The superconvergence in the finite element method is a phenomenon in which the fi-nite element approximation converges to the exact solution at a rate higher than the optimal order error estimate. Wang proposed and an...The superconvergence in the finite element method is a phenomenon in which the fi-nite element approximation converges to the exact solution at a rate higher than the optimal order error estimate. Wang proposed and analyzed superconvergence of the conforming finite element method by L2-projections. However, since the conforming finite element method (CFEM) requires a strong continuity, it is not easy to construct such finite elements for the complex partial differential equations. Thus, the nonconforming finite element method (NCFEM) is more appealing computationally due to better stability and flexibility properties compared to CFEM. The objective of this paper is to establish a general superconvergence result for the nonconforming finite element approximations for second-order elliptic problems by L2-projection methods by applying the idea presented in Wang. MATLAB codes are published at https://github.com/annaleeharris/Superconvergence-NCFEM for anyone to use and to study. The results of numerical experiments show great promise for the robustness, reliability, flexibility and accuracy of superconvergence in NCFEM by L2- projections.展开更多
One notable transmission characteristic of an elliptic gear mechanism is that the driven gear will rotate at varying speed according to a given rule when the drive gear rotates at a uniform speed, which can just meet ...One notable transmission characteristic of an elliptic gear mechanism is that the driven gear will rotate at varying speed according to a given rule when the drive gear rotates at a uniform speed, which can just meet some special requirements that a common mechanism cannot meet. It is important for the design of special mechanisms. In this paper, the transmission characteristic of an elliptic gear mechanism was analyzed and the design method was researched. The application of the elliptic gear used in the grooved gearing mechanism was designed and the validity was proved.展开更多
Applying Krasnosel'skii fixed point theorem of cone expansion-compression type, the existence of positive radial solutions for some second-order nonlinear elliptic equations in annular domains, subject to Dirichle...Applying Krasnosel'skii fixed point theorem of cone expansion-compression type, the existence of positive radial solutions for some second-order nonlinear elliptic equations in annular domains, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions, is investigated. By considering the properties of nonlinear term on boundary closed intervals, several existence results of positive radial solutions are established. The main results are independent of superlinear growth and sublinear growth of nonlinear term. If nonlinear term has extreme values and satisfies suitable conditions, the main results are very effective.展开更多
A mathematical model of gear tooth profiles using the ellipse curve, whose curvature is convenient to control by changing the mathematical parameters as its line of action, was built based on the meshing theory. The e...A mathematical model of gear tooth profiles using the ellipse curve, whose curvature is convenient to control by changing the mathematical parameters as its line of action, was built based on the meshing theory. The equation of undercutting condition was derived from the model. A special epicycloidal tooth profile was also presented. An example gear drive with variation of the ellipse parameters was taken to illustrate the proposed method. The contact ratio of the gear drive designed by the proposed method was analyzed. A comparison of the property of the gear drive designed with the involute gear drive was also carried out. The results confirm that the proposed gear drive has higher contact ratio in comparison with the involute gear drive.展开更多
This paper is concerned with convergence and superconvergence properties of the local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)method for two-dimensional semilinear second-order elliptic problems of the form−Δu=f(x,y,u)on Cartesia...This paper is concerned with convergence and superconvergence properties of the local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)method for two-dimensional semilinear second-order elliptic problems of the form−Δu=f(x,y,u)on Cartesian grids.By introducing special GaussRadau projections and using duality arguments,we obtain,under some suitable choice of numerical fuxes,the optimal convergence order in L2-norm of O(h^(p+1))for the LDG solution and its gradient,when tensor product polynomials of degree at most p and grid size h are used.Moreover,we prove that the LDG solutions are superconvergent with an order p+2 toward particular Gauss-Radau projections of the exact solutions.Finally,we show that the error between the gradient of the LDG solution and the gradient of a special Gauss-Radau projection of the exact solution achieves(p+1)-th order superconvergence.Some numerical experiments are performed to illustrate the theoretical results.展开更多
Aiming at the lack of suitable machines for sweet potato seedling transplanting in China,and according to the agronomic requirements for the horizontal insertion method of sweet potato seedling,a new sweet potato seed...Aiming at the lack of suitable machines for sweet potato seedling transplanting in China,and according to the agronomic requirements for the horizontal insertion method of sweet potato seedling,a new sweet potato seedling transplanting mechanism of planetary gear train was proposed based on the non-uniform transmission of deformed elliptical gear.The working principle of the transplanting mechanism was analyzed,and the kinematics modeling and analysis of the mechanism were carried out.The study established the numerical objectives of the transplanting mechanism and applied the theory of membership function to establish a mathematical model for the parameter-guided optimization design of the transplanting mechanism.The parameter-guided optimization design software was developed to obtain a set of optimal mechanism parameters that satisfied the motion trajectory of sweet potato transplanting and the posture of the transplanting arm.Based on the optimized parameters,the structure of the transplanting mechanism was designed,and a virtual prototype of the mechanism was created,whereby a virtual motion simulation of the transplanting mechanism was conducted to verify the correctness of the kinematics model and design of the mechanism.The high-speed photographic kinematics test of the mechanism prototype and sweet potato seedling transplanting tests were conducted to test the mechanism’s kinematic characteristics and transplanting performance.The test results show that the test trajectory of the mechanism and test posture of the transplanting arm are almost consistent with the theoretical and simulation trajectory,meeting the agronomic requirements of the horizontal insertion method of sweet potato seedling;And when the rotary speed of the mechanism are 20 r/min and 30 r/min,the average success ratios of sweet potato seedlings transplanting are 90%and 82%,respectively,which prove the application feasibility of the mechanism in the practical machines.展开更多
In this paper, we present a weak Galerkin （WG） mixed finite element method for solving the second-order elliptic equations with Robin boundary conditions. Stability and a priori error estimates for the coupled metho...In this paper, we present a weak Galerkin （WG） mixed finite element method for solving the second-order elliptic equations with Robin boundary conditions. Stability and a priori error estimates for the coupled method are derived. We present the optimal order error estimate for the WG-MFEM approximations in a norm that is related to the L^2 for the flux and H1 for the scalar function. Also an optimal order error estimate in L^2 is derived for the scalar approximation by using a duality argument. A series of numerical experiments is presented that verify our theoretical results.展开更多
The maximum principle is a basic qualitative property of the solution of second-order elliptic boundary value problems.The preservation of the qualitative characteristics,such as the maximum principle,in discrete mode...The maximum principle is a basic qualitative property of the solution of second-order elliptic boundary value problems.The preservation of the qualitative characteristics,such as the maximum principle,in discrete model is one of the key requirements.It is well known that standard linear finite element solution does not satisfy maximum principle on general triangular meshes in 2D.In this paper we consider how to enforce discrete maximum principle for linear finite element solutions for the linear second-order self-adjoint elliptic equation.First approach is based on repair technique,which is a posteriori correction of the discrete solution.Second method is based on constrained optimization.Numerical tests that include anisotropic cases demonstrate how our method works for problems for which the standard finite element methods produce numerical solutions that violate the discrete maximum principle.展开更多
Let {（ξni, ηni）, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, n ≥ 1} be a triangular array of independent bivariate elliptical random vectors with the same distribution function as （S1,ρnS1 ＋ √1- ρ2nS2）, ρn ∈（0, 1）, where （S1,S2） is...Let {（ξni, ηni）, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, n ≥ 1} be a triangular array of independent bivariate elliptical random vectors with the same distribution function as （S1,ρnS1 ＋ √1- ρ2nS2）, ρn ∈（0, 1）, where （S1,S2） is a bivariate spherical random vector. For the distribution function of radius√S12 ＋ S22 belonging to the max-domain of attraction of the Weibull distribution, the limiting distribution of maximum of this triangular array is known as the convergence rate of p~ to 1 is given. In this paper, under the refinement of the rate of convergence of p~ to 1 and the second-order regular variation of the distributional tail of radius, precise second-order distributional expansions of the normalized maxima of bivariate elliptical triangular arrays are established.展开更多
Diagonalized Chebyshev rational spectral methods for solving second-order elliptic problems on the half/whole line are proposed.Some Sobolev bi-orthogonal rational basis functions are constructed which lead to the dia...Diagonalized Chebyshev rational spectral methods for solving second-order elliptic problems on the half/whole line are proposed.Some Sobolev bi-orthogonal rational basis functions are constructed which lead to the diagonalization of discrete systems.Accordingly,both the exact solutions and the approximate solutions can be represented as infinite and truncated Fourier-like Chebyshev rational series.Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the suggested approaches.展开更多
This paper provides a proof for the uniform convergence rate （independently of the number of mesh levels） for the nonnested V-cycle multigrid method for nonsymmetric and indefinite second-order elliptic problems.
This article extends a recently developed superconvergence result for weak Galerkin(WG)approximations for modeling partial differential equations from constant coefficients to variable coefficients.This superconvergen...This article extends a recently developed superconvergence result for weak Galerkin(WG)approximations for modeling partial differential equations from constant coefficients to variable coefficients.This superconvergence features a rate that is two orders higher than the optimal-order error estimates in the usual energy and L^(2)norms.The extension from constant to variable coefficients for the modeling equations is highly non-trivial.The underlying technical analysis is based on a sequence of projections and decompositions.Numerical results confirm the superconvergence theory for second-order elliptic problems with variable coefficients.展开更多
文摘The superconvergence in the finite element method is a phenomenon in which the fi-nite element approximation converges to the exact solution at a rate higher than the optimal order error estimate. Wang proposed and analyzed superconvergence of the conforming finite element method by L2-projections. However, since the conforming finite element method (CFEM) requires a strong continuity, it is not easy to construct such finite elements for the complex partial differential equations. Thus, the nonconforming finite element method (NCFEM) is more appealing computationally due to better stability and flexibility properties compared to CFEM. The objective of this paper is to establish a general superconvergence result for the nonconforming finite element approximations for second-order elliptic problems by L2-projection methods by applying the idea presented in Wang. MATLAB codes are published at https://github.com/annaleeharris/Superconvergence-NCFEM for anyone to use and to study. The results of numerical experiments show great promise for the robustness, reliability, flexibility and accuracy of superconvergence in NCFEM by L2- projections.
文摘One notable transmission characteristic of an elliptic gear mechanism is that the driven gear will rotate at varying speed according to a given rule when the drive gear rotates at a uniform speed, which can just meet some special requirements that a common mechanism cannot meet. It is important for the design of special mechanisms. In this paper, the transmission characteristic of an elliptic gear mechanism was analyzed and the design method was researched. The application of the elliptic gear used in the grooved gearing mechanism was designed and the validity was proved.
文摘Applying Krasnosel'skii fixed point theorem of cone expansion-compression type, the existence of positive radial solutions for some second-order nonlinear elliptic equations in annular domains, subject to Dirichlet boundary conditions, is investigated. By considering the properties of nonlinear term on boundary closed intervals, several existence results of positive radial solutions are established. The main results are independent of superlinear growth and sublinear growth of nonlinear term. If nonlinear term has extreme values and satisfies suitable conditions, the main results are very effective.
基金Projects(51205335,51375411)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProjects(2013J01209,2012J01237)supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Fujian Province,China+2 种基金Project(2014H0049)supported by the Major S&T Program of Fujian Province,ChinaProject(E201400800)supported by the International Cooperation and Exchange Research Plan of Xiamen University of Technology,ChinaProject(YKJ14008R)supported by the Scientific Research for the High Level Talent of Xiamen University of Technology,China
文摘A mathematical model of gear tooth profiles using the ellipse curve, whose curvature is convenient to control by changing the mathematical parameters as its line of action, was built based on the meshing theory. The equation of undercutting condition was derived from the model. A special epicycloidal tooth profile was also presented. An example gear drive with variation of the ellipse parameters was taken to illustrate the proposed method. The contact ratio of the gear drive designed by the proposed method was analyzed. A comparison of the property of the gear drive designed with the involute gear drive was also carried out. The results confirm that the proposed gear drive has higher contact ratio in comparison with the involute gear drive.
基金This research was supported by the NASA Nebraska Space Grant(Federal Grant/Award Number 80NSSC20M0112).
文摘This paper is concerned with convergence and superconvergence properties of the local discontinuous Galerkin(LDG)method for two-dimensional semilinear second-order elliptic problems of the form−Δu=f(x,y,u)on Cartesian grids.By introducing special GaussRadau projections and using duality arguments,we obtain,under some suitable choice of numerical fuxes,the optimal convergence order in L2-norm of O(h^(p+1))for the LDG solution and its gradient,when tensor product polynomials of degree at most p and grid size h are used.Moreover,we prove that the LDG solutions are superconvergent with an order p+2 toward particular Gauss-Radau projections of the exact solutions.Finally,we show that the error between the gradient of the LDG solution and the gradient of a special Gauss-Radau projection of the exact solution achieves(p+1)-th order superconvergence.Some numerical experiments are performed to illustrate the theoretical results.
基金financially supported by the Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LD24E05007)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32201676,32171899).
文摘Aiming at the lack of suitable machines for sweet potato seedling transplanting in China,and according to the agronomic requirements for the horizontal insertion method of sweet potato seedling,a new sweet potato seedling transplanting mechanism of planetary gear train was proposed based on the non-uniform transmission of deformed elliptical gear.The working principle of the transplanting mechanism was analyzed,and the kinematics modeling and analysis of the mechanism were carried out.The study established the numerical objectives of the transplanting mechanism and applied the theory of membership function to establish a mathematical model for the parameter-guided optimization design of the transplanting mechanism.The parameter-guided optimization design software was developed to obtain a set of optimal mechanism parameters that satisfied the motion trajectory of sweet potato transplanting and the posture of the transplanting arm.Based on the optimized parameters,the structure of the transplanting mechanism was designed,and a virtual prototype of the mechanism was created,whereby a virtual motion simulation of the transplanting mechanism was conducted to verify the correctness of the kinematics model and design of the mechanism.The high-speed photographic kinematics test of the mechanism prototype and sweet potato seedling transplanting tests were conducted to test the mechanism’s kinematic characteristics and transplanting performance.The test results show that the test trajectory of the mechanism and test posture of the transplanting arm are almost consistent with the theoretical and simulation trajectory,meeting the agronomic requirements of the horizontal insertion method of sweet potato seedling;And when the rotary speed of the mechanism are 20 r/min and 30 r/min,the average success ratios of sweet potato seedlings transplanting are 90%and 82%,respectively,which prove the application feasibility of the mechanism in the practical machines.
文摘In this paper, we present a weak Galerkin （WG） mixed finite element method for solving the second-order elliptic equations with Robin boundary conditions. Stability and a priori error estimates for the coupled method are derived. We present the optimal order error estimate for the WG-MFEM approximations in a norm that is related to the L^2 for the flux and H1 for the scalar function. Also an optimal order error estimate in L^2 is derived for the scalar approximation by using a duality argument. A series of numerical experiments is presented that verify our theoretical results.
基金the National Nuclear Security Administration of the U.S.Department of Energy at Los Alamos National Laboratory under Contract No.DE-AC52-06NA25396the DOE Office of Science Advanced Scientific Computing Research(ASCR)Program in Applied Mathematics Research.The first author has been supported in part by the Czech Ministry of Education projects MSM 6840770022 and LC06052(Necas Center for Mathematical Modeling).
文摘The maximum principle is a basic qualitative property of the solution of second-order elliptic boundary value problems.The preservation of the qualitative characteristics,such as the maximum principle,in discrete model is one of the key requirements.It is well known that standard linear finite element solution does not satisfy maximum principle on general triangular meshes in 2D.In this paper we consider how to enforce discrete maximum principle for linear finite element solutions for the linear second-order self-adjoint elliptic equation.First approach is based on repair technique,which is a posteriori correction of the discrete solution.Second method is based on constrained optimization.Numerical tests that include anisotropic cases demonstrate how our method works for problems for which the standard finite element methods produce numerical solutions that violate the discrete maximum principle.
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11501113,11601330 and 11701469)the Key Project of Fujian Education Committee(Grant No.JA15045)the Funding Program for Junior Faculties of College and Universities of Shanghai Education Committee(Grant No.ZZslg16020)
文摘Let {（ξni, ηni）, 1 ≤ i ≤ n, n ≥ 1} be a triangular array of independent bivariate elliptical random vectors with the same distribution function as （S1,ρnS1 ＋ √1- ρ2nS2）, ρn ∈（0, 1）, where （S1,S2） is a bivariate spherical random vector. For the distribution function of radius√S12 ＋ S22 belonging to the max-domain of attraction of the Weibull distribution, the limiting distribution of maximum of this triangular array is known as the convergence rate of p~ to 1 is given. In this paper, under the refinement of the rate of convergence of p~ to 1 and the second-order regular variation of the distributional tail of radius, precise second-order distributional expansions of the normalized maxima of bivariate elliptical triangular arrays are established.
基金This work was supported in part by National Natural Science Foun-dation of China(Nos.11571238 and 11601332).
文摘Diagonalized Chebyshev rational spectral methods for solving second-order elliptic problems on the half/whole line are proposed.Some Sobolev bi-orthogonal rational basis functions are constructed which lead to the diagonalization of discrete systems.Accordingly,both the exact solutions and the approximate solutions can be represented as infinite and truncated Fourier-like Chebyshev rational series.Numerical results demonstrate the effectiveness of the suggested approaches.
文摘This paper provides a proof for the uniform convergence rate （independently of the number of mesh levels） for the nonnested V-cycle multigrid method for nonsymmetric and indefinite second-order elliptic problems.
基金supported by U.S.National Science Foundation IR/D program while working at U.S.National Science Foundationsupported by U.S.National Science Foundation(Grant No.DMS-1620016)+1 种基金supported by Zhejiang Provincial Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.LY23A010005)National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12071184)。
文摘This article extends a recently developed superconvergence result for weak Galerkin(WG)approximations for modeling partial differential equations from constant coefficients to variable coefficients.This superconvergence features a rate that is two orders higher than the optimal-order error estimates in the usual energy and L^(2)norms.The extension from constant to variable coefficients for the modeling equations is highly non-trivial.The underlying technical analysis is based on a sequence of projections and decompositions.Numerical results confirm the superconvergence theory for second-order elliptic problems with variable coefficients.
