Double stabilizations and convergence analysis of a second-order linear numerical scheme for the nonlocal Cahn-Hilliard equation

In this paper,we study a second-order accurate and linear numerical scheme for the nonlocal CahnHilliard equation.The scheme is established by combining a modified Crank-Nicolson approximation and the Adams-Bashforth extrapolation for the temporal discretization,and by applying the Fourier spectral collocation to the spatial discretization.In addition,two stabilization terms in different forms are added for the sake of the numerical stability.We conduct a complete convergence analysis by using the higher-order consistency estimate for the numerical scheme,combined with the rough error estimate and the refined estimate.By regarding the numerical solution as a small perturbation of the exact solution,we are able to justify the discrete?^(∞)bound of the numerical solution,as a result of the rough error estimate.Subsequently,the refined error estimate is derived to obtain the optimal rate of convergence,following the established?∞bound of the numerical solution.Moreover,the energy stability is also rigorously proved with respect to a modified energy.The proposed scheme can be viewed as the generalization of the second-order scheme presented in an earlier work,and the energy stability estimate has greatly improved the corresponding result therein.

Stability analysis of slope in strain-softening soils using local arc-length solution scheme

Soils with strain-softening behavior — manifesting as a reduction of strength with increasing plastic strain — are commonly found in the natural environment. For slopes in these soils,a progressive failure mechanism can occur due to a reduction of strength with increasing strain. Finite element method based numerical approaches have been widely performed for simulating such failure mechanism,owning to their ability for tracing the formation and development of the localized shear strain. However,the reliability of the currently used approaches are often affected by poor convergence or significant mesh-dependency,and their applicability is limited by the use of complicated soil models. This paper aims to overcome these limitations by developing a finite element approach using a local arc-length controlled iterative algorithm as the solution strategy. In the proposed finite element approach,the soils are simulated with an elastoplastic constitutive model in conjunction with the Mohr-Coulomb yield function. The strain-softening behavior is represented by a piece-wise linearrelationship between the Mohr-Coulomb strength parameters and the deviatoric plastic strain. To assess the reliability of the proposed finite element approach,comparisons of the numerical solutions obtained by different finite element methods and meshes with various qualities are presented. Moreover,a landslide triggered by excavation in a real expressway construction project is analyzed by the presented finite element approach to demonstrate its applicability for practical engineering problems.

UNITED STABILIZING SCHEME FOR EDGE DELAY IN OPTICAL BURST SWITCHED NETWORKS

A novel scheme, namely united stabilizing scheme for edge delay, is introduced in optical burst switched networks. In the scheme, the limits of burst length and assembly time are both set according to certain qualifications. For executing the scheme, the conception for unit input bit rate is introduced to improve universality, and the assembly algorithm with a buffer safety space under the self-similar traffic model at each ingress edge router is proposed. Then, the components of burst and packet delay are concluded, and the equations that limits of burst length and assembly time should satisfy to stabilize the burst edge delay under different buffer offered loads are educed. The simulation results show that united stabilizing scheme stabilizes both burst and packet edge delay to a great extent when buffer offered load changes from 0.1 to 1, and the edge delay of burst and packet are near the limit values under larger offered load, respectively.

A Difference Scheme with Intrinsic Parallelism for Fractional Diffusion-wave Equation with Damping

Anomalous diffusion is a widespread physical phenomenon,and numerical methods of fractional diffusion models are of important scientific significance and engineering application value.For time fractional diffusion-wave equation with damping,a difference(ASC-N,alternating segment Crank-Nicolson)scheme with intrinsic parallelism is proposed.Based on alternating technology,the ASC-N scheme is constructed with four kinds of Saul’yev asymmetric schemes and Crank-Nicolson(C-N)scheme.The unconditional stability and convergence are rigorously analyzed.The theoretical analysis and numerical experiments show that the ASC-N scheme is effective for solving time fractional diffusion-wave equation.

A NEW BOUNDARY CONDITION FOR RATE-TYPE NON-NEWTONIAN DIFFUSIVE MODELS AND THE STABLE MAC SCHEME

We present a new Dirichlet boundary condition for the rate-type non-Newtonian diffusive constitutive models. The newly proposed boundary condition is compared with two such well-known and popularly used boundary conditions as the pure Neumann condition and the Dirichlet condition by Sureshkumar and Beris. Our condition is demonstrated to be more stable and robust in a number of numerical test cases. A new Dirichlet boundary condition is implemented in the framework of the finite difference Marker and Cell （MAC） method. In this paper, we also present an energy-stable finite difference MAC scheme that preserves the positivity for the conformation tensor and show how the addition of the diffusion helps the energy-stability in a finite difference MAC scheme-setting.