A Newton-like finite element scheme for compressible gas flows

Semi-implicit and Newton-like finite element methods are developed for the stationary compressible Euler equations. The Galerkin discretization of the inviscid fluxes is potentially oscillatory and unstable. To suppress numerical oscillations, the spatial discretization is performed by a high-resolution finite element scheme based on algebraic flux correction. A multidimensional limiter of TVD type is employed. An important goal is the efficient computation of stationary solutions in a wide range of Mach numbers, which is a challenging task due to oscillatory correction factors associated with TVD-type flux limiters. A semi-implicit scheme is derived by a time-lagged linearization of the nonlinear residual, and a Newton-like method is obtained in the limit of infinite CFL numbers. Special emphasis is laid on the numerical treatment of weakly imposed characteristic boundary conditions. Numerical evidence for unconditional stability is presented. It is shown that the proposed approach offers higher accuracy and better convergence behavior than algorithms in which the boundary conditions are implemented in a strong sense.     

Curvature and entropy based wall boundary condition for the high order spectral volume Euler solver

A curvature and entropy based wall boundary condition is implemented in the high order spectral volume (SV) context. This method borrows ideas from the “curvature-corrected symmetry technique” developed by (Dadone A, Grossman B. Surface Boundary Conditions for Compressible Flows. AIAA J 1994; 32(2): 285–93), for a low order structured grid Euler solver. After numerically obtaining the curvature, the right state (by convention, the left state is inside the computational domain and the right state lies outside of the computational domain) face pressure values are obtained by solving a linearised system of equations. This is unlike that of the lower order finite volume and difference simulations, wherein the right state face values are trivial to obtain. The right state face density values are then obtained by enforcing entropy conservation. Accuracy studies show that simulations performed by employing the new boundary conditions deliver much more accurate results than the ones which employ traditional boundary conditions, while at the same time asymptotically reaching the desired order of accuracy. Numerical results for two-dimensional inviscid flows around the NACA0012 airfoil and over a bump with the new boundary condition showed dramatic improvements over those with the conventional approach. In all cases and orders, spurious entropy productions with the new boundary treatment are significantly reduced. In general, the numerical results are very promising and indicate that the approach has a great potential for 3D high order simulations.     

Impacts of essential elements of management on IT application maturity — A perspective from firms in China

This paper explores the impacts of essential elements of management on IT application maturity (ITAM). A game theoretical model is established to show that a firm's IT application maturity should match with its essential elements of management. In order to further validate the analytical result, a data set with 137 firms was collected via a survey instrument. Using reliability and factor analysis on the dataset, a four-dimension measurement construct of IT application maturity is proposed together with a three-dimension measurement construct of essential elements of management. Empirical analysis is then conducted to address research questions on the impacts of essential elements of management on IT application maturity. It is found that while a firm's strategic cooperation capability has no significant effect on IT application maturity, its internal coordination capability positively influences all four dimensions of IT application maturity. For the firm's execution capability, although it shows no significant effect on the overall IT application maturity, it does positively affect the technology and man-machine synergy dimensions of IT application maturity. The findings of this study offer practical guidance for organizations to better align their IT application maturity with essential elements of management.     

常见嵌入式微处理器调试技术综述

嵌入式微处理器通常是非常复杂的系统,因此在设计与实现中就需要能够提高调试质量的调试技术与方法来定位问题的根源,以减少软硬件调试时间和成本。从调试方式、调试原理、接口类型等方面分析了几款常见的嵌入式微处理器的硬件调试方法,并进行了总结与比较。     

二值图像中标定目标区域的几何特征提取

本文论述了采用标答处理对二值图像中感兴趣目标区域的标定方法,给出了几种常用几何形状特征的提取方法,提出了一种通用性较强、便于提高取被选定目标区域的外边界轮廓和几何形状特征的边界跟踪算法。实验表明,该算法对含有洞的区域也是行之有效的。     

包装视觉语言设计表达的整体性研究

随着社会的进步与发展,商品包装已渗透到人们生活的各个领域。人们消费意识和审美意识不断提高的普遍性,给包装设计师提出了更高的要求。本文就商品包装的图形、色彩、文字等视觉语言要素设计,如何做到整体性、统一性及和谐美,进行了全面的分析与论述。结论:只有遵循形式美法则规律,保持统一的和谐整体关系,才能达到对包装设计的视觉语言更完美有效地表达。     

An experiment on the role of graphical elements in architecture visualization

The evolution and maintenance of large-scale software systems requires first an understanding of its architecture before delving into lower-level details. Tools facilitating the architecture comprehension tasks by visualization provide different sets of configurable, graphical elements to present information to their users. We conducted a controlled experiment that exemplifies the critical role of such graphical elements when aiming at understanding the architecture. In our setting, a different configuration of graphical elements had significant influence on program comprehension tasks. In particular, a 63% gain in effectiveness in architectural analysis tasks was achieved simply by changing the configuration of the graphical elements of the same tool. Based on the results, we claim that significant effort should be spent on the configuration of architecture visualization tools and that configurability should be a requirement for such tools.

Convergence analysis of geometrical multigrid methods for solving data-sparse boundary element equations

The convergence analysis of multigrid methods for boundary element equations arising from negative-order pseudo-differential operators is quite different from the usual finite element multigrid analysis for elliptic partial differential equations. In this paper, we study the convergence of geometrical multigrid methods for solving large-scale, data-sparse boundary element equations. In particular, we investigate multigrid methods for \(\mathcal{H}\)-matrices arising from the adaptive cross approximation to the single layer potential operator.     

居住区儿童活动场所景观设计探讨

儿童活动场所的景观作为居住区整体景观形象的重要组成部分,不仅仅是简单的表面美化的设计,更重要的是对居住区儿童生理和心理需求方面的满足。依据以人为本的设计理念,针对当前居住区儿童景观设计的发展情况进行反思与探讨,以期引起更多的人们对于儿童这个特殊群体的关注,创造适宜他们健康成长的场所景观。     

Sparse shape functions for tetrahedral <Emphasis Type="Italic">p</Emphasis>-FEM using integrated Jacobi polynomials

Summary In this paper, we investigate the discretization of an elliptic boundary value problem in 3D by means of the hp-version of the finite element method using a mesh of tetrahedrons. We present several bases based on integrated Jacobi polynomials in which the element stiffness matrix has nonzero entries, where p denotes the polynomial degree. The proof of the sparsity requires the assistance of computer algebra software. Several numerical experiments show the efficiency of the proposed bases for higher polynomial degrees p.