In evolutionary algorithms, the fitness of a population increases with time by mutating and recombining individuals and by a biased selection of more fit individuals. The right selection pressure is critical in ensuring sufficient optimization progress on the one hand and in preserving genetic diversity to be able to escape from local optima on the other. We propose a new selection scheme, whic...

Basic experiments were conducted on a large-size broad-crested weir with an upstream rounded corner. Detailed velocity and pressure measurements were performed for a range of flow conditions. The results showed the rapid flow re-distribution at the upstream end of the weir, as well as next to the weir brink at large flow rates. Assuming non-uniform velocity and nonhydrostatic pressure distribut...

We revisit optical and radio afterglows arising from the shocks by relativistic conical ejecta running into pre-burst massive stellar winds. Under the homogeneous thin-shell approximation and the realistic treatment for lateral expansion of jets, our results show that a notable break of optical light curve within one decade in time indeed exists in most cases of our calculations by varying phys...

We investigate the criticality of the jamming transition for overdamped shear-driven frictionless disks in two dimensions for two different models of energy dissipation: (i) Durian's bubble model with dissipation proportional to the velocity difference of particles in contact, and (ii) Durian's "mean-field" approximation to (i), with dissipation due to the velocity difference between the partic...

We discuss the bulk properties of QGP produced at RHIC obtained at time of hadronization. We argue that hadronization of quark–gluon plasma occurs at a critical pressure near to 82 MeV/fm, obtained for SPS energy range.

For culverts installed in soft soil, the rigid composite pile foundation is used for soil treatment, and stresses around are complicated. Centrifuge experiments numerical simulations conducted to investigate vertical earth pressures settlement over a slab culvert under high backfill foundations treated with piles. The influences of lateral length spacing on at top analysed, they have significan...

Direct numerical simulation is used to investigate the integral behaviour of buoyant plumes subjected a uniform crossflow that are infinitely lazy at source. Neither plume trajectory defined by centre mass $z_c$ nor central streamline $z_{U}$ aligned with average streamlines inside plume. Both and shown correlate field lines total buoyancy flux, which implies model for vertical turbulent flux r...