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A Directional Modifier-Adaptation Algorithm for Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Grégory François, Sean Costello

The steady advances of computational methods make model-based optimization an increasingly attractive method for process improvement. Unfortunately, the available models are often inaccurate. The traditional remedy is to update the model parameters, but th ...

Elsevier2016

Environomic design of hybrid electric vehicles

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The improvement of the efficiency of vehicle energy systems promotes an active search to find innovative solutions during the design process. Engineers can use computer-aided processes to find automatically the best design solutions. This kind of approach ...

University of Ljubljana2016

Path to AWAKE: Evolution of the concept

Yiming Li, Hua Zhang, Gennady Plyushchev, Shuai Liu, Frank Zimmermann

This paper describes the conceptual steps in reaching the design of the AWAKE experiment currently under construction at CERN. We start with an introduction to plasma wakefield acceleration and the motivation for using proton drivers. We then describe the ...

Elsevier Science Bv2016

A framework for characterizing RAP clustering in asphalt concrete mixtures

André-Gilles Dumont, Michel Pittet, Sara Bressi, Manfred Partl

Recycled Asphalt Pavement (RAP) is commonly used in asphalt for road rehabilitation or new constructions. Nevertheless, some physical and chemical phenomena that occur during production, laying and compaction of mixtures containing RAP are not yet complete ...

Elsevier Sci Ltd2016

Design methodology for low power RF LNA based on the figure of merit and the inversion coefficient

Christian Enz

The complexity of radiofrequency circuit design comes from the large number of parameters to be adjusted. Constant node shrink in CMOS process and variation of technology skills significantly contribute to this complexity. The paper reports on a reliable a ...

Springer2016

Benziodoxol(on)e Reagents as Tools in Organic Synthesis: The Background behind the Discovery at the Laboratory of Catalysis and Organic Synthesis

Jérôme Waser

In this review, a personal account of our work in the field of hypervalent iodine reagents is presented. Pioneering experiments, which led to the discovery of the exceptional reactivity of EthynynnnlBenziodoXol( on)e (EBX) reagents as electrophilic alkyne ...

2016

The influence of the opening width of check dams on bedload continuity of mountain rivers

Anton Schleiss, Mário Jorge Rodrigues Pereira Da Franca, Sebastian Schwindt

The design of open check dams at mountain rivers for flood protection has an essential impact on the sediment budget of downstream river reaches. A key issue is the bedload transfer hindering and retention which can be influenced by the geometry of the ope ...

2016

Microcontaminant degradation in municipal wastewater treatment plant secondary effluent by EDDS assisted photo-Fenton at near-neutral pH: An experimental design approach

César Pulgarin, Stefanos Papoutsakis

This work aims to evaluate the applicability of EDDS (ethylenediamine-N,N'-disuccinic acid) as an iron chelating agent for photo-Fenton treatment of municipal wastewater spiked with organic contaminants at near-neutral pH. A series of laboratory scale expe ...

Elsevier2015

Enforcing Efficient Equilibria in Network Design Games via Subsidies

Christos Kalaitzis

The efficient design of networks has been an important engineering task that involves challenging combinatorial optimization problems. Typically, a network designer has to select among several alternatives which links to establish so that the resulting net ...

Springer Verlag2015

MATHICSE Technical Report : A certified reduced basis method for PDE-constrained parametric optimization problems by an adjoint-based approach

Andrea Manzoni, Stefano Pagani

In this paper we present a certified reduced basis (RB) framework for the efficient solution of PDE-constrained parametric optimization problems. We consider optimization problems (such as optimal control and optimal design) governed by elliptic PDEs and i ...

MATHICSE2015

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