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The complex nature of the convective terms in the fluid flow governing equations has caused many researchers to work on estimating more accurate advection term magnitudes by employing better approximate expressions. The trend of progress has been to include more physics of flow in the approximations. However, there is no archival evidence that reports the direct implementation of buoyancy as a physical influence in the advection term modeling. In this work, the influence of buoyancy in an efficient advection term expression is investigated in a control volume context with a collocated grid arrangement. The accuracy of the results obtained by both excluding and including the buoyancy term is... 

In this paper, a new fully decentralized control strategy for the ALESTOM gasifier benchmark is presented. The proposed decentralized fault-tolerant control scheme overcomes the conventional drawbacks of the previously developed centralized strategies for the linearized model of gasifier system. To achieve the objective, first, the best pairing has been selected based on integrity screening tools as well as physical considerations. Then, a fully decentralized Proportional Integral (PI) controller has been proposed. Finally simulation results performed in MATLAB show that the designed controller is capable of achieving desired performance for three different scenarios, i.e., full, half and no... 

This article aims to provide new insights into trade effects of the Greater Arab Free Trade Area (GAFTA), using an imperfect competition framework. The model combines the new gravity model approach with supply-demand export equations in imperfect competition. In this regard, the role of scale economies, product varieties and expectations is explored. Facing the lack of international data on scale economies, we also develop a translog production system which makes it possible to obtain reliable estimates of this factor. For a more rigorous treatment of the endogeneity problem in the model, we make use of an instrumental GMM panel estimator. Results show limited effects of GAFTA on regional... 

Inspired by the paper [1] we develop a non-equilibrium statistical mechanics for graph homomorphisms, which can be considered as a generalization of several other Markov processes including Ising and parallel Hopfield models. We then apply the theory for the special case of homo-morphisms between rings with N nodes and derive the associated classical Lagrangian in the large N limit  

With the advent of cloud-based parallel processing techniques, services such as MapReduce have been considered by many businesses and researchers for different applications of big data computation including matrix multiplication, which has drawn much attention in recent years. However, securing the computation result integrity in such systems is an important challenge, since public clouds can be vulnerable against the misbehavior of their owners (especially for economic purposes) and external attackers. In this paper, we propose an efficient approach using Merkle tree structure to verify the computation results of matrix multiplication in MapReduce systems while enduring an acceptable... 

The switch level is an abstraction level between the gate level and the electrical level, offers many advantages. Switch level simulators can reliably model many important phenomena in CMOS circuits, such as bi-directional signal propagation, charge sharing and variations in driving strength. However, the fault simulation of switch level models is more time-consuming than gate level models. This paper presents a method for fast fault emulation of switch level circuits using FPGA chips. In this method, gates model switch level circuits and we can emulate mixed gate-switch level models. By the use of this method, FPGA chips can be used to accelerate the fault injection campaigns into switch... 

The most suitable and widely used numerical integration method for boundary integrals in the BEM method is Gauss-Legendre integration. But, this integration method is not appropriate for singular and nearly singular integrations in BEM. In this study, some criteria are introduced for recognizing nearly singular integrals in the integral form of the Laplace equation. At the first stage, a criterion is obtained for the constant element and, at the later stages, higher order elements are investigated. In the present research, the Romberg integration method is used for nearly singular integrals. The results of this numerical method have good agreement with analytical integration. The singular... 

One of the main challenges of hybrid simulation is developing integration methods that not only provide accurate and stable results but also are compatible with the hybrid simulation circumstances. This paper presents a novel enhanced integration technique for hybrid simulation termed “modified operator splitting” (MOS) method. The main aim of the MOS technique is to improve the precision of the operator splitting (OS) method by reducing the corrector step length, where initial stiffness is utilized instead of actual stiffness. For this purpose, a new algorithm is proposed, which makes a more precise estimation of the predictor displacement; thus minimizes the effect of the corrective... 

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One of the main challenges of hybrid simulation is developing integration methods that not only provide accurate and stable results but also are compatible with the hybrid simulation circumstances. This paper presents a novel enhanced integration technique for hybrid simulation termed “modified operator splitting” (MOS) method. The main aim of the MOS technique is to improve the precision of the operator splitting (OS) method by reducing the corrector step length, where initial stiffness is utilized instead of actual stiffness. For this purpose, a new algorithm is proposed, which makes a more precise estimation of the predictor displacement; thus minimizes the effect of the corrective... 

One of the main challenges of hybrid simulation is developing integration methods that not only provide accurate and stable results but also are compatible with the hybrid simulation circumstances. This paper presents a novel enhanced integration technique for hybrid simulation termed “modified operator splitting” (MOS) method. The main aim of the MOS technique is to improve the precision of the operator splitting (OS) method by reducing the corrector step length, where initial stiffness is utilized instead of actual stiffness. For this purpose, a new algorithm is proposed, which makes a more precise estimation of the predictor displacement; thus minimizes the effect of the corrective... 

Using Helmholtz's decomposition theorem, the laws of balance of linear and angular momenta are restated as surface integrals over the closed surface of an arbitrary subregion in a continuum. Newton's law of action and reaction and Cauchy's theorem for stress and couple-stress are proved as corollaries of these surface balance laws. © Sharif University of Technology  

In this paper, the possibility of guided light propagation in dielectric slab waveguides in the presence of interface free charge layers is explored. It is shown that, under certain conditions, the interface charge layer can have no influence on the TM or TE polarized guided modes. The density, and therefore the conductivity, of the interface free charges can be controlled by a transverse dc voltage. It is concluded that the applied voltage across such a structure can be used for switching the light propagation on or off. This device finds numerous applications in integrated optics, as discussed here. A design example is also presented  

Let I be a monomial ideal in the polynomial ring S=K [x1,... xn]. We study the Stanley depth of the integral closure Ī of I. We prove that for every integer k ≥ 1, the inequalities (S/Ik) ≤ sdepth (S/Ī) and sdepth(Ik) ≤ sdepth(Ī) hold. We also prove that for every monomial ideal I⊂ S there exist integers k1,k2≥ 1, such that for every s≥ 1, the inequalities sdepth (S/Isk1) ≤ sdepth(S/Ī) and sdepth (Isk2) ≤ sdepth (Ī) hold. In particular, mink{sdepth(S/Ik)} ≤ sdepth(S/Ī) and min̄k {sdepth (Ik)}≤ sdepth(Ī). We conjecture that for every integrally closed monomial ideal I, the inequalities sdepth(S/I)≥ n-l (I) and sdepth (I)≥ n-l (I)+1 hold, where l (I) is the analytic spread of I. Assuming the... 

In this paper, we study graphs whose matching polynomials have only integer zeros. A graph is matching integral if the zeros of its matching polynomial are all integers. We characterize all matching integral traceable graphs. We show that apart from K7(set minus)(E(C3)∪E(C4)) there is no connected k-regular matching integral graph if k≥2. It is also shown that if G is a graph with a perfect matching, then its matching polynomial has a zero in the interval (0,1]. Finally, we describe all claw-free matching integral graphs  

In this paper, we study graphs whose matching polynomials have only integer zeros. A graph is matching integral if the zeros of its matching polynomial are all integers. We characterize all matching integral traceable graphs. We show that apart from K7∖(E(C3)∪E(C4)) there is no connected k-regular matching integral graph if k≥2. It is also shown that if G is a graph with a perfect matching, then its matching polynomial has a zero in the interval (0,1]. Finally, we describe all claw-free matching integral graphs. © 2017 Elsevier B.V  

A new hybrid method based on multimode contour integral and mode matching techniques will be introduced. It is capable of analyzing any H-plane discontinuity in a rectangular waveguide. The process is based on segmentation and dividing the structure into key building blocks. We use the multimode contour integral method to analyze the blocks including irregular shape H-plane discontinuities. In opposite to traditional contour integral method, which considers only the effect of dominant mode (TE10) on wave ports, multimode contour integral considers the effect of higher order modes (TE n0) excited by discontinuities on these ports. The mode matching technique will be used to analyze the... 

CFAR detector is an essential component in any radar system. This component ensures that the system may not be overloaded by false targets. In the past it was common to model the interfering signal (clutter) in a radar system with a Rayleigh distribution. But as a progress in the radar systems, nowadays the Rayleigh model is insufficient, therefore some other models such as Weibull and lognormal are proposed and CFAR detectors for these models are developed through the papers. But majority of these proposed CFAR detectors are derived for single pulse operation. When more than one pulse exists, it is proposed to use binary integrator to improve the performance. It is mentioned through... 

Modified two-phase latch and flip-flop are introduced to implement a linear phase-detector (LPD) for 1/N-rate clock recovery applications. This technique greatly simplifies the required circuitry of the LPD and makes it suitable for higher speed applications while consuming less power compared to the conventional techniques  

In this paper, different models of gain enhanced amplifier are compared and the most accurate one is chosen. Based on this model, complete symbolic small signal analysis is performed and a design procedure leading to high speed gain boosted amplifier is presented