The integration of multidisciplinary data is key to supporting decisions during the development of aerospace products. Multidimensional metamodels can be automatically constructed using limited experimental or numerical data, including data from heterogeneous sources. Recent progress in multidimensional response surface technology, for example, provides the ability to interpolate between sparse data points in a multidimensional parameter space. These analytical representations act as surrogates that are based on and complement higher fidelity models and/or experiments, and can include technical data from multiple fidelity levels and multiple disciplines. Most importantly, these representations can be constructed on-the-fly and are cumulatively enriched as more data become available. The purpose of the present paper is to highlight applications of these cumulative global metamodels (CGM), their ease of construction, and the role they can play in aerospace integration. A simple metamodel implementation based on a radial basis function network is presented. This model generalises multidimensional data while simultaneously furnishing an estimate of the uncertainty on the prediction. Four examples are discussed. The first two illustrate the efficiency of surrogate-based design/optimisation. The third applies CGM concepts to a data fusion application. The last example is used to visualise extrapolation uncertainty, based on computational fluid dynamics data.

The Parkes pulsar data archive currently provides access to 144044 data files obtained from observations carried out at the Parkes observatory since the year 1991. Around 105 files are from surveys of the sky, the remainder are observations of 775 individual pulsars and their corresponding calibration signals. Survey observations are included from the Parkes 70 cm and the Swinburne Intermediate Latitude surveys. Individual pulsar observations are included from young pulsar timing projects, the Parkes Pulsar Timing Array and from the PULSE@Parkes outreach program. The data files and access methods are compatible with Virtual Observatory protocols. This paper describes the data currently stored in the archive and presents ways in which these data can be searched and downloaded.

Defining a spherical Struve function we show that the Struve transform of half integer order, or spherical Struve transform,

where n is a non-negative integer, may under suitable conditions be solved for f(t):

where is the sum of the first n + 1 terms in the asymptotic expansion of φn(x) as x → ∞. The coefficients in the asymptotic expansion are identified as

It is further shown that functions φn (x) which are representable as spherical Struve transforms satisfy n + 1 integral constraints, which in turn allow the construction of many equivalent inversion formulae.

The reduction of an important class of triple integral equations to a pair of simultaneous Fredholm equations has been carried out by Cooke [1]. In this paper, Cooke's equations are transformed to new uncoupled Fredholm equations which, for certain important cases, are shown to be simpler than Cooke's and also superior for the purposes of solution by iteration.

Let jν, denote the first positive zero of Jν. It is shown that jν/(ν + α) is a strictly decreasing function of ν for each positive α provided ν is sufficiently large. For each α lowe bounds on ν are given to assure the monotonicity of jν/(ν + α). From this it is shown that jν > ν + j0 for all ν > 0, which is both simpler and an improvement on the well known inequality Jν ≥ (ν (ν + 2))1/2.

An integral equation of the first kind, with kernel involving a hypergeometric function, is discussed. Conditions sufficient for uniqueness of solutions are given, then conditions necessary for existence of solutions. Conditions sufficient for existence of solutions, only a little stricter than the necessary conditions, are given; and with them two distinct forms of explicit solution. These two forms are associated at first with different ranges of the parameters, but their validity in the complementary ranges is also discussed. Before giving the existence theory a digression is made on a subsidiary integral equation.

Corresponding theorems for another integral equation resembling the main one are deduced from some of the previous theorems. Two more equations of similar form, less closely related, will be considered in another paper. Special cases of some of these four integral equations have been considered recently by Erdélyi, Higgins, Wimp and others.

These generalizations of Hardy's Integral Inequality are generalizations of some inequalities of B. G. Pachpatte.

Atkinson, Young and Brezovich [1: 1983] gave a formula for the potential distribution due to a circular disc condenser with arbitrary spacing parameter к (the ratio of separation of the discs to their radius). This was simpler to calculate than the formulation which I gave in [8: 1949]; but unfortunately it fails to satisfy two requirements, as the present paper shows. Together with [8], this paper shows that the potential formulated in [8] satisfies all requirements.

In [2], Fabrikant and his colleagues obtain a closed form solution to a generalized potential problem for a surface of revolution. This they specialize to solve three electrostatic problems for a spherical cap, including one for which the boundary conditions are not axisymmetric. In all three the solutions are expressed in terms of elementary functions.

One of the inequalities recently found by Cochran and Lee([1], theorem 1) is the following.

If γ and p are real numbers with p > 0, and f(t) is measurable and non-negative on (0, ∞), then

Extensions of the integral version of Hardy's Inequality were given by Kadlec and Kufner (1967) and by Copson (1976). This paper provides several levels of further generalization of their results, obtained mostly by specializing four main inequalities. Most of the inequalities have the form ∥Kf∥ ≤ C ∥f∥, where K is an integral transform and ∥.∥ is a generalized Lp-norm; some have the inequality sign reversed. Best possible constants C are obtained in several cases, under mild extra hypotheses.

This paper is a continuation of (3), in which we proved extensions, to generalized Stieltjes transforms, of some inversion theorems of Widder(l) for ordinary Stieltjes transforms. The numbering of formulae, lemmas and theorems continues on consecutively from that in (3). The last formula in (3) is numbered (32), and the last lemma or theorem is Theorem 18.

Recently there have appeared papers ([7], [8]; also see [9]) in which integral equations with kernels involving the confluent hypergeometric function

have been studied. These equations are mainly Volterra equations of the first kind except that they have infinite domain (0, ∞). The rest are of the related type with integrals over (x, ∞) instead of (0, x); and all are convolution equations.