We use the first-order shear deformation theory and a meshless method based on radial basis functions in a pseudospectral framework for predicting the free vibration behavior of thick orthotropic, monoclinic and hexagonal plates. The shape parameter is obtained by an optimization procedure. The three translational and two rotational degrees of freedom of a point of the laminate are independentl...

A dynamical system ẋ = Ax is robustly stable when all eigenvalues of complex matrices within a given distance of the square matrix A lie in the left half-plane. The ‘pseudospectral abscissa’, which is the largest real part of such an eigenvalue, measures the robust stability of A. We present an algorithm for computing the pseudospectral abscissa, prove global and local quadratic convergence, an...

In [E. Babolian, M.M. Hosseini, Reducing index, and pseudospectral methods for differential–algebraic equations, Appl. Math. Comput. 140 (2003) 77–90] a reducing index method has been proposed for some cases of semi-explicit DAEs (differential algebraic equations). In this paper, this method is generalized to more cases. Also, it is focused on Hessenberg index 2 systems and proposed reduction i...

We derive in this paper the asymptotic estimates of the nodes and weights of the Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre-Birkhoff (GLLB) quadrature formula, and obtain optimal error estimates for the associated GLLB interpolation in Jacobi weighted Sobolev spaces. We also present a useroriented implementation of the pseudospectral methods based on the GLLB quadrature nodes for Neumann problems. This approach al...

In this paper, a linear Chebyshev pseudospectral method (LCPM) is proposed to solve the nonlinear optimal control problems (OCPs) with hard terminal constraints and unspecified final time, which uses collocation scheme quasi-linearization. First, Taylor expansion around differential equations of system used obtain set perturbation equations. Second, first-order necessary conditions for OCPs the...