In this paper, a continuum model based on the nonlocal elasticity theory is developed for vibration analysis of embedded orthotropic circular and elliptical micro/nano-plates. The nano-plate is bounded by a Pasternak foundation. Governing vibration equation of the nonlocal nano-plate is derived using Nonlocal Classical Plate Theory (NCPT). The weighted residual statement and the Galerkin method...

Elastic stability of ring and stringer-stiffened cylindrical shells under axial, internal and external pressures is studied using Ritz method. The stiffeners are rings, stringers and their different arrangements at the inner and outer surfaces of the shell. Critical buckling loads are obtained using Ritz method. It has been found that the cylindrical shells with outside rings are more stable th...

A nonlinear Rayleigh-Ritz iterative (NRRIT) method for solving nonlinear eigenvalue problems is studied in this paper. It is an extension of the nonlinear Arnoldi algorithm due to Heinrich Voss. The effienicy of the NRRIT method is demonstrated by comparing with inverse iteration methods to solve a highly nonlinear eigenvalue problem arising from finite element electromagnetic simulation in acc...

The management problem of water reservoirs can be formulated as a stochastic optimal control (SOC) problem, where the objective function is an aggregated cost that accounts for the interests acting in the water system (e.g. hydropower production, irrigation supply, etc.) and the design variable is the reservoirs release policy. Solving the SOC problem through stochastic dynamic programming is o...

In the present paper, the free vibration of moderately thick trapezoidal plates has been studied. The analysis is based on the Mindlin shear deformation theory. The solutions are determined using the pb-2 Rayleigh-Ritz method. The transverse displacement and the rotations of the plate are approximated by Ritz functions defined as two dimensional polynomials of the trapezoidal domain variables a...

The hyperspherical harmonic (HH) method has been widely applied in recent times to the study of the bound states, using the Rayleigh-Ritz variational principle, and of low-energy scattering processes, using the Kohn variational principle, of A = 3 and 4 nuclear systems. When the wave function of the system is expanded over a sufficiently large set of HH basis functions, containing or not correl...

We present some new error estimates for the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions obtained by the Rayleigh-Ritz method, the common variational method to solve eigenproblems. The errors are bounded in terms of the error of the best approximation of the eigenfunction under consideration by functions in the ansatz space. In contrast to the classical theory, the approximation error of eigenfunctions other...

We consider a parallel method for solving generalized eigenvalue problems that arise from molecular orbital calculation of the biochemistry application. Our focus is to develop scalable parallel implementations of the method that achieves high performance on multi-core clusters. In a Rayleigh-Ritz type method using a contour integral (CIRR method), the computation at each contour involves linea...