At present, near-surface shear wave velocities are mainly calculated through Rayleigh wave dispersion-curve inversions in engineering surface investigations, but the required calculations pose a highly nonlinear globa...At present, near-surface shear wave velocities are mainly calculated through Rayleigh wave dispersion-curve inversions in engineering surface investigations, but the required calculations pose a highly nonlinear global optimization problem. In order to alleviate the risk of falling into a local optimal solution, this paper introduces a new global optimization method, the shuffle frog-leaping algorithm （SFLA）, into the Rayleigh wave dispersion-curve inversion process. SFLA is a swarm-intelligence-based algorithm that simulates a group of frogs searching for food. It uses a few parameters, achieves rapid convergence, and is capability of effective global searching. In order to test the reliability and calculation performance of SFLA, noise-free and noisy synthetic datasets were inverted. We conducted a comparative analysis with other established algorithms using the noise-free dataset, and then tested the ability of SFLA to cope with data noise. Finally, we inverted a real-world example to examine the applicability of SFLA. Results from both synthetic and field data demonstrated the effectiveness of SFLA in the interpretation of Rayleigh wave dispersion curves. We found that SFLA is superior to the established methods in terms of both reliability and computational efficiency, so it offers great potential to improve our ability to solve geophysical inversion problems.展开更多
The effect of the microstrip bend on the propagation characteristics of a microstrip line was investigated based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD)method.The dispersive characteristics of a microstrip line wit...The effect of the microstrip bend on the propagation characteristics of a microstrip line was investigated based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD)method.The dispersive characteristics of a microstrip line with a bend are quite different from that of a uniform straight microstrip line.The effect of bend discontinuity on propagation constants deceases exponentially with the distance form the corner of the bend.This can be explained by the fact that the higher order modes excited by the bend discontinuities have intrinsic properties of exponentially decay with the distance from the bend discontinuities.This effect can be negligible(less than five percent)when the distance is beyond ten times of conductor strip width.The S parameters and propagation constants comparison between unmitered and mitered bends are also presented.The proposed method which takes advantage of the FDTD algorithm and the Root Mean Square Deviation(RMSD)analysis is also an effective way for analyzing the dispersion characteristics of other planar transmission lines.展开更多
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.41374123)
文摘At present, near-surface shear wave velocities are mainly calculated through Rayleigh wave dispersion-curve inversions in engineering surface investigations, but the required calculations pose a highly nonlinear global optimization problem. In order to alleviate the risk of falling into a local optimal solution, this paper introduces a new global optimization method, the shuffle frog-leaping algorithm （SFLA）, into the Rayleigh wave dispersion-curve inversion process. SFLA is a swarm-intelligence-based algorithm that simulates a group of frogs searching for food. It uses a few parameters, achieves rapid convergence, and is capability of effective global searching. In order to test the reliability and calculation performance of SFLA, noise-free and noisy synthetic datasets were inverted. We conducted a comparative analysis with other established algorithms using the noise-free dataset, and then tested the ability of SFLA to cope with data noise. Finally, we inverted a real-world example to examine the applicability of SFLA. Results from both synthetic and field data demonstrated the effectiveness of SFLA in the interpretation of Rayleigh wave dispersion curves. We found that SFLA is superior to the established methods in terms of both reliability and computational efficiency, so it offers great potential to improve our ability to solve geophysical inversion problems.
基金supported by basic research item of National Key Lab of Electronic Measurement Technology and National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.60876028,60633060)
文摘The effect of the microstrip bend on the propagation characteristics of a microstrip line was investigated based on the Finite-Difference Time-Domain(FDTD)method.The dispersive characteristics of a microstrip line with a bend are quite different from that of a uniform straight microstrip line.The effect of bend discontinuity on propagation constants deceases exponentially with the distance form the corner of the bend.This can be explained by the fact that the higher order modes excited by the bend discontinuities have intrinsic properties of exponentially decay with the distance from the bend discontinuities.This effect can be negligible(less than five percent)when the distance is beyond ten times of conductor strip width.The S parameters and propagation constants comparison between unmitered and mitered bends are also presented.The proposed method which takes advantage of the FDTD algorithm and the Root Mean Square Deviation(RMSD)analysis is also an effective way for analyzing the dispersion characteristics of other planar transmission lines.
