Dielectric Barrier Discharges (DBD) operated at atmospheric pressure and working at reduced temperatures (T < 115 degrees C) and a copper-manganese oxide catalyst are combined for the direct decomposition and the steam reforming of methanol (SRM) for hydrogen production and for the preferential oxidation of CO (CO-PROX).

The minimization of an objective function over a constraint set can often be simplified if the “active manifold” of the constraints set can be correctly identified. In this work we present a simple subproblem, which can be used inside of any (convergent) optimization algorithm, that will identify the active manifold of a “prox-regular partly smooth” constraint set in a finite number of iterations.

A controlled sweeping process with prox-regular set, $$W^{1,2}$$ -controls, and separable endpoints constraints is considered in this paper. Existence of optimal solutions established local optimality conditions are derived via strong converging continuous approximations, whose state entirely resides the interior set. Consequently, subdifferentials smaller than standard ones now employed results.

The standard algorithms for solving large-scale convex–concave saddle point problems, or, more generally, variational inequalities with monotone operators, are proximal type algorithmswhich at every iteration need to compute a prox-mapping, that is, to minimize over problem’s domain X the sum of a linear form and the specific convex distance-generating function underlying the algorithms in ques...

Device proximity verification has a wide range of security applications such as effortless zero-interaction authentication, multi-factor authentication, group-membership management and many more. To achieve high ease-of-use, a recently proposed class of solutions exploit contextual information captured by onboard sensors including radio (Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and GPS receivers), ambient sounds (micr...

Carbon emissions are closely related to global warming. More than 70% of carbon have been generated in cities. Many studies analyzed the effects cities on emissions, from perspective urbanization, economics, and land use, yet a detailed understanding relationship between urban form is lacking due absence reasonable set metrics. The aim this research explore through empirical research. By elimin...

This paper is devoted on the one hand to the study of specific properties of an evolution variational inequality, holding in the Hilbert setting. We give on the other hand a general criterion for Lyapunov pairs of this dynamical system and some results on the asymptotic behaviour of the solution. Key-words: Differential inclusions Evolution variational inequalities Proximal normal cone Uniforml...