Harmonics in the stress response of a WCA-Lennard-Jones liquid under oscillatory elongational flow

The WCA fluid shows a nonlinear behaviour toward a periodic elongational flow through the presence of higher harmonics in stress responses. At the same time the liquid remains purely viscous and isotropic. The absence of numerical artefacts is checked and the physical origin of the harmonics is discussed.     

Grüneisen parameter for HCP iron at extreme compression

The Thomas–Fermi approximation gives the Grüneisen parameter γ=γ_∞=1/2 for all materials at extreme compression (P→∞ or V→0). After re-analyzing the existing experimental data of volume dependence of Grüneisen parameter γ of hexagonal close-packed (HCP) iron, we find that γ=1/2+a(V/V ₀)^1/3+b(V/V ₀) ⁿ , where a, b and n are constants. Based on this new form of γ, the second Grüneisen parameter q, the Debye temperature θ_D and the shear sound velocity v _s of HCP iron are discussed in the present work. It is found that the zero pressure second Grüneisen parameter q ₀=0.654, which is consistent with the previously determined value of HCP iron for Earth's core physics from Dubrovinsky et al. The calculations for the Debye temperature and the shear sound velocity are also found to be in good agreement with the experimental data.     

Parameter choice by discrepancy principles for ill-posed problems leading to optimal convergence rates

Schock (Ref. 1) considered a general a posteriori parameter choice strategy for the Tikhonov regularization of the ill-posed operator equationTx=y which provides nearly the optimal rate of convergence if the minimal-norm least-squares solution belongs to the range of the operator (T ^* T) ^v , o<v1. Recently, Nair (Ref. 2) improved the result of Schock and also provided the optimal rate ifv=1. In this note, we further improve the result and show in particular that the optimal rate can be achieved for 1/2v1.The final version of this work was written while M. T. Nair was a Visiting Fellow at the Centre for Mathematics and Its Applications, Australian National University, Canberra, Australia. The work of S. George was supported by a Senior Research Fellowship from CSIR, India.     

Near optimality of stochastic control in systems with unknown parameter processes

Stochastic control for systems with an unknown parameter is considered in this paper. The underlying problem is to minimize a functional subject to a system described by a singularly perturbed differential equation with an unknown parameter process driven by fast fluctuating random disturbances. This problem arises in the context of stochastic adaptive control, adaptive signal processing, and failure-prone manufacturing systems. Due to the nature of the wide-bandwidth noise processes, identifying the parameter process for eacht is very hard since the driving noise changes very rapidly. An alternative approach is used, and an auxiliary control problem is introduced to overcome the difficulties. By means of weak convergence methods and comparison control techniques, nearly optimal controls are obtained.This research was supported in part by the National Science Foundation under Grant DMS-9022139 and DMS-9224372.     

On nash equilibrium solutions in nonzero-sum stochastic games with complete information

Two-person nonzero-sum stochastic games with complete information are considered. It is shown that it is sufficient to search the equilibrium solutions in a class of deterministic strategy pairs — the so-calledintimidation strategy pairs. Furthermore, properties of the set of all equilibrium losses of such strategy pairs are proved.     

行NA随机变量三角阵列的完全收敛性

令{Xm;1≤i≤n,n≥1}是行NA的随机变量三角阵列．利用NA随机变量序列的一个矩不等式,讨论了行NA的随机变量三角阵列在被随机变量X弱平均控制的条件下的完全收敛性．所得到的结果推广了行独立的随机变量三角阵列相应的结果．     

基于改进克隆选择算法的统一混沌系统同步控制与参数辨识

提出一种改进的克隆选择算法用于解决混沌系统的参数辨识问题.该算法利用抗体的高频变异和受体编辑两种机制有效平衡算法的全局探索与局部开发，并引入向精英抗体学习策略进一步提高算法的收敛质量.对10个优化问题的实验表明：所提出算法在求解精度、收敛速度以及稳定性方面具有更好的性能.以参数未知统一混沌系统的同步控制为研究对象，合理设计同步控制器，并对同步系统的稳定性进行理论分析.通过对同步比例因子的设置，实现统一混沌系统的完全同步、反同步、投影同步等多种同步方式.仿真实验结果表明该方法能够实现对未知系统参数的精确辨识以及驱动-响应系统的有效同步控制，验证了所提方法的可行性与有效性.     

激光雷达辅助驾驶道路参数计算方法研究

针对特定场景辅助驾驶的需求,构建道路场景车载激光雷达三维扫描系统,并设计基于三维激光点云的道路参数提取与计算方法,包括路面宽度、横杆或桥梁或隧道限高、拐弯半径等等,为辅助判断道路的可通过性提供决策依据。测试和对比实验表明,所设计算法效果稳定、精度良好,在效率和自动化程度上有一定优势,可为辅助驾驶提供非常有益的决策参数。     

A complete class for linear estimation in a general linear model

Summary It is shown that in linear estimation both unbiased and biased, all unique (up to equivalence with respect to risk) locally best estimators and their limits constitute a complete class.