Harmonic balance method with alternating frequency/time domain technique for nonlinear dynamical system with fractional exponential

Comparisons of the common methods for obtaining the periodic responses show that the harmonic balance method with alternating frequency/time （HB-AFT） do- main technique has some advantages in dealing with nonlinear problems of fractional exponential models. By the HB-AFT method, a rigid rotor supported by ball bearings with nonlinearity of Hertz contact and ball passage vibrations is considered. With the aid of the Floquet theory, the movement characteristics of interval stability are deeply studied. Besides, a simple strategy to determine the monodromy matrix is proposed for the stability analysis.

Source-Independent Amplitude-Semblance Full-Waveform Inversion using a Hybrid Time-and Frequency-Domain Approach

Full-waveform inversion is a promising tool to produce accurate and high-resolution subsurface models.Conventional full-waveform inversion requires an accu-rate estimation of the source wavelet,and its computational cost is high.We develop a novel source-independent full-waveform inversion method using a hybrid time-and frequency-domain scheme to avoid the requirement of source wavelet estimation and to reduce the computational cost.We employ an amplitude-semblance objective function to not only effectively remove the source wavelet effect on full-waveform inver-sion,but also to eliminate the impact of the inconsistency of source wavelets among different shot gathers on full-waveform inversion.To reduce the high computational cost of full-waveform inversion in the time domain,we implement our new algorithm using a hybrid time-and frequency-domain approach.The forward and backward wave propagation operations are conducted in the time domain,while the frequency-domain wavefields are obtained during modeling using the discrete-time Fourier trans-form.The inversion process is conducted in the frequency domain for selected frequen-cies.We verify our method using synthetic seismic data for the Marmousi model.The results demonstrate that our novel source-independent full-waveform inversion pro-duces accurate velocity models even if the source signature is incorrect.In addition,our method can significantly reduce the computational time using the hybrid time-and frequency-domain approach compared to the conventional full-waveform inversion in the time domain.

Review of Photoacoustic Malaria Diagnostic Techniques

Malaria is one of the leading causes of mortality and morbidity in developing countries. Accurate and complete diagnosis is key for effective treatment of the disease. However, mainstream malaria diagnostic techniques suffer from a number of shortcomings. There is therefore an urgent need for development of new and more efficient techniques for malaria diagnosis. In vivo Photoacoustic spectroscopy is an emerging technique, which has great potential of delivering a nearly ideal method for early diagnosis of the disease. The technique promises to be highly sensitive and specific. In this paper, a description of photoacoustic malaria sensing is given. This is followed by a review of photoacoustic-based malaria diagnostic techniques and suggestions for future improvements.

Dynamic Positioning Control of Surge−Pitch Coupled Motion for Small-Waterplane-Area Marine Structures

For general dynamic positioning systems,controllers are mainly based on the feedback of motions only in the horizontal plane.However,for marine structures with a small water plane area and low metacentric height,undesirable surge and pitch oscillations may be induced by the thruster actions.In this paper,three control laws are investigated to suppress the induced pitch motion by adding pitch rate,pitch angle or pitch acceleration into the feedback control loop.Extensive numerical simulations are conducted with a semi-submersible platform for each control law.The influences of additional terms on surge−pitch coupled motions are analyzed in both frequency and time domain.The mechanical constraints of the thrust allocation and the frequency characters of external forces are simultaneously considered.It is concluded that adding pitch angle or pitch acceleration into the feedback loop changes the natural frequency in pitch,and its performance is highly dependent on the frequency distribution of external forces,while adding pitch rate into the feedback loop is always effective in mitigating surge−pitch coupled motions.

A blind separation method of overlapped multi-components based on time varying AR model

A method utilizing single channel recordings to blindly separate the multicomponents overlapped in time and frequency domains is proposed in this paper. Based on the time varying AR model, the instantaneous frequency and amplitude of each signal component are estimated respectively, thus the signal component separation is achieved. By using prolate spheroidal sequence as basis functions to expand the time varying parameters of the AR model, the method turns the problem of linear time varying parameters estimation to a linear time invariant parameter estimation problem, then the parameters are estimated by a recursive algorithm. The computation of this method is simple, and no prior knowledge of the signals is needed. Simulation results demonstrate validity and excellent performance of this method.