Simulation of domain structures in cracked ferroelectric materials

The domain structure around a crack tip plays a significant role in the fracture behavior of ferroelectrics. A continuum phase field model is used to investigate the microstructure at the crack front. The concept of the Eshelby momentum tensor and configurational forces is then generalized to account for the contributions of the polarization term. Implementation of the generalized configurational force in the Finite Element code enables us to numerically obtain the driving force at the crack tip, which corresponds to the crack-tip energy release rate. Calculations show that additional positive electric fields tend to prohibit crack growth, whereas additional negative electric fields tend to promote crack growth. (© 2009 Wiley-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Simulation of controlled uncertain nonlinear systems

In this paper a new method for the simulation of uncertain nonlinear discrete time systems is given. The problem of simulation is reformulated as an optimization problem. Using methods of global optimization, namely, interval analysis, the global solution to the optimization problem stated is computed. Derivatives of the objective function of the optimization problem are computed using methods of automatic differentiation. The presented approach is implemented on a SPARC Station using the language PASCAL-XSC. For a typical example simulation results are presented and discussed.     

Crystal symmetry and nonlinear optical properties

In an introductory section, the symmetry properties of some of the higher rank polar tensors relating to nonlinear optical polarization are briefly enumerated. It is noted that linear magneto-electric polarizability has been experimentally measured and that the reported results are in conformity with the theory. Symmetry properties of the higher rank axial tensors relating to nonlinear magneto-electric effect are enumerated and it is suggested that such an effect is possible in some crystals in the anti-ferromagnetic state. In all these studies, methods developed earlier by the author have been used.     

Controllability properties of nonlinear behaviors

This paper proposes a topological framework for the analysis of the time shift on behaviors. It is shown that controllability is not a property of the time shift, while chain controllability is. This also leads to a global decomposition of behaviors.

     

Simulation of a nonlinear stochastic ecology model

A nonlinear ecological system model is formulated as a stochastic process. The formulation traces a chemical nutrient as it undergoes random exchanges between the phytoplankton, the zooplankton, and the euphotic zone of an aquatic ecosystem. The Chapman-Kolmogorov equations are derived, and simulation techniques are used to study both single realizations and the statistical parameters which govern the system.     

A thermodynamic consistent model for an assumed transversely isotropic piezoceramic with nonlinear ferroelectric hysteresis

A characteristic feature of ferroelectric crystals is the appearance of a spontaneous polarisation, where its direction can be reversed by an applied electric field. This quantity, that has a maximum value at high electric‐fields, depends on the loading history of the material. In this paper we discuss a thermodynamic consistent phenomenological model for an assumed transversely isotropic ferroelectric crystal, where the history dependency is modelled by internal variables. The anisotropic behaviour is governed by isotropic tensor functions, depending on a finite set of invariants, that satisfy automatically the symmetry relationships of the considered body. The main goal of this investigation is to capture some characteristics of nonlinear ferroelectrica, such as the polarisation‐electric‐field and the strain‐electric‐field (butterfly) hysteresis loops. (© 2004 WILEY‐VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim)     

Solvability and properties of solutions of nonlinear elliptic equations

The paper contains an exposition of variational and topological methods of investigating general nonlinear operator equations in Banach spaces. Application is given of these methods to the proof of solvability of boundary-value problems for nonlinear elliptic equations of arbitrary order, to the problem of eigenfunctions, and to bifurcation of solutions of differential equations. Results are presented of investigations of the properties of generalized solutions of quasilinear elliptic equations of higher order.Translated from Itogi Nauki i Tekhniki, Sovremennye Problemy Matematiki, Vol. 9, pp. 131–254, 1976.     

Moduleability, algebraic structures, and nonlinear properties

We show that some pathological phenomena occur more often than one could expect, existing large algebraic structures (infinite dimensional vector spaces, algebras, positive cones or infinitely generated modules) enjoying certain special properties. In particular we construct infinite dimensional vector spaces of non-integrable, measurable functions, completing some recent results shown in García-Pacheco et al. (2009) [13], García-Pacheco and Seoane-Sepúlveda (2006) [15], Muñoz-Fernández et al. (2008) [20]. We prove, as well, the existence of dense and not barrelled spaces of sequences every non-zero element of which has a finite number of zero coordinates (giving partial answers to a problem originally posed by R.M. Aron and V.I. Gurariy in 2003).     

Strongly amenable semigroups and nonlinear fixed point properties

A semi-topological semigroup is strongly left amenable if there is a compact left ideal group in the spectrum of its LUC-compactification. In this paper, we want to study those objects, and study some fixed point property related to non-expansive mapping and other similar kind of mapping.     

Mapping properties of nonlinear integral operators and pre-Schwarzian derivatives

In this paper, nonlinear integral operators on normalized analytic functions in the unit disk are investigated in connection with the pre-Schwarzian derivative and the Hornich operation. In particular, several nontrivial relations between these operators and the class of strongly starlike functions will be deduced.     

非线性离散动力系统的某些定性性质

证明了一致指数稳定的非线性离散动力系统Lyapunov函数的存在性．由此证明非线性离散动力系统一致指数稳定等价于其线性化系统的一致指数稳定．     

Cryptographic properties of nonlinear pseudorandom number generators

The cryptographic properties of keystreams generated by stream ciphers based on t-functions are studied. These constructions are of great interest as they allow building highly efficient and secure cryptographic primitives. The randomness of the coordinate sequences generated by such mappings is analyzed in terms of the autocorrelation function. The results derived are valid for all t-functions regardless the type of construction and indicate the existence of nonrandomness. As the problem of the efficient implementation of secure s-boxes is open, the nonlinearity of t-functions is also analyzed. It is shown how some cryptographically undesirable properties, can be solved by application of similarity transformations.      

Simulation of the deformation processes of nonlinear viscoelastic media

Questions of the similarity and the possibility of simulating the deformation processes of nonlinear viscoelastic medía are investigated. Systems of characteristic parameters are given. It is established that simulation based on the same material is possible only if the characteristic time of the process is the same and the stresses and strains at similar points of the model and the simulated object are equal. The characterstic time for a model made of different material is different from that for the simulated object.Mekhanika Polimerov, Vol. 3, No. 2, pp. 221–226, 1967     

Asymptotic properties of solutions of nonlinear difference equations

Using discrete inequalities and Schauder's fixed point theorem we study the problem of asymptotic equilibrium for difference equations.