A generalized refined Arnoldi method based on the weighted inner product is presented for computing PageRank. The properties of the generalized refined Arnoldi method were studied. To speed up the convergence performance for computing PageRank, we propose to change the weights adaptively where the weights are calculated based on the current residual corresponding to the approximate PageRank vec...

Air-film damping, which dominates over other losses, plays a significant role in the dynamic response of many micro-fabricated devices with a movable mass suspended by various bearing mechanisms. Modeling the damping characteristics accurately will be greatly helpful to the bearing design, control, and test in various micromotor devices. This paper presents the simulated and experimental squeez...

A limitation of a simple linear mass-spring model in describing goal directed movements is that it generates rather slow movements when the parameters are kept within a realistic range. Does this imply that the control of fast movements cannot be approximated by a linear system? In servo-control theory, it has been proposed that an optimal controller should control movement velocity in addition...

The uncertainty associated with damping in structural systems is identified and discussed. A second-order perturbation technique is utilized to examine the effects of damping variability on the transient and steady-state dynamic response of structural systems. The results demonstrate that the uncertainty in damping indeed influences the system response. The effects are more pronounced for highe...

Motivated by recent discussions concerning the manner in which damping appears in the electric polarizability, we show that a there is a dependence of the nonresonant contribution on the damping and that b the damping enters according to the ‘‘opposite sign prescription.’’ We also discuss the related question of how the damping rates in the polarizability are related to energy-level decay rates.

We describe the cascade of plasma waves or turbulence injected, presumably by reconnection, at scales comparable to the size of a solar flare loop, L ∼ 109 cm, to scales comparable to elementary particle gyro radii, and evaluate their damping at small scales by various mechanisms. We show that the classical viscous damping valid on scales larger than the collision mean free path (∼ 108 cm) is u...

introduction relative dose computation is a necessary step in radiation treatment planning. therefore, finding an approach that is both fast and accurate seems to be necessary. the purpose of this work was to investigate the feasibility of natural cubic spline to reconstruct dose maps for linear accelerator radiation treatment fields in comparison with those of the simulation. materials and met...

In this paper, a novel compensator based on Magnetically Controlled Reactor with Fixed Capacitor banks (FC-MCR) is introduced and then power system stability in presence of this compensator is studied using an intelligent control method. The problem of robust FC-MCR-based damping controller design is formulated as a multi-objective optimization problem. The multi-objective problem is concocted ...

Background and Objectives: Virtual inertia control, as a component of a virtual synchronous generator, is used for the implementation of synchronous generator behaviour in microgrids. In microgrids that include high-capacity distributed generation resources, in addition to virtual inertia, virtual damping can also lead to improvement of frequency stability of the microgrid. The purpose of the c...

the rational cubic function with three parameters has been extended to rational bi-cubic function to visualize the shape of regular convex surface data. the rational bi-cubic function involves six parameters in each rectangular patch. data dependent constraints are derived on four of these parameters to visualize the shape of convex surface data while other two are free to refine the shape of s...