A Variational Analysis for the Moving Finite Element Method for Gradient Flows

By using the Onsager principle as an approximation tool, we give a novel derivation for the moving finite element method for gradient flow equations. We show that the discretized problem has the same energy dissipation structure as the continuous one. This enables us to do numerical analysis for the stationary solution of a nonlinear reaction diffusion equation using the approximation theory of free-knot piecewise polynomials. We show that under certain conditions the solution obtained by the moving finite element method converges to a local minimizer of the total energy when time goes to infinity. The global minimizer, once it is detected by the discrete scheme, approximates the continuous stationary solution in optimal order. Numerical examples for a linear diffusion equation and a nonlinear Allen-Cahn equation are given to verify the analytical results.     

Tikhonov regularization method for a backward problem for the time-fractional diffusion equation

This paper is devoted to solve a backward problem for a time-fractional diffusion equation with variable coefficients in a general bounded domain by the Tikhonov regularization method. Based on the eigenfunction expansion of the solution, the backward problem for searching the initial data is changed to solve a Fredholm integral equation of the first kind. The conditional stability for the backward problem is obtained. We use the Tikhonov regularization method to deal with the integral equation and obtain the series expression of solution. Furthermore, the convergence rates for the Tikhonov regularized solution can be proved by using an a priori regularization parameter choice rule and an a posteriori regularization parameter choice rule. Two numerical examples in one-dimensional and two-dimensional cases respectively are investigated. Numerical results show that the proposed method is effective and stable.     

Heat transfer in a peristaltic flow of MHD fluid with partial slip

In the present note, we have discussed the effects of partial slip on the peristaltic flow of a MHD Newtonian fluid in an asymmetric channel. The governing equations of motion and energy are simplified using a long wave length approximation. A closed form solution of the momentum equation is obtained by Adomian decomposition method and an exact solution of the energy equation is presented in the presence of viscous dissipation term. The expression for pressure rise is calculated using numerical integration. The trapping phenomena is also discussed. The graphical results are presented to interpret various physical parameter of interest. It is found that the temperature field decreases with the increase in slip parameter L, and magnetic field M, while with the increase in P_r and E_c, the temperature field increases.     

Modelling dispersion in laminar and turbulent flows in an open channel based on centre manifolds using 1D-IRBFN method

Centre manifold method is an accurate approach for analytically constructing an advection–diffusion equation (and even more accurate equations involving higher-order derivatives) for the depth-averaged concentration of substances in channels. This paper presents a direct numerical verification of this method with examples of the dispersion in laminar and turbulent flows in an open channel with a smooth bottom. The one-dimensional integrated radial basis function network (1D-IRBFN) method is used as a numerical approach to obtain a numerical solution for the original two-dimensional (2-D) advection–diffusion equation. The 2-D solution is depth-averaged and compared with the solution of the 1-D equation derived using the centre manifolds. The numerical results show that the 2-D and 1-D solutions are in good agreement both for the laminar flow and turbulent flow. The maximum depth-averaged concentrations for the 1-D and 2-D models gradually converge to each other, with their velocities becoming practically equal. The obtained numerical results also demonstrate that the longitudinal diffusion can be neglected compared to the advection.     

Coupled lattice Boltzmann method for simulating electrokinetic flows: A localized scheme for the Nernst–Plank model

We present a coupled lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) to solve a set of model equations for electrokinetic flows in micro-/nano-channels. The model consists of the Poisson equation for the electrical potential, the Nernst–Planck equation for the ion concentration, and the Navier–Stokes equation for the flows of the electrolyte solution. In the proposed LBM, the electrochemical migration and the convection of the electrolyte solution contributing to the ion flux are incorporated into the collision operator, which maintains the locality of the algorithm inherent to the original LBM. Furthermore, the Neumann-type boundary condition at the solid/liquid interface is then correctly imposed. In order to validate the present LBM, we consider an electro-osmotic flow in a slit between two charged infinite parallel plates, and the results of LBM computation are compared to the analytical solutions. Good agreement is obtained in the parameter range considered herein, including the case in which the nonlinearity of the Poisson equation due to the large potential variation manifests itself. We also apply the method to a two-dimensional problem of a finite-length microchannel with an entry and an exit. The steady state, as well as the transient behavior, of the electro-osmotic flow induced in the microchannel is investigated. It is shown that, although no external pressure difference is imposed, the presence of the entry and exit results in the occurrence of the local pressure gradient that causes a flow resistance reducing the magnitude of the electro-osmotic flow.     

幂律速度运动表面上磁流体在驻点附近的滑移流动

从理论上研究了具有非线性延伸表面的磁流体在滑移流区的动量传输问题.通过Lie群变换把控制方程组转化为常微分方程组,利用同伦分析方法求得了问题的近似解析解.获得的级数解与文献中的数值解吻合得较好.另外,利用级数解分析滑移参数、磁场强度、速度比率参数、吸入喷注参数和幂律指数对流动的影响.结果显示这些参数对壁剪切力和边界层内流场有较大的影响.     

Direct solution of Navier–Stokes equations by radial basis functions

The pressure–velocity formulation of the Navier–Stokes (N–S) equation is solved using the radial basis functions (RBF) collocation method. The non-linear collocated equations are solved using the Levenberg–Marquardt method. The primary novelty of this approach is that the N–S equation is solved directly, instead of using an iterative algorithm for the primitive variables. Two flow situations are considered: Couette flow with and without pressure gradient, and 2D laminar flow in a duct with and without flow obstruction. The approach is validated by comparing the Couette flow results with the analytical solution and the 2D results with those obtained using the well-validated CFD-ACE™ commercial package.     

GL method for solving equations in math-physics and engineering

In this paper, we propose a GL method for solving the ordinary and the partial differential equation in mathematical physics and chemics and engineering. These equations govern the acustic, heat, electromagnetic, elastic, plastic, flow, and quantum etc. macro and micro wave field in time domain and frequency domain. The space domain of the differential equation is infinite domain which includes a finite inhomogeneous domain. The inhomogeneous domain is divided into finite sub domains. We present the solution of the differential equation as an explicit recursive sum of the integrals in the inhomogeneous sub domains. Actualy, we propose an explicit representation of the inhomogeneous parameter nonlinear inversion. The analytical solution of the equation in the infinite homogeneous domain is called as an initial global field. The global field is updated by local scattering field successively subdomaln by subdomain. Once all subdomains are scattered and the updating process is finished in all the sub domains, the solution of the equation is obtained. We call our method as Global and Local field method, in short , GL method. It is different from FEM method, the GL method directly assemble inverse matrix and gets solution. There is no big matrix equation needs to solve in the GL method. There is no needed artificial boundary and no absorption boundary condition for infinite domain in the GL method. We proved several theorems on relationships between the field solution and Green＇s function that is the theoretical base of our GL method. The numerical discretization of the GL method is presented. We proved that the numerical solution of the GL method convergence to the exact solution when the size of the sub domain is going to zero. The error estimation of the GL method for solving wave equation is presented. The simulations show that the GL method is accurate, fast, and stable for solving elliptic, parabolic, and hyperbolic equations. The GL method has advantages and wide applications in the 3D electromagnetic （EM）     

A Globally Convergent Smoothing Newton Method for Nonsmooth Equations and Its Application to Complementarity Problems

The complementarity problem is theoretically and practically useful, and has been used to study and formulate various equilibrium problems arising in economics and engineerings. Recently, for solving complementarity problems, various equivalent equation formulations have been proposed and seem attractive. However, such formulations have the difficulty that the equation arising from complementarity problems is typically nonsmooth. In this paper, we propose a new smoothing Newton method for nonsmooth equations. In our method, we use an approximation function that is smooth when the approximation parameter is positive, and which coincides with original nonsmooth function when the parameter takes zero. Then, we apply Newton's method for the equation that is equivalent to the original nonsmooth equation and that includes an approximation parameter as a variable. The proposed method has the advantage that it has only to deal with a smooth function at any iteration and that it never requires a procedure to decrease an approximation parameter. We show that the sequence generated by the proposed method is globally convergent to a solution, and that, under semismooth assumption, its convergence rate is superlinear. Moreover, we apply the method to nonlinear complementarity problems. Numerical results show that the proposed method is practically efficient.     

The approximate and exact solutions of the space- and time-fractional Burgers equations with initial conditions by variational iteration method

In this paper, a scheme is developed to study numerical solution of the space- and time-fractional Burgers equations with initial conditions by the variational iteration method (VIM). The exact and numerical solutions obtained by the variational iteration method are compared with that obtained by Adomian decomposition method (ADM). The results show that the variational iteration method is much easier, more convenient, and more stable and efficient than Adomian decomposition method. Numerical solutions are calculated for the fractional Burgers equation to show the nature of solution as the fractional derivative parameter is changed.     

A TRUST REGION METHOD FOR SOLVING DISTRIBUTED PARAMETER IDENTIFICATION PROBLEMS

This paper is concerned with the ill-posed problems of identifying a parameter in an elliptic equation which appears in many applications in science and industry. Its solution is obtained by applying trust region method to a nonlinear least squares error problem.Trust region method has long been a popular method for well-posed problems. This paper indicates that it is also suitable for ill-posed problems, Numerical experiment is given to compare the trust region method with the Tikhonov regularization method. It seems that the trust region method is more promising.     

DTM-BF方法和可渗透收缩壁面上带滑移速度的非稳态磁流体力学流动

研究了运动的粘性导电流体中可渗透收缩壁面上非稳态磁流体边界层流动,利用解析和数值方法对问题进行了研究,并考虑了壁面速度滑移的影响．提出了一个新的解析方法（DTM-BF）,并将其应用于求解带有无穷远边界条件的非线性控制方程的近似解析解．对所有的解析结果和数值结果进行了对比,结果显示两者非常吻合,从而证明了DTM-BF方法的有效性．另外,对不同的参数,得到了控制方程双解和单解的存在范围．最后,分别讨论了滑移参数、非稳态参数、磁场参数、抽吸/喷注参数和速度比例参数对壁面摩擦、唯一解速度分布和双解速度分布的影响．     

An analytical approximation for solving nonlinear Blasius equation by NHPM

In this article, an analytic approximation to the solution of Blasius equation is obtained by using a new modification of homotopy perturbation method. The Blasius equation is a nonlinear ordinary differential equation which arises in the boundary layer flow. The comparison with Howart's numerical solution shows that the new homotopy perturbation method is an effective mathematical method with high accuracy. © 2009 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2010     

THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF FIRST KIND INTEGRAL EQUATION FOR THE HELMHOLTZ EQUATION ON SMOOTH OPEN ARCS

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A stabilized finite element method for convection–diffusion problems

A stabilized finite element method (FEM) is presented for solving the convection–diffusion equation. We enrich the linear finite element space with local functions chosen according to the guidelines of the residual‐free bubble (RFB) FEM. In our approach, the bubble part of the solution (the microscales) is approximated via an adequate choice of discontinuous bubbles allowing static condensation. This leads to a streamline‐diffusion FEM with an explicit formula for the stability parameter τ_K that incorporates the flow direction, has the capability to deal with problems where there is substantial variation of the Péclet number, and gives the same limit as the RFB method. The method produces the same a priori error estimates that are typically obtained with streamline‐upwind Petrov/Galerkin and RFB. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Numer Methods Partial Differential Eq 2011     

Meshless solution of two-dimensional incompressible flow problems using the radial basis integral equation method

The two-dimensional incompressible fluid flow problems governed by the velocity–vorticity formulation of the Navier–Stokes equations were solved using the radial basis integral (RBIE) equation method. The RBIE is a meshless method based on the multi-domain boundary element method with overlapping subdomains. It solves at each node for the potential and its spatial derivatives. This feature of the RBIE is advantageous in solving the velocity–vorticity formulation of the Navier–Stokes equations since the calculated velocity gradients can be used to compute the vorticity that is prescribed as a boundary condition to the vorticity transport equation. The accuracy of the numerical solution was examined by solving the test problem with known analytical solution. Two benchmark problems, i.e. the lid driven cavity flow and the thermally driven cavity flow were also solved. The numerical results obtained using the RBIE showed very good agreement with the benchmark solutions.     

Analysis of traffic flow by the finite element method

A finite elernent methodology is developed for the numerical solution of traffic flow problems encountered in arterial streets. The simple continuum traffic flow model consisting of the equation of continuity and an equilibrium flow-density relationship is adopted. A Galerkin type finite element method is used to formulate the problem in discrete form and the solution is obtained by a step-by-step time integration in conjunction with the Newton-Raphson method. The proposed finite element methodology, which is of the shock capturing type, is applied to flow traffic problems. Two numerical examples illustrate the method and demonstrate its advantages over other analytical or numerical techniques.     

On the regularization of an equation of the first kind with a multiple integration operator

The zero-order Tikhonov regularization method as applied to an equation of the first kind with a multiple differentiation operator is considered for the case when the solution belongs to a class from the domain of the adjoint operator. An estimate of the error of the approximate solution in the uniform metric is obtained, which is sharp with respect to the order, and the order is established. It is proved that the proposed method is optimal with respect to the order. Unimprovable estimates of the order of the modulus of continuity of the inverse operator are obtained.     

Numerical solutions of integro-differential equations and application of a population model with an improved Legendre method

In this paper, an improved Legendre collocation method is presented for a class of integro-differential equations which involves a population model. This improvement is made by using the residual function of the operator equation. The error differential equation, gained by residual function, has been solved by the Legendre collocation method (LCM). By summing the approximate solution of the error differential equation with the approximate solution of the problem, a better approximate solution is obtained. We give the illustrative examples to demonstrate the efficiency of the method. Also we compare our results with the results of the known some methods. In addition, an application of the population model is made.