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The effectiveness of communication and data transmission systems (CSiPS), which are an integral part of modern systems in almost any field of science and technology, largely depends on the stability of the frequency of the generated signals. The signals generated in the CSiPD can be considered as processes, the frequency of which changes under the influence of a combination of external influences. Changing the frequency of the signals leads to a decrease in the signal-tonoise ratio (SNR) and, consequently, a deterioration in the characteristics of the signal-to-noise ratio, such as the probability of a bit error and bandwidth. It is most convenient to consider the description of such changes in the frequency of signals as random processes, the apparatus of which is widely used in the construction of mathematical models describing the functioning of systems and devices in various fields of science and technology. Moreover, in many cases, the characteristics of a random process, such as the distribution law, mathematical expectation, and variance, may be unknown or known with errors that do not allow us to obtain estimates of the signal parameters that are acceptable in accuracy. The article proposes an algorithm for solving the problem of determining the characteristics of a random process (signal frequency) based on a set of samples of its frequency, allowing to determine the sample mean, sample variance and the distribution law of frequency deviations in the general population. The basis of this algorithm is the comparison of the values of the observed random process measured over a certain time interval with a set of the same number of random values formed on the basis of model distribution laws. Distribution laws based on mathematical models of these systems and devices or corresponding to similar systems and devices can be considered as model distribution laws. When forming a set of random values for the accepted model distribution law, the sample mean value and variance obtained from the measurement results of the observed random process are used as mathematical expectation and variance. The feature of the algorithm is to compare the measured values of the observed random process ordered in ascending or descending order and the generated sets of values in accordance with the accepted models of distribution laws. The results of mathematical modeling illustrating the application of this algorithm are presented.

This paper proposes an architectural solution for organizing a convolutional neural network (CNN) oriented towards hardware implementation on edge devices under limited resources. To this goal, an approach to compressing spectrograms to a given size (28 × 28) is proposed using discretization, monoconversion, windowed Fourier transform, and two-dimensional interpolation. A balanced convolution procedure is developed based on compact convolutional filters, the size of which provides the balance between computational complexity and accuracy required for edge devices. An algorithm that enables convolution operations and calculation of the error function gradient in the convolutional layer in a single cycle ensuring increased performance in both inference and training modes of the CNN is proposed. The tradeoff between network trainability and its resistance to overfitting is optimized by applying the Dropout regularization method with a dropout coefficient of 0.5 for the fully connected layer.

The effectiveness of the proposed solution was demonstrated using the example of recognizing audio spectrograms of car and airplane engine sounds. The CNN was trained on a balanced dataset consisting of 7160 audio recordings. The trained network demonstrated high recognition accuracy (95%), low loss values (< 0.2), and balanced precision/recall/F-metric, demonstrating the effectiveness of the developed CNN model.

A mathematical model for the evolution of microbial populations during prolonged cultivation in a chemostat has been constructed. This model generalizes the sequence of the well-known mathematical models of the evolution, in which such factors of the genetic variability were taken into account as chromosomal mutations, mutations in plasmid genes, the horizontal gene transfer, the plasmid loss due to cellular division and others. Liapunov’s function for the generic model of evolution is constructed. The existence proof of bounded, positive invariant and globally attracting set in the state space of the generic mathematical model for the evolution is presented because of the application of La-Salle’s theorem. The analytic description of this set is given. Numerical methods for estimate of the number of limit sets, its location and following investigation in the mathematical models for evolution are discussed.

This paper presents a method for obtaining fractal signals using fractal splines similar to signals generated by fractal functions. The hypothesis about the identity of discrete fractal functions and linear fractal splines is justified. There are considered the features of planning matrix calculation of cumulative fractal spline, examples of generated curves are shown.

The given work is devoted aerodynamic properties of system of the bodies which are flowed round by a supersonic stream. The question on reduction of mutual influence with increase in the size characterising scattering of elements of system is considered. The method of construction of a grid is applied to current modeling from a set of grids. One of grids, regular with rectangular cells, is responsible for an interference between bodies
and serves for the description of an external nonviscous current. Other grids are  connected with surfaces of streamline bodies and allow to describe viscous layers about streamline bodies. These grids are imposed on the first, without combination of any knots. Boundary conditions are realized through interpolation of functions on borders from one grid on another.

The possibilities of cellular automata simulation applied to herbs and dwarf shrubs are described. Basicprinciples of discrete description of the ontogenesis of plants on which the mathematical modeling based are presents. The review discusses the main research results obtained with the use of models that revealing the patterns of functioning of populations and communities. The CAMPUS model and the results of computer experiment to study the growth of two clones of lingonberry with different geometry of the shoots are described. The paper is dedicated to the works of the founder of the direction of prof. A. S. Komarov. A list of his major publications on this subject is given.

Dynamic game theoretic models of the corporative innovative development are investigated. The proposed models are based on concordance of private and public interests of agents. It is supposed that the structure of interests of each agent includes both private (personal interests) and public (interests of the whole company connected with its innovative development first) components. The agents allocate their personal resources between these two directions. The system dynamics is described by a difference (not differential) equation. The proposed model of innovative development is studied by simulation and the method of enumeration of the domains of feasible controls with a constant step. The main contribution of the paper consists in comparative analysis of efficiency of the methods of hierarchical control (compulsion or impulsion) for information structures of Stackelberg or Germeier (four structures) by means of the indices of system compatibility. The proposed model is a universal one and can be used for a scientifically grounded support of the programs of innovative development of any economic firm. The features of a specific company are considered in the process of model identification (a determination of the specific classes of model functions and numerical values of its parameters) which forms a separate complex problem and requires an analysis of the statistical data and expert estimations. The following assumptions about information rules of the hierarchical game are accepted: all players use open-loop strategies; the leader chooses and reports to the followers some values of administrative (compulsion) or economic (impulsion) control variables which can be only functions of time (Stackelberg games) or depend also on the followers’ controls (Germeier games); given the leader’s strategies all followers simultaneously and independently choose their strategies that gives a Nash equilibrium in the followers’ game. For a finite number of iterations the proposed algorithm of simulation modeling allows to build an approximate solution of the model or to conclude that it doesn’t exist. A reliability and efficiency of the proposed algorithm follow from the properties of the scenario method and the method of a direct ordered enumeration with a constant step. Some comprehensive conclusions about the comparative efficiency of methods of hierarchical control of innovations are received.

The paper considers mathematical modeling of layered Benard–Marangoni convection of a viscous incompressible fluid. The fluid moves in an infinitely extended layer. The Oberbeck–Boussinesq system describing layered Benard–Marangoni convection is overdetermined, since the vertical velocity is zero identically. We have a system of five equations to calculate two components of the velocity vector, temperature and pressure (three equations of impulse conservation, the incompressibility equation and the heat equation). A class of exact solutions is proposed for the solvability of the Oberbeck–Boussinesq system. The structure of the proposed solution is such that the incompressibility equation is satisfied identically. Thus, it is possible to eliminate the «extra» equation. The emphasis is on the study of heat exchange on the free layer boundary, which is considered rigid. In the description of thermocapillary convective motion, heat exchange is set according to the Newton’s law of cooling. The application of this heat distribution law leads to the third-kind initial-boundary value problem. It is shown that within the presented class of exact solutions to the Oberbeck–Boussinesq equations the overdetermined initial-boundary value problem is reduced to the Sturm–Liouville problem. Consequently, the hydrodynamic fields are expressed using trigonometric functions (the Fourier basis). A transcendental equation is obtained to determine the eigenvalues of the problem. This equation is solved numerically. The numerical analysis of the solutions of the system of evolutionary and gradient equations describing fluid flow is executed. Hydrodynamic fields are analyzed by a computational experiment. The existence of counterflows in the fluid layer is shown in the study of the boundary value problem. The existence of counterflows is equivalent to the presence of stagnation points in the fluid, and this testifies to the existence of a local extremum of the kinetic energy of the fluid. It has been established that each velocity component cannot have more than one zero value. Thus, the fluid flow is separated into two zones. The tangential stresses have different signs in these zones. Moreover, there is a fluid layer thickness at which the tangential stresses at the liquid layer equal to zero on the lower boundary. This physical effect is possible only for Newtonian fluids. The temperature and pressure fields have the same properties as velocities. All the nonstationary solutions approach the steady state in this case.

Modern approach to modernization of the experimental techniques involves design of mathematical models of the wind-tunnel, which are also referred to as Electronic of Digital Wind-Tunnels. They are meant to supplement experimental data with computational analysis. Using Electronic Wind-Tunnels is supposed to provide accurate information on aerodynamic performance of an aircraft basing on a set of experimental data, to obtain agreement between data from different test facilities and perform comparison between computational results for flight conditions and data with the presence of support system and test section.

Completing this task requires some preliminary research, which involves extensive wind-tunnel testing as well as RANS-based computational research with the use of supercomputer technologies. At different stages of computational investigation one may have to model not only the aircraft itself but also the wind-tunnel test section and the model support system. Modelling such complex geometries will inevitably result in quite complex vertical and separated flows one will have to simulate. Another problem is that boundary layer transition is often present in wind-tunnel testing due to quite small model scales and therefore low Reynolds numbers.

In the current article the first stage of the Electronic Wind-Tunnel design program is covered. This stage involves computational investigation of aerodynamic characteristics of the generic flying-wing UAV model previously tested in TsAGI T-102 wind-tunnel. Since this stage is preliminary the model was simulated without taking test-section and support system geometry into account. The boundary layer was considered to be fully turbulent.

For the current research FlowVision computational code was used because of its automatic grid generation feature and stability of the solver when simulating complex flows. A two-equation k–ε turbulence model was used with special wall functions designed to properly capture flow separation. Computed lift force and drag force coefficients for different angles-of-attack were compared to the experimental data.

Functional modeling of blood clotting and fibrin-polymer mesh formation is of a significant value for medical and biophysics applications. Despite the fact of some discrepancies present in simplified functional models their results are of the great interest for the experimental science as a handy tool of the analysis for research planning, data processing and verification. Under conditions of the good correspondence to the experiment functional models can be used as an element of the medical treatment methods and biophysical technologies. The aim of the paper in hand is a modeling of a point system of the fibrin-polymer formation as a multistage polymerization process with a sol-gel transition at the final stage. Complex-value Rosenbroke method of second order (CROS) used for computational experiments. The results of computational experiments are presented and discussed. It was shown that in the physiological range of the model coefficients there is a lag period of approximately 20 seconds between initiation of the reaction and fibrin gel appearance which fits well experimental observations of fibrin polymerization dynamics. The possibility of a number of the consequent $(n = 1–3)$ sol-gel transitions demonstrated as well. Such a specific behavior is a consequence of multistage nature of fibrin polymerization process. At the final stage the solution of fibrin oligomers of length 10 can reach a semidilute state, leading to an extremely fast gel formation controlled by oligomers’ rotational diffusion. Otherwise, if the semidilute state is not reached the gel formation is controlled by significantly slower process of translational diffusion. Such a duality in the sol-gel transition led authors to necessity of introduction of a switch-function in an equation for fibrin-polymer formation kinetics. Consequent polymerization events can correspond to experimental systems where fibrin mesh formed gets withdrawn from the volume by some physical process like precipitation. The sensitivity analysis of presented system shows that dependence on the first stage polymerization reaction constant is non-trivial.