Return policy: Hassle‐free or your money‐back guarantee?

This article compares the profitability of two pervasively adopted return policies—money‐back guarantee and hassle‐free policies. In our model, a seller sells to consumers with heterogeneous valuations and hassle costs. Products are subject to quality risk, and product misfit can only be observed post‐purchase. While the hassle‐free policy is cost advantageous from the seller's viewpoint, a money‐back guarantee allows the seller to fine‐tune the consumer hassle on returning the product. Thus, when the two return policies lead to the same consumer behaviors, the hassle‐free policy dominates. Conversely, a money‐back guarantee can be more profitable even if on average, high‐valuation consumers experience a lower hassle cost than the low‐valuation ones. The optimal hassle cost can be higher when product quality gets improved; thus, it is not necessarily a perfect proxy or signal of the seller's quality. We further allow the seller to adopt a mixture of these policies, and identify the concrete operating regimes within which these return policies are optimal among more flexible policies. © 2014 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Naval Research Logistics 61: 403–417, 2014     

数值模拟气/气喷嘴速度比对燃烧性能的影响

为研究应用于全流量补燃循环发动机的不同气/气喷嘴得到的燃烧流场,通过求解NavierStokes方程组,对不同燃料与氧化剂速度比下的流动燃烧过程进行了数值计算,计算结果与实验结果吻合。仿真结果表明:增加速度比能使燃烧火焰面提前,燃烧效率变大。如果发动机的长度受到限制,可以适当增加速度比以实现高效燃烧。     

液压平衡式发射装置自航发射内弹道模型与仿真

基于装备情况,探讨了潜艇液压平衡式发射装置自航发射鱼雷的可行方案,并建立了后端自流补水的自航发射方式的内弹道模型,进行了计算机仿真。通过试验结果描述鱼雷螺旋桨工作特性,分析了自航发射鱼雷出管速度偏低的原因,并提出改进措施。     

基于协同仿真技术的制退机故障规律研究

制退机是反后坐装置的重要组成部分,它性能的好坏直接关系到火炮战斗力的发挥,为了研究制退机发生故障对火炮后坐运动产生的影响,对制退机故障进行了分析,运用计算流体力学理论和协同仿真技术,建立了制退机MATLAB/FLUENT协同仿真模型,解决了传统火炮后坐计算模型的局限性,与传统计算模型相比,提高了计算精度,得到了制退机内部瞬态流场参数。通过对节制环磨损典型故障进行仿真研究,分析了节制环在不同磨损程度下对火炮后坐运动的影响规律,并对节制环局部压力分布情况进行了简要解析,为进一步对制退机性能退化规律分析研究提供了有效途径。     

舰炮火控雷达实测误差时序特性分析建模

针对舰炮火控雷达高精度实时仿真建模的问题,运用高斯分布和正态平稳过程的两种误差序列生成方法,建立火控雷达简化仿真模型。通过对某火控雷达实测数据误差的统计及时序相关性分析,完成误差序列仿真生成与验证,给出了实现舰炮火控雷达探测误差仿真的优选方法。实践证明,正态平稳模型的误差生成方法可以有效满足新型舰炮仿真试验火控雷达建模要求。     

反舰导弹攻防对抗仿真系统研究

针对信息化海战下导弹攻防对抗仿真的迫切需求,面向作战使用人员(作战视图)、科研院所对抗技术研究人员(技术视图)和装备研制机构及相关技术人员(装备视图),采用数字仿真技术与注入式仿真技术相结合的方式,构建一个以导弹攻防体系对抗装备(或技术手段)的功能数学仿真模型为核心,以直接信号注入技术为仿真验证手段的反舰导弹攻防对抗仿真系统,为反舰导弹的作战使用和电子对抗战术运用提供了一个开放式的研究与训练平台.     

对典型结构弹体的电磁耦合规律数值分析

为了研究某型弹体的电磁耦合规律,利用电磁仿真软件FEKO建立弹体模型.研究得到:在弹体内部腔体存在谐振频点,存在电磁耦合场的增强区域;引信内部存在谐振频点,存在电磁耦合场的增强区域;弹体与引信壳体的屏蔽效能随频率变化的规律.     

On the Determinants of Terrorism Risk Concern in Europe

We investigate whether differences in terrorism risk are mirrored on terrorism risk perception across European countries for the period 2003–2007. We find that the average propensity for terrorism risk concern is affected by actual risk levels. Country and individual heterogeneity contribute substantially to the variation of observed risk perception. Singles and individuals with white collar jobs are less likely to mention terrorism as one of the most pressing issues their country faces, while political positioning towards the right makes it more likely to be concerned about terrorism. As far as competing risks are concerned, we find that the likelihood terrorism is mentioned, decreases with spending on pensions as a percentage of GDP being higher. Finally, based on the Bayesian framework, we also examined the formation of terrorism risk perceptions, and decompose the observed country-level time series of terrorism activity into a long- and a short-run component. We concluded that the observed risk perception variation is only explained by the long-term trend of terrorism activity countries face.     

Al粉对硝化甘油分解释放NO_2的影响

为研究硝化甘油中加入Al粉对NO2释放的影响,运用计算化学分子模拟手段对两者共存条件下的相关反应进行初步分析.试验结果表明,在硝化甘油中加入Al粉,将会降低硝化甘油分解反应的难度,同时放出大量的热.     

基于HLA-Virtools的某型便携式防空导弹武器系统仿真平台研究

针对武器系统模拟训练平台研发周期长、系统逼真度和沉浸感较差等问题,提出了基于分布交互仿真高层体系结构(HLA)与虚拟现实开发平台(Virtools)相结合的设计方法.在给出某型便携式防空导弹武器系统仿真平台的总体设计后,针对该仿真系统设计中的关键技术进行了深入探究,基于此方法设计了某型便携式防空导弹武器系统的仿真平台.