Simple scaling relations in geodynamics： the role of pressure in mantle convection and plume formation

Scaling relations are important in extrapolating laboratory experiments to the Earth‘s mantle. In planetary interiors, compression becomes an important parameter and it is useful to explore scalings that involve volume. I use simple volume scaling relations that allow one to extrapolate laboratory experiments and upper mantle behavior, in a thermodynamically self-consistent way, to predict lower mantle behavior. The relations are similar to the quasi-har-monic approximation. Slabs and plates have characteristic dimensions of hundreds of kilometers and time constants of 100 million years, but the volume scalings predict order of magnitude higher values in the deep mantle. The scaling relations imply that the deep mantle is a sluggish system with ancient features. They imply irreversible chemical stratification and do not favor the plume hypothesis.     

Providing QoS guarantees for self-similar traffic flows

1.INTRODUCTION Recentanalysesofvariouspacket basednetworking showthatnetworktraffichasvariabilityovermany timescales.Itsperformancedifferswithresultsof queuetheorythatisbasedonthePoissondistribu tion.Statisticalanalysesoflargetrafficdatasetshave revealedthatthestatisticalcharacteristicsofrealtraf ficmaybebestdescribedbyself similarity.Self simi larityimpliesthepresenceoflong rangedependence (LRD)inthetraffic.Thatis,thereexistnon negli giblepositivecorrelationintheburstbehaviorofthe …     

Use of piecewise polynomial phase modeling to compensate ionospheric phase contamination in skywave radar systems

1.INTRODUCTION High frequencyskywaveover the horizonradarcan providearange coverageofupto4000kmbymeans oftherefractionwithintheionosphere.Butthesignal contaminationsufferedindoubleionospherictransit, especially,thenonstationarityoftheionosphereren derstheechospectrumdistortedandresolutionofco herentintegrationtechniquethatiswidelyappliedin theradarsystemsisdegradedextremely. InsomeapplicationsofHFskywaveradar,some complexgeophysicalmechanismsincludedthevaria tionoftheionospheremaypro…     

ARMA-GM combined forewarning model for the quality control

1.INTRODUCTION Tocontrolthequalityoftheproducts,wemustsu pervisethequalityindexesandanalyzethechanging tendency.Therearealotofstatisticaltoolsincom monuse,themosteffectivemethodisacontrol chart.Itcangrasptheabnormalsymptomofatrend ofthequalityofproductsincontrollingprocessand makethequalitypreventionpossible.Butfromits workingprocessweknowthismethodalsohassome limitation.Becausethecontrolchartonlydetermines theaveragevalueandlimitinterval,onecanonly judgethequalitystateofproductsstatica…     

New structure of Kalman filter for radar networking

1.INTRODUCTION Inpractice,radarsoftenoperateasynchronouslyandpro videdataatdifferentrateswithdifferentcommunication timedelays,thustheproblemofdatafusioninradarnet workingsystemisasynchronousinsteadofsynchronous. However,theresearchinthefieldofdatafusionfocuses onthesynchronousproblems,andthemeasurementsof differentsensorsarealwayspredictedatthesametimefor updatingKalmanfiltersynchronously.Thisapproachis complicatedforengineering,anditwillreducethedata ratesofthesystem,atthesametimethee…     

Establishing formal state space models via quantization forquantum control systems

1.INTRODUCTION Quantumtheoryisoneofthemostimportantachieve mentsinthe20thcentury,anditdisclosesthestruc tures,characteristicsandmotionlawsofmatterinthe microcosmicfieldandleadsusfromthemacroscopical worldintomicrosystems.Aseriesofnewphenomena whicharedifferentfromclassicalsystemshavebeen discovered,suchasquantumentanglement,quantum coherenceanduncertainty.Meanwhile,quantum theoryandquantummethodsarealsowidelyusedin differentfieldssuchaschemicalreaction,geneticen gineering,atomicphysicsandi…     

An improved form of the ELMS algorithm

1.INTRODUCTION Adaptiveechocancellersarewidelyemployedintele conferencingsystemsinordertocompensateforthe impairmentinthequalityduotoundesiredechoesre sultingfromcouplingbetweenloudspeakerandmicro phone.Inastereophonicenvironment,thefunda mentalproblemofechocancellationisthatgiventhe inputtotheloudspeakersandtheoutputofthemicro phonesinthereceivingroom,theechopathcannot bedetermineduniquely[3,8,9].Theproblemisdueto thecorrelationbetweenthestereosignals.Asare sult,anyadaptivetechniqueusedi…     

Design of TakagiSugeno fuzzy model based nonlinear sliding model controller

1.INTRODUCTION Sincethefirstpaperonfuzzysetswaspublished,fuzzy logiccontrol(FLC)hasattractedgreatattentionfrom boththeacademicandindustrialcommunities.Much progresshasbeenmadeinsuccessfullyapplyingFLCto industrialcontrolsystems.Manytheoreticalresultsabout stabilityanalysisanddesignoffuzzylogiccontrollersys temshavealsobeenobtained.Amongvariouskindsoffuzzycontrolmethods,manycontroldesignmethodshavebeenproposedon theTakagi Sugeno(T S)fuzzymodel[1].Thebasic ideaofthesemethodsincludestwos…     

Stability of discrete Hopfield neural networks with delay

1.INTRODUCTION DiscreteHopfieldneuralnetwork(DHNN)isoneof thefamousneuralnetworkswithawiderangeofap plications,suchascontentaddressablememory,pat ternrecognition,andcombinatorialoptimiza tion[1～5].ThestabilityofDHNNmeansthatevery trajectorymustconvergetowardsanequilibrium point,oralimitcycle.Becausethestabilityof DHNNisthefoundationofthenetwork’sapplica tionsandisthemostbasicandimportantproblem,thestabilityanalysisoftheDHNNhasattractedcon siderableinterest.Manyresearchershavefocu…     

MERGING OPTIMALITY CONDITIONS WITH GENETIC ALGORITHM OPERATORS TO SOLVE SINGLE MACHINE TOTAL WEIGHTED TARDINESS PROBLEM

1.Introduction Production sequencing and scheduling is one of the most important activities in production planning and control.Sequencing is defined as the order in which the jobs are processed through the machines.The allocation of machines over time to process a collection of jobs is defined as Scheduling.Several methods have been developed to solve the scheduling problem which can be classified as follows:1)efficient optimal methods,2)implicit and explicit,or complete enumerative methods,a…