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Publication date: 3 June 2021

KangLe Wang

The purpose of this paper is the coupled nonlinear fractal Schrödinger system is defined by using fractal derivative, and its variational principle is constructed by the fractal…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is the coupled nonlinear fractal Schrödinger system is defined by using fractal derivative, and its variational principle is constructed by the fractal semi-inverse method. The approximate analytical solution of the coupled nonlinear fractal Schrödinger system is obtained by the fractal variational iteration transform method based on the proposed variational theory and fractal two-scales transform method. Finally, an example illustrates the proposed method is efficient to deal with complex nonlinear fractal systems.

Design/methodology/approach

The coupled nonlinear fractal Schrödinger system is described by using the fractal derivative, and its fractal variational principle is obtained by the fractal semi-inverse method. A novel approach is proposed to solve the fractal model based on the variational theory.

Findings

The fractal variational iteration transform method is an excellent method to solve the fractal differential equation system.

Originality/value

The author first presents the fractal variational iteration transform method to find the approximate analytical solution for fractal differential equation system. The example illustrates the accuracy and efficiency of the proposed approach.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 32 no. 2
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 26 September 2019

Ji-Huan He

A three-dimensional (3D) unsteady potential flow might admit a variational principle. The purpose of this paper is to adopt a semi-inverse method to search for the variational

Abstract

Purpose

A three-dimensional (3D) unsteady potential flow might admit a variational principle. The purpose of this paper is to adopt a semi-inverse method to search for the variational formulation from the governing equations.

Design/methodology/approach

A suitable trial functional with a possible unknown function is constructed, and the identification of the unknown function is given in detail. The Lagrange multiplier method is used to establish a generalized variational principle, but in vain.

Findings

Some new variational principles are obtained, and the semi-inverse method can easily overcome the Lagrange crisis.

Practical implications

The semi-inverse method sheds a promising light on variational theory, and it can replace the Lagrange multiplier method for the establishment of a generalized variational principle. It can be used for the establishment of a variational principle for fractal and fractional calculus.

Originality/value

This paper establishes some new variational principles for the 3D unsteady flow and suggests an effective method to eliminate the Lagrange crisis.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 30 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 13 November 2020

KangLe Wang

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Lane–Emden equation by the fractal derivative and establish its variational principle by using the semi-inverse method. The variational

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to describe the Lane–Emden equation by the fractal derivative and establish its variational principle by using the semi-inverse method. The variational principle is helpful to research the structure of the solution. The approximate analytical solution of the fractal Lane–Emden equation is obtained by the variational iteration method. The example illustrates that the suggested scheme is efficient and accurate for fractal models.

Design/methodology/approach

The author establishes the variational principle for fractal Lane–Emden equation, and its approximate analytical solution is obtained by the variational iteration method.

Findings

The variational iteration method is very fascinating in solving fractal differential equation.

Originality/value

The author first proposes the variational iteration method for solving fractal differential equation. The example shows the efficiency and accuracy of the proposed method. The variational iteration method is valid for other nonlinear fractal models as well.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 31 no. 7
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 12 July 2022

Chun-Hui He

The variational principle views a complex problem in an energy way, it gives good physical understanding of an iteration method, and the variational-based numerical methods always…

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Purpose

The variational principle views a complex problem in an energy way, it gives good physical understanding of an iteration method, and the variational-based numerical methods always have a conservation scheme with a fast convergent rate. The purpose of this paper is to establish a variational principle for a fractal nano/microelectromechanical (N/MEMS) system.

Design/methodology/approach

This paper begins with an approximate variational principle in literature for the studied problem, and a genuine variational principle is obtained by the semi-inverse method.

Findings

The semi-inverse method is a good mathematical tool to the search for a genuine fractal variational formulation for the N/MEMS system.

Research limitations/implications

The established variational principle can be used for both analytical and numerical analyses of the N/MEMS systems, and it can be extended to some more complex cases.

Practical implications

The variational principle can be used for variational-based finite element methods and energy-based analytical methods.

Originality/value

The new and genuine variational principle is obtained. This paper discovers the missing piece of the puzzle for the establishment of a variational principle from governing equations for a complex problem by the semi-inverse method. The new variational theory opens a new direction in fractal MEMS systems.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 33 no. 1
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 28 October 2014

Talaat El-Sayed El-Danaf, Mfida Ali Zaki and Wedad Moenaaem

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of extension to the variational iteration and the Adomian decomposition methods for solving nonlinear Huxley equation…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the possibility of extension to the variational iteration and the Adomian decomposition methods for solving nonlinear Huxley equation with time-fractional derivative.

Design/methodology/approach

Objectives achieved the main methods: the fractional derivative of f (x) in the Caputo sense is first stated. Second, the time-fractional Huxley equation is written in a differential operator form where the differential operator is in Caputo sense. After acting on both sides by the inverse operator of the fractional differential operator in Caputo sense, the Adomian's decomposition is then used to get the power series solution of the resulted time-fractional Huxley equation. Also, a second objective is achieved by applying the variational iteration method to get approximate solutions for the time-fractional Huxley equation.

Findings

There are some important findings to state and summarize here. First, the variational iteration method and the decomposition method provide the solutions in terms of convergent series with easily computable components for this considered problem. Second, it seems that the approximate solution of time-fractional Huxley equation using the decomposition method converges faster than the approximate solution using the variational iteration method. Third, the variational iteration method handles nonlinear equations without any need for the so-called Adomian polynomials. However, Adomian decomposition method provides the components of the exact solution, where these components should follow the summation given in Equation (21).

Originality/value

This paper presents new materials in terms of employing the variational iteration and the Adomian decomposition methods to solve the problem under consideration. It is expected that the results will give some insightful conclusions for the used techniques to handle similar fractional differential equations. This emphasizes the fact that the two methods are applicable to a broad class of nonlinear problems in fractional differential equations.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 24 no. 8
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 6 March 2020

Ji-Huan He

This paper aims to review some effective methods for fully fourth-order nonlinear integral boundary value problems with fractal derivatives.

Abstract

Purpose

This paper aims to review some effective methods for fully fourth-order nonlinear integral boundary value problems with fractal derivatives.

Design/methodology/approach

Boundary value problems arise everywhere in engineering, hence two-scale thermodynamics and fractal calculus have been introduced. Some analytical methods are reviewed, mainly including the variational iteration method, the Ritz method, the homotopy perturbation method, the variational principle and the Taylor series method. An example is given to show the simple solution process and the high accuracy of the solution.

Findings

An elemental and heuristic explanation of fractal calculus is given, and the main solution process and merits of each reviewed method are elucidated. The fractal boundary value problem in a fractal space can be approximately converted into a classical one by the two-scale transform.

Originality/value

This paper can be served as a paradigm for various practical applications.

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International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 30 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 18 October 2011

Abdul‐Majid Wazwaz and Randolph Rach

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparison of the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) with the variational iteration method (VIM) for solving the Lane‐Emden equations of…

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Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to provide a comparison of the Adomian decomposition method (ADM) with the variational iteration method (VIM) for solving the Lane‐Emden equations of the first and second kinds.

Design/methodology/approach

The paper examines the theoretical framework of the Adomian decomposition method and compares it with the variational iteration method. The paper seeks to determine the relative merits and computational benefits of both the Adomian decomposition method and the variational iteration method in the context of the important physical models of the Lane‐Emden equations of the first and second kinds.

Findings

The Adomian decomposition method is shown to readily solve the Lane‐Emden equations of both the first and second kinds for all positive real values of the system coefficient α and for all positive real values of the nonlinear exponent m. The decomposition series solution of these nonlinear differential equations requires the calculation of the Adomian polynomials appropriate to the particular system nonlinearity. The paper shows that the variational iteration method works effectively to solve the Lane‐Emden equation of the first kind for system coefficient values α=1, 2, 3, 4 but only for positive integer values of the nonlinear exponent m. The successive approximations of the solution of these nonlinear differential equations require the determination of the appropriate Lagrange multipliers, which are established in this paper. These two methodologies overcome the singular behavior at the origin x=0. The paper shows that the variational iteration method is impractical for solving either the Lane‐Emden equation of the first kind for non‐integer values of the system exponent m or the Lane‐Emden equations of the second kind. Indeed the Adomian decomposition method is shown to solve even the generalized Lane‐Emden equation for any analytic nonlinearity and all positive values of the system coefficient α in a practical and straightforward manner. The conclusions are supported by several numerical examples.

Originality/value

This paper presents an accurate comparison of the Adomian decomposition method with the variational iteration method for solving the Lane‐Emden equations of the first and second kinds. The paper presents a new solution algorithm for the generalized Lane‐Emden equation for any analytic system nonlinearity and for any model geometry as characterized by all possible positive real values of the system coefficient α.

Article
Publication date: 19 April 2011

A.A. Soliman

The purpose of this paper is to apply the variational iterations method to solve two difference types such as the modified Boussinesq (MB) and seven‐order Sawada‐Kotara (sSK…

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Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to apply the variational iterations method to solve two difference types such as the modified Boussinesq (MB) and seven‐order Sawada‐Kotara (sSK) equations and to compare this method with that obtained previously by Adomian decomposition.

Design/methodology/approach

The variational iteration method is used for finding the solution of the MB and sSK equations. The solution obtained is an infinite power series for appropriate initial condition. The numerical results obtain for nth approximation and compare with the known analytical solutions; the results show that an excellent approximation to the actual solution of the equations was achieved by using only three iterations.

Findings

The comparison demonstrates that the two obtained solutions are an excellent agreement. The numerical results calculated show that this method, variational iteration method, can be readily implemented to this type of nonlinear equation and excellent accuracy can be achieved. The results of variation iteration method confirm the correctness of those obtained by means of Adomian decomposition method.

Originality/value

The results presented in this paper show that the variational iteration method is a powerful mathematical tool for solving the MB and the sSK equations; it is also a promising method for solving other nonlinear equations.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 21 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 22 October 2019

Xuejuan Li and Ji-Huan He

The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective numerical algorithm for a gas-melt two-phase flow and use it to simulate a polymer melt filling process. Moreover, the…

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to develop an effective numerical algorithm for a gas-melt two-phase flow and use it to simulate a polymer melt filling process. Moreover, the suggested algorithm can deal with the moving interface and discontinuities of unknowns across the interface.

Design/methodology/approach

The algebraic sub-grid scales-variational multi-scale (ASGS-VMS) finite element method is used to solve the polymer melt filling process. Meanwhile, the time is discretized using the Crank–Nicolson-based split fractional step algorithm to reduce the computational time. The improved level set method is used to capture the melt front interface, and the related equations are discretized by the second-order Taylor–Galerkin scheme in space and the third-order total variation diminishing Runge–Kutta scheme in time.

Findings

The numerical method is validated by the benchmark problem. Moreover, the viscoelastic polymer melt filling process is investigated in a rectangular cavity. The front interface, pressure field and flow-induced stresses of polymer melt during the filling process are predicted. Overall, this paper presents a VMS method for polymer injection molding. The present numerical method is extremely suitable for two free surface problems.

Originality/value

For the first time ever, the ASGS-VMS finite element method is performed for the two-phase flow of polymer melt filling process, and an effective numerical method is designed to catch the moving surface.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 30 no. 3
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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Article
Publication date: 20 February 2020

Ji-Huan He and Habibolla Latifizadeh

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a general numerical algorithm for nonlinear problems by the variational iteration method (VIM).

Abstract

Purpose

The purpose of this paper is to suggest a general numerical algorithm for nonlinear problems by the variational iteration method (VIM).

Design/methodology/approach

Firstly, the Laplace transform technique is used to reconstruct the variational iteration algorithm-II. Secondly, its convergence is strictly proved. Thirdly, the numerical steps for the algorithm is given. Finally, some examples are given to show the solution process and the effectiveness of the method.

Findings

No variational theory is needed to construct the numerical algorithm, and the incorporation of the Laplace method into the VIM makes the solution process much simpler.

Originality/value

A universal iteration formulation is suggested for nonlinear problems. The VIM cleans up the numerical road to differential equations.

Details

International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, vol. 30 no. 11
Type: Research Article
ISSN: 0961-5539

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