Impulsive systems with hybrid delayed impulses: Input-to-state stability

This paper investigates input-to-state stability (ISS) and integral-input-to-state stability (iISS) of nonlinear impulsive systems with hybrid delayed impulses. Based on Lyapunov method, some sufficient conditions ensuring ISS and iISS of impulsive systems are obtained, where the time derivative of Lyapunov function is indefinite, and the hybrid effects of delayed impulses are also fully considered. It is shown that the impulsive system is ISS provided that the combined action of time delay existing in impulses, continuous dynamic, and the cumulative strength of hybrid impulses satisfies some conditions, even if the hybrid delayed impulses play a destabilizing effect on ISS. Examples and their simulations are presented to illustrate the applicability of the proposed results.     

Exact SOR convergence regions for a general class ofp-cyclic matrices

Linear systems whose associated block Jacobi iteration matrixB is weakly cyclic generated by the cyclic permutation = (₁,₂,..., _p ) in the spirit of Li and Varga are considered. Regions of convergence for the corresponding blockp-cyclic SOR method are derived and the exact convergence domains for real spectra, (B ^p ), of the same sign are obtained. Moreover, analytical expressions for two special cases forp = 5 are given and numerical results are presented confirming the theory developed. The tools used for this work are mainly from complex analysis and extensive use of (asteroidal) hypocycloids in the complex plane is made to produce our results.This work was supported in part by AFOSR grant F49620-92-J-0069 and NSF grant 9202536-CCR.     

A universal constant for the convergence of Newton's method and an application to the classical homotopy method

We give a new theorem concerning the convergence of Newton's method to compute an approximate zero of a system of equations. In this result, the constanth ₀=0.162434... appears, which plays a fundamental role in the localization of good initial points for the Newton iteration. We apply it to the determination of an appropriate discretization of the time interval in the classical homotopy method.     

Multistep methods for differential algebraic equations

Multistep methods for the differential/algebraic equations (DAEs) in the form of

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.     

Kinetic-catalytic determination of osmium by fluorescence quenching with salicylfluorone and hydrogen peroxide

A highly sensitive and selective fluorescence-quenching kinetic method is proposed for the determination of trace osmium(IV), based on the catalytic effect of osmium(IV) on the salicylfluorone (_ex = 510 nm, _em = 535 nm)-H₂O₂ system at pH 9.3–9.6. Using the fixed time method, osmium(IV) in the range 0.008–0.6 ng/ml can be determined. The detection limit is 0.006 ng/ml. Over thirty anions and cations, including other platinum metal ions, do not interfere, even when present in large excess. The method has been applied successfully for the determination of osmium in a series of synthetic mixtures and refined ore with relative standard deviations of 2–6%.     

On the convergence of interior-reflective Newton methods for nonlinear minimization subject to bounds

We consider a new algorithm, an interior-reflective Newton approach, for the problem of minimizing a smooth nonlinear function of many variables, subject to upper and/or lower bounds on some of the variables. This approach generatesstrictly feasible iterates by using a new affine scaling transformation and following piecewise linear paths (reflection paths). The interior-reflective approach does not require identification of an activity set. In this paper we establish that the interior-reflective Newton approach is globally and quadratically convergent. Moreover, we develop a specific example of interior-reflective Newton methods which can be used for large-scale and sparse problems.Research partially supported by the Applied Mathematical Sciences Research Program (KC-04-02) of the Office of Energy Research of the U.S. Department of Energy under grant DE-FG02-86ER25013.A000, and in part by NSF, AFOSR, and ONR through grant DMS-8920550, and by the Advanced Computing Research Institute, a unit of the Cornell Theory Center which receives major funding from the National Science Foundation and IBM Corporation, with additional support from New York State and members of its Corporate Research Institute.Corresponding author.     

Fastiterative methods for least squares estimations

Least squares estimations have been used extensively in many applications, e.g. system identification and signal prediction. When the stochastic process is stationary, the least squares estimators can be found by solving a Toeplitz or near-Toeplitz matrix system depending on the knowledge of the data statistics. In this paper, we employ the preconditioned conjugate gradient method with circulant preconditioners to solve such systems. Our proposed circulant preconditioners are derived from the spectral property of the given stationary process. In the case where the spectral density functions() of the process is known, we prove that ifs() is a positive continuous function, then the spectrum of the preconditioned system will be clustered around 1 and the method converges superlinearly. However, if the statistics of the process is unknown, then we prove that with probability 1, the spectrum of the preconditioned system is still clustered around 1 provided that large data samples are taken. For finite impulse response (FIR) system identification problems, our numerical results show that annth order least squares estimator can usually be obtained inO(n logn) operations whenO(n) data samples are used. Finally, we remark that our algorithm can be modified to suit the applications of recursive least squares computations with the proper use of sliding window method arising in signal processing applications.Research supported in part by HKRGC grant no. 221600070, ONR contract no. N00014-90-J-1695 and DOE grant no. DE-FG03-87ER25037.     

用“参数多项式方法”确定风力透平叶片的失速振荡流

用“参数多项式方法”确定风力透平叶片的失速振荡流陈佐一,孙永忠,杨玲（清华大学热能工程系北京１０００８４）关键词：参数多项式方法,风力透平,颤振在现代各类流动诱导振动问题的研究中,流体激振的安全性分析与诊断,要求在较短的时间内,对大量的复杂流动工况进...     

固体激光器晶体吸收光场的设计仿真

设计了3类8种二极管侧面泵浦结构,构建了相应的泵浦光学理论模型,采用有限元分析方法,计算了不同结构下的吸收效率和矩阵元素标准差。首先,在给定泵浦总功率、芯片间距、掺杂浓度等前提下,随着泵浦距离在0～5 mm内递增,8种泵浦结构中激光晶体的吸收效率呈降低趋势,矩阵元素标准差也逐渐减小,其中部分结构在近距离(0～0.3 mm)泵浦时矩阵元素标准差变化程度较大,在实际应用中应避免泵浦距离处于近距离区间。其次,在相同结构参量下,随着晶体掺杂浓度在0.6%～1.0%内增加,激光晶体的吸收效率提高,同时,掺杂浓度提升也是造成截面中心峰值降低或半径方向上光场凹陷的原因。因此,掺杂浓度和泵浦距离的匹配将是提升半径方向上均匀性分布的有效手段。