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A FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATION OF A SINGULAR BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM

  • Lee, H.Y.;Ohm, M.R.;Shin, J.Y.
    • Bulletin of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.35 no.3
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    • pp.473-484
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    • 1998
  • We consider a finite difference approximation to a singular boundary value problem arising in the study of a nonlinear circular membrane under normal pressure. It is proved that the rate of convergence is $O(h^2)$. To obtain the solution of the finite difference equation, an iterative scheme converging monotonically to the solution of the finite difference equation is introduced. And the numerical experiment of this method is given.

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A PARAMETRIC SCHEME FOR THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF THE BOUSSINESQ EQUATION

  • Bratsos, A.G.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.8 no.1
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    • pp.45-57
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    • 2001
  • A parametric scheme is proposed for the numerical solution of the nonlinear Boussinesq equation. The numerical method is developed by approximating the time and the space partical derivatives by finite-difference re placements and the nonlinear term by an appropriate linearized scheme. The resulting finite-difference method is analyzed for local truncation error and stability. The results of a number of numerical experiments are given for both the single and the double-soliton wave. AMS Mathematics Subject Classification : 65J15, 47H17, 49D15.

Numerical analysis of FGM plates with variable thickness subjected to thermal buckling

  • Bouguenina, Otbi;Belakhdar, Khalil;Tounsi, Abdelouahed;Adda Bedia, El Abbes
    • Steel and Composite Structures
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    • v.19 no.3
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    • pp.679-695
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    • 2015
  • A numerical solution using finite difference method to evaluate the thermal buckling of simply supported FGM plate with variable thickness is presented in this research. First, the governing differential equation of thermal stability under uniform temperature through the plate thickness is derived. Then, the governing equation has been solved using finite difference method. After validating the presented numerical method with the analytical solution, the finite difference formulation has been extended in order to include variable thickness. The accuracy of the finite difference method for variable thickness plate has been also compared with the literature where a good agreement has been found. Furthermore, a parametric study has been conducted to analyze the effect of material and geometric parameters on the thermal buckling resistance of the FGM plates. It was found that the thickness variation affects isotropic plates a bit more than FGM plates.

A FINITE DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR RLW-BURGERS EQUATION

  • Zhao, Xiaohong;Li, Desheng;Shi, Deming
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.26 no.3_4
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    • pp.573-581
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    • 2008
  • In this paper, a finite difference method for a Cauchy problem of RLW-Burgers equation was considered. Although the equation is not energy conservation, we have given its the energy conservative finite difference scheme with condition. Convergence and stability of the difference solution were proved. Numerical results demonstrate that the method is efficient and reliable.

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Free Oscillation Analysis in the Coastal Area using Integrated Finite Difference Method (적분차분법을 이용한 연안역에서의 해수고유진동해석)

  • LEE Byung-Gul
    • Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences
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    • v.27 no.6
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    • pp.782-786
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    • 1994
  • Integrated finite difference method (IFDM) is used to solve one dimensional free oscillation problem in the coastal area. To evaluate the solution accuracy of IFDM in free oscillation analysis, two finite difference equations based on area discretization method and point discretization method are derived from the governing equations of free oscillation, respectively. The difference equations are transformed into a generalized eigenvalue problem, respectively. A numerical example is presented, for which the analytical solution is available, for comparing IFDM to conventional finite difference equation (CFDM), qualitatively. The eigenvalue matrices are solved by sub-space iteration method. The numerical results of the two methods are in good agreement with analytical ones, however, IFDM yields better solution than CFDM in lower modes because IFDM only includes first order differential operator in finite difference equation by Green's theorem. From these results, it is concluded that IFDM is useful for the free oscillation analysis in the coastal area.

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THE CONVERGENCE OF FINITE DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS FOR SINGULAR TWO-POINT BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS

  • Lee, H.Y.;Seong, J.M.;Shin, J.Y.
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.36 no.2
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    • pp.299-316
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    • 1999
  • We consider two finite difference approxiamations to a singular boundary value problem arising in the study of a nonlinear circular membrane under normal pressure. It is shown that the rates of convergence are O(h) and O($h^2$), respectively. An iterative scheme is introduced which converges to the solution of the finite difference equations. Finally the numerical experiments are given

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A LINEARIZED FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEME FOR THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF THE NONLINEAR CUBIC SCHRODINGER EQUATION

  • Bratsos, A.G.
    • Journal of applied mathematics & informatics
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    • v.8 no.3
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    • pp.683-691
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    • 2001
  • A linearized finite-difference scheme is used to transform the initial/boundary-value problem associated with the nonlinear Schrodinger equation into a linear algebraic system. This method is developed by replacing the time and the nonlinear term by an appropriate parametric linearized scheme based on Taylor’s expansion. The resulting finite-difference method is analysed for stability and convergence. The results of a number of numerical experiments for the single-soliton wave are given.

PERFORMANCE OF RICHARDSON EXTRAPOLATION ON SOME NUMERICAL METHODS FOR A SINGULARLY PERTURBED TURNING POINT PROBLEM WHOSE SOLUTION HAS BOUNDARY LAYERS

  • Munyakazi, Justin B.;Patidar, Kailash C.
    • Journal of the Korean Mathematical Society
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    • v.51 no.4
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    • pp.679-702
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    • 2014
  • Investigation of the numerical solution of singularly perturbed turning point problems dates back to late 1970s. However, due to the presence of layers, not many high order schemes could be developed to solve such problems. On the other hand, one could think of applying the convergence acceleration technique to improve the performance of existing numerical methods. However, that itself posed some challenges. To this end, we design and analyze a novel fitted operator finite difference method (FOFDM) to solve this type of problems. Then we develop a fitted mesh finite difference method (FMFDM). Our detailed convergence analysis shows that this FMFDM is robust with respect to the singular perturbation parameter. Then we investigate the effect of Richardson extrapolation on both of these methods. We observe that, the accuracy is improved in both cases whereas the rate of convergence depends on the particular scheme being used.

A fourth order finite difference method applied to elastodynamics: Finite element and boundary element formulations

  • Souza, L.A.;Carrer, J.A.M.;Martins, C.J.
    • Structural Engineering and Mechanics
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    • v.17 no.6
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    • pp.735-749
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    • 2004
  • This work presents a direct integration scheme, based on a fourth order finite difference approach, for elastodynamics. The proposed scheme was chosen as an alternative for attenuating the errors due to the use of the central difference method, mainly when the time-step length approaches the critical time-step. In addition to eliminating the spurious numerical oscillations, the fourth order finite difference scheme keeps the advantages of the central difference method: reduced computer storage and no requirement of factorisation of the effective stiffness matrix in the step-by-step solution. A study concerning the stability of the fourth order finite difference scheme is presented. The Finite Element Method and the Boundary Element Method are employed to solve elastodynamic problems. In order to verify the accuracy of the proposed scheme, two examples are presented and discussed at the end of this work.