vibration analysis by discrete singular convolution this paper explores the utility of a discrete singular convolution algorithm for vibration analysis a number of different realizations of singular convolution kernels are selected to illustrate the present algorithm vibration analysis of strings rods beams diatomic molecules membranes waveguides and thin plates are utilized to test numerical accuracy and speed of convergence of the present approach numerical experiments indicate that the discrete singular convolution is a simple and reliable algorithm for vibration analysis

numerical analysis of free vibrations of laminated composite conical and cylindrical shells discrete singular convolution dsc approach a numerical study on the free vibration analysis for laminated conical and cylindrical shell is presented the analysis is carried out using love s first approximation thin shell theory and solved using discrete singular convolution dsc method numerical results in free vibrations of laminated conical and cylindrical shells are presented graphically for different geometric and material parameters free vibrations of isotropic cylindrical shells and annular plates are treated as special cases the effects of circumferential wave number number of layers on frequencies characteristics are also discussed the numerical results show that the present method is quite easy to implement accurate and efficient for the problems considered

discrete singular convolution and its application to the analysis of plates with internal supports part 2 applications part 2 of this series of two papers presents the applications of the discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm the main purpose of this paper is to explore the utility test the accuracy and examine the convergence of the proposed approach for the vibration analysis of rectangular plates with internal supports both partial internal line supports and complex internal supports are considered for 21 square plates of various combinations of edge support conditions the effects of different size shape and topology of the internal supports and different boundary conditions on the vibration response of plates are investigated the partial internal line supports may vary from a central point support to a full range of cross or diagonal line supports several closed loop supports such as ring square and rhombus and their combinations are studied for complex internal supports convergence and comparison studies are carried out to establish the correctness and accuracy of the dsc algorithm the dsc results are compared with those in the available literature obtained by using other methods numerical results indicate that the dsc algorithm exhibits controllable accuracy for plate analysis and shows excellent flexibility in handling complex geometries boundary conditions and support conditions copyright 2002 john wiley sons ltd

dsc ritz method for the free vibration analysis of mindlin plates this paper introduces a novel method for the free vibration analysis of mindlin plates the proposed method takes the advantage of both the local bases of the discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm and the pb 2 ritz boundary functions to arrive at a new approach called dsc ritz method two basis functions are constructed by using dsc delta sequence kernels of the positive type the energy functional of the mindlin plate is represented by the newly constructed basis functions and is minimized under the ritz variational principle extensive numerical experiments are considered by different combinations of boundary conditions of mindlin plates of rectangular and triangular shapes the performance of the proposed method is carefully validated by convergence analysis the frequency parameters agree very well with those in the literature numerical experiments indicate that the proposed dsc ritz method is a very promising new method for vibration analysis of mindlin plates copyright 2004 john wiley sons ltd

on the validity of a proof that the discrete singular convolution dsc lagrange distributed approximation function ldaf method is inferior to high order finite differences a few families of counterexamples are provided to a proof that the discrete singular convolution dsc lagrange distributed approximation function ldaf method is inferior to high order finite differences journal of computational physics 214 538 549 2006

high order fdtd methods via derivative matching for maxwell s equations with material interfaces this paper introduces a series of novel hierarchical implicit derivative matching methods to restore the accuracy of high order finite difference time domain fdtd schemes of computational electromagnetics cem with material interfaces in one 1d and two spatial dimensions 2d by making use of fictitious points systematic approaches are proposed to locally enforce the physical jump conditions at material interfaces in a preprocessing stage to arbitrarily high orders of accuracy in principle while often limited by numerical instability orders up to 16 and 12 are achieved respectively in 1d and 2d detailed stability analyses are presented for the present approach to examine the upper limit in constructing embedded fdtd methods as natural generalizations of the high order fdtd schemes the proposed derivative matching methods automatically reduce to the standard fdtd schemes when the material interfaces are absent an interesting feature of the present approach is that it encompasses a variety of schemes of different orders in a single code another feature of the present approach is that it can be robustly implemented with other high accuracy time domain approaches such as the multiresolution time domain method and the local spectral time domain method to cope with material interfaces numerical experiments on both 1d and 2d problems are carried out to test the convergence examine the stability access the efficiency and explore the limitation of the proposed methods it is found that operating at their best capacity the proposed high order schemes could be over 2000 times more efficient than their fourth order versions in 2d in conclusion the present work indicates that the proposed hierarchical derivative matching methods might lead to practical high order schemes for numerical solution of time domain maxwell s equations with material interfaces

plate vibration under irregular internal supports this paper studies the problem of plate vibration under complex and irregular internal support conditions such a problem has its widely spread industrial applications and has not been addressed in the literature yet partially due to the numerical difficulties a novel computational method discrete singular convolution dsc is introduced for solving this problem the dsc algorithm exhibits controllable accuracy for approximations and shows excellent flexibility in handling complex geometries boundary conditions and internal support conditions convergence and comparison studies are carried out to check the validity and accuracy of the dsc method case studies are considered to the combination of a few different boundary conditions and irregular internal supports the latter are generated by using an image processing algorithm completely independent verifications are conducted by using the established pb 2 ritz method which is available for two relatively simpler support patterns the morphology of the first few eigenmodes is found to be localized to largest support free spatial regions

wavelets generated by using discrete singular convolution kernels this paper explores the connection between wavelet methods and an efficient computational algorithm the discrete singular convolution dsc many new dsc kernels are constructed and they are identified as wavelet scaling functions two approaches are proposed to generate wavelets from dsc kernels two well known examples the canny filter and the mexican hat wavelet are found to be special cases of the present dsc kernel generated wavelets a family of wavelet generators proposed in this paper are found to form an infinite dimensional lie group which has an invariant subgroup of translation and dilation if dsc kernels form an orthogonal system they are found to span a wavelet subspace in a multiresolution analysis

numerical solution of the helmholtz equation with high wavenumbers this paper investigates the pollution effect and explores the feasibility of a local spectral method the discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm for solving the helmholtz equation with high wavenumbers fourier analysis is employed to study the dispersive error of the dsc algorithm our analysis of dispersive errors indicates that the dsc algorithm yields a dispersion vanishing scheme the dispersion analysis is further confirmed by the numerical results for one and higher dimensional helmholtz equations the dsc algorithm is shown to be an essentially pollution free scheme furthermore for large scale computation the grid density of the dsc algorithm can be close to the optimal two grid points per wavelength the present study reveals that the dsc algorithm is accurate and efficient for solving the helmholtz equation with high wavenumbers copyright 2003 john wiley sons ltd

natural frequencies of circular plates with partially free partially clamped edges abstract the finite element method has been used to predict numerically the natural frequencies and mode shapes of a vibrating circular plate with a partially free partially clamped edge a laser holography method has been used to obtain experimentally the natural frequencies and mode shapes of the acoustically excited circular plate with mixed boundary conditions the variation of frequency and mode shape with the free arc portion of the circular boundary are compared numerically and experimentally and are in excellent agreement the mixed boundary conditions cause some of the higher modes to split into two branches with increasing arc length of the free boundary

on the free vibration analysis of circular plates with stepped thickness over a concentric region by the differential quadrature element method it can be seen the dqem retains all advantages of the differential quadrature method extends the applicability range of the dq method and is more convenient for treating various boundary conditions

a unified approach for the solution of the fokker planck equation this paper explores the use of a discrete singular convolution algorithm as a unified approach for numerical integration of the fokker planck equation the unified features of the discrete singular convolution algorithm are discussed it is demonstrated that different implementations of the present algorithm such as global local galerkin collocation and finite difference can be deduced from a single starting point three benchmark stochastic systems the repulsive wong process the black scholes equation and a genuine nonlinear model are employed to illustrate the robustness and to test the accuracy of the present approach for the solution of the fokker planck equation via a time dependent method an additional example the incompressible euler equation is used to further validate the present approach for more difficult problems numerical results indicate that the present unified approach is robust and accurate for solving the fokker planck equation

a note on the numerical solution of high order differential equations numerical solution of high order differential equations with multi boundary conditions is discussed in this paper motivated by the discrete singular convolution algorithm the use of fictitious points as additional unknowns is proposed in the implementation of locally supported lagrange polynomials the proposed method can be regarded as a local adaptive differential quadrature method two examples an eigenvalue problem and a boundary value problem which are governed by a sixth order differential equation and an eighth order differential equation respectively are employed to illustrate the proposed method

a new approach to the differential quadrature method for fourth order equations a generalized and more complete methodology for treating boundary conditions in the differential quadrature method dqm is presented this improved approach eliminates the deficiencies of the type grid arrangement which represents an approximation by applying the boundary conditions exactly two kinds of basis functions chebyshev and lagrange are used for concept demonstration it is found that the new approach cures most deficiencies of the current dqm 1997 by john wiley sons ltd

dsc analysis of free edged beams by an iteratively matched boundary method this communication introduces a novel scheme for the treatment of free edge supports in the analysis of beams by using the discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm accommodating free edges has been a challenging issue in the dsc analysis of beams plates and shells an iteratively matched boundary imb method is proposed to overcome the difficulty numerical experiments are carried out to demonstrate that the proposed imb method works very well in dealing with arbitrary combinations of beam edge supports

free vibration of plates by the high accuracy quadrature element method in this paper a highly accurate and rapidly converging hybrid approach is presented for the quadrature element method qem solution of plate free vibration problems the hybrid qem essentially consists of a collocation method in conjunction with a galerkin finite element technique to combine the high accuracy of the differential quadrature method dqm for the efficient solution of differential equations with the generality of the finite element formulation this results in superior accuracy with fewer degrees of freedom than conventional fem or fdm a series of numerical tests is conducted to assess the performance of the quadrature plate element in free vibration problems anisotropic and stepped thickness plates are investigated as well as mixed boundary conditions and point supports at the edges in all cases the results obtained are quite accurate

a ritz vibration analysis of doubly curved rectangular shallow shells using a refined first order theory integral expressions for strain and kinetic energies in vibration analysis of shear deformable doubly curved shallow shells are presented although the formulation follows the first order shear deformation theory the consideration of lame parameters for the transverse shear strain through shell thickness which have been hitherto neglected by other researchers shows linear distribution functions instead of constant values if the lame parameters were dropped finite higher order two dimensional orthogonal polynomials pb 2 functions previously used in thin shell analyses 3 6 have been generalized from three to five degrees to account for the additional rotation fields of a moderately thick shell these global shape functions satisfy the kinematic boundary conditions at the outset the excellent performance and versatility of the computational methodology of the pb 2 ritz method are illustrated in representative numerical simulations the resultant matrix size is far smaller than other discretization methods and yet accurate solutions can be obtained the validity of the results is verified through direct comparisons the discrepancy of various formulations with and without the lame parameters is presented and discussed

free vibration analysis of beams and rectangular plates with free edges by the discrete singular convolution in this paper free vibration of beams annular plates and rectangular plates with free boundaries are analyzed by using the discrete singular convolution dsc a novel method to apply the free boundary conditions is proposed detailed derivations are given to validate the proposed method eight examples including the free vibrations of beams annular plates and rectangular plates with free boundaries are analyzed two kernels the regularized shannon s kernel and the non regularized lagrange s delta sequence kernel are tested dsc results are compared with either analytical solutions or and differential quadrature dq data it is demonstrated that the proposed method to incorporate the free boundary conditions is simple to use and can yield accurate frequency data for beams with a free end and plates with free edges thus the proposed method for applying the boundary conditions extends the application range of the dsc

discrete singular convolution and its application to the analysis of plates with internal supports part 1 theory and algorithm this paper presents a novel computational approach the discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm for analysing plate structures the basic philosophy behind the dsc algorithm for the approximation of functions and their derivatives is studied approximations to the delta distribution are constructed as either bandlimited reproducing kernels or approximate reproducing kernels unified features of the dsc algorithm for solving differential equations are explored it is demonstrated that different methods of implementation for the present algorithm such as global local galerkin collocation and finite difference can be deduced from a single starting point the use of the algorithm for the vibration analysis of plates with internal supports is discussed detailed formulation is given to the treatment of different plate boundary conditions including simply supported elastically supported and clamped edges this work paves the way for applying the dsc approach in the following paper to plates with complex support conditions which have not been fully addressed in the literature yet

categorical quantum circuits in this paper we extend previous work carried out on the application of the mathematics of category theory to quantum information science specifically we present a realization of a dagger compact category that can model finite dimensional quantum systems and explicitly allows for the interaction of systems of arbitrary possibly unequal dimensions hence our framework can handle generic tensor network states including matrix product states our categorical model subsumes the traditional quantum circuit model while remaining directly and easily applicable to problems stated in the language of quantum information science the circuit diagrams themselves now become morphisms in a category making quantum circuits a special case of a much more general mathematical framework we introduce the key algebraic properties of our tensor calculus diagrammatically and show how they can be applied to solve problems in the field of quantum information

mathematical modeling of vibration problem of nano sized annular sector plates using the nonlocal continuum theory via eight node discrete singular convolution transformation abstract in the present study free vibration analysis of nano sized annular sector plate is analyzed using the nonlocal continuum theory the method of discrete singular convolution dsc is used for numerical computations firstly equation of motion of thin plates is formulated via nonlocal elasticity then irregular physical domain is transformed into a rectangular domain by using geometric coordinate transformation the dsc procedures are then applied to discretization of the transformed set of governing equations and related boundary conditions the effects of nonlocal parameter mode numbers sector angle and radius ratio on the vibration frequencies are investigated in detail it is seen that the size effects are significant in vibration analysis of nano scaled annular sector plates and need to be included in the mechanical model

quantum computational networks the theory of quantum computational networks is the quantum generalization of the theory of logic circuits used in classical computing machines quantum gates are the generalization of classical logic gates a single type of gate the universal quantum gate together with quantum unit wires is adequate for constructing networks with any possible quantum computational property

non linear vibration of anisotropic rectangular plates with non uniform edge constraints this paper deals with large amplitude flexural vibrations of an anisotropic rectangular plate with parallel edges having the varying rotational constraints to the same degree on the basis dynamic von karman type plate equations a single mode analysis is carried out in the formulation of a solution the edge moments are replaced by an equivalent lateral pressure near these edges with use of the galerkin procedure the equation of motion is reduced to an equation for the time function the elliptic integral method is employed numerical results for the amplitude frequency response of generally orthotropic plates are presented for various high modulus composite materials orientation angles aspect ratios and boundary conditions present results for special cases are compared with available data

vibrations of rectangular plates with arbitrary non uniform elastic edge restraints abstract arbitrary non uniform elastic edge restraints represent the most general class of boundary conditions for plate problems and are encountered in many real world applications the vibrations of plates with this kind of boundary conditions however are rarely studied in the literature perhaps because there is a lack of suitable analytical or numerical techniques in this investigation a general analytical method is derived for the vibration analysis of rectangular plates with elastic edge restraints of varying stiffness both rotational and translational restraints can be arbitrarily applied to an edge and their stiffness distributions are generally described in terms of a set of invariants cosine functions the displacement solution is sought simply as a linear combination of several one and two dimensional fourier cosine series expansions all the unknown fourier coefficients are treated equally as a set of independent generalized coordinates and solved directly from the rayleigh ritz formulation unlike the existing techniques the current method does not require any special procedures or schemes to deal with different boundary conditions a few classical problems involving non uniform rotational restraints are first solved and used to check the current solution against some of the existing techniques the modal results are also presented for plates with more complicated boundary conditions in which an edge is no longer completely restrained in the translational direction the accuracy and reliability of the current method are repeatedly demonstrated through all these examples

crank nicolson quasi wavelets method for solving fourth order partial integro differential equation with a weakly singular kernel in this paper we study a novel numerical scheme for the fourth order partial integro differential equation with a weakly singular kernel in the time direction a crank nicolson time stepping is used to approximate the differential term and the product trapezoidal method is employed to treat the integral term and the quasi wavelets numerical method for space discretization our interest in the present paper is a continuation of the investigation in yang et al 33 where we study discretization in time by using the forward euler scheme the comparisons of present results with the previous ones show that the present scheme is more stable and efficient for numerically solving the fourth order partial integro differential equation with a weakly singular kernel we also tested the method proposed on several one and two dimensional problems with very promising results besides in order to demonstrate the power of the quasi wavelets method in comparison with standard discretization methods we also consider the high frequency oscillation problems with the integro differential term

static analysis of structures by the quadrature element method qem abstract the differential quadrature method dqm is an alternative discrete approach to solving directly the governing equations of engineering and mathematical physics since the dqm does not require the derivation of the weak forms of the governing equations like the fem it can greatly reduce formulation efforts in higher order approximation the dqm has been applied in the past to the analyses of various single structural components such as bars beams membranes and plates all of the component analyses yielded good to excellent results however previous studies were limited to simple geometries and simple boundary conditions due to the limitation of using global basis functions in the present study a domain decomposition technique for the dqm is proposed to analyse truss and frame structures where the whole structural domain is represented by a collection of simple element subdomains connected together at specific nodal points this method is named the quadrature element method qem

free vibration analysis of symmetric laminated skew plates by discrete singular convolution technique based on first order shear deformation theory in this study free vibration of laminated skew plates was investigated discrete singular convolution dsc method is used for numerical solution of vibration problems the straight sided quadrilateral domain is mapped into a square domain in the computational space using a four node element by using the geometric transformation typical results are presented for different geometric parameters and boundary conditions it is concluded from the results that the skew angle have considerable influence on the variations of the frequencies with fibre orientation angle and number of layers in the laminate the results obtained by dsc method are compared with those obtained by analytical and numerical approaches it is shown that reasonable accurate results are obtained present work also indicates that the method of dsc is a promising and potential approach for computational mechanics copyright 2009 john wiley sons ltd

discrete singular convolution for the prediction of high frequency vibration of plates theoretical analysis of high frequency vibrations is indispensable in a variety of engineering designs much effort has been made on this subject in the past few decades however there is no single technique which can be applied with confidence to various engineering structures for high frequency predictions at present this paper introduces a novel computational approach the discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm for high frequency vibration analysis of plate structures square plates with six distinct boundary conditions are considered to validate the proposed method a completely independent approach the levy method is employed to provide exact solutions for a comparison the proposed method is also validated by convergence studies we demonstrate the ability of the dsc algorithm for high frequency vibration analysis by providing extremely accurate frequency parameters for plates vibrating in the first 5000 modes

discrete singular convolution element method for static buckling and free vibration analysis of beam structures a new version of discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm called the dsc element method is proposed the new method combines the high computational efficiency and accuracy of the original dsc algorithm with the convenience and generality of the finite element method in application to structural analysis the shortage existing in the original dsc algorithm has been overcome besides the proposed method provides a unique way to apply various boundary conditions in using dsc algorithm two types of dsc beam element are presented and a variety of problems such as static buckling and free vibrations with discontinuities in geometry or load have been successfully solved by the proposed method numerical results show that the proposed dsc element method is an accurate and efficient method for analyzing beam structures

static analysis of frame structures by the differential quadrature element method in this paper a new version of differential quadrature method dqm is proposed and then extended to analyse frame structures the new method called the differential quadrature element method dqem retains all advantages of the earlier version of the differential quadrature method and overcomes some critical shortcomings existing in the original dqm the proposed method is however different from the quadrature element method qem proposed earlier by striz et al the methodology is explained in details herein via a differential quadrature beam element and some numerical examples are given to show the efficiency of the present method 1997 by john wiley sons ltd

a multi layer extension of the stochastic heat equation motivated by recent developments on solvable directed polymer models we define a multi layer extension of the stochastic heat equation involving non intersecting brownian motions by developing a connection with darboux transformations and the two dimensional toda equations we conjecture a markovian evolution in time for this multi layer process as a first step in this direction we establish an analogue of the karlin mcgregor formula for the stochastic heat equation and use it to prove a special case of this conjecture

matched interface and boundary mib for the implementation of boundary conditions in high order central finite differences high order central finite difference schemes encounter great difficulties in implementing complex boundary conditions this paper introduces the matched interface and boundary mib method as a novel boundary scheme to treat various general boundary conditions in arbitrarily high order central finite difference schemes to attain arbitrarily high order the mib method accurately extends the solution beyond the boundary by repeatedly enforcing only the original set of boundary conditions the proposed approach is extensively validated via boundary value problems initial boundary value problems eigenvalue problems and high order differential equations successful implementations are given to not only dirichlet neumann and robin boundary conditions but also more general ones such as multiple boundary conditions in high order differential equations and time dependent boundary conditions in evolution equations detailed stability analysis of the mib method is carried out the mib method is shown to be able to deliver high order accuracy while maintaining the same or similar stability conditions of the standard high order central difference approximations the application of the proposed mib method to the boundary treatment of other non standard high order methods is also considered

dsc analysis of rectangular plates with non uniform boundary conditions this paper introduces the discrete singular convolution dsc for the vibration analysis of rectangular plates with non uniform and combined boundary conditions a systematic scheme is proposed for the treatment of boundary conditions required in the proposed approach the validity of the dsc approach for plate vibration is tested by using a large number of numerical examples that have a combination of simply supported clamped and transversely supported with non uniform elastic rotational restraint edges the present results are in excellent agreement with those in the literature

free vibration analysis of multiple stepped beams by the discrete singular convolution in this paper free vibration of beams with multiple step changes are successfully analyzed by using the modified discrete singular convolution dsc the jump conditions at the steps are used to overcome the difficulty in using ordinary dsc for dealing with ill posed problems an nth order interpolation polynomial is established on each side of the step then two or three jump conditions together with two continuous conditions at steps are used to relate the two polynomials five examples are analyzed results obtained by the modified dsc and existing solutions are compared it is seen that the dsc results agree well with existing analytical numerical and experimental data it is also found that the dsc results are even more accurate than the data obtained by the differential quadrature element method for much higher mode frequencies the present research extends the application range of the dsc algorithm

interpolation in the limit of increasingly flat radial basis functions abstract many types of radial basis functions such as multiquadrics contain a free parameter in the limit where the basis functions become increasingly flat the linear system to solve becomes highly ill conditioned and the expansion coefficients diverge nevertheless we find in this study that limiting interpolants often exist and take the form of polynomials in the 1 d case we prove that with simple conditions on the basis function the interpolants converge to the lagrange interpolating polynomial hence differentiation of this limit is equivalent to the standard finite difference method we also summarize some preliminary observations regarding the limit in 2 d

high accuracy mixed finite element ritz formulation for free vibration analysis of plates with general boundary conditions abstract a high order accurate mixed finite element ritz method is introduced and developed to study the vibration problem of plates with general boundary conditions the finite element method fem with higher order interpolation functions is first used to discretize the spatial partial derivatives with respect to a co ordinate direction of the plate the ritz method is then employed to analogize the resulting system of ordinary differential equations a novel technique is also presented to exactly satisfy the mixed natural boundary conditions the proposed method is applied here to solve some benchmark vibration problems of plates including isotropic and anisotropic rectangular plates variable thickness rectangular plates multi span rectangular plates and skew plates comparisons with existing numerical and analytical solutions show that the proposed mixed method can yield highly accurate results for vibration problem of plates involving free edges free corners and irregular boundaries using a small number of finite elements and ritz terms

dsc solution for flow in a staggered double lid driven cavity a benchmark quality solution is presented for flow in a staggered double lid driven cavity obtained by using the wavelet based discrete singular convolution dsc the proposed wavelet based algorithm combines local methods flexibility and global methods accuracy and hence is a promising approach for achieving the high accuracy solution of the navier stokes equations block structured grids with pseudo overlapping subdomains are employed in the present simulation a third order runge kutta scheme is used for the temporal discretization quantitative results are presented apart from the qualitative fluid flow patterns the prevalence of rich features of flow morphology such as two primary vortex patterns merged single primary vortex patterns and secondary eddies makes this problem very attractive and interesting the problem is quite challenging for the possible existence of numerically induced asymmetric flow patterns and elliptic instability important computational issues like consistence convergence and reliability of the numerical scheme are examined the dsc algorithm is tested on the single lid driven cavity flow and the taylor problem with a closed form solution the double lid driven cavity simulations are cross validated with the standard second order finite volume method copyright 2003 john wiley sons ltd

high order matched interface and boundary method for elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources this paper introduces a novel high order interface scheme the matched interface and boundary mib method for solving elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources on cartesian grids by appropriate use of auxiliary line and or fictitious points physical jump conditions are enforced at the interface unlike other existing interface schemes the proposed method disassociates the enforcement of physical jump conditions from the discretization of the differential equation under study to construct higher order interface schemes the proposed mib method bypasses the major challenge of implementing high order jump conditions by repeatedly enforcing the lowest order jump conditions the proposed mib method is of arbitrarily high order in principle in treating straight regular interfaces we construct mib schemes up to 16th order for more general elliptic problems with curved irregular interfaces and boundary up to 6th order mib schemes have been demonstrated by employing the standard high order finite difference schemes to discretize the laplacian the present mib method automatically reduces to the standard central difference scheme when the interface is absent the immersed interface method iim is regenerated for a comparison study of the proposed method the robustness of the mib method is verified against the large magnitude of the jump discontinuity across the interface the nature of high efficiency and low memory requirement of the mib method is extensively validated via solving various elliptic immersed interface problems in two and three dimensions ee dimensions

comparison of discrete singular convolution and generalized differential quadrature for the vibration analysis of rectangular plates this paper presents a comprehensive comparison study between the discrete singular convolution dsc and the well known global method of generalized differential quadrature gdq for vibration analysis so as to enhance the understanding of the dsc algorithm the dsc method is implemented through lagrange s delta sequence kernel dsc lk which utilizes local lagrange polynomials to calculate weighting coefficients whereas the gdq requires global ones moreover it is shown that the treatments of boundary conditions and the use of grid systems are different in the two methods comparison study is carried out on 21 rectangular plates of different combinations of simply supported s clamped c and transversely supported with nonuniform elastic rotational restraint e edges and five rectangular plates of mixed supporting edges some of which with a range of aspect ratios and rotational spring coefficients all the results of the dsc lk agree very well with both those in the literature and newly computed gdq results furthermore it is observed that the dsc lk performs much better for plates vibrating at higher order eigenfrequencies unlike the gdq the dsc lk is numerically stable for problems which require a large number of grid points

high accuracy plane stress and plate elements in the quadrature element method in this paper a high accuracy and rapid convergence hybrid approach is developed for the quadrature element method qem solution of two dimensional plane stress and plate bending problems the hybrid qem essentially consists of a collocation method in conjunction with a galerkin finite element technique to combine the high accuracy of the differential quadrature method dqm with the generality of finite element formulations this results in superior accuracy with fewer degrees of freedom than conventional fem or fdm the present method also extends the general application of the collocation numerical approach to fourth order governing equation systems here the influence of collocation point location is investigated a series of numerical tests is conducted in order to assess the performance of the quadrature plane stress and plate elements in static problems

tensor network methods for invariant theory invariant theory is concerned with functions that do not change under the action of a given group here we communicate an approach based on tensor networks to represent polynomial local unitary invariants of quantum states this graphical approach provides an alternative to the polynomial equations that describe invariants which often contain a large number of terms with coefficients raised to high powers this approach also enables one to use known methods from tensor network theory such as the matrix product state mps factorization when studying polynomial invariants as our main example we consider invariants of mpss we generate a family of tensor contractions resulting in a complete set of local unitary invariants that can be used to express the r nyi entropies we find that the graphical approach to representing invariants can provide structural insight into the invariants being contracted as well as an alternative and sometimes much simpler means to study polynomial invariants of quantum states in addition many tensor network methods such as mpss contain excellent tools that can be applied in the study of invariants

numerical analysis of generalized regularized long wave equation using the element free kp ritz method abstract a numerical analysis of the generalized regularized long wave grlw equation by application of the element free kp ritz method is performed to approximate the displacement field an element free kernel particle estimation is employed and a system of nonlinear discrete equations is achieved by using the ritz minimization procedure to the energy expressions validation of the present numerical solutions with the exact results has been conducted by numerical examples and evidenced a good agreement

two new approximate methods for analyzing free vibration of structural components two approximate methods which have not previously been used for structural dynamics problems are applied to the free vibration analysis of various structural components the first method is a new version of the complementary energy method it is shown to be considerably more accurate than the conventional rayleigh and rayleigh schmidt methods when applied to spatially one dimensional free vibration problems prismatic and tapered bars prismatic beams and axisymmetric motion of circular membranes the second method is the differential quadrature method introduced by bellman and his associates it is applied successfully here to all of the problems mentioned plus square membranes and circular and square plates

a pb 2 ritz formulation for flexural vibration of shallow cylindrical shells of rectangular planform abstract this paper presents a free flexural vibration analysis of shallow cylindrical shells of rectangular planform with arbitrary combinations of free simply supported and clamped boundaries the pb 2 ritz method previously used in the plate analysis by one of the authors is now extended to shallow shell studies the ritz approach along with the in plane and transverse displacements assumed in the form of orthogonal polynomials is used to formulate the problems numerical results for the vibration frequencies for wide ranges of aspect ratio shallowness ratio and thickness ratio are presented several selected contour plots of the mode shapes for six different combinations of boundary conditions are presented as usual the accuracy of the present method is illustrated by convergence tests and comparison with the well established results from the literature

application of a series type method to vibration of orthotropic rectangular plates with mixed boundary conditions the object of this paper is to show an application of a series type method to the free vibration of an orthotropic rectangular plate with mixed boundary conditions the rectangular plate considered is elastically constrained or clamped along a few parts of its edge and simply supported on the remainder a frequency equation is derived to accommodate rectangular orthotropy of the plate by the extension of a previously developed method and subsequent algebraic manipulation leads to the improved equation yielding natural frequencies of the plate with very good accuracy the method is demonstrated for numerical examples where one two or three parts are constrained along the boundary of the square plate and the effects of varying constraint and orthotropic parameters on the natural frequencies and mode shapes are studied

spectral element method for three dimensional elliptic problems with smooth interfaces abstract in this paper we propose a least squares spectral element method for three dimensional elliptic interface problems the differentiability estimates and the main stability theorem using non conforming spectral element functions are proven the proposed method is free from any kind of first order reformulation a suitable preconditioner is constructed with help of the regularity estimate and proposed stability estimates which is used to control the condition number we show that these preconditioners are spectrally equivalent to the quadratic forms by which we approximate them we obtain the error estimates which show the exponential accuracy of the method numerical results are obtained for both straight and curved interfaces to show the efficiency of the proposed method

weak asymptotic decay via a relaxed invariance principle for a wave equation with nonlinear non monotone damping this paper considers the problem of asymptotic decay as t of solutions of the wave equation u tt u a x u t u t x a bounded open connected set in n n 1 with smooth boundary u 0 on the nonlinear function is not assumed to be globally lipschitz continuous 0 y 2 y n 1 0 y 1 y 1 y n 1 0 for all y n 1 is not assumed to be monotone in y 1 under additional restrictions on the kernel of conditions are given which imply that u u t converges to 0 0 weakly in h h 1 0 l 2 as t the work generalises earlier results of dafermos and haraux where strong decay in h as t was obtained in the case y 1 y n 1 q y 1 q monotone on

tensor network contractions for sat the computational cost of counting the number of solutions satisfying a boolean formula which is a problem instance of sat has proven subtle to quantify even when finding individual satisfying solutions is computationally easy e g 2 sat which is in mathsf p determining the number of solutions can be mathsf p hard recently computational methods simulating quantum systems experienced advancements due to the development of tensor network algorithms and associated quantum physics inspired techniques by these methods we give an algorithm using an axiomatic tensor contraction language for n variable sat instances with complexity o g cd o 1 2 c where c is the number of copy tensors g is the number of gates and d is the maximal degree of any copy tensor thus n variable counting problems can be solved efficiently when their tensor network expression has at most o log n copy tensors and polynomial fan out this framework also admits an intuitive proof of a variant of the tovey conjecture the r 1 sat instance of the dubois tovey theorem this study increases the theory expressiveness and application of tensor based algorithmic tools and provides an alternative insight on these problems which have a long history in statistical physics and computer science

the generalized differential quadrature rule for initial value differential equations abstract the generalized differential quadrature rule gdqr proposed recently by the authors is applied here to solve initial value differential equations of the 2nd to 4th order differential quadrature expressions are derived based on the gdqr for these equations the hermite interpolation functions are used as trial functions to obtain the explicit weighting coefficients for an easy and efficient implementation of the gdqr the numerical solutions for example problems demonstrate that the gdqr has high efficiency and accuracy a detailed discussion on the present method is presented by comparing with other existing methods the present method can be extended to other types of differential equation systems

postbuckling behavior of bi axially compressed arbitrarily straight sided quadrilateral functionally graded material plates abstract in this paper the problem of the postbuckling behavior of biaxial compressed straight sided functionally graded material fgm plates of quadrilateral shape is studied the plate considered is subjected to in plane loads on all four edges a computational framework based on an improved moving least squares imls approximation for the field variables is developed for the analysis the solution procedures involved a transformation from the physical domain to a computational domain and then discrete the nonlinear governing equation using the imls ritz method the first order shear deformation theory fsdt with the von karman nonlinearity is employed a nonlinear solution to the postbuckling of quadrilateral fgm plates is computed through the modified newton raphson method combined with the arc length iterative algorithm a stabilized conforming nodal integration scheme is employed to improve computational efficiency and eliminate shear and membrane locking the validity and accuracy of the numerical results are established through convergence studies to the best of the authors knowledge the problem has not been attempted in the open literature

lagrange distributed approximating functionals lagrange distributed approximating functionals ldafs are proposed as the basis for a new collocation type method for accurately approximating functions and their derivatives both on and off discrete grids example applications are presented to illustrate the use of ldafs for solving the schr umlt o dinger equation and fokker planck equation ldafs are constructed by combining the daf concept with the lagrange interpolation scheme copyright ital 1997 ital the american physical society

vibration of moderately thick cylindrical shallow shells a first order shear deformation theory is employed for the vibration analysis of shallow cylindrical shells of rectangular planform a general method of solution based on the ritz extremum energy principle and two dimensional polynomial is developed to examine the effects of thickness and curvature on the vibrating response of shells having various boundary constraints convergence and comparison studies are conducted to justify the accuracy of the eigenvalues numerical results are presented to demonstrate the capability of the present method and to provide new data for design purposes sets of new vibration mode shapes are also presented to illustrate the vibratory characteristics of the shells

dsc ritz method for high mode frequency analysis of thick shallow shells this paper addresses a challenging problem in computational mechanics the analysis of thick shallow shells vibrating at high modes existing methods encounter significant difficulties for such a problem due to numerical instability a new numerical approach dsc ritz method is developed by taking the advantages of both the discrete singular convolution dsc wavelet kernels of the dirichlet type and the ritz method for the numerical solution of thick shells with all possible combinations of commonly occurred boundary conditions as wavelets are localized in both frequency and co ordinate domains they give rise to numerical schemes with optimal accurate stability and flexibility numerical examples are considered for mindlin plates and shells with various edge supports benchmark solutions are obtained and analyzed in detail experimental results validate the convergence stability accuracy and reliability of the proposed approach in particular with a reasonable number of grid points the new dsc ritz method is capable of producing highly accurate numerical results for high mode vibration frequencies which are hitherto unavailable to engineers moreover the capability of predicting high modes endows us the privilege to reveal a discrepancy between natural higher order vibration modes of a mindlin plate and those calculated via an analytical relationship linking kirchhoff and mindlin plates copyright 2004 john wiley sons ltd

relationships between classical and shear deformation theories of axisymmetric circular plates the exact relationships between the deflections slopes rotations shear forces and bending moments of a third order theory and those of the classical theory and the first order shear deformation theory for axisymmetric bending of isotropic circular plates are developed the relationships enable one to obtain the solutions of the third order theory from any known classical or first order theory solutions of axisymmetric circular plates for any set of boundary conditions and transverse loads the relationships may also be used to develop finite element models of axisymmetric bending of circular plates according to the first order and third order theories

a novel approach for the analysis of high frequency vibrations abstract despite much effort in the past few decades the numerical prediction of high frequency vibrations remains a challenging task to the engineering and scientific communities due to the numerical instability of existing computational methods however such prediction is of crucial importance to certain problems of pressing practical concern as pointed out by langley and bardell 1998 the aeronautical journal102 287 297 this paper introduces the discrete singular convolution dsc algorithm for the prediction and analysis of high frequency vibration of structures both a beam and two span plates are employed as test examples to demonstrate the capability of the dsc algorithm for high frequency vibration analysis a completely independent approach the levy method is employed to provide exact solutions for a cross validation of the proposed method the reliability of the dsc results is also validated by convergence studies remarkably extremely accurate and stable results are obtained in this work e g the relative dsc errors for the first 7100 modes of the beam and the first 4500 modes of the two span plates are all

a new algorithm for solving some mechanical problems this paper explores the utility of a discrete singular convolution algorithm for solving certain mechanical problems benchmark mechanical systems including plate vibrations and incompressible flows are employed to illustrate the robustness and to test accuracy of the present algorithm numerical results indicate that the present approach is very accurate efficient and reliable for solving the aforementioned problems

high accuracy differential quadrature finite element method and its application to free vibrations of thin plate with curvilinear domain summary based on the differential quadrature dq rule the gauss lobatto quadrature rule and the variational principle a dq finite element method dqfem is proposed for the free vibration analysis of thin plates the dqfem is a highly accurate and rapidly converging approach and is distinct from the differential quadrature element method dqem and the quadrature element method qem by employing the function values themselves in the trial function for the title problem the dqfem without using shape functions essentially combines the high accuracy of the differential quadrature method dqm with the generality of the standard finite element formulation and has superior accuracy to the standard fem and fdm and superior efficiency to the p version fem and qem in calculating the stiffness and mass matrices by incorporating the reformulated dq rules for general curvilinear quadrilaterals domains into the dqfem a curvilinear quadrilateral dq finite plate element is also proposed the inter element compatibility conditions as well as multiple boundary conditions can be implemented simply and conveniently as in fem through modifying the nodal parameters when required at boundary grid points using the dq rules thus the dqfem is capable of constructing curvilinear quadrilateral elements with any degree of freedom and any order of inter element compatibilities a series of frequency comparisons of thin isotropic plates with irregular and regular planforms validate the performance of the dqfem copyright q 2009 john wiley sons ltd

application of differential quadrature to static analysis of structural components the numerical technique of differential quadrature for the solution of linear and non linear partial differential equations first introduced by bellman and his associates is applied to the equations governing the deflection and buckling behaviour of one and two dimensional structural components separate transformations are used for higher order derivatives as suggested by mingle thus extending the method to treat fourth order equations and to include multiple boundary conditions in the respective co ordinate directions results are obtained for various boundary and loading conditions and are compared with existing exact and numerical solutions by other methods the application of differential quadrature to this class of problems is seen to lead to accurate results with relatively small computational effort

the generalized differential quadrature rule for fourth order differential equations the generalized differential quadrature rule gdqr proposed here is aimed at solving high order differential equations the improved approach is completely exempted from the use of the existing point technique by applying multiple conditions in a rigorous manner the gdqr is used here to static and dynamic analyses of bernoulli euler beams and classical rectangular plates numerical error analysis caused by the method itself is carried out in the beam analysis independent variables for the plate are first defined the explicit weighting coefficients are derived for a fourth order differential equation with two conditions at two different points it is quite evident that the gdqr expressions and weighting coefficients for two dimensional problems are not a direct application of those for one dimensional problems the gdqr are implemented through a number of examples good results are obtained in this work copyright 2001 john wiley sons ltd

higher dimensional algebra and topological quantum field theory the study of topological quantum field theories increasingly relies upon concepts from higher dimensional algebra such as n categories and n vector spaces we review progress towards a definition of n category suited for this purpose and outline a program in which n dimensional topological quantum field theories tqfts are to be described as n category representations first we describe a suspension operation on n categories and hypothesize that the k fold suspension of a weak n category stabilizes for k n 2 we give evidence for this hypothesis and describe its relation to stable homotopy theory we then propose a description of n dimensional unitary extended tqfts as weak n functors from the free stable weak n category with duals on one object to the n category of n hilbert spaces we conclude by describing n categorical generalizations of deformation quantization and the quantum double construction

charged string tensor networks tensor networks in physics can be traced back to a 1971 paper by penrose 1 such network diagrams appear in digital circuit theory and they form the foundations of quantum computing starting with the work of feynman and others in the 1980s 2 and further extended by deutsch in his quantum computational network model 3 building on a series of results 4 6 liu et al 7 recently developed a topological variant of tensor networks that among other results led to their discovery of an elegant charged string braiding for the controlled not gate also known as the feynman gate fig 1 lafont s 2003 categorical model of quantum circuits included the bialgebra d and hopf g relations between the building blocks needed to form a controlled not gate the practical utility of using baez dolan categories 10 to describe quantum circuits 6 9 is that category theory provides a graphical language that fully dictates the types of admissible relationships and transformations to reason about the interaction of network components a associativity b gate unit laws c symmetry e copy laws f unit scalar given as a blank on the page redrawn from ref 9 category theory is a branch of mathematics well suited to describe a wide range of networks 8 quantum circuits were first given a categorical model in pioneering work by lafont in 2003 9 and dagger compact closed categories 10 also called baez dolan categories were first derived to describe standard quantum theory as well as classes of topological quantum field theories in seminal work published in 1995 10 see ref 8 for a well written review of categorical quantum mechanics liu et al 7 formulated their topological model in part using category theory for practical purposes the graphical language turns out to be mathematically equivalent to 1 1email jacob biamonte at qubit org 1 xref corresp 1 1

three dimensional matched interface and boundary mib method for treating geometric singularities this paper reports the three dimensional 3d generalization of our previous 2d higher order matched interface and boundary mib method for solving elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients and non smooth interfaces new mib algorithms that make use of two sets of interface jump conditions are proposed to remove the critical acute angle constraint of our earlier mib scheme for treating interfaces with sharp geometric singularities such as sharp edges sharp wedges and sharp tips the resulting 3d mib schemes are of second order accuracy for arbitrarily complex interfaces with sharp geometric singularities of fourth order accuracy for complex interfaces with moderate geometric singularities and of sixth order accuracy for curved smooth interfaces a systematical procedure is introduced to make the mib matrix optimally symmetric and banded by appropriately choosing auxiliary grid points consequently the new mib linear algebraic equations can be solved with fewer number of iterations the proposed mib method makes use of cartesian grids standard finite difference schemes lowest order interface jump conditions and fictitious values the interface jump conditions are enforced at each intersecting point of the interface and mesh lines to overcome the staircase phenomena in finite difference approximation while a pair of fictitious values are determined along a mesh at a time an iterative procedure is proposed to determine all the required fictitious values for higher order schemes by repeatedly using the lowest order jump conditions a variety of mib techniques are developed to overcome geometric constraints the essential strategy of the mib method is to locally reduce a 2d or a 3d interface problem into 1d like ones the proposed mib method is extensively validated in terms of the order of accuracy the speed of convergence the number of iterations and cpu time numerical experiments are carried out to complex interfaces including the molecular surfaces of a protein a missile interface and van der waals surfaces of intersecting spheres

estimates on the support of the solutions of some nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems we obtain existence and uniqueness of solutions with compact support for some nonlinear elliptic and parabolic problems including the equations of one dimensional motion of a non newtonian fluid precise estimates for the support of these solutions are obtained and the optimality of our hypotheses is discussed

on the spurious solutions in the high order finite difference methods for eigenvalue problems in this paper the origins of spurious solutions occurring in the high order finite difference methods are studied based on a uniform mesh spurious modes are found in the high order one sided finite difference discretizations of many eigenvalue problems spurious modes are classified as spectral pollution and non spectral pollution the latter can be partially avoided by mesh refinement while the former persists when the mesh is refined through numerical studies of some prototype eigenvalue problems such as those of the helmholtz and beam equations we show that perfect central differentiation schemes do not produce any spurious modes nevertheless high order central difference schemes encounter difficulties in implementing complex boundary conditions we further show that the central difference schemes will produce spurious modes as well if asymmetric approximation is involved in boundary treatments in general central difference schemes are less likely to produce spurious modes than one sided difference schemes 2007 elsevier b v all rights reserved

vibration frequencies of simply supported polygonal sandwich plates via kirchhoff solutions this study is concerned with the free vibration of general polygonal sandwich plates based on the reissner mindlin shear deformation plate theory the polygonal plate considered is simply supported on all its straight edges it will be shown herein that the vibration frequencies of such sandwich plates may be computed from their well known kirchhoff plate counterparts via an exact relationship this exact relationship should be useful for the development of approximate vibration formulae for sandwich plates of other shapes boundary and loading conditions and may also serve in checking vibration frequencies computed from shear deformable plate analysis software

a novel scheme for the discrete prediction of high frequency vibration response discrete singular convolution mode superposition approach abstract this study introduces a novel scheme for the discrete high frequency forced vibration analysis based on discrete singular convolution dsc and mode superposition ms approaches the accuracy of the dsc ms is validated for thin beams and plates by comparing with available analytical solutions the performance of the dsc ms is evaluated by predicting spatial distribution and discrete frequency spectra of the vibration response of thin plates with two different boundary conditions the frequency spectra of the time harmonic excitation forces are in the form of ideal and band limited white noise so that the natural modes in the frequency band are provoked the solution exposes high frequency response behaviour definitely therefore it is hoped with this paper to contribute the studies on the treatment of uncertainties in the high frequency design applications

static and free vibration analyses of rectangular plates by the new version of the differential quadrature element method a new version of the differential quadrature method is presented in this paper to overcome the difficulty existing in the ordinary differential quadrature method for applying multi boundary conditions in two dimensional problems since the weighting coefficients of the first derivative are the same as for the ordinary differential quadrature method even with the introduction of multi degree of freedom at the boundary points the method is easier to extend to two or three dimensional problems a new version of the differential quadrature plate element has been established for demonstration the essential difference from the existing old version of the differential quadrature plate element is the way the weighting coefficients are determined the methodology is worked out in detail and some numerical examples are given to show the efficiency of the present method