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Using spallation neutron sources for defense research
Advanced characterization techniques and accelerated simulation are the cornerstones of the Energy Department`s science-based program to maintain confidence in the safety, reliability, and performance of the US nuclear deterrent in an era of no nuclear testing. Neutrons and protons provided by an accelerator-based facility have an important role to play in this program, impacting several of the key stockpile stewardship and management issues identified by the Department of Defense. Many of the techniques used for defense research at a spallation source have been used for many years for the basic research community, and to a lesser extent by industrial scientists. By providing access to a broad spectrum of researchers with different backgrounds, a spallation source such as the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center is able to promote synergistic interaction between defense, basic and industrial researchers. This broadens the scientific basis of the stockpile stewardship program in the short term and will provide spin-off to industrial and basic research in the longer term
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Development of a gamma ray spectroscopy capability at LANSCE
This is the final report of a one-year, Laboratory Directed Research and Development (LDRD) project at the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL). The goal of this project was to explore an upgrade to the GEANIE high-resolution gamma-ray spectrometer at the Los Alamos Neutron Science Center (LANSCE) to help build additional experimental capabilities. The improvements identified have significantly added to the capabilities of GEANIE and made the facility more attractive for studies supporting the core national security mission as well as for use by outside collaborators. These benefits apply to both basic and applied studies
A Multi-commodity network flow model for cloud service environments
Next-generation systems, such as the big data cloud, have to cope with several challenges, e.g., move of excessive amount of data at a dictated speed, and thus, require the investigation of concepts additional to security in order to ensure their orderly function. Resilience is such a concept, which when ensured by systems or networks they are able to provide and maintain an acceptable level of service in the face of various faults and challenges. In this paper, we investigate the multi-commodity flows problem, as a task within our D 2 R 2 +DR resilience strategy, and in the context of big data cloud systems. Specifically, proximal gradient optimization is proposed for determining optimal computation flows since such algorithms are highly attractive for solving big data problems. Many such problems can be formulated as the global consensus optimization ones, and can be solved in a distributed manner by the alternating direction method of multipliers (ADMM) algorithm. Numerical evaluation of the proposed model is carried out in the context of specific deployments of a situation-aware information infrastructure
Robust architecture for distributed intelligence in an IP-based mobile wide-area surveillance system
On the relation between mathematical and numerical relativity
The large scale binary black hole effort in numerical relativity has led to
an increasing distinction between numerical and mathematical relativity. This
note discusses this situation and gives some examples of succesful interactions
between numerical and mathematical methods is general relativity.Comment: 12 page
Generalized and weighted Strichartz estimates
In this paper, we explore the relations between different kinds of Strichartz
estimates and give new estimates in Euclidean space . In
particular, we prove the generalized and weighted Strichartz estimates for a
large class of dispersive operators including the Schr\"odinger and wave
equation. As a sample application of these new estimates, we are able to prove
the Strauss conjecture with low regularity for dimension 2 and 3.Comment: Final version, to appear in the Communications on Pure and Applied
Analysis. 33 pages. 2 more references adde
Energy dispersed large data wave maps in 2+1 dimensions
In this article we consider large data Wave-Maps from into
a compact Riemannian manifold , and we prove that regularity
and dispersive bounds persist as long as a certain type of bulk
(non-dispersive) concentration is absent. In a companion article we use these
results in order to establish a full regularity theory for large data
Wave-Maps.Comment: 89 page
Strichartz estimates on Schwarzschild black hole backgrounds
We study dispersive properties for the wave equation in the Schwarzschild
space-time. The first result we obtain is a local energy estimate. This is then
used, following the spirit of earlier work of Metcalfe-Tataru, in order to
establish global-in-time Strichartz estimates. A considerable part of the paper
is devoted to a precise analysis of solutions near the trapping region, namely
the photon sphere.Comment: 44 pages; typos fixed, minor modifications in several place
Free Versus Constrained Evolution of the 2+1 Equivariant Wave Map
We compare the numerical solutions of the 2+1 equivariant Wave Map problem
computed with the symplectic, constraint respecting Rattle algorithm and the
well known fourth order Runge-Kutta method. We show the advantages of the
Rattle algorithm for constrained system compared to the free evolution with the
Runge-Kutta method. We also present an expression, which represents the energy
loss due to constraint violation. Taking this expression into account we can
achieve energy conservation for the Runge-Kutta scheme, which is better than
with the Rattle method. Using the symplectic scheme with constraint enforcement
we can reproduce previous calculations of the equivariant case without imposing
the symmetry explicitly, thereby confirming that the critical behaviour is
stable.Comment: 16 pages, 8 figures. Formula for the scaling function on p. 13
corrected and two typos eliminated; otherwise agrees with the published pape
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