Vibrations of FGM thin cylindrical shells with exponential volume fraction law

In this paper, the influence of an exponential volume fraction law on the vibration frequencies of thin functionally graded cylindrical shells is studied. Material properties in the shell thickness direction are graded in accordance with the exponential law. Expressions for the strain-displacement and curvature-displacement relationships are taken from Love＇s thin shell theory. The Rayleigh-Ritz approach is used to derive the shell eigenfrequency equation. Axial modal dependence is assumed in the characteristic beam functions. Natural frequencies of the shells are observed to be dependent on the constituent volume fractions. The results are compared with those available in the literature for the validity of the present methodology.

The Fractional Power Law of Wind Wave Growth in Deep Water for Short Fetch

Combining the 3/2 power law proposed by Toba with the significant wave energy balance equation for wind waves, wave growth in deep water for short fetch is investigated. It is found that the variations of wave height and period with fetch have the form of power function with fractional exponents 3/8 and 1/4 respectively. Using these exponents in the power functions and through data fitting, the concise wind wave growth relations for short fetch are obtained.

Improving the Control Energy in Model Reference Adaptive Controllers Using Fractional Adaptive Laws

This paper presents the analysis of the control energy consumed in model reference adaptive control(MRAC)schemes using fractional adaptive laws, through simulation studies. The analysis is focused on the energy spent in the control signal represented by means of the integral of the squared control input(ISI). Also, the behavior of the integral of the squared control error(ISE) is included in the analysis.The orders of the adaptive laws were selected by particle swarm optimization(PSO), using an objective function including the ISI and the ISE, with different weighting factors. The results show that, when ISI index is taken into account in the optimization process to determine the orders of adaptive laws,the resulting values are fractional, indicating that control energy of the scheme might be better managed if fractional adaptive laws are used.

Analytical solution for the time-fractional heat conduction equation in spherical coordinate system by the method of variable separation

In this paper,using the fractional Fourier law,we obtain the fractional heat conduction equation with a time-fractional derivative in the spherical coordinate system.The method of variable separation is used to solve the timefractional heat conduction equation.The Caputo fractional derivative of the order 0 〈 α≤ 1 is used.The solution is presented in terms of the Mittag-Leffler functions.Numerical results are illustrated graphically for various values of fractional derivative.

Lie Symmetries,Conservation Laws and Explicit Solutions for Time Fractional Rosenau–Haynam Equation

Under investigation in this paper is the invariance properties of the time fractional Rosenau-Haynam equation, which can be used to describe the formation of patterns in liquid drops. By using the Lie group analysis method, the vector fields and symmetry reductions of the equation are derived, respectively. Moreover, based on the power series theory, a kind of explicit power series solutions for the equation are well constructed with a detailed derivation. Finally, by using the new conservation theorem, two kinds of conservation laws of the equation are well constructed with a detailed derivation.

Artificial Boundary Conditions for Time-Fractional Telegraph Equation

In this paper,we study the numerical solution of the time-fractional telegraph equation on the unbounded domain.We first introduce the artificial boundariesГ±to get a finite computational domain.On the artificial boundariesГ±,we use the Laplace transform to construct the exact artificial boundary conditions(ABCs)to reduce the original problem to an initial-boundary value problem on a bounded domain.In addition,we propose a finite difference scheme based on the L_(1−2)formule for the Caputo fractional derivative in time direction and the central difference scheme for the spatial directional derivative to solve the reduced problem.In order to reduce the effect of unsmoothness of the solution at the initial moment,we use a fine mesh and low-order interpolation to discretize the solution near t=0.Finally,some numerical results show the efficiency and reliability of the ABCs and validate our theoretical results.