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The analysis of parallel OpenFOAM solver for the heat transfer in electrical power cables
Full text linkProceedings of the First PhD Symposium on Sustainable Ultrascale
Computing Systems (NESUS PhD 2016) Timisoara, Romania. February 8-11, 2016.Here we present the part of results obtained in PhD thesis “The investigation of efficiency of physical phenomena
modelling using differential equations on distributed systems” by Andrej Bugajev. This work is dedicated to development
of mathematical modelling software. While applying a numerical method it is important to take into
account the limited computer resources, the architecture of these resources and how do methods affect software
robustness. Three main aspects of this investigation are that software implementation must be efficient, robust and
be able to utilize specific hardware resources. The hardware specificity in this work is related to distributed computations.
The investigation is done for FVM method usage to implement efficient calculations of a very specific heat
transferring problem. That lets to create technological components that make a software implementation robust
and efficient. OpenFOAM open source software is selected as a basis for implementation of calculations and a
few algorithms to solve efficiency issues are proposed. The FVM parallel solver is implemented and analyzed, it is
adapted to heterogeneous cluster Vilkas.European Cooperation in Science and Technology. COSTThe paper was supported by NESUS project Winter School & PhD Symposium 2016
Stability of the higher-order splitting methods for the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Full text linkThe numerical solution of the generalized nonlinear Schr{\"o}dinger equation by explicit splitting methods can be disturbed by so-called spurious instabilities. They are manifested by the appearance of extraneous spectral peaks which change their position in the frequency domain and disappear with decreasing integration step. The spurious instabilities can coexist with the true physical ones, like modulation instability, in which case they are particularly difficult to detect. We consider an arbitrary multiplicative splitting method and discuss conditions necessary for the absence of spurious instabilities
Going Beyond Counting First Authors in Author Co-citation Analysis
Full text linkThe present study examines one of the fundamental aspects of author co-citation analysis (ACA) - the way co-citation
counts are defined. Co-citation counting provides the data on which all subsequent statistical analyses and mappings
are based, and we compare ACA results based on two different types of co-citation counting - the traditional type that
only counts the first one among a cited work's authors on the one hand and a non-traditional type that takes into
account the first 5 authors of a cited work on the other hand. Results indicate that the picture produced through this non-traditional author co-citation counting contains more coherent author groups and is therefore considerably clearer. However, this picture represents fewer specialties in the research field being studied than that produced through the traditional first-author co-citation counting when the same number of top-ranked authors is selected and analyzed. Reasons for these effects are discussed
Variations on the Author
Full text link“Variations on the Author” discusses two of Eduardo Coutinho’s recent films (Um Dia na Vida, from 2010, and Últimas Conversas, posthumously released in 2015) and their contribution to the general question of documentary authorship. The director’s filmography is characterized by a consistent yet self-effacing form of authorial self-inscription: Coutinho often features as an interviewer that rather than express opinions propels discourses; an interviewer that is good at listening. This mode of self-inscription characterizes him as an author who is not expressive but who is nonetheless markedly present on the screen. In Um Dia na Vida, however, Coutinho is completely absent form the image, while Últimas Conversas, on the contrary, includes a confessional prologue that moves the director from the margins to the center of his films. This article examines the ways in which these works stand out in the filmography of a director who offers new insights into the notion of cinematic authorship
Appropriate Similarity Measures for Author Cocitation Analysis
Full text linkWe provide a number of new insights into the methodological discussion about author cocitation analysis. We first argue that the use of the Pearson correlation for measuring the similarity between authors’ cocitation profiles is not very satisfactory. We then discuss what kind of similarity measures may be used as an alternative to the Pearson correlation. We consider three similarity measures in particular. One is the well-known cosine. The other two similarity measures have not been used before in the bibliometric literature. Finally, we show by means of an example that our findings have a high practical relevance.information science;Pearson correlation;cosine;similarity measure;author cocitation analysis
Dispelling the Myths Behind First-author Citation Counts
Full text linkWe conducted a full-scale evaluative citation analysis study of scholars in the XML research field to explore just how different from each other author rankings resulting from different citation counting methods actually are, and to demonstrate the capability of emerging data and tools on the Web in supporting more realistic citation counting methods. Our results contest some common arguments for the continued
use of first-author citation counts in the evaluation of scholars, such as high correlations between author rankings by first-author citation counts and other citation
counting methods, and high costs of using more realistic citation counting methods that are not well-supported by the ISI databases. It is argued that increasingly available digital full text research papers make it possible for citation analysis studies to go beyond what the ISI databases have directly supported and to employ more
sophisticated methods
Additive splitting methods for the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation
Full text linkSplitting methods provide an efficient approach to solving evolutionary wave equations, especially in situations where dispersive and nonlinear effects on wave propagation can be separated, as in the generalized nonlinear Schrödinger equation (GNLSE). However, such methods are explicit and can lead to numerical instabilities. We study these instabilities in the context of the GNLSE. Results previously obtained for multiplicative splitting methods are extended to additive splittings. An easy-to-use estimate of the largest possible integration step is derived and confirmed by numerical experiments
koamabayili/VECTRON-author-checklist: VECTRON author checklist
No full textWe have done our best to complete the author checklist relating to the use of animals in the hut study. Note that the objective for the hut study was to evaluate the IRS treatment applications for residual efficacy against Anopheles mosquitoes, including the local An. coluzzii mosquito population. Cows were only used to attract mosquitoes into the huts and no tests were carried out directly on the cows. The author checklist is intended for use with studies where experiments are carried out on animals, which is why we have had such difficulty in completing this for the hut study, as many of the questions do not relate to how the cows were used
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