COMPUTATION OF NONEQUILIBRIUM HYPERSONIC FLOW OVER CONCAVE CORNERS

1. IntroductionWe consider steady inviscid hyPersonic flow of air about a concave corner including chendcalreaction effects. Computation of nonequllibrium flow is duncult because of the steep gradielltsbehind the shock and an entroPy layer near the body For many cases the time scale of theChemical reactions is 1arger than, or close to, the time scale of the origina1 meChanical problemand the equllibrium chendstry mode1 is not realistic. Therefore, it is necessary to eva1uate thekinetics of c…     

Bosonization theory for tunneling spectra in smooth edges of quantum Hall systems

We calculate the spectral function of a smooth edge of a quantum Hall system in the lowest Landau level by means of a bosonization technique. We obtain a general relationship between the one electron spectral function and the dynamical structure factor. The resulting – characteristics exhibit, at low voltage and temperature, power law scaling, generally different from the one predicted by the chiral Luttinger liquid theory, and in good agreement with recent experimental results.     

Optimal dividends in the dual model

The optimal dividend problem proposed by de Finetti [de Finetti, B., 1957. Su un’impostazione alternativa della teoria collettiva del rischio. In: Transactions of the XVth International Congress of Actuaries, vol. 2. pp. 433-443] is to find the dividend-payment strategy that maximizes the expected discounted value of dividends which are paid to the shareholders until the company is ruined or bankrupt. In this paper, it is assumed that the surplus or shareholders’ equity is a Lévy process which is skip-free downwards; such a model might be appropriate for a company that specializes in inventions and discoveries. In this model, the optimal strategy is a barrier strategy. Hence the problem is to determine b^∗, the optimal level of the dividend barrier. A key tool is the method of Laplace transforms. A variety of numerical examples are provided. It is also shown that if the initial surplus is b^∗, the expectation of the discounted dividends until ruin is the present value of a perpetuity with the payment rate being the drift of the surplus process.     

Malliavin calculus for infinite-dimensional systems with additive noise

We consider an infinite-dimensional dynamical system with polynomial nonlinearity and additive noise given by a finite number of Wiener processes. By studying how randomness is spread by the dynamics, we develop in this setting a partial counterpart of Hörmander's classical theory of Hypoelliptic operators. We study the distributions of finite-dimensional projections of the solutions and give conditions that provide existence and smoothness of densities of these distributions with respect to the Lebesgue measure. We also apply our results to concrete SPDEs such as a Stochastic Reaction Diffusion Equation and the Stochastic 2D Navier-Stokes System.     

The Simultaneous Approximation Order by Hermite Interpolation in a Smooth Domain

Let D be a smooth domain in the complex plane. In D consider the simultaneous approximation to a function and its ith (0 ≤i≤q) derivatives by Hermite interpolation. The orders of uniform approximation and approximation in the mean, are obtained under some domain boundary conditions. Some known results are included as particular cases of the theorems of this paper. Received May 25, 2000, Revised November 3, 2000, Accepted December 7, 2000     

K-duality for pseudomanifolds with isolated singularities

We associate to a pseudomanifold X with a conical singularity a differentiable groupoid G which plays the role of the tangent space of X. We construct a Dirac element and a dual Dirac element which induce a K-duality between the C∗-algebras C∗(G) and C(X). This is a first step toward an index theory for pseudomanifolds.     

Characterization of best Chebyshev approximations with prescribed norm

In this paper a new characterization of smooth normed linear spaces is discussed using the notion of proximal points of a pair of convex sets. It is proved that a normed linear space is smooth if and only if for each pair of convex sets, points which are mutually nearest to each other from the respective sets are proximal.     

Isotopy invariants for smooth tori in 4-manifolds

In this paper we define invariants under smooth isotopy for certain two-dimensional knots using some refined Cerf theory. One of the invariants is the knot type of some classical knot generalizing the string number of closed braids. The other invariant is a generalization of the unique invariant of degree 1 for classical knots in 3-manifolds. Possibly, these invariants can be used to distinguish smooth embeddings of tori in some 4-manifolds but which are equivalent as topological embeddings.     

多目标规划的光滑同伦方法

本文给出了求解多目标规划的一种连续同伦方法 .首先 ,运用光滑熵函数将多目标多约束的问题化为单目标单约束的问题 ,然后构造了求解单目标问题的同伦方法 ,并证明了其大范围收敛性 .     

High-dimensional Kuramoto model limited on smooth curved surfaces

In this Letter, a high-dimensional Kuramoto model limited on smooth curved surfaces is established. Some synchronization phenomena of this new model are displayed by simulations. A necessary and sufficient condition of equilibria is obtained and the linearized system around an equilibrium is derived. As the considered smooth curved surface is an ellipsoid, some dynamical properties including limit behavior and instability are obtained. Based on those results, almost global synchronization is achieved for the high-dimensional Kuramoto model limited on ellipsoids with complete or tree graphs. Moreover, numerical simulations are given to validate the obtained theoretical results.