Implementations of the heat balance integral method are discussed in which exponential functions are used in place of the familiar polynomial approximants. The rationale is based upon that of least-squares in that the use of ‘appropriate’ basis functions can enhance solution accuracy. Whilst this is true in principle it is shown that considerable skill must be exercised when deviating from poly...

The AES has launched an opportunity to recognize student members who author technical papers. The Student Paper Award Competition is based on the preprint manuscripts accepted for the AES convention. A number of student-authored papers were nominated. The excellent quality of the submissions has made the selection process both challenging and exhilarating. The award-winning student paper will b...

In recent years many techniques have been developed for automatically verifying concurrent systems and most of them are based on the representation of the concurrent system by means of a transition system. State explosion is one of the most serious problems of this approach: often the prohibitive number of states renders the veriication ineecient and, in some cases, impossible. We propose a met...

in this manuscript a new method is introduced for solving fractional differential equations. the fractional derivative is described in the caputo sense. the main idea is to use fractional-order legendre wavelets and operational matrix of fractional-order integration. first the fractional-order legendre wavelets (flws) are presented. then a family of piecewise functions is proposed, based on whi...

alternative legendre polynomials (alps) are used to approximate the solution of a class of nonlinear volterra-hammerstein integral equations. for this purpose, the operational matrices of integration and the product for alps are derived. then, using the collocation method, the considered problem is reduced into a set of nonlinear algebraic equations. the error analysis of the method is given an...

an ecient method, based on the legendre wavelets, is proposed to solve thesecond kind fredholm and volterra integral equations of hammerstein type.the properties of legendre wavelet family are utilized to reduce a nonlinearintegral equation to a system of nonlinear algebraic equations, which is easilyhandled with the well-known newton's method. examples assuring eciencyof the method and ...

For a prime p and binomial axk+bxl with 1 ≤ l < k < 1 32 (p−1) 2 3 , we use Stepanov’s method to obtain the bound ∣∣∣∣∣ p−1 ∑ x=1 ep(ax k + bx) ∣∣∣∣∣ max { 1, l∆− 1 3 } 1 4 k 1 4 p 3 4 , where ∆ = k−l (k,l,p−1) .