INTERPOLATION OF HEAD-RELATED TRANSFER FUNCTIONS USING SPHERICAL FOURIER EXPANSION

A new interpolation algorithm for Head-Related Transfer Function （HRTF） is proposed to realize 3D sound reproduction via headphones in arbitrary spatial direction. HRTFs are modeled as a weighted sum of spherical harmonics on a spherical surface. Truncated Singular Value Decomposition （SVD） is adopted to calculate the weights of the model. The truncation number is chosen according to Frobenius norm ratio and the partial condition number. Compared with other interpolated methods, our proposed approach not only is continuous but exploits global information of available directions. The HRTF from any desired direction can be and interpolated results demonstrate that our obtained more accurately and robustly. Reconstructed proposed algorithm acquired better performance.

A new method for solving Biot's consolidation of a finite soil layer in the cylindrical coordinate system

A new method is developed to solve Biot＇s consolidation of a finite soil layer in the cylindrical coordinate system. Based on the governing equations of Biot＇s consolidation and the technique of Laplace transform, Fourier expansions and Hankel transform with respect to time t, coordinate θ and coordinate r, respectively, a relationship of displacements, stresses, excess pore water pressure and flux is established between the ground surface （z = 0） and an arbitrary depth z in the Laplace and Hankel transform domain. By referring to proper boundary conditions of the finite soil layer, the solutions for displacements, stresses, excess pore water pressure and flux of any point in the transform domain can be obtained. The actual solutions in the physical domain can be acquired by inverting the Laplace and the Hankel transforms.

PERTURBATION SOLUTION TO 3-D NONLINEAR SUPERCAVITATING FLOW PROBLEMS

A 3-D nonlinear problem of supercavitating flow past an axisymmetric body at a small angle of attack is investigated by means of the perturbation method and Fourier-cosine-expansion method. The first three order perturbation equations are derived in detail and solved numerically using the boundary integral equation method and iterative techniques. Computational results of the hydrodynamic characteristics and cavity shapes of each order are presented for nonaxisymmetric supercavitating flow past cones with various apex-angles at differ- ent cavitation numbers. The numerical results are found in good agreement with experimental data.

Elasticity solution of clamped-simply supported beams with variable thickness

This paper studies the stress and displacement distributions of continuously varying thickness beams with one end clamped and the other end simply supported under static loads. By introducing the unit pulse functions and Dirac functions, the clamped edge can be made equivalent to the simply supported one by adding the unknown horizontal reactions. According to the governing equations of the plane stress problem, the general expressions of displacements, which satisfy the governing differefitial equations and the boundary conditions attwo ends of the beam, can be deduced. The unknown coefficients in the general expressions are then determined by using Fourier sinusoidal series expansion along the upper and lower boundaries of the beams and using the condition of zero displacements at the clamped edge. The solution obtained has excellent convergence properties. Comparing the numerical results to those obtained from the commercial software ANSYS, excellent accuracy of the present method is demonstrated.

ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS FOR MICROSTRUCTURES OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS (Ⅰ) ──DIRECTIONAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS AND IRREDUCIBLE TENSORS

In this two_part paper, a thorough investigation is made on Fourier expansions with irreducible tensorial coefficients for orientation distribution functions (ODFs) and crystal orientation distribution functions (CODFs), which are scalar functions defined on the unit sphere and the rotation group, respectively. Recently it has been becoming clearer and clearer that concepts of ODF and CODF play a dominant role in various micromechanically_based approaches to mechanical and physical properties of heterogeneous materials. The theory of group representations shows that a square integrable ODF can be expanded as an absolutely convergent Fourier series of spherical harmonics and these spherical harmonics can further be expressed in terms of irreducible tensors. The fundamental importance of such irreducible tensorial coefficients is that they characterize the macroscopic or overall effect of the orientation distribution of the size, shape, phase, position of the material constitutions and defects. In Part (Ⅰ), the investigation about the irreducible tensorial Fourier expansions of ODFs defined on the N_dimensional (N_D) unit sphere is carried out. Attention is particularly paid to constructing simple expressions for 2_ and 3_D irreducible tensors of any orders in accordance with the convenience of arriving at their restricted forms imposed by various point_group (the synonym of subgroup of the full orthogonal group) symmetries. In the continued work -Part (Ⅱ), the explicit expression for the irreducible tensorial expansions of CODFs is established. The restricted forms of irreducible tensors and irreducible tensorial Fourier expansions of ODFs and CODFs imposed by various point_group symmetries are derived.

ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS FOR MICROSTRUCTURES OF HETEROGENEOUS MATERIALS (Ⅱ)──CRYSTAL DISTRIBUTION FUNCTIONS AND IRREDUCIBLE TENSORS RESTRICTED BY VARIOUS MATERIAL SYMMETRIES

The explicit representations for tensorial Fourier expansion of 3_D crystal orientation distribution functions (CODFs) are established. In comparison with that the coefficients in the mth term of the Fourier expansion of a 3_D ODF make up just a single irreducible mth_order tensor, the coefficients in the mth term of the Fourier expansion of a 3_D CODF constitute generally so many as 2m+1 irreducible mth_order tensors. Therefore, the restricted forms of tensorial Fourier expansions of 3_D CODFs imposed by various micro_ and macro_scopic symmetries are further established, and it is shown that in most cases of symmetry the restricted forms of tensorial Fourier expansions of 3_D CODFs contain remarkably reduced numbers of mth_order irreducible tensors than the number 2m+1 . These results are based on the restricted forms of irreducible tensors imposed by various point_group symmetries, which are also thoroughly investigated in the present part in both 2_ and 3_D spaces.

Sub-Harmonic Resonances of Periodic Parameter Excited Oscillators with Discontinuities

It is difficult to obtain analytic approximations of nonlinear problems such as parameter excited system with strong nonlinearity. An analytic approach based on the homotopy analysis method( HAM) is proposed to study the sub-harmonic resonances of highly nonlinear parameter excited oscillating systems with absolute value terms. The non-smoothness of absolute value terms is handled by means of an iteration approach with Fourier expansion. Two typical examples are employed to illustrate the validity and flexibility of this approach. The square residuals of the homotopy-approximations of the two examples decrease to 10-6and 10-5,respectively. Thus,the HAM combining with other methods gives hope to solve complex singular oscillating systems analytically.

Efficient Option Pricing Methods Based on Fourier Series Expansions

A novel option pricing method based on Fourier-cosine series expansion was proposed by Fang and Oosterlee. Developing their idea, three new option pricing methods based on Fourier, Fourier-cosine and Fourier-sine series expansions are presented in this paper, which are more efficient when the option prices are calculated with many strike prices. A series of numerical experiments under different exp-L^vy models are also given to compare these new methods with the Fang and Oosterlee＇s method and other methods.

Detecting Strength and Location of Jump Discontinuities in Numerical Data

In [1] and some following publications, Tadmor and Gelb took up a well known property of conjugate Fourier series in 1-d, namely the property to detect jump discontinuities in given spectral data. In fact, this property of conjugate series is known for quite a long time. The research in papers around the year 1910 shows that there were also other means of detecting jumps observed and analysed. We review the classical results as well as the results of Gelb and Tadmor and demonstrate their discrete case using different estimates in all detail. It is worth noting that the techniques presented are not global but local techniques. Edges are a local phenomenon and can only be found appropriately by local means. Furthermore, applying a different approach in the proof of the main estimate leads to weaker preconditions in the discrete case. Finally an outlook to a two-dimensional approach based on the work of Móricz, in which jumps in the mixed second derivative of a 2-d function are detected, is made.

Novel Adaptive Learning Control of Linear Systems with Completely Unknown Time Delays

A novel output-feedback adaptive learning control approach is developed for a class of linear time-delay systems. Three kinds of uncertainties： time delays, number of time delays, and system parameters are all assumed to be completely unknown, which is dfferent from the previous work. The design procedure includes two steps. First, according to the given periodic desired reference output and the allowed bound of tracking error, a suitable finite Fourier series expansion （FSE） is chosen as a practical reference output to be tracked. Second, by expressing the delayed practical reference output as a known time-varying vector multiplied by an unknown constant vector, we combine three kinds of uncertainties into an unknown constant vector and then estimate the vector by designing an adaptive law. By constructing a Lyapunov-Krasovskii functional, it is proved that the system output can asymptotically track the practical reference signal. An example is provided to illustrate the effectiveness of the control scheme developed in this paper.

Active earth pressure acting on retaining wall considering anisotropic seepage effect

This paper presents a general solution for active earth pressure acting on a vertical retaining wall with a drainage system along the soil-structure interface. The backfill has a horizontal surface and is composed of cohesionless and fully saturated sand with anisotropic permeability along the vertical and horizontal directions. The extremely unfavourable seepage flow on the back of the retaining wall due to heavy rainfall or other causes will dramatically increase the active earth pressure acting on the retaining walls, increasing the probability of instability. In this paper, an analytical solution to the Laplace differential governing equation is presented for seepage problems considering anisotropic permeability based on Fourier series expansion method. A good correlation is observed between this and the seepage forces along a planar surface generated via finite element analysis. The active earth pressure is calculated using Coulomb's earth pressure theory based on the calculated pore water pressures. The obtained solutions can be degenerated into Coulomb's formula when no seepage exists in the backfill. A parametric study on the influence of the degree of anisotropy in seepage flow on the distribution of active earth pressure behind the wall is conducted by varying ratios of permeability coefficients in the vertical and horizontal directions,showing that anisotropic seepage flow has a prominent impact on active earth pressure distribution. Other factors such as effective internal friction angle of soils and soil/wall friction conditions are also considered.

Hybrid Function Projective Synchronization of Chaotic Systems with Uncertain Time-varying Parameters via Fourier Series Expansion

In this paper, the hybrid function projective synchronization (HFPS) of different chaotic systems with uncertain periodically time-varying parameters is carried out by Fourier series expansion and adaptive bounding technique. Fourier series expansion is used to deal with uncertain periodically time-varying parameters. Adaptive bounding technique is used to compensate the bound of truncation errors. Using the Lyapunov stability theory, an adaptive control law and six parameter updating laws are constructed to make the states of two different chaotic systems asymptotically synchronized. The control strategy does not need to know the parameters thoroughly if the time-varying parameters are periodical functions. Finally, in order to verify the effectiveness of the proposed scheme, the HFPS between Lorenz system and Chen system is completed successfully by using this scheme.

A deterministic method study of the impact of the Pauli principle in double-gate MOSFETs

The Pauli principle is included in a multisubband deterministic solver for two-dimensional devices without approx- imations. The nonlinear Boltzmann equations are treated properly without compromising on accuracy, convergence, or CPU time. The simulation results indicate the significant impact of the Pauli principle on the transport properties of the quasi-2D electron gas, especially for the on state.

Neural networks-based iterative learning control consensus for periodically time-varying multi-agent systems

In this paper,the problem of adaptive iterative learning based consensus control for periodically time-varying multi-agent systems is studied,in which the dynamics of each follower are driven by nonlinearly parameterized terms with periodic disturbances.Neural networks and Fourier base expansions are introduced to describe the periodically time-varying dynamic terms.On this basis,an adaptive learning parameter with a positively convergent series term is constructed,and a distributed control protocol based on local signals between agents is designed to ensure accurate consensus of the closed-loop systems.Furthermore,consensus algorithm is generalized to solve the formation control problem.Finally,simulation experiments are implemented through MATLAB to demonstrate the effectiveness of the method used.

Full description of dipole orientation in organic light-emitting diodes

Considerable progress has been made in organic light-emitting diodes(OLEDs)to achieve high external quantum efficiency,among which dipole orientation has a remarkable effect.In most cases,the radiation of the dipoles in OLEDs is theoretically predicted with only one orientation parameter to match with corresponding experiments.Here,we develop a new theory with three orientation parameters to fully describe the relationship between dipole orientation and power density.Furthermore,we design an optimal test structure for measuring all three orientation parameters.All three orientation parameters could be retrieved from non-polarized spectra.Our theory provides a universal plot of dipole orientations in OLEDs,paving the way for designing more complicated OLED devices.

Null Controllability of Some Degenerate Wave Equations

This paper is devoted to a study of the null controllability problems for one-dimensional linear degenerate wave equations through a boundary controller. First, the well-posedness of linear degenerate wave equations is discussed. Then the null controllability of some degenerate wave equations is established, when a control acts on the non-degenerate boundary. Different from the known controllability results in the case that a control acts on the degenerate boundary, any initial value in state space is controllable in this case. Also, an explicit expression for the controllability time is given. Furthermore, a counterexample on the controllability is given for some other degenerate wave equations.

Asymptotic solvers for ordinary differential equations with multiple frequencies

We construct asymptotic expansions for ordinary differential equations with highly oscillatory forcing terms,focusing on the case of multiple,non-commensurate frequencies.We derive an asymptotic expansion in inverse powers of the oscillatory parameter and use its truncation as an exceedingly effective means to discretize the differential equation in question.Numerical examples illustrate the effectiveness of the method.

LONG-TIME OSCILLATORY ENERGY CONSERVATION OF TOTAL ENERGY-PRESERVING METHODS FOR HIGHLY OSCILLATORY HAMILTONIAN SYSTEMS

For an integrator when applied to a highly oscillatory system,the near conservation of the oscillatory energy over long times is an important aspect.In this paper,we study the long-time near conservation of oscillatory energy for the adapted average vector field(AAVF)method when applied to highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems.This AAVF method is an extension of the average vector field method and preserves the total energy of highly oscillatory Hamiltonian systems exactly.This paper is devoted to analysing another important property of AAVF method,i.e.,the near conservation of its oscillatory energy in a long term.The long-time oscillatory energy conservation is obtained via constructing a modulated Fourier expansion of the AAVF method and deriving an almost invariant of the expansion.A similar result of the method in the multi-frequency case is also presented in this paper.

Spatial anisotropy: a method to study anisotropic flow in heavy ion collisions

We introduce a method to study anisotropic flow parameter v n as a collective probe to Quark Gluon Plasma in relativistic heavy ion collisions. The emphasis is put on the use of the Fourier expansion of initial spatial azimuthal distributions of participant nucleons in the overlapped region. The coefficients ε n of Fourier expansion are called the spatial anisotropy parameter for the n-th harmonic. We propose that collective dynamics can be studied by v n /ε n . In this paper, we will discuss in particular the second （n = 2） and the fourth （n = 4） harmonics.

Spectral Matrix Conditioning in Cylindrical and Spherical Elliptic Equations

In the spectral solution of 3-D Poisson equations in cylindrical and spherical coordinates including the axis or the center,it is convenient to employ radial basis functions that depend on the Fourier wavenumber or on the latitudinal mode.This idea has been adopted by Matsushima and Marcus and by Verkley for planar problems and pursued by the present authors for spherical ones.For the Dirichlet boundary value problem in both geometries,original bases have been introduced built upon Jacobi polynomials which lead to a purely diagonal representation of the radial second-order differential operator of all spectral modes.This note details the origin of such a diagonalization which extends to cylindrical and spherical regions the properties of the Legendre basis introduced by Jie Shen for Cartesian domains.Closed form expressions are derived for the diagonal elements of the stiffness matrices as well as for the elements of the tridiagonal mass matrices occurring in evolutionary problems.Furthermore,the bound on the condition number of the spectral matrices associated with the Helmholtz equation are determined,proving in a rigorous way one of the main advantages of the proposed radial bases.