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Singular Integral Equation (singular + integral_equation)
Selected AbstractsOn the diffraction of Poincaré wavesMATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES, Issue 12 2001P. A. Martin Abstract The diffraction of tidal waves (Poincaré waves) by islands and barriers on water of constant finite depth is governed by the two-dimensional Helmholtz equation. One effect of the Earth's rotation is to complicate the boundary condition on rigid boundaries: a linear combination of the normal and tangential derivatives is prescribed. (This would be an oblique derivative if the coefficients were real.) Corresponding boundary-value problems are treated here using layer potentials, generalizing the usual approach for the standard exterior boundary-value problems of acoustics. Singular integral equations are obtained for islands (scatterers with non-empty interiors) whereas hypersingular integral equations are obtained for thin barriers. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Self-similar solution of a plane-strain fracture driven by a power-law fluidINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, Issue 6 2002J. I. Adachi Abstract This paper analyses the problem of a hydraulically driven fracture, propagating in an impermeable, linear elastic medium. The fracture is driven by injection of an incompressible, viscous fluid with power-law rheology and behaviour index n,0. The opening of the fracture and the internal fluid pressure are related through the elastic singular integral equation, and the flow of fluid inside the crack is modelled using the lubrication theory. Under the additional assumptions of negligible toughness and no lag between the fluid front and the crack tip, the problem is reduced to self-similar form. A solution that describes the crack length evolution, the fracture opening, the net fluid pressure and the fluid flow rate inside the crack is presented. This self-similar solution is obtained by expanding the fracture opening in a series of Gegenbauer polynomials, with the series coefficients calculated using a numerical minimization procedure. The influence of the fluid index n in the crack propagation is also analysed. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Frictional contact of laminated elastic half-spaces allowing interface cavities.INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL AND ANALYTICAL METHODS IN GEOMECHANICS, Issue 11 2001Part 1: Analytical treatment Abstract The paper deals with the plane problem on frictional contact of stratified elastic half-spaces provided discontinuity of their direct touch. Imperfectness of contact of the bodies is assumed to be caused by surface unevenness of their surface layers. The problem is formulated within the framework of the homogenized model with microlocal parameters. Using the method of complex potentials in combination with the method of interface gaps the problem is reduced to a singular integral equation on the function of interface gap height. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] A Galerkin boundary integral method for multiple circular elastic inclusionsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Issue 10 2001S. G. Mogilevskaya Abstract The problem of an infinite, isotropic elastic plane containing an arbitrary number of circular elastic inclusions is considered. The analysis procedure is based on the use of a complex singular integral equation. The unknown tractions at each circular boundary are approximated by a truncated complex Fourier series. A system of linear algebraic equations is obtained by using the classical Galerkin method and the Gauss,Seidel algorithm is used to solve the system. Several numerical examples are considered to demonstrate the effectiveness of the approach. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Instationary aeroelastic computation of yacht sailsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Issue 8 2001Heinrich Schoop Abstract Effective schemes exist to calculate aerodynamic forces for thin bodies and structural dynamics of flexible membranes. The fluid dynamic of thin wings in a irrotational flow leads to the lifting surface theory. Neglecting the inertia of the membrane the structural dynamics are solved by the non-linear (FEM). But the interaction of flexible membranes and an irrotational flow causes problems due to the different nature of the mathematical equations. On the one hand, there is a partial differential equation for the structural dynamics and on the other hand, there is a singular integral equation for the aerodynamics. The numerical discretization scheme has to fit these different types of equation. Our work introduces a new interaction scheme to couple the singular integral equation of the lifting surface theory with the non-linear FEM of the membrane static. The fundamental examinations, showed by Schoop et al. (International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 1998; 41: 217,219), are applied to realistic sail geometries and the aerodynamics is extended to instationary flow conditions. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Steady/unsteady aerodynamic analysis of wings at subsonic, sonic and supersonic Mach numbers using a 3D panel methodINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN FLUIDS, Issue 10 2003Jeonghyun Cho Abstract This paper treats the kernel function of an integral equation that relates a known or prescribed upwash distribution to an unknown lift distribution for a finite wing. The pressure kernel functions of the singular integral equation are summarized for all speed range in the Laplace transform domain. The sonic kernel function has been reduced to a form, which can be conveniently evaluated as a finite limit from both the subsonic and supersonic sides when the Mach number tends to one. Several examples are solved including rectangular wings, swept wings, a supersonic transport wing and a harmonically oscillating wing. Present results are given with other numerical data, showing continuous results through the unit Mach number. Computed results are in good agreement with other numerical results. Copyright © 2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Analysis of the radiation properties of a planar antenna on a photonic crystal substrateMATHEMATICAL METHODS IN THE APPLIED SCIENCES, Issue 13 2001Habib Ammari Abstract This paper is concerned with the rigorous investigation of the radiation properties of a planar patch antenna on a photonic crystal substrate. Under the assumptions that the driving frequency of the antenna lies within the band gap of the photonic crystal substrate and that the crystal satisfies a symmetry condition, we prove that the power radiated into the substrate decays exponentially. To do this, we reduce the radiation problem to the study of the well-posedness of a weakly singular integral equation on the patch antenna, and to the study of the asymptotic behaviour of the corresponding Green's function. We also provide a mathematical justification of the use of a photonic crystal substrate as a perfect mirror at any incidence angle. Copyright © 2001 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Analytical study and numerical experiments for degenerate scale problems in the boundary element method for two-dimensional elasticityINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Issue 12 2002J. T. Chen Abstract For a plane elasticity problem, the boundary integral equation approach has been shown to yield a non-unique solution when geometry size is equal to a degenerate scale. In this paper, the degenerate scale problem in the boundary element method (BEM) is analytically studied using the method of stress function. For the elliptic domain problem, the numerical difficulty of the degenerate scale can be solved by using the hypersingular formulation instead of using the singular formulation in the dual BEM. A simple example is shown to demonstrate the failure using the singular integral equations of dual BEM. It is found that the degenerate scale also depends on the Poisson's ratio. By employing the hypersingular formulation in the dual BEM, no degenerate scale occurs since a zero eigenvalue is not embedded in the influence matrix for any case. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] | ||||||||||