On the solution of boundary value problems of mechanics for the Poisson equation and related equations

To a boundary value problem, we assign an auxiliary problem of determining the spectrum of eigenfunctions and eigenvalues (EFV). After the main problem has been reduced to a form with homogeneous boundary conditions, it becomes possible to prove theorems about the formulas for the solution of the boundary value problem with linear equations of elliptic type for multidimensional multiply connected domains by using the spectral expansion in the Fourier series. We find conditions under which the action of second-order differential operators on the obtained solutions in the Fourier series can be computed not only in the interior of the domain but also on its boundary. But if these conditions are not satisfied, then the series for second-order differential operators do not converge on the boundary. The proposed method for the expansion in the EFV can be used not only in plane but also in spatial problems if the domain of complicated shape can be represented as a combination of bounded domains with known EFV spectra. As one of the examples, we consider the problem of torsion of an elastic rod whose cross-section consists of a rectangle and a half-disk.     

A novel method of solving the exact equations for capillary-gravity waves

A new method is presented for the computation of two-dimensional periodicprogressive surface waves propagating under the combined influence of gravity and surfacetension.The nonlinear surface is expressed by Fourier series with finite number of terms,after the computational domain is transformed into a unit circle.The dynamic boundaryequation is used in its exact nonlinear form and the coefficients of Fourier series are foundby the Nweton-Raphson method successively.This is a neat method,Yielding highprescision with little computational effort.     

BOUNDARY INTEGRAL FORMULAS FOR ELASTIC PLANE PROBLEM OF EXTERIOR CIRCULAR DOMAIN

After the stress function and the normal derivative on the boundary for the plane problem of exterior circular domain are expanded into Laurent series, comparing them with the Laurent series of the complex stress function and making use of some formulas in Fourier series and the convolutions, the boundary integral formula of the stress function is derived further. Then the stress function can be obtained directly by the integration of the stress function and its normal derivative on the boundary. Some examples are given. It shows that the boundary integral formula of the stress function is convenient to be used for solving the elastic plane problem of exterior circular domain.     

具有 Cauchy-Ventcel边界条件的有界域中亚临界半线性波方程的稳定与控制

We analyze the exponential decay property of solutions of the semilinear wave equation in bounded domain Ω of R^N with a damping term which is effective on the exterior of a ball and boundary conditions of the Cauchy-Ventcel type. Under suitable and natural assumptions on the nonlinearity, we prove that the exponential decay holds locally uniformly for finite energy solutions provided the nonlinearity is subcritical at infinity. Subcriticality means, roughly speaking, that the nonlinearity grows at infinity at most as a power p 〈 5. The results obtained in R^3 and RN by B. Dehman, G. Lebeau and E. Zuazua on the inequalities of the classical energy （which estimate the total energy of solutions in terms of the energy localized in the exterior of a ball） and on Strichartz＇s estimates, allow us to give an application to the stabilization controllability of the semilinear wave equation in a bounded domain of R^N with a subcritical nonlinearity on the domain and its boundary, and conditions on the boundary of Cauchy-Ventcel type.     

Finite elements for exterior problems using integral equations

We present some integral methods for exterior problems for the Laplace equation. Then we give finite element approximations for these equations and some errors estimates. Finally, we indicate how these integral equations can be coupled with a usual finite element method on a bounded domain to solve an exterior non-linear problem which is linear far away.     

Helmholtz边界积分方程中奇异积分间接求解方法

提出了间接求解传统Helmholtz边界积分方程CBIE的强奇异积分和自由项系数,以及Burton-Miller边界积分方程BMBIE中的超强奇异积分的特解法。对于声场的内域问题,给出了满足Helmholtz控制方程的特解,间接求出了CBIE中的强奇异积分和自由项系数。对于声场外域对应的BMBIE中的超强奇异积分,按Guiggiani方法计算其柯西主值积分需要进行泰勒级数展开的高阶近似,公式繁复,实施困难。本文给出了满足Helmholtz控制方程和Sommerfeld散射条件的特解,提出了间接求出超强奇异积分的方法。推导了轴对称结构外场问题的强奇异积分中的柯西主值积分表达式,并通过轴对称问题算例证明了本文方法的高效性。数值结果表明,对于内域问题,采用本文特解法的计算结果优于直接求解强奇异积分和自由项系数的结果,且本文的特解法可避免针对具体几何信息计算自由项系数,因而具有更好的适用性。对于外域问题,两者精度相当,但本文的特解法可避免对核函数进行高阶泰勒级数展开,更易于数值实施。     

Wave equations and reaction-diffusion equations with several nonlinear source terms

The initial boundary value problem of wave equations and reaction-diffusion equations with several nonlinear source terms in a bounded domain is studied by potential well method.The invariance of some sets under the flow of these problems and the vac- uum isolation of solutions are obtained by introducing a family of potential wells.Then the threshold result of global existence and nonexistence of solutions are given.Finally, the problem with critical initial conditions are discussed.     

An embedding method for modeling micromechanical behavior and macroscopic properties of composite materials

This paper presents a numerical method for modeling the micromechanical behavior and macroscopic properties of fiber-reinforced composites and perforated materials. The material is modeled by a finite rectangular domain containing multiple circular holes and elastic inclusions. The rectangular domain is assumed to be embedded within a larger circular domain with fictitious boundary loading represented by truncated Fourier series. The analytical solution for the complementary problem of a circular domain containing holes and inclusions is obtained by using a combination of the series expansion technique with a direct boundary integral method. The boundary conditions on the physical external boundary are satisfied by adopting an overspecification technique based on a least squares approximation. All of the integrals arising in the method can be evaluated analytically. As a result, the elastic fields and effective properties can be expressed explicitly in terms of the coefficients in the series expansions. Several numerical experiments are conducted to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the numerical method and to demonstrate its application in determination of the macroscopic properties of composite materials.     

Lane-Emden equations of second kind modelling thermal explosion in infinite cylinder and sphere

We study a modified version of the Lane-Emden equation of the second kind modelling a thermal explosion in an infinite cylinder and a sphere. We first show that the solution to the relevant boundary value problem is bounded and that the solutions are monotone decreasing. The upper bound, the value of the solution at zero, can be approximated analytically in terms of the physical parameters. We obtain solutions to the boundary value problem, using both the Taylor series （which work well for weak nonlinearity） and the b-expansion method （valid for strong nonlinearity）. From here, we are able to deduce the qualitative behavior of the solution profiles with a change in any one of the physical parameters.     

Exact solutions for fractional diffusion equation in a bounded domain with different boundary conditions

We give an analytical treatment of a time fractional diffusion equation with Caputo time-fractional derivative in a bounded domain with different boundary conditions. We use the Fourier method of separation of variables and Laplace transform method. The solution is obtained in terms of the Mittag-Leffler-type functions and complete set of eigenfunctions of the Sturm–Liouville problem. Such problems can be used in the context of anomalous diffusion in complex media, as well as for modeling voltammetric experiment in limiting diffusion space.     

圆外Stokes问题的边界积分公式

针对圆外区域的Stokes问题,利用Fourier展开法,通过自然边界归化得到了一个只与边界速度有关的Stokes问题的边界积分公式.根据此公式及边界速度值,求得区域内速度及压力分布的解析表达式,并通过数值积分的方法进行求解,计算量小,所得速度及压力分布图曲线光滑.最后借助流体软件进行数值计算,结果验证了边界积分公式的正确性、可行性.     

Radiation from a sphere in compressible plasma

Summary The Hansen's vector wave functions have been modified so it could apply directly for the solution of general exterior boundary value problems in compressible plasma for a spherical geometry. The vector wave functionL has been included to represent an acoustic wave and the three angular orthogonal functions have been defined using complex Fourier series in the azymuthal direction. Using this modified method of vector wave functions, the exterior spherical boundary value problem in compressible isotropic plasma has been solved. The boundary conditions prescribed over the surface of the sphere have been the tangential electric field (or the tangential magnetic field) and the radial component of the velocity vector (or the pressure). From those four basic boundary value problems the coefficients have been derived and several particular cases has been discussed.The research reported in this paper was supported in part by the National Science Foundation, U.S.A.     

Improving the differentiability of generalized fourier series solutions of boundary value problems of mechanics by using boundary functions

We prove a theorem on conditions for the differentiation of generalized Fourier series. We show that Fourier series solutions of boundary value problems can in general be differentiated term by term only once. To improve the differentiability properties of such series, we suggest to use pth-order boundary functions. We suggest an algorithm for constructing boundary functions for classical domains. This approach is illustrated by a new solution, with improved differentiability properties, of the problem on the torsion of an elastic rod of rectangular cross-section.     

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.     

An Initial and Boundary Value Problem Modeling of Fish-like Swimming

In this paper we consider an initial and boundary value problem that models the self-propelled motion of solids in a bidimensional viscous incompressible fluid. The self-propelling mechanism, consisting of appropriate deformations of the solids, is a simplified model of the propulsion mechanism of fish-like swimmers. The governing equations consist of the Navier–Stokes equations for the fluid, coupled to Newton’s laws for the solids. Since we consider the case in which the fluid–solid system fills a bounded domain we have to tackle a free boundary value problem. The main theoretical result in the paper asserts the global existence and uniqueness (up to possible contacts) of strong solutions of this problem. The second novel result of this work is the provision of a numerical method for the fluid–solid system. This method provides a simulation of the simultaneous displacement of several swimmers and is tested on several examples.     

A simultaneous space-time wavelet method for nonlinear initial boundary value problems

A high-precision and space-time fully decoupled numerical method is developed for a class of nonlinear initial boundary value problems. It is established based on a proposed Coiflet-based approximation scheme with an adjustable high order for the functions over a bounded interval, which allows the expansion coefficients to be explicitly expressed by the function values at a series of single points. When the solution method is used, the nonlinear initial boundary value problems are first spatially discretized into a series of nonlinear initial value problems by combining the proposed wavelet approximation and the conventional Galerkin method, and a novel high-order step-by-step time integrating approach is then developed for the resulting nonlinear initial value problems with the same function approximation scheme based on the wavelet theory. The solution method is shown to have the N th-order accuracy, as long as the Coiflet with [0, 3 N-1]compact support is adopted, where N can be any positive even number. Typical examples in mechanics are considered to justify the accuracy and efficiency of the method.     

Existence of solutions of boundary-value problems for thin elastic irregular shells

We study the solvability of a geometrically and physically nonlinear boundary-value problem for thin elastic anisotropic irregular shells with clamped edge. For this problem, we suggest a method based on solving the problem in some function space other than the space of displacements and stresses. This method is based on the integral representations of displacement components and strains in terms of auxiliary functions (conventional strains). This method permits obtaining, as the equilibrium equations, nonlinear singular integral equations over a bounded plane domain for the conventional strains. The solvability of these equations is studied by the contraction mapping principle.     

Artificial boundary method for the exterior Stokes flow in three dimensions

In this paper, the artificial boundary method is considered for the numerical simulation of the exterior Stokes flow in three dimensions. First, an exact relation between the normal stress and the velocity field is obtained on a spherical artificial boundary. With the relation specified on the artificial boundary, the original problem is reduced to a new one only defined on a finite domain. After that, an variational problem equivalent to the reduced problem is derived. By truncating the series term in the formulation, a sequence of approximate variational problems are obtained, which can then be solved with a suitable finite‐element scheme. Finally, a numerical example is presented to show the performance of the method. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

The mode III stress/electric intensity factors and singularities analysis for edge-cracked circular piezoelectric shafts

This paper introduces a new analytical method to determine the stress and electric intensity factors for edge-cracked circular piezoelectric shafts using Hamiltonian formalism. The singularities near the crack tip are represented in terms of exponential series that can show the boundary layer effects effectively. A symplectic system is established directly by introducing dual vectors in terms of the symplectic eigenfunctions. The coefficients of the series are determined from the lateral boundary conditions along the crack faces and the outer boundary conditions along the exterior geometric domain. The intensity factors are determined by the first two coefficients of non-zero eigenvalue solutions. Numerical examples for various boundary conditions are given. The influencing parameters on the intensity factors are investigated.     

Radial Symmetry for Elliptic Boundary-Value Problems on Exterior Domains

By the Alexandroff-Serrin method [2, 14] of moving hyperplanes we obtain radial symmetry for the domain and the solutions of on an exterior domain , subject to the overdetermined boundary conditions , on , at and in . In particular, the following conjecture from potential theory due to P. Gruber (cf. [11, 8]) is proved: Let or be a bounded smooth domain with a constant source distribution on and let be the induced single-layer potential. If is constant in , then is a ball. (Accepted January 29, 1996)