convergence factor


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convergence factor

The ratio of the angle between any two meridians on the chart to their actual change of longitude. See also convergence.
Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.
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We remark here that for the case of multiple subdomains, the expression of the convergence factor is too complicated to derive explicit formulas for the optimal transmission parameters by the optimization technique.
In [31], Wang and Liao obtained the optimal convergence factor of the GI algorithm for linear matrix equations.
Further, Rueda introduced a convergence factor [eta]([omega]) in the zeropoint energy of the particle oscillator.
When we use the spectral renormalization method for different homogeneities such as saturable case, the convergence factor cannot be found explicitly.
where [rho] is the called the convergence factor and is defined by
where [Z.sub.m](n) is the impedance measured when the length of data window is n, [Z.sub.set] is the setting impedance of distance protection, and k is the convergence factor, which is usually set 0.05.
Convergence factor ([f.sub.2]) is the logarithm of the sum of squared errors, calculated as the difference between standard and test samples at all time points, calculated as follows:
[mu] is the parameter step size or the convergence factor which is chosen within a range to guarantee convergence.
The "convergence factor" [e.sup.-\[xi]\] is inserted to facilitate evaluation of the integrals in Eq.
They will use a special differential exchange rate, which the government calls a convergence factor, based on an average of the dollar and the euro.

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