Nonlinear elastic constitutive relations of residually stressed composites with stiff curved fibres

Applied Mathematics and Mechanics - Mechanical models of residually stressed fibre-reinforced solids, which do not resist bending, have been developed in the literature. However, in some residually...     

Imposing accurate wall boundary conditions in corrective‐matrix‐based moving particle semi‐implicit method for free surface flow

Corrective matrix that is derived to restore consistency of discretization schemes can significantly enhance accuracy for the inside particles in the Moving Particle Semi‐implicit method. In this situation, the error due to free surface and wall boundaries becomes dominant. Based on the recent study on Neumann boundary condition (Matsunaga et al, CMAME, 2020), the corrective matrix schemes in MPS are generalized to straightforwardly and accurately impose Neumann boundary condition. However, the new schemes can still easily trigger instability at free surface because of the biased error caused by the incomplete/biased neighbor support. Therefore, the existing stable schemes based on virtual particles and conservative gradient models are applied to free surface and nearby particles to produce a stable transitional layer at free surface. The new corrective matrix schemes are only applied to the particles under the stable transitional layer for improving the wall boundary conditions. Three numerical examples of free surface flows demonstrate that the proposed method can help to reduce the pressure/velocity fluctuations and hence enhance accuracy further.     

On the numerical solution of stochastic quadratic integral equations via operational matrix method

In this paper, stochastic operational matrix of integration based on delta functions is applied to obtain the numerical solution of linear and nonlinear stochastic quadratic integral equations (SQIEs) that appear in modelling of many real problems. An important advantage of this method is that it dose not need any integration to compute the constant coefficients. Also, this method can be utilized to solve both linear and nonlinear problems. By using stochastic operational matrix of integration together collocation points, solving linear and nonlinear SQIEs converts to solve a nonlinear system of algebraic equations, which can be solved by using Newton's numerical method. Moreover, the error analysis is established by using some theorems. Also, it is proved that the rate of convergence of the suggested method is O(h²). Finally, this method is applied to solve some illustrative examples including linear and nonlinear SQIEs. Numerical experiments confirm the good accuracy and efficiency of the proposed method.     

On graded nil clean rings

In this paper we introduce and study the notion of a graded (strongly) nil clean ring which is group graded. We also deal with extensions of graded (strongly) nil clean rings to graded matrix rings and to graded group rings. The question of when nil cleanness of the component, which corresponds to the neutral element of a group, implies graded nil cleanness of the whole graded ring is examined. Similar question is discussed in the case of groupoid graded rings as well.     

Graded polynomial identities for matrices with the transpose involution over an infinite field

Let F be an infinite field and let M_n(F) be the algebra of n×n matrices over F endowed with an elementary grading whose neutral component coincides with the main diagonal. In this paper, we find a basis for the graded polynomial identities of M_n(F) with the transpose involution. Our results generalize for infinite fields of arbitrary characteristic previous results in the literature, which were obtained for the field of complex numbers and for a particular class of elementary G-gradings.     

基于共轭梯度法的感知矩阵优化方法

压缩感知理论中降低信号维数的关键问题是构造有效的测量矩阵。在已知稀疏基的情况下，基于ETF（Equiangular Tight Frame）框架的测量矩阵构造方法和稀疏信号重构过程均依赖于感知矩阵。为此，设计了一种基于共轭梯度法的感知矩阵优化方法，该方法简单易行，且所求结果的Gram矩阵与目标Gram矩阵更接近。 实验结果表明，此感知矩阵优化方法在理论分析、实际图像应用及算法有效性上均具优势。     

Kinetics Study of the Thermal Decomposition of Post-consumer Poly(Ethylene Terephthalate) in an Argon Atmosphere

The thermal decomposition of post-consumer samples of a carbonated water bottle made of poly(ethylene terephthalate), PC-PET, was examined by linear temperature programing under an argon atmosphere to determine its mass loss kinetics. A simple kinetic model, called the first order pseudo single-component model, was used. The total weight-loss of each sample assumed to be in two periods, with each period corresponding to a one step decomposition of the PC-PET to volatiles. Three methods for determining the kinetic parameters by thermal gravimetric analysis were examined: differential analysis at a constant heating rate (differential), temperatures of a given conversion at a number of heating rates (isoconversional), and the maximum rate at multiple heating rates (peak temperature). The latter two multiple heating rates methods results were comparable to each other but they were not in agreement with the results from the differential method. The results of the differential method were insensitive to the heating rate and consistent with kinetics data reported in the literature for PET.