Resistive organic memory devices based on nitrogen-doped CNTs/PSS composites

Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics - Non-volatile organic memory devices were fabricated using polystyrene sulfonate (PSS)?+?nitrogen-doped multi-walled carbon...     

Influence of radiation and viscous dissipation on MHD heat transfer Casson nanofluid flow along a nonlinear stretching surface with chemical reaction

The present article investigates the influence of Joule heating and chemical reaction on magneto Casson nanofluid phenomena in the occurrence of thermal radiation through a porous inclined stretching sheet. Consideration is extended to heat absorption/generation and viscous dissipation. The governing partial differential equations were transformed into nonlinear ordinary differential equations and numerically solved using the Implicit Finite Difference technique. The article analyses the effect of various physical flow parameters on velocity, heat, and mass transfer distributions. For the various involved parameters, the graphical and numerical outcomes are established. The analysis reveals that the enhancement of the radiation parameter increases the temperature and the chemical reaction parameter decreases the concentration profile. The empirical data presented were compared with previously published findings.     

子集模拟中马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛抽样算法比较

文章着重研究子集模拟中马尔可夫链蒙特卡洛(MCMC)抽样算法的抽样效率与计算精度。首先，阐述可靠度子集模拟的基本原理与中间状态样本生成的各种MCMC抽样算法，在稳态马尔可夫链构造基础上提出延迟拒绝MMH(Modified Metropolis Hasting)算法，通过在MMH算法上增加备选样本的延迟拒绝步提高MMH算法的抽样效率；阐述基于随机游走与基于扩散方程MCMC方法中建议分布的差异，进一步对备选样本接受率为1的preconditioned Crank-Nicolson(pCN)算法和条件抽样(Conditional sampling, CS)算法开展研究，证明两种算法的等价性；推导有效样本量的计算方法，提出采用有效样本量与总样本量的比值定义MCMC方法的抽样效率。通过复杂目标分布的样本生成研究不同MCMC抽样算法建议分布及其参数对备选样本接受率与抽样效率的影响，最后通过计算实例研究子集模拟过程采用不同MCMC抽样算法得到失效概率的相对误差及其变异性，揭示不同MCMC抽样算法对失效概率计算精度的影响。研究表明：不同MCMC抽样算法生成备选样本的接受率及其自相关性受建议分布及其参数影响较大，对于复杂的目标分布，pCN算法和CS算法的抽样效率较高，延迟拒绝MMH算法次之；采用CS算法和延迟拒绝MMH算法进行子集模拟得到的失效概率精度较高且变异性较低；增加子集模拟中间状态样本量可以提高失效概率计算精度并降低其变异性。     

Strength assessment of Al2O3 and MgAl2O4 using micro- and macro-scale biaxial tests

Journal of Materials Science - The application of ceramics in advanced functional applications often requires thicknesses below a few hundred micrometers, rendering an assessment of the...     

Localization of isotropic and anisotropic wireless sensor networks in 2D and 3D fields

Telecommunication Systems - Internet of Things (IoT) has changed the way people live by transforming everything into smart systems. Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) forms an important part of IoT....     

Spatial–Temporal Fusion Based Path Planning for Source Seeking in Wireless Sensor Network

International Journal of Wireless Information Networks - Source seeking problem has been faced in many fields, especially in search and rescue applications. We proposed a virtual structure-based...     

Stabilization for Schrödinger Equation with Internal Damping and Boundary Disturbance

In this paper, the stabilization for Schrödinger equation subject to internal damping and boundary disturbance at the control end is investigated. Due to its immeasurability, the nonlinear observer system is designed to obtain the state information, and the existence of weak solution and its convergence for the nonlinear observer system are proved. The feedback control is realized by the backstepping transformation. In addition, the adaptive disturbance rejection control is applied to estimate the disturbance. According to the observer and disturbance estimation, the feedback control is finally designed to stabilize the system asymptotically.

     

Profiling hot isostatically pressed canister–wasteform interaction for Pu-bearing zirconolite-rich wasteforms

Zirconolite-rich full ceramic wasteforms designed to immobilize Pu-bearing wastes were produced via hot isostatic pressing (HIP) using stainless steel (SS) and nickel (Ni) HIP canisters. A detailed profiling of the elemental compositions of the major and minor phases over the canister–wasteform interaction zone was performed using scanning electron microscopy combined with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDS) characterization. Bulk sample analyses from regions near the center of the HIP canister were also conducted for both samples using X-ray diffraction and SEM-EDS. The sample with the Ni HIP canister showed almost no interaction zone with only minor diffusion of Ni from the inner wall of the canister into the near-surface region of the wasteform. The sample with the SS HIP canister showed ∼100–120 μm of interaction zone dominated by high-temperature Cr diffusion from canister materials to the wasteform with the Cr predominantly incorporated into the durable zirconolite phase. We also examined, for the first time, changes to the HIP canister wall thickness caused by HIPing and demonstrated that no canister wall thinning occurred. Instead, in the areas examined, the canister wall thickness was observed to increase (up to ∼20%) due to the compression occurring during the HIP cycle. Further, only sparse formation of (Cr, Mn)-rich oxide particles were noted within the HIP canister inner wall area immediately adjacent to the ceramic material, with no evidence for reverse diffusion of ceramic materials. Though the HIP canister–wasteform interaction extends to ∼120 μm when using an SS HIP canister for the system investigated, this translates to <<1 vol.% for an industrial scale HIPed wasteform. Importantly, the HIP canister–wasteform interactions did not produce any obviously less durable phases in the wasteform or had any detrimental impact on the HIP canister properties.