Methylation of adamantane

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Decay of Almost Periodic Solutions¶of Conservation Laws

We consider the asymptotic behavior of solutions of systems of inviscid or viscous conservation laws in one or several space variables, which are almost periodic in the space variables in a generalized sense introduced by Stepanoff and Wiener, which extends the original one of H. Bohr. We prove that if u(x,t) is such a solution whose inclusion intervals at time t, with respect to ?>0, satisfy l _epsiv;(t)/t→0 as t→∞, and such that the scaling sequence u ^T (x,t)=u(T x,T t) is pre-compact as t→∞ in L _loc ¹(? ^{d +1} ₊, then u(x,t) decays to its mean value \(\), which is independent of t, as t→∞. The decay considered here is in L ¹ _loc of the variable ξ≡x/t, which implies, as we show, that \(\) as t→∞, where M _x denotes taking the mean value with respect to x. In many cases we show that, if the initial data are almost periodic in the generalized sense, then so also are the solutions. We also show, in these cases, how to reduce the condition on the growth of the inclusion intervals l _?(t) with t, as t→∞, for fixed ? > 0, to a condition on the growth of l _?(0) with ?, as ?→ 0, which amounts to imposing restrictions only on the initial data. We show with a simple example the existence of almost periodic (non-periodic) functions whose inclusion intervals satisfy any prescribed growth condition as ?→ 0. The applications given here include inviscid and viscous scalar conservation laws in several space variables, some inviscid systems in chromatography and isentropic gas dynamics, as well as many viscous 2 × 2 systems such as those of nonlinear elasticity and Eulerian isentropic gas dynamics, with artificial viscosity, among others. In the case of the inviscid scalar equations and chromatography systems, the class of initial data for which decay results are proved includes, in particular, the L ^∞ generalized limit periodic functions. Our procedures can be easily adapted to provide similar results for semilinear and kinetic relaxations of systems of conservation laws.     

Time-dependent Benioff strain release diagrams

New time-dependent Benioff strain (TDBS) release diagrams were analyzed for acoustic emission during various loading tests and for electromagnetic (EM) radiation emanating during compression and, tension, which end in failure. TDBS diagrams are Benioff diagrams that are built consecutively, each time using a greater number of events (acoustic or EM emissions) using the last event as if it were associated with the ‘actual failure’. An examination of such TDBS diagrams shows that at a certain time point (this time point is denoted by the term ‘alarm’ time), a comparatively short interval prior to actual collapse, their decreasing part is broken by a positive ‘bulge’. This ‘bulge’ is quantified and an algorithm proposed for its assessment. Using the alarm time and other parameters of the failure process (fall, bulge size and escalation factors, bulge slope and slope fall time), a criterion for estimating the time of the actual collapse is developed and shown to agree well with laboratory experimental results.     

Modelling the interior sound field of a railway vehicle using statistical energy analysis

The sound field in train compartments, treated as a series of connected air cavities, is modelled using statistical energy analysis, SEA. For the case under study, with five cavities in series and the source in the second cavity, a closed-form solution is obtained. An adjusted SEA model is used to predict the rate of spatial decay within a cavity. The SEA model is validated using results from a ray tracing method and from scale model measurements. For the octave bands 500–4000 Hz, good agreement is shown between the results from measurements, the ray tracing and the SEA model, for the two saloons closest to the source cavity (a vestibule). The SEA model was shown to slightly underestimate the rate of spatial decay within a cavity. It is concluded that a reasonable cause is the additional diffusion due to the seating.     

Results of Analysis of the Applicability of Satellite Observations and Reanalysis Data for Simulations of Autonomous Solar Power Systems

Doklady Physics - An accuracy of predicting energy performance of autonomous photovoltaic systems using various climatic databases (NASA POWER, SARAH-E, CLARA-A, ERA5, Meteonorm, etc.) has been...     

Multiscale Young Measures in almost Periodic Homogenization and Applications

We prove the existence of multiscale Young measures associated with almost periodic homogenization. We give applications of this tool in the homogenization of nonlinear partial differential equations with an almost periodic structure, such as scalar conservation laws, nonlinear transport equations, Hamilton–Jacobi equations and fully nonlinear elliptic equations. Motivated by the application in nonlinear transport equations, we also prove basic results on flows generated by Lipschitz almost periodic vector fields, which are of interest in their own. In our analysis, an important role is played by the so-called Bohr compactification of ; this is a natural parameter space for the Young measures. Our homogenization results provide also the asymptotic behavior for the whole set of -translates of the solutions, which is in the spirit of recent studies on the homogenization of stationary ergodic processes.     

Measure-Valued Solutions to Initial-Boundary Value Problems for Certain Systems of Conservation Laws: Existence and Dynamics

A framework for studying initial-boundary value problems for systems of conservation laws, in what concerns to the existence of measure-valued solutions and their asymptotic behavior, is developed here with the helpful introduction of a class of flux maps which allow a rather complete treatment of these questions including systems of practical importance as those arising in multiphase flow in porous media. The systems of this class may, in general, admit umbilic points, submanifolds where genuine nonlinearity fails, as well as elliptic regions. We prove the existence of measure-valued solutions by using the vanishing viscosity method and, also, finite difference schemes. The main result about the dynamics of the measure-valued solutions is that for certain special boundary values, given by constant states, the time-averages of these m-v solutions converge weakly to the Dirac measure concentrated at those states, for a.e. space variable. The rate of convergence of the time-averages of the expected values can be estimated by properties of the flux maps only.

     

Phase mixtures in dynamics of pseudoelasticity

We give a numerical treatment of phase mixtures in pseudoelasticity from a purely mathematical point of view. It is based on a surprising result that the approximate solution may consist of persistent oscillations in strain which resemble the experimentally observed interface patterns. Such a solution is obtained from a sequence of solutions for a rate-type viscoelastic problem with a non-monotone equilibrium stress-strain relation, for which in the limit as the viscosity tends to infinity the viscoelastic problem reduces to the rate-independent elastic problem describing phase transitions. In this manner, it seems to give yet another perspective for the phase mixture from dynamic point of view as the evolution of an unstable state, in contrast to the traditional treatment from stability analysis for phase equilibrium.