Instability in the critical case of pair of pure imaginary roots for a class of systems with aftereffect

The stability of a system described by Volterra integrodifferential equations is investigated in the critical case when the characteristic equation has a pair of pure imaginery roots. Conditions for instability, analogous to the well-known conditions from the theory of differential equations [1], are derived. (A similar result was established previously in [2] for integrodifferential equations of simpler structure with integral kernels of exponential-polynomial type). For the proof, several manipulations are used to simplify the original equation and, in particular, to reduce the linearized equation to the form of a differential equation with constant diagonal matrix. (An analogous approach was used to analyse instability for Volterra integrodifferential equations in the critical case of zero root in [3, 4]). As an example, the sign of the Lyapunov constant in the problem of the rotational motion of a rigid body with viscoelastic supports is calculated.     

二维线性Sobolev方程广义差分法

本文考虑了二维线性Sobolev方程的一阶广义差分法．把Sobolev方程从一维区间推广到二维区域时会产生许多的问题．本文将证明其半离散广义差分解的存在唯一性,并且通过引入Ritz-Volterra投影给出其L^P模和W^1,P模误差估计．     

Models of a linearized Boltzmann collision integral

For rarefied gas flows at moderate and low Knudsen numbers, model equations are derived that approximate the Boltzmann equation with a linearized collision integral. The new kinetic models generalize and refine the S-model kinetic equation.     

Dynamic stability of nonlinear barge-towing system

A method for predicting the dynamic stability of a nonlinear barge-towing system is presented in which the equations of motion of the dynamic system are first transformed into a six-dimensional state-space equation. The governing equation is then linearized by using the Taylor series expanding with respect to the equilibrium configurations of the towed barge. It is found that the stability conditions of a towing system are determined by the signs of the real part of some associated eigenvalues: Positive and negative 1's will result in unstable and stable dynamic responses, respectively, and 0 corresponds to the marginally stable condition. The reliability of the foregoing criteria is confirmed by the time histories (simulations) of the nonlinear barge-towing system. The effects of the stabilizing skegs and significantly improve the course stability of the towed barge and that the length and material of the towrope are also key factors affecting the dynamic stability of the barge-towing system.     

Hydrodynamic limits with shock waves of the Boltzmann equation

We show that piecewise smooth solutions with shocks of the Euler equations in gas dynamics can be obtained as the zero Knudsen number limit of solutions of the Boltzmann equation for hard sphere collision model. The construction of the Boltzmann solutions is done in two steps. First we introduce a generalized Hilbert expansion with shock layer correction to construct approximations to the solutions of the Boltzmann equations with small Knudsen numbers. We then apply the recently developed macro‐micro decomposition and energy method for Boltzmann shock layers to construct the exact Boltzmann solutions through the stability analysis. © 2004 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.     

On stability and bifurcation of periodic solutions of delay differential equations

The purpose of this paper is to study a class of delay differential equations with two delays. first, we consider the existence of periodic solutions for some delay differential equations. Second, we investigate the local stability of the zero solution of the equation by analyzing the correlocal stability of the zero solution of the equation by analyzing the corresponding characteristic equation of the linearized equation. The exponential stability of a perturbed delay differential system with a bounded lag is studied. Finally, by choosing one of the delays as a bifurcation parameter, we show that the equation exhibits Hopf and saddle-node bifurcations.     

Static stability analysis of a thin plate with a fixed trailing edge in axial subsonic flow: Possio integral equation approach

In this work, the static stability of a thin plate in axial subsonic airflow is studied using the framework of Possio integral equation. Specifically, we consider the cases when the plate’s leading edge is free and the plate’s trailing edge is either pinned or clamped. We formulate the problem under consideration using a partial differential equations (PDE) model and then linearize the model about the free stream velocity, density, and pressure, to enable analytical treatment. Based on the linearized model, we introduce a new derivation of a Possio integral equation that relates the pressure jump along the thin plate to the plate’s downwash. The steady state solution to the Possio equation is then used to account for the aerodynamic loads in the plate steady state governing equation resulting in a singular differential-integral equation which is transformed to a singular integral equation that represents the static aeroelastic equation of the plate. We verify the solvability of the static aeroelastic equation based on the Fredholm alternative for compact operators in Banach spaces and the contraction mapping theorem. By constructing solutions to the static aeroelastic equation and matching the nonzero boundary conditions at the trailing edge with the zero boundary conditions at the leading edge, we obtain characteristic equations for the free-clamped and free-pinned plates. The minimum solutions to the characteristic equations are the divergence speeds which indicate when static instabilities start to occur. We show analytically that free-pinned plates are statically unstable. We also construct, analytically, flow speed intervals that correspond to static stability regions for free-clamped plates. Furthermore, we resort to numerical computations to obtain an explicit formula for the divergence speed of free-clamped plates. Finally, we apply the obtained results on piezoelectric plates and we show that free-clamped piezoelectric plates are statically more stable than conventional free-clamped plates due to the piezoelectric coupling.     

On the asymptotic analysis of the Boltzmann equation tending towards the Stokes equations

This work deals with the analysis of the asymptotic limit for the Boltzmann equation tending towards the linearized Navier–Stokes equations when the Knudsen number $\epsilon$ tends to zero. Global existence and uniqueness theorems are proven for regular initial fluctuations. As $\epsilon$ tends to zero, the solution converges strongly to the solution of the linearized Navier–Stokes systems.     

A bundle view of boundary-value problems: generalizing the Gardner-Jones bundle

Holomorphic families of linear ordinary differential equations on a finite interval with prescribed parameter-dependent boundary conditions are considered from a geometrical viewpoint. The Gardner-Jones bundle, which was introduced for linearized reaction-diffusion equations, is generalized and applied to this abstract class of λ-dependent boundary-value problems, where λ is a complex eigenvalue parameter. The fundamental analytical object of such boundary-value problems (BVPs) is the characteristic determinant, and it is proved that any characteristic determinant on a Jordan curve can be characterized geometrically as the determinant of a transition function associated with the Gardner-Jones bundle. The topology of the bundle, represented by the Chern number, then yields precise information about the number of eigenvalues in a prescribed subset of the complex λ-plane. This result shows that the Gardner-Jones bundle is an intrinsic geometric property of such λ-dependent BVPs. The bundle framework is applied to examples from hydrodynamic stability theory and the linearized complex Ginzburg-Landau equation.     

Modulational Instability in the Whitham Equation for Water Waves

We show that periodic traveling waves with sufficiently small amplitudes of the Whitham equation, which incorporates the dispersion relation of surface water waves and the nonlinearity of the shallow water equations, are spectrally unstable to long‐wavelengths perturbations if the wave number is greater than a critical value, bearing out the Benjamin–Feir instability of Stokes waves; they are spectrally stable to square integrable perturbations otherwise. The proof involves a spectral perturbation of the associated linearized operator with respect to the Floquet exponent and the small‐amplitude parameter. We extend the result to related, nonlinear dispersive equations.     

时滞偏害系统的稳定性和分歧分析

本文讨论了具离散和分布时滞的偏害系统.以时滞作为分歧参数,通过分析原系统在正平衡点处线性化系统的特征方程,获得了正平衡点渐近稳定以及在它周围分歧出周期解的条件.另外,通过使用规范形和中心流形定理,我们获得了Hopf分歧的方向和分歧周期解稳定性的显式算法.最后,数值模拟支持了我们的理论分析.     

一类具有非线性发生率的时滞传染病模型的全局稳定性

充分考虑人口统计效应、疾病的潜伏期与传播规律的复杂性,研究了一类具有非线性发生率的时滞SIRS传染病模型的动力学行为.通过分析对应的线性化近似系统的特征方程,证明了无病平衡点的局部稳定性.利用Lyapunov-LaSalle不变集原理,当基本再生数R₀<1时,证明了无病平衡点是全局渐近稳定的;当R₀>1时,得到了地方病平衡点全局渐近稳定的充分条件.所得结论可为人们有效预防和控制传染病传播提供一定的理论依据.     

Bifurcation and Stability Theory of Periodic Solutions For Integrodifferential Equations

This paper is concerned with a nonlinear integrodifferential equation (the delay logistic equation) governing the growth dynamics of a single species N(t) for time t > 0. This equation contains a positive parameter λ. Suppose that there exists a positive equilibrium solution N = c which is stable for all small values of λ. Assume also that this solution loses stability as λ is increased past a critical value λ*. This will correspond to a simple pure imaginary conjugate pair of roots of a characteristic equation associated with the linearized stability of N = c at λ = λ*. Then we will construct a unique bifurcating time periodic solution of the equation as a Taylor series in a parameter ε. Furthermore this solution exists either for supercritical values of the parameter (λ > λ*) or for subcritical values (λ < λ*). The stability behavior of this small periodic solution can be characterized according to whether the bifurcation is supercritical or subcritical-supercritical solutions are stable, but subcritical solutions are unstable. Therefore these results are analogous to Hoprs bifurcation theorem for autonomous systems of differential equations.     

Particular solutions of the linearized Boltzmann equation for a binary mixture of rigid spheres

Particular solutions that correspond to inhomogeneous driving terms in the linearized Boltzmann equation for the case of a binary mixture of rigid spheres are reported. For flow problems (in a plane channel) driven by pressure, temperature, and density gradients, inhomogeneous terms appear in the Boltzmann equation, and it is for these inhomogeneous terms that the particular solutions are developed. The required solutions for temperature and density driven problems are expressed in terms of previously reported generalized (vector-valued) Chapman–Enskog functions. However, for the pressure-driven problem (Poiseuille flow) the required particular solution is expressed in terms of two generalized Burnett functions defined by linear integral equations in which the driving terms are given in terms of the Chapman–Enskog functions. To complete this work, expansions in terms of Hermite cubic splines and a collocation scheme are used to establish numerical solutions for the generalized (vector-valued) Burnett functions.     

Particular solutions of the linearized Boltzmann equation for a binary mixture of rigid spheres

Particular solutions that correspond to inhomogeneous driving terms in the linearized Boltzmann equation for the case of a binary mixture of rigid spheres are reported. For flow problems (in a plane channel) driven by pressure, temperature, and density gradients, inhomogeneous terms appear in the Boltzmann equation, and it is for these inhomogeneous terms that the particular solutions are developed. The required solutions for temperature and density driven problems are expressed in terms of previously reported generalized (vector-valued) Chapman–Enskog functions. However, for the pressure-driven problem (Poiseuille flow) the required particular solution is expressed in terms of two generalized Burnett functions defined by linear integral equations in which the driving terms are given in terms of the Chapman–Enskog functions. To complete this work, expansions in terms of Hermite cubic splines and a collocation scheme are used to establish numerical solutions for the generalized (vector-valued) Burnett functions.     

A Relaxation Scheme for Solving the Boltzmann Equation Based on the Chapman-Enskog Expansion

Abstract In [16] a visco-elastic relaxation system, called the relaxed Burnett system, was proposed by Jinand Slemrod as a moment approximation to the Boltzmann equation. The relaxed Burnett system is weaklyparabolic, has a linearly hyperbolic convection part, and is endowed with a generalized eotropy inequality. Itagrees with the solution of the Boltzmann equation up to the Burnett order via the Chapman-Enskog expansion. We develop a one-dimensional non-oscillatory numerical scheme based on the relaxed Burnett system forthe Boltzmann equation. We compare numerical results for stationary shocks based on this relaxation scheme,and those obtained by the DSMC (Direct Simulation Monte Carlo), by the Navier-Stokes equations and bythe extended thermodynamics with thirteen moments (the Grad equations). Our numerical experiments showthat the relaxed Burnett gives more accurate approximations to the shock profiles of the Boltzmann equationobtained by the DSMC, for a range of Mach numbers for hypersonic flows, th     

Numerical solution of the Orr–Sommerfeld equation using the viscous Green function and split-Gaussian quadrature

We continue our study of the construction of numerical methods for solving two-point boundary value problems using Green functions, building on the successful use of split-Gauss-type quadrature schemes. Here we adapt the method for eigenvalue problems, in particular the Orr–Sommerfeld equation of hydrodynamic stability theory. Use of the Green function for the viscous part of the problem reduces the fourth-order ordinary differential equation to an integro-differential equation which we then discretize using the split-Gaussian quadrature and product integration approach of our earlier work along with pseudospectral differentiation matrices for the remaining differential operators. As the latter are only second-order the resulting discrete equations are much more stable than those obtained from the original differential equation. This permits us to obtain results for the standard test problem (plane Poiseuille flow at unit streamwise wavenumber and Reynolds number 10 000) that we believe are the most accurate to date.     

Uncertainty principle and kinetic equations

A large number of mathematical studies on the Boltzmann equation are based on the Grad's angular cutoff assumption. However, for particle interaction with inverse power law potentials, the associated cross-sections have a non-integrable singularity corresponding to the grazing collisions. Smoothing properties of solutions are then expected. On the other hand, the uncertainty principle, established by Heisenberg in 1927, has been developed so far in various situations, and it has been applied to the study of the existence and smoothness of solutions to partial differential equations. This paper is the first one to apply this celebrated principle to the study of the singularity in the cross-sections for kinetic equations. Precisely, we will first prove a generalized version of the uncertainty principle and then apply it to justify rigorously the smoothing properties of solutions to some kinetic equations. In particular, we give some estimates on the regularity of solutions in Sobolev spaces w.r.t. all variables for both linearized and nonlinear space inhomogeneous Boltzmann equations without angular cutoff, as well as the linearized space inhomogeneous Landau equation.     

悬浮固粒对二维混合层流动失稳特性的影响*

本文在不可压缩二维混合层流动方程的基础之上,通过添加固粒的作用项,推导得到了修正的瑞利方程;然后用数值计算方法解其特征方程,得到了悬浮固粒的质量密度、固粒和气流的速度比值以及Stokes数不同时二维混合层流动中扰动频率与空间增长率的关系曲线,给出了关于悬浮固粒对流场失稳特性影响的几个重要结论。