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    Classification and clustering: models, software and applications
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Mucha, Hans-Joachim; Ritter, Gunter
    We are pleased to present the report on the 30th Fall Meeting of the working group ``Data Analysis and Numerical Classification'' (AG-DANK) of the German Classification Society. The meeting took place at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics (WIAS), Berlin, from Friday Nov. 14 till Saturday Nov. 15, 2008. Already 12 years ago, WIAS had hosted a traditional Fall Meeting with special focus on classification and multivariate graphics (Mucha and Bock, 1996). This time, the special topics were stability of clustering and classification, mixture decomposition, visualization, and statistical software.
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    Maximal parabolic regularity for divergence operators on distribution spaces
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Haller-Dintelmann, Robert; Rehberg, Joachim
    We show that elliptic second order operators A of divergence type fulfill maximal parabolic regularity on distribution spaces, even if the underlying domain is highly non-smooth, the coefficients of A are discontinuous and A is complemented with mixed boundary conditions. Applications to quasilinear parabolic equations with non-smooth data are presented
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    A model of an electrochemical flow cell with porous layer
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Ehrhardt, Matthias; Fuhrmann, Jürgen; Linke, Alexander
    In this paper we discuss three different mathematical models for fluid-porous interfaces in a simple channel geometry that appears e.g. in thin-layer channel flow cells. Here the difficulties arise from the possibly different orders of the corresponding differential operators in the different domains. A finite volume discretization of this model allows to calculate the limiting current of the H_2 oxidation in a porous electrode with platinum catalyst particles.
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    The heat treatment of steel - a mathematical control problem
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Hömberg, Dietmar; Kern, Daniela
    The goal of this paper is to show how the heat treatment of steel can be modelled in terms of a mathematical optimal control problem. The approach is applied to laser surface hardening and the cooling of a steel slab including mechanical effects. Finally, it is shown how the results can be utilized in industrial practice by a coupling with machine-based control.
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    The behavior of a many particle cathode in a lithium-ion battery
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Dreyer, Wolfgang; Guhlke, Clemens; Huth, Robert
    We study the almost reversible storage process of charging and discharging of lithium-ion batteries. That process is accompanied by a phase transition and charging and discharging run along different paths, so that hysteretic behavior is observed. We are interested in the storage problem of the cathode of a lithium-ion battery consisting of a system of many iron phosphate (FePO4) particles. There are mathematical models, see [DGJ08], [DGGHJ09] and [DG09], that describe phase transitions and hysteresis exclusively in a single storage particle and they can describe the observed hysteretic voltage-charge plots with almost horizontal plateaus. Interestingly the models predict that the coexistence of a 2-phase system in an individual particle disappears, if its size is below a critical value. The disappearance of the phase transition in the single particle model implies the disappearance of the hysteresis. However, in the experiment hysteretic behavior survives. In other words: The behavior of a storage system consisting of many particles is qualitatively independent of the fact whether the individual particles itself develop a 2-phase system or if they remain in a single phase state. This apparent paradoxical observation will be resolved in this article by a many particle model. It will be shown that if each of the individual particles is in a homogeneous state, nevertheless the many particle ensemble exhibits phase transition and hysteresis ...
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    Global spatial regularity for a regularized elasto-plastic model
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Bumb, Andreas; Knees, Dorothee
    In this note the spatial regularity of weak solutions for a class of elasto-viscoplastic evolution models is studied for nonsmooth domains. The considered class comprises e.g. models which are obtained through a Yosida regularization from classical, rate-independent models. The corresponding evolution model consists of an elliptic PDE for the (generalized) displacements which is coupled with an ordinary differential equation with a Lipschitz continuous nonlinearity describing the evolution of the internal variable. It is shown that the global spatial regularity of the displacements and the inner variables is exactly determined through the mapping properties of the underlying elliptic operator.
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    Improving the stability of distributed-feedback tapered master-oscillator power-amplifiers
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Tronciu, Vasile Z.; Lichtner, Mark; Radziunas, Mindaugas; Bandelow, U.; Wenzel, H.
    We report theoretical results on the wavelength stabilization in distributed-feedback master-oscillator power-amplifiers which are compact semiconductor laser devices capable of emitting a high brilliance beam at an optical power of several Watts. Based on a traveling wave equation model we calculate emitted optical power and spectral maps in dependence on the pump of the power amplifier. We show that a proper choice of the Bragg grating type and coupling coefficient allows to optimize the laser operation, such that for a wide range of injection currents the laser emits a high intensity continuous wave beam.
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    Structural adaptive smoothing: principles and applications in imaging
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Polzehl, Jörg; Tabelow, Karsten
    Structural adaptive smoothing provides a new concept of edge-preserving non-parametric smoothing methods. In imaging it employs qualitative assumption on the underlying homogeneity structure of the image. The chapter describes the main principles of the approach and discusses applications ranging from image denoising to the analysis of functional and diffusion weighted Magnetic Resonance experiments.
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    A new counting function for the zeros of holomorphic curves
    (Oberwolfach : Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach, 2009) Anderson, J.M.; Hinkkanen, Aimo
    Let f1, . . . , fp be entire functions that do not all vanish at any point, so that (f1, . . . , fp) is a holomorphic curve in CPp−1. We introduce a new and more careful notion of counting the order of the zero of a linear combination of the functions f1, . . . , fp at any point where such a linear combination vanishes, and, if all the f1, . . . , fp are polynomials, also at infinity. This enables us to formulate an inequality, which sometimes holds as an identity, that sharpens the classical results of Cartan and others.
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    Phase transition and hysteresis in a rechargeable lithium battery revisited
    (Berlin : Weierstraß-Institut für Angewandte Analysis und Stochastik, 2009) Dreyer, Wolfgang; Gaberscek, Miran; Guhlke, Clemens; Huth, Robert; Jamnik, Janko
    We revisit a model which describes the evolution of a phase transition that occurs in the cathode of a rechargeable lithium battery during the process of charging/discharging. The model is capable to simulate hysteretic behavior of the voltage