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Premixed flame shapes and polynomials
The nonlinear nonlocal Michelson-Sivashinsky equation for isolated crests of
unstable flames is studied, using pole-decompositions as starting point.
Polynomials encoding the numerically computed 2N flame-slope poles, and
auxiliary ones, are found to closely follow a Meixner Pollaczek recurrence;
accurate steady crest shapes ensue for N>=3. Squeezed crests ruled by a
discretized Burgers equation involve the same polynomials. Such explicit
approximate shape still lack for finite-N pole-decomposed periodic flames,
despite another empirical recurrence.Comment: Accepted for publication in Physica D :Nonlinear Phenomen
Interaction Grammars
Interaction Grammar (IG) is a grammatical formalism based on the notion of
polarity. Polarities express the resource sensitivity of natural languages by
modelling the distinction between saturated and unsaturated syntactic
structures. Syntactic composition is represented as a chemical reaction guided
by the saturation of polarities. It is expressed in a model-theoretic framework
where grammars are constraint systems using the notion of tree description and
parsing appears as a process of building tree description models satisfying
criteria of saturation and minimality
Que signifie l'expression « les corps politiques et les corporations » utilisée à l'article 33 du Code de procédure civile du Québec?
à l'aide des rÚgles d'interprétation reconnues relatives aux lois codifiées, aux lois refondues et aux lois bilingues et, suivant la jurisprudence et la doctrine britanniques, l'auteur démontre que l'expression « les corps politiques et les corporations », utilisée à l'article 33 du Code de procédure civile (C.P.C.) du Québec, signifie seulement « les corporations ».Applying the main principles of construction relating to consolidated, codified and bilingual statutes and, following British authorities and doctrine, the author shows that the phrase « les corps politiques et les corporations » (bodies politic and corporate), used in article 33 of the Code of Civil procedure of Quebec, means only « corporations »
Regional Integration and Dynamic Adjustments: Evidence from a Gross National Product Function for Canada and the United States
We propose an empirical trade model to test for structural change and dynamic effects induced by free trade agreements for the Canadian and US economies. We estimated a translog Gross National Product (GNP) function along with output and factor shares and tested for structural change (abrupt or gradual) which is endogenously determined by the data. After this, we estimated Stolper-Samuelson (SS) and Rybcynski (R) elasticities, and assessed the stability of their sign and magnitude link to the structural change. The null hypothesis of no structural change is soundly rejected for both countries. For Canada, we found gradual structural change that started prior to the implementation of CUSTA and lasted for several years. In the US case, we found evidence of an abrupt structural change occurring in 1995, a year after NAFTA came into force. More interestingly, several SS and R elasticities experienced sign reversals and a magnification effect over the different sub-periods, implying that the categorization of goods in terms of friends or enemies of labour and capital changed during the transition.GNP function; regional integration; structural change; smooth transition regression; dynamic adjustments.
Flame Wrinkles From The Zhdanov-Trubnikov Equation
International audienceThe Zhdanov-Trubnikov equation describing wrinkled premixed flames is studied, using pole decomposi tions as starting points. Its one-parameter (â1 0 (over-stabilisation) such analytical solutions can yield accurate flame shapes for 0 < c < 0.6. Open problems are invoked
Wrinkled flames and geometrical stretch
Localized wrinkles of thin premixed flames subject to hydrodynamic
instability and geometrical stretch of uniform intensity (S) are studied. A
stretch-affected nonlinear and nonlocal equation, derived from an inhomogeneous
Michelson-Sivashinsky equation, is used as a starting point, and pole
decompositions are used as a tool. Analytical and numerical descriptions of
isolated (centered or multicrested) wrinkles with steady shapes (in a frame)
and various amplitudes are provided; their number increases rapidly with 1/S >
0. A large constantS > 0 weakens or suppresses all localized wrinkles (the
larger the wrinkles, the easier the suppression), whereasS < 0 strengthens
them; oscillations of S further restrict their existence domain. Self-similar
evolutions of unstable many-crested patterns are obtained. A link between
stretch, nonlinearity, and instability with the cutoff size of the wrinkles in
turbulent flames is suggested. Open problems are evoked
Shapes and speeds of forced premixed flames
Steady premixed flames subjected to space-periodic steady forcing are studied
via inhomogeneous Michelson-Sivashinsky (MS) and then Burgers equations. For
both, the flame slope is posited to comprise contributions from complex poles
to locate, and from a base-slope profile chosen in three classes (pairs of
cotangents, single-sine functions or sums thereof). Base-slope-dependent
equations for the pole locations, along with formal expressions for the
wrinkling-induced flame-speed increment and the forcing function, are obtained
on excluding movable singularities from the latter. Besides exact few-pole
cases, integral equations that rule the pole-density for large wrinkles are
solved analytically. Closed-form flame-slope and forcing-function profiles
ensue, along with flame-speed increment vs forcing-intensity curves; numerical
checks are provided. The Darrieus-Landau instability mechanism allows MS flame
speeds to initially grow with forcing intensity much faster than those of
identically forced Burgers fronts; only the fractional difference in speed
increments slowly decays at intense forcing, which numerical (spectral)
timewise integrations also confirm. Generalizations and open problems are
evoked.Comment: Revised version submitted to Phys. Rev.
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