Low-velocity pneumatic conveying in horizontal pipe for coarse particles and fine powders

First,the characteristics of low-velocity conveying of particles having different hardness are experimentally investigated in a horizontal pipeline in terms of flow pattern and pressure drop to show that the slug flow can be classified into two types depending on the settling of particles along the pipeline,and the period is small for slug flow without the settled layer,which is called solitary slug flow.The pressure drop for soft particles is shown to be larger than that for hard particles.Then,experimental results are presented on horizontal fluidized-bed conveying of fine powders to show that air release from the top surface of the conveying channel is an important factor for high mass flow rate of particles.     

Could we use a million cores to solve an integer program?

Given the steady increase in cores per CPU, it is only a matter of time before supercomputers will have a million or more cores. In this article, we investigate the opportunities and challenges that will arise when trying to utilize this vast computing power to solve a single integer linear optimization problem. We also raise the question of whether best practices in sequential solution of ILPs will be effective in massively parallel environments.     

Monotone iteration method for differential equations involving integral boundary conditions on the half line

By applying the monotone iterative methods, we obtain the existence of monotone positive solutions for integral boundary value problems of differential equations on the half line, and establish the iterative schemes for approximating the solutions. Our approach is based on the fixed point theorem and the monotone iterative technique. The existence of lower and upper solutions is not needed.     

Existence of solutions for impulsive differential models on half lines involving Caputo fractional derivatives

In this article, we establish existence results of at least one solution for two classes of initial value problems of nonlinear impulsive fractional differential models on half lines involving Caputo fractional derivatives. Our analysis rely on the well known fixed point theorem of Schauder and nonlinear alternative of Leray–Schauder type.     

Curvatures properties of Lie hypersurfaces in the complex hyperbolic space

A Lie hypersurface in the complex hyperbolic space is a homogeneous real hypersurface without focal submanifolds. The set of all Lie hypersurfaces in the complex hyperbolic space is bijective to a closed interval, which gives a deformation of homogeneous hypersurfaces from the ruled minimal one to the horosphere. In this paper, we study intrinsic geometry of Lie hypersurfaces, such as Ricci curvatures, scalar curvatures, and sectional curvatures.     

Generalized Contour Dynamics: A Review

Contour dynamics is a computational technique to solve for the motion of vortices in incompressible inviscid flow. It is a Lagrangian technique in which the motion of contours is followed, and the velocity field moving the contours can be computed as integrals along the contours. Its best-known examples are in two dimensions, for which the vorticity between contours is taken to be constant and the vortices are vortex patches, and in axisymmetric flow for which the vorticity varies linearly with distance from the axis of symmetry. This review discusses generalizations that incorporate additional physics, in particular, buoyancy effects and magnetic fields, that take specific forms inside the vortices and preserve the contour dynamics structure. The extra physics can lead to time-dependent vortex sheets on the boundaries, whose evolution must be computed as part of the problem. The non-Boussinesq case, in which density differences can be important, leads to a coupled system for the evolution of both mean interfacial velocity and vortex sheet strength. Helical geometry is also discussed, in which two quantities are materially conserved and whose evolution governs the flow.     

On nonlinear boundary value problems for higher order functional difference equations with p-Laplacian

Sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions of nonlinear boundary value problems for higher order functional difference equations with p-Laplacian are established by using the continuation theorem. The result is proved without using the monotonicity of B _i (i=0,1). We allow f to be at most linear, superlinear or sublinear in obtained results.     

Solutions of sturm-liouville boundary value problems for higher-order differential equations

The existence of solutions of a class of two-point boundary value problems for higher order differential equations is studied. Sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one solution are established. It is of interest that the nonlinearityf in the equation depends on all lower derivatives, and the growth conditions imposed onf are allowed to be super-linear (the degrees of phases variables are allowed to be greater than 1 if it is a polynomial). The results are different from known ones since we don’t apply the Green’s functions of the corresponding problem and the method to obtain a priori bound of solutions are different enough from known ones. Examples that can not be solved by known results are given to illustrate our theorems.     

Unbounded solutions of BVP for second order ODE with p-Laplacian on the half line

By applying the Leggett-Williams fixed point theorem in a suitably constructed cone, we obtain the existence of at least three unbounded positive solutions for a boundary value problem on the half line. Our result improves and complements some of the work in the literature.