The rise velocity of long gas bubbles (Taylor bubbles) in round tubes is modeled by an ovary ellipsoidal cap bubble rising in an irrotational flow of a viscous liquid. The analysis leads to an expression for the rise velocity which depends on the aspect ratio of the model ellipsoid and the Reynolds and Eötvös numbers. The aspect ratio of the best ellipsoid is selected to give the same rise velo...

We make a connection between classical polytopes called zonotopes and Support Vector Machine (SVM) classifiers. We combine this connection with the ellipsoid method to give some new theoretical results on training SVMs. We also describe some special properties of C -SVMs for C → ∞.

Given a set of points S = {x1, . . . , xm} ⊂ R and > 0, we propose and analyze an algorithm for the problem of computing a (1 + )-approximation to the minimum-volume axis-aligned ellipsoid enclosing S . We establish that our algorithm is polynomial for fixed . In addition, the algorithm returns a small core set X ⊆ S , whose size is independent of the number of points m, with the property that ...

In this note, we consider a few important issues related to the maximization of the convergence rate inside a given ellipsoid for linear systems with input saturation. For continuous-time systems, the control that maximizes the convergence rate is simply a bang–bang control. Through studying the system under the maximal convergence control, we reveal several fundamental results on set invarianc...

A su/cient condition for an ellipsoid to be invariant was obtained recently and an LMI approach was developed to 3nd the largest ellipsoid satisfying the condition. This condition was later shown to be necessary for the single input case. This paper is dedicated to the multi-input case. We will examine the conservatism of the condition for multi-input systems. Our investigation is conducted by ...

We analyze the horizon and geodesic structure of a class of 4D off–diagonal metrics with deformed spherical symmetries, being exact solutions of the vacuum Einstein equations with anholonomic variables. The maximal analytic extension of the ellipsoid type metrics are constructed and the Penrose diagrams are analyzed with respect to adapted frames. We prove that for small deformations (small ecc...

Abstract. We study ellipsoid bounds for the solutions (x,μ)∈Rn×Rr of polynomial systems of equalities and inequalities. The variable μ can be considered as parameters perturbing the solution x. For example, bounding the zeros of a system of polynomials whose coefficients depend on parameters is a special case of this problem. Our goal is to find minimum ellipsoid bounds just for x. Using theore...

Ellipsoid fitting is a widely used technique in 3D shape modeling, which simultaneously estimate the center and orientation of 3D object. This paper explores the limits of performance for the ellipsoid-fitting center estimator. It is shown that the noise in the surface sample data can be approximated by a Gaussian distribution when the signal to noise ratio is high. The Cramér-Rao lower bound i...

Spaces of convex and concave functions appear naturally in theory applications. For example, regression log-concave density estimation are important topics nonparametric statistics. In stochastic portfolio theory, on the unit simplex measure concentration capital, their gradient maps define novel investment strategies. The may also be regarded as optimal transport simplex. this paper we constru...

Energetic proton acceleration from concave targets, the fronts of which were irradiated with 40 fs laser pulses with an intensity of 10 W/cm, has been studied as a function of the depth of the concave shape. Three kinds of targets, a triangular concave target, a circular concave target and a parabolic concave target are considered. When the depth of the concave shape was varied, the peak proton...