In this paper we study the performance of a symplectic numerical integrator based on the splitting method. This method is applied to a subtle problem i.e. higher order resonance of the elastic pendulum. In order to numerically study the phase space of the elastic pendulum at higher order resonance, a numerical integrator which preserves qualitative features after long integration times is neede...

Although less common than conventional front caster wheelchairs, rear caster wheelchairs are still in use for several reasons. Many people find manual rear caster wheelchairs easier to maneuver indoors at slow speeds. This is especially true when the user attempts to maneuver the wheelchair very close to an object, such as a table. Electric wheelchairs often have rear casters to accommodate for...

The standard hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm uses the second order integrator at the molecular dynamics step. This choice of the integrator is not always the best. We study the performance of the hybrid Monte Carlo algorithm for lattice QCD with higher order integrators in both zero and finite temperature phases and find that in the finite temperature phase the performance of the algorithm can be ...

The paper analyses the organization of the new product development process at FIAT from a resource-based perspective. The focus is on organizational resources for integrating dispersed specialist knowledge required in the development of complex products. The analysis shows how applying a resource-based perspective is able to uncover negative long-term effects of outsourcing on the competence ba...

rotary atomizers are commonly used in spray dryers to atomize feed. one destructive effect of wheel rotation is the creation of a vacuum inside the wheel that conducts hot air from the chamber into the wheel and can lead to atomizer blockage and an explosion. the present work determined the air-pumping characteristics of a rotary atomizer with a 50 mm wheel diameter. the vacuum pressure and pow...

This paper describes the design and evaluation of a robust integrator for software-implemented control systems. The integrator is constructed as a generic component in the Simulink design tool, and can thus be used for robust implementation of a wide range of control algorithms. The integrator is designed to support the failbounded failure model for transient bit-flips that may occur in the CPU...

Formation of the 3' end of RNA polymerase II-transcribed snRNAs requires a poorly understood group of proteins called the Integrator complex. Here we used a fluorescence-based read-through reporter that expresses GFP in response to snRNA misprocessing and performed a genome-wide RNAi screen in Drosophila S2 cells to identify novel factors required for snRNA 3'-end formation. In addition to the ...

Hybrid infrared focal plane arrays (IRFPAs) are more and more used in both infrared medium and long wavebands for many different applications. In order to offer more spatial resolution, larger format (2048×2048) start to be available, yet its final yield is so low that its cost is very high, and is not affordable. In this paper, basing on viscoplastic Anand’s model, the structural stress of ind...

Air quality models compute the transformation of species in the atmosphere undergoing chemical and physical changes. The numerical algorithms used to predict these transformations should obey mass conservation and positive definiteness properties. Among all physical phenomena, the chemical kinetics solver provides the greatest challenge to attain these two properties. In general, most chemical ...

converge to a unique solution of the IVP up to the boundary of U [1]. In general, φn may converge slowly to the exact solution. The Picard iteration based integrator described in this paper has three main advantages. The the integrator has arbitrary order, is time adaptive, and has dense output. Dense output refers to the integrator being able to take time steps of variable length without havin...