On nonlinear universal relations in nonlinear elasticity

In the theory of nonlinear elasticity universal relations are relationships connecting the components of stress and deformation tensors that hold independently of the constitutive equation for the considered class (or sub-class) of materials. They are classified as linear or nonlinear according as the components of the stress appear linearly or nonlinearly in the relations. In this paper a general scheme is developed for the derivation of nonlinear universal relations and is applied to the constitutive law of an isotropic Cauchy elastic solid. In particular, we consider examples of quadratic and cubic universal relations. In respect of universal solutions our results confirm the general result of Pucci and Saccomandi [1] that nonlinear universal relations are necessarily generated by the linear ones. On the other hand, for non-universal solutions we develop a general method for generating nonlinear universal relations and illustrate the results in the case of cubic relations. (Received: November 9, 2005)     

Exact solutions for nonlinear diffusion with nonlinear loss

Exact similarity solutions are developed for nonlinear diffusion with nonlinear reactive or irreversible absorptive loss from an instantaneous source. The diffusivity is proportional to a powerm of concentration, with 0 < m 1; and loss rate is also proportional to a power of concentration,n, with 0 n < 1. The solutions are for an arbitrary number of dimensionss > 0 withs=1, 2, 3 in physical applications. All solutions give the slug radius finite, increasing to a maximum, and then decreasing to zero in finite time. Withn < 1, the loss rate at small concentrations is large enough to ensure slug extinction in finite time. The corresponding exact solutions for gain, not loss, are given also. They become independent of initial slug quantity in the limit of infinite time.     

SPHERICAL NONLINEAR PULSES FOR THE SOLUTIONS OF NONLINEAR WAVE EQUATIONS Ⅱ, NONLINEAR CAUSTIC

This article discusses spherical pulse like solutions of the system of semilinear wave equations with the pulses focusing at a point and emerging outgoing in three space variables. In small initial data case, it shows that the nonlinearities have a strong effect at the focal point. Scattering operator is introduced to describe the caustic crossing. With the aid of the L∞norms, it analyzes the relative errors in approximate solutions.     

Optimal estimation of nonlinear state nonlinear observation systems

The concept of this work is that research on nonlinear modeling and estimation in a stochastic framework brings with it the study of the orthogonality structure of the probability densities involved. The connection is made by means of a probabilistic quantity, called the theta function, which under fairly broad integrability conditions defines the class of factorable random processes. These processes play a central role in the derivation of a recursive estimation scheme which is mathematically optimal and computationally attractive. The theory of factorable processes is simpler and its relevance to estimation practice is more direct than that of other sophisticated nonlinear approaches, such as martingales and Lie algebras.The author is indebted to Prof. D. R. Smith, University of California, San Diego, for helpful suggestions.     

A nonlinear diffusion system coupled via nonlinear boundary flux

In this paper, we deal with the global existence and nonexistence of solutions to a nonlinear diffusion system coupled via nonlinear boundary flux. By constructing various kinds of sub- and super-solutions and using the basic properties of M-matrix, we give the necessary and sufficient conditions for global existence of nonnegative solutions. The critical curve of Fujita type is conjectured with the aid of some new results, which extend the recent results of Wang et al. [Nonlinear Anal. 71 (2009) 2134-2140] and Li et al. [J. Math. Anal. Appl. 340 (2008) 876-883] to more general equations.     

An efficient nonlinear iteration scheme for nonlinear parabolic-hyperbolic system

A nonlinear iteration method named the Picard-Newton iteration is studied for a two-dimensional nonlinear coupled parabolic-hyperbolic system. It serves as an efficient method to solve a nonlinear discrete scheme with second spatial and temporal accuracy. The nonlinear iteration scheme is constructed with a linearization-discretization approach through discretizing the linearized systems of the original nonlinear partial differential equations. It can be viewed as an improved Picard iteration, and can accelerate convergence over the standard Picard iteration. Moreover, the discretization with second-order accuracy in both spatial and temporal variants is introduced to get the Picard-Newton iteration scheme. By using the energy estimate and inductive hypothesis reasoning, the difficulties arising from the nonlinearity and the coupling of different equation types are overcome. It follows that the rigorous theoretical analysis on the approximation of the solution of the Picard-Newton iteration scheme to the solution of the original continuous problem is obtained, which is different from the traditional error estimate that usually estimates the error between the solution of the nonlinear discrete scheme and the solution of the original problem. Moreover, such approximation is independent of the iteration number. Numerical experiments verify the theoretical result, and show that the Picard-Newton iteration scheme with second-order spatial and temporal accuracy is more accurate and efficient than that of first-order temporal accuracy.     

Hyperbolic conservation laws with nonlinear diffusion and nonlinear dispersion

We study scalar conservation laws with nonlinear diffusion and nonlinear dispersion terms (any ??1), the flux function f(u) being mth order growth at infinity. It is shown that if ε, δ=δ(ε) tend to 0, then the sequence {uε} of the smooth solutions converges to the unique entropy solution u∈L^∞(0,T_∗;Lq(R)) to the conservation law ut+fx(u)=0 in . The proof relies on the methods of compensated compactness, Young measures and entropy measure-valued solutions. Some new a priori estimates are carried out. In particular, our result includes the convergence result by Schonbek when b(λ)=λ, ?=1 and LeFloch and Natalini when ?=1.     

On-line robust nonlinear state estimators for nonlinear bioprocess systems

This paper presents the design of a new robust nonlinear estimator for estimation of states of nonlinear systems. Two approaches are considered based on the state-dependent Riccati equation formulation and the technique of H-infinity control design. The proposed method differs from other well-known state estimators, because not only nonlinear dynamics but also the robustness is taken into account. The proposed method is implemented and tested on a biological wastewater system. The simulation study compares the Extended Kalman Estimator (EKE), the State-Dependent Riccati Estimator (SDRE), and the Extended H-infinity Estimator (EHE) with a new proposed State Dependent H-infinity Estimator (SDHE). The results are compared for different weather conditions, i.e. dry, rain and storm, showing a superior performance of the proposed method.     

Oscillation of second-order nonlinear differential equations with nonlinear damping

This paper is concerned with the oscillation of a class of general type second-order differential equations with nonlinear damping terms. Several new oscillation criteria are established for such a class of differential equations under quite general assumptions. Examples are also given to illustrate the results.     

非线性三阶常微分方程的非线性三点边值问题解的存在性

基于上下解方法,在一定条件下,得到了一类带有非线性混合边界条件的三阶常微分方程的非线性三点边值问题解的存在性,作为上述存在性结果的应用,在推论中给出了一类三阶非线性微分方程三点边值问题解的存在性.     

Scaled nonlinear conjugate gradient methods for nonlinear least squares problems

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Steklov-Neumann eigenproblems and nonlinear elliptic equations with nonlinear boundary conditions

We study the solvability of nonlinear second order elliptic partial differential equations with nonlinear boundary conditions. We introduce the notion of “eigenvalue-lines” in the plane; these eigenvalue-lines join each Steklov eigenvalue to the first eigenvalue of the Neumann problem with homogeneous boundary condition. We prove existence results when the nonlinearities involved asymptotically stay, in some sense, below the first eigenvalue-lines or in a quadrilateral region (depicted in Fig. 1) enclosed by two consecutive eigenvalue-lines. As a special case we derive the so-called nonresonance results below the first Steklov eigenvalue as well as between two consecutive Steklov eigenvalues. The case in which the eigenvalue-lines join each Neumann eigenvalue to the first Steklov eigenvalue is also considered. Our method of proof is variational and relies mainly on minimax methods in critical point theory.     

On generation of nonlinear operator semigroups and nonlinear evolution operators

Generation of nonlinear operator semigroups and nonlinear evolution operators are proved by a different method, based on the theory of difference equations.     

Critical exponents for nonlinear diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary sources

This paper is concerned with the large time behavior of solutions to two types of nonlinear diffusion equations with nonlinear boundary sources on the exterior domain of the unit ball. We are interested in the critical global exponent q₀ and the critical Fujita exponent qc for the problems considered, and show that q₀=qc for the multi-dimensional porous medium equation and non-Newtonian filtration equation with nonlinear boundary sources. This is quite different from the known results that q₀<qc for the one-dimensional case.     

Large solution to nonlinear elliptic equation with nonlinear gradient terms

The aim of this paper is to study the qualitative behavior of large solutions to the following problem

     

Global attractors for nonlinear wave equations with nonlinear dissipative terms

We show the existence, size and some absorbing properties of global attractors of the nonlinear wave equations with nonlinear dissipations like ρ(x,ut)=a(x)r|ut|ut.