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A Genetic Algorithm Hybrid For Constructing Optimal Response Surface Designs, David Drain, W. Matthew Carlyle, Douglas C. Montgomery, Connie Borror, Christine Anderson-Cook Nov 2004

A Genetic Algorithm Hybrid For Constructing Optimal Response Surface Designs, David Drain, W. Matthew Carlyle, Douglas C. Montgomery, Connie Borror, Christine Anderson-Cook

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Hybrid heuristic optimization methods can discover efficient experiment designs in situations where traditional designs cannot be applied, exchange methods are ineffective, and simple heuristics like simulated annealing fail to find good solutions. One such heuristic hybrid is GASA (genetic algorithm-simulated annealing), developed to take advantage of the exploratory power of the genetic algorithm, while utilizing the local optimum exploitive properties of simulated annealing. the successful application of this method is demonstrated in a difficult design problem with multiple optimization criteria in an irregularly shaped design region. Copyright © 2004 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.


Infinite Prandtl Number Limit Of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, Xiaoming Wang Oct 2004

Infinite Prandtl Number Limit Of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, Xiaoming Wang

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We rigorously justify the infinite Prandtl number model of convection as the limit of the Boussinesq approximation to the Rayleigh-Bénard convection as the Prandtl number approaches infinity. This is a singular limit problem involving an initial layer. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.


Large Prandtl Number Behavior Of The Boussinesq System Of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, Xiaoming Wang Jul 2004

Large Prandtl Number Behavior Of The Boussinesq System Of Rayleigh-Bénard Convection, Xiaoming Wang

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We establish the validity of the infinite Prandtl number model as an approximation of the Boussinesq system at large Prandtl number on finite and infinite time interval, as well as in some statistical sense. © 2004 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.


Oscillation Of Symplectic Dynamic Systems, Martin Bohner, Ondřej Došlý Jul 2004

Oscillation Of Symplectic Dynamic Systems, Martin Bohner, Ondřej Došlý

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We investigate oscillatory properties of a perturbed symplectic dynamic system on a time scale that is unbounded above. the unperturbed system is supposed to be Non oscillatory, and we give conditions on the perturbation matrix, which guarantee that the perturbed system becomes oscillatory. Examples illustrating the general results are given as well. © Australian Mathematical Society 2004.


Sub-Supersolution Method For Quasilinear Parabolic Variational Inequalities, Siegfried Carl, Vy Khoi Le May 2004

Sub-Supersolution Method For Quasilinear Parabolic Variational Inequalities, Siegfried Carl, Vy Khoi Le

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

This paper is about a systematic attempt to apply the sub-supersolution method to parabolic variational inequalities. We define appropriate concepts of sub-supersolutions and derive existence, comparison, and extremity results for such inequalities.


Multiple Solutions For Quasilinear Elliptic Neumann Problems In Orlicz-Sobolev Spaces, Nikolaos Halidias, Vy Khoi Le Jan 2004

Multiple Solutions For Quasilinear Elliptic Neumann Problems In Orlicz-Sobolev Spaces, Nikolaos Halidias, Vy Khoi Le

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We investigate the existence of multiple solutions to quasilinear elliptic problems containing Laplace like operators (ϕ-Laplacians). We are interested in Neumann boundary value problems and our main tool is Brézis-Nirenberg's local linking theorem.


Tid And See Testing Results Of Altera Cyclone Field Programmable Gate Array, Stephen L. Clark, K. Avery, R. Parker Jan 2004

Tid And See Testing Results Of Altera Cyclone Field Programmable Gate Array, Stephen L. Clark, K. Avery, R. Parker

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Total ionizing dose (TID) and single event effects testing was performed on Altera Cyclone FPGAs. The devices exhibit slight performance degradation to a TID of 1 Mrad (Si), but also exhibited single event latchup at a low LET.


The Independence Of Characters On Nonabelian Groups, David E. Grow, Kathryn E. Hare Jan 2004

The Independence Of Characters On Nonabelian Groups, David E. Grow, Kathryn E. Hare

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We show that there are characters of compact, connected, nonabelian groups that approximate random choices of signs. The work was motivated by Kronecker's theorem on the independence of exponential functions and has applications to thin sets.


Hereditarily Unicoherent Continua And Their Absolute Retracts, J. J. Charatonik, W. J. Charatonik, Janusz R. Prajs Jan 2004

Hereditarily Unicoherent Continua And Their Absolute Retracts, J. J. Charatonik, W. J. Charatonik, Janusz R. Prajs

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We investigate absolute retracts for classes of hereditarily unicoherent continua, tree-like continua, λ- dendroids, dendroids and some other related ones. The main results are: (1) the inverse limits of trees with confluent bonding mappings are absolute retracts of hereditarily unicoherent continua; (2) each tree-like continuum is embeddable in a special way in a tree-like absolute retract for the class of hereditarily unicoherent continua; (3) a dendroid is an absolute retract for hereditarily unicoherent continua if and only if it can be embedded as a retract into the Mohler-Nikiel universal smooth dendroid.


Existence And Comparison Results For Quasilinear Evolution Hemivariational Inequalities, Siegfried Carl, Vy Khoi Le, Dumitru Motreanu Jan 2004

Existence And Comparison Results For Quasilinear Evolution Hemivariational Inequalities, Siegfried Carl, Vy Khoi Le, Dumitru Motreanu

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

We generalize the sub-supersolution method known for weak solutions of single and multivalued nonlinear parabolic problems to quasilinear evolution hemivariational inequalities. To this end we first introduce our basic notion of sub- and supersolutions on the basis of which we then prove existence, comparison, compactness and extremality results for the hemivariational inequalities under considerations.


Oscillation Of Second Order Nonlinear Dynamic Equations On Time Scales, S. H. Saker, Martin Bohner Jan 2004

Oscillation Of Second Order Nonlinear Dynamic Equations On Time Scales, S. H. Saker, Martin Bohner

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

By means of Riccati transformation techniques, we establish some oscillation criteria for a second order nonlinear dynamic equation on time scales in terms of the coefficients. We give examples of dynamic equations to which previously known oscillation criteria are not applicable.


Oscillation Theory For Second Order Dynamic Equations [Book Review], Martin Bohner Jan 2004

Oscillation Theory For Second Order Dynamic Equations [Book Review], Martin Bohner

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

No abstract provided.


Cr Approximation On A Nonrigid Hypersurface Graph In Cⁿ, Al Boggess, Roman Dwilewicz Jan 2004

Cr Approximation On A Nonrigid Hypersurface Graph In Cⁿ, Al Boggess, Roman Dwilewicz

Mathematics and Statistics Faculty Research & Creative Works

Let M be a hypersurface in Cn that is the graph over a (2n - 1)-linear real space. the main result of the paper is that any CR function on M can be uniformly approximated on compact subsets by entire functions on Cn.