Derivation of the model of elastic curved rods from three-dimensional micropolar elasticity

In this paper we derive a model of curved elastic rods from the threedimensional linearized micropolar elasticity. Derivation is based on the asymptotic expansion method with respect to the thickness of the rod. The method is used without any a priori assumption on the scaling of the unknowns. The leading term, displacement and microrotation, is identified as the unique solution of a certain one-dimensional problem. Appropriate convergence results are proved.      

Evolution model of linear micropolar plate

In this paper we derive and mathematically justify the two-dimensional evolution model of linear micropolar plates. We start from the three-dimensional evolution equation of micropolar elasticity for thin plate-like bodies. Using the variational techniques we consider the behavior of the solution of the three-dimensional problem when the thickness tends to zero. The limit function satisfies a certain two-dimensional problem then called the evolution micropolar plate model.      

A micropolar fluid model of blood flow through a tapered artery with a stenosis

A nonlinear two‐dimensional micropolar fluid model for blood flow in a tapered artery with a single stenosis is considered. This model takes into account blood rheology in which blood consists of microelements suspended in plasma. The classical Navier–Stokes theory is inadequate to describe the microrotations or particles' spin of such suspension in a viscous medium. The governing equations involving unsteady nonlinear partial differential equations are solved using a finite difference scheme. A quantitative analysis performed through numerical computation shows that the axial velocity profile and the flow rate decrease and the wall shear stress increases once the artery is narrower in the presence of the polar effect. Furthermore, the taper angle certainly bears the potential to influence the velocity and the flow characteristics to considerable extent. Copyright © 2010 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Boundary stabilization of vibration of nonlocal micropolar elastic media

In this paper, we study the stabilization problem of vibration of linearized three-dimensional nonlocal micropolar elasticity. For this purpose, we need to demonstrate the well-posedness of the system of equations governing the vibration of three-dimensional nonlocal micropolar media for both forced (i.e. with boundary feedback) and unforced cases. We assume the non-homogeneous system of equations for the unforced (uncontrolled) case to establish the well-posedness. It should be pointed out that the well-posedness of the evolution equations in micropolar case has been studied by many authors; but, the well-posedness in the nonlocal micropolar is an open problem. Our tools in well-posedness analysis are the semigroup techniques. Afterwards, we pursue the stabilization problem and show that the vibration of the nonlocal micropolar elastic media will be eventually dissipated under boundary feedback actions consisting of stress and couple stress feedback laws. These control laws are simple, linear and can be easily implemented in practical applications. The stabilization proof is accomplished using Lyapunov stability and LaSalle’s invariant set theorems.     

A direct asymptotic analysis on a nonlinear model with thin layers

We derive an asymptotic model from a nonlinear model with thin layers letting the thickness goes to 0. Usually these problems are written in a functional minimisation form and the asymptotic analysis is performed using epiconvergence. Here we give a direct proof by extending the method used on a linear model by E. Sanchez-Palencia in [J. Math. Pures et Appl., 53, 1974, 711–740]. Finally we give an application to a water transfert project studied by the Yangtse River Scientific Research Institute in China.

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Sunto Deriviamo un modello asintotico da un modello nonlineare a strati sottili facendo tendere lo spessore a zero. Usualmente questi problemi sono scritti in forma di minimizzazione funzionale e l'analisi asintotica è trattata usando epiconvergenza. Qui diamo una prova dirtta estendendo il metodo usato su un modello lineare da E. Sanchez-Palencia in [J. Math. Pures et Appl., 53, 1974, 711–740]. Infine, diamo un'applicazione al progetto di trasferimento dell'acqua studiato nell'istituto cinese Yangtse River Scientific Research Institute.

     

Qualitative results on the dynamics of a Berger plate with nonlinear boundary damping

The dynamics of a (nonlinear) Berger plate in the absence of rotational inertia are considered with inhomogeneous boundary conditions. In our analysis, we consider boundary damping in two scenarios: (i) free plate boundary conditions, or (ii) hinged-type boundary conditions. In either situation, the nonlinearity gives rise to complicating boundary terms. In the case of free boundary conditions we show that well-posedness of finite-energy solutions can be obtained via highly nonlinear boundary dissipation. Additionally, we show the existence of a compact global attractor for the dynamics in the presence of hinged-type boundary dissipation (assuming a geometric condition on the entire boundary (Lagnese, 1989)). To obtain the existence of the attractor we explicitly construct the absorbing set for the dynamics by employing energy methods that: (i) exploit the structure of the Berger nonlinearity, and (ii) utilize sharp trace results for the Euler–Bernoulli plate in Lasiecka and Triggiani (1993).We provide a parallel commentary (from a mathematical point of view) to the discussion of modeling with Berger versus von Karman nonlinearities: to wit, we describe the derivation of each nonlinear dynamics and a discussion of the validity of the Berger approximation. We believe this discussion to be of broad value across engineering and applied mathematics communities.     

Asymptotic Behavior of a Structure Made by a Plate and a Straight Rod

This paper is devoted to describing the asymptotic behavior of a structure made by a thin plate and a thin perpendicular rod in the framework of nonlinear elasticity. The authors scale the applied forces in such a way that the level of the total elastic energy leads to the Von-K′arm′an’s equations (or the linear model for smaller forces) in the plate and to a one-dimensional rod-model at the limit. The junction conditions include in particular the continuity of the bending in the plate and the stretching in the rod at the junction.     

Derivation of a rod theory for multiphase materials

A rigorous derivation is given of a rod theory for a multiphase material, starting from three-dimensional nonlinear elasticity. The stored energy density is supposed to be nonnegative and to vanish exactly on a set consisting of two copies of the group of rotations SO(3). The two potential wells correspond to the two crystalline configurations preferred by the material. We find the optimal scaling of the energy in terms of the diameter of the rod and we identify the limit, as the diameter goes to zero, in the sense of Γ-convergence.     

Asymptotic behavior of a third-order nonlinear differential equation

Consider the third-order nonlinear differential equation

x?+ψ(x,x′)x″+f(x,x′)=p(t),     

Numerical study of mixed convection flow of a micropolar fluid towards permeable vertical plate with convective boundary condition

In this article, the mixed convective flow of a micropolar fluid along a permeable vertical plate under the convective boundary condition is analyzed. The scaling group of transformations is applied to get the similarity representation of the system of partial differential equations of the problem and then the resulting equations are solved by using Spectral Quasi-Linearisation Method. This study reveals that the dual solutions exists for certain values of mixed convection parameter. The outcomes are analyzed with dual solutions in detail. Effects of micropolar parameter, Biot number and suction/injection parameters on different flow profiles are discussed and depicted graphically.     

Flow of a micropolar fluid through two parallel porous boundaries

The present article contains the numerical solution for steady flow of a micropolar fluid between two porous plates using finite element method. The micropolar fluid fills the space inside the porous plates when the rate of suction at one boundary is equal to the rate of injection at the other boundary. The results for the fluid velocity and microrotation are graphically presented and the influence of micropolar fluid parameter K and parameter R is discussed. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq, 2011     

Asymptotic expansion method for some nonlinear two point boundary value problems with rapidly oscillating coefficients

In this paper, using asymptotic expansion method, we obtain accurate solutions for some nonlinear two point boundary value problems with rapidly oscillating coefficients.     

Greedy approaches for a class of nonlinear Generalized Assignment Problems

The traditional Generalized Assignment Problem (GAP) seeks an assignment of customers to facilities that minimizes the sum of the assignment costs while respecting the capacity of each facility. We consider a nonlinear GAP where, in addition to the assignment costs, there is a nonlinear cost function associated with each facility whose argument is a linear function of the customers assigned to the facility. We propose a class of greedy algorithms for this problem that extends a family of greedy algorithms for the GAP. The effectiveness of these algorithms is based on our analysis of the continuous relaxation of our problem. We show that there exists an optimal solution to the continuous relaxation with a small number of fractional variables and provide a set of dual multipliers associated with this solution. This set of dual multipliers is then used in the greedy algorithm. We provide conditions under which our greedy algorithm is asymptotically optimal and feasible under a stochastic model of the parameters.     

Asymptotic properties of solutions to some nonlinear integral equations of convolution type

For a class of nonlinear integral equations of convolution type we give necessary and sufficient conditions for the boundedness of nonnegative solutions. Moreover, conditions for the solution to converge asymptotically to a determined limit are obtained.     

Derivation of a homogenized nonlinear plate theory from 3d elasticity

We derive, via simultaneous homogenization and dimension reduction, the \(\Gamma \) -limit for thin elastic plates whose energy density oscillates on a scale that is either comparable to, or much smaller than, the film thickness. We consider the energy scaling that corresponds to Kirchhoff’s nonlinear bending theory of plates.     

Relaxation theorems in nonlinear elasticity

Relaxation theorems which apply to one, two and three-dimensional nonlinear elasticity are proved. We take into account the fact an infinite amount of energy is required to compress a finite line, surface or volume into zero line, surface or volume. However, we do not prevent orientation reversal.     

Existence of global strong solution to the micropolar fluid system in a bounded domain

In this paper we are concerned with the initial boundary value problem of the micropolar fluid system in a three dimensional bounded domain. We study the resolvent problem of the linearized equations and prove the generation of analytic semigroup and its time decay estimates. In particular, L^p–L^q type estimates are obtained. By use of the L^p–L^q estimates for the semigroup, we prove the existence theorem of global in time solution to the original nonlinear problem for small initial data. Furthermore, we study the magneto‐micropolar fluid system in the final section. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.     

Analysis of a SEIV epidemic model with a nonlinear incidence rate

In this paper, a SEIV epidemic model with a nonlinear incidence rate is investigated. The model exhibits two equilibria, namely, the disease-free equilibrium and the endemic equilibrium. It is shown that if the basic reproduction number _R0<1${\mathfrak{R}}_0<1$, the disease-free equilibrium is globally asymptotically stable and in such a case the endemic equilibrium does not exist. Moreover, we show that if the basic reproduction number _R0>1${\mathfrak{R}}_0>1$, the disease is uniformly persistent and the unique endemic equilibrium of the system with saturation incidence is globally asymptotically stable under certain conditions.     

The existence of global attractors for a class nonlinear evolution equation

In this paper, using a new method (or framework), we establish the existence of global attractors for a class nonlinear evolution equation in , where the nonlinear term f satisfies a critical exponential growth condition.