Are Field Derivatives Needed in Linear Constitutive Relations?

General linear constitutive relations need not contain any dependence on field derivatives, and the standard boundary conditions need not be modified. We show that the answer to the question asked as the title of this communication is therefore in the negative.     

Optimal Control of a Chemical Vapor Deposition Reactor

We study a simple model of chemical vapor deposition on a silicon wafer. The control is the flux of chemical species, and the objective is to grow the semiconductor film so that its surface attains a prescribed profile as nearly as possible. The surface is spatially fast oscillating due to the small feature scale, and therefore the problem is formulated in terms of its homogenized approximation. We prove that the optimal control is bang-bang, and we use this information to develop a numerical scheme for computing the optimal control.     

First-Order Necessary Optimality Conditions for General Bilevel Programming Problems

In Ref. 1, bilevel programming problems have been investigated using an equivalent formulation by use of the optimal value function of the lower level problem. In this comment, it is shown that Ref. 1 contains two incorrect results: in Proposition 2.1, upper semicontinuity instead of lower semicontinuity has to be used for guaranteeing existence of optimal solutions; in Theorem 5.1, the assumption that the abnormal part of the directional derivative of the optimal value function reduces to zero has to be replaced by the demand that a nonzero abnormal Lagrange multiplier does not exist.     

Optimality conditions and duality for a class of nondifferentiable multi-objective fractional programming problems

A class of multi-objective fractional programming problems (MFP) are considered where the involved functions are locally Lipschitz. In order to deduce our main results, we give the definition of the generalized (F,θ,ρ,d)-convex class about the Clarke’s generalized gradient. Under the above generalized convexity assumption, necessary and sufficient conditions for optimality are given. Finally, a dual problem corresponding to (MFP) is formulated, appropriate dual theorems are proved.      

Technical Stability of Nonstationary Automatic-Control Systems with Variable Structure

Sufficient conditions of technical stability in measure are established for nonstationary automatic-control systems with variable structure and logic control laws dependent on the mismatch error and its derivatives of finite order for all admissible initial perturbations from a predefined measurable set of initial perturbations. The associated systems of differential equations contain time-dependent coefficients. The logic control laws are described by a variable jump control function of the mismatch coordinate and its derivatives of finite order that is no higher than that of the initial system of equations. Using a signal and its derivatives for control increases the quality of discontinuous control. The relationship between the eigenvalues of the quadratic forms of the corresponding Liapunov functions and the criteria of technical stability is revealed. The general results are applied to a variable-structure system of the third order     

Microwave-assisted ruthenium-catalyzed olefin metathesis under solvent-free conditions

An efficient method for ring-closing metathesis under solvent-free conditions and by microwave activation was established. Non-thermal microwave specific effects were evident.     

Rapid synthesis of substituted 5-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-ones under microwave-induced solvent-free conditions

Under microwave irradiation and without solvent, racemic and optically pure mandelic acid readily condenses with aldehydes and ketones to give 2-alkyl substituted 5-phenyl-1,3-dioxolan-4-ones in good yield.     

Fourth‐order accurate compact‐difference discretization method for Helmholtz and incompressible Navier–Stokes equations

A fourth‐order accurate solution method for the three‐dimensional Helmholtz equations is described that is based on a compact finite‐difference stencil for the Laplace operator. Similar discretization methods for the Poisson equation have been presented by various researchers for Dirichlet boundary conditions. Here, the complicated issue of imposing Neumann boundary conditions is described in detail. The method is then applied to model Helmholtz problems to verify the accuracy of the discretization method. The implementation of the solution method is also described. The Helmholtz solver is used as the basis for a fourth‐order accurate solver for the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. Numerical results obtained with this Navier–Stokes solver for the temporal evolution of a three‐dimensional instability in a counter‐rotating vortex pair are discussed. The time‐accurate Navier–Stokes simulations show the resolving properties of the developed discretization method and the correct prediction of the initial growth rate of the three‐dimensional instability in the vortex pair. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Controllability results for nondensely defined evolution differential inclusions with nonlocal conditions

In this paper we prove controllability results for some semilinear nondensely defined evolution differential inclusions in Banach spaces with nonlocal conditions.