Integral equations in inverse problems of electrical prospecting

The problem of d.c. electrical prospecting is considered. Reduction of the boundary-value problem to an integral equation allows efficient solution of three-dimensional inverse problems.Translated from Matematicheskoe Modelirovanie i Reshenie Obratnykh Zadach. Matematicheskoi Fiziki, pp. 37–41, 1993.     

Averaging the electrical properties of fiber-reinforced metal composites

Using the regular structure model, we average the electrical properties of unidirectional fiber-reinforced metal composites and propose procedures for determination of the effective electrical conductivity tensor of these materials. For the general case of packing of fibers of arbitrary cross section, the problem is reduced to calculation of some functionals determined in solutions of the integral equation of the corresponding boundary current problem for the structure. In the special case of symmetric packing of fibers of circular cross section, the solution is written in the form of series in elliptic functions.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 31, No. 4, pp. 533–539, July–August, 1995.     

Mathematical modeling of multioscillator antennas located above a real Earth

A method is proposed for calculating the current distribution and the main electrical characteristics of arbitrarily oriented multioscillator antennas above a plane Earth. The boundary-value problem is reduced to a system of Gallen integral equations, which is solved by Galerkin's method with self-regularization. The saddle-point method is used to evaluate the Sommerfeld integrals for the far-zone field. Numerical results are presented.Translated from Matematicheskie Modeli Estestvoznaniya, Published by Moscow University, Moscow, 1995, pp. 77–85.     

Necessary conditions of optimality in constrained planar domain optimization

The article considers optimization of the shape of a planar domain with an integral functional subject to integral inequality constraints and constraints on domain location. The boundary-value problem is a Dirichlet problem for a quasilinear elliptical equation. A method is proposed for deriving necessary conditions of optimality for problems of this kind.Translated from Nelineinye Dinamicheskie Sistemy: Kachestvennyi Analiz i Upravlenie — Sbornik Trudov, No. 3, pp. 22–29, 1993.     

Numerical solutions of the first boundary-value problem for the telegraph equation on open contours

The first plane initial—boundary-value problem for the telegraph equation is reduced by a Chebyshev—Laguerre temporal integral transform to a sequence of stationary boundary-value problems for elliptic equations. Their solutions are sought in integral form. This leads to a recursive sequence of integral equations of the first kind that are solved by the collocation method with isolation of singularities. The sought function is determined by the inverse transform.Translated from Vychislitel'naya i Prikladnaya Matematika, No. 72, pp. 57–62, 1990.     

Linearization method in two-dimensional inverse problem of magnetotelluric sounding

An algorithm is described for the two-dimensional inverse problem of magnetotelluric sounding with E-polarization, based on minimization of the Tikhonov smoothing functional by the Newton—Kantorovich method (linearization method). The method of integral equations is used in the algorithm to solve the direct problem of magnetotelluric sounding. An iterative method is constructed for the solution of the integral equation in the direct problem and a rate of convergence bound is derived for this method.Translated from Metody Matematicheskogo Modelirovaniya, Avtomatizatsiya Obrabotki Nablyudenii i Ikh Primeneniya, pp. 199–215, 1986.     

Action of a shear stress pulse on the surface of a viscoelastic anisotropic half-space

The boundary value problem of the behavior of a viscoelastic half-space subjected to a surface shear stress pulse is solved in the linear formulation on the basis of dynamical correspondence principle. The medium occupying the half-space possesses the property of transverse isotropy. The exact solution of the problem is obtained using integral transforms. The solution is analyzed with reference to a Maxwell-Voigt model.Moscow Region. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 933–937, September–October, 1969.     

Torsional oscillations of a circular stamp on an elastic layer with a cylindrical cavity

The problem of torsional oscillations of a stamp that is linked with an elastic stratum which contains a cylindrical cavity is considered. The problem is formulated in the form of conjugate integral equations that are related to the integral Weber transforms. The conjugate equations are reduced to an equivalent Fredholm equation of the second kind.Translated from Dinamicheskie Sistemy, No. 9, pp. 54–59, 1990.     

Averaging the electrical properties of fiber-reinforced metal composites with hollow fibers

We consider the problem of determining the effective electrical conductivity tensor of a metal composite with ideal (biperiodic) packing of the fibers. We assume that the transverse cross sections of the fiber are concentric circular rings and have identical electrical conductivity. We look for a solution in the form of a series in Weierstrassian elliptic functions with subsequent averaging of the electrical properties of the structure.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 33, No. 3, pp. 377–383, May–June, 1997.     

Boundary-Value Problems for Second-Order Equations and for Systems of First-Order Equations

The oblique derivative problem for harmonic functions under violation of the Shapiro–Lopatinsky condition is considered as well as some multi-dimensional analogues of the Cauchy–Riemann system. These problems are reduced to nonelliptic pseudo-differential equations. A method generalizing the regularization of singular integral equations is also presented.     

Extension of a piezoceramic bimorph with a crack crossing the interface

We consider the boundary-value problem of electroelasticity for a composite plate weakened by a crack crossing the line joining the media. The initial boundary-value problem, is reduced to a mixed system of singular integral and algebraic equations. We present the calculation results characterizing the variation in the stress intensity factors as a function of the opening angle of a segmented crack for different types of loading.Translated from Mekhanika Kompozitnykh Materialov, Vol. 33, No. 4, pp. 482–488, July–August 1997.     

On the reduction principle in the theory of stability of motion

This paper deals with the development of Lyapunov's idea of reducing the problem of stability of the trivial solution of a system of higher-order differential equations to a similar problem for a system of lower order. Special attention is paid to the application of integral manifolds and approximate integral manifolds.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 45, No. 12, pp. 1653–1660, December, 1993.     

Constructing integral matrices with given line sums

D. Gale, in 1957 and H.J. Ryser, in 1963, independently proved the famous Gale–Ryser theorem on the existence of (0, 1)–matrices with prescribed row and column sums. Around the same time, in 1968, Mirsky solved the more general problem of finding conditions for the existence of a nonnegative integral matrix with entries less than or equal to p and prescribed row and column sums. Using the results of Mirsky, Brualdi shows that a modified version of the domination condition of Gale–Ryser is still necessary and sufficient for the existence of a matrix under the same constraints. In this article we prove another extension of Gale–Ryser’s domination condition. Furthermore we present a method to build nonnegative integral matrices with entries less than or equal to p and prescribed row and column sums.     

Transformation of a singular boundary-value problem on a half-line to an integral equation with a discontinuous operator

An investigation of a boundary-value problem on a half-line for a nonlinear ordinary second order differential equation whose free term has a discontinuity in a strip. A method is proposed for the transformation of the boundary-value problem into an integral equation with a discontinuous operator. Some results have recently been obtained concerning the existence, the comparison, and integral representations of solutions of this integral equation.Translated from Matematicheskie Zematki, Vol. 9, No. 1, pp. 77–82, January, 1971.     

Integral manifolds of systems of differential equations with a random right-hand side in a Banach space

The concept of an integral manifold of a system of differential equations with a random right-hand side is introduced. The problem of the existence of an integral manifold of a certain class of differential equations in a Banach space and several of its properties are investigated.Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 44, No. 1, pp. 17–21, January, 1992.     

Generalized intersection bodies

We study the structures of two types of generalizations of intersection-bodies and the problem of whether they are in fact equivalent. Intersection-bodies were introduced by Lutwak and played a key role in the solution of the Busemann–Petty problem. A natural geometric generalization of this problem considered by Zhang, led him to introduce one type of generalized intersection-bodies. A second type was introduced by Koldobsky, who studied a different analytic generalization of this problem. Koldobsky also studied the connection between these two types of bodies, and noted that an equivalence between these two notions would completely settle the unresolved cases in the generalized Busemann–Petty problem. We show that these classes share many identical structural properties, proving the same results using integral geometry techniques for Zhang's class and Fourier transform techniques for Koldobsky's class. Using a functional analytic approach, we give several surprising equivalent formulations for the equivalence problem, which reveal a deep connection to several fundamental problems in the integral geometry of the Grassmann manifold.     

Integral representation of an analytic function in a ring and its applications

An integral representation of an analytic function in a ring with corresponding limit values on the boundary is obtained. A new singular integral equation is suggested and solved in quadratures by using an integral representation and by complete investigation of the Cárleman problem for a ring (in the normal case).Translated from Ukrainskii Matematicheskii Zhurnal, Vol. 47, No. 3, pp. 322–329, March, 1995.     

A solution method for the inverse problem of magnetotelluric sounding

We consider the inverse problem of magnetotelluric sounding for integral conductivity. The problem is proved to be stable to changes in input data.Translated from Vychislitel'naya Matematika i Matematicheskoe Obespechenie EVM, pp. 165–174, 1985.     

Integral Equation for the Spinor Amplitude of a Dirac Particle in a Curved Space–Time

We obtain a system of integral equations for the spinor amplitude of a wave packet describing a massive neutral Dirac particle in a curved space–time with an arbitrary geometry. This equation permits describing the spin dynamics of fermions in gravitational fields adequately to the quantum nature of spin. We consider a specific example of the Kerr–Schild metric. We also discuss the problem of massive neutrino oscillations in an external gravitational field.     

An axisymmetric problem of viscoelasticity

The problem of a long hollow viscoelastic cylinder, enclosed in an elastic shell and loaded by internal pressure, is considered. Two cases are investigated: 1) the shear and volume relaxation kernels are proportional; 2) the shear and volume creep kernels are proportional. Resolving integral equations with singular kernels of a nondifference type are obtained and a method of solution is proposed. The convergence of the method is proved.Lomonosov Moscow State University. Translated from Mekhanika Polimerov, No. 5, pp. 798–805, September–October, 1969.