this paper presents a simplifiedlagrangian multiplier based algorithm to solve the fixed head hydrothermalscheduling problem. in fixed head hydrothermal scheduling problem, waterdischarge rate is modeled as quadratic function of hydropower generation andfuel cost is modeled as quadratic function of thermal power generation. thepower output of each hydro unit varies with the rate of water discha...

The PULSAR pulsed tokamak power plant design utilizes the outboard shield for thermal energy storage to maintain full 1000 MW(e) output during the dwell period of 200 s. Thermal energy resulting from direct nuclear heating is accumulated in the shield during the 7200 s fusion power production phase. The maximum shield temperature may be much higher than that for the blanket because radiation da...

Here it is shown that chaotic oscillations can appear after a series of period doublings in radiating diffusion flames when the activation temperature is high enough. It is also shown that period doubling cascades appear typically in very small regions and that they may not be observable if one starts with small perturbations of a steady flame.

We prove that the period doubling operator has an expanding di rection at the xed point We use the induced operator a Perron Frobenius type operator to study the linearization of the period dou bling operator at its xed point We then use a sequence of linear operators with nite ranks to study this induced operator The proof is constructive One can calculate the expanding direction and the rate ...

We show that the greedy spanner algorithm constructs a (1+ )-spanner of weight −O(d)w(MST) for a point set in metrics of doubling dimension d, resolving an open problem posed by Gottlieb [11]. Our result generalizes the result by Narasimhan and Smid [15] who showed that a point set in d-dimension Euclidean space has a (1+ )-spanner of weight at most −O(d)w(MST). Our proof only uses the packing ...

In this paper, we study the linear structure of sets A ⊂ Fn2 with doubling constant σ(A) < 2, where σ(A) := |A+A| |A| . In particular, we show that A is contained in a small affine subspace. We also show that A can be covered by at most four shifts of some subspace V with |V | ≤ |A|. Finally, we classify all binary sets with small doubling constant.

We study the properties of generalized solutions to the Monge– Ampère equation detD2u = ν, where the Borel measure ν satisfies a condition, introduced by Jerison, that is weaker than the doubling property. When ν = f dx, this condition, which we call D , admits the possibility of f vanishing or becoming infinite. Our analysis extends the regularity theory (due to Caffarelli) available when 0 < ...

We report a method for manipulating feature sizes in Si-based grating structures by thermal oxidation, which allows the realization of fin width/period ratios not directly accessible by laser interference lithography. Taking advantage of the expansion in volume associated with the thermal oxidation of Si, grating structures with very high fin width/period ratios of the order of 0.96 were obtain...

The regulation of body temperature in ectotherms has a major impact in their physiological and behavioral processes. Observing changes in thermal parameters related with reproduction allows us to better understand how Rhinella arenarum optimizes a thermal resource. The aim of this study was to compare the thermal parameters of this species between breeding and non-breeding periods. In the field...