Abstract. In Part 1, I considered the zero-dimensional heat equation, showing quite generally that conductive–radiative surface boundary conditions lead to half-ordered derivative relationships between fluxes and temperatures: energy balance equation (HEBE). The real Earth, even when averaged in time over weather scales (up ≈ 10 d), is highly heterogeneous. this 2, treatment extended horizontal...

The Nebraska SandHills is a vast grassland ecoregion that also serves as the main recharge zone for the High Plains (Ogallala) aquifer. Despite the national importance of this region in supplying irrigation water and supporting the US cattle industry, there have, until now, been no long-term, direct measurements of the components of the surface water balance. We have addressed this issue by ins...

Recent work on load balancing has connrmed its importance when one wants to achieve good performances during the actual evaluation of parallel database queries. Existing work mostly focuses on the join processing for parallel relational databases. We are interested here in more complex queries, such as recursive ones. The main diierence is that, in the latter case, the work due to a task cannot...

In a typical purchasing situation, the issues of price, lot sizing, etc, usually are settled through negotiations between the purchaser and the vendor. Depending on the existing balance of power, the end result of such a bargaining process may be a near-optimal or optimal ordering policy for one of the parties (placing the other in a position of significant disadvantage) or, sometimes, inoptima...

We study nonequilibrium steady states of the driven lattice gas with two particles, using the most general stochastic transition rules that satisfy the local detailed balance condition. We observe that i) the universal 1/rd long range correlation may be found already in the two-particle models, but ii) the magnitude (or even the existence/absence) of the long range correlation depends crucially...

The Rate-Controlled Constrained-Equilibrium (RCCE) method for the description of the time-dependent behavior of dynamical systems in non-equilibrium states is a general, effective, physically based method for model order reduction that was originally developed in the framework of thermodynamics and chemical kinetics. A generalized mathematical formulation is presented here that allows including...

In this paper we compare market price fluctuations with the response to fundamental price drops within the Lux-Marchesi model which is able to reproduce the most important stylized facts of real market data. Major differences can be observed between the decay of spontaneous fluctuations and of changes due to external perturbations reflecting the absence of detailed balance, i.e., of the validit...

Many partitioning algorithms have been proposed for distributed Very-large-scale integration (VLSI) simulation. Typically, they make use of a gate level netlist and attempt to achieve a minimal cutsize subject to a load balance constraint. The algorithm executes on a hypergraph which represents the netlist. We propose a design-driven iterative partitioning algorithm for Verilog based on module ...