Clifford A. Meyer and Christodoulos A. Floudas Department of Chemical Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USA Abstract This paper presents an efficient branch and bound approach to address the global optimization of constrained optimization problems with twice differentiable functions. A lower bound on the global minimum is determined via a convex nonlinear programming probl...

In this paper we establish the existence and analyticity of periodic solutions of a classical free-boundary model of the evolution of three-dimensional, capillary–gravity waves on the surface of an ideal fluid. The result is achieved through the application of bifurcation theory to a boundary perturbation formulation of the problem, and it yields analyticity jointly with respect to the perturba...

In this study a possible application of time-dependent canonical perturbation theory to a fast nonlinear time-periodic Hamiltonian with strong internal excitation is considered. It is shown that if the time-periodic unperturbed part is quadratic. the Hamiltonian may be canonically transformed to an equivalent form in which the new unperturbed part is time-invariant so that the time-dependent ca...

We present a practical hybrid quantum mechanical/molecular mechanical approach to study chemical reactions in solution and in enzymes. In this method, referred to as the "Classical Trajectory Mapping" method, trajectories are calculated on the classical potential surfaces and, by using the classical surfaces as a reference state for the actual quantum mechanical ground state potential, the free...

in this paper, first a new homotopy perturbation method for solving a fractional order nonlinear telegraph equation is introduced. by applying the proposed method, the nonlinear equation is translated to linear equations for per iteration of homotopy perturbation method. then, the obtained problems are solved with separation method. in the examples, it is illustrated that the exact solution is ...

in this paper, the homotopy perturbation method (hpm) and elzaki transform is employed to obtain the approximate analytical solution of the sine gorden and the klein gorden equations. the nonlinear terms can be handled by the use of homotopy perturbation method. the proposed homotopy perturbation method is applied to reformulate the first and the second order initial value problems which leads ...

A major problem to perform statistical inference in open quantum systems is the perturbation induced by the measurement process. However, at least theoretically, a suitable choice of the measurement process could provide a consistent approach through classical stochastic processes. This work proposes a method to perform statistical inference on open quantum systems represented by quantum Markov...

in this paper we apply the homotopy perturbation method to derive the higher-order asymptotic distribution of the eigenvalues and eigenfunctions associated with the linear real second order equation of sturm-liouville type on $[0,pi]$ with neumann conditions $(y'(0)=y'(pi)=0)$ where $q$ is a real-valued sign-indefinite number of $c^{1}[0,pi]$ and $lambda$ is a real parameter.