A Novel Control Algorithm for Interaction Between Surface Waves and A Permeable Floating Structure

An analytical solution is undertaken to describe the wave-induced flow field and the surge motion of a permeable platform structure with fuzzy controllers in an oceanic environment. In the design procedure of the controller, a parallel distributed compensation (PDC) scheme is utilized to construct a global fuzzy logic controller by blending all local state feedback controllers. A stability analysis is carried out for a real structure system by using Lyapunov method. The corresponding boundary value problems are then incorporated into scattering and radiation problems. They are analytically solved, based on separation of variables, to obtain series solutions in terms of the harmonic incident wave motion and surge motion. The dependence of the wave-induced flow field and its resonant frequency on wave characteristics and structure properties including platform width, thickness and mass has been thus drawn with a parametric approach. From which mathematical models are applied for the wave-induced displacement of the surge motion. A nonlinearly inverted pendulum system is employed to demonstrate that the controller tuned by swarm intelligence method can not only stabilize the nonlinear system, but has the robustness against external disturbance.     

Influence of Sr on an Established Petrological Incompatibility: The Association Melilite + K-Feldspar in a Nephelinite from Djebel Targou, Central Morocco

A peralkaline olivine-free nephelinite from Morocco containsan unusual minerological assemblage of Ti-rich garnet, nosean,clinopyroxene, nepheline, leucite, K-feldspar, and melilite.This occurrence appears to be the first report of coexistingK-feldspar and melilite in a lava. The rock bulk compositionshows unusually high SrO content (0.90%) but the calculatedCIPW norm indicates only moderate silica-undersaturation. Amongthe minerals present nosean contains minor amounts of Sr butmost of the available Sr is concentrated in melilite and largezoned crystals of xenocrystic apatite. Apatite contains up to25% SrO. Experimentally determined partition coefficients ofSr between apatite and melt indicate that it could not haveprecipitated from a nephelinite magma. Isotopic compositionof both Nd and Sr dispel any contamination by either sediments,metamorphic basement, or carbonatites. It is deduced that partialor complete dissolution of Sr-rich xenocrysts (apatite and possiblycarbonates) from an ultrabasic alkaline complex in a peralkalinenephelinite composition induces the precipitation of Sr-bearingmelilite in the presence of the normal nepheline +leucite +K-feldspar assemblage. The Moroccan nephelinite thus providesan interesting example where a minor element influences therelations and commonly observed petrological incompatibilitiesbetween phases.