Novel implementation of homogenization method to predict effective properties of periodic materials

Representative volume element (RVE) method and asymptotic homogenization (AH) method are two widely used methods in predicting effective properties of periodic materials. This paper develops a novel implementation of the AH method, which has rigorous mathematical foundation of the AH method, and also simplicity as the RVE method. This implementation can be easily realized using commercial software as a black box, and can use all kinds of elements available in commercial software to model unit cells with rather complicated microstructures, so the model may remain a fairly small scale. Several examples were carried out to demonstrate the simplicity and effectiveness of the new implementation.     

Optimal rates of convergence for estimating Toeplitz covariance matrices

Toeplitz covariance matrices are used in the analysis of stationary stochastic processes and a wide range of applications including radar imaging, target detection, speech recognition, and communications systems. In this paper, we consider optimal estimation of large Toeplitz covariance matrices and establish the minimax rate of convergence for two commonly used parameter spaces under the spectral norm. The properties of the tapering and banding estimators are studied in detail and are used to obtain the minimax upper bound. The results also reveal a fundamental difference between the tapering and banding estimators over certain parameter spaces. The minimax lower bound is derived through a novel construction of a more informative experiment for which the minimax lower bound is obtained through an equivalent Gaussian scale model and through a careful selection of a finite collection of least favorable parameters. In addition, optimal rate of convergence for estimating the inverse of a Toeplitz covariance matrix is also established.     

An implicit degree ore-condition for pancyclicity of graphs

In 1989, Zhu, Li and Deng introduced the definition of implicit degree of a vertex v in a graph G, denoted by id(v). In this paper, we prove that if G is a 2-connected graph of order n such that id(u) + id(v) ≥ n for each pair of nonadjacent vertices u and v in G, then G is pancyclic unless G is bipartite, or else n = 4r, r ≥ 2 and G is isomorphic to F4r .     

On Finite 2‐Path‐Transitive Graphs

The class of graphs that are 2‐path‐transitive but not 2‐arc‐transitive is investigated. The amalgams for such graphs are determined, and structural information regarding the full automorphism groups is given. It is then proved that a graph is 2‐path‐transitive but not 2‐arc‐transitive if and only if its line graph is half‐arc‐transitive, thus providing a method for constructing new families of half‐arc‐transitive graphs. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J. Graph Theory 73: 225–237, 2013     

Krasnoselskii‐type fixed point theorems with applications to Hammerstein integral equations in spaces

In this paper, we study fixed point theorems and new variants of some nonlinear altenatives of Krasnoselskii type in Banach spaces by using measures of weak noncompactness. Then we give an application to solve a nonlinear Hammerstein integral equation in L¹ spaces.     

Vertex‐Transitive Cubic Graphs of Square‐Free Order

A classification of connected vertex‐transitive cubic graphs of square‐free order is provided. It is shown that such graphs are well‐characterized metacirculants (including dihedrants, generalized Petersen graphs, Möbius bands), or Tutte's 8‐cage, or graphs arisen from simple groups PSL(2, p).     

自然电位测井的数学模型

自然电位测井是石油开发中一种常用而重要的测井方法。自然电位函数的数学模型可归结为具有间断交界面条件的椭圆型等位面边值问题,在交界面交汇点处,自然电位的跳跃通常不满足相容性条件,此时,这个边值问题不存在分块H1*解,不能使用有限元素法直接求解。本文介绍这一测井方法的数学模型及数值求解方法。     

A Jacobi-collocation method for solving second kind Fredholm integral equations with weakly singular kernels

In this work, we propose a Jacobi-collocation method to solve the second kind linear Fredholm integral equations with weakly singular kernels. Particularly, we consider the case when the underlying solutions are sufficiently smooth. In this case, the proposed method leads to a fully discrete linear system. We show that the fully discrete integral operator is stable in both infinite and weighted square norms. Furthermore, we establish that the approximate solution arrives at an optimal convergence order under the two norms. Finally, we give some numerical examples, which confirm the theoretical prediction of the exponential rate of convergence.     

Locally s-distance transitive graphs and pairwise transitive designs

The study of locally s-distance transitive graphs initiated by the authors in previous work, identified that graphs with a star quotient are of particular interest. This paper shows that the study of locally s-distance transitive graphs with a star quotient is equivalent to the study of a particular family of designs with strong symmetry properties that we call nicely affine and pairwise transitive. We show that a group acting regularly on the points of such a design must be abelian and give general construction for this case.     

时间空间均为二阶的新型NND差分格式

张涵信的研究表明,为了避免激波前后差分解的波动,在差分格式的改型方程中三阶导数的系数在激波上游必须是正的,而在激波下游则必须是负的.据此提出了一种新型的无波动、无自由参数耗散性的差分格式,它对时间和空间都是二阶的.证明了此格式是TVD的,而且是推广的二阶Годунов格式.在处理有激波的流场时,此格式是Lax-Wendroff格式的改进和推广.给出了若干算例,计算结果表明,此格式不仅无波动,而且具有形式紧凑、应用方便、分辨率高、稳定性准则中的Courant数较大的优点.