A moving Kriging interpolation-based boundary node method for two-dimensional potential problems

In this paper,a meshfree boundary integral equation(BIE) method,called the moving Kriging interpolationbased boundary node method(MKIBNM),is developed for solving two-dimensional potential problems.This study combines the BIE method with the moving Kriging interpolation to present a boundary-type meshfree method,and the corresponding formulae of the MKIBNM are derived.In the present method,the moving Kriging interpolation is applied instead of the traditional moving least-square approximation to overcome Kronecker’s delta property,then the boundary conditions can be imposed directly and easily.To verify the accuracy and stability of the present formulation,three selected numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the efficiency of MKIBNM numerically.     

中厚板弯曲问题的Kriging插值无网格法

基于Reissner-Mindlin板弯曲理论,将Kriging插值无网格法应用于中厚板弯曲问题,推导相应的离散方程.该方法可以只依赖于一组离散的节点建立试函数,有效地避免了复杂的网格划分和网格畸变的影响.相对于无网格法中常用的移动最小二乘近似而言,滑动Kriging插值法的形函数满足Kronecker delta函数性质,可以直接施加本质边界条件.算例分析表明,用Kriging插值无网格法分析中厚板弯曲问题,具有效率高,精度高和易于实现等优点.     

Analytical Approach for Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations of Fractional Order

The purpose of the paper is to present analytical and numerical solutions of a degenerate parabolic equation with time-fractional derivatives arising in the spatial diffusion of biological populations. The homotopy-perturbation method is employed for solving this class of equations, and the time-fractional derivatives are described in the sense of Caputo. Comparisons are made with those derived by Adomian's decomposition method, revealing that the homotopy perturbation method is more accurate and convenient than the Adomian's decomposition method. Furthermore, the results reveal that the approximate solution continuously depends on the time-fractional derivative and the proposed method incorporating the Caputo derivatives is a powerful and efficient technique for solving the fractional differential equations without requiring linearization or restrictive assumptions. The basis ideas presented in the paper can be further applied to solve other similar fractional partial differential equations.     

基于无网格点插值法的旋转悬臂梁的动力学分析

将基于多项式点插值的无网格方法用于旋转悬臂梁的动力学分析. 利用无网格点插值方法对柔性梁的变形场进行离散, 考虑梁的纵向拉伸变形和横向弯曲变形, 并计入横向弯曲变形引起的纵向缩短, 即非线性耦合项, 运用第二类Lagrange方程推导得到系统刚柔耦合动力学方程. 与有限元法相比, 该方法只需节点信息, 无需定义单元, 具有前处理简单的优势; 构造的形函数采用更多的节点插值, 具有高阶连续性. 将无网格点插值方法的仿真结果与有限元和假设模态法进行比较分析, 验证了该方法的正确性, 并表明其作为一种柔性体离散方法在刚柔耦合多体系统动力学的研究中具有可推广性.     

Two-dimensional fracture analysis of piezoelectric material based on the scaled boundary node method

A scaled boundary node method(SBNM) is developed for two-dimensional fracture analysis of piezoelectric material,which allows the stress and electric displacement intensity factors to be calculated directly and accurately. As a boundarytype meshless method, the SBNM employs the moving Kriging(MK) interpolation technique to an approximate unknown field in the circumferential direction and therefore only a set of scattered nodes are required to discretize the boundary. As the shape functions satisfy Kronecker delta property, no special techniques are required to impose the essential boundary conditions. In the radial direction, the SBNM seeks analytical solutions by making use of analytical techniques available to solve ordinary differential equations. Numerical examples are investigated and satisfactory solutions are obtained, which validates the accuracy and simplicity of the proposed approach.     

A scaled boundary node method applied to two-dimensional crack problems

A boundary-type meshless method called the scaled boundary node method(SBNM) is developed to directly evaluate mixed mode stress intensity factors(SIFs) without extra post-processing.The SBNM combines the scaled boundary equations with the moving Kriging(MK) interpolation to retain the dimensionality advantage of the former and the meshless attribute of the latter.As a result,the SBNM requires only a set of scattered nodes on the boundary,and the displacement field is approximated by using the MK interpolation technique,which possesses the δ function property.This makes the developed method efficient and straightforward in imposing the essential boundary conditions,and no special treatment techniques are required.Besides,the SBNM works by weakening the governing differential equations in the circumferential direction and then solving the weakened equations analytically in the radial direction.Therefore,the SBNM permits an accurate representation of the singularities in the radial direction when the scaling center is located at the crack tip.Numerical examples using the SBNM for computing the SIFs are presented.Good agreements with available results in the literature are obtained.     

Element-free Galerkin (EFG) method for analysis of the time-fractional partial differential equations

The present paper deals with the numerical solution of time-fractional partial differential equations using the element-free Galerkin (EFG) method, which is based on the moving least-square approximation. Compared with numerical methods based on meshes, the EFG method for time-fractional partial differential equations needs only scattered nodes instead of meshing the domain of the problem. It neither requires element connectivity nor suffers much degradation in accuracy when nodal arrangements are very irregular. In this method, the first-order time derivative is replaced by the Caputo fractional derivative of order α (0<α ≤1). The Galerkin weak form is used to obtain the discrete equations, and the essential boundary conditions are enforced by the penalty method. Several numerical examples are presented and the results we obtained are in good agreement with the exact solutions.     

SVD–GFD scheme to simulate complex moving body problems in 3D space

The present paper presents a hybrid meshfree-and-Cartesian grid method for simulating moving body incompressible viscous flow problems in 3D space. The method combines the merits of cost-efficient and accurate conventional finite difference approximations on Cartesian grids with the geometric freedom of generalized finite difference (GFD) approximations on meshfree grids. Error minimization in GFD is carried out by singular value decomposition (SVD). The Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian (ALE) form of the Navier–Stokes equations on convecting nodes is integrated by a fractional-step projection method. The present hybrid grid method employs a relatively simple mode of nodal administration. Nevertheless, it has the geometrical flexibility of unstructured mesh-based finite-volume and finite element methods. Boundary conditions are precisely implemented on boundary nodes without interpolation. The present scheme is validated by a moving patch consistency test as well as against published results for 3D moving body problems. Finally, the method is applied on low-Reynolds number flapping wing applications, where large boundary motions are involved. The present study demonstrates the potential of the present hybrid meshfree-and-Cartesian grid scheme for solving complex moving body problems in 3D.     

位势问题改进的无网格局部Petrov-Galerkin法

将滑动Kriging插值法与无网格局部Petrov-Galerkin法相结合,采用Heaviside分段函数作为局部弱形式的权函数,提出改进的无网格局部Petrov-Galerkin法,进一步将这种无网格法应用于位势问题,并推导相应的离散方程.因为滑动Kriging插值法构造的形函数满足Kronecker函数性质,所以本文建立的改进的无网格局部Petrov-Galerkin法可以像有限元法一样直接施加边界条件;由于采用Heaviside分段函数作为局部弱形式的权函数,因此在计算刚度矩阵时只涉及边界积分,而没有区域积分.此外,还对本方法中一些重要参数的选取进行了研究.数值算例表明,本文建立的改进的无网格局部Petrov-Galerkin法具有数值实现简单、计算量小以及方便施加边界条件等优点.     

Exact solutions of triple-order time-fractional differential equations for anomalous relaxation and diffusion I: The accelerating case

In recent years the interest around the study of anomalous relaxation and diffusion processes is increased due to their importance in several natural phenomena. Moreover, a further generalization has been developed by introducing time-fractional differentiation of distributed order which ranges between 0 and 1. We refer to accelerating processes when the driving power law has a changing-in-time exponent whose modulus tends from less than 1 to 1, and to decelerating processes when such an exponent modulus decreases in time moving away from the linear behaviour. Accelerating processes are modelled by a time-fractional derivative in the Riemann-Liouville sense, while decelerating processes by a time-fractional derivative in the Caputo sense. Here the focus is on the accelerating case while the decelerating one is considered in the companion paper. After a short reminder about the derivation of the fundamental solution for a general distribution of time-derivative orders, we consider in detail the triple-order case for both accelerating relaxation and accelerating diffusion processes and the exact results are derived in terms of an infinite series of H-functions. The method adopted is new and it makes use of certain properties of the generalized Mittag-Leffler function and the H-function, moreover it provides an elegant generalization of the method introduced by Langlands (2006) [T.A.M. Langlands, Physica A 367 (2006) 136] to study the double-order case of accelerating diffusion processes.     

基于指示克立格法的最佳激发波长和最佳发射波长的确定

激发波长和发射波长是分子荧光光谱测量的重要参数,它的选择影响分子荧光光谱的测量以及其后续研究的精确度。由于如HITACHI F-4500 荧光分光光度计等一些光谱仪器的测量精度达不到一些光谱分析技术的要求以及测量数据的有限,在实际工作中,利用已测量的光谱数据,通过插值生成所需要的光谱数据,就成为一种有效的解决方法。因此,文章使用指示克立格法对一定体积分数的乙醇溶液的最佳激发波长和最佳发射波长的确定进行了研究。基于指示克立格法求取的最佳激发波长和最佳发射波长分别是226.9和337.1 nm,经验证其值是准确的。此外,文章采用相对标准偏差对插值结果进行了评价。结果表明在分子荧光光谱测量中基于指示克立格法确定最佳激发波长和最佳发射波长是可行的,这为最佳激发波长和最佳发射波长的确定提供了一种新的方法。     

The superdiffusion entropy production paradox in the space-fractional case for extended entropies

Contrary to intuition, entropy production rates grow as reversible, wave-like behavior is approached. This paradox was discovered in time-fractional diffusion equations. It was found to persist for extended entropies and for space-fractional diffusion as well. This paper completes the possibilities by showing that the paradox persists for Tsallis and Rényi entropies in the space-fractional case. Complications arising due to the heavy tail solutions of space-fractional diffusion equations are discussed in detail.     

Compact and noncompact structures for nonlinear fractional evolution equations

This Letter deals with compact and noncompact solutions for nonlinear evolution equations with time-fractional derivatives. We present a reliable approach of the homotopy perturbation method to handle nonlinear fractional evolution equations. The validity of the approach is verified through illustrative examples. New exact solitary wave and compacton solutions are developed. The proposed technique could lead to a promising approach for a wide class of nonlinear fractional evolution equations.     

Bright and singular soliton solutions of the conformable time-fractional Klein–Gordon equations with different nonlinearities

Finding the exact solutions of nonlinear fractional differential equations has gained considerable attention, during the past two decades. In this paper, the conformable time-fractional Klein–Gordon equations with quadratic and cubic nonlinearities are studied. Several exact soliton solutions, including the bright (non-topological) and singular soliton solutions are formally extracted by making use of the ansatz method. Results demonstrate that the method can efficiently handle the time-fractional Klein–Gordon equations with different nonlinearities.     

Exploring a hidden fermionic dark sector

In this paper, we present a generalized unified method for finding multiwave solutions of the time-fractional (2+1)-dimensional Nizhnik–Novikov–Veselov equations. The fractional derivatives are described in the modified Riemann–Liouville sense. The fractional complex transform has been suggested to convert fractional-order differential equations with modified Riemann–Liouville derivatives into integer-order differential equations, and the reduced equations can be solved by symbolic computation. Multiauxiliary equations have been introduced in this method to obtain not only multisoliton solutions but also multiperiodic or multielliptic solutions. It is shown that the considered method is very effective and convenient for solving wide classes of nonlinear partial differential equations of fractional order.     

A simple technique for constructing exact solutions to nonlinear differential equations with conformable fractional derivative

The modified simple equation method is an interesting technique to find new and more general exact solutions to the fractional differential equations in nonlinear sciences. In this paper, the method is applied to construct exact solutions of (2+1)-dimensional conformable time-fractional Zoomeron equation and the conformable space-time fractional EW equation.     

Numerical approximations for fractional diffusion equations via a Chebyshev spectral-tau method

In this paper, a class of fractional diffusion equations with variable coefficients is considered. An accurate and efficient spectral tau technique for solving the fractional diffusion equations numerically is proposed. This method is based upon Chebyshev tau approximation together with Chebyshev operational matrix of Caputo fractional differentiation. Such approach has the advantage of reducing the problem to the solution of a system of algebraic equations, which may then be solved by any standard numerical technique. We apply this general method to solve four specific examples. In each of the examples considered, the numerical results show that the proposed method is of high accuracy and is efficient for solving the time-dependent fractional diffusion equations.     

Generalized differential transform method for solving a space- and time-fractional diffusion-wave equation

In this Letter we propose a new generalization of the two-dimensional differential transform method that will extend the application of the method to a diffusion-wave equation with space- and time-fractional derivatives. The new generalization is based on generalized Taylor's formula and Caputo fractional derivative. Theorems that are never existed before are introduced with their proofs. Several illustrative examples are given to demonstrate the effectiveness of the obtained results. The results reveal that the technique introduced here is very effective and convenient for solving partial differential equations of fractional order.     

Calculating effective diffusivities in the limit of vanishing molecular diffusion

In this paper we study the problem of the numerical calculation (by Monte Carlo methods) of the effective diffusivity for a particle moving in a periodic divergent-free velocity field, in the limit of vanishing molecular diffusion. In this limit traditional numerical methods typically fail, since they do not represent accurately the geometry of the underlying deterministic dynamics. We propose a stochastic splitting method that takes into account the volume-preserving property of the equations of motion in the absence of noise, and when inertial effects can be neglected. An extension of the method is then proposed for the cases where the noise has a non-trivial time-correlation structure and when inertial effects cannot be neglected. The method of modified equations is used to explain failings of Euler-based methods. The new stochastic geometric integrators are shown to outperform standard Euler-based integrators. Various asymptotic limits of physical interest are investigated by means of numerical experiments, using the new integrators.     

The functional variable method for finding exact solutions of some nonlinear time-fractional differential equations

In this paper, we implemented the functional variable method and the modified Riemann–Liouville derivative for the exact solitary wave solutions and periodic wave solutions of the time-fractional Klein–Gordon equation, and the time-fractional Hirota–Satsuma coupled KdV system. This method is extremely simple but effective for handling nonlinear time-fractional differential equations.