In this paper, the authors establish some theorems that can ascertain the zero solutions of systemsx(n+1)=f(n,x n)(1)are uniformly stable,asymptotically stable or uniformly asymptotically stable. In the obtained theo...In this paper, the authors establish some theorems that can ascertain the zero solutions of systemsx(n+1)=f(n,x n)(1)are uniformly stable,asymptotically stable or uniformly asymptotically stable. In the obtained theorems, ΔV is not required to be always negative, where ΔV(n,x n)≡V(n+1,x(n+1)) -V(n,x(n))=V(n+1,f(n,x n))-V(n,x(n)), especially, in Theorem 1, ΔV may be even positive, which greatly improve the known results and are more convenient to use.展开更多
In the article, the fully discrete finite difference scheme for a type of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation is established. Then the new function space is introduced and the stability problem for the finite differ...In the article, the fully discrete finite difference scheme for a type of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation is established. Then the new function space is introduced and the stability problem for the finite difference scheme is discussed by means of variational approximation method in this function space. The approach used is of a simple characteristic in gaining the stability condition of the scheme.展开更多
This paper deals with the special nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation. The finite difference scheme with incremental unknowns approximating to the differential equation (2.1) is set up by means of introducing incr...This paper deals with the special nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation. The finite difference scheme with incremental unknowns approximating to the differential equation (2.1) is set up by means of introducing incremental unknowns methods. Through the stability analyzing for the scheme, it was shown that the stability conditions of the finite difference schemes with the incremental unknowns are greatly improved when compared with the stability conditions of the corresponding classic difference scheme.展开更多
A numerical simulation for a model of wood drying process is considered. The model is given by a couple of nonlinear differential equations. One is a nonlinear parabolic equation and the other one is a nonlinear ordin...A numerical simulation for a model of wood drying process is considered. The model is given by a couple of nonlinear differential equations. One is a nonlinear parabolic equation and the other one is a nonlinear ordinary equation. A difference scheme is derived by the method of reduction of order. First, a new variable is introduced and the original problem is rewritten into a system of the first-order differential equations. Secondly, a difference scheme is constructed for the later problem. The solvability, stability and convergence of the difference scheme are proved by the energy method. The convergence order of the difference scheme is secondorder both in time and in space. A prior error estimate is put forward. The new variable is put aside to reduce the computational cost. A numerical example testifies the theoretical result.展开更多
The trajectory tracking control problem for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles(USV) was addressed, and the control system took account of the uncertain influences induced by model perturbation, external disturban...The trajectory tracking control problem for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles(USV) was addressed, and the control system took account of the uncertain influences induced by model perturbation, external disturbance, etc. By introducing the reference, trajectory was generated by a virtual USV, and the error equation of trajectory tracking for USV was obtained, which transformed the tracking problem of underactuated USV into the stabilization problem of the trajectory tracking error equation. A backstepping adaptive sliding mode controller was proposed based on backstepping technology and method of dynamic slide model control. By means of theoretical analysis, it is proved that the proposed controller ensures that the solutions of closed loop system have the ultimate boundedness property. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.展开更多
The laws of motion of particle groups in a jigging process are studied. These describe the macroscopic phenomena that occur during jigging. During jigging the heavier and bigger particles concentrate at the bed bottom...The laws of motion of particle groups in a jigging process are studied. These describe the macroscopic phenomena that occur during jigging. During jigging the heavier and bigger particles concentrate at the bed bottom while lighter and smaller particles move to the upper part of the bed. Particles with equivalent properties tend to concentrate at a certain position centered around the inherent height of their distribution. The particle distribution variance gradually diminishes to some asymptotic value. The state equation group of the jigging bed is deduced and a calculation method, called the λ value judgment method, is proposed. The method is used to calculate the layer number and the inherent height of each particle group. A mathematical expression for the particle distribution variance is also given.展开更多
This study focused on the way that Adolescents with Transfusion- dependent thalassemia explained negative or positive events in their life (Attributional Styles). It is defined by three dimensions describing the cog...This study focused on the way that Adolescents with Transfusion- dependent thalassemia explained negative or positive events in their life (Attributional Styles). It is defined by three dimensions describing the cognitive appraisal of the events: internal-external, stable-unstable, and global-specific. With cross-sectional research design, the observations consist of 102 adolescents (48 males, 54 females) who diagnosed with Transfusion-dependent thalassemia (more than 50 times for blood transfusions) completed the measure of Attributional Styles and Anxiety Questionnaires. The correlations in the predicted directions among variables examine with Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients, t-test, and One-way ANOVA to ascertain a significant between the group differences on attributional factors and levels of anxiety symptoms. The results show that Adolescent samples with higher levels of anxiety revealed statistically significant relationship among three negative attributional dimensions (overall composite F = 4.5, p 〈 0.05; negative composite F = 4.99, p 〈 0.01; negative-internality F = 4.99 p 〈 0.01; negative-stability F = 3.42, p 〈 0.05 and negative-globality F = 3.77, p 〈 0.05). In addition, significant age- group differences were found for the total negative-globality (t = 2.05, p 〈 0.05) and negative- globality (t = -2.22, p 〈 0.05). These data are consistent with the reformulated learned helplessness model of depression. In finding, the individuals who attribute negative life events to internal, stable, and global causes will be more vulnerable to anxiety than those who make external, unstable, and specific attributions. Most interestingly, those adolescents more than 17 years evidence more negative-globality attfibutional style than group less than 16 years, and female adolescents may influence this pattern. These results suggest that targeting Adolescents with Transfusion-dependent thalassemia may be important for improving aspect of coping on psychological adjustment to their chronic illness.展开更多
Deformation modulus is the important parameter in stability analysis of tunnels, dams and mining struc- tures. In this paper, two predictive models including Mamdani fuzzy system (MFS) and multivariable regression a...Deformation modulus is the important parameter in stability analysis of tunnels, dams and mining struc- tures. In this paper, two predictive models including Mamdani fuzzy system (MFS) and multivariable regression analysis (MVRA) were developed to predict deformation modulus based on data obtained from dilatometer tests carried out in Bakhtiary dam site and additional data collected from longwall coal mines. Models inputs were considered to be rock quality designation, overburden height, weathering, unconfined compressive strength, bedding inclination to core axis, joint roughness coefficient and fill thickness. To control the models performance, calculating indices such as root mean square error (RMSE), variance account for (VAF) and determination coefficient (R^2) were used. The MFS results show the significant prediction accuracy along with high performance compared to MVRA results. Finally, the sensitivity analysis of MFS results shows that the most and the least effective parameters on deformation modulus are weatherin~ and overburden height, respectively.展开更多
Delay differential systems are widely used in many different fields, It is important to determine the local stability of their equilibria, For systems with' delay dependent parameters, the stability analysis of equil...Delay differential systems are widely used in many different fields, It is important to determine the local stability of their equilibria, For systems with' delay dependent parameters, the stability analysis of equilibria is complicated and difficult In this paper, we shall investigate the ultimate stability of a type of characteristic equation with delay dependent parameters. Our results show that the characteristic equation with delay dependent parameters may be one of ultimately stable, ultimately unstable, and alternate between stable and unstable. Applying our results, the ultimate stability can be often decided directly and need not appeal to mathematic software. Two examples are given in this paper,展开更多
Human behavioral responses fundamentally influence the spread of infectious disease. In this paper, we study a discrete-time SIS epidemic process in random networks. Three forms of individual awareness, namely, local ...Human behavioral responses fundamentally influence the spread of infectious disease. In this paper, we study a discrete-time SIS epidemic process in random networks. Three forms of individual awareness, namely, local awareness, global awareness and contact awareness, are considered. The effect of awareness is to reduce the risk of infection. [3ased on the stability theory of matrix difference equation, we derive analytically the epidemic threshold. It is found that both local and contact awareness can raise the epidemic threshold, while the global awareness only decreases the epidemic prevalence. Our results are in line with a recent result using differential equation-based methods.展开更多
In this work, the MMC-TDGL equation, a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation, is solved numerically by using the finite difference method in combination with a convex splitting technique of the energy functional.For the n...In this work, the MMC-TDGL equation, a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation, is solved numerically by using the finite difference method in combination with a convex splitting technique of the energy functional.For the non-stochastic case, we develop an unconditionally energy stable difference scheme which is proved to be uniquely solvable. For the stochastic case, by adopting the same splitting of the energy functional, we construct a similar and uniquely solvable difference scheme with the discretized stochastic term. The resulted schemes are nonlinear and solved by Newton iteration. For the long time simulation, an adaptive time stepping strategy is developed based on both first- and second-order derivatives of the energy. Numerical experiments are carried out to verify the energy stability, the efficiency of the adaptive time stepping and the effect of the stochastic term.展开更多
In this paper, a periodic Volterra model with mutual interference and impulsive effect is proposed and analyzed. By applying the Floquet theory of impulsive differential equa- tion, some conditions are obtained for th...In this paper, a periodic Volterra model with mutual interference and impulsive effect is proposed and analyzed. By applying the Floquet theory of impulsive differential equa- tion, some conditions are obtained for the linear stability of semi-trivial periodic solution. Some sufficient conditions are also given for the permanence of the system. Further, stan- dard bifurcation theory is used to show the existence of coexistence state which arises near the semi-trivial periodic solution. Finally, theoretical results are confirmed by some special cases of the system.展开更多
In this paper we establish a large deviation principle for the occupation times of critical branching α-stable processes for large dimensions d > 2α, by investigating two related nonlinear differential equations....In this paper we establish a large deviation principle for the occupation times of critical branching α-stable processes for large dimensions d > 2α, by investigating two related nonlinear differential equations. Our result is an extension of Cox and Griffeath’s (in 1985) for branching Brownian motion for d > 4.展开更多
Quasinormal modes (QNMs) for Dirac perturbations off(R) black holes (BHs) are described in this paper, involving two types of f(R) solution: f(R) (Sehwarzschild) BHs and f(R) (Maxwell) BHs. With the f...Quasinormal modes (QNMs) for Dirac perturbations off(R) black holes (BHs) are described in this paper, involving two types of f(R) solution: f(R) (Sehwarzschild) BHs and f(R) (Maxwell) BHs. With the finite difference method, the stability of the f(R) black holes (BHs) is analysed and the threshold range off(R) (Schwarzschild) BHs and f(R) (Maxwell) BHs is defined respectively. The results show that due to the presence of the correction factor Ro, the damping rate of Dirac field decreases. Meanwhile, the influence of angular quantum number values [k] on the f(R) BHs is investigated. The results indicate that the QNMs oscillation becomes tenser and damping speed slowly decreases with ]k[ increasing. Furthermore, under the Dirac perturbation, the stability off(R) solutions can be reflected in the manner of Dirac QNMs. The relationships between the QNMs and the parameters (]k], charge Q and mass m) are discussed in massless, and massive cases, by contrast to the classical BHs.展开更多
We investigate the synchronization ability of four types of regular coupled networks. By introducing the proper error variables and Lyapunov functions, we turn the stability of synchronization manifold into that of nu...We investigate the synchronization ability of four types of regular coupled networks. By introducing the proper error variables and Lyapunov functions, we turn the stability of synchronization manifold into that of null solution of error equations, further, into the negative definiteness of some symmetric matrices, thus we get the sufficient synchronization stability conditions. To test the valid of the results, we take the Chua's circuit as an example. Although the theoretical synchronization thresholds appear to be very conservative, they provide new insights about the influence of topology and scale of networks on synchronization, and that the theoretical results and our numerical simulations are consistent.展开更多
文摘In this paper, the authors establish some theorems that can ascertain the zero solutions of systemsx(n+1)=f(n,x n)(1)are uniformly stable,asymptotically stable or uniformly asymptotically stable. In the obtained theorems, ΔV is not required to be always negative, where ΔV(n,x n)≡V(n+1,x(n+1)) -V(n,x(n))=V(n+1,f(n,x n))-V(n,x(n)), especially, in Theorem 1, ΔV may be even positive, which greatly improve the known results and are more convenient to use.
文摘In the article, the fully discrete finite difference scheme for a type of nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation is established. Then the new function space is introduced and the stability problem for the finite difference scheme is discussed by means of variational approximation method in this function space. The approach used is of a simple characteristic in gaining the stability condition of the scheme.
文摘This paper deals with the special nonlinear reaction-diffusion equation. The finite difference scheme with incremental unknowns approximating to the differential equation (2.1) is set up by means of introducing incremental unknowns methods. Through the stability analyzing for the scheme, it was shown that the stability conditions of the finite difference schemes with the incremental unknowns are greatly improved when compared with the stability conditions of the corresponding classic difference scheme.
基金The National Natural Science Foundation of China (No10471023)
文摘A numerical simulation for a model of wood drying process is considered. The model is given by a couple of nonlinear differential equations. One is a nonlinear parabolic equation and the other one is a nonlinear ordinary equation. A difference scheme is derived by the method of reduction of order. First, a new variable is introduced and the original problem is rewritten into a system of the first-order differential equations. Secondly, a difference scheme is constructed for the later problem. The solvability, stability and convergence of the difference scheme are proved by the energy method. The convergence order of the difference scheme is secondorder both in time and in space. A prior error estimate is put forward. The new variable is put aside to reduce the computational cost. A numerical example testifies the theoretical result.
基金Project(51409061)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2013M540271)supported by China Postdoctoral Science Foundation+1 种基金Project(LBH-Z13055)Supported by Heilongjiang Postdoctoral Financial Assistance,ChinaProject(HEUCFD1403)supported by Basic Research Foundation of Central Universities,China
文摘The trajectory tracking control problem for underactuated unmanned surface vehicles(USV) was addressed, and the control system took account of the uncertain influences induced by model perturbation, external disturbance, etc. By introducing the reference, trajectory was generated by a virtual USV, and the error equation of trajectory tracking for USV was obtained, which transformed the tracking problem of underactuated USV into the stabilization problem of the trajectory tracking error equation. A backstepping adaptive sliding mode controller was proposed based on backstepping technology and method of dynamic slide model control. By means of theoretical analysis, it is proved that the proposed controller ensures that the solutions of closed loop system have the ultimate boundedness property. Simulation results are presented to illustrate the effectiveness of the proposed controller.
基金Project 50474065 supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China
文摘The laws of motion of particle groups in a jigging process are studied. These describe the macroscopic phenomena that occur during jigging. During jigging the heavier and bigger particles concentrate at the bed bottom while lighter and smaller particles move to the upper part of the bed. Particles with equivalent properties tend to concentrate at a certain position centered around the inherent height of their distribution. The particle distribution variance gradually diminishes to some asymptotic value. The state equation group of the jigging bed is deduced and a calculation method, called the λ value judgment method, is proposed. The method is used to calculate the layer number and the inherent height of each particle group. A mathematical expression for the particle distribution variance is also given.
文摘This study focused on the way that Adolescents with Transfusion- dependent thalassemia explained negative or positive events in their life (Attributional Styles). It is defined by three dimensions describing the cognitive appraisal of the events: internal-external, stable-unstable, and global-specific. With cross-sectional research design, the observations consist of 102 adolescents (48 males, 54 females) who diagnosed with Transfusion-dependent thalassemia (more than 50 times for blood transfusions) completed the measure of Attributional Styles and Anxiety Questionnaires. The correlations in the predicted directions among variables examine with Pearson product-moment correlation coefficients, t-test, and One-way ANOVA to ascertain a significant between the group differences on attributional factors and levels of anxiety symptoms. The results show that Adolescent samples with higher levels of anxiety revealed statistically significant relationship among three negative attributional dimensions (overall composite F = 4.5, p 〈 0.05; negative composite F = 4.99, p 〈 0.01; negative-internality F = 4.99 p 〈 0.01; negative-stability F = 3.42, p 〈 0.05 and negative-globality F = 3.77, p 〈 0.05). In addition, significant age- group differences were found for the total negative-globality (t = 2.05, p 〈 0.05) and negative- globality (t = -2.22, p 〈 0.05). These data are consistent with the reformulated learned helplessness model of depression. In finding, the individuals who attribute negative life events to internal, stable, and global causes will be more vulnerable to anxiety than those who make external, unstable, and specific attributions. Most interestingly, those adolescents more than 17 years evidence more negative-globality attfibutional style than group less than 16 years, and female adolescents may influence this pattern. These results suggest that targeting Adolescents with Transfusion-dependent thalassemia may be important for improving aspect of coping on psychological adjustment to their chronic illness.
文摘Deformation modulus is the important parameter in stability analysis of tunnels, dams and mining struc- tures. In this paper, two predictive models including Mamdani fuzzy system (MFS) and multivariable regression analysis (MVRA) were developed to predict deformation modulus based on data obtained from dilatometer tests carried out in Bakhtiary dam site and additional data collected from longwall coal mines. Models inputs were considered to be rock quality designation, overburden height, weathering, unconfined compressive strength, bedding inclination to core axis, joint roughness coefficient and fill thickness. To control the models performance, calculating indices such as root mean square error (RMSE), variance account for (VAF) and determination coefficient (R^2) were used. The MFS results show the significant prediction accuracy along with high performance compared to MVRA results. Finally, the sensitivity analysis of MFS results shows that the most and the least effective parameters on deformation modulus are weatherin~ and overburden height, respectively.
基金This work was supported by China Ministry of Science and Technology(2004BA719A01)Postdoctoral Function of China(2005037785).
文摘Delay differential systems are widely used in many different fields, It is important to determine the local stability of their equilibria, For systems with' delay dependent parameters, the stability analysis of equilibria is complicated and difficult In this paper, we shall investigate the ultimate stability of a type of characteristic equation with delay dependent parameters. Our results show that the characteristic equation with delay dependent parameters may be one of ultimately stable, ultimately unstable, and alternate between stable and unstable. Applying our results, the ultimate stability can be often decided directly and need not appeal to mathematic software. Two examples are given in this paper,
文摘Human behavioral responses fundamentally influence the spread of infectious disease. In this paper, we study a discrete-time SIS epidemic process in random networks. Three forms of individual awareness, namely, local awareness, global awareness and contact awareness, are considered. The effect of awareness is to reduce the risk of infection. [3ased on the stability theory of matrix difference equation, we derive analytically the epidemic threshold. It is found that both local and contact awareness can raise the epidemic threshold, while the global awareness only decreases the epidemic prevalence. Our results are in line with a recent result using differential equation-based methods.
基金supported by the Hong Kong General Research Fund (Grant Nos. 202112, 15302214 and 509213)National Natural Science Foundation of China/Research Grants Council Joint Research Scheme (Grant Nos. N HKBU204/12 and 11261160486)+1 种基金National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 11471046)the Ministry of Education Program for New Century Excellent Talents Project (Grant No. NCET-12-0053)
文摘In this work, the MMC-TDGL equation, a stochastic Cahn-Hilliard equation, is solved numerically by using the finite difference method in combination with a convex splitting technique of the energy functional.For the non-stochastic case, we develop an unconditionally energy stable difference scheme which is proved to be uniquely solvable. For the stochastic case, by adopting the same splitting of the energy functional, we construct a similar and uniquely solvable difference scheme with the discretized stochastic term. The resulted schemes are nonlinear and solved by Newton iteration. For the long time simulation, an adaptive time stepping strategy is developed based on both first- and second-order derivatives of the energy. Numerical experiments are carried out to verify the energy stability, the efficiency of the adaptive time stepping and the effect of the stochastic term.
文摘In this paper, a periodic Volterra model with mutual interference and impulsive effect is proposed and analyzed. By applying the Floquet theory of impulsive differential equa- tion, some conditions are obtained for the linear stability of semi-trivial periodic solution. Some sufficient conditions are also given for the permanence of the system. Further, stan- dard bifurcation theory is used to show the existence of coexistence state which arises near the semi-trivial periodic solution. Finally, theoretical results are confirmed by some special cases of the system.
基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10971003 and 10926110)Chinese Universities Scientific Fund (Grant No. 2009-2-05)+1 种基金supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 10871103 and 10971003)Specialized Research Fund for the Doctoral Program of Higher Education
文摘In this paper we establish a large deviation principle for the occupation times of critical branching α-stable processes for large dimensions d > 2α, by investigating two related nonlinear differential equations. Our result is an extension of Cox and Griffeath’s (in 1985) for branching Brownian motion for d > 4.
基金Supported by FAPESP No.2012/08934-0National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant Nos.11205254,11178018,11375279,11605015+1 种基金the Natural Science Foundation Project of CQ CSTC 2011BB0052the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities 106112016CDJXY300002 and CDJRC10300003
文摘Quasinormal modes (QNMs) for Dirac perturbations off(R) black holes (BHs) are described in this paper, involving two types of f(R) solution: f(R) (Sehwarzschild) BHs and f(R) (Maxwell) BHs. With the finite difference method, the stability of the f(R) black holes (BHs) is analysed and the threshold range off(R) (Schwarzschild) BHs and f(R) (Maxwell) BHs is defined respectively. The results show that due to the presence of the correction factor Ro, the damping rate of Dirac field decreases. Meanwhile, the influence of angular quantum number values [k] on the f(R) BHs is investigated. The results indicate that the QNMs oscillation becomes tenser and damping speed slowly decreases with ]k[ increasing. Furthermore, under the Dirac perturbation, the stability off(R) solutions can be reflected in the manner of Dirac QNMs. The relationships between the QNMs and the parameters (]k], charge Q and mass m) are discussed in massless, and massive cases, by contrast to the classical BHs.
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation under Grant No.11002073the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities under Grant No.2011RC0702
文摘We investigate the synchronization ability of four types of regular coupled networks. By introducing the proper error variables and Lyapunov functions, we turn the stability of synchronization manifold into that of null solution of error equations, further, into the negative definiteness of some symmetric matrices, thus we get the sufficient synchronization stability conditions. To test the valid of the results, we take the Chua's circuit as an example. Although the theoretical synchronization thresholds appear to be very conservative, they provide new insights about the influence of topology and scale of networks on synchronization, and that the theoretical results and our numerical simulations are consistent.