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Starting Radial Subdiffusion From A Central Point Through A Diverging Medium (A Sphere): Heat-Balance Integral Method, Jordan Hristov Dec 2011

Starting Radial Subdiffusion From A Central Point Through A Diverging Medium (A Sphere): Heat-Balance Integral Method, Jordan Hristov

Jordan Hristov

The work presents an integral solution of the time-fractional subdiffusion equation as alternative approach to those employing hypergeometric functions. The integral solution suggests a preliminary defined profile with unknown coefficients and the concept of penetration (boundary layer) well known from the heat diffusion and hydrodynamics. The profile satisfies the boundary conditions imposed at the boundary of the boundary layer that allows its coefficients to be expressed through the boundary layer depth as unique parameter describing the profile. The technique is demonstrated by a solution of a time fractional radial equation concerning anomalous diffusion from a central point source in a …


Transient Flow Of A Generalized Second Grade Fluid Due To A Constant Surface Shear Stress: An Approximate Integral-Balance Solution, Jordan Hristov Dec 2011

Transient Flow Of A Generalized Second Grade Fluid Due To A Constant Surface Shear Stress: An Approximate Integral-Balance Solution, Jordan Hristov

Jordan Hristov

Integral balance solution to start-up problem of a second grade viscoelastic fluid caused by a constant surface stress at the surface has been developed by an entire-domain parabolic profile with an unspecified exponent. The closed form solution explicitly defines two dimensionless similarity variables ξ = y ν t and 2 D0 p t= χ = ν β , responsible for the viscous and the elastic responses of the fluid to the step jump at the boundary. Numerical simulations demonstrating the effect of the various operating parameter and fluid properties on the developed flow filed, as well comparison with the existing …


Variational Approach For Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equations On Cantor Sets, Guo-Cheng Wu, Kai-Teng Wu Nov 2011

Variational Approach For Fractional Diffusion-Wave Equations On Cantor Sets, Guo-Cheng Wu, Kai-Teng Wu

G.C. Wu

The fractional variational iteration method is used to investigate the diffusion-wave problem on Cantor sets. The approximate solution is obtained in forms of fractional differentiable functions


Concentration Oscillations In The Processes Of Unsaturated Compounds Oxidative Carbonylation. 2. Oxidative Carbonylation Of Alkynes In The Palladium Halogen Complexes Solutions (In Russian), Sergey N. Gorodsky Nov 2011

Concentration Oscillations In The Processes Of Unsaturated Compounds Oxidative Carbonylation. 2. Oxidative Carbonylation Of Alkynes In The Palladium Halogen Complexes Solutions (In Russian), Sergey N. Gorodsky

Sergey N. Gorodsky

No abstract provided.


Some New Exact Solutions Of The (3+1)-Dimensional Breaking Soliton Equation By The Exp-Function Method, Mohammad Najafi M.Najafi, Mohammad Taghi Darvishi, Maliheh Najafi Sep 2011

Some New Exact Solutions Of The (3+1)-Dimensional Breaking Soliton Equation By The Exp-Function Method, Mohammad Najafi M.Najafi, Mohammad Taghi Darvishi, Maliheh Najafi

mohammad najafi

This paper applies the Exp-function method to search for new exact traveling wave solutions of the (3+1)-dimensional breaking soliton equation, their physical expantions are given graphically.


The Overhaul Of U.S. Patent Law, Ron D. Katznelson Aug 2011

The Overhaul Of U.S. Patent Law, Ron D. Katznelson

Ron D. Katznelson

No abstract provided.


Testing For Weak Form Market Efficiency In Indian Foreign Exchange Makret, Anoop Sasikumar Aug 2011

Testing For Weak Form Market Efficiency In Indian Foreign Exchange Makret, Anoop Sasikumar

Anoop Sasikumar

This paper attempts to examine the weak form of market efficiency in the Indian foreign exchange market using a family of variance ratio tests. Monthly Nominal Effective Exchange Rate (NEER) data from April 1993-June 2010 were used for the analysis. NEER series was considered for the analysis as it is supposed to capture more information compared to the bilateral exchange rates. Three individual variance ratio tests as well as three joint variance ratio tests were used for the purpose of analysis. After analyzing the results from both individual and joint variance ratio test, it was concluded that Indian foreign exchange …


Concentration Oscillations In The Processes Of Unsaturated Compounds Oxidative Carbonylation. 1. Processes Of Acetylene And Phenylacetylene Oxidative Carbonylation (In Russian), Sergey N. Gorodsky, Katarina Novakovic Aug 2011

Concentration Oscillations In The Processes Of Unsaturated Compounds Oxidative Carbonylation. 1. Processes Of Acetylene And Phenylacetylene Oxidative Carbonylation (In Russian), Sergey N. Gorodsky, Katarina Novakovic

Sergey N. Gorodsky

This review describes the processes of oxidative carbonylation of acetylene and phenylacetylene, occurring in the oscillatory mode under conditions of homogeneous catalysis by palladium complexes.


Analytical Solutions For Nonlinear Lateral Sloshing In Partiallyfilled Elliptical Tankers, Hassan Askari Jul 2011

Analytical Solutions For Nonlinear Lateral Sloshing In Partiallyfilled Elliptical Tankers, Hassan Askari


No abstract provided.


A New Approach For Solving Of Linear Time Varying Control Systems, Ali Vahidian Kamyad, Mehran Mazandarani Jul 2011

A New Approach For Solving Of Linear Time Varying Control Systems, Ali Vahidian Kamyad, Mehran Mazandarani

Mehran Mazandarani

This paper is concerned with the solution of Linear Time Varying [LTV] control systems. The concept of a solution for LTV systems is defined on the basis of finding the fundamental matrix corresponding to LTV control systems. There are some numerical methods such as Euler method and Taylor method for obtaining approximate solution of LTV system [LTVs], each of them has some limitations. In the recent years, other kinds of constructive approaches for the solution of LTVs are presented limited to the particular cases of it. In this paper, we introduced a new approach that we call it AVK approach …


Applications Of Local Fractional Calculus To Engineering In Fractal Time-Space: Local Fractional Differential Equations With Local Fractional Derivative, Yang Xiao-Jun Jun 2011

Applications Of Local Fractional Calculus To Engineering In Fractal Time-Space: Local Fractional Differential Equations With Local Fractional Derivative, Yang Xiao-Jun

Xiao-Jun Yang

This paper presents a better approach to model an engineering problem in fractal-time space based on local fractional calculus. Some examples are given to elucidate to establish governing equations with local fractional derivative.


A Short Introduction To Local Fractional Complex Analysis, Yang Xiao-Jun Jun 2011

A Short Introduction To Local Fractional Complex Analysis, Yang Xiao-Jun

Xiao-Jun Yang

This paper presents a short introduction to local fractional complex analysis. The generalized local fractional complex integral formulas, Yang-Taylor series and local fractional Laurent’s series of complex functions in complex fractal space, and generalized residue theorems are investigated.


Cavitation Modelling Based On Eulerian-Eulerian Multiphase Flow, Rachid Bannari Ph.D Jun 2011

Cavitation Modelling Based On Eulerian-Eulerian Multiphase Flow, Rachid Bannari Ph.D

Rachid BANNARI

Cavitation is a physical phenomenon encountered in the normal operation of hydraulic turbines. It can lead to loss in efficiency, vibrations and blade erosion damages. It is crucial to accurately predict cavitation development and evolution to make confident predictive results for hydraulic turbines in a cavitating regime. The cavity closure is a critical region that is characterized by its unsteady and unstable behavior. In this region, liquid and vapor are highly mixed and experienced a strong interaction between the cavity and the outer flow. Most of the published work is based on the mixture multiphase model. An important limitation of …


A New Viewpoint To The Discrete Approximation: Discrete Yang-Fourier Transforms Of Discrete-Time Fractal Signal, Yang Xiao-Jun Jun 2011

A New Viewpoint To The Discrete Approximation: Discrete Yang-Fourier Transforms Of Discrete-Time Fractal Signal, Yang Xiao-Jun

Xiao-Jun Yang

It is suggest that a new fractal model for the Yang-Fourier transforms of discrete approximation based on local fractional calculus and the Discrete Yang-Fourier transforms are investigated in detail.


Relativistic Gravitational Potential Energy And General Free Fall: A Fundamental Topic In Physics, Jorge A. Franco Jun 2011

Relativistic Gravitational Potential Energy And General Free Fall: A Fundamental Topic In Physics, Jorge A. Franco

Jorge A Franco

In this paper, we derived expressions of the relativistic potential energy for radial, circular and general curvilinear motion of a mass under the influence of a gravitational field, and the equivalence relationship between velocity and radius in each case. Also it was obtained the influence of altitude on time, mass, length and other physical magnitudes for circular and general curvilinear motion, and for the static case or radial.


Relativistic Analysis Of Doppler Effect And Aberration Based On Vectorial Lorentz Transformations, Jorge A. Franco Jun 2011

Relativistic Analysis Of Doppler Effect And Aberration Based On Vectorial Lorentz Transformations, Jorge A. Franco

Jorge A Franco

In this paper, we derived more general and correct expressions for the Relativistic Doppler and Aberration effect.


A Modification Of Extended Homoclinic Test Approach To Solve The (3+1)-Dimensional Potential-Ytsf Equation, Mohammad Najafi, Mohammad Taghi Darvishi Mar 2011

A Modification Of Extended Homoclinic Test Approach To Solve The (3+1)-Dimensional Potential-Ytsf Equation, Mohammad Najafi, Mohammad Taghi Darvishi

mohammad najafi

By means of the extended homoclinic test approach (EHTA) one can solve some nonlinear partial differential equations (NLPDEs) in their bilinear forms. When an NLPDE has no bilinear closed form we can not use this method. We modify the idea of EHTA to obtain some analytic solutions for the (3+1)-dimensional potential-Yu- Toda-Sasa-Fukuyama (YTSF) equation by obtaining a bilinear closed form for it. By comparison of this method and other analytic methods, like HAM, HTA and three-wave methods, we can see that the new idea is very easy and straightforward


Real Sequences And Series, Adeshina I. Adekunle Mr Jan 2011

Real Sequences And Series, Adeshina I. Adekunle Mr

Adeshina I. Adekunle MR

No abstract provided.


An Improvement In Centroid Point Method For Ranking Of Fuzzy Numbers, Saeid Abbasbandy, T. Hajjari Jan 2011

An Improvement In Centroid Point Method For Ranking Of Fuzzy Numbers, Saeid Abbasbandy, T. Hajjari

Saeid Abbasbandy

In many applications, ranking of fuzzy numbers is an important component of the decision process. Many authors have investigated the use of fuzzy sets in ranking alternatives and they have studied different methods of raking fuzzy sets. Particularly, the ranking of fuzzy numbers. In a paper by Cheng [A new approach for ranking fuzzy numbers by distance method, Fuzzy Sets and Systems 95 (1998) 307-317], a centroid-based distance method was suggested for ranking fuzzy numbers, both normal and non-normal. The method utilizes the Euclidean distances from the origin to the centroid point of each fuzzy numbers to compare and rank …


Solution Of Fully Fuzzy Linear Systems By St Method, M. Mosleh, M. Otadi, Saeid Abbasbandy Jan 2011

Solution Of Fully Fuzzy Linear Systems By St Method, M. Mosleh, M. Otadi, Saeid Abbasbandy

Saeid Abbasbandy

In this paper, we investigate the existence of a positive solution of fully fuzzy linear equation systems where fuzzy coefficient matrix is a positive matrix. This paper mainly discusses a new decomposition of a nonsingular fuzzy matrix, a symmetric matrix times to a triangular (ST) decomposition. By this decomposition, every nonsingular fuzzy matrix can be represented as a product of a fuzzy symmetric matrix S and a fuzzy triangular matrix T.


A Method For Solving Fully Fuzzy Linear System, M. Mosleh, Saeid Abbasbandy, M. Otadi Jan 2011

A Method For Solving Fully Fuzzy Linear System, M. Mosleh, Saeid Abbasbandy, M. Otadi

Saeid Abbasbandy

In this paper, a numerical method for finding minimal solution of a m*n fully fuzzy linear system of the form Ax=b based on pseudo inverse calculation, is given when the central matrix of coeficients is row full rank or column full rank, and where A is a non-negative fuzzy m*n matrix, the unknown vector x is a vector consisting of n non-negative fuzzy numbers and the constant b is a vector consisting of m non-negative fuzzy numbers.


Solving Fuzzy Linear System By Fuzzy Neural Network And Applications In Economics, M. Otadi, M. Mosleh, Saeid Abbasbandy Jan 2011

Solving Fuzzy Linear System By Fuzzy Neural Network And Applications In Economics, M. Otadi, M. Mosleh, Saeid Abbasbandy

Saeid Abbasbandy

In this paper, a novel hybrid method based on fuzzy neu- ral network for estimate fuzzy coefficients (parameters) of fuzzy linear supply and demand function, is presented. Here a neural network is considered as a part of a large field called neural computing or soft computing. Moreover, in order to find the approximate parameters, a simple algorithm from the cost function of the fuzzy neural network is proposed.


Application Of The Fractional Complex Transform To Fractional Differential Equations, Zheng-Biao Li, Ji-Huan He Jan 2011

Application Of The Fractional Complex Transform To Fractional Differential Equations, Zheng-Biao Li, Ji-Huan He

Ji-Huan He

The fractional complex transform is used to analytically deal with fractional differential equations. Two examples are given to elucidate the solution procedure, showing it is extremely accessible to nonmathematicians


A Short Remark On Fractional Variational Iteration Method, Ji-Huan He Jan 2011

A Short Remark On Fractional Variational Iteration Method, Ji-Huan He

Ji-Huan He

This Letter compares the classical variational iteration method with the fractional variational iteration method. The fractional complex transform is introduced to convert a fractional differential equation to its differential partner, so that its variational iteration algorithm can be simply constructed


A New Fractal Derivation, Ji-Huan He Jan 2011

A New Fractal Derivation, Ji-Huan He

Ji-Huan He

A new fractal derive is defined, which is very easy for engineering applications to discontinuous problems, two simple examples are given to elucidate to establish governing equations with fractal derive and how to solve such equations, respectively.


Statistics In Law: Bad Inferences & Uncommon Sense, Curtis E.A. Karnow Jan 2011

Statistics In Law: Bad Inferences & Uncommon Sense, Curtis E.A. Karnow

Curtis E.A. Karnow

A review of classic fallacies in statistics and probability in the courts. The article briefly, and in plain English, provides an introduction to probability theory, and randomness.


Local Fractional Functional Analysis And Its Applications, Yang Xiao-Jun Jan 2011

Local Fractional Functional Analysis And Its Applications, Yang Xiao-Jun

Xiao-Jun Yang

Local fractional functional analysis is a totally new area of mathematics, and a totally new mathematical world view as well. In this book, a new approach to functional analysis on fractal spaces, which can be used to interpret fractal mathematics and fractal engineering, is presented. From Cantor sets to fractional sets, real line number and the spaces of local fractional functions are derived. Local fractional calculus of real and complex variables is systematically elucidated. Some generalized spaces, such as generalized metric spaces, generalized normed linear spaces, generalized Banach's spaces, generalized inner product spaces and generalized Hilbert spaces, are introduced. Elemental …


Local Fractional Laplace’S Transform Based Local Fractional Calculus, Yang Xiaojun Jan 2011

Local Fractional Laplace’S Transform Based Local Fractional Calculus, Yang Xiaojun

Xiao-Jun Yang

In this paper, a new modeling for the local fractional Laplace’s transform based on the local fractional calculus is proposed in fractional space. The properties of the local fractional Laplace’s transform are obtained and an illustrative example for the local fractional system is investigated in detail.


Fundamentals Of Local Fractional Iteration Of The Continuously Nondifferentiable Functions Derived Form Local Fractional Calculus, Yang Xiaojun Jan 2011

Fundamentals Of Local Fractional Iteration Of The Continuously Nondifferentiable Functions Derived Form Local Fractional Calculus, Yang Xiaojun

Xiao-Jun Yang

A new possible modeling for the local fractional iteration process is proposed in this paper. Based on the local fractional Taylor’s series, the fundamentals of local fractional iteration of the continuously non-differentiable functions are derived from local fractional calculus in fractional space.


Local Fractional Integral Transforms, Yang X Jan 2011

Local Fractional Integral Transforms, Yang X

Xiao-Jun Yang

Over the past ten years, the local fractional calculus revealed to be a useful tool in various areas ranging from fundamental science to various engineering applications, because it can deal with local properties of non-differentiable functions defined on fractional sets. In fractional spaces, a basic theory of number and local fractional continuity of non-differentiable functions are presented, local fractional calculus of real and complex variables is introduced. Some generalized spaces, such as generalized metric spaces, generalized normed linear spaces, generalized Banach’s spaces, generalized inner product spaces and generalized Hilbert spaces, are introduced. Elemental introduction to Yang-Fourier transforms, Yang-Laplace transforms, local …