Hydraulic model with roughness coefficient updating method based on Kalman filter for channel flood forecast

A real-time channel flood forecast model was developed to simulate channel flow in plain rivers based on the dynamic wave theory. Taking into consideration channel shape differences along the channel, a roughness updating technique was developed using the Kalman filter method to update Manning＇s roughness coefficient at each time step of the calculation processes. Channel shapes were simplified as rectangles, triangles, and parabolas, and the relationships between hydraulic radius and water depth were developed for plain rivers. Based on the relationship between the Froude number and the inertia terms of the momentum equation in the Saint-Venant equations, the relationship between Manning＇s roughness coefficient and water depth was obtained. Using the channel of the Huaihe River from Wangjiaba to Lutaizi stations as a case, to test the performance and rationality of the present flood routing model, the original hydraulic model was compared with the developed model. Results show that the stage hydrographs calculated by the developed flood routing model with the updated Manning＇s roughness coefficient have a good agreement with the observed stage hydrographs. This model performs better than the original hydraulic model.

A Generalized Two-Level Bregman Method with Dictionary Updating for Non-Convex Magnetic Resonance Imaging Reconstruction

In recent years, it has shown that a generalized thresholding algorithm is useful for inverse problems with sparsity constraints. The generalized thresholding minimizes the non-convex p-norm based function with p < 1, and it penalizes small coefficients over a wider range meanwhile applies less bias to the larger coefficients.In this work, on the basis of two-level Bregman method with dictionary updating(TBMDU), we use the modified thresholding to minimize the non-convex function and propose the generalized TBMDU(GTBMDU) algorithm.The experimental results on magnetic resonance(MR) image simulations and real MR data, under a variety of sampling trajectories and acceleration factors, consistently demonstrate that the proposed algorithm can efficiently reconstruct the MR images and present advantages over the previous soft thresholding approaches.

Finite element model updating of a rod-type ultrasonicmotor based on response surface method

The conventional finite element model （FEM） of a rod-type ultrasonic motor is usually simplified by means of continuous composite structure. Because the actual contact characteristics between the parts of the ultrasonic motor is ignored, there is bigger error between the calculated values and experimental results. Aiming at solving problem, a new modeling method of a rod-type ultrasonic motor is presented to obtain a high-accuracy FEM. The bolt pretension and the normal contact stiffness and friction coefficient of the contact surface of ultrasonic motor are all considered in this method, and the significant parameters of working mode of the motor are selected by the response surface method, and the goal of calculating the structural response rapidly is realized by building the response surface model to replace the FEM. The result of finite element model updating shows that the average error of modal frequencies of updated model drops to 0.21% from 1.20%. The accuracy of FEM is obviously improved, which indicates that the FEM updating based on response surface method is of great application value on the design for a rod-type ultrasonic motor.

INFLUENCES OF EDGING ROLL SHAPE ON THE PLASTIC STRAIN DISTRIBUTION OF SLAB DURING MULTI-PASS V-H ROLLING PROCESS

Multi-pass slab vertical-horizontal （V-H） rolling process with variable edging roll shape have been simulated with explicit dynamic finite element method and updating geometric method. The distributions of plastic strain contour in slab daring rolling process with different edging roll and under different rolling stage have been obtained. The results show that there exist two thin strain assembling zones in slab when the flat edging roll is used, and there just exist one strain assembling zone in slab when the edging roll with groove is used. And compared the deformation equality between flat edging roll and edging roll with groove, the lateris better than the former, which supplies the theory prove to the slab deformation distribution during V-H rolling process and is helpful for predicting the slab texture.

Hybrid Method: Review, Modularization and Application

The objective of this approach is to introduce the idea of modular design into the construction of hybrid model, thus, each step has it own unique function, the entries of superior data decrease and the directions of data flow are more clear. Although the approach itself cannot guarantee the accuracy of the target table which depends on the accuracy of the survey data, experience of experts and assumption in deriving, it does can help constructors to arrange their thoughts, thereby subjective errors could be brought down significantly. As an example, a case analysis is employed to show the effectiveness of the method in detail.

A Kernel Function Based Interior-Point Methods for Solving P_*(κ)-Linear Complementarity Problem

In this paper, motivated by the complexity results of Interior Point Methods （IPMs） for Linear Optimization （LO） based on kernel functions, we present a polynomial time IPM for solving P.（a）-linear complementarity problem, using a new class of kernel functions. The special case of our new class was considered earlier for LO by Y. Q. Bai et al. in 2004. Using some appealing properties of the new class, we show that the iteration bound for IPMs matches the so far best known theoretical iteration bound for both large and small updates by choosing special values for the parameters of the new class.

An Imperfect Grouping Maintenance Strategy for Multi-Component Systems Using the Survival Signature

This paper presents an imperfect maintenance strategy for the multi-component systems.The proposed maintenance strategy takes into account two types of maintenance actions,namely preventive maintenance(PM)and corrective maintenance(CM).The imperfect effect of PM is modeled on the basis of the hybrid hazard rate model.Meanwhile,a new structure importance measure based on the survival signature is presented.Using this new importance measure method,an adjustment function is designed to update the PM maintenance threshold.For CM actions,a decision rule relying on the criticality level of components is introduced.In order to judge the criticality level of components,a novel structure updating method based on the survival signature is proposed.Moreover,a maintenance model considering economic dependence among components is developed.A 10-component system is finally introduced to illustrate the use and advantages of the proposed maintenance strategy.

A CLASS OF FACTORIZATION UPDATE ALGORITHM FOR SOLVING SYSTEMS OF SPARSE NONLINEAR EQUATIONS

In this paper, we establish a class of sparse update algorithm based on matrix triangular factorizations for solving a system of sparse equations. The local Q-superlinear convergence of the algorithm is proved without introducing an m-step refactorization. We compare the numerical results of the new algorithm with those of the known algorithms, The comparison implies that the new algorithm is satisfactory.