159 research outputs found
Parallel Numerical Simulation of Complex Unsteady Multi-Component Three-Dimensional Flow Field of Nonequilibrium Chemical Reaction
In this paper, the gridless method, which is known for its complete independence of grids, is combined with parallel method to obtain a dynamic parallel multi-component three-dimensional (3D) gridless method to compute the complex unsteady multi-component 3D flow field of nonequilibrium chemical reaction (NCR). Specifically, the flow field was described with a multi-component arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) control equation, which contains the source term of the chemical reaction. The flow term was decoupled from the chemical reaction term, and the stiff problem of the latter term was solved by time splitting. To control the convective flux in the control equation, the multi-component artificially upstream flux vector splitting (AUFS) scheme was derived for the 3D space. In addition, 3D local point cloud reconstruction was carried out to reconstruct the abnormal point cloud near the large moving boundary in real time. Besides, geometrical zoning was adopted for the parallel part to dynamically balance the computing load across different zones. The message passing interface (MPI) was selected to realize the communication between the zones. After that, the proposed multi-component gridless algorithm was proven accurate through two examples: hydrogen combustion reaction in a vessel, and shock-induced combustion with blunt projectile. Finally, the proposed dynamic parallel multi-component 3D gridless method was applied to compute the 3D muzzle flow field of prefilled serial-connected projectiles. The evolution of the complex flow field was obtained for projectile 2. The parallel efficiency of our method surpassed 79%
Discovery of An Active Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Candidate in the Barred Bulgeless Galaxy NGC 3319
We report the discovery of an active intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH)
candidate in the center of nearby barred bulgeless galaxy . The
point X-ray source revealed by archival Chandra and XMM-Newton observations is
spatially coincident with the optical and UV galactic nuclei from Hubble Space
Telescope observations. The spectral energy distribution derived from the
unresolved X-ray and UV-optical flux is comparable with active galactic nuclei
(AGNs) rather than ultra-luminous X-ray sources, although its bolometric
luminosity is only . Assuming an Eddington
ratio range between 0.001 and 1, the black hole mass (M_\rm{BH}) will be
located at , placing it in the so-called
IMBH regime and could be the one of the lowest reported so far. Estimates from
other approaches (e.g., fundamental plane, X-ray variability) also suggest
M_\rm{BH}\lesssim10^5~M_{\odot}.Similar to other BHs in bulgeless galaxies,
the discovered IMBH resides in a nuclear star cluster with mass of
. The detection of such a low-mass BH offers us an
ideal chance to study the formation and early growth of SMBH seeds, which may
result from the bar-driven inflow in late-type galaxies with a prominent bar
such as .Comment: ApJ accepted, 2 tables, 6 figure
Constructing high-order functional connectivity network based on central moment features for diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder
The sliding-window-based dynamic functional connectivity network (D-FCN) has been becoming an increasingly useful tool for understanding the changes of brain connectivity patterns and the association of neurological diseases with these dynamic variations. However, conventional D-FCN is essentially low-order network, which only reflects the pairwise interaction pattern between brain regions and thus overlooking the high-order interactions among multiple brain regions. In addition, D-FCN is innate with temporal sensitivity issue, i.e., D-FCN is sensitive to the chronological order of its subnetworks. To deal with the above issues, we propose a novel high-order functional connectivity network framework based on the central moment feature of D-FCN. Specifically, we firstly adopt a central moment approach to extract multiple central moment feature matrices from D-FCN. Furthermore, we regard the matrices as the profiles to build multiple high-order functional connectivity networks which further capture the higher level and more complex interaction relationships among multiple brain regions. Finally, we use the voting strategy to combine the high-order networks with D-FCN for autism spectrum disorder diagnosis. Experimental results show that the combination of multiple functional connectivity networks achieves accuracy of 88.06%, and the best single network achieves accuracy of 79.5%
Autoencoding a Soft Touch to Learn Grasping from On-land to Underwater
Robots play a critical role as the physical agent of human operators in
exploring the ocean. However, it remains challenging to grasp objects reliably
while fully submerging under a highly pressurized aquatic environment with
little visible light, mainly due to the fluidic interference on the tactile
mechanics between the finger and object surfaces. This study investigates the
transferability of grasping knowledge from on-land to underwater via a
vision-based soft robotic finger that learns 6D forces and torques (FT) using a
Supervised Variational Autoencoder (SVAE). A high-framerate camera captures the
whole-body deformations while a soft robotic finger interacts with physical
objects on-land and underwater. Results show that the trained SVAE model
learned a series of latent representations of the soft mechanics transferrable
from land to water, presenting a superior adaptation to the changing
environments against commercial FT sensors. Soft, delicate, and reactive
grasping enabled by tactile intelligence enhances the gripper's underwater
interaction with improved reliability and robustness at a much-reduced cost,
paving the path for learning-based intelligent grasping to support fundamental
scientific discoveries in environmental and ocean research.Comment: 17 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, submitted to Advanced Intelligent
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