the solubility of co2 in the primary, secondary, tertiary and sterically hindered amine aqueous solutions at various conditions was studied. in the present work, the modified kent-eisenberg (m-ke), the extended debye-hückel (e-dh) and the pitzer models were employed to study the solubility of co2 in amine aqueous solutions. two explicit equations are presented to evaluate the concentration of h...

A Nonlinear Programming algorithm that converges to second-order stationary points is introduced in this paper. The main tool is a second-order negative-curvature method for box-constrained minimization of a certain class of functions that do not possess continuous second derivatives. This method is used to define an Augmented Lagrangian algorithm of PHR (Powell-Hestenes-Rockafellar) type. Conv...

Huber, Krokhin, and Powell (2013) introduced a concept of skew bisubmodularity, as a generalization of bisubmodularity, in their complexity dichotomy theorem for valued constraint satisfaction problems over the three-value domain, and Huber and Krokhin (2014) showed the oracle tractability of minimization of skew-bisubmodular functions. Fujishige, Tanigawa, and Yoshida (2014) also showed a min-...

cables have always been under consideration as a structural element because of important features such as large strength to weight ratios and long spans. their equilibrium analysis is an important issue in this regard. but this analysis involves highly nonlinear equations arising from large deformations and material nonlinearity. different methods have been under use for numerical analysis of s...

This paper presents a robust algorithm for automated registration of images related by rigid-body transformations. This algorithm uses a new region-based similarity metric , which enables accurate registration of images of large contrast diierences. Region segmentation required by the metric is accomplished using a multiscale segmentation algorithm , and minimization of this metric is done usin...

On-line fault detection in sensor networks is of paramount importance due to the convergence of a variety of challenging technological, application, conceptual, and safety related factors. We introduce a taxonomy for classi£cation of faults in sensor networks and the £rst on-line model-based testing technique. The approach is generic in the sense that it can be applied on an arbitrary system of...

The popular BFGS quasi-Newton minimization algorithm under reasonable conditions converges globally on smooth convex functions. This result was proved by Powell in 1976: we consider its implications for functions that are not smooth. In particular, an analogous convergence result holds for functions, like the Euclidean norm, that are nonsmooth at the minimizer.

Y 2 An algorithm Is proposed for minimizing certain nice C functions f on E assuming only a computational knowledge of f and 7f. It Is shown that the algorithm provides global convergence at a rate which is eventually superlinear and possibly quadratic. The algorithm is purely algebraic and does not require the minimization of any functions of one variable. Numerical computation on specific pro...