The formation of shear shock waves in the brain has been proposed as one of the plausible explanations for deep intracranial injuries. In fact, such singular solutions emerge naturally in soft viscoelastic tissues under dynamic loading conditions. To improve our understanding of the mechanical processes at hand, the development of dedicated computational models is needed. The present study concerns three-dimensional numerical models of incompressible viscoelastic solids whose motion is analysed by means of shock-capturing finite volume methods. More specifically, we focus on the use of the artificial compressibility method, a technique that has been frequently employed in computational fluid dynamics. The material behaviour is deduced from the Fung--Simo quasi-linear viscoelasiticity theory (QLV) where the elastic response is of Yeoh type. We analyse the accuracy of the method and demonstrate its applicability for the study of nonlinear wave propagation in soft solids. The numerical results cover accuracy tests, shock formation and wave diffraction.
The task of bandwidth extension addresses the generation of missing high frequencies of audio signals based on knowledge of the low-frequency part of the sound. This task applies to various problems, such as audio coding or audio restoration. In this article, we focus on efficient bandwidth extension of monophonic and polyphonic musical signals using a differentiable digital signal processing (DDSP) model. Such a model is composed of a neural network part with relatively few parameters trained to infer the parameters of a differentiable digital signal processing model, which efficiently generates the output full-band audio signal. We first address bandwidth extension of monophonic signals, and then propose two methods to explicitely handle polyphonic signals. The benefits of the proposed models are first demonstrated on monophonic and polyphonic synthetic data against a baseline and a deep-learning-based resnet model. The models are next evaluated on recorded monophonic and polyphonic data, for a wide variety of instruments and musical genres. We show that all proposed models surpass a higher complexity deep learning model for an objective metric computed in the frequency domain. A MUSHRA listening test confirms the superiority of the proposed approach in terms of perceptual quality.
This paper describes an exact solution to the drag-based adjoint Euler equations in two and three dimensions that is valid for irrotational flows.
Maximal regularity is a kind of a priori estimates for parabolic-type equations and it plays an important role in the theory of nonlinear differential equations. The aim of this paper is to investigate the temporally discrete counterpart of maximal regularity for the discontinuous Galerkin (DG) time-stepping method. We will establish such an estimate without logarithmic factor over a quasi-uniform temporal mesh. To show the main result, we introduce the temporally regularized Green's function and then reduce the discrete maximal regularity to a weighted error estimate for its DG approximation. Our results would be useful for investigation of DG approximation of nonlinear parabolic problems.
This investigation is firstly focused into showing that two metric parameters represent the same object in graph theory. That is, we prove that the multiset resolving sets and the ID-colorings of graphs are the same thing. We also consider some computational and combinatorial problems of the multiset dimension, or equivalently, the ID-number of graphs. We prove that the decision problem concerning finding the multiset dimension of graphs is NP-complete. We consider the multiset dimension of king grids and prove that it is bounded above by 4. We also give a characterization of the strong product graphs with one factor being a complete graph, and whose multiset dimension is not infinite.
The influence of natural image transformations on receptive field responses is crucial for modelling visual operations in computer vision and biological vision. In this regard, covariance properties with respect to geometric image transformations in the earliest layers of the visual hierarchy are essential for expressing robust image operations and for formulating invariant visual operations at higher levels. This paper defines and proves a joint covariance property under compositions of spatial scaling transformations, spatial affine transformations, Galilean transformations and temporal scaling transformations, which makes it possible to characterize how different types of image transformations interact with each other. Specifically, the derived relations show how the receptive field parameters need to be transformed, in order to match the output from spatio-temporal receptive fields with the underlying spatio-temporal image transformations.
The aim of this paper is twofold. We first provide a new orientation theorem which gives a natural and simple proof of a result of Gao, Yang \cite{GY} on matroid-reachability-based packing of mixed arborescences in mixed graphs by reducing it to the corresponding theorem of Cs. Kir\'aly \cite{cskir} on directed graphs. Moreover, we extend another result of Gao, Yang \cite{GY2} by providing a new theorem on mixed hypergraphs having a packing of mixed hyperarborescences such that their number is at least $\ell$ and at most $\ell'$, each vertex belongs to exactly $k$ of them, and each vertex $v$ is the root of least $f(v)$ and at most $g(v)$ of them.
Capturing the extremal behaviour of data often requires bespoke marginal and dependence models which are grounded in rigorous asymptotic theory, and hence provide reliable extrapolation into the upper tails of the data-generating distribution. We present a modern toolbox of four methodological frameworks, motivated by modern extreme value theory, that can be used to accurately estimate extreme exceedance probabilities or the corresponding level in either a univariate or multivariate setting. Our frameworks were used to facilitate the winning contribution of Team Yalla to the data competition organised for the 13th International Conference on Extreme Value Analysis (EVA2023). This competition comprised seven teams competing across four separate sub-challenges, with each requiring the modelling of data simulated from known, yet highly complex, statistical distributions, and extrapolation far beyond the range of the available samples in order to predict probabilities of extreme events. Data were constructed to be representative of real environmental data, sampled from the fantasy country of "Utopia".
The strong convergence of the semi-implicit Euler-Maruyama (EM) method for stochastic differential equations with non-linear coefficients driven by a class of L\'evy processes is investigated. The dependence of the convergence order of the numerical scheme on the parameters of the class of L\'evy processes is discovered, which is different from existing results. In addition, the existence and uniqueness of numerical invariant measure of the semi-implicit EM method is studied and its convergence to the underlying invariant measure is also proved. Numerical examples are provided to confirm our theoretical results.
We give a new lower bound for the minimal dispersion of a point set in the unit cube and its inverse function in the high dimension regime. This is done by considering only a very small class of test boxes, which allows us to reduce bounding the dispersion to a problem in extremal set theory. Specifically, we translate a lower bound on the size of $r$-cover-free families to a lower bound on the inverse of the minimal dispersion of a point set. The lower bound we obtain matches the recently obtained upper bound on the minimal dispersion up to logarithmic terms.
We study a first-order system formulation of the (acoustic) wave equation and prove that the operator of this system is an isomorphsim from an appropriately defined graph space to L^2. The results rely on well-posedness and stability of the weak and ultraweak formulation of the second-order wave equation. As an application we define and analyze a space-time least-squares finite element method for solving the wave equation. Some numerical examples for one- and two- dimensional spatial domains are presented.