Weakly Singular Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method for Fracture Analysis of Three-Dimensional Structures Considering Rotational Inertia and Gravitational Forces

The Symmetric Galerkin Boundary Element Method is advantageous for the linear elastic fracture and crackgrowth analysis of solid structures,because only boundary and crack-surface elements are needed.However,for engineering structures subjected to body forces such as rotational inertia and gravitational loads,additional domain integral terms in the Galerkin boundary integral equation will necessitate meshing of the interior of the domain.In this study,weakly-singular SGBEM for fracture analysis of three-dimensional structures considering rotational inertia and gravitational forces are developed.By using divergence theorem or alternatively the radial integration method,the domain integral terms caused by body forces are transformed into boundary integrals.And due to the weak singularity of the formulated boundary integral equations,a simple Gauss-Legendre quadrature with a few integral points is sufficient for numerically evaluating the SGBEM equations.Some numerical examples are presented to verify this approach and results are compared with benchmark solutions.

A Differential Quadrature Based Approach for Volterra Partial Integro-Differential Equation with a Weakly Singular Kernel

Differential quadrature method is employed by numerous researchers due to its numerical accuracy and computational efficiency,and is mentioned as potential alternative of conventional numerical methods.In this paper,a differential quadrature based numerical scheme is developed for solving volterra partial integro-differential equation of second order having a weakly singular kernel.The scheme uses cubic trigonometric B-spline functions to determine the weighting coefficients in the differential quadrature approximation of the second order spatial derivative.The advantage of this approximation is that it reduces the problem to a first order time dependent integro-differential equation(IDE).The proposed scheme is obtained in the form of an algebraic system by reducing the time dependent IDE through unconditionally stable Euler backward method as time integrator.The scheme is validated using a homogeneous and two nonhomogeneous test problems.Conditioning of the system matrix and numerical convergence of the method are analyzed for spatial and temporal domain discretization parameters.Comparison of results of the present approach with Sinc collocation method and quasi-wavelet method are also made.

A SPECTRAL METHOD FOR A WEAKLY SINGULAR VOLTERRA INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION WITH PANTOGRAPH DELAY

In this paper,a Jacobi-collocation spectral method is developed for a Volterraintegro-differential equation with delay,which contains a weakly singular kernel.We use a function transformation and a variable transformation to change the equation into a new Volterra integral equation defined on the standard interval[-1,1],so that the Jacobi orthogonal polynomial theory can be applied conveniently.In order to obtain high order accuracy for the approximation,the integral term in the resulting equation is approximated by Jacobi spectral quadrature rules.In the end,we provide a rigorous error analysis for the proposed method.The spectral rate of convergence for the proposed method is established in both the L^(∞)-norm and the weighted L^(2)-norm.

On the Well-Posedness of a Class of Hybrid Weakly Singular Integro-Differential Equations

In this study, a revised version of some numerical methods for a class of hybrid integro-differential equations with weakly singular kernels (Abel types) is presented. These equations were developed from a class of integro-differential equations of first kind originating from an aeroelasticity problem. By manipulating the bounds of initial conditions with random variations, this study numerically demonstrated the well-posedness properties of the equations. Finally, an assumption of separating variables, allowed for linear splines to be chosen as a basis and for the differentiation and integration of the integro-differential part to be interchanged;hence, a numerical scheme was constructed.

GENERALIZED JACOBI SPECTRAL GALERKIN METHOD FOR FRACTIONAL-ORDER VOLTERRA INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS WITH WEAKLY SINGULAR KERNELS

For fractional Volterra integro-differential equations(FVIDEs)with weakly singular kernels,this paper proposes a generalized Jacobi spectral Galerkin method.The basis functions for the provided method are selected generalized Jacobi functions(GJFs),which can be utilized as natural basis functions of spectral methods for weakly singular FVIDEs when appropriately constructed.The developed method's spectral rate of convergence is determined using the L^(∞)-norm and the weighted L^(2)-norm.Numerical results indicate the usefulness of the proposed method.

The non-cutoff Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system with weak angular singularity

We establish the global existence of small-amplitude solutions near a global Maxwellian to the Cauchy problem of the Vlasov-Maxwell-Boltzmann system for non-cutoff soft potentials with weak angular singularity. This extends the work of Duan et al.(2013), in which the case of strong angular singularity is considered, to the case of weak angular singularity.

A Comparative Numerical Study of Parabolic Partial Integro-Differential Equation Arising from Convection-Diffusion

This article studies the development of two numerical techniques for solving convection-diffusion type partial integro-differential equation(PIDE)with a weakly singular kernel.Cubic trigonometric B-spline(CTBS)functions are used for interpolation in both methods.The first method is CTBS based collocation method which reduces the PIDE to an algebraic tridiagonal system of linear equations.The other method is CTBS based differential quadrature method which converts the PIDE to a system of ODEs by computing spatial derivatives as weighted sum of function values.An efficient tridiagonal solver is used for the solution of the linear system obtained in the first method as well as for determination of weighting coefficients in the second method.An explicit scheme is employed as time integrator to solve the system of ODEs obtained in the second method.The methods are tested with three nonhomogeneous problems for their validation.Stability,computational efficiency and numerical convergence of the methods are analyzed.Comparison of errors in approximations produced by the present methods versus different values of discretization parameters and convection-diffusion coefficients are made.Convection and diffusion dominant cases are discussed in terms of Peclet number.The results are also compared with cubic B-spline collocation method.

A Pseudo-Spectral Scheme for Systems of Two-Point Boundary Value Problems with Left and Right Sided Fractional Derivatives and Related Integral Equations

We target here to solve numerically a class of nonlinear fractional two-point boundary value problems involving left-and right-sided fractional derivatives.The main ingredient of the proposed method is to recast the problem into an equivalent system of weakly singular integral equations.Then,a Legendre-based spectral collocation method is developed for solving the transformed system.Therefore,we can make good use of the advantages of the Gauss quadrature rule.We present the construction and analysis of the collocation method.These results can be indirectly applied to solve fractional optimal control problems by considering the corresponding Euler–Lagrange equations.Two numerical examples are given to confirm the convergence analysis and robustness of the scheme.

A Robust Hybrid Spectral Method for Nonlocal Problems with Weakly Singular Kernels

In this paper,we propose a hybrid spectral method for a type of nonlocal problems,nonlinear Volterra integral equations(VIEs)of the second kind.The main idea is to use the shifted generalized Log orthogonal functions(GLOFs)as the basis for the first interval and employ the classical shifted Legendre polynomials for other subintervals.This method is robust for VIEs with weakly singular kernel due to the GLOFs can efficiently approximate one-point singular functions as well as smooth functions.The well-posedness and the related error estimates will be provided.Abundant numerical experiments will verify the theoretical results and show the high-efficiency of the new hybrid spectral method.

A Compact Difference Scheme for an Evolution Equation with a Weakly Singular Kernel

This paper is concerned with a compact difference scheme with the truncation error of order 3/2 for time and order 4 for space to an evolution equation with a weakly singular kernel.The integral term is treated by means of the second order convolution quadrature suggested by Lubich.The stability and convergence are proved by the energy method.A numerical experiment is reported to verify the theoretical predictions.

Convergence Analysis of the Spectral Methods for Weakly Singular Volterra Integro-Differential Equations with Smooth Solutions

The theory of a class of spectral methods is extended to Volterra integrodifferential equations which contain a weakly singular kernel(t−s)^(−μ) with 0<μ<1.In this work,we consider the case when the underlying solutions of weakly singular Volterra integro-differential equations are sufficiently smooth.We provide a rigorous error analysis for the spectral methods,which shows that both the errors of approximate solutions and the errors of approximate derivatives of the solutions decay exponentially in L^(∞)-norm and weighted L^(2)-norm.The numerical examples are given to illustrate the theoretical results.

A Spectral Method for Neutral Volterra Integro-Differential Equation with Weakly Singular Kernel

This paper is concerned with obtaining an approximate solution and an approximate derivative of the solution for neutral Volterra integro-differential equation with a weakly singular kernel.The solution of this equation,even for analytic data,is not smooth on the entire interval of integration.The Jacobi collocation discretization is proposed for the given equation.A rigorous analysis of error bound is also provided which theoretically justifies that both the error of approximate solution and the error of approximate derivative of the solution decay exponentially in L∞norm and weighted L2 norm.Numerical results are presented to demonstrate the effectiveness of the spectral method.

The Global Behavior of Finite Difference-Spatial Spectral Collocation Methods for a Partial Integro-differential Equation with a Weakly Singular Kernel

The z-transform is introduced to analyze a full discretization method fora partial integro-differential equation (PIDE) with a weakly singular kernel. In thismethod, spectral collocation is used for the spatial discretization, and, for the time stepping, the finite difference method combined with the convolution quadrature rule isconsidered. The global stability and convergence properties of complete discretizationare derived and numerical experiments are reported.

THE NUMERICAL SOLUTION FOR A PARTIAL INTEGRO-DIFFERENTIAL EQUATION WITH A WEAKLY SINGULAR KERNEL

In this paper, a first order semi-discrete method of a partial integro-differential equation with a weakly singular kernel is considered. We apply Galerkin spectral method in one direction, and the inversion technique for the Laplace transform in another direction, the result of the numerical experiment proves the accuracy of this method.

Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Multi-Pantograph Delay Differential Equations

In this paper,the discontinuous Galerkin method is applied to solve the multi-pantograph delay differential equations.We analyze the optimal global convergence and local superconvergence for smooth solutions under uniform meshes.Due to the initial singularity of the forcing term f,solutions of multi-pantograph delay differential equations are singular.We obtain the relevant global convergence and local superconvergence for weakly singular solutions under graded meshes.The numerical examples are provided to illustrate our theoretical results.

A Spectrally Accurate Boundary Integral Method for Interfacial Velocities in Two-Dimensional Stokes Flow

We present a new numerical method for solving two-dimensional Stokes flow with deformable interfaces such as dynamics of suspended drops or bubbles.The method is based on a boundary integral formulation for the interfacial velocity and is spectrally accurate in space.We analyze the singular behavior of the integrals(single-layer and double-layer integrals)appearing in the equations.The interfaces are formulated in the tangent angle and arc-length coordinates and,to reduce the stiffness of the evolution equation,the marker points are evenly distributed in arc-length by choosing a proper tangential velocity along the interfaces.Examples of Stokes flow with bubbles are provided to demonstrate the accuracy and effectiveness of the numerical method.