High-fidelity dynamic models of solid oxide fuel cells (SOFCs) capture the spatial distribution of key performance variables by considering the cells as distributed parameter systems. As such, they are often complex and require extensive computational resources. In this paper, driven by the need to support the control strategy development and system optimization, we develop a low-order SOFC mod...

Charge, spin, and orbital degrees of freedom underlie the physics of transition metal compounds. Much work has revealed quantum critical points associated with spin and charge degrees of freedom in many of these systems. Here we illustrate that the simplest models that embody the orbital degrees of freedom the twoand three-dimensional quantum orbital compass models exhibit an exact quantum crit...

Market liquidity has an important role in trading on stock markets, since on illiquid markets the implicit cost of trading can cause notable losses for the investors. Therefore market participants should always measure the liquidity of the markets, which they can carry out in two ways, in a static and in a dynamic form. The most commonly used liquidity measures – bid-ask spread and the turnover...

A computational study of the growth of two-dimensional nematic spherulites in an isotropic phase was performed using a Landau-de Gennes-type quadrupolar tensor order parameter model for the first-order isotropic/nematic transition of 5CB (pentylcyanobiphenyl). An energy balance, taking anisotropy into account, was derived and incorporated into the time-dependent model. Growth laws were determin...

Animations driven by motion capture data are typically limited by their kinematic nature. In this paper, we describe a new data-driven approach for producing interactive dynamic balancing behaviors for an animated character. The result is a character that can interactively respond to single or multiple pushes in various directions and of varying magnitudes. A database of captured responses to p...