A finite element method involving collocation method with Quintic B-splines as basis functions has been developed to solve fifth order boundary value problems. The fifth order derivative for the dependent variable is approximated by the finite differences. The basis functions are redefined into a new set of basis functions which in number match with the number of collocated points se lected in ...

This work presents a mathematical approach based on the point collocation technique to compute the transmission loss of perforated dissipative silencers with transversal temperature gradients and mean flow. Three-dimensional wave propagation is considered in silencer geometries with arbitrary, but axially uniform, cross section. To reduce the computational requirements of a full multidimensiona...

A computational study of five finite element methods for the solution of a single second order linear ordinary differential equation subject to general linear, separated boundary conditions is described. In each method, the approximate solution is a piecewise polynomial expressed in terms of a B-spline basis, and is determined by solving a system of linear algebraic equations with an almost blo...

The collocation method with multiquadrics basis functions and a first-order shear deformation theory are used to find natural flexural frequencies of a square plate with various material symmetries and subjected to different boundary conditions. Computed results are found to agree well with the literature values obtained by the solution of the three-dimensional elasticity equations using the fi...

A numerical method for solving second order, transient, parabolic partial differential equation is presented. The spatial discretization is based on Hermite collocation method (HCM). It is a combination of orthogonal collocation method and piecewise cubic Hermite interpolating polynomials. The solution is obtained in terms of cubic Hermite interpolating basis. Numerical results have been plotte...

We investigate three-dimensional problems in solid mechanics with stochastic loading or material properties. To solve these problems, we use a spectral expansion of the solution and random inputs based on Askey-type orthogonal polynomials in terms of independent, identically distributed (i.i.d) random variables. A Galerkin procedure using these types of expansions, the generalized Polynomial Ch...

The paper presents a new affine invariant theory on asymptotic mesh independence of Newton’s method for discretized nonlinear operator equations. Compared to earlier attempts, the new approach is both much simpler and more intuitive from the algorithmic point of view. The theory is exemplified at collocation methods for ODE boundary value problems and at finite element methods for elliptic PDE ...

The paper proposed to use a Recurrent Neural Network Model (RNNM) and a dynamic Backpropagation learning for centralized identification of an anaerobic digestion bioprocess, carried out in a fixed bed and a recirculation tank of a wastewater treatment system. The anaerobic digestion bioprocess represented a distributed parameter system, described by partial differential equations. The analytica...

Chemotherapeutics are often treated as having a lumped tumor effect, however, the growth state and exposure for individual cancer cells ultimately determines the response of the tumor to treatment. A multi-staged, age structured cell population balance equation (PBE) capable of cell-cycle tracking was formulated to account for this limitation. The method of orthogonal collocation on finite elem...

In this work we propose a simultaneous scheduling and control optimization formulation to address both optimal steady-state production and dynamic product transitions in multiproduct tubular reactors working in several parallel production lines. Because the problem involves integer and continuous variables and the dynamic behavior of the underlying system the resulting optimization problem is c...