SINGULARLY PERTURBED NONLINEAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM FOR A KIND OF VOLTERRA TYPE FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION

IntroductionThereweresomeresultsofstudyingonboundaryvalueproblemsforfunctionaldifferentialequation[1～6 ]byemployingthetoplolgicaldegreetheoryandsomefixedpointprinciplesinrecentyears.Buttheworktostudyboundaryvalueproblemsfordelaydifferentialequationwithsmallparameterbymeansofthetheoryofsingularperturbationrarelyappeared[7～11].Thereasonforitisthattheworktoconstructtheuppersolutionandlowersolutionforthecaseofdifferentialequationwithdelayisdifficult.Theauthorhasstudiedakindofboundaryvalueproblem…     

The general and basic boundary value problems of plane steady jet flows and the corresponding nonlinear equations

The general boundary value problem, including known plane steady jet flows of an ideal incompressible fluid, is formulated. The simplest problem retaining all the specific features of the general problem, known as the basic problem, is separated from the general problem. The solution of the basic problem is reduced to solving a non-linear integro-differential equation and also to solving nonlinear integral equations. Examples of flows whose determination is reduced to' solving the basic problem are cited.     

Exact analytical solution of the MHD Jeffery-Hamel flow problem

This article shows that the well known nonlinear boundary value problem namely MHD Jeffery-Hamel flow problem, investigated in recent years by many numerical and semi-analytical approximative methods, is exactly solvable and furthermore, gives analytical exact solution in the implicit form for further physical interpretation.     

高速公路沉降的非线性等阶径向点插值法解

无单元法一个突出的优点在于其只需要结点信息而不需要单元信息。先介绍等阶径向点插值法这种新型无单元的形函数构造思路，接着给出了它非线性求解平面比奥固结问题的主要方程，然后对一软基高速公路的断面沉降进行了计算，并与非线性有限元法结果进行了对比。可以看出该法不但计算精度高，而且在解路堤分级施工的这类移动边界问题的沉降时，比有限元法更方便，具有较好的应用前景。     

Singular perturbation for the weakly nonlinear reaction diffusion equation with boundary perturbation

In this paper, a class of nonlinear singularly perturbed initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations with boundary perturbation are considered under suitable conditions. Firstly, by dint of the regular perturbation method, the outer solution of the original problem is obtained. Secondly, by using the stretched variable and the expansion theory of power series the initial layer of the solution is constructed. And then, by using the theory of differential inequalities, the asymptotic behavior of the solution for the initial boundary value problems is studied. Finally, using some relational inequalities the existence and uniqueness of solution for the original problem and the uniformly valid asymptotic estimation are discussed.     

Solution of the first boundary value problem of nonlinear theory of steady-state creep for a half-space in antiplane deformation

The first boundary value problem of nonlinear theory of steady-state creep with powerlaw relationship between the stresses and the strain rates is considered for a half-space under conditions of antiplane (out-of-plane) deformation when tangential distributed forces are given on the half-space boundary. By using the introduced harmonic pseudostress function, we reduce solving this problem to solving a nonlinear singular integral equation admitting an exact solution.     

Perturbation Method in the Problem of Compression-Shear Shock Load for a Nonlinear Elastic Half-Space

On the example of a one-dimensional nonstationary problem of oblique impact on the boundary of a nonlinear elastic isotropic half-space, the question of the manifestation of nonlinear deformation effects via basic evolution equations is studied. Much attention is given to the behavior of the solution behind the leading edge of a quasi-transverse shock wave. For particular cases of boundary conditions, it is shown that the onset region of the evolution equation of a quasi-transverse wave is preceded by a series of preliminary transitions to the intermediate internal problems of the small parameter method determined by the type of preliminary bulk deformation. This deformation consistently affects the distortion of the characteristic coordinates and the leading edge of the quasitransverse process. As a consequence, the transition to the evolution equation of quasi-transverse waves occurs with simultaneous change of all independent variables of the boundary value problem.     

Analysis of velocity equation of steady flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in channel with porous walls

Steady flow of a viscous incompressible fluid in a channel, driven by suction or injection of the fluid through the channel walls, is investigated. The velocity equation of this problem is reduced to nonlinear ordinary differential equation with two boundary conditions by appropriate transformation and convert the two‐point boundary‐value problem for the similarity function into an initial‐value problem in which the position of the upper channel. Then obtained differential equation is solved analytically using differential transformation method and compare with He's variational iteration method and numerical solution. These methods can be easily extended to other linear and nonlinear equations and so can be found widely applicable in engineering and sciences. Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Motion of a vertical wall fixed on springs under the action of surface waves

A two-dimensional unsteady hydroelastic problem of interaction between surface waves and a moving vertical wall fixed on springs is studied. An analytical solution of the problem is constructed using a linear approximation, and a numerical solution within the framework of a nonlinear model of a potential fluid flow is found by a complex boundary element method. By means of analysis of the linear and nonlinear solutions, it is found that the linear solution can be used to predict some important characteristics of the wall motion and the fluid flow in the case of moderate wave amplitudes.     

A CLASS OF NONLINEAR NONLOCAL SINGULARLY PERTURBED PROBLEMS FOR REACTION DIFFUSION EQUATIONS WITH BOUNDARY PERTURBATION

A class of nonlinear nonlocal for singularly perturbed Robin initial boundary value problems for reaction diffusion equations with boundary perturbation is considered. Under suitable conditions, first, the outer solution of the original problem was obtained. Secondly, using the stretched variable, the composing expansion method and the expanding theory of power series the initial layer was constructed. Finally, using the theory of differential inequalities the asymptotic behavior of solution for the initial boundary value problems was studied, and educing some relational inequalities the existence and uniqueness of solution for the original problem and the uniformly valid asymptotic estimation were discussed.     

On the Optimal Shape of a Compressed Rotating Rod

By using Pontryagin's maximum principle we determine the shape of the lightest compressed rotating rod, stable against buckling. It is shown that the cross-sectional area function is determined from the solution of a nonlinear boundary value problem. A variational principle for this boundary value problem is formulated and a first integral is constructed. The optimal shape of a rod is determined by numerical integration.     

Elastic nonlinear stability analysis of thin rectangular plates through a semi-analytical approach

A semi-analytical approach to the elastic nonlinear stability analysis of rectangular plates is developed. Arbitrary boundary conditions and general out-of-plane and in-plane loads are considered. The geometrically nonlinear formulation for the elastic rectangular plate is derived using the thin plate theory with the nonlinear von Kármán strains and the variational multi-term extended Kantorovich method. Emphasis is placed on the effect of destabilizing loads and on the derivation of the solution methodologies required for tracking a highly nonlinear equilibrium path, namely: parameter continuation and arc-length continuation procedures. These procedures, which are commonly used for the solution of discretized structural systems governed by nonlinear algebraic equations, are augmented and generalized for the direct application to the PDE. The boundary value problem that results from the arc-length continuation scheme and consists of coupled differential, integral, and algebraic equations is re-formulated in a form that allows the use of standard numerical BVP solvers. The performance of the continuation procedures and the convergence of the multi-term extended Kantorovich method are examined through the solution of the two-dimensional Bratu–Gelfand benchmark problem. The applicability of the proposed approach to the tracking of the nonlinear equilibrium path in the post-buckling range is demonstrated through numerical examples of rectangular plates with various boundary conditions.     

An explicit formulation for the evolution of nonlinear surface waves interacting with a submerged body

An explicit formulation to study nonlinear waves interacting with a submerged body in an ideal fluid of infinite depth is presented. The formulation allows one to decompose the nonlinear wave–body interaction problem into body and free‐surface problems. After the decomposition, the body problem satisfies a modified body boundary condition in an unbounded fluid domain, while the free‐surface problem satisfies modified nonlinear free‐surface boundary conditions. It is then shown that the nonlinear free‐surface problem can be further reduced to a closed system of two nonlinear evolution equations expanded in infinite series for the free‐surface elevation and the velocity potential at the free surface. For numerical experiments, the body problem is solved using a distribution of singularities along the body surface and the system of evolution equations, truncated at third order in wave steepness, is then solved using a pseudo‐spectral method based on the fast Fourier transform. A circular cylinder translating steadily near the free surface is considered and it is found that our numerical solutions show excellent agreement with the fully nonlinear solution using a boundary integral method. We further validate our solutions for a submerged circular cylinder oscillating vertically or fixed under incoming nonlinear waves with other analytical and numerical results. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

非定常不定边界问题边界无法的若干进展

对于复杂的非线性工程问题的数值模拟,边界元法（ＢＥＭ）日益显示出优于区域解法的长处,特别是时间相关（需按时段逐步迭代推进）和含各种不定边界（造成可变区域,网络需不断重分）的情形,ＢＥＭ可显著减少存贮要求与计算量．针对非线性问题数值模拟的主要难点,即微分算子线性化,时间相关项与可动边界（非线性边条）的处理等,综述了国内外边界无法学术界的近期研究进展,总体目标是寻求一种适应多种微分算子、非线性迭代和时段推进计算效能高的稳定数值模式．     

Bifurcation boundary analysis as a nonlinear damage detection feature: does it work?

Many systems in engineering and science are inherently nonlinear and require damage detection. For such systems, nonlinear damage detection methods may be useful. A bifurcation boundary analysis method as a new nonlinear damage detection tool was previously introduced in the literature to track bifurcation boundary changes due to damages over a small region of an aeroelastic panel model. Results of this method based upon a finite difference solution showed higher sensitivities to the small amount of damage than methods based upon linear models. In this paper, four methods including Finite Difference, Finite Element (FEM), Rayleigh-Ritz and Galerkin Approach are used to further investigate the sensitivity of the bifurcation boundary for damage detection. Results of the FEM and Rayleigh-Ritz method agree with each other and also show that the sensitivity of the bifurcation boundary to damage is much less than what previously reported when using a finite difference solution method.     

Analysis of a laminar boundary layer flow over a flat plate with injection or suction

An analysis is performed to study a laminar boundary layer flow over a porous flat plate with injection or suction imposed at the wall. The basic equations of this problem are reduced to a system of nonlinear ordinary differential equations by means of appropriate transformations. These equations are solved analytically by the optimal homotopy asymptotic method (OHAM), and the solutions are compared with the numerical solution (NS). The effect of uniform suction/injection on the heat transfer and velocity profile is discussed. A constant surface temperature in thermal boundary conditions is used for the horizontal flat plate.     

Low-rank solution of an optimal control problem constrained by random Navier-Stokes equations

We develop a low-rank tensor decomposition algorithm for the numerical solution of a distributed optimal control problem constrained by two-dimensional time-dependent Navier-Stokes equations with a stochastic inflow. The goal of optimization is to minimize the flow vorticity. The inflow boundary condition is assumed to be an infinite-dimensional random field, which is parametrized using a finite- (but high-) dimensional Fourier expansion and discretized using the stochastic Galerkin finite element method. This leads to a prohibitively large number of degrees of freedom in the discrete solution. Moreover, the optimality conditions in a time-dependent problem require solving a coupled saddle-point system of nonlinear equations on all time steps at once. For the resulting discrete problem, we approximate the solution by the tensor-train (TT) decomposition and propose a numerically efficient algorithm to solve the optimality equations directly in the TT representation. This algorithm is based on the alternating linear scheme (ALS), but in contrast to the basic ALS method, the new algorithm exploits and preserves the block structure of the optimality equations. We prove that this structure preservation renders the proposed block ALS method well posed, in the sense that each step requires the solution of a nonsingular reduced linear system, which might not be the case for the basic ALS. Finally, we present numerical experiments based on two benchmark problems of simulation of a flow around a von Kármán vortex and a backward step, each of which has uncertain inflow. The experiments demonstrate a significant complexity reduction achieved using the TT representation and the block ALS algorithm. Specifically, we observe that the high-dimensional stochastic time-dependent problem can be solved with the asymptotic complexity of the corresponding deterministic problem.     

基于边界值方法的微分动力系统数值计算方法

对高维非线性初值问题,微分求积法在每一步的积分过程中需要求解一个更高维的非线性方程组,因而计算量巨大。基于微分求积法与边界值方法两者之间的关系,可以将广义向后差分方法和扩展的隐式梯形积分方法看作是经典微分求积法的稀疏表达形式。将广义向后差分方法以及扩展的隐式梯形积分方法这两类边界值方法应用于微分动力系统的数值计算,提出了一类新的数值计算方法。理论分析及算例结果表明,对高维非线性微分初值问题的数值计算,本文方法相对于经典的微分求积法具有更高的计算效率。     

非定常不定边界问题边界无法的若干进展

对于复杂的非线性工程问题的数值模拟,边界元法（ＢＥＭ）日益显示出优于区域解法的长处,特别是时间相关（需按时段逐步迭代推进）和含各种不定边界（造成可变区域,网络需不断重分）的情形,ＢＥＭ可显著减少存贮要求与计算量．针对非线性问题数值模拟的主要难点,即微分算子线性化,时间相关项与可动边界（非线性边条）的处理等,综述了国内外边界无法学术界的近期研究进展,总体目标是寻求一种适应多种微分算子、非线性迭代和时段推进计算效能高的稳定数值模式．      

PERTURBATION FINITE ELEMENT METHOD FOR SOLVING GEOMETRICALLY NONLINEAR PROBLEMS OF AXISYMMETRICAL SHELL

In analysing the geometrically nonlinear problem of an axisymmetrical thin-walled shell, the paper combines the perturbation method with the finite element method by introducing the former into the variational equation to obtain a series of linear equations of different orders and then solving the equations with the latter. It is well-known that the finite element method can be used to deal with difficult problems as in the case of structures with complicated shapes or boundary conditions, and the perturbation method can change the nonlinear problems into linear ones. Evidently the combination of the two methods will give an efficient solution to many difficult nonlinear problems and clear away some obstacles resulted from using any of the two methods solely. The paper derives all the formulas concerning an axisym-metric shell of large deformation by means of the perturbation finite element method and gives two numerical examples,the results of which show good convergence characteristics.