Weakly stable hyperbolic boundary problems with large oscillatory coefficients: Simple cascades

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 (01) ◽  
pp. 141-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Williams

We prove energy estimates for exact solutions to a class of linear, weakly stable, first-order hyperbolic boundary problems with “large”, oscillatory, zeroth-order coefficients, that is, coefficients whose amplitude is large, [Formula: see text], compared to the wavelength of the oscillations, [Formula: see text]. The methods that have been used previously to prove useful energy estimates for weakly stable problems with oscillatory coefficients (e.g. simultaneous diagonalization of first-order and zeroth-order parts) all appear to fail in the presence of such large coefficients. We show that our estimates provide a way to “justify geometric optics”, that is, a way to decide whether or not approximate solutions, constructed for example by geometric optics, are close to the exact solutions on a time interval independent of [Formula: see text]. Systems of this general type arise in some classical problems of “strongly nonlinear geometric optics” coming from fluid mechanics. Special assumptions that we make here do not yet allow us to treat the latter problems, but we believe the present analysis will provide some guidance on how to attack more general cases.

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 15
Author(s):  
Misir J. Mardanov ◽  
Yagub A. Sharifov ◽  
Yusif S. Gasimov ◽  
Carlo Cattani

This paper considers boundary value problem (BVP) for nonlinear first-order differential problems with multipoint and integral boundary conditions. A suitable Green function was constructed for the first time in order to reduce this problem into a corresponding integral equation. So that by using the Banach contraction mapping principle (BCMP) and Schaefer’s fixed point theorem (SFPT) on the integral equation, we can show that the solution of the multipoint problem exists and it is unique.


Author(s):  
Amarjot Singh Bhullar ◽  
Gospel Ezekiel Stewart ◽  
Robert W. Zimmerman

Abstract Most analyses of fluid flow in porous media are conducted under the assumption that the permeability is constant. In some “stress-sensitive” rock formations, however, the variation of permeability with pore fluid pressure is sufficiently large that it needs to be accounted for in the analysis. Accounting for the variation of permeability with pore pressure renders the pressure diffusion equation nonlinear and not amenable to exact analytical solutions. In this paper, the regular perturbation approach is used to develop an approximate solution to the problem of flow to a linear constant-pressure boundary, in a formation whose permeability varies exponentially with pore pressure. The perturbation parameter αD is defined to be the natural logarithm of the ratio of the initial permeability to the permeability at the outflow boundary. The zeroth-order and first-order perturbation solutions are computed, from which the flux at the outflow boundary is found. An effective permeability is then determined such that, when inserted into the analytical solution for the mathematically linear problem, it yields a flux that is exact to at least first order in αD. When compared to numerical solutions of the problem, the result has 5% accuracy out to values of αD of about 2—a much larger range of accuracy than is usually achieved in similar problems. Finally, an explanation is given of why the change of variables proposed by Kikani and Pedrosa, which leads to highly accurate zeroth-order perturbation solutions in radial flow problems, does not yield an accurate result for one-dimensional flow. Article Highlights Approximate solution for flow to a constant-pressure boundary in a porous medium whose permeability varies exponentially with pressure. The predicted flowrate is accurate to within 5% for a wide range of permeability variations. If permeability at boundary is 30% less than initial permeability, flowrate will be 10% less than predicted by constant-permeability model.


2015 ◽  
Vol 24 (07) ◽  
pp. 1550053 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amare Abebe

One of the exact solutions of f(R) theories of gravity in the presence of different forms of matter exactly mimics the ΛCDM solution of general relativity (GR) at the background level. In this work we study the evolution of scalar cosmological perturbations in the covariant and gauge-invariant formalism and show that although the background in such a model is indistinguishable from the standard ΛCDM cosmology, this degeneracy is broken at the level of first-order perturbations. This is done by predicting different rates of structure formation in ΛCDM and the f(R) model both in the complete and quasi-static regimes.


1967 ◽  
Vol 89 (4) ◽  
pp. 300-308 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. H. Edwards ◽  
R. P. Bobco

Two approximate methods are presented for making radiant heat-transfer computations from gray, isothermal dispersions which absorb, emit, and scatter isotropically. The integrodifferential equation of radiant transfer is solved using moment techniques to obtain a first-order solution. A second-order solution is found by iteration. The approximate solutions are compared to exact solutions found in the literature of astrophysics for the case of a plane-parallel geometry. The exact and approximate solutions are both expressed in terms of directional and hemispherical emissivities at a boundary. The comparison for a slab, which is neither optically thin nor thick (τ = 1), indicates that the second-order solution is accurate to within 10 percent for both directional and hemispherical properties. These results suggest that relatively simple techniques may be used to make design computations for more complex geometries and boundary conditions.


2000 ◽  
Vol 09 (04) ◽  
pp. 475-493 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. K. MAK ◽  
T. HARKO

The evolution of a causal bulk viscous cosmological fluid filled open conformally flat spacetime is considered. By means of appropriate transformations the equation describing the dynamics and evolution of the very early Universe can be reduced to a first order Abel type differential equation. In the case of a bulk viscosity coefficient proportional to the square root of the density, ξ~ρ1/2, an exact and two particular approximate solutions are obtained. The resulting cosmologies start from a singular state and generally have a noninflationary behavior, the deceleration parameter tending, in the large time limit, to zero. The thermodynamic consistency of the results is also checked.


2021 ◽  
pp. 1-20
Author(s):  
STEPHEN TAYLOR ◽  
XUESHAN YANG

Abstract The functional partial differential equation (FPDE) for cell division, $$ \begin{align*} &\frac{\partial}{\partial t}n(x,t) +\frac{\partial}{\partial x}(g(x,t)n(x,t))\\ &\quad = -(b(x,t)+\mu(x,t))n(x,t)+b(\alpha x,t)\alpha n(\alpha x,t)+b(\beta x,t)\beta n(\beta x,t), \end{align*} $$ is not amenable to analytical solution techniques, despite being closely related to the first-order partial differential equation (PDE) $$ \begin{align*} \frac{\partial}{\partial t}n(x,t) +\frac{\partial}{\partial x}(g(x,t)n(x,t)) = -(b(x,t)+\mu(x,t))n(x,t)+F(x,t), \end{align*} $$ which, with known $F(x,t)$ , can be solved by the method of characteristics. The difficulty is due to the advanced functional terms $n(\alpha x,t)$ and $n(\beta x,t)$ , where $\beta \ge 2 \ge \alpha \ge 1$ , which arise because cells of size x are created when cells of size $\alpha x$ and $\beta x$ divide. The nonnegative function, $n(x,t)$ , denotes the density of cells at time t with respect to cell size x. The functions $g(x,t)$ , $b(x,t)$ and $\mu (x,t)$ are, respectively, the growth rate, splitting rate and death rate of cells of size x. The total number of cells, $\int _{0}^{\infty }n(x,t)\,dx$ , coincides with the $L^1$ norm of n. The goal of this paper is to find estimates in $L^1$ (and, with some restrictions, $L^p$ for $p>1$ ) for a sequence of approximate solutions to the FPDE that are generated by solving the first-order PDE. Our goal is to provide a framework for the analysis and computation of such FPDEs, and we give examples of such computations at the end of the paper.


1944 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. A176-A182
Author(s):  
Gerald Pickett

Abstract The paper shows how the Fourier method may be used to obtain exact solutions for stresses in rectangular prisms or circular cylinders for any boundary condition.


Author(s):  
Aydin Secer

In this work, we consider the hyperbolic equations to determine the approximate solutions via Sinc-Galerkin Method (SGM). Without any numerical integration, the partial differential equation transformed to an algebraic equation system. For the numerical calculations, Maple is used. Several numerical examples are investigated and the results determined from the method are compared with the exact solutions. The results are illustrated both in the table and graphically.


2010 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 219-225
Author(s):  
Yoeswono Yoeswono ◽  
Triyono Triyono ◽  
Iqmal Tahir

A study on palm oil transesterification to evaluate the effect of some parameters in the reaction on the reaction kinetics has been carried out. Transesterification was started by preparing potassium methoxide from potassium hydroxide and methanol and then mixed it with the palm oil. An aliquot was taken at certain time interval during transesterification and poured into test tube filled with distilled water to stop the reaction immediately. The oil phase that separated from the glycerol phase by centrifugation was analyzed by 1H-NMR spectrometer to determine the percentage of methyl ester conversion. Temperature and catalyst concentration were varied in order to determine the reaction rate constants, activation energies, pre-exponential factors, and effective collisions. The results showed that palm oil transesterification in methanol with 0.5 and 1 % w/w KOH/palm oil catalyst concentration appeared to follow pseudo-first order reaction. The rate constants increase with temperature. After 13 min of reaction, More methyl esters were formed using KOH 1 % than using 0.5 % w/w KOH/palm oil catalyst concentration. The activation energy (Ea) and pre-exponential factor (A) for reaction using 1 % w/w KOH was lower than those using 0.5 % w/w KOH.   Keywords: palm oil, transesterification, catalyst, first order kinetics, activation energy, pre-exponential factor


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