A methodology based on a resolution performance measure P for time-frequency distributions (TFDs) [ I ] was defined to optimise TFDs and select the one which results into best concentration of signal components around their instantaneous frequency laws, and best suppression of the interference terms in the time-frequency plane. The algorithm which implements this methodology is described in [I]...

Design of time-frequency distributions (TFDs) that are robust to the impulse noise influence is considered. The robust TFDs based on the robust short-time Fourier transform (STFT) are proposed. An efficient procedure to evaluate the robust STFT is given. Robust TFDs based on the robust STFT have better energy concentration around the signal instantaneous frequency (IF) than the robust STFT itse...

The modulated oscillation model provides physically meaningful representations of timevarying harmonic processes, and has been instrumental in the development of modern time-frequency algorithms, such as the synchrosqueezing transform. We here extend this concept to multivariate signals, in order to identify oscillations common to multiple data channels. This is achieved by introducing a multiv...

One of the applications with nonlinear nonstationary signals lies in mobile communications where nonlinear information bearing signals are faded by the time-varying propagation medium. Consequently, the envelope of the received signal is often modelled by a Rayleigh distribution. This Rayleigh fading severely degrades the performance of the mobile radio transmission system. Diversity reception ...

Trees are able to maintain or modify the orientation of their axes (trunks or branches) by tropic movements. For axes in which elongation is achieved but cambial growth active, the tropic movements are due to the production of a particular wood, called reaction wood which is prestressed within the growing tree. Several models have been developed to simulate the gravitropic response of axes in t...

Predictions of scalar mixing and the scalar dissipation rate from large-eddy simulations of a piloted nonpremixed methane/air diffusion flame (Sandia flame D) using the Lagrangian-type flamelet model are presented. The results obtained for the unconditionally filtered scalar dissipation rate are qualitatively compared with general observations of scalar mixing from experiments in non-reactive a...

Amplitude death (AD) is an emergent phenomenon whereby two or more autonomously oscillating systems completely lose their oscillations due to coupling. In this work, we study AD in nonlinear oscillators with mixed time-delayed coupling, which is a combination of instantaneous and time-delayed couplings. We find that the mixed time-delayed coupling favors the onset of AD for a larger set of para...

We present a method for estimating the instantaneous frequency of a signal. This method involves the calculation of a time–frequency energy density of the signal, then obtaining an instantaneous frequency estimate from this joint density. Time–frequency energy density is calculated as a least squares optimal combination of multi–window Gabor based evolutionary spectra. The optimal weights are o...