International Journal of Nonlinear Sciences and Numerical Simulation

Vol. 7, No. 3, 2006

CONTENTS

Fractal Analysis of Organ Structure, Function and Interactions

J. T. Kuikka ............... 239

A New Blind-Source-Separation Method and its Application to Fault Diagnosis of Rolling Bearing

Y.-J. Shen, S.-P. Yang .................. 245

Multidimensional Dissipation Technique for Roe’s Flux-Difference Splitting Scheme on Triangular Meshes

S. Phongthanapanich, P. Dechaumphai .................... 251

Dynamic Large Eddy Simulation of Secondary Flow near a Groyne

X.-l. Tang, Z.-c. Chen, F. Yang ..................... 257

Numerical Study on Transverse-Axis Rotary Viscous Pump and Hydropulser Mechanism

F. Yang, S.-H. Liu, X.-L. Tang, Y.-L. Wu ................. 263

A Novel Microscopic Modeling on Hysteresis Effects of Piezoelectric Structures with Assistance from Finite Element

P.C.-P. Chao, P.-Y. Liao, J.-S. Huang .................... 269

Nonlinear Dynamic Effects of Damping Washers on the Performance of Automatic Ball Balancers in Optical Disc Drives

P. C.-P. Chao, B.-C. Yo, C.-K. Sung and C.-W. Chiu .................. 275

Discrimination of Vegetational Patterns in Burned and Unburned Areas

L. Telesca, R. Lasaponara, A. Lanorte ............... 279

Modelling the Removal of Primary and Secondary Air Pollutants by Precipitation

R.Naresh, S. Sundar, R. K. Upadhyay ................ 285

A New Approach to Direct Solution of 2D Heat Transfer Problem with Non-Linear Source Terms in Frequency Domain

R. Zhang, C. Zhang, J. Jiang .................... 295

On Iterative Solution of a Kind of Nonlinear Matrix Equations

S. M. El-Sayed ................. 299

Hopf Bifurcation and Chaos Analysis of a Microbial Continuous Culture Model with Time Delay

Y.-F. Ma, Z.-L. Xiu, L.-H. Sun, E.-M. Feng .................. 305

Finite Element Simulation of Drug Release from Swelling Matrix

H. A. Wu, Z. F. Lei, X. X. Wang ................. 309

Ballistic Impact Simulation of 3-D Rectangular Braided Composite Struck by Steel Projectile at Microstructure Level

J. Lian , B. Gu .................... 313

Semantic Matching Method for Personalized Service Discovery

L. Lu , J. Chen, G. Zhu .................... 317

Explicit Solutions of Helmholtz Equation and Fifth-order KdV Equation using Homotopy Perturbation Method

M. Rafei, D. D. Ganji ................. 321

Numerical Simulation of Supersonic Flow with Shock Wave using Modified AUSM Scheme

G. Sun, G. Wu, C.-j. Liu ........................ 329

Fuzzy Sliding Mode Control for a Class of Chaos Synchronization with Uncertainties

H.-T. Yau, C.-L. Kuo, J.-J. Yan ................. 333

A Theory for Electromagnetic Heat Conduction and a Numerical Model Based on Boltzmann Equation

L.-l. Zhu, X.-j. Zheng .................... 339

A New Nonlinear Chaotic System

C. Liu, T. Liu, L. Liu, Y. Su .................... 345

Application of Meshless Method to Elastic-Plastic Problems

J. Xia, D. Wei ...................... 353

Numerical Simulation of Gas-Solid Two-Phase Flow in Lung Airways

Y. Li, C. Zhang, J. Zhu .................... 357

Effect of the two Hassan-Dodgson Parameters on the Shape of 3-point Ternary Interpolatory Subdivision Curve

H.-C. Zheng, Z.-L. Ye, Z.-P. Chen, H.-Q. Zhao .................... 361

Complex Dynamics in an Extended Duffing-Van der Pol Oscillator

J. Yu, W. Pan, R. Zhang, W. Zhang .................. 365