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Traveling waves in a fluid layer submitted to a horizontal temperature gradient
We report experimental observations of traveling waves in a pure fluid with a
free surface situated in a long container submitted to a horizontal temperature
gradient perpendicular to its large extension. Above a critical value of the
gradient and depending on the height of liquid a source of waves is
created in the container for small value of while the system exhibits
stationary patterns for larger values of The spatio-temporal properties
of the waves are studied and compared to theoretical predictions. Email
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Fast Basins and Branched Fractal Manifolds of Attractors of Iterated Function Systems
The fast basin of an attractor of an iterated function system (IFS) is the
set of points in the domain of the IFS whose orbits under the associated
semigroup intersect the attractor. Fast basins can have non-integer dimension
and comprise a class of deterministic fractal sets. The relationship between
the basin and the fast basin of a point-fibred attractor is analyzed. To better
understand the topology and geometry of fast basins, and because of analogies
with analytic continuation, branched fractal manifolds are introduced. A
branched fractal manifold is a metric space constructed from the extended code
space of a point-fibred attractor, by identifying some addresses. Typically, a
branched fractal manifold is a union of a nondenumerable collection of
nonhomeomorphic objects, isometric copies of generalized fractal blowups of the
attractor
Approximation of Rough Functions
For given and , we establish
the existence and uniqueness of solutions , to the
equation where , , and . Solutions include well-known nowhere differentiable functions such as
those of Bolzano, Weierstrass, Hardy, and many others. Connections and
consequences in the theory of fractal interpolation, approximation theory, and
Fourier analysis are established.Comment: 16 pages, 3 figure
Automated sirulated distillation using an articulated laboratory robot system
An automated method, based on the Hewlett-Packard ORCA
(Optimized Robot for Chemical Analysis) system, for sample
preparation and analysis of petroleum samples by simulated
distillation (SIMDIS) is described. Results obtained for the
robotically prepared samples show excellent agreement with those
obtained from the same samples prepared manually. The
application, based on ASTM method D 2887, is the foundation
for a more fully automated system that can perform a variety of
SIMDIS samples and methods
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