brief note on the variation of constants formula for fuzzy differential equations this note gives a theory of state transition matrices for linear systems of fuzzy differential equations this is used to give a fuzzy version of the classical variation of constants formula a simple example of a time independent control system is used to illustrate the methods while similar problems to the crisp case arise for time dependent systems in time independent cases the calculations are elementary solutions of eigenvalue eigenvector problems in particular for nonnegative or nonpositive matrices the problems at each level set can easily be solved in matlab to give the level sets of the fuzzy solution

first order linear fuzzy differential equations under generalized differentiability first order linear fuzzy differential equations are investigated we interpret a fuzzy differential equation by using the strongly generalized differentiability concept because under this interpretation we may obtain solutions which have a decreasing length of their support which means a decreasing uncertainty in several applications the behaviour of these solutions better reflects the behaviour of some real world systems derivatives of the h difference and the product of two functions are obtained and we provide solutions of first order linear fuzzy differential equations using different versions of the variation of constants formula some examples show the rich behaviour of the solutions obtained

fuzzy differential equations and the extension principle we study the cauchy problem for differential equations considering its parameters and or initial conditions given by fuzzy sets these fuzzy differential equations are approached in two different ways a by using a family of differential inclusions and b the zadeh extension principle for the solution of the model we conclude that the solutions of the cauchy problem obtained by both are the same we also provide some illustrative examples

open fuzzy cubature rule with application to nonlinear fuzzy volterra integral equations in two dimensions abstract in this paper we propose an open fuzzy cubature formula and as application we construct an iterative numerical method for solving nonlinear fuzzy volterra integral equations in two dimensions the convergence of the method is proved by providing the error estimate and it is tested on two numerical experiments

the mimetic finite difference method for the 3d magnetostatic field problems on polyhedral meshes we extend the mimetic finite difference mfd method to the numerical treatment of magnetostatic fields problems in mixed div curl form for the divergence free magnetic vector potential to accomplish this task we introduce three sets of degrees of freedom that are attached to the vertices the edges and the faces of the mesh and two discrete operators mimicking the curl and the gradient operator of the differential setting then we present the construction of two suitable quadrature rules for the numerical discretization of the domain integrals of the div curl variational formulation of the magnetostatic equations this construction is based on an algebraic consistency condition that generalizes the usual construction of the inner products of the mfd method we also discuss the linear algebraic form of the resulting mfd scheme its practical implementation and discuss existence and uniqueness of the numerical solution by generalizing the concept of logically rectangular or cubic meshes by hyman and shashkov to the case of unstructured polyhedral meshes the accuracy of the method is illustrated by solving numerically a set of academic problems and a realistic engineering problem

homological stability for topological chiral homology of completions abstract by proving that several new complexes of embedded disks are highly connected we obtain several new homological stability results our main result is homological stability for topological chiral homology on an open manifold with coefficients in certain partial framed e n algebras using this we prove a special case of a conjecture of vakil and wood on homological stability for complements of closures of particular strata in the symmetric powers of an open manifold and we prove that the bounded symmetric powers of closed manifolds satisfy homological stability rationally

on the solutions to first order linear fuzzy differential equations in this paper we study different formulations of first order linear fuzzy differential equations using the concept of generalized differentiability we present sufficient conditions for the existence of solutions and obtain the general expression of these solutions which exhibit different behavior some examples are given to illustrate our results

existence theorem to the cauchy problem of fuzzy differential equations under compactness type conditions kaleva fuzzy sets and systems 35 1990 389 396 has concluded that the peano theorem does not hold for fuzzy differential equations on en d this paper deals with the cauchy problem of fuzzy differential equations the existence theorems under compactness type conditions are obtained

on the fuzzy initial value problem abstract the initial value problem x t f t x t x 0 x 0 with fuzzy initial value and with deterministic or fuzzy function f is considered two different approaches viz the extension principle and the use of extremal solutions of deterministic initial value problems are applied generalizations to fuzzy integral equations and fuzzy functional differential equations are indicated

enriched multi point flux approximation for general grids it is well known that the two point flux approximation a numerical scheme used in most commercial reservoir simulators has o 1 error when grids are not k orthogonal in the last decade the multi point flux approximations have been developed as a remedy however non physical oscillations can appear when the anisotropy is really strong we found out the oscillations are closely related to the poor approximation of pressure gradient in the flux computation in this paper we propose the control volume enriched multi point flux approximation empfa for general diffusion problems on polygonal and polyhedral meshes non physical oscillations are not observed for realistic and strongly anisotropic heterogeneous material properties described by a full tensor exact linear solutions are recovered for grids with non planar interfaces and a first and second order convergence are achieved for the flux and scalar unknowns respectively

on periodic solutions to first order linear fuzzy differential equations under differential inclusions approach in this work we study some properties of the solutions to first order linear fuzzy differential equations under differential inclusions approach we show that the differential inclusions approach generally adapts better to some properties of the solutions to ordinary differential equations sufficient conditions for the solutions under this approach to be periodic and bounded are presented we also give some examples to show the applicability of these results

an equivalence lemma for a class of fuzzy implicit integro differential equations abstract in the current paper an equivalence lemma is proposed which converts a second order implicit form of nonlinear fuzzy volterra integro differential equation to four different kinds of nonlinear integral equations based on kind of gh differentiability of the first and second derivatives finally some examples are given to illustrate the theoretical results

a nine point scheme for the approximation of diffusion operators on distorted quadrilateral meshes a nine point scheme is presented for discretizing diffusion operators on distorted quadrilateral meshes the advantage of this method is that highly distorted meshes can be used without the numerical results being altered remarkably and it treats material discontinuities rigorously and offers an explicit expression for the face centered flux moreover it has only the cell centered unknowns we prove that the method is stable and has first order convergence on distorted meshes numerical experiments show that the method has second order or nearly second order accuracy on distorted meshes

generalized differentiability of fuzzy valued functions in the present paper using novel generalizations of the hukuhara difference for fuzzy sets we introduce and study new generalized differentiability concepts for fuzzy valued functions several properties of the new concepts are investigated and they are compared to similar fuzzy differentiabilities finding connections between them characterization and relatively simple expressions are provided for the new derivatives

numerical solution of fuzzy differential equations by predictor corrector method in this paper three numerical methods to solve the fuzzy ordinary differential equations are discussed these methods are adams bashforth adams moulton and predictor corrector predictor corrector is obtained by combining adams bashforth and adams moulton methods convergence and stability of the proposed methods are also proved in detail in addition these methods are illustrated by solving two fuzzy cauchy problems

some topological properties of solutions to fuzzy differential systems in this paper the initial value problems of fuzzy differential systems are investigated by using a kind of new methods at first the concept of relatively open sets is introduced then some basic topological properties of solutions for the initial value problems of fuzzy differential systems are obtained

efficiency of mixed hybrid finite element and multipoint flux approximation methods on quadrangular grids and highly anisotropic media the mixed hybrid finite element mhfe and the multipoint flux approximation mpfa methods are well suited for anisotropic heterogeneous domains since both are locally conservative and can handle general irregular grids in this work behaviours and performances of mhfe and mpfa methods are studied numerically for different heterogeneities and anisotropy factors on parallelograms and then on a more general quadrilateral grid the superiority of mpfa in terms of accuracy and efficiency is clearly demonstrated for parallelogram grids in the case of more general quadrilateral grids mpfa becomes more central processing unit time consuming than mhfe for high anisotropy factors both methods give results with significant non physical oscillations copyright 2008 john wiley sons ltd

toward the existence and uniqueness of solutions of second order fuzzy differential equations in this paper the existence and uniqueness of solutions for second order fuzzy differential equations with initial conditions under generalized h differentiability is proved to this end the concept of second order generalized differential equation is defined which is based on an enlargement of the class of differentiable fuzzy mappings

the finite volume scheme preserving extremum principle for diffusion equations on polygonal meshes we construct a new nonlinear finite volume scheme for diffusion equation on polygonal meshes and prove that the scheme satisfies the discrete extremum principle our scheme is locally conservative and has only cell centered unknowns numerical results are presented to show how our scheme works for preserving discrete extremum principle and positivity on various distorted meshes

initial and boundary value problems for fuzzy differential equations we prove a wintner type result for fuzzy ivps and a superlinear type result for fuzzy bvps both results rely on a generalized schauder theorem in metric spaces

existence and uniqueness of solution for fuzzy random differential equations with non lipschitz coefficients in this paper a class of fuzzy random differential equations with non lipschitz coefficients is studied the existence and uniqueness of solutions for fuzzy random differential equations with non lipschitz coefficients is first proved then the dependence of fuzzy random differential equations on initial values is discussed finally the non confluence property of the solution for fuzzy random differential equation is investigated our main tool is the gronwall lemma

rational homotopy of the space of self maps of complexes with finitely many homotopy groups for simply connected cw complexes x with finitely many finitely generated homotopy groups 1 the path components of the function space m x x of free self maps of x are all of the same rational homotopy type if and only if all the invariants of x are of finite order in case x is rationally a two stage postnikov system the space mq x x of inessential self maps of x has the structure of rational space if and only if the fc invariants of x are of finite order given spaces x and y let m x y denote the space of free continuous maps from x to y with the compact open topology given a map x y we let mf x y denote the component of in m x y in particular we denote by mq x y the space of inessential maps from x to y and by mx x x the space of self maps of x which are homotopic to the identity if x and y are spaces with base points then we have the subspace m x t of m x y consisting of all based maps between x and y given a based map x y we write mf x 7 for the component of in m x y in his 1956 paper 20 r thorn used a postnikov decomposition of y to show that the homotopy groups of m x y are determined up to a series of group extensions involving the cohomology of x with coefficients in the homo topy of y to illustrate his technique thorn computed the rational homotopy groups of certain function spaces he also showed how by analyzing the eval uation map it is possible in certain cases to determine the rational homotopy type of components of m x y while predating by many years sullivan s development of the theory of minimal models thorn s work established the techniques for studying function spaces within the framework of rational ho motopy theory in 7 haefliger completed a program initiated by sullivan 18 with the construction of a rational homotopy theoretic model for the space of sections of a nilpotent bundle the construction embodied the two aspects

initial value problems for higher order fuzzy differential equations we consider nth order fuzzy differential equations with initial value conditions we prove the existence and uniqueness of solution for nonlinearities satisfying a lipschitz condition we apply the obtained results to the particular case of linear fuzzy problems

the mimetic finite difference discretization of diffusion problem on unstructured polyhedral meshes we study the mimetic finite difference discretization of diffusion type problems on unstructured polyhedral meshes we demonstrate high accuracy of the approximate solutions for general diffusion tensors the second order convergence rate for the scalar unknown and the first order convergence rate for the vector unknown on smooth or slightly distorted meshes on non matching meshes and even on meshes with irregular shaped polyhedra with flat faces we show that in general the meshes with non flat faces require more than one flux unknown per mesh face to get optimal convergence rates

the structure stability of periodic solutions for first order uncertain dynamical systems abstract this paper studies the structural stability of periodic solutions for first order fuzzy differential equations fdes understood as differential inclusions i e first order uncertain dynamical systems the existence and uniqueness of periodic solutions for this first order fuzzy problems have been obtained on general fuzzy number space when the forcing function has specific perturbations the structural stability of the periodic solutions are discussed by using the support function the dini theorem and the convergence theorem in the differential inclusion theory

a piecewise linear finite element discretization of the diffusion equation for arbitrary polyhedral grids we develop a piecewise linear pwl galerkin finite element spatial discretization for the multi dimensional radiation diffusion equation it uses recently introduced piecewise linear weight and basis functions in the finite element approximation and it can be applied on arbitrary polygonal 2d or polyhedral 3d grids we first demonstrate some analytical properties of the pwl method and perform a simple mode analysis to compare the pwl method with palmer s vertex centered finite volume method and with a bilinear continuous finite element method we then show that this new pwl method gives solutions comparable to those from palmer s however since the pwl method produces a symmetric positive definite coefficient matrix it should be substantially more computationally efficient than palmer s method which produces an asymmetric matrix we conclude that the galerkin pwl method is an attractive option for solving diffusion equations on unstructured grids

numerical methods forfuzzy differential inclusions in this paper a numerical method for solving fuzzy differential inclusions is considered fuzzy reachable set can be approximated by proposed method with complete error analysis which is discussed in detail the method is illustrated by solving some linear and nonlinear fuzzy initial value problems

symmetric positive definite flux continuous full tensor finite volume schemes on unstructured cell centered triangular grids novel cell centered full tensor finite volume methods are presented for general unstructured grids in two spatial dimensions the numerical schemes are flux continuous and based on computing the transmissibilities in a local subcell transform space ensuring that local flux matrices are symmetric as a result the global discretization matrix is shown to be symmetric positive definite for any grid type a symmetric physical space method is also introduced and the symmetric methods are shown to be closely related discrete ellipticity conditions are derived for positive definiteness of the physical space and subcell space schemes computational examples are presented for unstructured triangular grids demonstrating good performance of the scheme the schemes are compared with the so called multipoint flux approximation mpfa o method i aavatsmark t barkve o boe and t mannseth siam j sci comput 19 1998 pp 1700 1716 good agreement between the methods is obtained but the new scheme shows improved behavior in challenging cases

generalizations of the differentiability of fuzzy number valued functions with applications to fuzzy differential equations the usual concept of differentiability of fuzzy number valued functions has the following shortcoming if c is a fuzzy number and g a b r is an usual real valued function differentiable on x 0 a b with g x 0 0 then f x c g x is not differentiable on x 0 in this paper we introduce and study generalized concepts of differentiability of any order n n which solves this shortcoming newton leibnitz type formula is obtained and existence of the solutions of fuzzy differential equations involving generalized differentiability is studied also some concrete applications to partial and ordinary fuzzy differential equations with fuzzy input data of the form c g x are given

monotone finite volume schemes for diffusion equations on unstructured triangular and shape regular polygonal meshes we consider a non linear finite volume fv scheme for stationary diffusion equation we prove that the scheme is monotone i e it preserves positivity of analytical solutions on arbitrary triangular meshes for strongly anisotropic and heterogeneous full tensor coefficients the scheme is extended to regular star shaped polygonal meshes and isotropic heterogeneous coefficients

almost periodic solutions of fuzzy systems we prove the existence of almost periodic solutions and asymptotically almost periodic solutions for the fuzzy functional differential equations moreover we consider uniform stable and uniformly asymptotically stable of almost periodic solutions for the fuzzy system

a discrete duality finite volume approach to hodge decomposition and div curl problems on almost arbitrary two dimensional meshes we define discrete differential operators such as gradient divergence and curl on general two dimensional nonorthogonal meshes these discrete operators verify discrete analogues of usual continuous theorems discrete green formulae discrete hodge decomposition of vector fields and vector curls have a vanishing divergence and gradients have a vanishing curl we apply these ideas to discretize div curl systems we give error estimates based on the reformulation of these systems into equivalent equations for the potentials numerical results illustrate the use of the method on several types of meshes some of which are degenerating triangular meshes and nonconforming locally refined meshes

towards fuzzy differential calculus part 1 integration of fuzzy mappings abstract this paper deals with fuzzy set valued mappings of the real line and more particularly focuses on mappings from the real line to the set of convex normal fuzzy sets of the real line these mappings can also be viewed as fuzzy relations using zadeh s extension principle the integral of such fuzzy mappings over a crisp interval is defined provided a special analytical representation of the fuzzy mapping the practical computation of such an integral is shown to be easy practically speaking it yields the fuzzy surface of a fuzzily bounded area

fuzzy differential equations for universal oscillators abstract this study considers universal oscillator fuzzy differential equations the differential inclusion method is applied to this problem by considering the universal oscillator fuzzy differential equations as universal oscillator uncertain dynamical systems three types of damped oscillators are considered comprising underdamped critically damped and overdamped oscillators the existence and uniqueness of the solutions to each case are discussed and proofs are given under some certain conditions for universal oscillator uncertain dynamical systems with an undamped forcing function the existence and uniqueness of the solutions and big solutions are also verified while the scopes of the trajectories to the solutions are obtained based on the inclusion relationship between solutions and big solutions we also prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions to universal oscillator uncertain dynamical systems with a damped forcing function by using other more direct conditions

differentials of fuzzy functions abstract in this paper the radstrom embedding theorem proc amer math soc 3 1952 165 is generalized and is used to define the concept of the differential of a fuzzy function

a new bernoulli wavelet method for accurate solutions of nonlinear fuzzy hammerstein volterra delay integral equations in this article bernoulli wavelet method has been developed to solve nonlinear fuzzy hammerstein volterra integral equations with constant delay this type of integral equation has a particular case the fuzzy variant of a mathematical model from epidemiology bernoulli wavelets have been generated by dilation and translation of bernoulli polynomials the properties of bernoulli wavelets and bernoulli polynomials are first presented the present wavelet method reduces these integral equations to a system of nonlinear algebraic equations and again these algebraic systems have been solved numerically by newton s method convergence analysis of the present method has been discussed in this article also the results obtained by present wavelet method have been compared with that of by b spline wavelet method some illustrative examples have been demonstrated to show the applicability and accuracy of the present method

monotone finite volume schemes for diffusion equations on polygonal meshes we construct a nonlinear finite volume fv scheme for diffusion equation on star shaped polygonal meshes and prove that the scheme is monotone i e it preserves positivity of analytical solutions for strongly anisotropic and heterogeneous full tensor coefficients our scheme has only cell centered unknowns and it treats material discontinuities rigorously and offers an explicit expression for the normal flux numerical results are presented to show how our scheme works for preserving positivity on various distorted meshes for both smooth and non smooth highly anisotropic solutions and numerical results show that our scheme appears to be approximate second order accuracy for the solution and first order accuracy for the flux

an improved monotone finite volume scheme for diffusion equation on polygonal meshes we construct a new nonlinear monotone finite volume scheme for diffusion equation on polygonal meshes the new scheme uses the cell edge unknowns instead of cell vertex unknowns as the auxiliary unknowns in order to improve the accuracy of monotone scheme our scheme is locally conservative and has only cell centered unknowns numerical results are presented to show how our scheme works for preserving positivity on various distorted meshes specially numerical results show that the new scheme is robust and more accurate than the existing monotone scheme on some kinds of meshes

a family of linearity preserving schemes for anisotropic diffusion problems on arbitrary polyhedral grids a family of cell centered finite volume schemes are proposed for anisotropic diffusion problems on arbitrary polyhedral grids with planar facets the derivation of the schemes is done under a general framework through a certain linearity preserving approach the key ingredient of our algorithm is to employ solely the so called harmonic averaging points located at the cell interfaces to define the auxiliary unknowns which not only makes the interpolation procedure for auxiliary unknowns simple and positivity preserving but also reduces the stencil of the schemes the final schemes are cell centered with a small stencil of 25 point on the structured hexahedral grids moreover the schemes satisfy the local conservation condition treat discontinuity exactly and allow for a simple stability analysis a second order accuracy in the l2 norm and a first order accuracy in the h1 norm are observed numerically on general distorted meshes in case that the diffusion tensor is anisotropic and discontinuous

periodic problems of first order uncertain dynamical systems it is well known that there are no periodic solutions to fuzzy differential equations in the sense of hukuhara derivatives i e h derivatives so fuzzy differential equations in the sense of h derivatives cannot be used to describe periodic phenomena in the real world to overcome this disadvantage this paper studies periodic problems of first order fuzzy differential equations in the sense of differential inclusions i e periodic problems of first order uncertain dynamical systems and obtains the existence of periodic solutions for first order uncertain dynamical systems

a finite volume method for approximating 3d diffusion operators on general meshes a finite volume method is presented for discretizing 3d diffusion operators with variable full tensor coefficients this method handles anisotropic non symmetric or discontinuous variable tensor coefficients while distorted non matching or non convex n faced polyhedron meshes can be used for meshes of polyhedra whose faces have not more than four edges the associated matrix is positive definite and symmetric if the diffusion tensor is symmetric a second order resp first order accuracy is numerically observed for the solution resp gradient of the solution

a finite volume method for the approximation of maxwell s equations in two space dimensions on arbitrary meshes a new finite volume method is presented for discretizing the two dimensional maxwell equations this method may be seen as an extension of the covolume type methods to arbitrary possibly non conforming or even non convex n sided polygonal meshes thanks to an appropriate choice of degrees of freedom an equivalent formulation of the scheme is given in terms of discrete differential operators obeying discrete duality principles the main properties of the scheme are its energy conservation its stability under a cfl like condition and the fact that it preserves gauss law and divergence free magnetic fields second order convergence is demonstrated numerically on non conforming and distorted meshes

on the convergence of fuzzy sets three kind of convergences are defined on a space of fuzzy sets relationships between these convergences are studied some comments on the fixed point property are represented

a new discretization methodology for diffusion problems on generalized polyhedral meshes we develop a family of inexpensive discretization schemes for diffusion problems on generalized polyhedral meshes with elements having non planar faces the material properties are described by a full tensor we also prove superconvergence for the scalar pressure variable under very general assumptions the theoretical results are confirmed with numerical experiments in the practically important case of logically cubic meshes with randomly perturbed nodes the mixed finite element with the lowest order raviart thomas elements does not converge while the proposed mimetic method has the optimal convergence rate 2007 elsevier b v all rights reserved

a decoupled and positivity preserving discrete duality finite volume scheme for anisotropic diffusion problems on general polygonal meshes abstract we suggest a new positivity preserving discrete duality finite volume ddfv scheme for anisotropic diffusion problems on general polygonal meshes like existing ddfv schemes this scheme is built on the primary and dual meshes and has finite volume fv equations for both vertex and cell centered unknowns the transpose of the coefficient matrix for the fv equations of the cell centered unknowns is an m matrix while that for the vertex unknowns is not an m matrix but a symmetric and positive definite matrix by employing a certain truncation technique for the vertex unknowns the positivity preserving property for both categories of unknowns is guaranteed local conservation is strictly maintained for the cell centered unknowns and conditionally maintained for the vertex unknowns since the fv equations of the vertex unknowns can be solved independently the two sets of fv equations are decoupled in contrast to existing nonlinear positivity preserving schemes the new scheme requires no nonlinear iterations for linear problems for nonlinear problems the positivity preserving mechanism of the new scheme is decoupled from its nonlinear iteration so that any nonlinear solver can be adopted moreover the positivity of the discrete solution is proved and the well posedness is analyzed rigorously for linear problems in numerical experiments the new scheme is examined extensively and compared with two positivity preserving cell centered schemes and a nonlinear ddfv scheme numerical results show that the present ddfv scheme achieves second order accuracy and preserves the positivity of the solution for heterogeneous and anisotropic problems on severely distorted grids the high efficiency of the scheme is also demonstrated by the comparison of computation time and number of nonlinear iterations

comparison results for fuzzy differential equations in this paper we present several comparison results for the solutions of fuzzy differential equations by using the hukuhara derivative these results constitute the extension to the fuzzy context of some comparison results for the solutions of linear differential equations besides some side results about the hukuhara difference and the partial orderings are given we illustrate the applicability of the new results by showing several examples

elementary fuzzy calculus abstract in 2 dubois and prade introduced the notion of fuzzy numbers and defined the basic operations of addition subtraction multiplication and division a slightly modified definition of fuzzy numbers was presented in 4 and in that paper a metric was defined for this family of fuzzy sets another less restrictive definition of fuzzy numbers can be found in 1 in the present paper we consider fuzzy numbers from a somewhat different perspective basically we shall view fuzzy numbers in a topological vector space setting using the customary vector space operations together with the metric given in 4 we will define differentiation and integration of fuzzy valued functions in ways that parallel closely the corresponding definitions for real differentiation and integration

some properties of solutions for a class of semi linear uncertain dynamical systems in this paper some properties of solutions are obtained for semi linear fuzzy differential equations understood as differential inclusions i e semi linear uncertain dynamical systems the definitions of the solution to the semi linear uncertain dynamical system and its corresponding big solution are given the existence of the two kinds of solutions is established and the inclusion relation between them is also obtained

periodic boundary value problems for impulsive fuzzy differential equations the peculiarity of the hukuhara derivative makes it impossible to find periodic solutions for fuzzy differential equations with the exception of very restrictive situations in this work we consider a boundary value problem associated with an impulsive fuzzy differential equation and approximate the extremal solutions in a fuzzy functional interval using the monotone method fuzzy comparison results are useful in our procedure and the expression of the solution for some impulsive periodic linear differential problems is also provided

numerical solutions of fuzzy differential equations abstract numerical algorithms for solving fuzzy ordinary differential equations fode are considered a scheme based on the classical euler method is discussed in detail and this is followed by a complete error analysis the algorithm is illustrated by solving several linear and nonlinear fuzzy cauchy problems

membership induced on manifolds by vector fields and flows abstract in many engineering and scientific applications the need arises to perform differential calculations on manifolds if such calculations involve imprecise data methods for computing with such data must be determined definitions and results are given for memberships on manifolds induced by differentiation along vector fields and by flows of vector fields with uncertain parameters examples are presented which illustrate the concepts

approximating second order vector differential operators on distorted meshes in two space dimensions a new finite volume method is presented for approximating second order vector differential operators in two space dimensions this method allows distorted triangle or quadrilateral meshes to be used without the numerical results being too much altered the matrices that need to be inverted are symmetric positive definite therefore the most powerful linear solvers can be applied the method has been tested on a few second order vector partial differential equations coming from elasticity and fluids mechanics areas these numerical experiments show that it is second order accurate and locking free copyright 2008 john wiley sons ltd

existence uniqueness and asymptotic behavior of the solutions of a fuzzy differential equation with piecewise constant argument in this paper we study the existence the uniqueness and the asymptotic behavior of the solutions of the fuzzy differential equation of the form x t px t qx t email protected 0 where p q are constant real numbers and the initial value x 0 is a fuzzy number

on retarded fuzzy functional differential equations and nonabsolute fuzzy integrals abstract we prove a generalized convergence theorem for fuzzy henstock integrals based on the sequence of fuzzy number valued functions which are weak generalized uniformly absolute continuous u a c g to widen the applications of this convergence theorem we provide some existence theorems for the generalized solution for retarded fuzzy functional differential equations and the dependence of the solutions on a parameter under the assumption of the strong generalized derivative of the solution our results generalize existence results in a kaleva integral setting to a fuzzy henstock integral setting

numerical solutions of the nonlinear fuzzy hammerstein volterra delay integral equations in this paper an iterative numerical method that solves nonlinear fuzzy hammerstein volterra integral equations with constant delay is developed by using the error estimates a practical stopping criterion of the algorithm is obtained the convergence and the numerical stability of the method is proved and its accuracy is illustrated on three numerical examples the study of this integral equation is important because it has as a particular case the fuzzy variant of a mathematical model from epidemiology

fuzzy differential equations abstract this paper deals with fuzzy set valued mappings of a real variable whose values are normal convex upper semicontinuous and compactly supported fuzzy sets in rn we study differentiability and integrability properties of such functions and give an existence and uniqueness theorem for a solution to a fuzzy differential equation

hukuhara derivative of the fuzzy expected value in this paper we establish sufficient conditions to guarantee the exchange of the fuzzy expected value for a fuzzy random variable depending on certain parameter and its hukuhara derivative with respect to the parameter main results are obtained for two different sets of general conditions one of them requiring measurability conditions with respect to the product space the fuzzy random variable is defined from and the second one just requiring conditions over the projections of the fuzzy random variables

rational homotopy of the space of sections of a nilpotent bundle we show that an algebraic construction proposed by sullivan is indeed a model for the rational homotopy type of the space of sections of a nilpotent bundle in his paper uhomologie des espaces fonctionnels r thom studied the homotopy type of the space f of continuous maps of x into f homotopic to a given map starting from a postnikov decomposition of f he built the functional space f step by step he also indicated how one could construct a differential graded algebra describing the rational homotopy type of f later on sullivan gave an algebraic model which mirrors this construction in terms of a dg algebra representing x and the minimal model of f the aim of this paper is to show following the method of thom that the model of sullivan is indeed a model for the functional space under suitable restrictions as in 3 we consider the slightly more general problem of the determination of the rational homotopy type of the space of sections ts of a nilpotent fiber space p y x homotopic to a given section s in 1 we explain thorn s geometric construction in 2 we describe an algebraic model for an abelian galois covering of a nilpotent space in 3 we show how the model of sullivan fits with the geometry i thank the referee for many improvements of this paper 1 a postnikov factorization of the space of sections 1 1 let g be a finitely generated abehan group and let x be a path connected space whose cohomology groups hk x g are finitely generated for each k to avoid difficulties with the topologies cf 4 we can work in the category of simplicial sets proposition thom 4 the space k g m x of continuous maps of x in the eilenberg mac lane complex k g m is homotopically equivalent to the product nr ra fthe eilenberg mac lane spaces ki k hm x g i more precisely let x g hm k g m g be the fundamental class of k g m if e k g m x xx k g m

discretisation and multigrid solution of elliptic equations with mixed derivative terms and strongly discontinuous coefficients this paper introduces a new conservative cell centred finite volume scheme for the accurate solution of elliptic diffusion equations with strongly varying coefficients the discretisation is designed to model a wide range of heterogeneities and anisotropies and in particular the case where the diffusivity is represented by a nondiagonal matrix which may occur if the medium is anisotropic in a general direction such problems arise for example in oil reservoir simulation when renormalisation techniques are used to model the reservoir geology it is in this context that the method is described although it is applicable to a far wider class of problems in heat conduction electrostatics and potential theory the paper also describes the application of a mulitigrid scheme for efficient numerical solution of the algebraic equations derived using the new discretisation

towards fuzzy differential calculus part 2 integration on fuzzy intervals abstract the problem of integrating mappings over fuzzy domains has already received some attention in the literature however there is not a unique approach but several definitions have been proposed each carrying its own meaning this paper tries to emphasize the relationships and the differences between the various points of view

towards fuzzy differential calculus part 3 differentiation this paper deals successively with differentiation of ordinary functions at a fuzzy point and with differentiation of fuzzy valued functions at a nonfuzzy point in both cases the concept of differentiation is extended and the problem of the linearity is addressed in the second case practical methods of computation are presented in practical situations the available knowledge about mappings may be fuzzy it is the motivation of this work

periodic behavior of semi linear uncertain dynamical systems this paper studies periodic solutions to semi linear fuzzy differential equations understood as differential inclusions i e the periodic behavior of semi linear uncertain dynamical systems it proves the existence of such periodic solutions for this kind of fuzzy differential equations

a possibilistic argument for irreversibility abstract our aim is to explicate the idea of irreversibility by a mathematical representation of irreversible processes occurring in possibilistic dynamical systems with this in mind solutions of the cauchy problem in the space of fuzzy points are examined to meet the correspondence argument solutions of the cauchy problem in the space of concentrated points are examined too

generalized derivative and π derivative for set valued functions in this paper we study the generalized derivative and the p derivative for interval valued functions we show the connections between these derivatives some illustrative examples and applications to interval differential equations and fuzzy functions are presented

fuzzy differential equations we will concentrate on the second order linear constant coefficient ordinary differential equation for x in interval i i can be 0 t for t 0 or i can be 0 the initial conditions are y 0 0 y 0 1 we assume g is continuous on i

rational homotopy of spaces of maps into spheres and complex projective spaces we investigate the rational homotopy classification problem for the components of some function spaces with sn or cpn as target space

almost periodic fuzzy number valued functions in this paper we develop a theory of almost periodic fuzzy functions i e of the almost periodic functions of real variable and with values fuzzy real numbers although the class of fuzzy real numbers does not form a linear normed space the majority of main properties of almost periodic functions with values in banach spaces are extended to this case applications to fuzzy differential equations and to fuzzy dynamical systems are given

on henstock integral of fuzzy number valued functions i abstract in this paper we define and discuss the fh integral for fuzzy number valued functions using a concrete structure into which we embed the fuzzy number space e 1 several necessary and sufficient conditions of integrability for fuzzy number valued functions are given by means of abstract function theory

fuzzy random variables abstract in this paper we define the concepts of fuzzy random variable and the expectation of a fuzzy random variable the new definition of expectation generalizes the integral of a set valued function we derive some properties of these new concepts by considering a suitable generalization of the hausdorff metric we derive the lebesgue dominated convergence type theorem

global existence of solutions for fuzzy second order differential equations under generalized h differentiability in this paper we study the global existence of solutions for second order fuzzy differential equations with initial conditions under generalized h differentiability second derivative of the h difference of two functions under generalized h differentiability is obtained two theorems which assure global existence of solutions for second order fuzzy differential equations are given and proved some examples are given to illustrate these results

delaunay s mesh of a convex polyhedron in dimension d application to arbitrary polyhedra this paper presents a method for creating a delaunay triangulation connected to a set of specified points the theoretical aspect is recalled for an arbitrary dimension and the method is discussed in order to derive a practical approach valid for dimensions 2 and 3 which is simple robust and well adapted to computation convex polyhedral and arbitrary polyhedral situations are introduced