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From Models to Simulations
This book analyses the impact computerization has had on contemporary science and explains the origins, technical nature and epistemological consequences of the current decisive interplay between technology and science: an intertwining of formalism, computation, data acquisition, data and visualization and how these factors have led to the spread of simulation models since the 1950s.
Using historical, comparative and interpretative case studies from a range of disciplines, with a particular emphasis on the case of plant studies, the author shows how and why computers, data treatment devices and programming languages have occasioned a gradual but irresistible and massive shift from mathematical models to computer simulations
Examining the stability derivatives of a compound helicopter
Some helicopter manufacturers are exploring the compound helicopter design as it could potentially satisfy the new emerging requirements placed on the next generation of rotorcraft. It is well understood that the main benefit of the compound helicopter is its ability to reach speeds that significantly surpass the conventional helicopter. However, it is possible that the introduction of compounding may lead to a vehicle with significantly different flight characteristics when compared to a conventional helicopter. One method to examine the flight dynamics of an aircraft is to create a linearised mathematical model of the aircraft and to investigate the stability derivatives of the vehicle. The aim of this paper is to examine the stability derivatives of a compound helicopter through a comparison with a conventional helicopter. By taking this approach, some stability, handling qualities and design issues associated with the compound helicopter can be identified. The paper features a conventional helicopter and a compound helicopter. The conventional helicopter is a standard design, featuring a main rotor and a tail-rotor. The compound helicopter configuration features both lift and thrust compounding. The wing offloads the main rotor at high speeds, whereas two propellers provide additional propulsive thrust as well as yaw control. The results highlight that the bare airframe compound helicopter would require a larger tailplane surface to ensure acceptable longitudinal handling qualities in forward flight. In addition, without increasing the size of the bare airframe compound helicopter’s vertical fin, the Dutch roll mode satisfies the ADS-33 level 1 handling qualities category for the majority of the flight envelope
Multistage Voting Model with Alternative Elimination
The voting process is formalized as a multistage voting model with successive
alternative elimination. A finite number of agents vote for one of the
alternatives each round subject to their preferences. If the number of votes
given to the alternative is less than a threshold, it gets eliminated from the
game. A special subclass of repeated games that always stop after a finite
number of stages is considered. Threshold updating rule is proposed. A computer
simulation is used to illustrate two properties of these voting games
Expansion of Iterated Stratonovich Stochastic Integrals of Multiplicity 2. Combined Approach Based on Generalized Multiple and Iterated Fourier Series
The article is devoted to the expansion of iterated Stratonovich stochastic
integrals of multiplicity 2 on the base of the combined approach of generalized
multiple and iterated Fourier series. We consider two different parts of the
expansion of iterated Stratonovich stochastic integrals. The mean-square
convergence of the first part is proved on the base of generalized multiple
Fourier series converging in the mean-square sense in the space The mean-square convergence of the second part is proved on the base of
generalized iterated (double) Fourier series converging pointwise. At that, we
prove the iterated limit transition for the second part of the expansion on the
base of the classical theorems of mathematical analysis. The results of the
article can be applied to the numerical integration of Ito stochastic
differential equations.Comment: 18 pages. Sect. 3 was added. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1801.05654, arXiv:1801.00784, arXiv:1801.01564, arXiv:1712.09746,
arXiv:1801.03195, substantial text overlap with arXiv:1712.0951
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