Recent advances in supercomputers and parallel solver techniques have enabled users to run large simulations problems using millions of processors. Techniques for multiphysics nuclear reactor core simulations are under active development in several countries. Most of these techniques require large unstructured meshes that can be hard to generate in a standalone desktop computers because of high...

Alternating Gibbs sampling is a modification of classical Gibbs sampling where several variables are simultaneously sampled from their joint conditional distribution. In this work, we investigate the mixing rate of alternating Gibbs sampling with a particular emphasis on Restricted Boltzmann Machines (RBMs) and variants.

This study investigates the anaerobic treatability of reactive Red2 in an anaerobic/aerobic sequential process. Laboratory scale anaerobic baffled reactor and fixed activated sludge reactor were operated at different organic loadings and hydraulic retention times. The effects of shock dye concentration on the chemical oxygen demand and color removal efficiencies were investigated in the anaerob...

We consider the set of Gibbs measures relative to Brownian motion for given potential V . V is assumed to be Kato-decomposable but general otherwise. A Gibbs measure for such a potential is in many cases given by a reversible Itô diffusion μ. We show that if V is growing at infinity faster than quadratically and in a sufficiently regular way, then μ is the only Gibbs measure that exists. For ge...

This study investigates the anaerobic treatability of Acid orange dye in an anaerobic/aerobic sequential process. Laboratory scale anaerobic baffled reactor and fixed activated sludge reactor were operated at different organic loadings and hydraulic retention times. The effects of shock dye concentration on the chemical oxygen demand and color removal efficiencies were investigated in the anaer...

The problems of estimating certain infini te-dimensional unlmown parameters (such as interaction potentials, local characteristics, etc.) for Gibbs states are considered in this paper. We describe the construction of consistent estimators for one-dimensional Gibbs states and discuss the possibility of extending these results to multi-dimensional Gibbs states.

The combined strong hydraulic selection pressure (HSP) with overstressed organic loading rate (OLR) as a fast granulation strategy was used to enhance aerobic granulation. To investigate the wide applicability of this strategy to different scenarios and its relevant mechanism, different settling times, different inoculums, different exchange ratios, different reactor configurations, and differe...

To run a high conversion reactor with Pu-Th fuelled tight fuelled assembly, which has a long burn-up of a fuel, the reactor should be sited deep underground. By putting the reactor deep underground heat can be removed passively not only during a steady-state run and also in an emergency case of loss of coolant and loss of on-site power; hence the safety of the reactor can be much improved. Also...

KamLAND is a reactor neutrino oscillation experiment with a very long baseline. This experiment successfully measured oscillation phenomena of reactor antineutrinos coming mainly from 53 reactors in Japan. In order to extract the results, it is necessary to accurately calculate time-dependent antineutrino spectra from all the reactors. A simple model of reactor cores and code implementing it we...

An approach to digital image processing and analysis based on the Gibbs distribution is considered. Gibbs hierarchical models are used in segmentation of texture images, reconstruction of gray-scale and color images corrupted by nonlinear and linear inhomogeneous distortions, and estimation of the parameters of Gibbs models from observed images. Received October 25, 2004