Rheological effect on thermocapillary flow of a liquid film jet painted on a moving boundary

In the present paper, a liquid (or melt) film of relatively high temperature ejected from a vessel and painted on the moving solid film is analyzed by using the second-order fluid model of the non-Newtonian fluid. The thermocapillary flow driven by the temperature gradient on the free surface of a Newtonian liquid film was discussed before. The effect of rheological fluid on thermocapillary flow is considered in the present paper. The analysis is based on the approximations of lubrication theory and perturbation theory. The equation of liquid height and the process of thermal hydrodynamics of the non-Newtonian liquid film are obtained, and the case of weak effect of the rheological fluid is solved in detail.     

Explicit construction of graph invariant for strongly pseudoconvex compact 3-dimensional rational CR manifolds

Let X be a strongly pseudoconvex compact 3-dimensional CR manifolds which bounds a complex variety with isolated singularities in some C^N. The weighted dual graph of the exceptional set of the minimal good resolution of V is a CR invariant of X; in case X has a tranversal holomorphic S¹ action, we show that it is a complete topological invariant of except for two special cases. When X is a rational CR manifolds, we give explicit algebraic algorithms to compute the graph invariant in terms of the ring structure of _k=0 m^k/m^k+1, where m is the maximal ideal of each singularity. An example is computed explicitly to demonstrate how the algorithms work.     

Global convergence property of modified Levenberg-Marquardt methods for nonsmooth equations

In this paper, we discuss the globalization of some kind of modified Levenberg-Marquardt methods for nonsmooth equations and their applications to nonlinear complementarity problems. In these modified Levenberg-Marquardt methods, only an approximate solution of a linear system at each iteration is required. Under some mild assumptions, the global convergence is shown. Finally, numerical results show that the present methods are promising.     

A new method for solving a system of generalized nonlinear variational inequalities in Banach spaces

The purpose of this paper is by using the generalized projection approach to introduce an iterative scheme for finding a solution to a system of generalized nonlinear variational inequality problem. Under suitable conditions, some existence and strong convergence theorems are established in uniformly smooth and strictly convex Banach spaces. The results presented in the paper improve and extend some recent results.     

Simple Conformal Superalgebras of Finite Growth

In this paper, we construct six families of infinite simple conformal superalgebras of finite growth based on our earlier work on constructing vertex operator superalgebras from graded assocaitive algebras. Three subfamilies of these conformal superalgebras are generated by simple Jordan algebras of types A, B, and C in a certain sense.Research supported by Hong Kong RGC Competitive Earmarked Research Grant HKUST709/96P.2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: primary 17A30, 17A60; secondary 17B20, 81Q60     

Fourth Order Conservative Exponential Methods for Linear Evolution Equations

A few numerical methods for linear evolution equations are developed and analyzed in this paper. These fourth order exponential methods reproduce the exact solutions for equations with time-independent evolution operators. For highly oscillatory problems with evolution operators that vary slowly in time, these methods are often more efficient than the traditional methods, since large step sizes can be used. The methods developed in this paper are also conservative for equations such as the Schrödinger equation, where the evolution operator is skew-selfadjoint.     

The structure of left C-rpp semigroups

This paper studies the class of left Clifford-rpp semigroups and investigates the structure of their semi-spined products and semilattice decompositions. These semigroups are generalizations of left Clifford semigroups and Clifford-rpp semigroups. We also discuss some special cases such as when a semilattice decomposition becomes a strong semilattice decomposition and a semi-spined product becomes a spined product. Communicated by Boris Schein This research is jointly supported by a grant of National Natural Science Foundation of China and a small project grant #200.600.380 of CUHK.