... +bi2.Instead of the distance to a feature point, the kernel now needs the distance to the feature line, thatis, to the closest point on the line segment. The value of the parameter s at this ... on the application. In our case, the sparsedata structure and the desire that the interpolation surfaces on the feature (line or point) pass through the value at the feature suggest that the ... cam_ph_d, the frequency of change of the input (in this case the target value) plays no essentialrole in the final value of the determinant denoted by te_excitation. The set of plots at the top...
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... -10 The Engineering Handbook, Second Edition A floating ground configuration is illustrated in Figure 113.12. The signal ground is electrically isolatedfrom the equipment ground and other conductive ... ground)of the node during the fault, V 0 is the array of phase voltages before the fault occurs, I is the array offault currents that will flow out of the phases of the node during the ... the secondary winding of the network transformer and the secondary network itself. When the network is 1586_book.fm Page 3 Monday, May 10, 2004 3:53 PMâ 2005 by CRC Press LLC 111-14 The Engineering...