The bootstrap current produced by fusion born alpha particles is obtained retaining effects of slowing down drag, pitch angle scattering, and arbitrary aspect ratio. The result is presented both as a summation of a rapidly converging series and a simple Pade approximation good for arbitrary aspect ratio. Quantitative results are derived using International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor (IT...

In this paper we present two different, heuristic error estimates for the Pade-type approximation of transfer functions via an Arnoldi algorithm. We first suggest a convergence criterion between two successive reduced models of the order and . We further propose to use the solution of the Lyapunov equations for reduced-order systems as a stop-criterion during iterative model order reduction.

The paper presents an uncertainty propagation method for problems with discontinuous surface responses. Based on Pade-Legendre (PL) approximants in multiple dimensions, the proposed method is global and non-intrusive. In this work, the PL method is applied to a model problem of supersonic flows with multiple possible flow configurations, depending on the uncertain input parameters. The results ...

Introduction The investigation of Lane Emden HLEEL equation has a long standing history Hsee, e.g., @1 10D, to mention only part of a vast literatureL. Recently Schaudt @6D has shown that Picard type iteration scheme may be used to show the existence, uniqueness and regularity of global solutions of LEE , in particular, for n 3 1. In this paper it was shown that straightforward usage of Picard ...

This paper reports the improvement of a bitterness sensor based on a lipid polymer membrane consisting of phosphoric acid di-n-decyl ester (PADE) as a lipid and bis(1-butylpentyl) adipate (BBPA) and tributyl o-acetylcitrate (TBAC) as plasticizers. Although the commercialized bitterness sensor (BT0) has high sensitivity and selectivity to the bitterness of medicines, the sensor response graduall...