimental fringe patterns, respectively. Thus the technique can be used in precision measurement and fine interferometry.     

静电支承球形转子的恒速控制

本讨论静电支承球形转子的恒速控制问题。首先,介绍静电支承系统的基本工作原理,其次,建立静电支承系统的动力学模型。第三,分析采用PID控制器的支承刚度,第四,阐述形成静电旋转力矩的原理。最后,提出利用静电力恒速的方案与基本限制条件。