African University of Science and Technology: Recent submissions

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  • Investigating prominence turbulence with Hinode SOT Dopplergrams 

    Hillier, Andrew Stephen; Matsumoto, T; Ichimoto, K (EDP SciencesAstronomy & Astrophysics, 2016-10-10)
    Quiescent prominences host a diverse range of flows, including Rayleigh-Taylor instability driven upflows and impulsive downflows, and so it is no surprise that turbulent motions also exist. As prominences are believed to ...

  • A model for the effects of germanium on silica biomineralization in choanoflagellates 

    Marron, Alan Oliver; Chappell, Helen; Ratcliffe, Sarah; Goldstein, Raymond Ethan (Royal Society PublishingJournal of the Royal Society Interface, 2016-09-21)
    Silica biomineralization is a widespread phenomenon of major biotechnological interest. Modifying biosilica with substances like germanium (Ge) can confer useful new properties, although exposure to high levels of Ge ...

  • Instabilities of interacting vortex rings generated by an oscillating disk 

    Deng, Jian; Teng, Lubao; Caulfield, Colm-cille Patrick; Mao, Xuerui (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review E, 2016-09-14)
    We propose a natural model to probe in a controlled fashion the instability of interacting vortex rings shed from the edge of an oblate spheroid disk of major diameter $\textit{c}$, undergoing oscillations of frequency ...

  • Bulk eigenvalue statistics for random regular graphs 

    Bauerschmidt, Roland; Huang, Jiaoyang; Knowles, Antti; Yau, Horng-Tzer (Institute of Mathematical StatisticsAnnals of Probability, 2016)
    We consider the uniform random d-regular graph on N vertices, with d ∈ [N$^{\alpha}$,N$^{2/3−\alpha}$] for arbitrary α > 0. We prove that in the bulk of the spectrum the local eigenvalue correlation functions and the ...

  • Homogeneous Monge-Amp$\grave e$re Equations and Canonical Tubular Neighbourhoods in Kähler Geometry 

    Ross, Julius Andrew; Nyström, David Witt (Oxford University PressInternational Mathematics Research Notices, 2016)
    We prove the existence of canonical tubular neighbourhoods around complex submanifolds of Kähler manifolds that are adapted to both the holomorphic and symplectic structure. This is done by solving the complex Homogeneous ...

  • Particle-Vortex Duality from 3D Bosonization 

    Karch, Andreas; Tong, David (American Physical SocietyPhysical Review X, 2016-09-19)
    We show how particle-vortex duality in $d$ = 2 + 1 dimensions arises as part of an intricate web of relationships between different field theories. The starting point is “bosonization,” a conjectured duality that uses flux ...

  • Bio-inspired canopies for the reduction of roughness noise 

    Clark, IA; Daly, CA; Devenport, W; Alexander, WN; Peake, Nigel; Jaworski, JW; Glegg, S (ElsevierJournal of Sound and Vibration, 2016-12-22)
    This work takes inspiration from the structure of the down covering the flight feathers of larger species of owls, which contributes to their ability to fly almost silently at frequencies above 1.6 kHz. Microscope photographs ...

  • Data processing for the sandwiched Rényi divergence: a condition for equality 

    Leditzky, Felix; Rouzé, Cambyse; Datta, Nilanjana (SpringerLetters in Mathematical Physics, 2016)
    The $\alpha$-sandwiched Rényi divergence satisfies the data processing inequality, i.e. monotonicity under quantum operations, for $\alpha$ $\geq$ 1/2. In this article, we derive a necessary and sufficient algebraic condition ...

  • SMOOTH PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS OVER TWO-DIMENSIONAL MANIFOLDS WITH AN APPLICATION TO NEUROIMAGING 

    Lila, Eardi; Aston, John Alexander; Sangalli, Laura M (Institute of Mathematical StatisticsThe Annals of Applied Statistics, 2016-01-05)
    Motivated by the analysis of high-dimensional neuroimaging signals located over the cortical surface, we introduce a novel Principal Component Analysis technique that can handle functional data located over a two-dimensional ...

  • Level lines of the Gaussian free field with general boundary data 

    Powell, Ellen
    We study the level lines of a Gaussian free field in a planar domain with general boundary data F. We show that the level lines exist as continuous curves under the assumption that F is regulated (i.e., admits finite left ...

  • On the formation of a quasi-stationary twisted disc after a tidal disruption event 

    Xiang-Gruess, M; Ivanov, PB; Papaloizou, John Christopher (Oxford University PressMonthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 2016-08-24)
    We investigate misaligned accretion discs formed after tidal disruption events that occur when a star encounters a supermassive black hole. We employ the linear theory of warped accretion discs to find the shape of a disc ...

  • Asymptotics of Partial Density Functions for Divisors 

    Ross, Julius; Singer, Michael (SpringerThe Journal of Geometric Analysis, 2016-09-19)
    We study the asymptotic behaviour of the partial density function associated to sections of a positive hermitian line bundle that vanish to a particular order along a fixed divisor $Y$ . Assuming the data in question is ...

  • Unstable mode solutions to the Klein-Gordon equation in Kerr-anti-de Sitter spacetimes 

    Dold, Dominic (SpringerCommunications in Mathematical Physics, 2016)
    For any cosmological constant Λ = −3/$l^2$ < 0 and any $\alpha$ < 9/4, we find a Kerr-AdS spacetime ($M$, $g_{KAdS}$), in which the Klein-Gordon equation $\square g_{KAdS}$ ψ+$\alpha$/$l^2$ψ = 0 has an exponentially growing ...

  • Flowtune: Flowlet Control for Datacenter Networks 

    Unknown author (2016-08-15)
    Rapid convergence to a desired allocation of network resources to endpoint traffic has been a long-standing challenge for packet-switched networks. The reason for this is that congestion control decisions are distributed ...

  • Isometric disks are holomorphic 

    Antonakoudis, Stergios (SpringerInventiones mathematicae, 2016-10-05)
    This paper shows that every totally-geodesic isometry from the unit disk to a finite-dimensional Teichmüller space for the intrinsic Kobayashi metric is either holomorphic or anti-holomorphic; in particular, it is a ...

  • Impact of aperture separation on wind-driven single-sided natural ventilation 

    Daish, Nicholas Charles; Carrilho da Graça, G; Linden, Paul Frederick; Banks, D (ElsevierBuilding and Environment, 2016-11-01)
    This paper presents a study of the impact of horizontal aperture separation in single-sided ventilation flows with two apertures (SS2). The study is based on wind tunnel measurements and dimensional analysis. The results ...

  • Adaptive Learning Framework 

    Mubarak, Sani Ibrahim (2016-06-15)
    Many Institutions offer on-line courses to people from all around the world. Learning Management Systems provides a convenient learning environment for on-line courses. Each learner has individual needs and characteristics ...

  • A Cloud-Based Java Compiler for Smart Devices 

    Mohammed, Tanko Yahaya (2016-06-15)
    The Java programming language is widely used in industry and business. Therefore, academic institutions worldwide include Java learning as a basic part of their Computer Science and Engineering curricula. At the same time, ...

  • Group Mutual Exclusion in Opportunistic Network 

    Asulba, Barikisu Ahmed (2016-06-15)
    The Opportunistic network is an interesting development in the Mobile Ad hoc Network (MANET) environment. It has no end-to-end connectivity among nodes. Unlike MANETs, the nodes in Opportunistic network are independent on ...

  • Generic Animation Tool for Traffic Simulation 

    Olayiwola, Joy Ugonna (2016-06-15)
    Traffic simulation has become one of the most used approaches for traffic analysis in support of the design and evaluation of traffic systems. Although traffic flow models have been applied for almost a century to describe, ...