Influence of pantograph fixing position on aerodynamic characteristics of high-speed trains

To study the influence of the pantograph fixing position on aerodynamic characteristics of high-speed trains, the aerodynamic models of high-speed trains with eight cars were established based on the theory of com- putational fluid dynamics, and eight cases with pantographs fixed on different positions and in different operational orientations were considered. The pantographs were fixed on the front or the rear end of the first middle car or fixed on the front or the rear end of the last middle car. The external flow fields of the high-speed trains were numeri- cally simulated using the software STAR-CCM＋. The results show that the pantograph fixing position has little effect on the aerodynamic drag force of the head car and has a large effect on the aerodynamic drag force of the tail car. The influences of the pantograph fixing position on the aerodynamic lift forces of the head car, tail car and pan- tographs are obvious. Among the eight cases, considering the total aerodynamic drag force of the train and the aerodynamic lift force of the lifted pantograph, when the pantographs are fixed on the rear end of the last middle car and the lifted pantograph is in the knuckle-upstream ori- entation, the aerodynamic performance of the high-speed train is the best.

CHARACTERISTICS OF LIP-MOUTH REGION IN SMILING POSITION FROM 80 PERSONS WITH ACCEPTABLE FACES AND INDIVIDUAL NORMAL OCCLUSIONS

OBJECTIVE: The characteristics of lip-mouth region including the soft and hard tissues in smiling position with frontal fixed position photographic computer-aided analysis were studied. METHODS: The subjects were 80 persons (40 male and 40 females, age range: 17 to approximately 25 years) with acceptable faces and individual normal occlusions. The subjects were asked to take maximum smiling position to accept photographic measurement with computer-aided analysis. RESULTS: The maximum smile line could be divided into 3 categories: low smile line (16.25%), average smile line (68.75%), and high smile line (15%). CONCLUSION: The method adopting maximum smiling position to study the lip-month region is reproducible and comparable. This study would be helpful to provide a quantitative reference for clinical investigation, diagnosis, treatment and efficacy appraisal.

ON THE EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO SECOND ORDER PERIODIC BVPS

The existence of positive solutions to second-order periodic BVPs-u'+Mu =j(t, u),t(0) = u(2π),u'(0) = '(2π) and u'+ Mu = I(t, u), u(0) = u(2π), u'(0) = u'(2π)is proved by a simple appliCation of a Fixed point Theorem in cones due to Krasnoselskii.

On Skew Triangular Matrix Rings

In this paper, we prove the existence and uniqueness of positive solutions for a system of multi-order fractional differential equations. The system is used to represent constitutive relation for viscoelastic model of fractional differential equations. Our results are based on the fixed point theorems of increasing operator and the cone theory, some illustrative examples are also presented.

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SOME 1-DIMENSIONAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS OF LAPLACE-TYPE

This paper deals with the existence of triple positive solutions for the 1-dimensional equation of Laplace-type （φ（x′（t）））′＋q（t）f（t,x（t）,x′（t））=0,t∈（0,1）,subject to the following boundary condition：a1φ（x（0））-a2φ（x＇（0））=0,a3φ（x（1））＋a4φ（x＇（1））=0,where φ is an odd increasing homogeneous homeomorphism. By using a new fixed point theorem, sufficient conditions are obtained that guarantee the existence of at least three positive solu- tions. The emphasis here is that the nonlinear term f is involved with the first order derivative explicitly.

Extended tanh-function Method for Solving Traveling Wave Solutions of Nonlinear Kundu Equation

In this paper, we study the existence of multiple positive periodic solutions for the second order differential equation x′′（t） ＋ p（t）x′（t） ＋ q（t）x（t） = f（t, x（t））.By using Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem, we establish some criteria for the existence and multiple positive periodic solutions for this differential equation.

Actions of negative bias temperature instability （NBTI） and hot carriers in ultra-deep submicron p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors （PMOSFETs）

Hot carrier injection （HCI） at high temperatures and different values of gate bias Vg has been performed in order to study the actions of negative bias temperature instability （NBTI） and hot carriers. Hot-carrier-stress-induced damage at Vg = Vd, where Vd is the voltage of the transistor drain, increases as temperature rises, contrary to conventional hot carrier behaviour, which is identified as being related to the NBTI. A comparison between the actions of NBTI and hot carriers at low and high gate voltages shows that the damage behaviours are quite different： the low gate voltage stress results in an increase in transconductance, while the NBTI-dominated high gate voltage and high temperature stress causes a decrease in transconductance. It is concluded that this can be a major source of hot carrier damage at elevated temperatures and high gate voltage stressing of p-channel metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors （PMOSFETs）. We demonstrate a novel mode of NBTI-enhanced hot carrier degradation in PMOSFETs. A novel method to decouple the actions of NBTI from that of hot carriers is also presented.

EXISTENCE OF POSITIVE FIXED POINTS FOR SEMIDIFFERENTIABLE SEMICOMPACT 1-SET-CONTRACTIONS

This paper obtains some fixed point theorems of semidifferentiable semicompact 1-set-contraction maps, which extend some known results in [1, 2, 4, 5, 7].

A Single Species Model with Impulsive Diffusion

In most models of population dynamics, diffusion between patches is assumedto be continuous or discrete, but in practice many species diffuse only during a single period. Inthis paper we propose a single species model with impulsive diffusion between two patches, whichprovides a more natural description of population dynamics. By using the discrete dynamical systemgenerated by a monotone, concave map for the population, we prove that the map always has a globallystable positive fixed point. This means that a single species system with impulsive diffusionalways has a globally stable positive periodic solution. This result is further substantiated bynumerical simulation. Under impulsive diffusion the single species survives in the two patches.

Existence of Positive Solutions for Systems of Nonlinear Second-Order Differential Equations on the Half Line in a Banach Space

In this paper, the cone theory and MSnch fixed point theorem combined with the monotone iterative technique are used to investigate the positive solutions for a class of systems of nonlinear singular differential equations with multi-point boundary value conditions on the half line in a Banach space. The conditions for the existence of positive solutions are formulated. In addition, an explicit iterative approximation of the solution is also derived.