Eigenvalues of the antiplane-shear crack problem for a power-law material

This paper discusses the problem of finding the eigenvalue spectrum in determining the stress and strain fields at the tip of an antiplane-shear crack in a power-law material. It is shown that the perturbation method provides an analytical dependence of the eigenvalue on the material nonlinearity parameter and the eigenvalue of the linear problem. Thus, it is possible to find the entire spectrum of eigenvalues and not only the eigenvalue of the Hutchinson-Rice-Rosengren problem. __________ Translated from Prikladnaya Mekhanika i Tekhnicheskaya Fizika, Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 173–180, January–February, 2008.     

Comments on “power-law falloff in the Kosterlitz-Thouless phase of a two-dimensional lattice Coulomb gas”

A simple argument is presented by which one can show that the critical inverse temperature _c of a two-dimensional Coulomb gas (standard or hard-core) with activityz satisfies , where in the low-activity limit. Previous results yield .     

幂律度与成矿预测

分形理论的引入极大地促进了现代定量地学的发展。在成矿预测的科研和实践中，人们曾先后建立了多种分形预测模型，并取得较好的效果。作者另辟蹊径，通过引入新的分形变量——幂律度(power—law)，建立地质一分形联合预测模型，在理论上进行了初步探索；并以云南省宁蒗—永胜地区铜矿成矿预测为例，圈定A级找矿靶区1处、C级找矿靶区2处，已知矿点的误判率较单一地质预测模型明显降低，体现了幂律度这一分形变量在成矿预测中的优越性。     

衣架型模头中熔融聚合物流动的三维有限元分析

研究了聚合物熔体在衣架型模头中的等温流动。采用幂律模型描述该熔体的流变行为,通过三维有限元方法对此流动进行模拟,从而得到其速度场的分布情况,并且着重讨论了衣架型模头的几何形状对速度场分布的影响,特别是对出口宽度方向速度均匀性的影响。     

地震数据关系网络的空间尺度

通过分析美国加州地区地震数据关系网络的拓扑结构特征,研究了不同空间尺度下网络拓扑结构基本度量参数的变化规律.结果表明:随着空间尺度的增加,网络规模迅速变小,并最终达到稳定;网络的平均聚集系数和平均最短路径长度随空间尺度的增加呈波动性下降.度分布频度研究结果表明,网络的空间尺度在一个有效范围内时,网络呈现出较好的幂律分布,该范围受事件数量影响.     

The formation of dead zones in nonisothermal porous catalyst with temperature-dependent diffusion coefficient

This paper considers the formation of dead zones in the porous catalyst pellets due to the chemical reaction and diffusion. We established and investigated the model with nonisothermal reaction of fractional order and activated temperature-dependent diffusivity. The effects of process parameters, catalyst shape, and reaction and diffusion parameters on the formation of the dead zone are studied numerically and characterized by the critical Thiele modulus. The lower bounds for the critical Thiele modulus are derived analytically in terms of process parameters for exothermic and endothermic reactions and verified numerically. The critical Thiele modulus increases with increasing Arrhenius number for diffusion and decreasing Arrhenius number for reaction in the case of exothermic reactions, whereas the opposite trends hold for the endothermic reactions. The critical Thiele modulus also increases with increasing fractional reaction order as well as with decreasing energy generation function, and increasing Biot numbers for heat and mass transfer. Moreover, the critical Thiele modulus is the highest for spherical pellets and the lowest for pellets with planar shape.     

非牛顿幂律流体有界双重介质渗流模型实空间解析解与样版曲线

在前人工作的基础上,建立了非牛顿幂律流体有界双重介质试井模型.根据模型的特点,提出了相应的特征值问题,求出了特征值和特征函数.定义了油层压力关于空间变量的正交积分变换.根据特征函数系的完备正交性和矩阵微分方程理论,获得了油层压力分布以及井底压力,压力导数的实空间解析解(无穷级数形式).首次直接根据实空间解析解绘制了样版曲线,并在同一张双对数坐标纸上描出拉普拉斯方法制作的样版曲线,同时给出二者间的误差走势图.通过对比分析发现,随着级数项数的增大,根据解析解制作的样版曲线逐渐逼近拉普拉斯方法制作的样版曲线.新疆油田实例证实了该方法的有效性.研究结果进一步补充,完善了试井分析理论.     

Power law and small world properties in a comparison of traffic city networks

We analyze the statistical properties of the urban public bus networks of two cities (Beijing and Chengdu) in China. To this end, we present a comprehensive survey of the degree distribution, average path length, and clustering of both networks. It is shown that both networks exhibit small world behavior and are hierarchically organized. We also discuss the differences between the statistical properties displayed by the two networks. In addition, we propose a weight distribution approach to study the passenger flow through the public bus networks we considered. A hierarchical structure is observed here also.     

Solitons and Fractal Kerr Response

Optical solitary waves that propagate in a Kerr medium exhibiting a power-law nonlocal response are studied analytically. The first-principles stability analysis based on quantum field theory shows that within the whole range of the exponent (the fractal dimension) the solitary wave can be stabilized.     

A Mixture Model of Truncated Zeta Distributions with Applications to Scientific Collaboration Networks

The degree distribution has attracted considerable attention from network scientists in the last few decades to have knowledge of the topological structure of networks. It is widely acknowledged that many real networks have power-law degree distributions. However, the deviation from such a behavior often appears when the range of degrees is small. Even worse, the conventional employment of the continuous power-law distribution usually causes an inaccurate inference as the degree should be discrete-valued. To remedy these obstacles, we propose a finite mixture model of truncated zeta distributions for a broad range of degrees that disobeys a power-law behavior in the range of small degrees while maintaining the scale-free behavior. The maximum likelihood algorithm alongside the model selection method is presented to estimate model parameters and the number of mixture components. The validity of the suggested algorithm is evidenced by Monte Carlo simulations. We apply our method to five disciplines of scientific collaboration networks with remarkable interpretations. The proposed model outperforms the other alternatives in terms of the goodness-of-fit.