A refinement of an analytical approximation of the surface potential in MOSFETs is proposed by introducing a high-order term. As compared to the conventional treatment with accuracy between 1nV and 0. 03mV in the case...A refinement of an analytical approximation of the surface potential in MOSFETs is proposed by introducing a high-order term. As compared to the conventional treatment with accuracy between 1nV and 0. 03mV in the cases with an oxide thickness tox = 1 ~ 10nm and substrate doping concentration Na = 1015 ~ 1018 cm-3 , this method yields an accuracy within about 1pV in all cases. This is comparable to numerical simulations, but does not require trading off much computation efficiency. More importantly, the spikes in the error curve associated with the traditional treatment are eliminated.展开更多
Until now, most researches into the rogue-wave-structure interaction have relied on experimental measurement and numerical simulation. Owing to the complexity of the physical mechanism of rogue waves, theoretical stud...Until now, most researches into the rogue-wave-structure interaction have relied on experimental measurement and numerical simulation. Owing to the complexity of the physical mechanism of rogue waves, theoretical study on the wave-structure issue still makes little progress. In this paper, the rogue wave flow around a vertical cylinder is analytically studied within the scope of the potential theory. The rogue wave is modeled by the Gauss envelope, which is one particular case of the well-known focusing theory. The formulae of the wave-induced horizontal force and bending moment are proposed. For the convenience of engineering application, the derived formulae are simplified appropriately, and verified against numerical results. In addition, the influence of wave parameters, such as the energy focusing degree and the wave focusing position, is thoroughly investigated.展开更多
An efficient Adomian analytical decomposition technique for studying the momentum and heat boundary layer equations with exponentially stretching surface conditions was presented and an approximate analytical solution...An efficient Adomian analytical decomposition technique for studying the momentum and heat boundary layer equations with exponentially stretching surface conditions was presented and an approximate analytical solution was obtained, which can be represented in terms of a rapid convergent power series with elegantly computable terms. The reliability and efficiency of the approximate solution were verified using numerical solutions in the literature. The approximate solution can be successfully applied to provide the values of skin friction and the temperature gradient coefficient.展开更多
Using the exponential function transformation approach along with an approximation for the centrifugal potential, the radial Schr6dinger equation of D-dimensional Hulthen potential is transformed to a hypergeometric d...Using the exponential function transformation approach along with an approximation for the centrifugal potential, the radial Schr6dinger equation of D-dimensional Hulthen potential is transformed to a hypergeometric differential equation. The approximate analytical solutions of scattering states are attained. The normalized wave functions expressed in terms of hypergeometrie functions of scattering states on the "k/2π scale" and the calculation formula of phase shifts are given. The physical meaning of the approximate analytical solutions is discussed.展开更多
In this paper,an in-band and out-of-band microwave wireless power-transmission characteristic analysis of a slot ring radome based on an approximate analytical method is proposed.The main contribution of this paper is...In this paper,an in-band and out-of-band microwave wireless power-transmission characteristic analysis of a slot ring radome based on an approximate analytical method is proposed.The main contribution of this paper is that,in the approximate analysis of the ring radome,a unified expression of the incident field on the radome surface is derived with E-plane and H-plane scanning,and the ring is approximated as 30 segments of straight strips.Solving the corresponding 60×60 linear equations yields the electric current distribution along the ring strip.The magnetic current along the complementary slot ring is obtained by duality.Thanks to the fully analytical format of the current distribution,the microwave wireless power-transmission characteristics are efficiently calculated using Munk’s scheme.An example of a slot ring biplanar symmetric hybrid radome is used to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed scheme.The central processing unit(CPU)time is about 690 s using Ansys HFSS software versus 2.82 s for the proposed method.展开更多
For a real valued function f defined on a finite interval I we consider the problem of approximating f from null spaces of differential operators of the form Ln(ψ) =∑k=0^n akψ(k) where the constant coefficients...For a real valued function f defined on a finite interval I we consider the problem of approximating f from null spaces of differential operators of the form Ln(ψ) =∑k=0^n akψ(k) where the constant coefficients ak C R may be adapted to f.展开更多
In this paper, the approximate analytical solutions of the fractional coupled mKdV equation are obtained by homotopy analysis method (HAM). The method includes an auxiliary parameter which provides a convenient way of...In this paper, the approximate analytical solutions of the fractional coupled mKdV equation are obtained by homotopy analysis method (HAM). The method includes an auxiliary parameter which provides a convenient way of adjusting and controlling the convergence region of the series solution. The suitable value of auxiliary parameter is determined and the obtained results are presented graphically.展开更多
The approximate expressions of the travelling wave solutions for a class of nonlinear disturbed long-wave system are constructed using the generalized variational iteration method.
In this paper,we study the approximate solutions for some of nonlinear Biomathematics models via the e-epidemic SI1I2R model characterizing the spread of viruses in a computer network and SIR childhood disease model.T...In this paper,we study the approximate solutions for some of nonlinear Biomathematics models via the e-epidemic SI1I2R model characterizing the spread of viruses in a computer network and SIR childhood disease model.The reduced differential transforms method(RDTM)is one of the interesting methods for finding the approximate solutions for nonlinear problems.We apply the RDTM to discuss the analytic approximate solutions to the SI1I2R model for the spread of virus HCV-subtype and SIR childhood disease model.We discuss the numerical results at some special values of parameters in the approximate solutions.We use the computer software package such as Mathematical to find more iteration when calculating the approximate solutions.Graphical results and discussed quantitatively are presented to illustrate behavior of the obtained approximate solutions.展开更多
In this paper, the approximate expressions of the solitary wave solutions for a class of nonlinear disturbed long-wave system are constructed using the homotopie mapping method.
Using a proper approximation scheme to the centrifugal term, we study any l-wave continuum states of the Schrodinger equation for the modified Morse potential. The normalised analytical radial wave functions are prese...Using a proper approximation scheme to the centrifugal term, we study any l-wave continuum states of the Schrodinger equation for the modified Morse potential. The normalised analytical radial wave functions are presented, and a corresponding calculation formula of phase shifts is derived. It is shown that the energy levels of the continuum states reduce to those of the bound states at the poles of the scattering amplitude. Some numerical results are calculated to show the accuracy of our results.展开更多
Systemreliability sensitivity analysis becomes difficult due to involving the issues of the correlation between failure modes whether using analytic method or numerical simulation methods.A fast conditional reduction ...Systemreliability sensitivity analysis becomes difficult due to involving the issues of the correlation between failure modes whether using analytic method or numerical simulation methods.A fast conditional reduction method based on conditional probability theory is proposed to solve the sensitivity analysis based on the approximate analytic method.The relevant concepts are introduced to characterize the correlation between failure modes by the reliability index and correlation coefficient,and conditional normal fractile the for the multi-dimensional conditional failure analysis is proposed based on the two-dimensional normal distribution function.Thus the calculation of system failure probability can be represented as a summation of conditional probability terms,which is convenient to be computed by iterative solving sequentially.Further the system sensitivity solution is transformed into the derivation process of the failure probability correlation coefficient of each failure mode.Numerical examples results show that it is feasible to apply the idea of failure mode relevancy to failure probability sensitivity analysis,and it can avoid multi-dimension integral calculation and reduce complexity and difficulty.Compared with the product of conditional marginalmethod,a wider value range of correlation coefficient for reliability analysis is confirmed and an acceptable accuracy can be obtained with less computational cost.展开更多
In this paper, the genera]ised two-dimensiona] differentia] transform method (DTM) of solving the time-fractiona] coupled KdV equations is proposed. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The pr...In this paper, the genera]ised two-dimensiona] differentia] transform method (DTM) of solving the time-fractiona] coupled KdV equations is proposed. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The presented method is a numerical method based on the generalised Taylor series expansion which constructs an analytical solution in the form of a polynomial. An illustrative example shows that the genera]ised two-dimensional DTM is effective for the coupled equations.展开更多
This paper finds the approximate analytical scattering state solutions of the arbitrary 1-wave Schrodinger equation for the generalized Hulthen potential by taking an improved new approximate scheme for the centrifuga...This paper finds the approximate analytical scattering state solutions of the arbitrary 1-wave Schrodinger equation for the generalized Hulthen potential by taking an improved new approximate scheme for the centrifugal term. The normalized analytical radial wave functions of the 1-wave SchrSdinger equation for the generalized Hulthen potential are presented and the corresponding calculation formula of phase shifts is derived. Some useful figures are plotted to show the improved accuracy of the obtained results and two special cases for the standard Hulthen potential and Woods-Saxon potential are also studied briefly.展开更多
An approximate analytical solution of moving boundary problem for diffusion release of drug from a cylinder polymeric matrix was obtained by use of refined integral method. The release kinetics has been analyzed for n...An approximate analytical solution of moving boundary problem for diffusion release of drug from a cylinder polymeric matrix was obtained by use of refined integral method. The release kinetics has been analyzed for non-erodible matrices with perfect sink condition. The formulas of the moving boundary and the fractional drug release were given. The moving boundary and the fractional drug release have been calculated at various drug loading levels, mid the calculated results were in good agreement with those of experiments. The comparison of the moving boundary in spherical, cylinder, planar matrices has been completed. An approximate formula for estimating the available release time was presented. These results are useful for the clinic experiments. This investigation provides a new theoretical tool for studying the diffusion release of drug from a cylinder polymeric matrix and designing the controlled released drug.展开更多
This paper applies the variational iteration method to obtain approximate analytic solutions of compressible Euler equations in gas dynamics. This method is based on the use of Lagrange multiplier for identification o...This paper applies the variational iteration method to obtain approximate analytic solutions of compressible Euler equations in gas dynamics. This method is based on the use of Lagrange multiplier for identification of optimal values of parameters in a functional. Using this method, a rapid convergent sequence is produced which converges to the exact solutions of the problem. Numerical results and comparison with other two numerical solutions verify that this method is very convenient and efficient.展开更多
An approximate solution to Richards' equation is presented, mathematically describing a sort of unsaturated single phase fluid flow in porous media. The approach is a differential transform method (DTM) with interm...An approximate solution to Richards' equation is presented, mathematically describing a sort of unsaturated single phase fluid flow in porous media. The approach is a differential transform method (DTM) with intermediate variables. Two examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy of the presented solution.展开更多
This paper applies the variational iteration method to obtain approximate analytic solutions of a generalized Hirota-Satsuma coupled Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and a coupled modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV)...This paper applies the variational iteration method to obtain approximate analytic solutions of a generalized Hirota-Satsuma coupled Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and a coupled modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation. This method provides a sequence Of functions which converges to the exact solution of the problem and is based on the use of Lagrange multiplier for identification of optimal values of parameters in a functional. Some examples are given to demonstrate the reliability and convenience of the method and comparisons are made with the exact solutions.展开更多
The SIR(D) epidemiological model is defined through a system of transcendental equations, not solvable by elementary functions. In the present paper those equations are successfully replaced by approximate ones, whose...The SIR(D) epidemiological model is defined through a system of transcendental equations, not solvable by elementary functions. In the present paper those equations are successfully replaced by approximate ones, whose solutions are given explicitly in terms of elementary functions, originating, piece-wisely, from generalized logistic functions: they ensure <em>exact</em> (in the numerical sense) asymptotic values, besides to be quite practical to use, for example with fit to data algorithms;moreover they unveil a useful feature, that in fact, at least with very strict approximation, is also owned by the (numerical) solutions of the <em>exact</em> equations. The novelties in the work are: the way the approximate equations are obtained, using simple, analytic geometry considerations;the easy and practical formulation of the final approximate solutions;the mentioned useful feature, never disclosed before. The work’s method and result prove to be robust over a range of values of the well known non-dimensional parameter called <em>basic reproduction ratio</em>, that covers at least all the known epidemic cases, from influenza to measles: this is a point which doesn’t appear much discussed in analogous works.展开更多
The aim of the research is to study the propagation of a hydraulic fracture with tortuosity due to contact areas between touching asperities on opposite crack walls. The tortuous fracture is replaced by a model symmet...The aim of the research is to study the propagation of a hydraulic fracture with tortuosity due to contact areas between touching asperities on opposite crack walls. The tortuous fracture is replaced by a model symmetric partially open fracture with a hyperbolic crack law and a modified Reynolds flow law. The normal stress at the crack walls is assumed to be proportional to the half-width of the model fracture. The Lie point symmetry of the nonlinear diffusion equation for the fracture half-width is derived and the general form of the group invariant solution is obtained. It was found that the fluid flux at the fracture entry cannot be prescribed arbitrarily, because it is determined by the group invariant solution and that the exponent n in the modified Reynolds flow power law must lie in the range 2 < <em>n</em> < 5. The boundary value problem is solved numerically using a backward shooting method from the fracture tip, offset by 0 < <em>δ</em> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">≪</span> 1 to avoid singularities, to the fracture entry. The numerical results showed that the tortuosity and the pressure due to the contact regions both have the effect of increasing the fracture length. The spatial gradient of the half-width was found to be singular at the fracture tip for 3 < <em>n</em> < 5, to be finite for the Reynolds flow law <em>n</em> = 3 and to be zero for 2 < <em>n</em> < 3. The thin fluid film approximation breaks down at the fracture tip for 3 < <em>n</em> < 5 while it remains valid for increasingly tortuous fractures with 2 < <em>n</em> < 3. The effect of the touching asperities is to decrease the width averaged fluid velocity. An approximate analytical solution for the half-width, which was found to agree well with the numerical solution, is derived by making the approximation that the width averaged fluid velocity increases linearly with distance along the fracture.展开更多
文摘A refinement of an analytical approximation of the surface potential in MOSFETs is proposed by introducing a high-order term. As compared to the conventional treatment with accuracy between 1nV and 0. 03mV in the cases with an oxide thickness tox = 1 ~ 10nm and substrate doping concentration Na = 1015 ~ 1018 cm-3 , this method yields an accuracy within about 1pV in all cases. This is comparable to numerical simulations, but does not require trading off much computation efficiency. More importantly, the spikes in the error curve associated with the traditional treatment are eliminated.
基金financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51579146,51490674,and51609101)the Shanghai Rising-Star Program(Grant No.16QA1402300)
文摘Until now, most researches into the rogue-wave-structure interaction have relied on experimental measurement and numerical simulation. Owing to the complexity of the physical mechanism of rogue waves, theoretical study on the wave-structure issue still makes little progress. In this paper, the rogue wave flow around a vertical cylinder is analytically studied within the scope of the potential theory. The rogue wave is modeled by the Gauss envelope, which is one particular case of the well-known focusing theory. The formulae of the wave-induced horizontal force and bending moment are proposed. For the convenience of engineering application, the derived formulae are simplified appropriately, and verified against numerical results. In addition, the influence of wave parameters, such as the energy focusing degree and the wave focusing position, is thoroughly investigated.
基金This work was financially supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No.50476083).
文摘An efficient Adomian analytical decomposition technique for studying the momentum and heat boundary layer equations with exponentially stretching surface conditions was presented and an approximate analytical solution was obtained, which can be represented in terms of a rapid convergent power series with elegantly computable terms. The reliability and efficiency of the approximate solution were verified using numerical solutions in the literature. The approximate solution can be successfully applied to provide the values of skin friction and the temperature gradient coefficient.
基金*Supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province of China under Grant No. BK2010291, the Professor and Doctor Foundation of Yancheng Teachers University under Grant No. 07YSYJB0203
文摘Using the exponential function transformation approach along with an approximation for the centrifugal potential, the radial Schr6dinger equation of D-dimensional Hulthen potential is transformed to a hypergeometric differential equation. The approximate analytical solutions of scattering states are attained. The normalized wave functions expressed in terms of hypergeometrie functions of scattering states on the "k/2π scale" and the calculation formula of phase shifts are given. The physical meaning of the approximate analytical solutions is discussed.
基金supported in part by the National Key Research and Development Program(2021YFF1500100)Key Basic Research of Basic Strengthening Program of the Science and Technology Commission(2020-JCJQ-ZD-068)。
文摘In this paper,an in-band and out-of-band microwave wireless power-transmission characteristic analysis of a slot ring radome based on an approximate analytical method is proposed.The main contribution of this paper is that,in the approximate analysis of the ring radome,a unified expression of the incident field on the radome surface is derived with E-plane and H-plane scanning,and the ring is approximated as 30 segments of straight strips.Solving the corresponding 60×60 linear equations yields the electric current distribution along the ring strip.The magnetic current along the complementary slot ring is obtained by duality.Thanks to the fully analytical format of the current distribution,the microwave wireless power-transmission characteristics are efficiently calculated using Munk’s scheme.An example of a slot ring biplanar symmetric hybrid radome is used to verify the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed scheme.The central processing unit(CPU)time is about 690 s using Ansys HFSS software versus 2.82 s for the proposed method.
文摘For a real valued function f defined on a finite interval I we consider the problem of approximating f from null spaces of differential operators of the form Ln(ψ) =∑k=0^n akψ(k) where the constant coefficients ak C R may be adapted to f.
文摘In this paper, the approximate analytical solutions of the fractional coupled mKdV equation are obtained by homotopy analysis method (HAM). The method includes an auxiliary parameter which provides a convenient way of adjusting and controlling the convergence region of the series solution. The suitable value of auxiliary parameter is determined and the obtained results are presented graphically.
基金*Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No. 40876010, the Main Direction Program of the Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No. KZCX2-YW-Q03-08, the R &: D Special Fund for Public Welfare Industry (Meteorology) under Grant No. GYHY200806010, the LASG State Key Laboratory Special Fund and the Foundation of E-Institutes of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (E03004)
文摘The approximate expressions of the travelling wave solutions for a class of nonlinear disturbed long-wave system are constructed using the generalized variational iteration method.
文摘In this paper,we study the approximate solutions for some of nonlinear Biomathematics models via the e-epidemic SI1I2R model characterizing the spread of viruses in a computer network and SIR childhood disease model.The reduced differential transforms method(RDTM)is one of the interesting methods for finding the approximate solutions for nonlinear problems.We apply the RDTM to discuss the analytic approximate solutions to the SI1I2R model for the spread of virus HCV-subtype and SIR childhood disease model.We discuss the numerical results at some special values of parameters in the approximate solutions.We use the computer software package such as Mathematical to find more iteration when calculating the approximate solutions.Graphical results and discussed quantitatively are presented to illustrate behavior of the obtained approximate solutions.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant No.40876010the Main Direction Program of the Knowledge Innovation Project of Chinese Academy of Sciences under Grant No.KZCX2-YW-Q03-08+2 种基金the LASG State Key Laboratory Special Fundthe Foundation of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission under Grant No.E03004the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province under Grant No.Y6090164
文摘In this paper, the approximate expressions of the solitary wave solutions for a class of nonlinear disturbed long-wave system are constructed using the homotopie mapping method.
基金supported by Xi’an University of Arts and Science,China (Grant No.KYC200801)
文摘Using a proper approximation scheme to the centrifugal term, we study any l-wave continuum states of the Schrodinger equation for the modified Morse potential. The normalised analytical radial wave functions are presented, and a corresponding calculation formula of phase shifts is derived. It is shown that the energy levels of the continuum states reduce to those of the bound states at the poles of the scattering amplitude. Some numerical results are calculated to show the accuracy of our results.
基金This research is supported by National Key Research and Development Project(Grant Number 2019YFD0901002)Also Natural Science Foundation of Liaoning Province(Grant Number 20170540105)Liaoning Province Education Foundation(Grant Number JL201913)are gratefully acknowledged.
文摘Systemreliability sensitivity analysis becomes difficult due to involving the issues of the correlation between failure modes whether using analytic method or numerical simulation methods.A fast conditional reduction method based on conditional probability theory is proposed to solve the sensitivity analysis based on the approximate analytic method.The relevant concepts are introduced to characterize the correlation between failure modes by the reliability index and correlation coefficient,and conditional normal fractile the for the multi-dimensional conditional failure analysis is proposed based on the two-dimensional normal distribution function.Thus the calculation of system failure probability can be represented as a summation of conditional probability terms,which is convenient to be computed by iterative solving sequentially.Further the system sensitivity solution is transformed into the derivation process of the failure probability correlation coefficient of each failure mode.Numerical examples results show that it is feasible to apply the idea of failure mode relevancy to failure probability sensitivity analysis,and it can avoid multi-dimension integral calculation and reduce complexity and difficulty.Compared with the product of conditional marginalmethod,a wider value range of correlation coefficient for reliability analysis is confirmed and an acceptable accuracy can be obtained with less computational cost.
基金Project supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Inner Mongolia of China (Grant No. 20080404MS0104)the Young Scientists Fund of Inner Mongolia University of China (Grant No. ND0811)
文摘In this paper, the genera]ised two-dimensiona] differentia] transform method (DTM) of solving the time-fractiona] coupled KdV equations is proposed. The fractional derivative is described in the Caputo sense. The presented method is a numerical method based on the generalised Taylor series expansion which constructs an analytical solution in the form of a polynomial. An illustrative example shows that the genera]ised two-dimensional DTM is effective for the coupled equations.
文摘This paper finds the approximate analytical scattering state solutions of the arbitrary 1-wave Schrodinger equation for the generalized Hulthen potential by taking an improved new approximate scheme for the centrifugal term. The normalized analytical radial wave functions of the 1-wave SchrSdinger equation for the generalized Hulthen potential are presented and the corresponding calculation formula of phase shifts is derived. Some useful figures are plotted to show the improved accuracy of the obtained results and two special cases for the standard Hulthen potential and Woods-Saxon potential are also studied briefly.
文摘An approximate analytical solution of moving boundary problem for diffusion release of drug from a cylinder polymeric matrix was obtained by use of refined integral method. The release kinetics has been analyzed for non-erodible matrices with perfect sink condition. The formulas of the moving boundary and the fractional drug release were given. The moving boundary and the fractional drug release have been calculated at various drug loading levels, mid the calculated results were in good agreement with those of experiments. The comparison of the moving boundary in spherical, cylinder, planar matrices has been completed. An approximate formula for estimating the available release time was presented. These results are useful for the clinic experiments. This investigation provides a new theoretical tool for studying the diffusion release of drug from a cylinder polymeric matrix and designing the controlled released drug.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10771019 and 10826107)
文摘This paper applies the variational iteration method to obtain approximate analytic solutions of compressible Euler equations in gas dynamics. This method is based on the use of Lagrange multiplier for identification of optimal values of parameters in a functional. Using this method, a rapid convergent sequence is produced which converges to the exact solutions of the problem. Numerical results and comparison with other two numerical solutions verify that this method is very convenient and efficient.
基金Project supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program)(No.2011CB013800)
文摘An approximate solution to Richards' equation is presented, mathematically describing a sort of unsaturated single phase fluid flow in porous media. The approach is a differential transform method (DTM) with intermediate variables. Two examples are given to demonstrate the accuracy of the presented solution.
基金Project supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.10771019 and 10826107)
文摘This paper applies the variational iteration method to obtain approximate analytic solutions of a generalized Hirota-Satsuma coupled Korteweg-de Vries (KdV) equation and a coupled modified Korteweg-de Vries (mKdV) equation. This method provides a sequence Of functions which converges to the exact solution of the problem and is based on the use of Lagrange multiplier for identification of optimal values of parameters in a functional. Some examples are given to demonstrate the reliability and convenience of the method and comparisons are made with the exact solutions.
文摘The SIR(D) epidemiological model is defined through a system of transcendental equations, not solvable by elementary functions. In the present paper those equations are successfully replaced by approximate ones, whose solutions are given explicitly in terms of elementary functions, originating, piece-wisely, from generalized logistic functions: they ensure <em>exact</em> (in the numerical sense) asymptotic values, besides to be quite practical to use, for example with fit to data algorithms;moreover they unveil a useful feature, that in fact, at least with very strict approximation, is also owned by the (numerical) solutions of the <em>exact</em> equations. The novelties in the work are: the way the approximate equations are obtained, using simple, analytic geometry considerations;the easy and practical formulation of the final approximate solutions;the mentioned useful feature, never disclosed before. The work’s method and result prove to be robust over a range of values of the well known non-dimensional parameter called <em>basic reproduction ratio</em>, that covers at least all the known epidemic cases, from influenza to measles: this is a point which doesn’t appear much discussed in analogous works.
文摘The aim of the research is to study the propagation of a hydraulic fracture with tortuosity due to contact areas between touching asperities on opposite crack walls. The tortuous fracture is replaced by a model symmetric partially open fracture with a hyperbolic crack law and a modified Reynolds flow law. The normal stress at the crack walls is assumed to be proportional to the half-width of the model fracture. The Lie point symmetry of the nonlinear diffusion equation for the fracture half-width is derived and the general form of the group invariant solution is obtained. It was found that the fluid flux at the fracture entry cannot be prescribed arbitrarily, because it is determined by the group invariant solution and that the exponent n in the modified Reynolds flow power law must lie in the range 2 < <em>n</em> < 5. The boundary value problem is solved numerically using a backward shooting method from the fracture tip, offset by 0 < <em>δ</em> <span style="white-space:nowrap;">≪</span> 1 to avoid singularities, to the fracture entry. The numerical results showed that the tortuosity and the pressure due to the contact regions both have the effect of increasing the fracture length. The spatial gradient of the half-width was found to be singular at the fracture tip for 3 < <em>n</em> < 5, to be finite for the Reynolds flow law <em>n</em> = 3 and to be zero for 2 < <em>n</em> < 3. The thin fluid film approximation breaks down at the fracture tip for 3 < <em>n</em> < 5 while it remains valid for increasingly tortuous fractures with 2 < <em>n</em> < 3. The effect of the touching asperities is to decrease the width averaged fluid velocity. An approximate analytical solution for the half-width, which was found to agree well with the numerical solution, is derived by making the approximation that the width averaged fluid velocity increases linearly with distance along the fracture.