Outline • Background • O bjectives and strategy • Integral thermodynamical analysis • FVM analysis: mathematical model • FVM analysis: status and outstanding tasks Background • Loop Heat Pipe: thermal control of Alpha Magnetic Spectrometer used for extra-terrestrial studies on anti-matter (see UNIBG-talk) • Bypass valve: prevent freezing of working fluid (Propylene) in liquid line by interrupti...

For a general spin glass model with asymmetric couplings we prove a family of identities involving expectations of generalized overlaps and magnetizations in the quenched state. Those identities holds pointwise in the Nishimori line and are reached at the rate of the inverse volume while, in the general case, they can be proved in integral average.

In this paper we present the Large Inverse Cholesky (LIC) method, an efficient method for computing the coefficient matrices of a Structural Vector Autoregressive (SVAR) model.

This paper presents a new visualization technique for flow fields in 2D. It utilizes a physical model of smearing ink over a sheet of paper as an intuitive metaphor for the representation of a dynamical system. This technique is capable of producing images that are comparable to those generated with line integral convolution (LIC), which is a well-known and established visualization technique f...

We address the problem of building a continuous occupancy representation of the environment with ranging sensors. Observations from such sensors provide two types of information: a line segment or a beam indicating no returns along them (free-space); a point or return at the end of the segment representing an occupied surface. To model these two types of observations in a principled statistical...

DeLone and McLean’s Information Systems Success model was validated empirically in many developed countries. However, it was not tested in Low-Income Countries (LICs) context where IT infrastructure is a serious hurdle for IS success. Testing the Model in LIC context assures generalizability and relevance of the model. This study looks at two research questions: (1) is the IS success model vali...

In this paper we look at the Line Integral Convolution method for flow visualization and ways in which this can be applied to the visualization of two dimensional, steady flow fields in the presence of uncertainty. To achieve this, we start by studying the method and reviewing the history of modifications other authors have made to it in order to improve its efficiency or capabilities, and usin...

in this paper, a new alternative method for order reduction of high order systems is presented based on optimization of multi objective fitness function by using harmony search algorithm. at first, step response of full order system is obtained as a vector, then, a suitable fixed structure considered for model order reduction which order of original system is bigger than fixed structure model. ...

In the present paper, the solution of a singular integral equation with logarithmic kernel in two disjoint intervals (0, a)4(b, ∞), (a, b are finite) is obtained by using function theoretic method. The two cases are considered when the unknown function satisfying the integral equation is unbounded or bounded at both nonzero finite end points of the interval. In the latter case, two solvability ...