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Morphology and Orientation Selection of Non-Metallic Inclusions in Electrified Molten Metal
The effect of electric current on morphology and orientation selection of non-metallic inclusions in molten metal has been investigated using theoretical modelling and numerical calculation. Two geometric factors, namely the circularity (fc) and alignment ratio (fe) were introduced to describe the inclusions shape and configuration. Electric current free energy was calculated and the values were used to determine the thermodynamic preference between different microstructures. Electric current promotes the development of inclusion along the current direction by either expatiating directional growth or enhancing directional agglomeration. Reconfiguration of the inclusions to reduce the system electric resistance drives the phenomena. The morphology and orientation selection follows the routine to reduce electric free energy. The numerical results are in agreement with our experimental observations
A test of the power law relationship between gamma-ray burst pulse width ratio and energy expected in fireballs or uniform jets
Recently, under the assumption that the Doppler effect of the
relativistically expanding fireball surface is important, Qin et al. showed
that in most cases the power law relationship between the pulse width and
energy of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs)would exist in a certain energy range. We
check this prediction with two GRB samples which contain well identified
pulses. A power law anti-correlation between the full pulse width and energy
and a power law correlation between the pulse width ratio and energy are seen
in the light curves of the majority (around 65%) of bursts of the two samples
within the energy range of BATSE, suggesting that these bursts are likely to
arise from the emission associated with the shocks occurred on a
relativistically expanding fireball surface. For the rest of the bursts, the
relationships between these quantities were not predicted previously. We
propose to consider other spectral evolutionary patterns or other radiation
mechanisms such as a varying synchrotron or Comptonized spectrum to check if
the observed relationships for these rest bursts can also be accounted for by
the Doppler model. In addition, we find that the upper limits of the width
ratio for the two samples do not exceed 0.9, in agrement with what predicted
previously by the Doppler model. The plateau/power law/plateau and the peaked
features predicted and detected previously by Qin et al. are generally
observed, with the exceptions being noticed only in a few cases. According to
the distinct values of two power law indices of FWHM and ratio and energy, we
divide the bursts into three subsets which are located in different areas of
the two indices plane. We suspect that different locations of the two indices
might correspond to different mechanisms.Comment: 16 pages, 7 figures, MNRAS accepte
Contract & Expand: I/O Efficient SCCs Computing
As an important branch of big data processing, big graph processing is becoming increasingly popular in recent years. Strongly connected component (SCC) computation is a fundamental graph operation on directed graphs, where an SCC is a maximal subgraph S of a directed graph G in which every pair of nodes is reachable from each other in S. By contracting each SCC into a node, a large general directed graph can be represented by a small directed acyclic graph (DAG). In the literature, there are I/O efficient semi-external algorithms to compute all SCCs of a graph G, by assuming that all nodes of a graph G can fit in the main memory. However, many real graphs are large and even the nodes cannot reside entirely in the main memory. In this paper, we study new I/O efficient external algorithms to find all SCCs for a directed graph G whose nodes cannot fit entirely in the main memory. To overcome the deficiency of the existing external graph contraction based approach that usually cannot stop in finite iterations, and the external DFS based approach that will generate a large number of random I/Os, we explore a new contraction-expansion based approach. In the graph contraction phase, instead of contracting the whole graph as the contraction based approach, we only contract the nodes of a graph, which are much more selective. The contraction phase stops when all nodes of the graph can fit in the main memory, such that the semi-external algorithm can be used in SCC computation. In the graph expansion phase, as the graph is expanded in the reverse order as it is contracted, the SCCs of all nodes in the graph are computed. Both graph contraction phase and graph expansion phase use only I/O efficient sequential scans and external sorts of nodes/edges in the graph. Our algorithm leverages the efficiency of the semi-external SCC computation algorithm and usually stops in a small number of iterations. We further optimize our approach by reducing the size of nodes and edges of the contracted graph in each iteration. We conduct extensive experimental studies using both real and synthetic web-scale graphs to confirm the I/O efficiency of our approaches. © 2014 IEEE
Relationship between the gamma-ray burst pulse width and energy due to the Doppler effect of fireballs
We study in details how the pulse width of gamma-ray bursts is related with
energy under the assumption that the sources concerned are in the stage of
fireballs. Due to the Doppler effect of fireballs, there exists a power law
relationship between the two quantities within a limited range of frequency.
The power law range and the power law index depend strongly on the observed
peak energy as well as the rest frame radiation form, and the upper and
lower limits of the power law range can be determined by . It is found
that, within the same power law range, the ratio of the of the rising
portion to that of the decaying phase of the pulses is also related with energy
in the form of power laws. A platform-power-law-platform feature could be
observed in the two relationships. In the case of an obvious softening of the
rest frame spectrum, the two power law relationships also exist, but the
feature would evolve to a peaked one. Predictions on the relationships in the
energy range covering both the BATSE and Swift bands for a typical hard burst
and a typical soft one are made. A sample of FRED (fast rise and exponential
decay) pulse bursts shows that 27 out of the 28 sources belong to either the
platform-power-law-platform feature class or the peaked feature group,
suggesting that the effect concerned is indeed important for most of the
sources of the sample. Among these bursts, many might undergo an obvious
softening evolution of the rest frame spectrum.Comment: Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journa
When Engagement Meets Similarity: Efficient (k, r)-Core Computation on Social Networks.
In this paper, we investigate the problem of (k,r)-core which intends to find
cohesive subgraphs on social networks considering both user engagement and
similarity perspectives. In particular, we adopt the popular concept of k-core
to guarantee the engagement of the users (vertices) in a group (subgraph) where
each vertex in a (k,r)-core connects to at least k other vertices. Meanwhile,
we also consider the pairwise similarity between users based on their profiles.
For a given similarity metric and a similarity threshold r, the similarity
between any two vertices in a (k,r)-core is ensured not less than r. Efficient
algorithms are proposed to enumerate all maximal (k,r)-cores and find the
maximum (k,r)-core, where both problems are shown to be NP-hard. Effective
pruning techniques significantly reduce the search space of two algorithms and
a novel (k,k')-core based (k,r)-core size upper bound enhances performance of
the maximum (k,r)-core computation. We also devise effective search orders to
accommodate the different nature of two mining algorithms. Comprehensive
experiments on real-life data demonstrate that the maximal/maximum (k,r)-cores
enable us to find interesting cohesive subgraphs, and performance of two mining
algorithms is significantly improved by proposed techniques
Efficiently reinforcing social networks over user engagement and tie strength
© 2018 IEEE. User engagement and tie strength are fundamental and important components in social networks. The model of k-Truss not only captures actively engaged users, but also ensures strong tie strength among these users. It motivates us to utilize the model of k-Truss in preventing network unraveling, which simultaneously considers both of the basic components. In this paper, we propose and investigate the anchored k-Truss problem to reinforce a network by anchoring critical users who can significantly stop the unraveling. We prove the problem is NP-hard for k ≥ 4. A fast edge deletion order based algorithm, named AKT, is proposed with efficient candidate exploration and pruning techniques based on the order. Comprehensive experiments on 10 real-life graphs demonstrate the effectiveness of our model and the efficiency of our methods
Reversal of Thermal Rectification in Quantum Systems
We study thermal transport in anisotropic Heisenberg spin chains using the
quantum master equation. It is found that thermal rectification changes sign
when the external homogeneous magnetic field is varied. This reversal also
occurs when the magnetic field becomes inhomogeneous. Moreover, we can tune the
reversal of rectification by temperatures of the heat baths, the anisotropy and
size of the spin chains.Comment: 4 pages, 7 figure
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