内可逆卡诺热泵的生态学优化性能

本文导出了内可逆卡诺热泵的供热量、供热率和供热系数的耗散量,以反映热泵供热率π与其耗散φ_cT_Lσ,即热泵熵产率σ、低温热源温度T_L和可逆供热系数φ_c乘积之间最佳折衷的“生态学”性能E=π-φ_cT_Lσ为目标,基于牛顿和线性唯象传热定律,研究内可逆卡诺热泵的优化问题,得到最大E性能时的供热系数界限及相应的供热率和熵产率。     

H2可以作为o-H2和p-H2的混合物处理吗? —兼释H2的残余熵

本文阐述了H_2不能作为正氢和仲氢的混合物处理的理由,提出了从光谱熵的定义出发解释H_2的残余熵的方法。     

Q∝T~n时不可逆卡诺热泵的最优性能

非线性传热条件下的内可逆卡诺热机最优性能有了一些讨论,本文将导出不可逆卡诺热泵工作于非线性传热 Q■条件下,最佳供热系数д与泵热率π的关系。据此可确定任意泵热率时所对应的供热系数界限。最后,讨论了这一关系的一些应用,所得结果包含了经典热力学及内可逆线性传热情况下的有关结论,为实际热泵设计提供新的理论依据。     

高速磁悬浮列车电磁场的模拟计算

采用有限元法研究了高速磁悬浮列车的悬浮和推进电磁场,重点研究了车辆在不同运行条件下悬浮力和推力的变化规律,并得出了经验公式。分析和计算结果表明,悬浮力和推力的大小与功角有关,并且由于定子齿槽和材料不连续的影响,悬浮力和推力都存在六倍频的波动。     

Designing a degradation experiment

Degradation experiments are widely used to assess the reliability of highly reliable products which are not likely to fail under the traditional life tests. In order to conduct a degradation experiment efficiently, several factors, such as the inspection frequency, the sample size, and the termination time, need to be considered carefully. These factors not only affect the experimental cost, but also affect the precision of the estimate of a product's lifetime. In this paper, we deal with the optimal design of a degradation experiment. Under the constraint that the total experimental cost does not exceed a predetermined budget, the optimal decision variables are solved by minimizing the variance of the estimated 100pth percentile of the lifetime distribution of the product. An example is provided to illustrate the proposed method. Finally, a simulation study is conducted to investigate the robustness of this proposed method. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 689–706, 1999     

Arrival and departure state distributions in the general bulk‐service queue

In this paper, we give an explicit relation between steady‐state probability distributions of the buffer occupancy at customer entrance and departure epochs, for the classical single‐server system G/G^[N]/1 with batch services and for the finite capacity case. The method relies on level‐crossing arguments. For the particular case of Poisson input, we also express the loss probability in terms of state probabilities at departure epochs, yielding probabilities observed by arriving customers. This work provides the “bulk queue” version of a result established by Burke, who stated the equality between probabilities at arrival and departure epochs for systems with “unit jumps.” © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 107–118, 1999     

Probabilistic analysis of an asymptotically optimal solution for the completion time variance problem

Scheduling a set of n jobs on a single machine so as to minimize the completion time variance is a well‐known NP‐hard problem. In this paper, we propose a sequence, which can be constructed in O(n log n) time, as a solution for the problem. Our primary concern is to establish the asymptotical optimality of the sequence within the framework of probabilistic analysis. Our main result is that, when the processing times are randomly and independently drawn from the same uniform distribution, the sequence is asymptotically optimal in the sense that its relative error converges to zero in probability as n increases. Other theoretical results are also derived, including: (i) When the processing times follow a symmetric structure, the problem has 2^{⌊(n−1)/2⌋} optimal sequences, which include our proposed sequence and other heuristic sequences suggested in the literature; and (ii) when these 2^{⌊(n−1)/2⌋} sequences are used as approximate solutions for a general problem, our proposed sequence yields the best approximation (in an average sense) while another sequence, which is commonly believed to be a good approximation in the literature, is interestingly the worst. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 46: 373–398, 1999     

Single machine sequencing with linear models of release dates

The paper deals with a problem of scheduling a set of jobs on a single machine. Before a job is released for processing, it must undergo some preprocessing treatment that consumes resources. It is assumed that the release date of a job is a linear decreasing continuous function of the amount of a locally and globally constrained, continuously divisible resource (e.g., energy, catalyzer, financial outlay, gas). The problem is to find a sequence of jobs and a resource allocation that will minimize the maximum job completion time. Such a problem appears, for example, in the ingot preheating and hot-rolling process in steel mills. It is shown that the problem is strongly NP-hard. Some polynomially solvable cases of the problem and approximate algorithms with both experimental and worst-case analysis are presented. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 45: 99–113, 1998     

抗滑短桩越顶问题的有限元验证

抗滑短桩是介于抗滑键与全长桩的一种特殊的抗滑桩,由于其较全长桩经济,已在实际工程中应用。云阳县太公沱至余家包库岸大咀段库岸因其下滑推力大、滑面埋深深,采用常规的抗滑桩极其不合理,通过方案比选此滑坡采用长12m的抗滑短桩进行支护。运用有限元强度折减法对设置抗滑短桩后,对滑面是否越过桩顶进行了验证。经计算设置抗滑短桩后滑坡稳定系数为1．25,说明滑坡采用抗滑短桩支护是可行的。     

A computationally efficient approach for determining inventory levels in a capacitated multiechelon production‐distribution system

The system under study is a single item, two‐echelon production‐inventory system consisting of a capacitated production facility, a central warehouse, and M regional distribution centers that satisfy stochastic demand. Our objective is to determine a system base‐stock level which minimizes the long run average system cost per period. Central to the approach are (1) an inventory allocation model and associated convex cost function designed to allocate a given amount of system inventory across locations, and (2) a characterization of the amount of available system inventory using the inventory shortfall random variable. An exact model must consider the possibility that inventories may be imbalanced in a given period. By assuming inventory imbalances cannot occur, we develop an approximation model from which we obtain a lower bound on the per period expected cost. Through an extensive simulation study, we analyze the quality of our approximation, which on average performed within 0.50% of the lower bound. © 2000 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 47: 377–398, 2000