Analytical layer-element solutions of Biot’s consolidation with anisotropic permeability and incompressible fluid and solid constituents

Based on the governing equations of 2D plane-strain Biot’s consolidation, the relationship between generalized displacements and stresses of a single soil layer with anisotropic permeability and incompressible fluid and solid constituents is described by an analytical layer-element, which is deduced in the Laplace–Fourier transform domain by using the eigenvalue approach. Taking the boundary conditions and the continuity of the soil layers into consideration, a global stiffness matrix is subsequently assembled and solved. As to the 3D case, the same derivation is employed after the application of a decoupling transformation. The actual solutions in the physical domain can further be acquired by inverting the Laplace–Fourier transform. Finally, numerical examples are carried out to verify the presented theory and discuss the influence of the anisotropic permeability on the consolidation behavior.     

A new infinite class of S(3, {4, 5, 7}, v)

A t‐wise balanced design ( at BD) of order v and block sizes from K , denoted by S ( t , K , v ), is a pair ( X , ??), where X is a v ‐element set and ?? is a set of subsets of X , called blocks , with the property that | B |∈ K for any B ∈?? and every t ‐element subset of X is contained in a unique block. In this article, we shall show that there is an S ( 3 , { 4 , 5 , 7 }, v ) for any positive integer v ≡ 7 ( mod12 ) with v ≠ 19 . Copyright © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Combin Designs 20:68–80, 2012     

On Meyniel's conjecture of the cop number

Meyniel conjectured that the cop number c(G) of any connected graph G on n vertices is at most for some constant C. In this article, we prove Meyniel's conjecture in special cases that G has diameter 2 or G is a bipartite graph of diameter 3. For general connected graphs, we prove , improving the best previously known upper‐bound O(n/ lnn) due to Chiniforooshan.     

The duality property of the Discrete Fourier Transform based on Simpson's rule

The classical Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) satisfies a duality property that transforms a discrete time signal to the frequency domain and back to the original domain. In doing so, the original signal is reversed to within a multiplicative factor, namely the dimension of the transformation matrix. In this paper, we prove that the DFT based on Simpson's method satisfies a similar property and illustrate its effect on a real discrete signal. The duality property is particularly useful in determining the components of the transformation matrix as well as components of its positive integral powers. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Large deviation analysis for layered percolation problems on the complete graph

We analyze the large deviation properties for the (multitype) version of percolation on the complete graph – the simplest substitutive generalization of the Erd&0151;s‐Rènyi random graph that was treated in article by Bollobás et al. (Random Structures Algorithms 31 (2007), 3–122). Here the vertices of the graph are divided into a fixed finite number of sets (called layers) the probability of {u,v} being in our edge set depends on the respective layers of u and v. We determine the exponential rate function for the probability that a giant component occupies a fixed fraction of the graph, while all other components are small. We also determine the exponential rate function for the probability that a particular exploration process on the random graph will discover a certain fraction of vertices in each layer, without encountering a giant component.© 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Random Struct. Alg., 40, 460–492, 2012     

L~p INEQUALITIES AND ADMISSIBLE OPERATOR FOR POLYNOMIALS

Let p(z) be a polynomial of degree at most n. In this paper we obtain some new results about the dependence of p(Rz)-βp(rz) + α (R+1/r+1)n-|β | p(rz) s on p(z) s for every α, β∈ C with |α|≤ 1, |β | ≤ 1, R > r 1, and s > 0. Our results not only generalize some well known inequalities, but also are variety of interesting results deduced from them by a fairly uniform procedure.     

LESSER KNOWN MIRACLES OF BURGERS EQUATION Dedicated to Professor Constantine M. Dafermos on the occasion of his 70th birthday

This article is a short introduction to the surprising appearance of Burgers equation in some basic probabilistic models.     

GLOBAL EXISTENCE AND Lp ESTIMATES FOR SOLUTIONS OF DAMPED WAVE EQUATION WITH NONLINEAR CONVECTION IN MULTI-DIMENSIONAL SPACE＊

In this article,the author studies the Cauchy problem of the damped wave equation with a nonlinear convection term in multi-dimensions.The author shows that a classical solution to the Cauchy problem e...     

一类分数阶微分方程多点边值问题解的存在性

本文运用Krasnoselskii和Schauder不动点定理,得到了一类分数阶微分方程多点边值问题解的存在性．     

Application of Hilbert＇s Projective Metric on Symmetric Cones

Let Ω be a symmetric cone. In this note, we introduce Hilbert＇s projective metric on Ω in terms of Jordan algebras and we apply it to prove that, given a linear invertible transformation g such that g（Ω） = Ω and a real number p, ｜p｜ 〉 1, there exists a unique element x ∈ Ω satisfying g（x） = x^p.