iGreen: green scheduling for peak demand minimization

Home owners are typically charged differently when they consume power at different periods within a day. Specifically, they are charged more during peak periods. Thus, in this paper, we explore how scheduling algorithms can be designed to minimize the peak energy consumption of a group of homes served by the same substation. We assume that a set of demand/response switches are deployed at a group of homes to control the activities of different appliances such as air conditioners or electric water heaters in these homes. Given a set of appliances, each appliance is associated with its instantaneous power consumption and duration, our objective is to decide when to activate different appliances in order to reduce the peak power consumption. This scheduling problem is shown to be NP-Hard. To tackle this problem, we propose a set of appliance scheduling algorithms under both offline and online settings. For the offline setting, we propose a constant ratio approximation algorithm (with approximation ratio \(\frac{1+\sqrt{5}}{2}+1\)). For the online setting, we adopt a greedy algorithm whose competitive ratio is also bounded. We conduct extensive simulations using real-life appliance energy consumption data trace to evaluate the performance of our algorithms. Extensive evaluations show that our schedulers significantly reduce the peak demand when compared with several existing heuristics.     

Universal inequalities on complete noncompact smooth metric measure spaces

In this paper, we obtain universal inequalities for the eigenvalues of the Dirichlet problem and clamped plate problem of drifting Laplacian on (\(n+1\))-dimensional (\(n\ge 4\)) complete noncompact simply connected smooth metric measure spaces which meet some conditions of the sectional curvature and radial weighted Ricci curvature.     

Fractional Order Systems Time-Optimal Control and Its Application

This paper deals with the time-optimal control problem for a class of fractional order systems. An analytic solution of the time-optimal problem is proposed, and the optimal transfer route is provided. Considering it is usually adopted in the discrete situation for actual control system, the sampling date may induce chattering phenomenon, an alternative sub-optimal solution is constructed. Additionally, the special and meaningful application of fractional order tracking differentiator is introduced to explain our main results. The effectiveness and advantages of the proposed method have been illustrated by numerical examples.     

Nonhomogeneous Hemivariational Inequalities with Indefinite Potential and Robin Boundary Condition

We consider a nonlinear, nonhomogeneous Robin problem with an indefinite potential and a nonsmooth primitive in the reaction term. In fact, the right-hand side of the problem (reaction term) is the Clarke subdifferential of a locally Lipschitz integrand. We assume that asymptotically this term is resonant with respect the principal eigenvalue (from the left). We prove the existence of three nontrivial smooth solutions, two of constant sign and the third nodal. We also show the existence of extremal constant sign solutions. The tools come from nonsmooth critical point theory and from global optimization (direct method).     

A Two-Equation Model for Heat Conduction in Porous Media (II: Application)

The formulism of a two-equation model for heat conduction in porous media, developed in a previous paper, is applied to the case of steady state one-dimensional heat transfer in a porous medium that is made up of geometrically similar units of similar size and of ordered spatial distribution. For this case study, the model-predicted locally volume-averaged temperature distributions for the solid and the fluid phase are compared to a numerical solution at a microscopic level, showing excellent agreement.     

A transverse crack tip field in bimaterial

The asymptotic field near an interface crack tip is analyzed with the fully nonlinear theory. By dividing the crack tip field into narrowing sectors and an expanding sector, the asymptotic equations for the crack tip field are derived and solved. The singular characters of stress and strain near the crack tip are revealed.     

板材冲压成形有限元数值模拟界面摩擦约束处理方法

基于弹塑性大变形板材冲压成形增量有限元法,采用线性弹簧单元提出一种空间三维板材冲压成形等效界面摩擦力的处理方法.这种方法的优点是可以反映界面摩擦力的同步、被动产生效果,同时它还可以保证约束后刚度矩阵的对称性.将提出的摩擦约束处理算法引入自主开发的板材成形模拟软件FASTAMP,计算了汽车油底壳的成形过程,计算结果的厚度分布与实际冲压件吻合比较好,验证了等效界面摩擦力约束处理方法的有效性.     

螺旋槽干气密封微尺度流动场的近似计算及其参数优化

应用PH线性化方法、迭代法,近似求解了螺旋槽内稳态微尺度流动场的非线性雷诺方程,求得了气体动压和速度分布的解析解。继而利用多目标优化方法构建了气膜刚度与泄漏量之比的协调函数,并对该目标函数进行了近似求解,获得了最佳的螺旋槽几何参数值。     

板带轧制过程中的三维接触摩擦模型

为解决压力加工中工具与工件间的接触摩擦问题，根据金属流动对摩擦的反作用，在轧辊和工件之间引入了一层极薄的摩擦单元并将其编入三维弹塑性大变形有限元程序。通过调节摩擦元尺寸厚度和β因子，实现了对薄板轧制过程中间介质的几何尺寸模拟和物理特征模拟。该法不用对摩擦力大小、方向及中性点位置进行假定，通过计算能够得到全部有关信息。     

General coupled solution of anisotropic piezoelectric materials with an elliptic inclusion

In this investigation, the Stroh formalism is used to develop a general solution for an infinite, anisotropic piezoelectric medium with an elliptic inclusion. The coupled elastic and electric fields both inside the inclusion and on the interface of the inclusion and matrix are given. The project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China