Accuracies and conservation errors of various ghost fluid methods for multi-medium Riemann problem

Since the (original) ghost fluid method (OGFM) was proposed by Fedkiw et al. in 1999 [5], a series of other GFM-based methods such as the gas–water version GFM (GWGFM), the modified GFM (MGFM) and the real GFM (RGFM) have been developed subsequently. Systematic analysis, however, has yet to be carried out for the various GFMs on their accuracies and conservation errors. In this paper, we develop a technique to rigorously analyze the accuracies and conservation errors of these different GFMs when applied to the multi-medium Riemann problem with a general equation of state (EOS). By analyzing and comparing the interfacial state provided by each GFM to the exact one of the original multi-medium Riemann problem, we show that the accuracy of interfacial treatment can achieve “third-order accuracy” in the sense of comparing to the exact solution of the original mutli-medium Riemann problem for the MGFM and the RGFM, while it is of at most “first-order accuracy” for the OGFM and the GWGFM when the interface approach is actually near in balance. Similar conclusions are also obtained in association with the local conservation errors. A special test method is exploited to validate these theoretical conclusions from the numerical viewpoint.     

Persistent currents in mesoscopic rings and conformal invariance

The effect of point defects on persistent currents in mesoscopic rings is studied in a simple tight-binding model. Using an analogy with the treatment of the critical quantum Ising chain with defects, conformal invariance techniques are employed to relate the persistent current amplitude to the Hamiltonian spectrum just above the Fermi energy. From this, the dependence of the current on the magnetic flux is found exactly for a ring with one or two point defects. The effect of an aperiodic modulation of the ring, generated through a binary substitution sequence, on the persistent current is also studied. The flux-dependence of the current is found to vary remarkably between the Fibonacci and the Thue-Morse sequences. Received: 4 March 1998 / Revised: 20 April 1998 / Accepted: 30 April 1998     

Regularized collocation method for Fredholm integral equations of the first kind

In this paper we consider a collocation method for solving Fredholm integral equations of the first kind, which is known to be an ill-posed problem. An “unregularized” use of this method can give reliable results in the case when the rate at which smallest singular values of the collocation matrices decrease is known a priori. In this case the number of collocation points plays the role of a regularization parameter. If the a priori information mentioned above is not available, then a combination of collocation with Tikhonov regularization can be the method of choice. We analyze such regularized collocation in a rather general setting, when a solution smoothness is given as a source condition with an operator monotone index function. This setting covers all types of smoothness studied so far in the theory of Tikhonov regularization. One more issue discussed in this paper is an a posteriori choice of the regularization parameter, which allows us to reach an optimal order of accuracy for deterministic noise model without any knowledge of solution smoothness.     

Representation of measurable functions in Franklin general system

The paper proves that every almost everywhere finite measurable function is representable by an absolute convergent series in the Franklin systems generated by quasi-dyadic, weakly regular partitions.     

Functional inequalities involving special functions II

This paper is motivated by an open problem of Anderson, Vamanamurthy, and Vuorinen. We prove a chain of inequalities for hypergeometric functions, generalized and normalized Bessel functions, Kummer functions and for some general power series. Some particular cases and refinements are given.     

ON THE EXISTENCE OF GLOBAL GENERAL SOLUTIONS OF POLYNOMIAL SYSTEMS

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Solitary wave solutions for a general Boussinesq type fluid model

The possible solitary wave solutions for a general Boussinesq (GBQ) type fluid model are studied analytically. After proving the non-Painlevé integrability of the model, the first type of exact explicit travelling solitary wave with a special velocity selection is found by the truncated Painlevé expansion. The general solitary waves with different travelling velocities can be studied by casting the problems to the Newtonian quasi-particles moving in some proper one dimensional potential fields. For some special velocity selections, the solitary waves possess different shapes, say, the left moving solitary waves may possess different shapes and/or amplitudes with those of the right moving solitons. For some other velocities, the solitary waves are completely prohibited. There are three types of GBQ systems (GBQSs) according to the different selections of the model parameters. For the first type of GBQS, both the faster moving and lower moving solitary waves allowed but the solitary waves with“middle” velocities are prohibit. For the second type of GBQS all the slower moving solitary waves are completely prohibit while for the third type of GBQS only the slower moving solitary waves are allowed. Only the solitary waves with the almost unit velocities meet the weak non-linearity conditions.     

Sojourn time analysis for a cyclic-service tandem queueing model with general decrementing service

A sojourn time analysis is provided for a cyclic-service tandem queue with general decrementing service which operates as follows: starting once a service of queue 1 in the first stage, a single server continues serving messages in queue 1 until either queue 1 becomes empty, or the number of messages decreases to k less than that found upon the server's last arrival at queue 1, whichever occurs first, where 1 ≤ k ≤ ∞. After service completion in queue 1, the server switches over to queue 2 in the second stage and serves all messages in queue 2 until it becomes empty. It is assumed that an arrival stream is Poissonian, message service times at each stage are generally distributed and switch-over times are zero. This paper analyzes joint queue-length distributions and message sojourn time distributions.     

The young adult patient

The purpose of this paper is to 1) describe the unique issues of voice patients, ages 21–55; 2) outline the knowledge and clinical skills that speech language pathologists should possess to deal with those issues; and 3) provide suggestions for promoting vocal longevity.     

退化时滞差分系统的通解

讨论具有时滞的退化差分系统，给出其初始函数的相容性条件，并给出其通解，最后举例说明之．