This paper treats air-to-fuel ratio control of a spark ignition engine. A direct adaptive control method using Gaussian neural networks is developed to compensate transient fueling dynamics and the measurement bias of mass air flow rate into the manifold. The transient fueling compensation method is coupled with a dynamic sliding mode control technique that governs fueling rate when the throttl...

BACKGROUND Isolated transient vertigo can be the only symptom of posterior circulation ischemia. Thus, it is important to differentiate isolated vertigo of a cerebrovascular origin from that of more benign origins, as patients with cerebral ischemia have a much higher risk for future stroke than do those with 'peripheral' vertigo. The current study aims to identify risk factors for cerebrovascu...

This article is concerned with the theoretical analysis of the functionally graded magneto-electro-thermoelastic hollow sphere due to uniform surface heating. We analyze the transient thermoelastic problem for a functionally graded hollow sphere constructed of the spherical isotropic and linear magneto-electro-thermoelastic materials using a laminated composite mode as one of theoretical approx...

This paper deals with the analysis of adaptive Volterra filters, driven by the LMS algorithm, in the finite-alphabet inputs case. A tailored approach for the input context is presented and used to analyze the behavior of this nonlinear adaptive filter. Complete and rigorous mean square analysis is provided without any constraining independence assumption. Exact transient and steadystate perform...

This paper deals air to fuel ratio control of a spark ignition engine, whose pollutant is a major cause of air pollution. A direct adaptive control using Gaussian neural networks is developed to compensate transient fueling dynamics and measurement error in mass air flow rate into the cylinder. The transient fueling compensation method is coupled with a dynamic sliding mode control technique th...

We investigate stresses and particle motion during the start-up of flow in a colloidal dispersion close to arrest into a glassy state. A combination of molecular dynamics simulation, mode-coupling theory and confocal microscopy experiments is used to investigate the origins of the widely observed stress overshoot and (previously not reported) super-diffusive motion in the transient dynamics. A ...

We analyze the feedback-induced destabilization process of a single-mode laser diode with the wavelet transform ~WT!. We consider transients following an abrupt switch on of the feedback, for feedback levels strong enough so that the final state of operation of the laser is the coherence-collapsed state. The transient regime involves multiscale interactions that exhibit strong localization in b...

2014 Characteristics of a simple but practical ultrashort pulse laser system for transient nonlinear spectroscopy around and below 100 fs are described. The system is based on a hybridly mode-locked, cavitydumped cw dye laser, with high stability, broad tunability and specific phase properties, producing both clean transform-limited and chirped pulses. The laser system is applied to demonstrate...

The method of immediate analysis of periodic steady states in switched DC-DC converters operating in the continuous current mode is described. The initial conditions, which correspond to the periodic steady state, are found in the first step. They are used consequently for the conventional transient analysis. A special SPICE model of the converter finds automatically these initial conditions, w...

In this work, the application of numerical device simulation to the analysis of high resistivity silicon microstrip detectors is illustrated. The analysis of dc, ac and transient responses of a single-sided, dc-coupled detector has been carried out, providing results in good agreement with experimental data. In particular, transient-mode simulation has been exploited to investigate the collecti...