Strain distribution of Al 1100 was numerically investigated during cyclic expansion extrusion (CEE) process using finite element method (FEM). Die angle, corner fillet radius and die chamber diameter were considered as die parameters and friction factor and number of passes as process parameters. The effects of these parameters were investigated on the effective strain and strain homogeneity in...

We examine the angular momentum loss and associated rotational spindown for magnetic hot stars with a line-driven stellar wind and a rotation-aligned dipole magnetic field. Our analysis here is based on our previous 2-D numerical MHD simulation study that examines the interplay among wind, field, and rotation as a function of two dimensionless parameters, one characterizing the wind magnetic co...

We describe a generalized Levenberg-Marquardt method for computing critical points of the Ginzburg-Landau energy functional which models superconductivity. The algorithm is a blend of a Newton iteration with a Sobolev gradient descent method, and is equivalent to a trust-region method in which the trustregion radius is defined by a Sobolev metric. Numerical test results demonstrate the method t...

Introduction: Due to nuclear interactions between the tissues and high-energy protons, the particles, including neutrons, positrons, and photons arise during proton therapy. This study aimed at investigating the dose distribution of proton and secondary particles, such as positrons, neutrons, and photons using the Monte Carlo method. Material and Methods:<...

In the title compound, C20H21N3O2·H2O (EQR·H2O), the quinazoline ring system forms dihedral angles of 53.1 (1) and 85.6 (1)° with the phenyl ring and the amide link, respectively. In the crystal, O-H⋯O hydrogen bonds link two EQR and two water mol-ecules into a centrosymmetric R 4 (4)(18) ring motif. N-H⋯O hydrogen bonds further link these hydrogen-bonded fragments into columns extending in [010].

Determination of the regularity radius r∗ of interval matrices is known to be a NP-hard problem. In this paper, a method for determining r∗ is suggested whose numerical complexity is not a priori exponential. The method is based on an equivalent transformation of the original problem to the problem of determining the real maximum magnitude eigenvalue μ∗ of an associated interval generalized eig...