African University of Science and Technology: Recent submissions

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  • A-Three Dimensional Numerical Simulator for Expansion-Drive Reservoirs 

    Ismaila, Nurudeen Dele (2013-05-25)
    Every simulation study is a unique process, starting from the geological model and reservoir description to the final analysis of recovery factor optimizations. In petroleum engineering area, numerical reservoir simulators ...

  • Quantifying Incremental Oil Production and Economics of using Intelligent Completion as a Tool for Reservoir Management 

    Bentil, Nana Esi (2013-05-25)
    Huge amount of hydrocarbon in place is left unrecovered. Integrated reservoir management, in addition to the use of new technologies improves hydrocarbon recovery. Intelligent completion is one of the technologies which ...

  • Directional Drilling Hydraulics Optimization using Conventional and Nanobased Drilling Fluids 

    Babawale, Olatunde Paul (2013-05-25)
    During drilling operations, special attention must be given to wellbore hydraulics to ensure functional, safe, economic, and environmentally responsible delivery of the well. The Hydraulics system shares common purposes ...

  • Viscous effects on the acoustics and stability of a shear layer over an impedance wall 

    Khamis, Doran; Brambley, Edward James (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-01-01)
    The effect of viscosity and thermal conduction on the acoustics in a shear layer above an impedance wall is investigated numerically and asymptotically by solving the linearised compressible Navier–Stokes equations (LNSE). ...

  • Freiman homomorphisms on sparse random sets 

    Conlon, D; Gowers, William Timothy (Oxford University PressQuarterly Journal of Mathematics, 2017-02-03)
    A result of Fiz Pontiveros shows that if $A$ is a random subset of $\mathbb{Z}_N$ where each element is chosen independently with probability $N^{-1/2+o(1)}$, then with high probability every Freiman homomorphism defined ...

  • Mixing efficiency in run-down gravity currents 

    Hughes, GO; Linden, Paul Frederick (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016-12-25)
    This paper presents measurements of mixing efficiency of the two counter-flowing gravity currents created by symmetric lock exchange in a channel. The novel feature of this work is that the buoyancy Reynolds number of the ...

  • L-space intervals for graph manifolds and cables 

    Rasmussen, Sarah Dean (Cambridge University PressCompositio Mathematica, 2017-05)
    We present a graph manifold analog of the Jankins–Neumann classification of Seifert fibered spaces over $S^2$ admitting taut foliations, providing a finite recursive formula to compute the L-space Dehn-filling interval for ...

  • Parallelisation of algorithms 

    Schuilenburg, Alexander Marius (University of Cape TownFaculty of ScienceDepartment of Computer Science, 1990)
    Most numerical software involves performing an extremely large volume of algebraic computations. This is both costly and time consuming in respect of computer resources and, for large problems, often super-computer power ...

  • Multiple instability of layered stratifed plane Couette flow 

    Eaves, Thomas; Caulfield, Colm-cille Patrick (Cambridge University PressJournal of Fluid Mechanics, 2017-02-25)
    We present the linear stability properties and nonlinear evolution of two-dimensional plane Couette flow for a statically stable Boussinesq three-layer fluid of total depth 2$h$ between two horizontal plates driven at ...

  • Tubular free by cyclic groups act freely on CAT(0) cube complexes 

    Button, Jack (Canadian Mathematical SocietyCanadian Mathematical Bulletin, 2017-03-01)
    We identify when a tubular group (the fundamental group of a finite graph of groups with $\mathbb{Z}$$^{2}$ vertex and $\mathbb{Z}$ edge groups) is free by cyclic and show, using Wise's equitable sets criterion, that every ...

  • Aerotaxis in the closest relatives of animals 

    Kirkegaard, Julius Bier; Bouillant, A; Marron, Alan Oliver; Leptos, Kyriacos; Goldstein, Raymond Ethan (eLife Sciences Publications LtdeLife, 2016-11-24)
    As the closest unicellular relatives of animals, choanoflagellates serve as useful model organisms for understanding the evolution of animal multicellularity. An important factor in animal evolution was the increasing ocean ...

  • Nonconvexity of private capacity and classical environment-assisted capacity of a quantum channel 

    Elkouss, D; Strelchuk, Sergii (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review A, 2016-10-17)
    The capacity of classical channels is convex. This is not the case for the quantum capacity of a channel: The capacity of a mixture of different quantum channels exceeds the mixture of the individual capacities and thus ...

  • Lieb's concavity theorem, matrix geometric means, and semidefinite optimization 

    Fawzi, Hamza; Saunderson, J (Linear Algebra and Its Applications, 2017-01-15)
    A famous result of Lieb establishes that the map (A,B)↦tr[K^* A^{1−t}KB^{t}] is jointly concave in the pair (A,B) of positive definite matrices, where K is a fixed matrix and t∈[0,1]. In this paper we show that Lieb's ...

  • Universal diffusion in incoherent black holes 

    Blake, Michael (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2016-10-31)
    We study charge and energy diffusion in simple holographic theories with broken translational symmetry. We find that when the effects of momentum relaxation are very strong the diffusion constants take universal values ...

  • Filter-feeding, near-field flows, and the morphologies of colonial choanoflagellates 

    Kirkegaard, Julius Bier; Goldstein, Raymond Ethan (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics, 2016-11-01)
    Efficient uptake of prey and nutrients from the environment is an important component in the fitness of all microorganisms, and its dependence on size may reveal clues to the origins of evolutionary transitions to ...

  • Elastohydrodynamic synchronization of adjacent beating flagella 

    Goldstein, Raymond Ethan; Lauga, Eric Jean-Marie; Pesci, Adriana Irma; Proctor, Michael Richard (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review Fluids, 2016-11-01)
    It is now well established that nearby beating pairs of eukaryotic flagella or cilia typically synchronize in phase. A substantial body of evidence supports the hypothesis that hydrodynamic coupling between the active ...

  • Exceptional collections, and the Néron–Severi lattice for surfaces 

    Vial, Charles Louis (ElsevierAdvances in Mathematics, 2017-01-10)
    We work out properties of smooth projective varieties X over a (not necessarily algebraically closed) field $\textit{k}$ that admit collections of objects in the bounded derived category of coherent sheaves D$^{b}$(X) that ...

  • Observational constraints on new exact inflationary scalar-field solutions 

    Barrow, John David; Paliathanasis, A (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review D, 2016-10-15)
    An algorithm is used to generate new solutions of the scalar-field equations in homogeneous and isotropic universes. Solutions can be found for pure scalar fields with various potentials in the absence and presence of ...

  • Gaussian tree constraints applied to acoustic linguistic functional data 

    Shiers, Nathaniel; Aston, John Alexander; Smith, Jim Q; Coleman, John S (ElsevierJournal of Multivariate Analysis, 2016-10-11)
    Evolutionary models of languages are usually considered to take the form of trees. With the development of so-called tree constraints the plausibility of the tree model assumptions can be assessed by checking whether the ...

  • On the energy dissipation rate at the inner edge of circumbinary discs 

    Terquem, Caroline; Papaloizou, John Christopher (Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-10-03)
    We study, by means of numerical simulations and analysis, the details of the accretion process from a disc on to a binary system. We show that energy is dissipated at the edge of a circumbinary disc and this is associated ...