Local inhomogeneity in totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes (TASEPs) with different hopping rates was studied. Many biological and chemical phenomena can be described by these non-equilibrium processes. A s...Local inhomogeneity in totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes (TASEPs) with different hopping rates was studied. Many biological and chemical phenomena can be described by these non-equilibrium processes. A simple approximate theory and extensive Monte Carlo computer simulations were used to calculate the steady-state phase diagrams and bulk densities. It is found that the phase diagram for local inhomogeneity in TASEP with different hopping rates p is qualitatively similar to homogeneous models. Interestingly, there is a saturation point pair (a*, fl*) for the system, which is decided by parameters p and q. There are three stationary phases in the system, when parameter p is fixed (i.e., p=0.8), with the increase of the parameter q, the region of LD/LD and HD/HD phase increases and the HD/LD is the only phase which the region shrinks. The analytical results are in good agreement with simulations.展开更多
Hash chain and its generalization—Multi-Dimensional Hash Chain (MDHC) have been widely used in the design of micropayment due to its simplicity and efficiency. In this letter, a more efficient variant of MDHC, called...Hash chain and its generalization—Multi-Dimensional Hash Chain (MDHC) have been widely used in the design of micropayment due to its simplicity and efficiency. In this letter, a more efficient variant of MDHC, called WMDHC, which endows in the structure of MDHC a weight value for each hash value through a well-defined mapping, is proposed. The average hash operation number of WMDHC is log(2 m / t ),which is better than log( m )of MDHC when the parameter t is typically suggested as t = 7.展开更多
AIM:To clarify features of hepatic hemangiomas on gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriaminpentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compared with enhanced computed tomography (CT). METH...AIM:To clarify features of hepatic hemangiomas on gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriaminpentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compared with enhanced computed tomography (CT). METHODS:Twenty-six patients with 61 hepatic hem- angiomas who underwent both Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT were retrospectively reviewed. Hemangioma appearances (presence of peripheral nodular enhancement, central nodular enhancement, diffuse homogenous enhancement, and arterioportal shunt during the arterial phase, fill-in enhancement during the portal venous phase, and prolonged enhancement during the equilibrium phase) on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT were evaluated.The degree of contrast enhancement at the enhancing portion within the hemangioma was visually assessed using a five-point scale during each phase. For quantitative analysis, the tumor-muscle signal intensity ratio (SIR), the liver-muscle SIR, and the attenuation value of the tumor and liver parenchyma were calculated. The McNemar test and the Wilcoxon's signed rank test were used to assess the significance of differences in the appearances of hemangiomas and in the visual grade of tumor contrast enhancement between Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT. RESULTS:There was no significant difference between Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT in the presence of peripheral nodular enhancement (85% vs 82%), central nodular enhancement (3% vs 3%), diffuse enhancement (11% vs 16%), or arterioportal shunt (23% vs 34%) during arterial phase, or fill-in enhancement (79% vs 80%) during portal venous phase. Prolonged enhancement during equilibrium phase was observed less frequently on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI than on enhanced CT (52% vs 100%, P < 0.001). On visual inspection, there was significantly less contrast enhancement of the enhancing portion on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI than on enhanced CT during the arterial (3.94 ± 0.98 vs 4.57 ± 0.64, respectively, P < 0.001), portal venous (3.72 ± 0.82 vs 4.36 ± 0.53, respectively, P < 0.001), and equilibrium phases (2.01 ± 0.95 vs 4.04 ± 0.51, respectively, P < 0.001). In the quantitative analysis, the tumor-muscle SIR and the liver-muscle SIR observed with Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI were 0.80 ± 0.24 and 1.28 ± 0.33 precontrast, 1.92 ± 0.58 and 1.57 ± 0.55 during the arterial phase, 1.87 ± 0.44 and 1.73 ± 0.39 during the portal venous phase, 1.63 ± 0.41 and 1.78 ± 0.39 during the equilibrium phase, and 1.10 ± 0.43 and 1.92 ± 0.50 during the hepatobiliary phase, respectively. The attenuation values in the tumor and liver parenchyma observed with enhanced CT were 40.60 ± 8.78 and 53.78 ± 7.37 precontrast, 172.66 ± 73.89 and 92.76 ± 17.92 during the arterial phase, 152.76 ± 35.73 and 120.12 ± 18.02 during the portal venous phase, and 108.74 ± 18.70 and 89.04 ± 7.25 during the equilibrium phase, respectively. Hemangiomas demonstrated peak enhancement during the arterial phase, and both the SIR with Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and the attenuation value with enhanced CT decreased with time. The SIR of hemangiomas was lower than that of liver parenchyma during the equilibrium and hepatobiliary phases on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI. However, the attenuation of hemangiomas after contrast injection was higher than that of liver parenchyma during all phases of enhanced CT. CONCLUSION:Prolonged enhancement during the equilibrium phase was observed less frequently on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI than enhanced CT, which may exacerbate differentiating between hemangiomas and malignant tumors.展开更多
In this work, the authors thermodynamic equilibrium calculations developed a computer program in MATLAB of vapor-liquid multicomponent phases below the language for aqueous speciation and critical temperature of wat...In this work, the authors thermodynamic equilibrium calculations developed a computer program in MATLAB of vapor-liquid multicomponent phases below the language for aqueous speciation and critical temperature of water (647 K) and pressures up to 2 kilobar with two computational routines. The first routine calculates the aqueous speciation from the equations of mass balance, charge balance and mass action, forming a system of N equations and N unknowns describing the aqueous phase with N unknown chemical species, which is solved with Newton-Raphson method using the Debye-Hiickel and Bdotactivity coefficients that solved simultaneously with Henry's Law, the Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation of state and a Poynting correction term, calculate chemical potentials and composition of the phases of the system, which are used at the Ratchford-Rice flash routine that iteratively recalculates the distribution of gases in liquid, until convergence. The chemical composition data of gas and brine phases of production wells at standard conditions for 1998 and 2007 of the Los Humeros geothermal field are modeled in the described manner, deducing that fluids inside the pipes of the reservoir are corrosive and cause the precipitation of newly formed minerals such as iron and calcium sulfates and silica, at reservoir conditions.展开更多
A customized combined methodology based on both 2D CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and lumped parameters numerical modeling, useful for simulating the hydraulic behavior of orbit annular machines, has been develo...A customized combined methodology based on both 2D CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and lumped parameters numerical modeling, useful for simulating the hydraulic behavior of orbit annular machines, has been developed and here presented. More in details, the predictive capabilities of this CAE (computer-aided engineering) tool can be applied for the study of both roller and gerotor architectures and considering both pumping and motoring operating mode. First of all, an in-house developed 2D CFD methodology, based on the integration of the stationary form of the Reynolds equation for the determination of the pressure distribution inside the lateral clearances bounded by the sides of the stator-rotor group and the valve plate, as well as the internal manifold surface, is firstly presented and applied. The same computational procedure has been also involved for the investigation of the leakages through the clearance between the valve plate and the balancing ring. After that, a lumped and distributed parameters numerical model has been involved for the simulation of a typical orbit roller motor operation. In this case, particular care has been devoted to the modeling of the axial leakage clearances, adopting analytical interpolation functions deducted from the numerical results calculated applying the previously described 2D CFD methodology. Finally, the whole CAE approach has been validated by means of a comprehensive numerical versus experimental comparison, obtaining a general good accordance for the overall operating field of this particular type of hydraulic unit.展开更多
A non-equilibrium model of multicomponent melt solidification has been developed in which a Stefan problem with two boundaries is solved numerically, the boundaries being between the solid phase and the two-phase tran...A non-equilibrium model of multicomponent melt solidification has been developed in which a Stefan problem with two boundaries is solved numerically, the boundaries being between the solid phase and the two-phase transition zone and between the two-phase transition zone and the liquid phase. The two-phase zone is represented as a porous medium with variable porosity. The additional force resisting the melt flow due to porosity and introduced by analogy with Darcy's law is taken into account. Computer simulation has been performed of the experiment on Sn-20 wt.%Pb binary alloy solidification by the method of downward-directed crystallization along the gravity vector. The paper shows the results of a quasi two-dimensional benchmark experiment on horizontal (i.e., at the right angle to the gravity vector) directional solidification of a binary Sn-3 wt.%Pb alloy. The calculations were done using two crystallization models: the equilibrium model and the non-equilibrium one. It is shown that the non-equilibrium model gives a better description of the thermal field evolution and solute distribution caused by natural convection.展开更多
Part of the difficulty in engineering education is to achieve aggregate theoretical knowledge to practice what therefore discourages the student. Trying to alleviate this difficulty, practical problems are created to ...Part of the difficulty in engineering education is to achieve aggregate theoretical knowledge to practice what therefore discourages the student. Trying to alleviate this difficulty, practical problems are created to encourage students to apply their knowledge in different ways; these problems can be computational order, resolved by programs through simulation, or physical, with the realization of models, prototypes, benches or interactive platforms with visual practical approach. From this, it was proposed to students of the Federal University of Pardi--Campus Tucurui through the Electric Power Systems and Mechanics Research Group, in order to apply knowledge arising from multidisciplinary fields of engineering in the construction of a prototype with reused materials and low cost enabling studies and analysis of vibrations in unbalanced motors. This system features an open source prototyping embedded platform Arduino to read values from the sensors used: accelerometers and potentiometers coupled to the engine, aiming to collect values and vary the supply voltage. The results are read by Arduino and computationally processed to be printed on an LCD display. Therefore, the aim of this is to provide an accessible way using simple techniques a prototype linking the theoretical and practical knowledge as the system of the bench that performs vibration analysis in an unbalanced motor interactively, and encourage research and development technologies in the Amazon region.展开更多
The piston crank mechanism is an important component of a reciprocating piston engine. It is an inherent vibration system, and as such, the calculation of unbalance quantity is a critical procedure in balancing mechan...The piston crank mechanism is an important component of a reciprocating piston engine. It is an inherent vibration system, and as such, the calculation of unbalance quantity is a critical procedure in balancing mechanism design, which is adopted to balance inertia loading. The traditional method usually applies a Taylor series expansion with the crank-conrod ratio, then a Fourier transform with the crank angle. The Taylor expansion generally ignores the influence on calculations resulting from the high order terms. However, the high order terms of the Taylor expansion will also contribute to the low order terms in the Fourier series. This will induce poor precision in the inertia loading calculation, especially in a high crank-conrod ratio engine. Thus, this paper proposes a new closed-form method, which only adopts a Fourier transformation for the calculation. The coefficients of the Fourier transformation terms contain the contributions of all order terms of the crank-conrod ratio. Therefore, we named it as a closed-form method. Compared with the traditional method, the closed-form method improves the numerical accuracy of the secondary reciprocating inertia force by 1.5%–4%, when the crank-conrod ratio varies from 0.25 to 0.4. Using this new closedform method to design a balancing mechanism, the primary and secondary reciprocating inertia forces can be completely balanced. For an engine, where the primary and secondary inertia forces are balanced, the ratio of the residual inertia force to the total inertia force using the traditional method is 1.5%, while the ratio decreases to 0.5% using the closed-form method. The closed-form method is independent of engine configurations, including centric and eccentric engines, and single and multicylinder engines. Examples of applications using the proposed method are provided.展开更多
E-mail, WWW, FTP, BT and QQlive, etc. axe used more and more universal because the advantage of Internet, but the data-omitting phenomenon is a headache problem. In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating a ...E-mail, WWW, FTP, BT and QQlive, etc. axe used more and more universal because the advantage of Internet, but the data-omitting phenomenon is a headache problem. In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating a large number of independent, unequal-sized loads exchanged between servers and clients or between themselves when there are data-omitting, and we describe the dynamic load balancing problems by intro- ducing some parameters αij, we use an undirected graph to model the platform, where servers (CPU time, disk memory) can have different speeds of computation and communication. Because the number of loads is large, we focus on the question of determining the optimal dynamic load balancing scheduling strategy (splittable strategy) for each processor (the fraction of time spent computing and the fraction of time spent communication with each neighbor). We show that finding the optimal dynamic load balancing state can be solved using a linear programming approach by adding more constrains and, thus, in polynomial time. And make the execute time minimization.展开更多
基金Project(2011FZ050) supported by Applied Basic Research Program of Yunnan Provincial Science and Technology Department,ChinaProject(2011J084) supported by Master Program of Yunnan Province Education Department,China
文摘Local inhomogeneity in totally asymmetric simple exclusion processes (TASEPs) with different hopping rates was studied. Many biological and chemical phenomena can be described by these non-equilibrium processes. A simple approximate theory and extensive Monte Carlo computer simulations were used to calculate the steady-state phase diagrams and bulk densities. It is found that the phase diagram for local inhomogeneity in TASEP with different hopping rates p is qualitatively similar to homogeneous models. Interestingly, there is a saturation point pair (a*, fl*) for the system, which is decided by parameters p and q. There are three stationary phases in the system, when parameter p is fixed (i.e., p=0.8), with the increase of the parameter q, the region of LD/LD and HD/HD phase increases and the HD/LD is the only phase which the region shrinks. The analytical results are in good agreement with simulations.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.60373041 & 90104034) and the Research Foundation for Outstanding Young Teachers, China University of Geosciences (Wuhan).
文摘Hash chain and its generalization—Multi-Dimensional Hash Chain (MDHC) have been widely used in the design of micropayment due to its simplicity and efficiency. In this letter, a more efficient variant of MDHC, called WMDHC, which endows in the structure of MDHC a weight value for each hash value through a well-defined mapping, is proposed. The average hash operation number of WMDHC is log(2 m / t ),which is better than log( m )of MDHC when the parameter t is typically suggested as t = 7.
文摘AIM:To clarify features of hepatic hemangiomas on gadolinium-ethoxybenzyl-diethylenetriaminpentaacetic acid (Gd-EOB-DTPA)-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) compared with enhanced computed tomography (CT). METHODS:Twenty-six patients with 61 hepatic hem- angiomas who underwent both Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT were retrospectively reviewed. Hemangioma appearances (presence of peripheral nodular enhancement, central nodular enhancement, diffuse homogenous enhancement, and arterioportal shunt during the arterial phase, fill-in enhancement during the portal venous phase, and prolonged enhancement during the equilibrium phase) on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT were evaluated.The degree of contrast enhancement at the enhancing portion within the hemangioma was visually assessed using a five-point scale during each phase. For quantitative analysis, the tumor-muscle signal intensity ratio (SIR), the liver-muscle SIR, and the attenuation value of the tumor and liver parenchyma were calculated. The McNemar test and the Wilcoxon's signed rank test were used to assess the significance of differences in the appearances of hemangiomas and in the visual grade of tumor contrast enhancement between Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT. RESULTS:There was no significant difference between Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and enhanced CT in the presence of peripheral nodular enhancement (85% vs 82%), central nodular enhancement (3% vs 3%), diffuse enhancement (11% vs 16%), or arterioportal shunt (23% vs 34%) during arterial phase, or fill-in enhancement (79% vs 80%) during portal venous phase. Prolonged enhancement during equilibrium phase was observed less frequently on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI than on enhanced CT (52% vs 100%, P < 0.001). On visual inspection, there was significantly less contrast enhancement of the enhancing portion on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI than on enhanced CT during the arterial (3.94 ± 0.98 vs 4.57 ± 0.64, respectively, P < 0.001), portal venous (3.72 ± 0.82 vs 4.36 ± 0.53, respectively, P < 0.001), and equilibrium phases (2.01 ± 0.95 vs 4.04 ± 0.51, respectively, P < 0.001). In the quantitative analysis, the tumor-muscle SIR and the liver-muscle SIR observed with Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI were 0.80 ± 0.24 and 1.28 ± 0.33 precontrast, 1.92 ± 0.58 and 1.57 ± 0.55 during the arterial phase, 1.87 ± 0.44 and 1.73 ± 0.39 during the portal venous phase, 1.63 ± 0.41 and 1.78 ± 0.39 during the equilibrium phase, and 1.10 ± 0.43 and 1.92 ± 0.50 during the hepatobiliary phase, respectively. The attenuation values in the tumor and liver parenchyma observed with enhanced CT were 40.60 ± 8.78 and 53.78 ± 7.37 precontrast, 172.66 ± 73.89 and 92.76 ± 17.92 during the arterial phase, 152.76 ± 35.73 and 120.12 ± 18.02 during the portal venous phase, and 108.74 ± 18.70 and 89.04 ± 7.25 during the equilibrium phase, respectively. Hemangiomas demonstrated peak enhancement during the arterial phase, and both the SIR with Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI and the attenuation value with enhanced CT decreased with time. The SIR of hemangiomas was lower than that of liver parenchyma during the equilibrium and hepatobiliary phases on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI. However, the attenuation of hemangiomas after contrast injection was higher than that of liver parenchyma during all phases of enhanced CT. CONCLUSION:Prolonged enhancement during the equilibrium phase was observed less frequently on Gd-EOB-DTPA-enhanced MRI than enhanced CT, which may exacerbate differentiating between hemangiomas and malignant tumors.
文摘In this work, the authors thermodynamic equilibrium calculations developed a computer program in MATLAB of vapor-liquid multicomponent phases below the language for aqueous speciation and critical temperature of water (647 K) and pressures up to 2 kilobar with two computational routines. The first routine calculates the aqueous speciation from the equations of mass balance, charge balance and mass action, forming a system of N equations and N unknowns describing the aqueous phase with N unknown chemical species, which is solved with Newton-Raphson method using the Debye-Hiickel and Bdotactivity coefficients that solved simultaneously with Henry's Law, the Soave-Redlich-Kwong equation of state and a Poynting correction term, calculate chemical potentials and composition of the phases of the system, which are used at the Ratchford-Rice flash routine that iteratively recalculates the distribution of gases in liquid, until convergence. The chemical composition data of gas and brine phases of production wells at standard conditions for 1998 and 2007 of the Los Humeros geothermal field are modeled in the described manner, deducing that fluids inside the pipes of the reservoir are corrosive and cause the precipitation of newly formed minerals such as iron and calcium sulfates and silica, at reservoir conditions.
文摘A customized combined methodology based on both 2D CFD (computational fluid dynamics) and lumped parameters numerical modeling, useful for simulating the hydraulic behavior of orbit annular machines, has been developed and here presented. More in details, the predictive capabilities of this CAE (computer-aided engineering) tool can be applied for the study of both roller and gerotor architectures and considering both pumping and motoring operating mode. First of all, an in-house developed 2D CFD methodology, based on the integration of the stationary form of the Reynolds equation for the determination of the pressure distribution inside the lateral clearances bounded by the sides of the stator-rotor group and the valve plate, as well as the internal manifold surface, is firstly presented and applied. The same computational procedure has been also involved for the investigation of the leakages through the clearance between the valve plate and the balancing ring. After that, a lumped and distributed parameters numerical model has been involved for the simulation of a typical orbit roller motor operation. In this case, particular care has been devoted to the modeling of the axial leakage clearances, adopting analytical interpolation functions deducted from the numerical results calculated applying the previously described 2D CFD methodology. Finally, the whole CAE approach has been validated by means of a comprehensive numerical versus experimental comparison, obtaining a general good accordance for the overall operating field of this particular type of hydraulic unit.
文摘A non-equilibrium model of multicomponent melt solidification has been developed in which a Stefan problem with two boundaries is solved numerically, the boundaries being between the solid phase and the two-phase transition zone and between the two-phase transition zone and the liquid phase. The two-phase zone is represented as a porous medium with variable porosity. The additional force resisting the melt flow due to porosity and introduced by analogy with Darcy's law is taken into account. Computer simulation has been performed of the experiment on Sn-20 wt.%Pb binary alloy solidification by the method of downward-directed crystallization along the gravity vector. The paper shows the results of a quasi two-dimensional benchmark experiment on horizontal (i.e., at the right angle to the gravity vector) directional solidification of a binary Sn-3 wt.%Pb alloy. The calculations were done using two crystallization models: the equilibrium model and the non-equilibrium one. It is shown that the non-equilibrium model gives a better description of the thermal field evolution and solute distribution caused by natural convection.
文摘Part of the difficulty in engineering education is to achieve aggregate theoretical knowledge to practice what therefore discourages the student. Trying to alleviate this difficulty, practical problems are created to encourage students to apply their knowledge in different ways; these problems can be computational order, resolved by programs through simulation, or physical, with the realization of models, prototypes, benches or interactive platforms with visual practical approach. From this, it was proposed to students of the Federal University of Pardi--Campus Tucurui through the Electric Power Systems and Mechanics Research Group, in order to apply knowledge arising from multidisciplinary fields of engineering in the construction of a prototype with reused materials and low cost enabling studies and analysis of vibrations in unbalanced motors. This system features an open source prototyping embedded platform Arduino to read values from the sensors used: accelerometers and potentiometers coupled to the engine, aiming to collect values and vary the supply voltage. The results are read by Arduino and computationally processed to be printed on an LCD display. Therefore, the aim of this is to provide an accessible way using simple techniques a prototype linking the theoretical and practical knowledge as the system of the bench that performs vibration analysis in an unbalanced motor interactively, and encourage research and development technologies in the Amazon region.
文摘The piston crank mechanism is an important component of a reciprocating piston engine. It is an inherent vibration system, and as such, the calculation of unbalance quantity is a critical procedure in balancing mechanism design, which is adopted to balance inertia loading. The traditional method usually applies a Taylor series expansion with the crank-conrod ratio, then a Fourier transform with the crank angle. The Taylor expansion generally ignores the influence on calculations resulting from the high order terms. However, the high order terms of the Taylor expansion will also contribute to the low order terms in the Fourier series. This will induce poor precision in the inertia loading calculation, especially in a high crank-conrod ratio engine. Thus, this paper proposes a new closed-form method, which only adopts a Fourier transformation for the calculation. The coefficients of the Fourier transformation terms contain the contributions of all order terms of the crank-conrod ratio. Therefore, we named it as a closed-form method. Compared with the traditional method, the closed-form method improves the numerical accuracy of the secondary reciprocating inertia force by 1.5%–4%, when the crank-conrod ratio varies from 0.25 to 0.4. Using this new closedform method to design a balancing mechanism, the primary and secondary reciprocating inertia forces can be completely balanced. For an engine, where the primary and secondary inertia forces are balanced, the ratio of the residual inertia force to the total inertia force using the traditional method is 1.5%, while the ratio decreases to 0.5% using the closed-form method. The closed-form method is independent of engine configurations, including centric and eccentric engines, and single and multicylinder engines. Examples of applications using the proposed method are provided.
基金This work is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (1067108) Scientific and technological project of Hubei province (2006AA412C27) Science Foundation of Three Gorges University (604401).
文摘E-mail, WWW, FTP, BT and QQlive, etc. axe used more and more universal because the advantage of Internet, but the data-omitting phenomenon is a headache problem. In this paper, we consider the problem of allocating a large number of independent, unequal-sized loads exchanged between servers and clients or between themselves when there are data-omitting, and we describe the dynamic load balancing problems by intro- ducing some parameters αij, we use an undirected graph to model the platform, where servers (CPU time, disk memory) can have different speeds of computation and communication. Because the number of loads is large, we focus on the question of determining the optimal dynamic load balancing scheduling strategy (splittable strategy) for each processor (the fraction of time spent computing and the fraction of time spent communication with each neighbor). We show that finding the optimal dynamic load balancing state can be solved using a linear programming approach by adding more constrains and, thus, in polynomial time. And make the execute time minimization.