Start-up vortex flow past an accelerated flat plate

Viscous flow past a finite flat plate moving in direction normal to itself is studied numerically.The plate moves with velocity $at^p$, where $p=0,0.5,1,2$. We present the evolution of vorticity profiles, streaklines and streamlines, and study the dependence on the acceleration parameter $p$. Four stages in the vortex evolution, as proposed by Luchini & Tognaccini (2002), are clearly identified. The initial stage, in which the vorticity consists solely of a Rayleigh boundary layer, is shown to last for a time-interval whose length shrinks to zero like $p^3$, as $p \to 0$. In the second stage, a center of rotation develops near the tip of the plate, well before a vorticity maximum within the vortex core develops. Once the vorticity maximum develops, its position oscillates and differs from the center of rotation. The difference between the two increases with increasing $p$, and decreases in time. In the third stage, the center of rotation and the shed circulation closely satisfy self-similar scaling laws for inviscid flow. Finally, in the fourth stage, the finite plate length becomes relevant and the flow begins to depart from the self-similar behaviour. While the core trajectory and circulation closely satisfy inviscid scaling laws, the vorticity maximum and the boundary layer thickness follow viscous scaling laws. The results are compared with experimental results of Pullin & Perry (1980), and Taneda & Honji (1971), where available

Semilocal Convergence Behavior of Halley's Method Using Kantorovich's Majorants Principle

The present paper is concerned with the semilocal convergence problems of Halley's method for solving nonlinear operator equation in Banach space. Under some so-called majorant conditions, a new semilocal convergence analysis for Halley's method is presented. This analysis enables us to drop out the assumption of existence of a second root for the majorizing function, but still guarantee Q-cubic convergence rate. Moreover, a new error estimate based on a directional derivative of the twice derivative of the majorizing function is also obtained. This analysis also allows us to obtain two important special cases about the convergence results based on the premises of Kantorovich and Smale types.Comment: 17 page

Numerical study of viscous starting flow past a flat plate

Viscous flow past a finite plate which is impulsively started in direction normal to itself is studied numerically using a high order mixed finite difference and semi-Lagrangian scheme. The goal is to resolve details of the vorticity generation at early times, and to determine the effect of viscosity on flow quantities such as the core trajectory and vorticity, and the shed circulation. Vorticity contours, streaklines and streamlines are presented for a range of Reynolds numbers $Re \in [250, 2000]$ and a range of times $t \in[0. 0002, 5]$. At early times, most of the vorticity is attached to the plate. The paper proposes a definition for the shed circulation at early as well as late times, and shows that it indeed represents vorticity that separates from the plate without reattaching. The contribution of viscous diffusion to the circulation shedding rate is found to be significant, but, interestingly, to depend only slightly on the value of the Reynolds number. The shed circulation and the vortex core trajectories follow scaling laws for inviscid self-similar flow over several decades in time. Scaling laws describing the core vorticity, core dissipation, boundary layer thickness, drag and lift forces in time and Reynolds number are also presented. The simulations provide benchmark results to evaluate, for example, simpler separation models such as point vortex and vortex sheet models

Energy Efficiency Optimization for MIMO Broadcast Channels

Characterizing the fundamental energy efficiency (EE) limits of MIMO broadcast channels (BC) is significant for the development of green wireless communications. We address the EE optimization problem for MIMO-BC in this paper and consider a practical power model, i.e., taking into account a transmit independent power which is related to the number of active transmit antennas. Under this setup, we propose a new optimization approach, in which the transmit covariance is optimized under fixed active transmit antenna sets, and then active transmit antenna selection (ATAS) is utilized. During the transmit covariance optimization, we propose a globally optimal energy efficient iterative water-filling scheme through solving a series of concave fractional programs based on the block-coordinate ascent algorithm. After that, ATAS is employed to determine the active transmit antenna set. Since activating more transmit antennas can achieve higher sum-rate but at the cost of larger transmit independent power consumption, there exists a tradeoff between the sum-rate gain and the power consumption. Here ATAS can exploit the best tradeoff and thus further improve the EE. Optimal exhaustive search and low-complexity norm based ATAS schemes are developed. Through simulations, we discuss the effect of different parameters on the EE of the MIMO-BC.Comment: submitted for possible publication, 26 pages, 10 figure

Covert Communication with A Full-Duplex Receiver Based on Channel Distribution Information

In this work, we consider a system of covert communication with the aid of a full-duplex (FD) receiver to enhance the performance in a more realistic scenario, i.e., only the channel distribution information (CDI) rather than channel state information (CSI) is known to a warden. Our work shows that transmitting random AN can improve the covert communication with the infinite blocklength. Specifically, we jointly design the optimal transmit power and AN power by minimizing the outage probability at Bob, and we find that the outage probability decreases and then increases as the maximum allowable AN power increases. Intuitively, once AN exceeds an optimal value, the performance will become worse because of the self-interference. The simulation results also show that the performance behaviors of CDI and CSI are different. When Willie only knows CDI, there is an optimal AN power that minimizes Bob's outage probability. However, when Willie knows CSI, the outage probability monotonically decreases with AN power

On Galerkin Approximations for the Zakai Equation with Diffusive and Point Process Observations

This paper studies Galerkin approximations applied to the Zakai equation of stochastic filtering. The basic idea of this approach is to project the infinite-dimensional Zakai equation onto some finite-dimensional subspace generated by smooth basis functions; this leads to a finite-dimensional system of stochastic differential equations that can be solved numerically. The contribution of the paper is twofold. On the theoretical side, existing convergence results are extended to filtering models with observations of point-process or mixed type. On the applied side, various issues related to the numerical implementation of the method are considered; in particular, we propose to work with a subspace that is constructed from a basis of Hermite polynomials. The paper closes with a numerical case study.Comment: 28 pages, 7 figure

On realizing Lov\'asz-optimum orthogonal representation in the real Hilbert space

Quantum contextuality is usually revealed by the non-contextual inequality, which can always be associated with an exclusivity graph. The quantum upper bound of the inequality is nothing but the Lov\'asz number of the graph. In this work, we show that if there is a Lov\'asz-optimum orthogonal representation realized in the $d$-dimensional complex Hilbert space, then there always exists a corresponding Lov\'asz-optimum orthogonal representation in the $(2d-1)$-dimensional real Hilbert space. This in turn completes the proof that the Lov\'asz-optimum orthogonal representation for any exclusivity graph can always be realized in the real Hilbert space of suitable dimension

SCMA based resource management of D2D communications for maximum sum-revenue

The device-to-device (D2D) communication is one of the promising technologies of the future Internet of Things (IoT), but its security-related issues remain challenging. The block-chain is considered to be a secure and reliable distributed ledger, so we can treat the device user equipment (D-UE) request for the reusing resources of cellular user equipment (C-UE) as a transaction and put it into a transaction pool, then package the record into the block-chain. In this paper, we study the D2D communication resource allocation scheme based on sparse code multiple access (SCMA). Firstly, the system's interference model and block-chain-based transaction flow are analyzed. Then we propose the optimization problem so that C-UE can get the maximum revenue by sharing its resources to D-UE. This problem is NP-hard, so we propose a heuristic algorithm based on semi-definite relaxation (SDR) programming to solve it. Finally, the performance of the proposed algorithm is verified by simulation of different system parameters.Comment: This paper was accepted for the WOCC 2019 in Beijin

UAV-Enabled Wireless Power Transfer with Directional Antenna: A Two-User Case

This paper considers an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-enabled wireless power transfer (WPT) system, in which a UAV equipped with a directional antenna is dispatched to deliver wireless energy to charge two energy receivers (ERs) on the ground. Under this setup, we maximize the common (or minimum) energy received by the two ERs over a particular finite charging period, by jointly optimizing the altitude, trajectory, and transmit beamwidth of the UAV, subject to the UAV's maximum speed constraints, as well as the maximum/minimum altitude and beamwidth constraints. However, the common energy maximization is a non-convex optimization problem that is generally difficult to be solved optimally. To tackle this problem, we first ignore the maximum UAV speed constraints and solve the relaxed problem optimally. The optimal solution to the relaxed problem reveals that the UAV should hover above two symmetric locations during the whole charging period, with the corresponding altitude and beamwidth optimized. Next, we study the original problem with the maximum UAV speed constraints considered, for which a heuristic hover-fly-hover trajectory design is proposed based on the optimal symmetric-location-hovering solution to the relaxed problem. Numerical results validate that thanks to the employment of directional antenna with adaptive beamwidth and altitude control, our proposed design significantly improves the common energy received by the two ERs, as compared to other benchmark schemes.Comment: 6 pages, 3 figures, conferenc

First-principles calculations of current-induced spin-transfer torques in magnetic domain walls

Current-induced spin-transfer torques (STTs) have been studied in Fe, Co and Ni domain walls (DWs) by the method based on the first-principles noncollinear calculations of scattering wave functions expanded in the tight-binding linearized muffin-tin orbital (TB-LMTO) basis. The results show that the out-of-plane component of nonadiabatic STT in Fe DW has localized form, which is in contrast to the typical nonlocal oscillating nonadiabatic torques obtained in Co and Ni DWs. Meanwhile, the degree of nonadiabaticity in STT is also much greater for Fe DW. Further, our results demonstrate that compared to the well-known first-order nonadiabatic STT, the torque in the third-order spatial derivative of local spin can better describe the distribution of localized nonadiabatic STT in Fe DW. The dynamics of local spin driven by this third-order torques in Fe DW have been investigated by the Landau-Lifshitz-Gilbert (LLG) equation. The calculated results show that with the same amplitude of STTs the DW velocity induced by this third-order term is about half of the wall speed for the case of the first-order nonadiabatic STT.Comment: 8 pages, 8 figure