The microscopic heterogeneity of pore-throat structures in tight sandstone is a crucial parameter for understanding the transport mechanism of fluid flow.In this work,we firstly developed the new procedure to characte...The microscopic heterogeneity of pore-throat structures in tight sandstone is a crucial parameter for understanding the transport mechanism of fluid flow.In this work,we firstly developed the new procedure to characterize the pore size distribution(PSD)and throat size distribution(TSD)by combining the nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR),cast thin section(CTS),and constant-rate mercury injection(CRMI)tests,and used the permeability estimated model to verify the full-scale PSD and TSD.Then,we respectively analyzed the fractal feature of the pore and throat,and characterized the heterogeneity of pores and throats.Finally,we elaborated the effect of the pore and throat heterogeneity on the gas-phase seepage capacity base on the analysis of the simple capillary tube model and gas-flooding experiment.The results showed that(1)The PSD and TSD of the tight sandstone sample ranged from 0.01 to 10 mm and from 0.1 to 57 mm,respectively,mainly contributed by the micropores and mesopores.Meanwhile,the permeability estimated by the PSD and TSD was consistent with the experimental permeability,and relative error was lower than 8%.(2)The PSD and TSD exhibited multifractal characteristics,and singularity strength range,Δα,could be used as the indicator for characterizing the heterogeneity of pore and throat.Furthermore,the throat of the sample showed stronger heterogeneity than that the pore.(3)The throats played an important role for the fluid transport in the tight sandstone,and the effect of the throat heterogeneity on the gas-phase seepage capacity was different under the lower and higher injection pressure.The macropores and micropores maybe respectively become the preferential migration pathways at the lower and higher injection pressure.In the end,the identification plate was established in our paper,and could be described the relationship among the throat heterogeneity,injection pressure,permeability and flow path of the gas phase in the tight sandstone.展开更多
Chinese energy industries are facing serious problems such as excess capacity,homogeneous product,and soft budget constraint.This paper provides a duopoly model to investigate the influence of heterogeneity and soft b...Chinese energy industries are facing serious problems such as excess capacity,homogeneous product,and soft budget constraint.This paper provides a duopoly model to investigate the influence of heterogeneity and soft budget constraint on production capacity decision and internal action mechanism,respectively,under Cournot and Bertrand competitions,which reveals the formation mechanism of excess capacity.We conclude that excess capacity would exist when the products are not wholly heterogeneous under Cournot competition,and the higher level of the soft budget constraint or the more homogeneous the products are,the worse the excess capacity will be.The insufficient capacity would exist provided that products are not wholly heterogeneous under Bertrand competition,and the higher level of soft budget constraint or the more homogeneous the products are,the more insufficient capacity will be.Both soft budget constraint and product heterogeneity mutually affect to decision-making of capacity and output.展开更多
Active government intervention is a striking characteristic of the Chinese stock market.This study develops a behavioral heterogeneous agent model(HAM)comprising fundamentalists,chartists,and stabilizers to investigat...Active government intervention is a striking characteristic of the Chinese stock market.This study develops a behavioral heterogeneous agent model(HAM)comprising fundamentalists,chartists,and stabilizers to investigate investors’dynamic switching mechanisms under government intervention.The model introduces a new player,the stabilizer,into the HAM as a proxy for the government.We use the model to examine government programs during the 2015 China stock market crash and find that it can replicate the dynamics of investor sentiment and asset prices.In addition,our analysis of two simulations,specifically the data-generating processes and shock response analysis,further corroborates the key conclusion that our intervention model not only maintains market stability but also promotes the return of risk asset prices to their fun-damental values.The study concludes that government interventions guided by the new HAM can alleviate the dilemma between reducing price volatility and improving price efficiency in future intervention programs.展开更多
To provide any subscriber from anywhere at anytime with services that have both secured Quality of Service(QoS) and simultaneous expansion of network coverage and communications capacity is a key problem that has to b...To provide any subscriber from anywhere at anytime with services that have both secured Quality of Service(QoS) and simultaneous expansion of network coverage and communications capacity is a key problem that has to be considered and solved in heterogeneous network convergence.Key technologies for a secured QoS and communications capacity analysis under heterogeneous environment are important subjects for research.Key technologies for a secured QoS are mainly on radio resource management algorithms covering Call Admission Control(CAC) algorithm,vertical handover algorithm,heterogeneous resource allocation algorithm and network selection algorithm.The applications of a novel multi-hop in heterogeneous convergence system serve the purposes of network coverage expansion,transmission power reduction,system communication capacity and throughput increase.展开更多
Roundabout is a channelized intersection where traffic moves around a central island,clockwise for leftside driving and anti-clockwise for right-side driving.Efficiently designed roundabouts can handle traffic very sm...Roundabout is a channelized intersection where traffic moves around a central island,clockwise for leftside driving and anti-clockwise for right-side driving.Efficiently designed roundabouts can handle traffic very smoothly without causing any delay.The capacity of roundabouts used to be calculated by the weaving theory in India.However,calculation of the entry capacity in the recent literature is based on critical gaps and follow-up times,and the Highway Capacity Manual of US(HCM2010)provides an equation to estimate the entry capacity of a roundabout by using the flow in passenger car unit per hour(PCU/h),critical gaps and follow-up times at the entry section.In order to examine whether the HCM equation applies to Indian traffic condition or not,we collected data from five roundabouts in India in this study.Relevant data were extracted/estimated to calibrate parameters of the HCM equation.The PCU for a vehicle was estimated on the basis of lagging headway and width of the vehicle,and the critical gap value for a vehicle was estimated by minimizing the sum of absolute difference in a gap with respect to the highest rejected and accepted gaps.Results show that the critical gap values obtained under heterogeneous traffic conditions are much lower than those given in the literature for homogeneous traffic conditions.In addition,the modified HCM equation based on the critical gap values was verified using the field data taken during the formation of a continuous and stable queue at the entry of a roundabout.It was found that a multiplicative adjustment factor needs to be calculated for different sizes of roundabouts to ensure the adjusted HCM equation represents well the traffic condition prevailing in developing countries like India.A test conducted at another roundabout validated that the entry capacity estimated from the calibrated and adjusted HCM model was consistent with the field entry capacity,and the calibrated and adjusted HCM model could predict the entry capacity of an approach to a roundabout quite accurately.展开更多
We study local dynamics of a diffusive predator-prey model in a spatially heterogeneous environment,where intrinsic growth rate of the prey is spatially ho-mogeneous,whereas carrying capacity of the habitat is spatial...We study local dynamics of a diffusive predator-prey model in a spatially heterogeneous environment,where intrinsic growth rate of the prey is spatially ho-mogeneous,whereas carrying capacity of the habitat is spatially inhomogeneous.In comparison with the existing predator-prey models,the stability of semi-trivial steady state of this model displays distinct properties.For example,for certain intermediate ranges of the death rate of the predator,the semi-trivial steady state can change its stability at least once as the dispersal rate of the prey varies from small to large,while the stability of the semi-trivial steady state is immune from the dispersal rate of the predator.展开更多
Atmospheric oxidizing capacity(AOC)is the fundamental driving factors of chemistry process(e.g.,the formation of ozone(O_(3))and secondary organic aerosols(SOA))in the troposphere.However,accurate quantification of AO...Atmospheric oxidizing capacity(AOC)is the fundamental driving factors of chemistry process(e.g.,the formation of ozone(O_(3))and secondary organic aerosols(SOA))in the troposphere.However,accurate quantification of AOC still remains uncertainty.In this study,a comprehensive field campaign was conducted during autumn 2019 in downtown of Beijing,where O_(3) and PM_(2.5) episodes had been experienced successively.The observation-based model(OBM)is used to quantify the AOC at O_(3) and PM_(2.5) episodes.The strong intensity of AOC is found at O_(3) and PM2.5 episodes,and hydroxyl radical(OH)is the dominating daytime oxidant for both episodes.The photolysis of O_(3) is main source of OH at O_(3) episode;the photolysis of nitrous acid(HONO)and formaldehyde(HCHO)plays important role in OH formation at PM_(2.5) episode.The radicals loss routines vary according to precursor pollutants,resulting in different types of air pollution.O_(3) budgets and sensitivity analysis indicates that O_(3) production is transition regime(both VOC and NOx-limited)at O3 episode.The heterogeneous reaction of hydroperoxy radicals(HO_(2))on aerosol surfaces has significant influence on OH and O_(3) production rates.The HO_(2) uptake coefficient(γHO_(2))is the determining factor and required accurate measurement in real atmospheric environment.Our findings could provide the important bases for coordinated control of PM_(2.5) and O_(3) pollution.展开更多
The analysis of the bearing capacity of strip footings sited near an excavation is critical in geotechnics.In this study,the effects of the geometrical features of the excavation and the soil strength properties on th...The analysis of the bearing capacity of strip footings sited near an excavation is critical in geotechnics.In this study,the effects of the geometrical features of the excavation and the soil strength properties on the seismic bearing capacity of a strip footing resting on an excavation were evaluated using the lower and upper bounds of the finite element limit analysis method.The effects of the setback distance ratio(L/B),excavation height ratio(H/B),soil strength heterogeneity(kB/cu),and horizontal earthquake coefficient(kh)were analyzed.Design charts and tables were produced to clarify the relationship between the undrained seismic bearing capacity and the selected parameters.展开更多
A rapidly growing body of literature has documented improvements in forecasting financial return volatility measurement using various heterogeneous autoregression(HAR)type models.Most HAR-type models use a fixed lag i...A rapidly growing body of literature has documented improvements in forecasting financial return volatility measurement using various heterogeneous autoregression(HAR)type models.Most HAR-type models use a fixed lag index of(1,5,22)to mirror the daily,weekly,and monthly components of the volatility process,but they ignore model specification uncertainty.In this paper,we propose applying the least squares model averaging approach to HAR-type models with signed realized semivariance to account for model uncertainty and to allow for a more flexible lag structure.We denote this approach as MARS and prove that the MARS estimator is asymptotically optimal in the sense of achieving the lowest possible mean squared forecast error.Selected by the data-driven model averaging method,the lag combination in the MARS method changes with various data series and different forecast horizons.Employing high frequency data from the NASDAQ 100 index and its 104 constituents,our empirical results demonstrate that acknowledging model uncertainty under the HAR framework and solving with the model averaging method can significantly improve the accuracy of financial return volatility forecasting.展开更多
为解决混合储能系统的光伏输出功率波动性较大的问题,提出一种改进的局部均值分解(improved local mean decomposition, ILMD)的功率分配方案。对光伏发电出力进行平滑处理,可得到满足国家要求的光伏并网功率,利用ILMD对混合储能功率进...为解决混合储能系统的光伏输出功率波动性较大的问题,提出一种改进的局部均值分解(improved local mean decomposition, ILMD)的功率分配方案。对光伏发电出力进行平滑处理,可得到满足国家要求的光伏并网功率,利用ILMD对混合储能功率进行分解,确定其高频功率和低频功率并分别分配给超级电容和蓄电池,建立具有目标函数的功率优化模型,最大限度地降低整个系统全生命周期的投资成本,使用改进鲸鱼优化算法求解获得符合优化模型要求的容量配置。通过算例分析,对比不同的储能容量配置策略,验证所提策略的可行性。展开更多
基金financial support from the Youth Science and Technology Innovation Team of Southwest Petroleum University(No.2018CXTD10)the National Natural Science Foundation Project of China(No.51874248 and No.U19B2010).
文摘The microscopic heterogeneity of pore-throat structures in tight sandstone is a crucial parameter for understanding the transport mechanism of fluid flow.In this work,we firstly developed the new procedure to characterize the pore size distribution(PSD)and throat size distribution(TSD)by combining the nuclear magnetic resonance(NMR),cast thin section(CTS),and constant-rate mercury injection(CRMI)tests,and used the permeability estimated model to verify the full-scale PSD and TSD.Then,we respectively analyzed the fractal feature of the pore and throat,and characterized the heterogeneity of pores and throats.Finally,we elaborated the effect of the pore and throat heterogeneity on the gas-phase seepage capacity base on the analysis of the simple capillary tube model and gas-flooding experiment.The results showed that(1)The PSD and TSD of the tight sandstone sample ranged from 0.01 to 10 mm and from 0.1 to 57 mm,respectively,mainly contributed by the micropores and mesopores.Meanwhile,the permeability estimated by the PSD and TSD was consistent with the experimental permeability,and relative error was lower than 8%.(2)The PSD and TSD exhibited multifractal characteristics,and singularity strength range,Δα,could be used as the indicator for characterizing the heterogeneity of pore and throat.Furthermore,the throat of the sample showed stronger heterogeneity than that the pore.(3)The throats played an important role for the fluid transport in the tight sandstone,and the effect of the throat heterogeneity on the gas-phase seepage capacity was different under the lower and higher injection pressure.The macropores and micropores maybe respectively become the preferential migration pathways at the lower and higher injection pressure.In the end,the identification plate was established in our paper,and could be described the relationship among the throat heterogeneity,injection pressure,permeability and flow path of the gas phase in the tight sandstone.
基金'the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities'[Grant number:N1723040212018JYCXJJ052]'the Natural Science Foundation of Hebei Province of China'(Grant number:G2018501047).
文摘Chinese energy industries are facing serious problems such as excess capacity,homogeneous product,and soft budget constraint.This paper provides a duopoly model to investigate the influence of heterogeneity and soft budget constraint on production capacity decision and internal action mechanism,respectively,under Cournot and Bertrand competitions,which reveals the formation mechanism of excess capacity.We conclude that excess capacity would exist when the products are not wholly heterogeneous under Cournot competition,and the higher level of the soft budget constraint or the more homogeneous the products are,the worse the excess capacity will be.The insufficient capacity would exist provided that products are not wholly heterogeneous under Bertrand competition,and the higher level of soft budget constraint or the more homogeneous the products are,the more insufficient capacity will be.Both soft budget constraint and product heterogeneity mutually affect to decision-making of capacity and output.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.72261002,72201132,71790594)the Youth Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences Research of the Ministry of Education(No.22YJC790190)+2 种基金the Guizhou Provincial Science and Technology Projects(No.[2019]5103)the Guizhou Key Laboratory of Big Data Statistical Analysis(No.BDSA20200105)the Open Project of Jiangsu Key Laboratory of Financial Engineering(NSK2021-18)。
文摘Active government intervention is a striking characteristic of the Chinese stock market.This study develops a behavioral heterogeneous agent model(HAM)comprising fundamentalists,chartists,and stabilizers to investigate investors’dynamic switching mechanisms under government intervention.The model introduces a new player,the stabilizer,into the HAM as a proxy for the government.We use the model to examine government programs during the 2015 China stock market crash and find that it can replicate the dynamics of investor sentiment and asset prices.In addition,our analysis of two simulations,specifically the data-generating processes and shock response analysis,further corroborates the key conclusion that our intervention model not only maintains market stability but also promotes the return of risk asset prices to their fun-damental values.The study concludes that government interventions guided by the new HAM can alleviate the dilemma between reducing price volatility and improving price efficiency in future intervention programs.
基金the National Basic Research Program of China("973"Program)under Grant No.2007CB310606the Specialized Foundation for the Achievements Transformation of Science and Technology in Jiangsu Province under Grant No.BA2006101
文摘To provide any subscriber from anywhere at anytime with services that have both secured Quality of Service(QoS) and simultaneous expansion of network coverage and communications capacity is a key problem that has to be considered and solved in heterogeneous network convergence.Key technologies for a secured QoS and communications capacity analysis under heterogeneous environment are important subjects for research.Key technologies for a secured QoS are mainly on radio resource management algorithms covering Call Admission Control(CAC) algorithm,vertical handover algorithm,heterogeneous resource allocation algorithm and network selection algorithm.The applications of a novel multi-hop in heterogeneous convergence system serve the purposes of network coverage expansion,transmission power reduction,system communication capacity and throughput increase.
文摘Roundabout is a channelized intersection where traffic moves around a central island,clockwise for leftside driving and anti-clockwise for right-side driving.Efficiently designed roundabouts can handle traffic very smoothly without causing any delay.The capacity of roundabouts used to be calculated by the weaving theory in India.However,calculation of the entry capacity in the recent literature is based on critical gaps and follow-up times,and the Highway Capacity Manual of US(HCM2010)provides an equation to estimate the entry capacity of a roundabout by using the flow in passenger car unit per hour(PCU/h),critical gaps and follow-up times at the entry section.In order to examine whether the HCM equation applies to Indian traffic condition or not,we collected data from five roundabouts in India in this study.Relevant data were extracted/estimated to calibrate parameters of the HCM equation.The PCU for a vehicle was estimated on the basis of lagging headway and width of the vehicle,and the critical gap value for a vehicle was estimated by minimizing the sum of absolute difference in a gap with respect to the highest rejected and accepted gaps.Results show that the critical gap values obtained under heterogeneous traffic conditions are much lower than those given in the literature for homogeneous traffic conditions.In addition,the modified HCM equation based on the critical gap values was verified using the field data taken during the formation of a continuous and stable queue at the entry of a roundabout.It was found that a multiplicative adjustment factor needs to be calculated for different sizes of roundabouts to ensure the adjusted HCM equation represents well the traffic condition prevailing in developing countries like India.A test conducted at another roundabout validated that the entry capacity estimated from the calibrated and adjusted HCM model was consistent with the field entry capacity,and the calibrated and adjusted HCM model could predict the entry capacity of an approach to a roundabout quite accurately.
基金supported by the National Science Foundation of China(No.11801436).
文摘We study local dynamics of a diffusive predator-prey model in a spatially heterogeneous environment,where intrinsic growth rate of the prey is spatially ho-mogeneous,whereas carrying capacity of the habitat is spatially inhomogeneous.In comparison with the existing predator-prey models,the stability of semi-trivial steady state of this model displays distinct properties.For example,for certain intermediate ranges of the death rate of the predator,the semi-trivial steady state can change its stability at least once as the dispersal rate of the prey varies from small to large,while the stability of the semi-trivial steady state is immune from the dispersal rate of the predator.
基金supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2017YFC0210001)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos. 41830106, 42022039)+1 种基金Beijing National Laboratory for Molecular Sciences (No. BNLMS-CXXM-202011)the Youth Innovation Promotion Association CAS (No. 2017042)
文摘Atmospheric oxidizing capacity(AOC)is the fundamental driving factors of chemistry process(e.g.,the formation of ozone(O_(3))and secondary organic aerosols(SOA))in the troposphere.However,accurate quantification of AOC still remains uncertainty.In this study,a comprehensive field campaign was conducted during autumn 2019 in downtown of Beijing,where O_(3) and PM_(2.5) episodes had been experienced successively.The observation-based model(OBM)is used to quantify the AOC at O_(3) and PM_(2.5) episodes.The strong intensity of AOC is found at O_(3) and PM2.5 episodes,and hydroxyl radical(OH)is the dominating daytime oxidant for both episodes.The photolysis of O_(3) is main source of OH at O_(3) episode;the photolysis of nitrous acid(HONO)and formaldehyde(HCHO)plays important role in OH formation at PM_(2.5) episode.The radicals loss routines vary according to precursor pollutants,resulting in different types of air pollution.O_(3) budgets and sensitivity analysis indicates that O_(3) production is transition regime(both VOC and NOx-limited)at O3 episode.The heterogeneous reaction of hydroperoxy radicals(HO_(2))on aerosol surfaces has significant influence on OH and O_(3) production rates.The HO_(2) uptake coefficient(γHO_(2))is the determining factor and required accurate measurement in real atmospheric environment.Our findings could provide the important bases for coordinated control of PM_(2.5) and O_(3) pollution.
文摘The analysis of the bearing capacity of strip footings sited near an excavation is critical in geotechnics.In this study,the effects of the geometrical features of the excavation and the soil strength properties on the seismic bearing capacity of a strip footing resting on an excavation were evaluated using the lower and upper bounds of the finite element limit analysis method.The effects of the setback distance ratio(L/B),excavation height ratio(H/B),soil strength heterogeneity(kB/cu),and horizontal earthquake coefficient(kh)were analyzed.Design charts and tables were produced to clarify the relationship between the undrained seismic bearing capacity and the selected parameters.
基金This research is supported by MEXT Global COE Program (Kyoto University), National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.71001036 and No. 71171186, Main Direction Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences KACX1-YW-0906, and the Scientific Research Fund of Hunan Provincial Education Department under Grant No. 10A082.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71701175,71522004,11471324,71631008,and 71642006)the Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China Project of Humanities and Social Sciences(17YJC790174 and 17YJC910011)+2 种基金the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province of China(2018J01116)the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities China(20720171002,20720171076,20720181050,and 20720181004)the Educational and Scientific Research Program for Young and Middle-aged Instructors of Fujian Province(JAS170018).
文摘A rapidly growing body of literature has documented improvements in forecasting financial return volatility measurement using various heterogeneous autoregression(HAR)type models.Most HAR-type models use a fixed lag index of(1,5,22)to mirror the daily,weekly,and monthly components of the volatility process,but they ignore model specification uncertainty.In this paper,we propose applying the least squares model averaging approach to HAR-type models with signed realized semivariance to account for model uncertainty and to allow for a more flexible lag structure.We denote this approach as MARS and prove that the MARS estimator is asymptotically optimal in the sense of achieving the lowest possible mean squared forecast error.Selected by the data-driven model averaging method,the lag combination in the MARS method changes with various data series and different forecast horizons.Employing high frequency data from the NASDAQ 100 index and its 104 constituents,our empirical results demonstrate that acknowledging model uncertainty under the HAR framework and solving with the model averaging method can significantly improve the accuracy of financial return volatility forecasting.
文摘为解决混合储能系统的光伏输出功率波动性较大的问题,提出一种改进的局部均值分解(improved local mean decomposition, ILMD)的功率分配方案。对光伏发电出力进行平滑处理,可得到满足国家要求的光伏并网功率,利用ILMD对混合储能功率进行分解,确定其高频功率和低频功率并分别分配给超级电容和蓄电池,建立具有目标函数的功率优化模型,最大限度地降低整个系统全生命周期的投资成本,使用改进鲸鱼优化算法求解获得符合优化模型要求的容量配置。通过算例分析,对比不同的储能容量配置策略,验证所提策略的可行性。