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VANCOUVER, April 16, 2014 /CNW/ - Coastal Contacts Inc. ("Coastal.com" or "the Company") (NASDAQ: COA) (TSX: COA) announced today that the Company's shareholders have approved the proposed acquisition of Coastal.com by Essilor International (Compagnie Générale d'Optique), S.A. ("Essilor") under which Essilor has agreed to acquire all of the issued and outstanding common shares of Coastal.com for a purchase price of CAD$12.45 per share, representing a net equity value of approximately CAD$430 million (the "Transaction").
At the annual general and special meeting of Coastal.com's shareholders held this morning, the Transaction was approved by approximately 100% of the votes cast by shareholders, including by approximately 100% of the votes cast by shareholders excluding the votes attached to shares owned by certain executive officers as required under applicable securities laws.
The closing of the Transaction remains subject to final court approval, approval under the Competition Act, and the satisfaction or waiver of the other customary conditions. An application for final court approval is scheduled to be heard by the British Columbia Supreme Court on April 23, 2014. Subject to court approval being obtained, receipt of Competition Act approval and the satisfaction or waiver of all remaining closing conditions, the Transaction is expected to close by the end of April 2014.
About Essilor
The world's leading ophthalmic optics company, Essilor designs, manufactures and markets a wide range of lenses to improve and protect eyesight. Its corporate mission is to enable everyone around the world to access lenses that meet his or her unique vision requirements. To support this mission, the Company allocates more than €150 million to research and innovation every year, in a commitment to continuously bring new, more effective products to market. Essilor's flagship brands are Varilux®, Crizal®, Definity®, Xperio®, OptifogTM, Foster Grant®, Bolon® and Costa®. It also develops and markets equipment, instruments and services for eyecare professionals.
Essilor reported consolidated revenue of over €5 billion in 2013 and employs more than 55,000 people. It operates in some 100 countries with 28 plants, more than 450 prescription laboratories and edging facilities, as well as several research and development centers around the world. For more information, please visit www.essilor.com.
The Essilor share trades on the NYSE Euronext Paris market and is included in the Euro Stoxx 50 and CAC 40 indices.
Codes and symbols: ISIN: FR0000121667; Reuters: ESSI.PA; Bloomberg: EI:FP.
About Coastal.com
Coastal.com is a leading manufacturer and online retailer of eyewear products offered through a family of world class websites. Established in 2000, the Coastal.com family of brands offers an extensive, in stock selection of prescription eyewear, contact lenses and sunglasses. Coastal.com's vision is to make the process simple, either on-line or at one of our retail showrooms, so our customers can see everything life has to offer. For more information about Coastal.com, please visit www.coastal.com.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements
All statements made in this news release which are not current statements or historical facts constitute "forward-looking information" within the meaning of applicable Canadian securities laws and "forward-looking statements" as defined in Section 27A of the United States Securities Act of 1933, Section 21E of the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, or in releases made by the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, all as may be amended from time to time, and the words "may", "would", "could", "will", "intend", "plan", "anticipate", "believe", "estimate", "expect", "goal", "target", "should", "likely", "potential", "continue", "project", "forecast", "prospects", and similar expressions typically are used to identify forward-looking information and statements.
Forward-looking information and statements are based on the then-current expectations, beliefs, assumptions, estimates and forecasts about the Transaction, Coastal.com's business and the industry and markets in which it operates. Forward-looking information and statements are not guarantees of future performance and involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions which are difficult to predict. You are cautioned that forward-looking information and statements are subject to a number of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, many of which are beyond Coastal.com's control that could cause Coastal.com's actual future results or performance to be materially different from those that are disclosed in or implied by the forward-looking information. These factors include, but are not limited to, risks and uncertainties associated with the timely receipt of court and regulatory approvals in connection with the Transaction; changes in the market; potential downturns in economic conditions; consumer credit risk; Coastal.com's ability to implement its business strategies; competition from traditional and online retailers; limited suppliers; limited availability of inventory; disruption in Coastal's distribution facilities; mergers and acquisitions; foreign currency exchange rate fluctuations; regulatory requirements; demand for contact lenses, eyeglasses and related vision care products; the risk that Coastal.com will not be successful in defending against litigation; dependence on the Internet; and the other risks detailed in Coastal.com's filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities.
You should not place undue reliance on forward-looking information and statements which are qualified in their entirety by this cautionary note. Forward-looking information and statements in this news release are made as of the date hereof and Coastal.com expressly disclaims any intent or obligation to update such forward-looking information or statements, unless Coastal.com specifically states otherwise or as required by applicable law.
For a complete discussion of the assumptions, risks and uncertainties related to Coastal.com's business, you are encouraged to review Coastal.com's filings with the Canadian securities regulatory authorities filed on SEDAR at http://www.sedar.com.
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500 times on top of Rainier
No one close to climbing guide's 500-time record to Rainier's summit
George Dunn, his crampons crunching through the snow atop Mount Rainier, was poised to make history this week and it might not even be the highlight of his day.
The 56-year-old guide planned to climb Rainier with friends and family and become the first person to summit the 14,411-foot peak 500 times.
The ironman feat astonishes even those who were guiding when he was in high school.
It means 4.5 million vertical feet and 9,000 miles of climbing in a string of two- or three-day endurance tests.
The numbers don't include the estimated 100 times he's had to turn around short of the summit because of poor weather or other hazards.
"It's always a physical challenge," Dunn said. "I'm tired every time."
Of the thousands of people who've climbed Rainier, most do it only once. Eight have climbed the mountain 300 times and three have 400 summits.
"But it's not about the numbers," said Dunn, a director at Ashford's International Mountain Guides. "The beautiful thing about this job is the people I've met and getting to share lifetime memories with them. That's why I do this."
So for Dunn, the best part about No. 500 will be that it will be summit No. 1 for Jeremy, his 16-year-old son.
"He never focuses on himself," Nancy Dunn said of her husband. "He is very passionate about helping others have a great experience."
But while Dunn's pride will be directed at his son, those who know him and Rainier will use the landmark moment to celebrate his accomplished career.
"You can't quantify how impressive 500 summits are because there are no words to describe that much effort," said Robert Link, who has the eighth-most summits, 301. "He puts his head down and goes to work every day at the hardest job on the planet. I'm in awe."
Dunn doesn't remember for sure the year of his first climb. He figures it was in 1969, when he was a student at Renton High School.
Dunn was born in Wichita, Kan., before his family moved west. He didn't have much interest in mountaineering until he heard about his school's climbing club.
"Of all the fluky things," Dunn said. "I swear the club only existed while I was going there. Then I think they realized, 'This is crazy. We can't do this.' "
Bad weather forced him to turn around on his first two attempts. He carried a kite to the summit when he finally reached the top on his third attempt, but he couldn't get it to take flight because the weather was so calm.
The same couldn't be said for the gangly kid's stomach. As is the case with many on their first ascent, he spent most of the time on top lying in the crater, feeling nauseated.
But he had an epiphany shortly after he staggered down the mountain and thought about what he'd just done.
"I thought, 'Wow, that was so cool' and it was like boom," Dunn said, snapping his fingers. "I knew I wanted to do that for the rest of my life."
He likes to say the loves of his life are tied to Rainier. It's been his home, playground and office.
He met Nancy at Paradise where she worked as a park ranger in the 1980s.
George Dunn was a 22-year-old student at the University of Washington in 1975 when he took a job guiding for Rainier Mountaineering Inc. He picked out two older guides, Phil Ershler and Eric Simonson, to be his role models.
Ershler and Simonson were quickly carving out reputations as some of the best guides on the mountain, with boundless energy and aspirations of leading international trips.
They climbed Rainier as often as they could, so Dunn did the same.
A good-natured rivalry soon sprang up among the three as they raced to see who could be the first to 100, 200 then 300 summits.
"It was the slowest race in history," Ershler said, and Dunn lost them all.
But Simonson started slowing down after 200. He now has 282 summits. Ershler was the first to scale Rainier 300 times, but Dunn passed him soon after and never looked back.
Ershler still has the second most Rainier summits with 439. Both men will accompany Dunn on his 500th summit.
"The significance of No. 500 is that it symbolizes his dedication," Simonson said.
And it was never about the stats for any of the men.
In 1986, they formed International Mountain Guides along with fellow guide Paul Baugher and started leading expeditions all over the world. Today they put more people on top of Mount Everest each spring than any other American guide service.
Along the way Dunn has stood on top of Everest and Kanchenjunga (the world's third-highest peak), trekked across Antarctica and led numerous trips in the Alps.
"He's done so much more than Rainier," Baugher said. "That's one of the other things that make 500 summits so impressive. He's so durable. It's an honor and privilege to have a guy like that as a partner."
While Dunn still guides international trips, he scaled back that work to be on Rainier closer to his family.
"He loves adventure, but he's a family man, a great guy," Nancy Dunn said. "He never sits back and watches TV when he's home. He always pitches right in."
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If you haven't listened to Carolyn Hamlett, she's a good place to start. That is basically covered, IMHO, along w David dIcke, et al, as "end times" false prophets...
these people always sound good, but to me, classic "false prophets."
BTW--this is so easy for tptb to manufacture now and we should think of these people as victims, IMO, rather than purposeful deceivers.
Dido, Lou Baldin.
I actually learn a lot from these false prophets, so I would recommend them! :) They are always given some cool info to make them enticing... this is their principle flaw, IMO, as they educate us all!
John Lear is a legend and a great guy and he has tons of great knowledge that can be used for the argument I am making. How else could he have survived all the crap he has gone through working for the people he has and doing the stuff he has done?
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The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has officially launched a new atomic clock, called NIST-F2, to serve as a new U.S. civilian time and frequency standard, along with the current NIST-F1 standard.
NIST-F2 would neither gain nor lose one second in about 300 million years, making it about three times as accurate as NIST-F1, which has served as the standard since 1999. Both clocks use a "fountain" of cesium atoms to determine the exact length of a second.
NIST scientists recently reported the first official performance data for NIST-F2,* which has been under development for a decade, to the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM), located near Paris, France. That agency collates data from atomic clocks around the world to produce Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the international standard of time. According to BIPM data, NIST-F2 is now the world's most accurate time standard.**
NIST-F2 is the latest in a series of cesium-based atomic clocks developed by NIST since the 1950s. In its role as the U.S. measurement authority, NIST strives to advance atomic timekeeping, which is part of the basic infrastructure of modern society. Many everyday technologies, such as cellular telephones, Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite receivers, and the electric power grid, rely on the high accuracy of atomic clocks. Historically, improved timekeeping has consistently led to technology improvements and innovation.
"If we've learned anything in the last 60 years of building atomic clocks, we've learned that every time we build a better clock, somebody comes up with a use for it that you couldn't have foreseen," says NIST physicist Steven Jefferts, lead designer of NIST-F2.
For now, NIST plans to simultaneously operate both NIST-F1 and NIST-F2. Long-term comparisons of the two clocks will help NIST scientists continue to improve both clocks as they serve as U.S. standards for civilian time. The U.S. Naval Observatory maintains military time standards.
Both NIST-F1 and NIST-F2 measure the frequency of a particular transition in the cesium atom—which is 9,192,631,770 vibrations per second, and is used to define the second, the international (SI) unit of time. The key operational difference is that F1 operates near room temperature (about 27 ºC or 80 ºF) whereas the atoms in F2 are shielded within a much colder environment (at minus 193 ºC, or minus 316 ºF). This cooling dramatically lowers the background radiation and thus reduces some of the very small measurement errors that must be corrected in NIST-F1. (See backgrounder on clock operation and accompanying animation of NIST-F2 at http://www.nist.gov/pml/div688/how-nist-f2-works.cfm)
Primary standards such as NIST-F1 and NIST-F2 are operated for periods of a few weeks several times each year to calibrate NIST timescales, collections of stable commercial clocks such as hydrogen masers used to keep time and establish the official time of day. NIST clocks also contribute to UTC. Technically, both F1 and F2 are frequency standards, meaning they are used to measure the size of the SI second and calibrate the "ticks" of other clocks. (Time and frequency are inversely related.)
NIST provides a broad range of timing and synchronization measurement services to meet a wide variety of customer needs. NIST official time is used to time-stamp hundreds of billions of dollars in U.S. financial transactions each working day, for example. NIST time is also disseminated to industry and the public through the Internet Time Service, which as of early 2014 received about 8 billion automated requests per day to synchronize clocks in computers and network devices; and NIST radio broadcasts, which update an estimated 50 million watches and other clocks daily.
At the request of the Italian standards organization, NIST fabricated many duplicate components for a second version of NIST-F2, known as IT-CsF2 to be operated by Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica (INRIM), NIST's counterpart in Turin, Italy. Two co-authors from Italy contributed to the new report on NIST-F2.
The cesium clock era officially dates back to 1967, when the second was defined based on vibrations of the cesium atom. Cesium clocks have improved substantially since that time and are likely to improve a bit more. But clocks that operate at microwave frequencies such as those based on cesium or other atoms are likely approaching their ultimate performance limits because of the relatively low frequencies of microwaves. In the future, better performance will likely be achieved with clocks based on atoms that switch energy levels at much higher frequencies in or near the visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum. These optical atomic clocks divide time into smaller units and could lead to time standards more than 100 times more accurate than today's cesium standards. Higher frequency is one of a variety of factors that enables improved precision and accuracy.
* T.P. Heavner, E.A. Donley, F. Levi, G. Costanzo, T.E. Parker, J.H. Shirley, N. Ashby, S.E. Barlow and S.R. Jefferts. First Accuracy Evaluation of NIST-F2. Metrologia. Forthcoming. See http://iopscience.iop.org/0026-1394/page/Forthcoming%20articles.
** These data are reported monthly in BIPM's Circular T, available online at http://www.bipm.org/jsp/en/TimeFtp.jsp?TypePub=publication#nohref. NIST-F2 is scheduled to be listed for the first time in the March 2014 edition. The value of interest is Type B (systematic) uncertainty.
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Thank you for writing this. It was very well written and in-character, and I liked reading a story where Sam and John finally appreciated how much Dean did for them.
| Random Lolz 74128 chapter 6 . 1/25
Just finished reading chapter 6! Can't wait to read chapter 7!
| Guest chapter 1 . 12/8/2015
This is an amazing story!
| bu chapter 8 . 9/10/2015
I don't know how could I use to like John so much, like I know he's not all that bad in this story, but he's being so ignorant I don't know it's just pushing all the wrong buttons for me, but I'm really into story and I really like it, even if I feel like Dean is a little too perfect
| bu chapter 7 . 9/10/2015
Awww, poor Dean :C
I hope things will get better, but I just dunno felt like Sam would be more considerate, like I can see him acting this way, he's 13 years old, and Dean kinda spoiled him, as much as you can in their situation, but still... anyway i'm sure things will get better
| sabidoche chapter 11 . 8/31/2015
Oh my god, that was very nice. The end makes me emotional. Good Work!
| Telle chapter 11 . 5/27/2015
Just read this. Loved it. Thank you!
| Guest chapter 11 . 5/24/2015
Omhygosh I love this story...I read it awhile back and haven't been able to find it again, but I can't forget it...this is probably one of the best stories I've ever read. Awesome job and great writing. Keep it up
| LaRieNGuBleR chapter 11 . 4/25/2015
This story is amazing! I really enjoy it. :)
| spn7 chapter 7 . 4/13/2015
My friend just showed me this fic, and is amazing. You did a great job on it. I am really enjoying it.
| anonymouse chapter 3 . 1/8/2015
'Probably could even take a hit from a semi, John thought ruefully.' ;) I see what you did there!
| 1hotpepper chapter 11 . 1/2/2015
Great story! And btw when you get a cast taken off the doctors use a special blade that phisacly can not cut your skin
| Cynthia chapter 4 . 11/23/2014
Nurse Ratched is my nickname on the med/surg floor! I didn't take it as an insult either. ;p
| general yumi chapter 11 . 11/1/2014
I really love this story! It is so cute! I do wonder if they stay there. Is the whole family thing permanent? Do they get to stay? If so do they continue to hunt? Does Dean get a job to help the family? There are still more questions but I'll stop it there. Great job on this story author-san! Thank you for sharing this! *bows gratefully*


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More than 8,000 guests, the largest in the history of the Festival, visited Moody Gardens to watch Santa drop in and kick off the largest holiday light display on the Gulf Coast.
The festivities began at 4 p.m. with live entertainment from Galveston Ballet, the Salvation Army Harbor Light Choir, Vibe Dance Company, Amy's Dance Academy, and the St. Ignatius Choir with the Archdiocese of Galveston-Houston.
Santa was to parachute down to Moody Gardens halfway through the event, but windy conditions forced him to arrive via golf cart from the airport instead. Still as jolly as ever despite his change in travel plans, he flipped the switch just after 6 p.m. to officially kick off the holiday season on Galveston Island.
"Festival of Lights has become a holiday tradition for families throughout the region," Moody Gardens president and CEO John Zendt said. "It was a special treat to see the kid's faces light up when Santa came driving up in the golf cart from the airport."
Zendt added that new attractions such as the Snow Tubing Arctic Ice Slide and additional light displays continue to provide new guest experiences. The mile-long trail features over 100 lighted scenes themed to holiday music with an outdoor ice rink. Holiday films are featured at three types of theaters. The family-friendly Moody Gardens Hotel also offers spectacular views of the destination's iconic pyramids dressed in holiday lights.
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Transients Of Platoons With Asymmetric And Different Laplacians, 2016 Czech Technical University, Prague
Transients Of Platoons With Asymmetric And Different Laplacians, Ivo Herman, Dan Martinec, J. J. P. Veerman
J. J. P. Veerman
We consider an asymmetric control of platoons of identical vehicles with nearest-neighbor interaction. Recent results show that if the vehicle uses different asymmetries for position and velocity errors, the platoon has a short transient and low overshoots. In this paper we investigate the properties of vehicles with friction. To achieve consensus, an integral part is added to the controller, making the vehicle a third-order system. We show that the parameters can be chosen so that the platoon behaves as a wave equation with different wave velocities. Simulations suggest that our system has a better performance than other nearest-neighbor scenarios. Moreover ...
A New Error Bound For Linear Complementarity Problems For B-Matrices, 2016 Yunnan University
A New Error Bound For Linear Complementarity Problems For B-Matrices, Chaoqian Li, Mengting Gan, Shaorong Yang
Electronic Journal of Linear Algebra
A new error bound for the linear complementarity problem is given when the involved matrix is a $B$-matrix. It is shown that this bound improves the corresponding result in [M. Garc\'{i}a-Esnaola and J.M. Pe\~{n}a. Error bounds for linear complementarity problems for $B$-matrices. {\em Appl. Math. Lett.}, 22:1071--1075, 2009.] in some cases, and that it is sharper than that in [C.Q. Li and Y.T. Li. Note on error bounds for linear complementarity problems for $B$-matrices. {\em Appl. Math. Lett.}, 57:108--113, 2016.].
Optimization Of Takeoffs On Unbalanced Fields Using Takeoff Performance Tool, 2016 AAR Aerospace Consulting, LLC
Optimization Of Takeoffs On Unbalanced Fields Using Takeoff Performance Tool, Nihad E. Daidzic
International Journal of Aviation, Aeronautics, and Aerospace
Unbalanced field length exists when ASDA and TODA are not equal. Airport authority may add less expensive substitutes to runway full-strength pavement in the form of stopways and/or clearways to basic TORA to increase operational takeoff weights. Here developed Takeoff Performance Tool is a physics-based total-energy model used to simulate FAR/CS 25 regulated airplane takeoffs. Any aircraft, runway, and environmental conditions can be simulated, while complying with the applicable regulations and maximizing performance takeoff weights. The mathematical model was translated into Matlab, Fortran 95/2003/2008, Basic, and MS Excel computer codes. All existing FAR/CS 25 takeoff ...
Signal Velocity In Oscillator Networks, 2016 Portland State University
Signal Velocity In Oscillator Networks, Carlos E. Cantos, J.J. P. Veerman, David K. Hammond
J.J.P. Veerman
We investigate a system of coupled oscillators on the circle, which arises from a simple model for behavior of large numbers of autonomous vehicles. The model considers asymmetric, linear, decentralized dynamics, where the acceleration of each vehicle depends on the relative positions and velocities between itself and a set of local neighbors. We first derive necessary and sufficient conditions for asymptotic stability, then derive expressions for the phase velocity of propagation of disturbances in velocity through this system. We show that the high frequencies exhibit damping, which implies existence of well-defined signal velocities c+>0 and c−f(x−c ...
Full State Revivals In Linearly Coupled Chains With Commensurate Eigenspectra, 2016 Portland State University
Full State Revivals In Linearly Coupled Chains With Commensurate Eigenspectra, J.J. P. Veerman, Jovan Petrovic
J.J.P. Veerman
Coherent state transfer is an important requirement in the construction of quantum computer hardware. The state transfer can be realized by linear next-neighbour-coupled finite chains. Starting from the commensurability of chain eigenvalues as the general condition of periodic dynamics, we find chains that support full periodic state revivals. For short chains, exact solutions are found analytically by solving the inverse eigenvalue problem to obtain the coupling coefficients between chain elements. We apply the solutions to design optical waveguide arrays and perform numerical simulations of light propagation thorough realistic waveguide structures. Applications of the presented method to the realization of a ...
Transients In The Synchronization Of Oscillator Arrays, 2016 Portland State University
Transients In The Synchronization Of Oscillator Arrays, Carlos E. Cantos, J.J. P. Veerman
J.J.P. Veerman
The purpose of this note is threefold. First we state a few conjectures that allow us to rigorously derive a theory which is asymptotic in N (the number of agents) that describes transients in large arrays of (identical) linear damped harmonic oscillators in R with completely decentralized nearest neighbor interaction. We then use the theory to establish that in a certain range of the parameters transients grow linearly in the number of agents (and faster outside that range). Finally, in the regime where this linear growth occurs we give the constant of proportionality as a function of the signal velocities ...
On Rank Driven Dynamical Systems, 2016 Portland State University
On Rank Driven Dynamical Systems, J.J. P. Veerman, F. J. Prieto
J.J.P. Veerman
We investigate a class of models related to the Bak-Sneppen model, initially proposed to study evolution. The BS model is extremely simple and yet captures some forms of "complex behavior" such as self-organized criticality that is often observed in physical and biological systems. In this model, random fitnesses in [0, 1] are associated to agents located at the vertices of a graph G. Their fitnesses are ranked from worst (0) to best (1). At every time-step the agent with the worst fitness and some others with a priori given rank probabilities are replaced by new agents with random fitnesses. We ...
Regularity Of Mediatrices In Surfaces, 2016 Portland State University
Regularity Of Mediatrices In Surfaces, Pilar Herreros, Mario Ponce, J.J. P. Veerman
J.J.P. Veerman
For distinct points p and q in a two-dimensional Riemannian manifold, one defines their mediatrix Lpq as the set of equidistant points to p and q. It is known that mediatrices have a cell decomposition consisting of a finite number of branch points connected by Lipschitz curves. This paper establishes additional geometric regularity properties of mediatrices. We show that mediatrices have the radial linearizability property, which implies that at each point they have a geometrically defined derivative in the branching directions. Also, we study the particular case of mediatrices on spheres, by showing that they are Lipschitz simple closed curves ...
On A Convex Set With Nondifferentiable Metric Projection, 2016 Portland State University
On A Convex Set With Nondifferentiable Metric Projection, Shyan S. Akmal, Nguyen Mau Nam, J.J. P. Veerman
J.J.P. Veerman
A remarkable example of a nonempty closed convex set in the Euclidean plane for which the directional derivative of the metric projection mapping fails to exist was constructed by A. Shapiro. In this paper, we revisit and modify that construction to obtain a convex set with smooth boundary which possesses the same property.
Model For Computing Kinetics Of The Graphene Edge Epitaxial Growth On Copper, 2016 Western Kentucky University
Model For Computing Kinetics Of The Graphene Edge Epitaxial Growth On Copper, Mikhail Khenner
Mikhail Khenner
Dynamics Of Locally Coupled Oscillators With Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interaction, 2016 University of Crete
Dynamics Of Locally Coupled Oscillators With Next-Nearest-Neighbor Interaction, J. Herbrych, A. G. Chazirakis, N. Christakis, J. J. P. Veerman
J.J.P. Veerman
A theoretical description of decentralized dynamics within linearly coupled, one-dimensional oscillators (agents) with up to next-nearest-neighbor interaction is given. Conditions for stability of such system are presented. Our results indicate that the stable systems have response that grow at least linearly in the system size. We give criteria when this is the case. The dynamics of these systems can be described with traveling waves with strong damping in the high frequencies. Depending on the system parameters, two types of solutions have been found: damped oscillations and reflectionless waves. The latter is a novel result and a feature of systems with ...
Unified Hybridization Of Discontinuous Galerkin, Mixed, And Continuous Galerkin Methods For Second Order Elliptic Problems, 2016 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
Unified Hybridization Of Discontinuous Galerkin, Mixed, And Continuous Galerkin Methods For Second Order Elliptic Problems, Bernardo Cockburn, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Raytcho Lazarov
Jay Gopalakrishnan
We introduce a unifying framework for hybridization of finite element methods for second order elliptic problems. The methods fitting in the framework are a general class of mixed-dual finite element methods including hybridized mixed, continu- ous Galerkin, non-conforming and a new, wide class of hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin methods. The distinctive feature of the methods in this framework is that the only globally coupled degrees of freedom are those of an approximation of the solution defined only on the boundaries of the elements. Since the associated matrix is sparse, symmetric and positive definite, these methods can be efficiently implemented. Moreover, the ...
The Derivation Of Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods For Stokes Flow, 2016 University of Minnesota - Twin Cities
The Derivation Of Hybridizable Discontinuous Galerkin Methods For Stokes Flow, Bernardo Cockburn, Jay Gopalakrishnan
Jay Gopalakrishnan
In this paper, we introduce a new class of discontinuous Galerkin methods for the Stokes equations. The main feature of these methods is that they can be implemented in an efficient way through a hybridization procedure which reduces the globally coupled unknowns to certain approximations on the element boundaries. We present four ways of hybridizing the methods, which differ by the choice of the globally coupled unknowns. Classical methods for the Stokes equations can be thought of as limiting cases of these new methods.
The Convergence Of V-Cycle Multigrid Algorithms For Axisymmetric Laplace And Maxwell Equations, 2016 Portland State University
The Convergence Of V-Cycle Multigrid Algorithms For Axisymmetric Laplace And Maxwell Equations, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Joseph E. Pasciak
Jay Gopalakrishnan
We investigate some simple finite element discretizations for the axisymmetric Laplace equation and the azimuthal component of the axisymmetric Maxwell equations as well as multigrid algorithms for these discretizations. Our analysis is targeted at simple model problems and our main result is that the standard V-cycle with point smoothing converges at a rate independent of the number of unknowns. This is contrary to suggestions in the existing literature that line relaxations and semicoarsening are needed in multigrid algorithms to overcome difficulties caused by the singularities in the axisymmetric Maxwell problems. Our multigrid analysis proceeds by applying the well known regularity ...
Multigrid Convergence For Second Order Elliptic Problems With Smooth Complex Coefficients, 2016 Portland State University
Multigrid Convergence For Second Order Elliptic Problems With Smooth Complex Coefficients, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Joseph E. Pasciak
Jay Gopalakrishnan
The finite element method when applied to a second order partial differential equation in divergence form can generate operators that are neither Hermitian nor definite when the coefficient function is complex valued. For such problems, under a uniqueness assumption, we prove the continuous dependence of the exact solution and its finite element approximations on data provided that the coefficients are smooth and uniformly bounded away from zero. Then we show that a multigrid algorithm converges once the coarse mesh size is smaller than some fixed number, providing an efficient solver for computing discrete approximations. Numerical experiments, while confirming the theory ...
Multigrid In A Weighted Space Arising From Axisymmetric Electromagnetics, 2016 Portland State University
Multigrid In A Weighted Space Arising From Axisymmetric Electromagnetics, Dylan M. Copeland, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Minah Oh
Jay Gopalakrishnan
Consider the space of two-dimensional vector functions whose components and curl are square integrable with respect to the degenerate weight given by the radial variable. This space arises naturally when modeling electromagnetic problems under axial symmetry and performing a dimension reduction via cylindrical coordinates. We prove that if the original three-dimensional domain is convex then the multigrid Vcycle applied to the inner product in this space converges, provided certain modern smoothers are used. For the convergence analysis, we first prove several intermediate results, e.g., the approximation properties of a commuting projector in weighted norms, and a superconvergence estimate for ...
Multigrid For The Mortar Finite Element Method, 2016 Portland State University
Multigrid For The Mortar Finite Element Method, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Joseph E. Pasciak
Jay Gopalakrishnan
A multigrid technique for uniformly preconditioning linear systems arising from a mortar finite element discretization of second order elliptic boundary value problems is described and analyzed. These problems are posed on domains partitioned into subdomains, each of which is independently triangulated in a multilevel fashion. The multilevel mortar finite element spaces based on such triangulations (which need not align across subdomain interfaces) are in general not nested. Suitable grid transfer operators and smoothers are developed which lead to a variable Vcycle preconditioner resulting in a uniformly preconditioned algebraic system. Computational results illustrating the theory are also presented.
Nédélec Spaces In Affine Coordinates, 2016 Portland State University
Nédélec Spaces In Affine Coordinates, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Luis E. García-Castillo, Leszek Demkowicz
Jay Gopalakrishnan
In this note, we provide a conveniently implementable basis for simplicial Nédélec spaces of any order in any space dimension. The main feature of the basis is that it is expressed solely in terms of the barycentric coordinates of the simplex.
Symmetric Nonconforming Mixed Finite Elements For Linear Elasticity, 2016 Portland State University
Symmetric Nonconforming Mixed Finite Elements For Linear Elasticity, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Johnny Guzmán
Jay Gopalakrishnan
We present a family of mixed methods for linear elasticity that yield exactly symmetric, but only weakly conforming, stress approximations. The method is presented in both two and three dimensions (on triangular and tetrahedral meshes). The method is efficiently implementable by hybridization. The degrees of freedom of the Lagrange multipliers, which approximate the displacements at the faces, solve a symmetric positive-definite system. The design and analysis of this method is motivated by a new set of unisolvent degrees of freedom for symmetric polynomial matrices. These new degrees of freedom are also used to give a new simple calculation of the ...
Polynomial Extension Operators. Part I, 2016 University of Texas at Austin
Polynomial Extension Operators. Part I, Leszek Demkowicz, Jay Gopalakrishnan, Joachim Schöberl
Jay Gopalakrishnan
In this series of papers, we construct operators that extend certain given functions on the boundary of a tetrahedron into the interior of the tetrahedron, with continuity properties in appropriate Sobolev norms. These extensions are novel in that they have certain polynomial preservation properties important in the analysis of high order finite elements. This part of the series is devoted to introducing our new technique for constructing the extensions, and its application to the case of polynomial extensions from H½(∂K) into H¹(K), for any tetrahedron K.


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