EcoLens: visual analysis of ecological regions in urban contexts using traffic data

Journal of Visualization - The increasing availability of spatiotemporal data provides unprecedented opportunities for understanding the structure of an urban area in terms of people’s...     

Operator Interpolation and Systems of Linear Equations and Inequalities in Euclidean Spaces

Ukrainian Mathematical Journal - We establish new criteria of compatibility for a linear system of equations (equivalent to the Kronecker–Capelli theorem) or inequalities (equivalent to the...     

On the Theory of Acoustic Scanning of Damage to Underground Pipelines

Acoustical Physics - The paper studies the evolution of a pulsed signal initiated by the pushing of a cylindrical piston and propagating through a stationary fluid filling a buried pipeline with an...     

Block GPBi-CG method for solving nonsymmetric linear systems with multiple right-hand sides and its convergence analysis

Numerical Algorithms - In this paper, the block generalized product-type bi-conjugate gradient (GPBi-CG) method for solving large, sparse nonsymmetric linear systems of equations with multiple...     

硅和锗纳米线的原子排布和电荷分布的密度泛函紧束缚方法研究

低维硅锗材料是制备纳米电子器件的重要候选材料，是研发高效率、低能耗和超高速新一代纳米电子器件的基础材料之一，有着潜在的应用价值。采用密度泛函紧束缚方法分别对厚度相同、宽度在0.272 nm~0.554 nm之间的硅纳米线和宽度在0.283 nm~0.567 nm之间的锗纳米线的原子排布和电荷分布进行了计算研究。硅、锗纳米线宽度的改变使原子排布，纳米线的原子间键长和键角发生明显改变。纳米线表层结构的改变对各层内的电荷分布产生重要影响。纳米线中各原子的电荷转移量与该原子在表层内的位置相关。纳米线的尺寸和表层内原子排列结构对体系的稳定性产生重要影响。     

A higher-order parametric nonlinear reduced-order model for imperfect structures using Neumann expansion

Nonlinear Dynamics - We present an enhanced version of the parametric nonlinear reduced-order model for shape imperfections in structural dynamics we studied in a previous work. In this model, the...     

Estimation of the Sorption Activity of Silver Nanoparticles on Biodegradable Fibers of Natural and Artificial Origin

Russian Physics Journal - The specific features of the sorption activity of silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) on biodegradable polymers of natural (collagen) and artificial (polyamide 6.6) origin have...     

Correction to: Impact of leg bending in the patient-specific computational fluid dynamics of popliteal stenting

Acta Mechanica Sinica - A Correction to this paper has been published: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10409-021-01066-2     

Semiconvergence analysis of the randomized row iterative method and its extended variants

The row iterative method is popular in solving the large‐scale ill‐posed problems due to its simplicity and efficiency. In this work we consider the randomized row iterative (RRI) method to tackle this issue. First, we present the semiconvergence analysis of RRI method for the overdetermined and inconsistent system, and derive upper bounds for the noise error propagation in the iteration vectors. To achieve a least squares solution, we then propose an extended version of the RRI (ERRI) method, which in fact can converge in expectation to the solution of the overdetermined or underdetermined, consistent or inconsistent systems. Finally, some numerical examples are given to demonstrate the convergence behaviors of the RRI and ERRI methods for these types of linear system.     

Electron energy spectrum in the field-ionized plasma

In this article, the effect of ionization on the energy spectrum of electrons within the interaction of a laser pulse with hydrogen atoms is investigated using particle-in-cell simulation codes. The results show that the behaviour of electrons' energy distribution function in the field-ionized plasma, which occurred due to the field ionization, compared with that in the pre-plasma strongly depends on the pulse shape. For short rise-time pulses (here 30 fs), due to the rapid enhancement of laser electric field, ionization occurs quickly, and as a result, there is not much difference in the electron energy in both the media. However, for pulses with rise time of 40 fs, in the pre-plasma state, the electron population reaches higher energies compared with the field-ionized plasma state. The main reason for this difference is the nonlinear wave breaking that happens earlier due to density inhomogeneity in the field-ionized plasma. On the other hand, at longer rise-time pulses (here 60 and 70 fs), electrons achieve higher energies in the field-ionized plasma than those in the case of pre-plasma. In this case, because of density fluctuations in the field-ionized plasma, the Raman backscattered radiations are seeded by a strong initial noise at the earlier times and the Mendonca condition for chaos threshold is met sooner. Therefore, the electrons gain more energy through the stochastic mechanism that is in agreement with chaotic nature of the motion.