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Investigating Motivational and Cognitive Factors which Impact the Success of Engineering Students
(2021-02-06)
Engineering students particularly struggle with mathematics in the first year of their university studies. A result of these difficulties are high drop-out rates among the engineering students. There are various measures to support the students in their studies such as preparatory courses or bridging courses. The contribution of this research is to investigate the impact of certain factors on engineering students’ success in their first year of studies in a supportive environment which includes a preparatory course, ...
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Numerical Simulation of Viscoelastic Fluid‐Structure Interaction Problems and Drug Therapy in the Eye
(2021-01-25)
The vitreous is a fluid‐like viscoelastic transparent medium located in the center of the human eye and is surrounded by hyperelastic structures like the sclera, lens and iris. This naturally gives rise to a fluid‐structure interaction (FSI) problem. While the healthy vitreous is viscoelastic and described by a viscoelastic Burgers‐type equation, the aging vitreous liquefies and is therefore modeled by the Navier‐Stokes equations. We derive a monolithic variational formulation employing the arbitrary Lagrangian ...
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Derivation of Analytical, Closed‐form Formulas for the Calculations of Instantaneous Screw Axes of Arbitrary Rigid 3D Multi‐Body Systems
(2021-01-25)
A method to calculate the parameters for each instantaneous and relative instantaneous screw axis in an arbitrary rigid multi‐body system is presented. At first a kinematic analysis is performed which calculates the displacements of all nodes and the rotation of each body. In the next step the displacements of the nodes and the rotation of the bodies are used to calculate the instantaneous screw axis of each body. With the information on the instantaneous screw axes the instantaneous relative screw axes can be computed ...
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On the appearance of horseshoe chaos in a nonlinear hysteretic systems with negative stiffness
(2021-09-16)
The problem of inhibition of horseshoe chaos in a nonlinear hysteretic systems using negative stiffness is investigated in this paper. The Bouc–Wen model is used to describe the force produced by both the purely hysteretic and linear elastic springs. The analytical investigation of the Hamiltonian shows that the appearance of separatrix in the system is directly related to the parameters of the hysteretic forces. This means that the transverse intersection between the perturbed and unperturbed separatrix can be ...
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Fourier Analysis of DG Schemes for Advection‐Diffusion
(2021-01-25)
This work compares the wave propagation properties of discontinuous Galerkin (DG) schemes for advection‐diffusion problems in particular with respect to the discretization of diffusion terms. Extending previous investigations, the advection discretization now additionally varies between the choices of central or upwind fluxes. The results show that a previously recognized better performance of central schemes for well‐resolved problems only hold for even polynomial degrees and that upwind‐type discretizations also ...
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A Study of Extensions of Classical Summation Theorems for the Series ₃F₂ and ₄F₃ with Applications
(2021-03-16)
Very recently, Masjed-Jamei & Koepf [Some summation theorems for generalized hypergeometric functions, Axioms, 2018, 7, 38, 10.3390/axioms 7020038] established some summation theorems for the generalized hypergeometric functions. The aim of this paper is to establish extensions of some of their summation theorems in the most general form. As an application, several Eulerian-type and Laplace-type integrals have also been given. Results earlier obtained by Jun et al. and Koepf et al. follow special cases of our main findings.
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Efficient Solution of Distributed MIP in Control of Networked Systems
(2021-01-25)
Certain classes of optimization‐based control problems stated for networked systems involving hybrid dynamics and logical constraints can be cast into Mixed‐Integer Programming (MIP) problems. Since these belong to the complexity class NP‐hard, the motivation arises to find approximations of the optimal solution by distributed solution efficiently. For the cases that the cost functional is linear or quadratic and the constraints are linear, this paper proposes an alternative to the standard centralized schemes, by ...