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Turbulent Boundary Layers Over Compliant Walls: Low-Dimensional Models and Direct simulations
Since the realization by Reynolds (1883) more than a century ago, that flow turbulence brings with it a very significant increase in the drag forces that a flow exerts on bounding surfaces, reducing this effec...
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Theoretical Approaches to the Effect of Wall Compliance on Turbulent Flow
In this paper we are reporting preliminary results of an ongoing research project that aims at getting an improved understanding of the interaction between wall-generated turbulence and compliant surface coati...
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Blends of polyamide-6 (PA6) with syndiotactic polystyrene (sPS) were prepared using a series of styrene/glycidyl methacrylate (SG) copolymers as compatibilizers. These copolymers are miscible with sPS, and the...
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Given a set of circles C = {c 1, ..., c n} on the Euclidean plane with centers {(a 1, b 1), ..., (a n, b n)} and radii {r 1, ..., r n}, the smallest enclosing circle (of fixed circles) problem is to find the circ...
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The transition process of intermittent flow in a longitudinal section of Bingham fluid from initial distribution to fully developed state was numerically investigated in this paper. The influences of slope ϑ, ...
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Radiocarbon dating and Mössbauer spectroscopic study of the Mukaiyama landslide, Japan
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Research on User Programming Environment in Grid
Principal among the technical obstacles when using the grid environment is usability. Owing to the inherently complex, programs in grid will reflect some of the complexity. To make grid resources useful and ac...
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This paper investigates the problem of robust H∞ filtering for a class of nonlinear neutral systems with norm-bounded parameter uncertainties appearing in all the matrices of the linear part of the system model. ...
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This paper investigates the problem of H∞ filter design for two-dimensional (2D) stochastic systems. The stochastic perturbation is first introduced into the well-known Fornasini-Marchesini local state-space mode...
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This paper is concerned with the problem of stability analysis and stabilization of two-dimensional (2-D) discrete systems with stochastic perturbation. The 2-D stochastic system model is first established bas...
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Lung Deformation Estimation and Four-Dimensional CT Lung Reconstruction
Four-dimensional (4D) computed tomography (CT) image acquisition is a useful technique in radiation treatment planning and interventional radiology in that it can account for respiratory motion of lungs. Curre...
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Spatial damage distribution of August 16, 2003, Inner Mongolia, China, M S=5.9 earthquake and analysis
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Robust Positive Real Synthesis for 2D Continuous Systems via State and Output Feedback
This paper considers the problem of positive real control for uncertain twodimensional (2D) continuous systems described by the Roesser state-space model. The parameter uncertainties are assumed to be norm bou...
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This paper discusses the problem of H∞ model reduction for linear discrete time 2-D singular Roesser models (2-D SRM). A condition for bounded realness is established for 2-D SRM in terms of linear matrix inequal...
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