Two piecewise Hermite bicubic orthogonal spline collocation schemes are considered for the approximate solution of elliptic, self-adjoint, nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary value problems on rectangles. In the rst scheme, the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary condition is approximated by means of the piecewise Hermite cubic interpolant, while the piecewise cubic interpolant at the boundary Gaus...

A laser-driven particle source is exploited for the elemental and stratigraphic characterization of a nonhomogeneous sample.

The fracture behaviors near the interface crack tip for mode II of orthotropic bimaterial are discussed. The oscillatory singularity fields are researched. The stress functions are chosen which contain twelve undetermined coefficients and an unknown singularity exponent. Based on the boundary conditions and linear independence, the system of twelve nonhomogeneous linear equations is derived. Ac...

We study a semiparametric pseudo-likelihood inference for nonhomogeneous Gamma process with random effects for degradation data. The setting for degradation data is one in which n independent subjects, each with a nonhomogeneous Gamma process, are observed at possible different times. The random effects are used to represent heterogeneity of degradation paths. To obtain the maximum pseudo-likel...

In this paper, we consider a nonhomogeneous space-time fractional telegraph equation defined in a bounded space domain, which is obtained from the standard telegraph equation by replacing the firstor second-order time derivative by the Caputo fractional derivative Dt , α > 0; and the Laplacian operator by the fractional Laplacian (−∆) , β ∈ (0, 2]. We discuss and derive the analytical solutions...

We study the nonlinear eigenvalue problem−div(a(|∇u|)∇u) = λ|u|q(x)−2u in Ω, u = 0 on ∂Ω, where Ω is a bounded open set in R with smooth boundary, q is a continuous function, and a is a nonhomogeneous potential. We establish sufficient conditions on a and q such that the above nonhomogeneous quasilinear problem has continuous families of eigenvalues. The proofs rely on elementary variational ar...

In this paper, sufficient conditions are given for the existence of limiting distribution of a nonhomogeneous countable Markov chain with time-dependent transition intensity matrix. The method of proof exploits the fact that if the distribution of random process Q = (Qt )t 0 is absolutely continuous with respect to the distribution of ergodic random process Q◦ = (Q◦t )t 0, then Qt law −→ t→∞ wh...

In this paper we consider nonhomogeneous birth and death processes (BDP) with periodic rates. Two important parameters are studied, which are helpful to describe a nonhomogeneous BDP X = X (t), t ≥ 0: the limiting mean value (namely, the mean length of the queue at a given time t) and the double mean (i.e. the mean length of the queue for the whole duration of the BDP). We find conditions of ex...

* Correspondence: [email protected] Faculty of Science, Jiangsu University, Zhenjiang 212013, China Full list of author information is available at the end of the article Abstract In this paper, we are to establish a class of strong deviation theorems for the random fields relative to mth-order nonhomogeneous Markov chains indexed by an m rooted Cayley tree. As corollaries, we obtain the st...

Suppose one can observe a Gaussian nonhomogeneous process with a continuous time parameter. At an unknown time the observed process may leave its standard state, the drift of the process changes and becomes equal to a nonrandom function. Subject to a restriction on the rate of false alarms, one wants to detect the change \as soon as possible". We investigate Page's and Shiryaev's sequential det...