NLPQL: A fortran subroutine solving constrained nonlinear programming problems

NLPQL is a FORTRAN implementation of a sequential quadratic programming method for solving nonlinearly constrained optimization problems with differentiable objective and constraint functions. At each iteration, the search direction is the solution of a quadratic programming subproblem. This paper discusses the organization of NLPQL, including the formulation of the subproblem and the information that must be provided by a user. A summary is given of the performance of different algorithmic options of NLPQL on a collection of test problems (115 hand-selected or application problems, 320 randomly generated problems). The performance of NLPQL is compared with that of some other available codes.     

Single machine scheduling with family setups to minimize total earliness and tardiness

This paper considers the problem of scheduling a given number of jobs on a single machine to minimize total earliness and tardiness when family setup times exist. The paper proposes optimal branch-and-bound algorithms for both the group technology assumption and if the group technology assumption is removed. A heuristic algorithm is proposed to solve larger problems with the group technology assumption removed. The proposed algorithms were empirically evaluated on problems of various sizes and parameters. The paper also explores how the choice of procedure affects total earliness and tardiness if an implementation of lean production methods has resulted in a reduction in setup times. An important finding of these empirical investigations is that scheduling jobs by removing the group technology assumption can significantly reduce total earliness and tardiness.     

Existence and uniqueness of solutions for singular integral equation

Using the mixed monotone method we establish existence and uniqueness results for a singular integral equation. The theorem obtained is very general and complements previous known results. The work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.10571021 and No.10701020) and Key Laboratory for Applied Statistics of MOE(KLAS) and Subject Foundation of Harbin University (No. HXK200714).     

Vacuum condensates of QCD

We study the properties of QCD vacuum state in this paper. The values of various local quark vacuum condensates, quark-gluon mixed vacuum condensates, and the structure of non-local quark vacuum condensate are predicted by the solution of Dyson-Schwinger Equations in "rainbow" approximation with three sets of different parameters for effective gluon propagator. The light quark virtuality is also obtained in a consistent way. Our all theoretical results here are in good agreement with the empirical values used widely in literature and many other theoretical calculations.     

Well-posedness results for a model of damage in thermoviscoelastic materials

This paper deals with a phase transitions model describing the evolution of damage in thermoviscoelastic materials. The resulting system is highly non-linear, mainly due to the presence of quadratic dissipative terms and non-smooth constraints on the variables. Existence and uniqueness of a solution are proved, as well as regularity results, on a suitable finite time interval.     

Existence results for dynamic adhesive contact of a rod

The existence and uniqueness of the weak solution to the model for the dynamics of a viscoelastic rod which is in adhesive contact with an obstacle is established. The model consists of a hyperbolic equation for the vibrations of the rod coupled with a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE) for the evolution of the bonding function. The model allows for failure, i.e., complete debonding, in finite time. The existence of the weak solution is established by using an existence result for ODEs and the Schauder fixed-point theorem. The limit of an elastic rod when the viscosity vanishes is studied, too.     

Chromatic Uniqueness of a Family of K_4-Homeomorphs

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ON GUNDERSEN＇S QUESTION FOR THE UNICITY OF MEROMORPHIC FUNCTIONS

The uniqueness of meromoRphic functions that share four values are investigated, some results are obtained to show that if two nonconstant entire functions share three finite values IM, then the functions necessarily share all three values CM.     

EXISTENCE AND UNIQUENESS RESULTS FOR VISCOUS, HEAT-CONDUCTING 3-D FLUID WITH VACUUM

We prove the local existence and uniqueness of the strong solution to the 3-D full Navier-Stokes equations whose the viscosity coefficients and the thermal conductivity coefficient depend on the density and the temperature. The initial density may vanish in an open set and the domain could be bounded or unbounded. Finally, we show the blow-up of the smooth solution to the compressible Navier-Stokes equations in R^n （n 〉 1） when the initial density has compactly support and the initial total momentum is nonzero.