In a unified approach, the virtual work equations in rate form and in incremental forms are derived rigorously for elastic-plastic continuum subjected to large strains. T h e finite element p r d u r e s for the analyses of clastic-plastic solid b a d on Lee’s theory and the Green-Naghdi theory arc presented. Also, i t i s shown that transformations can be performed among the Eulerian, the Tota...

Estimation of coeecients of partial diierential equations is ill-posed. Output-least-squares method is often used in practice. Convergence of the commonly used minimization algorithms for the inverse problem is often very slow. By using the augmented Lagrangian method, the inverse problem is reduced to a coupled linear algebraic system, which can be solved eeciently. Total variation techniques ...

Optimal deployment and movement of multiple unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) is studied. The scenarios of variable data rate with fixed transmission power, and variable transmission power with fixed data rate are considered. First, the optimal deployment of UAVs is studied for the static case of a fixed ground terminal (GT) density. Using high resolution quantization theory, the corresponding be...

In this paper, we propose an optimal quadtree segmentation of an image for variable blocksize vector quantization(VBVQ) such that the total distortion of the reconstructed image is minimal and the total required bits don't exceed the bit budget. The above constrain problem is converted into an equivalent unconstrained problem by using Lagrange multiplier. We prune the full quadtree by comparing...

Staggered grid Lagrangian schemes for compressible hydrodynamics involve a choice of how internal energy is advanced in time. The options depend on two ways of defining cell volumes: an indirect one, that guarantees total energy conservation, and a direct one that computes the volume from its definition as a function of the cell vertices. It is shown that the motion of the vertices can be defin...

We propose an efficient numerical algorithm for computing deformations of “very” soft tissues (such as the brain, liver, kidney etc.), with applications to real time surgical simulation. The algorithm is based on the finite element method using the Total Lagrangian formulation, where stresses and strains are measured with respect to the original configuration. This choice allows for pre-computi...

In this paper we study the problem of how to identify multiple disjoint paths that have the minimum total cost OPT and satisfy a delay bound D in a graph G. This problem has lots of applications in networking such as fault-tolerant quality of service (QoS) routing and network-flow load balancing. Recently, several approximation algorithms have been developed for this problem. Here, we propose a...