Minimax second-order designs over cuboidal regions for the difference between two estimated responses

Minimization of the variance of the difference between estimated responses at two points, maximized over all pairs of points in the factor space, is taken as the design criterion. Optimal designs under this criterion are derived, via a combination of algebraic and numerical techniques, for the full second-order regression model over cuboidal regions. Use of a convexity argument and a surrogate objective function significantly reduces the computational burden.     

Optimal designs for minimax extrapolation

Speckman developed a minimax linear estimator robust against departures from an assumed model. Some concomitant questions of optimal design are investigated.     

非定常Burgers方程基于POD方法的全二阶差分格式降阶外推算法

利用特征投影分解方法和奇值分解技术对非定常Burgers 方程的经典全二阶有限差分格式做降阶处理, 给出一种时间和空间变量都是二阶精度的降阶差分格式, 并给出这种降阶全二阶精度差分解的误差估计和外推算法的实现, 最后用数值例子说明数值结果与理论结果是相吻合的.     

Minimax and maximin efficient designs for estimating the location-shift parameter of parallel models with dual responses

Minimax designs and maximin efficient designs for estimating the location-shift parameter of a parallel linear model with correlated dual responses over a symmetric compact design region are derived. A comparison of the behavior of efficiencies between the minimax and maximin efficient designs relative to locally optimal designs is also provided. Both minimax or maximin efficient designs have advantage in terms of estimating efficiencies in different situations.     

Oscillation theorems for second-order nonlinear difference equations

In this paper, discrete inequalities are used to offer sufficient conditions for oscillation of all solutions of second-order nonlinear difference equations with alternating coefficients.     

On richardson extrapolation for finite difference methods on regular grids

Summary Difference solutions of partial differential equations can in certain cases be expanded by even powers of a discretization parameterh. If we haven solutions corresponding to different mesh widthsh ₁,...,h _n we can improve the accuracy by Richardson extrapolation and get a solution of order 2n, yet only on the intersection of all grids used, i.e. normally on the coarsest grid. To interpolate this high order solution with the same accuracy in points not belonging to all grids, we need 2n points in an interval of length (2n–1)h ₁.This drawback can be avoided by combining such an interpolation with the extrapolation byh. In this case the approximation depends only on grid points in an interval of length 3/2h ₁. The length of this interval is independent of the desired order.By combining this approach with the method of Kreiss, boundary conditions on curved boundaries can be discretized with a high order even on coarse grids.This paper is based on a lecture held at the 5th Sanmarinian University Session of the International Academy of Sciences San Marino, at San Marino, 1988-08-27-1988-09-05     

Oscillation theorems for second-order nonlinear delay difference equations

By means of Riccati transformation technique, we establish some new oscillation criteria for second-order nonlinear delay difference equation $$\Delta (p_n (\Delta x_n )^\gamma ) + q_n f(x_{n - \sigma } ) = 0,\;\;\;\;n = 0,1,2,...,$$ when $\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {\left( {\frac{1}{{Pn}}} \right)^{\frac{1}{\gamma }} = \infty }$ . When $\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {\left( {\frac{1}{{Pn}}} \right)^{\frac{1}{\gamma }} < \infty }$ we present some sufficient conditions which guarantee that, every solution oscillates or converges to zero. When $\sum\limits_{n = 0}^\infty {\left( {\frac{1}{{Pn}}} \right)^{\frac{1}{\gamma }} = \infty }$ holds, our results do not require the nonlinearity to be nondecreasing and are thus applicable to new classes of equations to which most previously known results are not.     

On a Numerical-Analytic method for second-order difference equations

For second-order difference equations, we justify the scheme of the Samoilenko numerical-analytic method for finding periodic solutions.     

Oscillation and non-oscillation for second-order linear difference equations

We prove new oscillation and non-oscillation theorems for the second-order linear difference equation Δ²x_n−1 + p_nx_n = 0, where is a real sequence with p_n 0. These results are extensions of earlier results of Zhang and Zhou [Comput. Math. Appl. 39 (2000) 1–7].     

Riccati type transformations for second-order linear difference equations

Oscillation and comparison theorems for a linear homogeneous second-order difference equation are proved by employing various equivalent non-linear equations obtained by means of transformations analogous to the Riccati transformation for ordinary differential equations.     

Self-adjoint extensions for second-order symmetric linear difference equations

In this paper, self-adjoint extensions for second-order symmetric linear difference equations with real coefficients are studied. By applying the Glazman-Krein-Naimark theory for Hermitian subspaces, both self-adjoint subspace extensions and self-adjoint operator extensions of the corresponding minimal subspaces are completely characterized in terms of boundary conditions, where the two endpoints may be regular or singular.     

Constant sign solutions for parameter-dependent superlinear second-order difference equations

This paper studies the existence of constant sign solutions for a second-order parameter-dependent super linear difference equation. The approach is based on variational methods on finite dimensional Banach spaces.     

Parallel difference schemes with interface extrapolation terms for quasi-linear parabolic systems

In this paper some new parallel difference schemes with interface extrapolation terms for a quasi-linear parabolic system of equations are constructed. Two types of time extrapolations are proposed to give the interface values on the interface of sub-domains or the values adjacent to the interface points, so that the unconditional stable parallel schemes with the second accuracy are formed. Without assuming heuristically that the original boundary value problem has the unique smooth vector solution, the existence and uniqueness of the discrete vector solutions of the parallel difference schemes constructed are proved. Moreover the unconditional stability of the parallel difference schemes is justified in the sense of the continuous dependence of the discrete vector solution of the schemes on the discrete known data of the original problems in the discrete W2(2,1) (Q△) norms. Finally the convergence of the discrete vector solutions of the parallel difference schemes with interface extrapolation terms to the unique generalized solution of the original quasi-linear parabolic problem is proved. Numerical results are presented to show the good performance of the parallel schemes, including the unconditional stability, the second accuracy and the high parallelism.