Curvilinear smoothed particle hydrodynamics

We suggest a new set of equations to employ smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) in a curvilinear space, and we refer to it as curvSPH. In classical SPH, the horizontal and vertical resolution of discretization is supposed to be equal for fluid particles. However, curvSPH makes the horizontal and vertical resolutions independent from each other. This is performed by transformation of physical space into an appropriate computational space with a different scale in horizontal and vertical directions. Solving a problem using SPH in a curvilinear space also provides capability to model curved boundaries as straight lines. In classical SPH, special care is needed to reach a uniform mass distribution along curved boundaries; however, producing uniform mass distribution along a line using curvSPH is straight forward. Different simulations, including simulation of a flip bucket are performed to demonstrate the applicability of the proposed method. Good agreement of results with experimental data and classical SPH confirms the capabilities of curvSPH. Copyright © 2016 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

浆态反应器中铁／活性炭催化剂上还原研究

众所周知，费托合成（Fischer-Tropsch synthesis,FTS)反应是一个有理论与应用价值的研究课题。数十年来，学者们已发现了铁系，钴系和钌系等具有优良FTS反应性能的催化剂体系，铁／活性炭（Fe/Activated Carbon,AC)催化剂是中国科学院大连化学物理研究所八十年代末开发的一类费托合成催化剂，由于活性炭载体发达的孔结构使得该催化剂上FTS反应产物中汽油，柴油选择性高（烃类碳数小于20）和油收率大（C5^ ,112g/m^3 sysgaa)^[1,2]，具有工业放大前景。本文采用1L浆态床反应器，应用不同的还原方法（原位高压还原和反应器外还原）和XRD物相表征手段，了铁／活性炭催化剂在浆态床中的还原与反应问题，得到了一些有用的信息。     

Fagnano Orbits of Polygonal Dual Billiards

Given a convex n-gon P, a Fagnano periodic orbit of the respective dual billiard map is an n-gon Q whose sides are bisected by the vertices of P. For which polygons P does the ratio Area Q/Area P have the minimal value? The answer is shown to be: for affine-regular polygons.     

A Phase Space Transform Adapted to the Wave Equation

Wave packets emerged in recent years as a very useful tool in the study of nonlinear wave equations. In this article we introduce a phase space transform adapted to the geometry of wave packets, and use it to characterize and study the associated classes of pseudodifferential and Fourier integral operators.     

Stability Relationships Among the Gibbs Sampler and its Subchains

The use of Gibbs samplers driven by improper posteriors has been a controversial issue in the statistics literature over the last few years. It has recently been demonstrated that it is possible to make valid statistical inferences through such Gibbs samplers. Furthermore, theoretical and empirical evidence has been given to support the idea that there are actually computational advantages to using these nonpositive recurrent Markov chains rather than more standard positive recurrent chains. These results provide motivation for a general study of the behavior of the Gibbs Markov chain when it is not positive recurrent. This article concerns stability relationships among the two-variable Gibbs sampler and its subchains. We show that these three Markov chains always share the same stability; that is, they are either all positive recurrent, all null recurrent, or all transient. In addition, we establish general results concerning the ways in which positive recurrent Markov chains can arise from null recurrent and transient Gibbs chains. Six examples of varying complexity are used to illustrate the results.     

Bayesian Multiscale Smoothing for Making Inferences About Features in Scatterplots

A rather common problem of data analysis is to find interesting features, such as local minima, maxima, and trends in a scatterplot. Variance in the data can then be a problem and inferences about features must be made at some selected level of significance. The recently introduced SiZer technique uses a family of nonparametric smooths of the data to uncover features in a whole range of scales. To aid the analysis, a color map is generated that visualizes the inferences made about the significance of the features. The purpose of this article is to present Bayesian versions of SiZer methodology. Both an analytically solvable regression model and a fully Bayesian approach that uses Gibbs sampling are presented. The prior distributions of the smooths are based on a roughness penalty. Simulation based algorithms are proposed for making simultaneous inferences about the features in the data.     

On Chebyshev functions and Klee functions

Associated to a lower semicontinuous function, one can define its proximal mapping and farthest mapping. The function is called Chebyshev (Klee) if its proximal mapping (farthest mapping) is single-valued everywhere. We show that the function f is 1/λ-hypoconvex if its proximal mapping Pλf is single-valued. When the function f is bounded below, and Pλf is single-valued for every λ>0, the function must be convex. Similarly, we show that the function f is 1/μ-strongly convex if the farthest mapping Qμf is single-valued. When the function is the indicator function of a set, this recovers the well-known Chebyshev problem and Klee problem in Rn. We also give an example illustrating that a continuous proximal mapping (farthest mapping) needs not be locally Lipschitz, which answers one open question by Hare and Poliquin.     

Feasibility in reverse convex mixed-integer programming

In this paper we address the problem of the infeasibility of systems defined by reverse convex inequality constraints, where some or all of the variables are integer. In particular, we provide a polynomial algorithm that identifies a set of all constraints critical to feasibility (CF), that is constraints that may affect a feasibility status of the system after some perturbation of the right-hand sides. Furthermore, we will investigate properties of the irreducible infeasible sets and infeasibility sets, showing in particular that every irreducible infeasible set as well as infeasibility sets in the considered system, are subsets of the set CF of constraints critical to feasibility.     

Crystallographic classes in a 4-dimensional Minkowski space

On a crystallographic group, a condition of being topologically discrete is imposed which is weaker than is the conventional requirement for an action on space to be discontinuous. Isomorphism classification is given for crystallographic groups in three crystallographic classes in a 4-dimensional Minkowski space, which are defined by unimodular subgroups of the general Lorentz group. In these classes are, respectively, 24, 36, and 68 crystallographic groups. __________ Translated from Algebra i Logika, Vol. 47, No. 1, pp. 31–53, January–February, 2008.     

ON MULTILINEAR COMMUTATORS OF Θ-TYPE CALDERóN-ZYGMUND OPERATORS

In this paper, we discuss the multilinear commutator of θ-type Calderón- Zygmund operators, and obtain that this kind of multilinear commutators is bounded from Lp(Rn) to Lq(Rn), from Lp(Rn) to Triebel-Lizorkin spaces and on certain Hardy type spaces.