Airline Disruption Management:A Review of Models and Solution Methods

The normal operation of aircraft and flights can be affected by various unpredictable factors,such as severe weather,airport closure,and corrective maintenance,leading to disruption of the planned schedule.When a disruption occurs,the airline operation control center performs various operations to reassign resources(e.g.,flights,aircraft,and crews)and redistribute passengers to restore the schedule while minimizing costs.We introduce different sources of disruption and corresponding operations.Then,basic models and recently proposed extensions for aircraft recovery,crew recovery,and integrated recovery are reviewed,with the aim of providing models and methods for different disruption scenarios in the practical implementation of airlines.In addition,we provide suggestions for future research directions in these topics.

Numerical quadrature for singular and near-singular integrals of boundary element method and its applications in large-scale acoustic problems

The numerical quadrature methods for dealing with the problems of singular and near-singular integrals caused by Burton-Miller method are proposed, by which the conventional and fast multipole BEMs （boundary element methods） for 3D acoustic problems based on constant elements are improved. To solve the problem of singular integrals, a Hadamard finite-part integral method is presented, which is a simplified combination of the methods proposed by Kirkup and Wolf. The problem of near-singular integrals is overcome by the simple method of polar transformation and the more complex method of PART （Projection and Angular ＆ Radial Transformation）. The effectiveness of these methods for solving the singular and near-singular problems is validated through comparing with the results computed by the analytical method and/or the commercial software LMS Virtual.Lab. In addition, the influence of the near-singular integral problem on the computational precisions is analyzed by computing the errors relative to the exact solution. The computational complexities of the conventional and fast multipole BEM are analyzed and compared through numerical computations. A large-scale acoustic scattering problem, whose degree of freedoms is about 340,000, is implemented successfully. The results show that, the near singularity is primarily introduced by the hyper-singular kernel, and has great influences on the precision of the solution. The precision of fast multipole BEM is the same as conventional BEM, but the computational complexities are much lower.

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO AN INTEGRAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM WITH DELAY

In this paper, we study a second order integral boundary value problem with delay. By the Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem, we obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one or two positive solutions to the problem.

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO A COUPLED SYSTEM OF FRACTIONAL INTEGRAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM WITH DELAY

In this paper, we study the existence of positive solutions to an integral boundary value problem with delay for a coupled system of fractional differential equations. By using the Krasnoselskii fixed point theorem, we obtain sufficient conditions for the existence of at least one or two positive solutions to the problem under some weaker conditions.

POSITIVE SOLUTIONS TO A FIRST ORDER IMPULSIVE INTEGRAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM ON TIME SCALES

In this paper, we are mainly concerned with the existence and multiplicity of positive solutions to a frst order integral boundary value problem with impulsive efects on time scales. Under some conditions concerning the frst eigenvalues corresponding to the relevant linear operators, we obtain the main results by Krasnoselskii-Zabreiko fxed point theorem.

ITERATIVE POSITIVE SOLUTIONS FOR SINGULAR RIEMANN-STIELTJES INTEGRAL BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEM

By applying iterative technique,we obtain the existence of positive solutions for a singular Riemann-Stieltjes integral boundary value problem in the case that f（t,u） is non-increasing respect to u.

THE APPLICATION OF INTEGRAL EQUATIONS TO THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION OF NONLINEAR SINGULAR PERTURBATION PROBLEMS

The nonlinear singular perturbation problem is solved numerically on nonequidistant meshes which are dense in the boundary layers. The method presented is based on the numerical solution of integral equations [1]. The fourth order uniform accuracy of the scheme is proved. A numerical experiment demonstrates the effectiveness of the method.

An Alternative Method to Study Wave Scattering by Semi-infinite Inertial Surfaces

A new method to solve the boundary value problem arising in the study of scattering of two-dimensional surface water waves by a discontinuity in the surface boundary conditions is presented in this paper. The discontinuity arises due to the floating of two semi-infinite inertial surfaces of different surface densities. Applying Green＇s second identity to the potential functions and appropriate Green＇s functions, this problem is reduced to solving two coupled Fredholm integral equations with regular kernels. The solutions to these integral equations are used to determine the reflection and the transmission coefficients. The results for the reflection coefficient are presented graphically and are compared to those obtained earlier using other research methods. It is observed from the graphs that the results computed from the present analysis match exactly with the previous results.

MULTIPLICITY OF NONNEGATIVE SOLUTIONS TO SECOND-ORDER SINGULAR DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION WITH INTEGRAL BOUNDARY CONDITIONS IN BANACH SPACES

This paper investigates the existence and multiplicity of nonnegative solutions to a singular nonlinear boundary value problem of second order differential equations with integral boundary conditions in a Banach space. The arguments are based on the construction of a nonempty bounded open convex set and fixed point index theory. Our nonlinearity possesses singularity and first derivative which makes it different with that in [10].

SOLVABILITY FOR FRACTIONAL FUNCTIONAL DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION BOUNDARY VALUE PROBLEMS AT RESONANCE

The paper deals a fractional functional boundary value problems with integral boundary conditions. Besed on the coincidence degree theory, some existence criteria of solutions at resonance are established.