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...

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...

The Rayleigh–Ritz (rr) method is well known as a means of minimizing energy functionals. Despite this, the technique most often employed in practice for minimizing a functional is the numerical solution of the Euler–Lagrange (el) equations derived from the energy functional by variational minimization. In this article we employ the rr method specifically to determine the equilibrium shape of a ...

In this work, we discuss a one dimensional inverse problem for the heat equation where unknown functions are solely time-dependent lower order coefficient and multiplicative source term. We use as data two integral overdetermination conditions along with initial Dirichlet boundary conditions. first step, term is eliminated by applying transformation converted to an equivalent of determining con...