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The Presumed Probability Density Function method is developed and implemented to study turbulent flame stabilization and combustion control in subsonic combustors with flame holders. The method considers turbulence-chemistry interaction, multiple thermo-chemical variables, variable pressure, near-wall effects, and provides the efficient research tool for studying flame stabilization and blow-off in practical ramjet burners. Nonreflecting multidimensional boundary conditions at open boundaries are derived, and implemented into the current research. The boundary conditions provide transparency to acoustic waves generated in bluff-body stabilized combustion zones, thus avoiding numerically induced oscillations and instabilities. It is shown that predicted flow patterns in a combustor are essentially affected by the boundary conditions. The derived nonreflecting boundary conditions provide the solutions corresponding to experimental findings. 

The above set of conditions are complete in the sense that a transition from any initial state to any final state can be controlled perfectly. This idea can also be applied to multilevel problems. In the practical applications, the quadratic chirping, that is, one-period oscillation, is quite useful, as demonstrated by numerical applications given below. 

Y. Termonia and J. Ross, Oscillations and control features in glycolysis Numerical analysis of a comprehensive model. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 78, 2952 2956 (1981). 

Summary. In this chapter the control problem of output tracking with disturbance rejection of chemical reactors operating under forced oscillations subjected to load disturbances and parameter uncertainty is addressed. An error feedback nonlinear control law which relies on the existence of an internal model of the exosystem that generates all the possible steady state inputs for all the admissible values of the system parameters is proposed, to guarantee that the output tracking error is maintained within predefined bounds and ensures at the same time the stability of the closed-loop system. Key theoretical concepts and results are first reviewed with particular emphasis on the development of continuous and discrete control structures for the proposed robust regulator. The role of disturbances and model uncertainty is also discussed. Several numerical examples are presented to illustrate the results. 

Molecular models for circadian rhythms were initially proposed [107] for circadian oscillations of the PER protein and its mRNA in Drosophila, the first organism for which detailed information on the oscillatory mechanism became available [100]. The case of circadian rhythms in Drosophila illustrates how the need to incorporate experimental advances leads to a progressive increase in the complexity of theoretical models. A first model governed by a set of five kinetic equations is shown in Fig. 3A it is based on the negative control exerted by the PER protein on the expression of the per gene [107]. Numerical simulations show that for appropriate parameter values, the steady state becomes unstable and limit cycle oscillations appear (Fig. 1). 

The second part of the work involves implementing a robust controller. The key issue in the controller design is the treatment of system dynamics uncertainties and rejection of exogenous disturbances, while optimizing the flow responses and control inputs. Parameter uncertainties in the wave equation and time delays associated with the distributed control process are formally included. Finally, a series of numerical simulations of the entire system are carried out to examine the performance of the proposed controller design. The relationships among the uncertainty bound of system dynamics, the response of flow oscillation, and controller performance are investigated systematically. 

As a specific example to study the characteristics of the controller, the problem involving four modes of longitudinal oscillations is considered herein. The natural radian frequency of the fundamental mode, normalized with respect to 7ra/L, is taken to be unity. The nominal linear parameters Dni and Eni in Eq. (22.12) are taken from [1], representing a typical situation encountered in several practical combustion chambers. An integrated research project comprising laser-based experimental diagnostics and comprehensive numerical simulation is currently conducted to provide direct insight into the combustion dynamics in a laboratory dump combustor [27]. Included as part of the results are the system and actuator parameters under feedback actions, which can... 

How quickly the controller responds and with how little oscillation, depends on the application. The following are some of the available tuning methods, of which we will consider the last two in detail (see textbooks1-11 for numerous other methods) ... 

One particular class of ordinary differential equation solvers (ODE-solvers) handles stiff ODEs and these are widely known as stiff solvers. In our context, a system of ODEs sometimes becomes stiff if it comprises very fast and also very slow steps or relatively high and low concentrations. A typical example would be an oscillating reaction. Here, a highly sophisticated step-size control is required to achieve a reasonable compromise between accuracy and computation time. It is well outside the scope of this chapter to expand on the intricacies of modem numerical... 

Recently, Bernard et al. [499] studied oscillations in cyclical neutropenia, a rare disorder characterized by oscillatory production of blood cells. As above, they developed a physiologically realistic model including a second homeostatic control on the production of the committed stem cells that undergo apoptosis at their proliferative phase. By using the same approach, they found a local supercritical Hopf bifurcation and a saddle-node bifurcation of limit cycles as critical parameters (i.e., the amplification parameter) are varied. Numerical simulations are consistent with experimental data and they indicate that regulated apoptosis may be a powerful control mechanism for the production of blood cells. The loss of control over apoptosis can have significant negative effects on the dynamic properties of hemopoiesis. 

It was seen that if yi is not chosen to make C practically zero, the solution of Eq. (5-16) oscillates widely. The same requirements apply to the subsequent steps thus, if a significant error is introduced at any step by rounding, that error will be magnified as the solution proceeds. For this reason, a high accuracy in the individual numerical operations is required when a difference equation that suffers from this sort of instability is used. In using this central-difference approximation with nonlinear equations, however, the problem of getting started with a proper value of yi is usually more serious than the problem of controlling roundoff errors. 

Numerical experiments (Walsh, 1993) indicate that the peak-to-peak deviation of the exit concentration can be bounded, for fairly tightly tuned controllers, by calculating the response of the exit concentration to a reagent valve exhibiting a square wave oscillation with peak-to-peak amplitude equal to the deadband error. The exit concentration variation can therefore be estimated as... 

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