pedomodels have become a popular topic in soil science and environmentalresearch. they are predictive functions of certain soil properties based on other easily orcheaply measured properties. the common method for fitting pedomodels is to use classicalregression analysis, based on the assumptions of data crispness and deterministic relationsamong variables. in modeling natural systems such as s...

In this paper, a new formulation for power system state estimation is proposed. The formulation is based on regularized least squares method which uses the principle of Thikonov’s regularization to overcome the limitations of conventional state estimation methods. In this approach, the mathematical unfeasibility which results from the lack of measurements in case of ill-posed problems is elimin...

In this talk, starting with some earlier results, we propose and analyze an alternate approach of optimal L2error estimates for semidiscrete Galerkin approximations to a second order linear parabolic initial and boundary value problem with rough initial data. Our analysis is based on energy arguments without using parabolic duality. Further, it follows the spirit of the proof technique used for...

Meshless methods have been extensively popularized in literature in recent years, due to their flexibility in solving boundary value problems. The meshless local Petrov-Galerkin(MLPG) method for solving the bending problem of the thin plate is presented and discussed in the present paper. The method uses the moving least-squares approximation to interpolate the solution variables, and employs a...

We present a least squares framework for constructing p-th degree immersed finite element (IFE) spaces for typical second-order elliptic interface problems. This least squares formulation enforces interface jump conditions including extended ones already proposed in the literature, and it guarantees the existence of p-th IFE shape functions on interface elements. The uniqueness of the proposed ...