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Article
Publication date: 1 December 2003

Marcos de Souza, Ricardo Fortes de Miranda and Humberto Araujo Machado

The generalized integral transform technique (GITT) is an hybrid numerical‐analytical method that has been successfully applied in convection‐diffusion problems, where the…

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The generalized integral transform technique (GITT) is an hybrid numerical‐analytical method that has been successfully applied in convection‐diffusion problems, where the original potentials are replaced by eigenexpansion series, and the system of partial differential equations is transformed into a finite system of ordinary differential equations, allowing to obtain an error controlled solution without any kind of grid generation. This paper aims at the application of GITT to the transient version of the classical differentially heated square cavity problem, considering fluid properties as functions of temperature. Comparing results to some previously reported data for constant fluid properties validates the computational procedure. The solution for variable fluid properties with Boussinesq approximation is presented for several values of inclinations, at Rayleigh number of 103 and a Prandtl number of 0.71, demonstrating GITT capability of capturing circulating cells formation and evolution at a low Rayleigh number. New correlations for leaning angle and aspect ratio are presented.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 13 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 1 September 2003

Bernhard Schweighofer and Bernhard Brandstätter

The accurate simulation of battery cells is of growing interest in automotive industry especially in hybrid vehicle technology. Conventional lumped parameter models are not able…

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The accurate simulation of battery cells is of growing interest in automotive industry especially in hybrid vehicle technology. Conventional lumped parameter models are not able to predict the battery voltage accurately. Thus models describing the physics of the battery cell are searched. In this paper a model consisting of six partial differential equations is proposed, which predicts the state of charge (SOC) and the battery voltage for given charge and discharge current densities.

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COMPEL - The international journal for computation and mathematics in electrical and electronic engineering, vol. 22 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0332-1649

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Article
Publication date: 20 October 2020

Sapna Pandit and R.C. Mittal

This paper aims to propose a novel approach based on uniform scale-3 Haar wavelets for unsteady state space fractional advection-dispersion partial differential equation which…

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Purpose

This paper aims to propose a novel approach based on uniform scale-3 Haar wavelets for unsteady state space fractional advection-dispersion partial differential equation which arises in complex network, fluid dynamics in porous media, biology, chemistry and biochemistry, electrode – electrolyte polarization, finance, system control, etc.

Design/methodology/approach

Scale-3 Haar wavelets are used to approximate the space and time variables. Scale-3 Haar wavelets converts the problems into linear system. After that Gauss elimination is used to find the wavelet coefficients.

Findings

A novel algorithm based on Haar wavelet for two-dimensional fractional partial differential equations is established. Error estimation has been derived by use of property of compactly supported orthonormality. The correctness and effectiveness of the theoretical arguments by numerical tests are confirmed.

Originality/value

Scale-3 Haar wavelets are used first time for these types of problems. Second, error analysis in new work in this direction.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 38 no. 4
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 7 October 2021

Sunil Kumar, Surath Ghosh, Shaher Momani and S. Hadid

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species…

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Purpose

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. This paper aims to propose a new Yang-Abdel-Aty-Cattani (YAC) fractional operator with a non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this study has explained the analytical methods, reduced differential transform method (RDTM) and residual power series method (RPSM) taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense.

Design/methodology/approach

This study has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense.

Findings

This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leffler functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Research limitations/implications

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this study, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this study has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Practical implications

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this paper, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation which is arised in biological population model. Here, this study has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Social implications

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this paper, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this paper has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Originality/value

The population model has an important role in biology to interpret the spreading rate of viruses and parasites. This biological model is also used to identify fragile species. In this paper, the main aim is to propose a new YAC fractional operator with non-singular kernel to solve nonlinear partial differential equation, which is arised in biological population model. Here, this paper has explained the analytical methods, RDTM and RPSM taking the fractional derivative as YAC operator sense. This study has expressed the solutions in terms of Mittag-Leer functions. Also, this study has compared the solutions with the exact solutions. Three examples are described for the accuracy and efficiency of the results.

Article
Publication date: 21 June 2019

Mohsen Hadadian Nejad Yousefi, Seyed Hossein Ghoreishi Najafabadi and Emran Tohidi

The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient and reliable spectral integral equation method for solving two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop an efficient and reliable spectral integral equation method for solving two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations.

Design/methodology/approach

In this study, the considered two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations are transformed into the equivalent partial integro-differential equations via integrating from the considered unsteady advection-diffusion equation. After this stage, by using Chebyshev polynomials of the first kind and the operational matrix of integration, the integral equation would be transformed into the system of linear algebraic equations. Robustness and efficiency of the proposed method were illustrated by six numerical simulations experimentally. The numerical results confirm that the method is efficient, highly accurate, fast and stable for solving two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion equations.

Findings

The proposed method can solve the equations with discontinuity near the boundaries, the advection-dominated equations and the equations in irregular domains. One of the numerical test problems designed specially to evaluate the performance of the proposed method for discontinuity near boundaries.

Originality/value

This study extends the intention of one dimensional Chebyshev approximate approaches (Yuksel and Sezer, 2013; Yuksel et al., 2015) for two-dimensional unsteady advection-diffusion problems and the basic intention of our suggested method is quite different from the approaches for hyperbolic problems (Bulbul and Sezer, 2011).

Article
Publication date: 3 August 2020

Yaser Rostami

This paper aims to present a new method for the approximate solution of two-dimensional nonlinear Volterra–Fredholm partial integro-differential equations with boundary conditions…

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to present a new method for the approximate solution of two-dimensional nonlinear Volterra–Fredholm partial integro-differential equations with boundary conditions using two-dimensional Chebyshev wavelets.

Design/methodology/approach

For this purpose, an operational matrix of product and integration of the cross-product and differentiation are introduced that essentially of Chebyshev wavelets. The use of these operational matrices simplifies considerably the structure of the computation used for a set of the algebraic system has been obtained by using the collocation points and solved.

Findings

Theorem for convergence analysis and some illustrative examples of using the presented method to show the validity, efficiency, high accuracy and applicability of the proposed technique. Some figures are plotted to demonstrate the error analysis of the proposed scheme.

Originality/value

This paper uses operational matrices of two-dimensional Chebyshev wavelets and helps to obtain high accuracy of the method.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 38 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 19 April 2013

Lazhar Bougoffa and Randolph C. Rach

The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to solve nonlocal boundary value problems of linear and nonlinear first‐ and second‐order differential equations subject to…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to present a new approach to solve nonlocal boundary value problems of linear and nonlinear first‐ and second‐order differential equations subject to nonlocal conditions of integral type.

Design/methodology/approach

The authors first transform the given nonlocal boundary value problems of first‐ and second‐order differential equations into local boundary value problems of second‐ and third‐order differential equations, respectively. Then a modified Adomian decomposition method is applied, which permits convenient resolution of these equations.

Findings

The new technique, as presented in this paper in extending the applicability of the Adomian decomposition method, has been shown to be very efficient for solving nonlocal boundary value problems of linear and nonlinear first‐ and second‐order differential equations subject to nonlocal conditions of integral type.

Originality/value

The paper presents a new solution algorithm for the nonlocal boundary value problems of linear and nonlinear first‐ and second‐order differential equations subject to nonlocal conditions of integral type.

Article
Publication date: 3 August 2021

Zain ul Abdeen and Mujeeb ur Rehman

The purpose of this paper is to obtain a numerical scheme for finding numerical solutions of linear and nonlinear Hadamard-type fractional differential equations.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to obtain a numerical scheme for finding numerical solutions of linear and nonlinear Hadamard-type fractional differential equations.

Design/methodology/approach

The aim of this paper is to develop a numerical scheme for numerical solutions of Hadamard-type fractional differential equations. The classical Haar wavelets are modified to align them with Hadamard-type operators. Operational matrices are derived and used to convert differential equations to systems of algebraic equations.

Findings

The upper bound for error is estimated. With the help of quasilinearization, nonlinear problems are converted to sequences of linear problems and operational matrices for modified Haar wavelets are used to get their numerical solution. Several numerical examples are presented to demonstrate the applicability and validity of the proposed method.

Originality/value

The numerical method is purposed for solving Hadamard-type fractional differential equations.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 39 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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Article
Publication date: 28 September 2018

Suheil Khuri and Abdul-Majid Wazwaz

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used in the engineering curriculum. They model a spectrum of interesting physical problems that arise in engineering disciplines…

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Purpose

Ordinary differential equations (ODEs) are widely used in the engineering curriculum. They model a spectrum of interesting physical problems that arise in engineering disciplines. Studies of different types of ODEs are determined by engineering applications. Various techniques are used to solve practical differential equations problems. This paper aims to present a computational tool or a computer-assisted technique aimed at tackling ODEs. This method is usually not taught and/or not accessible to undergraduate students. The aim of this strategy is to help the readers to develop an effective and relatively novel problem-solving skill. Because of the drudgery of hand computations involved, the method requires the need to use computers packages. In this work, the successive differentiation method (SDM) for solving linear and nonlinear and homogeneous or non-homogeneous ODEs is presented. The algorithm uses the successive differentiation of any given ODE to determine the values of the function’s derivatives at a single point, mostly x = 0. The obtained values are used to construct the Taylor series of the solution of the examined ODE. The algorithm does not require any new assumption, hence handles the problem in a direct manner. The power of the method is emphasized by testing a variety of models with distinct orders, with constant and variable coefficients. Most of the symbolic and numerical computations can be carried out using computer algebra systems.

Design/methodology/approach

This study presents a computational tool or a computer-assisted technique aimed at tackling ODEs. This method is usually not taught and/or not accessible to undergraduate students. The aim of this strategy is to help the readers to develop an effective and relatively novel problem-solving skill. Because of the drudgery of hand computations involved, the method requires the need to use computers packages.

Findings

This method is applied to a variety of well-known equations, such as the Bernoulli equation, the Riccati equation, the Abel equation and the second-order Euler equation, some with constant and variable coefficients. SDM handles linear and nonlinear and homogeneous or nonhomogeneous ODEs in a direct manner without any need to restrictive conditions. The method works effectively to the Volterra integral equations, as will be discussed in a coming work.

Originality/value

The method can be extended to a wide range of engineering problems that are modeled by differential equations. The method is simple and novel and highly accurate.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 28 no. 12
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 6 November 2017

Sapna Pandit, Ram Jiwari, Karan Bedi and Mehmet Emir Koksal

The purpose of this study is to develop an algorithm for approximate solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations.

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this study is to develop an algorithm for approximate solutions of nonlinear hyperbolic partial differential equations.

Design/methodology/approach

In this paper, an algorithm based on the Haar wavelets operational matrix for computational modelling of nonlinear hyperbolic type wave equations has been developed. These types of equations describe a variety of physical models in nonlinear optics, relativistic quantum mechanics, solitons and condensed matter physics, interaction of solitons in collision-less plasma and solid-state physics, etc. The algorithm reduces the equations into a system of algebraic equations and then the system is solved by the Gauss-elimination procedure. Some well-known hyperbolic-type wave problems are considered as numerical problems to check the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed algorithm. The numerical results are shown in figures and Linf, RMS and L2 error forms.

Findings

The developed algorithm is used to find the computational modelling of nonlinear hyperbolic-type wave equations. The algorithm is well suited for some well-known wave equations.

Originality/value

This paper extends the idea of one dimensional Haar wavelets algorithms (Jiwari, 2015, 2012; Pandit et al., 2015; Kumar and Pandit, 2014, 2015) for two-dimensional hyperbolic problems and the idea of this algorithm is quite different from the idea for elliptic problems (Lepik, 2011; Shi et al., 2012). Second, the algorithm and error analysis are new for two-dimensional hyperbolic-type problems.

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Engineering Computations, vol. 34 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0264-4401

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