We investigated the transport diffusivity of artificial microswimmers, a.k.a. Janus particles, in the absence of external biases. We considered the case of chiral Janus particles moving either in the bulk or in sinusoidal channels with reflecting walls. Their self-diffusion constants turned out to depend on both the strength and the chirality of the self-propulsion mechanism. More importantly, ...

Robust spectral analysis of the sinusoidal signals corrupted by impulsive noise poses a big challenge in signal processing community. In this paper, we address issue robust for multi-channel signals, including order detection and parameter estimation. The successive low-rank decomposition is firstly designed to extract common subspace from data matrix. Subsequently, number poles determined with...

An efficient method for quantising the magnitude of the LPresidual spectrum is proposed for high quality sinusoidal speech coding. It exploits the intra-frame perceptual preference of the magnitudes using mel-scale-based warping, and the inter-frame statistical correlation of the successive magnitude vectors using predictive coding. A switched quantiser between memoryless and predictive coding ...

Partial phase reconstruction based on a confidence domain has recently been shown to provide improved signal reconstruction performance in a single-channel source separation scenario. In this paper, we replace the previous binarized fixed-threshold confidence domain with a new signal-dependent one estimated by employing a sinusoidal model to be applied on the estimated magnitude spectrum of the...

Current digital voice communication systems allow only modest levels of protection of the coded speech and often do not follow the dynamic changes that occur in the transmission channel. We present a method that provides optimal voice quality and intelligibility for any given transmission channel condition. The approach is performed via adaptive-rate voice (ARV) coding using an adaptive-rate mo...

In this paper, a modified two-fluid model has been adopted to simulate the process of upward vertical subcooled flow boiling of refrigerant R-113 in a vertical annular channel at low pressure. The modified model considers temperature dependent properties and saturation temperature variation and was validated against a number of published low-pressure subcooled boiling experiments. The results s...

Long range channel prediction is a crucial technology for future wireless communications. The prediction of Rayleigh fading channels is studied in the frame of parametric modeling in this thesis. Suggested by the Jakes model for Rayleigh fading channels, deterministic sinusoidal models were adopted for long range channel prediction in early works. In this thesis, a number of new channel predict...

The complete detailed reaction mechanism for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane over Fe-ZSM-5 zeolite has been systematically investigated by means of the ONIOM(MP2/6-31G(d,p):UFF)//ONIOM(B3LYP/6-31G(d,p):UFF) scheme. Two types of reaction mechanisms for the oxidative dehydrogenation of ethane have been suggested: stepwise and concerted. The concerted mechanism, the concurrent abstraction ...

Sample mixing is difficult in microfluidic devices because of laminar flow. Micromixers are designed to ensure the optimal use of miniaturized devices. The present study aims to design a chaotic-advection-based passive micromixer with enhanced mixing efficiency. A serpentine-shaped microchannel with sinusoidal side walls was designed, and three cases, with amplitude to wavelength (A/λ) ratios o...