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Publication date: 7 January 2019

Mian Ilyas Ahmad, Peter Benner and Lihong Feng

The purpose of this paper is to propose an interpolation-based projection framework for model reduction of quadratic-bilinear systems. The approach constructs projection matrices…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to propose an interpolation-based projection framework for model reduction of quadratic-bilinear systems. The approach constructs projection matrices from the bilinear part of the original quadratic-bilinear descriptor system and uses these matrices to project the original system.

Design/methodology/approach

The projection matrices are constructed by viewing the bilinear system as a linear parametric system, where the input associated with the bilinear part is treated as a parameter. The advantage of this approach is that the projection matrices can be constructed reliably by using an a posteriori error bound for linear parametric systems. The use of the error bound allows us to select a good choice of interpolation points and parameter samples for the construction of the projection matrices by using a greedy-type framework.

Findings

The results are compared with the standard quadratic-bilinear projection methods and it is observed that the approximations through the proposed method are comparable to the standard method but at a lower computational cost (offline time).

Originality/value

In addition to the proposed model order reduction framework, the authors extend the one-sided moment matching parametric model order reduction (PMOR) method to a two-sided method that doubles the number of moments matched in the PMOR method.

Article
Publication date: 1 March 2005

Marissa Condon and Rossen Ivanov

Nonlinear dynamical systems may, under certain conditions, be represented by a bilinear system. The paper is concerned with the construction of the controllability and…

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Purpose

Nonlinear dynamical systems may, under certain conditions, be represented by a bilinear system. The paper is concerned with the construction of the controllability and observability gramians for the corresponding bilinear system. Such gramians form the core of model reduction schemes involving balancing.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper examines certain properties of the bilinear system and identifies parameters that capture important information relating to the behaviour of the system.

Findings

Novel approaches for the determination of approximate constant gramians for use in balancing‐type model reduction techniques are presented. Numerical examples are given which indicate the efficacy of the proposed formulations.

Research limitations/implications

The systems under consideration are restricted to the so‐called weakly nonlinear systems, i.e. those without strong nonlinearities where the essential type of behaviour of the system is determined by its linear part.

Practical implications

The suggested methods lead to an improvement in the accuracy of model reduction. Model reduction is a vital aspect of modern system simulation.

Originality/value

The proposed novel approaches for model reduction are particularly beneficial for the design of controllers for nonlinear systems and for the design of radio‐frequency integrated circuits.

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COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 24 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

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Article
Publication date: 1 March 1993

J. PETERA, V. NASSEHI and J.F.T. PITTMAN

A number of finite element formulations involving discontinuous weighting functions have been tested against analytic solutions for a steady scalar convection—diffusion problem at…

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A number of finite element formulations involving discontinuous weighting functions have been tested against analytic solutions for a steady scalar convection—diffusion problem at intermediate Peclet number, with a ‘hard’ downstream boundary condition. The emphasis is on extending these methods to isoparametric bilinear and biquadratic elements. In order to do this a procedure is given for the exact calculation of shape function Laplacians. Having confirmed the success of the Brooks—Hughes streamline upwind Petrov—Galerkin (SUPG) method for isoparametric bilinear elements, formulations for biquadratic elements are examined. Galerkin least squares offers little advantage over SUPG in the test problem. The generalized Galerkin method of Donea et al. gave excellent results, but because of concern over the possibility of cross‐streamline artificial diffusion in some cases, a strictly streamline formulation incorporating the optimal parameters of Donea et al. is proposed. This gave excellent results on a sufficiently refined mesh.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 3 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 1 July 1995

Masudul Alam Choudhury

Argues that ethics and values are systemic realities and can be scientifically programmed in cybernetically oriented socio‐scientific systems. The case taken is of economic…

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Argues that ethics and values are systemic realities and can be scientifically programmed in cybernetically oriented socio‐scientific systems. The case taken is of economic general equilibrium with possibilities of multiple equilibria. The treatment of ethics and values in this sense in economic theory makes them endogenous phenomena of socio‐economic reality. This substantive idea of ethics and values as endogenous phenomena in socio‐scientific systems is termed the principle of ethical endogeneity. Its social cybernetical possibilities are developed mathematically. While the mathematical treatment uses bilinear algebra for the formulation, greater importance may be seen in the scientific essence of the principle of ethical endogeneity applicable universally. This is particularly true of systems which need to be epistemologically unified.

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Kybernetes, vol. 24 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0368-492X

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Article
Publication date: 1 August 2003

J.K. Djoko and B.D. Reddy

Classical mixed formulations of the boundary‐value problem of linear elasticity are reviewed, and a new three‐field formulation is introduced. The formulation is an extension of…

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Classical mixed formulations of the boundary‐value problem of linear elasticity are reviewed, and a new three‐field formulation is introduced. The formulation is an extension of the classical Hu‐Washizu approach, and takes the form of a non‐standard mixed problem. Convergence of finite element approximations of both the old and new methods are discussed, with an emphasis on their behaviour in the incompressible limit. Conditions for the stability and uniform convergence of the new method are presented, and it is shown that the Pian‐Sumihara basis, when used in the new formulation, leads to a convergent method.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 20 no. 5/6
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 4 July 2016

Marcos Arndt, Roberto Dalledone Machado and Adriano Scremin

The purpose of this paper is devoted to present an accurate assessment for determine natural frequencies for uniform and non-uniform Euler-Bernoulli beams and frames by an…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is devoted to present an accurate assessment for determine natural frequencies for uniform and non-uniform Euler-Bernoulli beams and frames by an adaptive generalized finite element method (GFEM). The present paper concentrates on developing the C1 element of the adaptive GFEM for vibration analysis of Euler-Bernoulli beams and frames.

Design/methodology/approach

The variational problem of free vibration is formulated and the main aspects of the adaptive GFEM are presented and discussed. The efficiency and convergence of the proposed method in vibration analysis of uniform and non-uniform Euler-Bernoulli beams are checked. The application of this technique in a frame is also presented.

Findings

The present paper concentrates on developing the C1 element of the adaptive GFEM for vibration analysis of Euler-Bernoulli beams and frames. The GFEM, which was conceived on the basis of the partition of unity method, allows the inclusion of enrichment functions that contain a priori knowledge about the fundamental solution of the governing differential equation. The proposed enrichment functions are dependent on the geometric and mechanical properties of the element. This approach converges very fast and is able to approximate the frequency related to any vibration mode.

Originality/value

The main contribution of the present study consisted in proposing an adaptive GFEM for vibration analysis of Euler-Bernoulli uniform and non-uniform beams and frames. The GFEM results were compared with those obtained by the h and p-versions of FEM and the c-version of the CEM. The adaptive GFEM has shown to be efficient in the vibration analysis of beams and has indicated that it can be applied even for a coarse discretization scheme in complex practical problems.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 33 no. 5
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 27 November 2018

Lakhveer Kaur and Abdul-Majid Wazwaz

The purpose of this paper is to explore new reduced form of the (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized B-type Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (BKP) equation by considering its bilinear equations…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to explore new reduced form of the (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized B-type Kadomtsev-Petviashvili (BKP) equation by considering its bilinear equations, derived from connection between the Hirota’s transformation and Bell polynomials.

Design/methodology/approach

Based on the bilinear form of new reduced form of the (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized BKP equation, lump solutions with sufficient and necessary conditions to guarantee analyticity and rational localization of the solutions are discovered. Also, extended homoclinic approach is applied to considered equation for finding solitary wave solutions.

Findings

A class of the bright-dark lump waves are fabricated for studying different attributes of (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized BKP equation and some new exact solutions including kinky periodic solitary wave solutions and line breathers periodic are also obtained by Following the extended homoclinic approach.

Research limitations/implications

The paper presents that the implemented methods have emerged as a promising and robust mathematical tool to manage (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized BKP equation by using the Hirota’s bilinear equation.

Practical implications

By considering important characteristics of lump and solitary wave solutions, one can understand the shapes, amplitudes and velocities of solitons after the collision with another soliton.

Social implications

The analysis of these higher-dimensional nonlinear wave equations is not only of fundamental interest but also has important practical implications in many areas of mathematical physics and ocean engineering.

Originality/value

To the best of the authors’ knowledge, the acquired solutions given in various cases have not been reported for new reduced form of the (3 + 1)-dimensional generalized BKP equation in the literature. These obtained solutions are advantageous for researchers to know objective laws and grab the indispensable features of the development of the mathematical physics.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 29 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 33 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

Article
Publication date: 7 April 2015

Hanlin Chen, Zhenhui Xu and Zhengde Dai

The purpose of this paper is to reveal dynamical behavior of nonlinear wave by searching for the new breather soliton and cross two-soliton solutions of the fifth-order…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to reveal dynamical behavior of nonlinear wave by searching for the new breather soliton and cross two-soliton solutions of the fifth-order Caudrey-Dodd-Gibbon (CDG) equation.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors apply bilinear form and extended homoclinic test approach to the fifth-order CDG equation.

Findings

In this paper, by using bilinear form and extended homoclinic test approach, the authors obtain new breather soliton and cross two-soliton solutions of the fifth-order CDG equation. It is shown that the extended homoclinic test approach, with the help of symbolic computation, provides an effective and powerful mathematical tool for solving nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics.

Research limitations/implications

The research manifests that the structures of the solution to nonlinear equations are diversified and complicated.

Originality/value

The methods used in this paper can be widely applied to the research of spatial and temporal characteristics of nonlinear equations in physics and engineering technology. These methods are also conducive for people to know objective laws and grasp the essential features of the development of the world.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 25 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 5 January 2015

Zhenhui Xu and Hanlin Chen

– The purpose of this paper is to reveal the dynamical behavior of higher dimensional nonlinear wave by searching for the multi-wave solutions to the (3+1)-D Jimbo-Miwa equation.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to reveal the dynamical behavior of higher dimensional nonlinear wave by searching for the multi-wave solutions to the (3+1)-D Jimbo-Miwa equation.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors apply bilinear form and extended homoclinic test approach to the (3+1)-D Jimbo-Miwa equation.

Findings

In this paper, by using bilinear form and extended homoclinic test approach, the authors obtain new cross-kink multi-soliton solutions of the (3+1)-dimensional Jimbo-Miwa equation, including the periodic breathertype of kink three-soliton solutions, the cross-kink four-soliton solutions, the doubly periodic breather-type of soliton solutions and the doubly periodic breather-type of cross-kink two-soliton solutions. It is shown that the extended homoclinic test approach, with the help of symbolic computation, provides an effective and powerful mathematical tool for solving higher dimensional nonlinear evolution equations in mathematical physics.

Research limitations/implications

The research manifests that the structures of the solution to higher dimensional nonlinear equations are diversified and complicated.

Originality/value

The methods used in this paper can be widely applied to the research of spatial and temporal characteristics of nonlinear equations in physics and engineering technology. These methods are also conducive for people to know objective laws and grasp the essential features of the development of the world.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 25 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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