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Filter approach to the stochastic analysis of MDOF wind-excited structures
1999
Abstract In this paper, an approach useful for stochastic analysis of the Gaussian and non-Gaussian behavior of the response of multi-degree-of-freedom (MDOF) wind-excited structures is presented. This approach is based on a particular model of the multivariate stochastic wind field based upon a particular diagonalization of the power spectral density (PSD) matrix of the fluctuating part of wind velocity. This diagonalization is performed in the space of eigenvectors and eigenvalues that are called here wind-eigenvalues and wind-eigenvectors, respectively. From the examination of these quantities it can be recognized that the wind-eigenvectors change slowly with frequency while the first wi…
Multiplicity results for systems of asymptotically linear second order equations
2002
Abstract We prove the existence and multiplicity of solutions, with prescribed nodal properties, for a BVP associated with a system of asymptotically linear second order equations. The applicability of an abstract continuation theorem is ensured by upper and lower bounds on the number of zeros of each component of a solution.
Multiplicity of Solutions for Second Order Two-Point Boundary Value Problems with Asymptotically Asymmetric Nonlinearities at Resonance
2007
Abstract Estimations of the number of solutions are given for various resonant cases of the boundary value problem 𝑥″ + 𝑔(𝑡, 𝑥) = 𝑓(𝑡, 𝑥, 𝑥′), 𝑥(𝑎) cos α – 𝑥′(𝑎) sin α = 0, 𝑥(𝑏) cos β – 𝑥′(𝑏) sin β = 0, where 𝑔(𝑡, 𝑥) is an asymptotically linear nonlinearity, and 𝑓 is a sublinear one. We assume that there exists at least one solution to the BVP.
Approaches to partitioning the global UVER irradiance into its direct and diffuse components in Valencia, Spain
2012
[1] The paper explores methods of partitioning the hourly average UV erythemal flux into its direct and diffuse components for Valencia, Spain. It is shown that the cloud modification factor, the ratio of measured to cloudless erythemal flux relates linearly to the fraction of the measured irradiance that is diffuse. This relationship was developed further into two simple models- a linear and nonlinear one. The models are characterized by an effective cloud cover to partition the global erythemal flux. The diffuse fraction increases linearly with cloud cover in the linear model, but exponentially in the nonlinear one. The models may be used to partition the direct and diffuse irradiance wit…
High-order harmonic generation via bound-bound transitions in an elliptically polarized laser field
2016
We use a simplified five-level system to investigate the high-order harmonic generation (HHG) spectrum emitted by an atom driven by a linearly or elliptically polarized laser field. For this model, the Schrödinger equation is exactly analytically reduced to the system of ordinary differential equations, which is solved numerically. Studying the intensity and polarization of the emitted radiation, we find that under high laser ellipticity the harmonic emission is suppressed. However, the harmonic intensity typically depends nonmonotonously on the laser ellipticity. Such anomalous behavior is very pronounced for the resonant harmonic. We offer an explanation of this behavior based on the incr…
Adaptive Mid-Term Representations for Robust Audio Event Classification
2018
Low-level audio features are commonly used in many audio analysis tasks, such as audio scene classification or acoustic event detection. Due to the variable length of audio signals, it is a common approach to create fixed-length feature vectors consisting of a set of statistics that summarize the temporal variability of such short-term features. To avoid the loss of temporal information, the audio event can be divided into a set of mid-term segments or texture windows. However, such an approach requires to estimate accurately the onset and offset times of the audio events in order to obtain a robust mid-term statistical description of their temporal evolution. This paper proposes the use of…
Adaptive discontinuous evolution Galerkin method for dry atmospheric flow
2014
We present a new adaptive genuinely multidimensional method within the framework of the discontinuous Galerkin method. The discontinuous evolution Galerkin (DEG) method couples a discontinuous Galerkin formulation with approximate evolution operators. The latter are constructed using the bicharacteristics of multidimensional hyperbolic systems, such that all of the infinitely many directions of wave propagation are considered explicitly. In order to take into account multiscale phenomena that typically appear in atmospheric flows nonlinear fluxes are split into a linear part governing the acoustic and gravitational waves and a nonlinear part that models advection. Time integration is realiz…
MR3098564 Reviewed Al-Thagafi, M. A.; Shahzad, Naseer Krasnosel'skii-type fixed-point results. J. Nonlinear Convex Anal. 14 (2013), no. 3, 483–491. (…
2014
The Krasnosel'skii fixed-point theorem is a powerful tool in dealing with various types of integro-differential equations. The initial motivation of this theorem is the fact that the inversion of a perturbed differential operator may yield the sum of a continuous compact mapping and a contraction mapping. Following and improving this idea, many fixed-point results were proved.\\ The authors present significant and interesting contributions in this direction. In particular, they give the following main theorem: \begin{theorem} Let $M$ be a nonempty bounded closed convex subset of a Banach space $E$, $S:M \to E$ and $T:M \to E$. Suppose that \begin{itemize} \item[(a)] $S$ is 1-set-contractive…
Phase separation of symmetrical polymer mixtures in thin-film geometry
1995
Monte Carlo simulations of the bond fluctuation model of symmetrical polymer blends confined between two “neutral” repulsive walls are presented for chain lengthNA=NB=32 and a wide range of film thicknessD (fromD=8 toD=48 in units of the lattice spacing). The critical temperaturesTc(D) of unmixing are located by finite-size scaling methods, and it is shown that\(T_c (\infty ) - T_c (D) \propto D^{ - {1 \mathord{\left/ {\vphantom {1 {v_3 }}} \right. \kern-\nulldelimiterspace} {v_3 }}} \), wherev3≈0.63 is the correlation length exponent of the three-dimensional Ising model universality class. Contrary to this result, it is argued that the critical behavior of the films is ruled by two-dimensi…
Assessment of Granger causality by nonlinear model identification: application to short-term cardiovascular variability.
2007
A method for assessing Granger causal relationships in bivariate time series, based on nonlinear autoregressive (NAR) and nonlinear autoregressive exogenous (NARX) models is presented. The method evaluates bilateral interactions between two time series by quantifying the predictability improvement (PI) of the output time series when the dynamics associated with the input time series are included, i.e., moving from NAR to NARX prediction. The NARX model identification was performed by the optimal parameter search (OPS) algorithm, and its results were compared to the least-squares method to determine the most appropriate method to be used for experimental data. The statistical significance of…