New Approach to Solving a Two-Dimensional Problem for an Orthotropic Plate

A new approach to solving a two-dimensional problem for an orthotropic multiply connected plate is proposed in place of the standard approach which reduces the problem to integrating a fourth-order differential equation. The new method reduces the problem to integrating second-order differential equations that can be solved successively using a perturbation technique.     

Topologie locale des méthodes de Newton cubiques: plan dynamique

For a cubic Newton map N, we obtain the following theorems: 1) The boundary of the immediate basin of each fixed critical point is locally connected. 2) The Julia set J(N) is locally connected provided either N has no irrational indifferent periodic point or N has no Siegel disc and the orbit of the non-fixed critical point doesn 't accumulate on the boundary of the fixed immediate basins. In particular, in contrast with Julia sets of polynomials, J(N) can be locally connected even if N has a periodic Cremer point.The proofs rely on the construction of articulated rays which are very special simple arcs landing on J(N).     

Solving spectral problems in piecewise homogeneous media

The problems of finding natural oscillation frequencies of heterogeneous waveguides and intricately shaped membranes are studied. A numerical-and-analytic method is proposed, which consists in developing a solution in each subregion as a series in basis functions followed by matching on the boundary lines. The results of particular computations are presented. Bibliography: 3 titles. Translated fromObchyslyuval’na ta Prykladna Matematyka, No. 76, 1992, pp. 111–118.     

求解准确的表面张力—重力波方程的新方法

本文提供一个求解重力和表面张力同时作用的周期前进二维非线性波的新方法.自由表面在计算域转入单位圆后用有限项Fourier级数表示.动力学边界条件用的是完整的非线性形式.Fourier级数的系数用Newton-Raphson方法迭代求解.这是一个精巧的方法.所用计算工作量小而结果精度高.     

Analytic continuation of Taylor series and the boundary value problems of some nonlinear ordinary differential equations

We compare and discuss the respective efficiency of three methods (with two variants for each of them), based respectively on Taylor (Maclaurin) series, Padé approximants and conformal mappings, for solving quasi-analytically a two-point boundary value problem of a nonlinear ordinary differential equation (ODE). Six configurations of ODE and boundary conditions are successively considered according to the increasing difficulties that they present. After having indicated that the Taylor series method almost always requires the recourse to analytical continuation procedures to be efficient, we use the complementarity of the two remaining methods (Padé and conformal mapping) to illustrate their respective advantages and limitations. We emphasize the importance of the existence of solutions with movable singularities for the efficiency of the methods, particularly for the so-called Padé-Hankel method. (We show that this latter method is equivalent to pushing a movable pole to infinity.) For each configuration, we determine the singularity distribution (in the complex plane of the independent variable) of the solution sought and show how this distribution controls the efficiency of the two methods. In general the method based on Padé approximants is easy to use and robust but may be awkward in some circumstances whereas the conformal mapping method is a very fine method which should be used when high accuracy is required.     

Interval oriented multi-section techniques for global optimization

This paper deals with two different optimization techniques to solve the bound-constrained nonlinear optimization problems based on division criteria of a prescribed search region, finite interval arithmetic and interval ranking in the context of a decision maker’s point of view. In the proposed techniques, two different division criteria are introduced where the accepted region is divided into several distinct subregions and in each subregion, the objective function is computed in the form of an interval using interval arithmetic and the subregion containing the best objective value is found by interval ranking. The process is continued until the interval width for each variable in the accepted subregion is negligible. In this way, the global optimal or close to global optimal values of decision variables and the objective function can easily be obtained in the form of an interval with negligible widths. Both the techniques are applied on several benchmark functions and are compared with the existing analytical and heuristic methods.     

Heteroclinic bifurcation in a class of planar piecewise smooth systems with multiple zones

We discuss heteroclinic bifurcation in a class of periodically excited planar piecewise smooth systems with discontinuities on finitely many smooth curves intersecting at the origin. Assume that the unperturbed system has a hyperbolic saddle in each subregion, and those saddles are connected by a heteroclinic cycle that crosses every switching curve transversally exactly once. We present a method of Melnikov type to derive sufficient conditions under which the perturbed stable and unstable manifolds intersect transversally. Such transversal intersections imply that the corresponding Poincaré map has a transverse heteroclinic cycle. As applications, we present examples with 2 and 4 switching curves respectively. Our numerical simulations suggest that such transversal intersections result in the appearance of chaotic motions in those example systems.     

An identification problem for a time periodic nonlinear wave equation in non cylindrical domains

The existence of a time-periodic solution of a free boundary nonlinear wave equation in non cylindrical domains is established. The problem arises in the study of the identification of the coefficient of the wave equation and of the boundary of the region from the observed values of the solution in a fixed subregion.     

弹性厚板的分区广义变分原理

本文提出弹性厚板分区广义变分原理,其要点如下:1.各分区可任意定为势能区或余能区.分区势能、分区余能、分区混合变分原理是它的三种特殊形式.2.每个分区中独立变分变量的个数可任意规定.每个分区可定为单类变量区、二类变量区或三类变量区.3.每个交界线上的位移和力的连接条件可以放宽.这个原理为非协调元的厚板有限元法提供理论基础.各种厚板有限元模型可看作这个原理的特殊应用.特别是弹性厚板分区混合变分原理的提出为分区混合有限元法应用于厚板问题打下了基础.     

A Simple Graphical Method of Exponential Smoothing with a Linear Trend

A very simple graphical method is described for successively modifying a fitted trend line in the light of each fresh observation on a time series. The method is shown to be equivalent to the well-established method of exponential smoothing described by Holt. The graphical method is of some interest in its own right and also adds insight into the workings of Holt's method.     

Spectral method in the theory of wave propagation in cellular periodic waveguides

The spectral method is substantiated for the particular example of normal wave determination in a corrugated waveguide with rectangular-profile ribs. We establish the rib conditions, prove an analog of the Paley—Wiener theorem for Fourier series, and use the theorem to prove equivalence of the solutions of the original boundary-value problem and the dispersion equation. Some topics connected with the existence of the characteristic value of the dispersion equation and with the convergence of the approximate method are explored.Translated from Vychislitel'naya Matematika i Matematicheskoe Obespechenie EVM, pp. 186–198, 1985.     

Polar Varieties,Real Equation Solving,and Data Structures: The Hypersurface Case

In this paper we apply for the first time a new method for multivariate equation solving which was developed for complex root determination to therealcase. Our main result concerns the problem of finding at least one representative point for each connected component of a real compact and smooth hypersurface. The basic algorithm yields a new method for symbolically solving zero-dimensional polynomial equation systems over the complex numbers. One feature of central importance of this algorithm is the use of a problem-adapted data type represented by the data structures arithmetic network and straight-line program (arithmetic circuit). The algorithm finds the complex solutions of any affine zero-dimensional equation system in nonuniform sequential time that ispolynomialin the length of the input (given in straight-line program representation) and an adequately definedgeometric degree of the equation system.Replacing the notion of geometric degree of the given polynomial equation system by a suitably definedreal (or complex) degreeof certain polar varieties associated to the input equation of the real hypersurface under consideration, we are able to find for each connected component of the hypersurface a representative point (this point will be given in a suitable encoding). The input equation is supposed to be given by a straight-line program and the (sequential time) complexity of the algorithm is polynomial in the input length and the degree of the polar varieties mentioned above.     

Application of the method of special series to the representation of solutions of the Lin-Reissner-Tsien equation

For the two-dimensional Lin-Reissner-Tsien equation, which describes nonstationary gas flows, we construct new classes of solutions with functional arbitrariness in the form of series in powers of specially chosen functions. Coefficients of such series are found successively as solutions of linear ordinary differential equations or as solutions of linear partial differential equations. The use of special series whose coefficients are determined by linear partial differential equations allowed us to satisfy two given additional boundary conditions exactly. For one class of flows, these coefficients were found in an explicit form from linear equations of the hyperbolic type; for another one, they were found from linear equations of the parabolic type. This circumstance was used to prove the convergence of such series and to study the asymptotics of the solutions constructed. We present results of numerical calculations on nonstationary transonic flow around a wedge.     

An efficient interval computing technique for bound-constrained uncertain optimization problems

In this article, a competent interval-oriented approach is proposed to solve bound-constrained uncertain optimization problems. This new class of problems is considered here as an extension of the classical bound-constrained optimization problems in an inexact environment. The proposed technique is nothing but an imitation of the well-known interval analysis-based branch-and-bound optimization approach. Efficiency of this technique is strongly dependent on division, bounding, selection/rejection and termination criteria. The technique involves a multisection division criterion of the accepted/proposed search region. Then, we have employed the interval-ranking definitions with respect to the pessimistic decision makers’ point of view given by Mahato and Bhunia [Interval-arithmetic-oriented interval computing technique for global optimization, Appl. Math. Res. Express 2006 (2006), pp. 1–19] to compare the interval-valued objectives calculated in each subregion and also to select the subregion containing the best interval objective value. The process is continued until the interval width for each variable in the accepted subregion is negligible and ultimately the global or close-to-global interval-valued optimal solution is obtained. The proposed technique has been evaluated numerically using a wide set of newly introduced univariate/multivariate test problems. Finally, to compare the computational results obtained by the proposed method, the graphical representation for some test problems is given.     

A Cauchy integral method of the solution of the 2D Dirichlet problem for simply or doubly connected domains

In this paper we propose a new method for solving the 2D Laplace equation with Dirichlet boundary conditions in simply and doubly connected domains. Here, we apply the numerical algorithm based on truncated Fourier series and reduce the corresponding Fredholm integral equation to a finite system of linear equations.     

一种适用于非均匀地形的高阶Boussinesq水波模型

推导了适用于变地形情况的高阶Boussinesq波浪模型．该模型采用自由表面边界条件作为时间步进方程,利用势函数满足的Laplace方程的解析解形式建立了自由表面边界速度和底面边界速度之间的关系,使得问题封闭．以0.5倍相对水深处的速度为基本未知量,在对Laplace方程解析解进行级数求逆时保留水深梯度的高阶项,改进了速度场的Taylor展开式．对于线性特性,进行了线性浅化和Booij反射的验证性计算．为了检验有背景流动情况下拓展的Boussinesq模型的性态,对波-流相互作用问题进行了数值模拟．数值计算结果与现有理论解或其他完全势流的数值解吻合良好,表明该模型的应用范围可以扩展到含有非均匀变化地形的问题．     

Uncertain constrained optimization by interval-oriented algorithm

This paper deals with an interval-oriented approach to solve general interval constrained optimization problems. Generally, this type of problems has infinitely many compromise solutions. The aim of this approach is to obtain one of such solutions with higher accuracy and lower computational cost. The proposed algorithm is nothing but a different kind of branch and bound algorithm with multi-section division criterion of the search region (or box). In the proposed technique, the prescribed/accepted region is divided into several distinct subregions and in each feasible subregion the interval objective function value is computed. Then the subregion containing the best objective value is found by applying a specific interval ranking rule defined with respect to the pessimistic decision makers’ point of view. The process is continued until the interval width for each variable in the accepted subregion is negligible. Finally, the algorithm converges to a compromise solution in interval form. To illustrate the method and also to test the efficiency as well as the effectiveness of the proposed algorithm, we have solved some numerical examples.     

Resonant hydraulic sloshing in a tank of variable depth

The forced resonant oscillations of a fluid in a tank of variable depth are considered within the hydraulic approximation. It is shown that for certain bottom topographies a continuous periodic output dominated by the first normal mode is possible. This contrasts with the case of a tank of constant depth, where hydraulic jumps are a feature of the motion. The amplitude and frequency of the output are connected by a cubic equation. The fluid response can act like that of a hard or soft spring, depending on the bottom topography. There is also a critical bottom topography that yields a higher order response amplitude.     

Resonant hydraulic sloshing in a tank of variable depth

The forced resonant oscillations of a fluid in a tank of variable depth are considered within the hydraulic approximation. It is shown that for certain bottom topographies a continuous periodic output dominated by the first normal mode is possible. This contrasts with the case of a tank of constant depth, where hydraulic jumps are a feature of the motion. The amplitude and frequency of the output are connected by a cubic equation. The fluid response can act like that of a hard or soft spring, depending on the bottom topography. There is also a critical bottom topography that yields a higher order response amplitude.     

The dynamics of the motion of a flat punch on the boundary of an elastic half-plane

The dynamic contact problem of the motion of a flat punch on the boundary of an elastic half-plane is considered. During motion, the punch deforms the elastic half-plane, penetrating it in such a manner that its base remains parallel to the boundary of the half-plane at each instant of time. In movable coordinates connected to the moving punch, the contact problem reduces to solving a two-dimensional integral equation, whose two-dimensional kernel depends on the difference between the arguments for each of the variables. An approximate solution of the integral equation of the problem is constructed in the form of a Neumann series, whose zeroth term is represented in the form of the superposition of the solutions of two-dimensional integral equations on the coordinate semiaxis minus the solution of the integral equation on the entire axis. This approach provides a way to construct the solution of the two-dimensional integral equation of the problem in four velocity ranges of motion of the punch, which cover the entire spectrum of its velocities, as well as to perform a detailed analysis of the special features of the contact stresses and vertical displacements of the free surface on the boundary of the contract area. An approximate method for solving the integral equation, which is based on a special approximation of the integrand of the kernel of the integral equation in the complex plane, is proposed for obtaining effective solutions of the problem that do not contain singular quadratures.