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Numerical Simulation of Water Circulation In Marinas of Complex Geometry By A Multi-block Technique
International audienceThis paper presents a finite-volume method for solving the Shallow-Water Equations (SWE) in a curvilinear coordinate system on an arbitrary overlapping composite grids. A multi-block technique is implemented. The academic tests are also presented to validate the proposed technique. A typical application of this technique is the simulation of water circulation in marinas and harbor
Accelerated Data-Flow Analysis
Acceleration in symbolic verification consists in computing the exact effect
of some control-flow loops in order to speed up the iterative fix-point
computation of reachable states. Even if no termination guarantee is provided
in theory, successful results were obtained in practice by different tools
implementing this framework. In this paper, the acceleration framework is
extended to data-flow analysis. Compared to a classical
widening/narrowing-based abstract interpretation, the loss of precision is
controlled here by the choice of the abstract domain and does not depend on the
way the abstract value is computed. Our approach is geared towards precision,
but we don't loose efficiency on the way. Indeed, we provide a cubic-time
acceleration-based algorithm for solving interval constraints with full
multiplication
Applications of Polyhedral Computations to the Analysis and Verification of Hardware and Software Systems
Convex polyhedra are the basis for several abstractions used in static
analysis and computer-aided verification of complex and sometimes mission
critical systems. For such applications, the identification of an appropriate
complexity-precision trade-off is a particularly acute problem, so that the
availability of a wide spectrum of alternative solutions is mandatory. We
survey the range of applications of polyhedral computations in this area; give
an overview of the different classes of polyhedra that may be adopted; outline
the main polyhedral operations required by automatic analyzers and verifiers;
and look at some possible combinations of polyhedra with other numerical
abstractions that have the potential to improve the precision of the analysis.
Areas where further theoretical investigations can result in important
contributions are highlighted.Comment: 51 pages, 11 figure
FORMULAE AND ASYMPTOTICS FOR COEFFICIENTS OF ALGEBRAIC FUNCTIONS
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Research reports: 1987 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program
For the 23rd consecutive year, a NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program was conducted at the Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). The program was conducted by the University of Alabama in Huntsville and MSFC during the period 1 June to 7 August 1987. Operated under the auspices of the American Society for Engineering Education, the MSFC program, as well as those at other NASA Centers, was sponsored by the Office of University Affairs, NASA Headquarters, Washington, D.C. The basic objectives of the program are: (1) to further the professional knowledge of qualified engineering and science faculty members; (2) to stimulate an exchange of ideas between participants and NASA; (3) to enrich and refresh the research and teaching activities of the participant's institutions; and (4) to contribute to the research objectives of the NASA Centers. This document is a compilation of Fellow's reports on their research during the Summer of 1987
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A steady-state model of ecological hierarchy
A generalized mathematical model of ecosystems is
developed. The model begins with the general class of
systems known as state-determined systems, in which the
time-derivative of each state variable is a function of some
subset of the set of all system state variables and
.environmental parameters. A formal basis is presented for
considering the steady-state behavior of such systems in
terms of isoclines, drawing upon the fields of graph theory,
linear algebra, and differential equations.
The simplifying capabilities of hierarchy theory are
invoked to mitigate the adverse effects of model complexity.
Like the theory of isocline analysis, the particular
formulation of hierarchy theory presented is phrased in
graph-theoretic terms, enabling the model to be developed as
a technique for analyzing the steady-state behavior of
hierarchical systems. The role of inter-level time scale
heterogeneity in hierarchical organization is discussed.
As an illustration of its ability to portray the
behavior of spatially-nested hierarchies, the model is used
to provide a perspective on data from the climax vegetation
of the Great Smoky Mountains. The effects of time scale
heterogeneity are also illustrated by using the model to
organize data sets from several vegetation/avian communities
across the United States. The vegetation is taken to behave
with a lower characteristic frequency than the relatively
rapidly-developing avian subcommunity, thus constraining the
latter in a hierarchical fashion.
In order to understand in a more general way the role
such a model might play in advancing ecological
understanding, a broad framework is presented for analyzing
the role of conceptual structures in science and the place
of models in these structures. A view of models as
scientific metaphors is advanced as an alternative to the
pictorial/realist interpretation of models. Given this
understanding of models in general, the proposed model and
its underlying assumptions are compared and contrasted with
a set of four partial conceptual structures drawn from the
fields of systems ecology, plant ecology, natural resource
economics, and organismic systems theory
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