342 research outputs found
Molecular Dynamics in a Grand Ensemble: Bergmann-Lebowitz model and Adaptive Resolution Simulation
This article deals with the molecular dynamics simulation of open systems
that can exchange energy and matter with a reservoir; the physics of the
reservoir and its interactions with the system are described by the model
introduced by Bergmann and Lebowitz.Despite its conceptual appeal, the model
did not gain popularity in the field of molecular simulation and, as a
consequence, did not play a role in the development of open system molecular
simulation techniques, even though it can provide the conceptual legitimation
of simulation techniques that mimic open systems. We shall demonstrate that the
model can serve as a tool to devise both numerical procedures and conceptual
definitions of physical quantities that cannot be defined in a straightforward
way by systems with a fixed number of molecules. In particular, we discuss the
utility of the Bergmann-Lebowitz (BL) model for the calculation of equilibrium
time correlation functions within the Grand Canonical Adaptive Resolution
method (GC-AdResS) and report numerical results for the case of liquid water.Comment: 31 pages, 6 figure
Is there a third order phase transition for supercritical fluids?
We prove that according to Molecular Dynamics (MD) simulations of liquid
mixtures of Lennard-Jones (L-J) particles, there is no third order phase
transition in the supercritical regime beyond Andrew's critical point. This
result is in open contrast with recent theoretical studies and experiments
which instead suggest not only its existence but also its universality
regarding the chemical nature of the fluid. We argue that our results are solid
enough to go beyond the limitations of MD and the generic character of L-J
models, thus suggesting a rather smooth liquid-vapor thermodynamic behavior of
fluids in supercritical regime.Comment: 13 pages, 6 figure
Identification of second-order kernels in aerodynamics
Volterra series is one of the powerful system identification methods for representing the nonlinear dynamic system behavior. The methods of step response and impulse response are commonly applied to a discrete aerodynamic Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) to identify the first- and second-order Volterra kernels. A critical problem, however, is the difficulty of identifying the second-order Volterra kernels correctly in CFD-based method. In this paper the second-order Volterra kernel function is expanded in terms of Chebyshev functions to reduce the size of the problem and the accuracy of the identification is also improved based on a third-order reduced model of Volterra series
DOI 10.1007/s10463-007-0158-9
Local influence analysis for penalized Gaussian likelihood estimation in partially linear single-index model
Optimization of the Turbulence Model on Numerical Simulations of Flow Field within a Hydrocyclone
Reynolds Stress Model and Large Eddy Simulation are used to respectively perform numerical simulation for the flow field of a hydrocyclone. The three-dimensional hexahedral computational grids were generated. Turbulence intensity, vorticity, and the velocity distribution of different cross sections were gained. The velocity simulation results were compared with the LDV test results, and the results indicated that Large Eddy Simulation was more close to LDV experimental data. Large Eddy Simulation was a relatively appropriate method for simulation of flow field within a hydrocyclone
Estimating Effects of Long-Term Treatments
Estimating the effects of long-term treatments in A/B testing presents a
significant challenge. Such treatments -- including updates to product
functions, user interface designs, and recommendation algorithms -- are
intended to remain in the system for a long period after their launches. On the
other hand, given the constraints of conducting long-term experiments,
practitioners often rely on short-term experimental results to make product
launch decisions. It remains an open question how to accurately estimate the
effects of long-term treatments using short-term experimental data. To address
this question, we introduce a longitudinal surrogate framework. We show that,
under standard assumptions, the effects of long-term treatments can be
decomposed into a series of functions, which depend on the user attributes, the
short-term intermediate metrics, and the treatment assignments. We describe the
identification assumptions, the estimation strategies, and the inference
technique under this framework. Empirically, we show that our approach
outperforms existing solutions by leveraging two real-world experiments, each
involving millions of users on WeChat, one of the world's largest social
networking platforms
Bergmann–Lebowitz model and adaptive resolution simulation
This article deals with the molecular dynamics simulation of open systems that
can exchange energy and matter with a reservoir; the physics of the reservoir
and its interactions with the system are described by the model introduced by
Bergmann and Lebowitz (P G Bergmann and J L Lebowitz 1955 Phys. Rev. 99 578).
Despite its conceptual appeal, the model did not gain popularity in the field
of molecular simulation and, as a consequence, did not play a role in the
development of open system molecular simulation techniques, even though it can
provide the conceptual legitimation of simulation techniques that mimic open
systems. We shall demonstrate that the model can serve as a tool in devising
both numerical procedures and conceptual definitions of physical quantities
that cannot be defined in a straightforward way by systems with a fixed number
of molecules. In particular, we discuss the utility of the Bergmann–Lebowitz
(BL) model for the calculation of equilibrium time correlation functions
within the grand canonical adaptive resolution method (GC-AdResS) and report
numerical results for the case of liquid water
Inductive Graph Transformer for Delivery Time Estimation
Providing accurate estimated time of package delivery on users' purchasing
pages for e-commerce platforms is of great importance to their purchasing
decisions and post-purchase experiences. Although this problem shares some
common issues with the conventional estimated time of arrival (ETA), it is more
challenging with the following aspects: 1) Inductive inference. Models are
required to predict ETA for orders with unseen retailers and addresses; 2)
High-order interaction of order semantic information. Apart from the
spatio-temporal features, the estimated time also varies greatly with other
factors, such as the packaging efficiency of retailers, as well as the
high-order interaction of these factors. In this paper, we propose an inductive
graph transformer (IGT) that leverages raw feature information and structural
graph data to estimate package delivery time. Different from previous graph
transformer architectures, IGT adopts a decoupled pipeline and trains
transformer as a regression function that can capture the multiplex information
from both raw feature and dense embeddings encoded by a graph neural network
(GNN). In addition, we further simplify the GNN structure by removing its
non-linear activation and the learnable linear transformation matrix. The
reduced parameter search space and linear information propagation in the
simplified GNN enable the IGT to be applied in large-scale industrial
scenarios. Experiments on real-world logistics datasets show that our proposed
model can significantly outperform the state-of-the-art methods on estimation
of delivery time. The source code is available at:
https://github.com/enoche/IGT-WSDM23.Comment: 9 pages, accepted to WSDM 202
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