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Long-range cohesive interactions of non-local continuum faced by fractional calculus
2008
Abstract A non-local continuum model including long-range forces between non-adjacent volume elements has been studied in this paper. The proposed continuum model has been obtained as limit case of two fully equivalent mechanical models: (i) A volume element model including contact forces between adjacent volumes as well as long-range interactions, distance decaying, between non-adjacent elements. (ii) A discrete point-spring model with local springs between adjacent points and non-local springs with distance-decaying stiffness connecting non-adjacent points. Under the assumption of fractional distance-decaying interactions between non-adjacent elements a fractional differential equation in…
Fractional visco-elastic Euler–Bernoulli beam
2013
Abstract Aim of this paper is the response evaluation of fractional visco-elastic Euler–Bernoulli beam under quasi-static and dynamic loads. Starting from the local fractional visco-elastic relationship between axial stress and axial strain, it is shown that bending moment, curvature, shear, and the gradient of curvature involve fractional operators. Solution of particular example problems are studied in detail providing a correct position of mechanical boundary conditions. Moreover, it is shown that, for homogeneous beam both correspondence principles also hold in the case of Euler–Bernoulli beam with fractional constitutive law. Virtual work principle is also derived and applied to some c…
The interrelation between stochastic differential inclusions and set-valued stochastic differential equations
2013
Abstract In this paper we connect the well established theory of stochastic differential inclusions with a new theory of set-valued stochastic differential equations. Solutions to the latter equations are understood as continuous mappings taking on their values in the hyperspace of nonempty, bounded, convex and closed subsets of the space L 2 consisting of square integrable random vectors. We show that for the solution X to a set-valued stochastic differential equation corresponding to a stochastic differential inclusion, there exists a solution x for this inclusion that is a ‖ ⋅ ‖ L 2 -continuous selection of X . This result enables us to draw inferences about the reachable sets of solutio…
Stochastic equation of population dynamics with diffusion on a domain
2003
We consider Lotka-Volterra competition model with diffusion in a territorial domain with a stochastic perturbation which represents the random variations of environment conditions. We prove the existence, the uniqueness and the positivity of the solution. Moreover, the stochastic boundedness of the solution is analized.
Ambit processes and stochastic partial differential equations
2011
Ambit processes are general stochastic processes based on stochastic integrals with respect to Levy bases. Due to their flexible structure, they have great potential for providing realistic models for various applications such as in turbulence and finance. This papers studies the connection between ambit processes and solutions to stochastic partial differential equations. We investigate this relationship from two angles: from the Walsh theory of martingale measures and from the viewpoint of the Levy noise analysis.
A symmetric nonlocal damage theory
2003
The paper presents a thermodynamically consistent formulation for nonlocal damage models. Nonlocal models have been recognized as a theoretically clean and computationally efficient approach to overcome the shortcomings arising in continuum media with softening. The main features of the presented formulation are: (i) relations derived by the free energy potential fully complying with nonlocal thermodynamic principles; (ii) nonlocal integral operator which is self-adjoint at every point of the solid, including zones near to the solid's boundary; (iii) capacity of regularizing the softening ill-posed continuum problem, restoring a meaningful nonlocal boundary value problem. In the present app…
Thermodynamically consistent residual-based gradient plasticity theory and comparison
2006
A gradient plasticity theory for small deformations is presented within the framework of nonlocal continuum thermodynamics. The second principle (Clausius–Duhem inequality), enriched by an additional term named energy residual, is employed in conjunction with the concepts of insulation condition and locality recovery condition, in order to derive all the pertinent restrictions upon the constitutive equations. These include the expressions of the energy residual and of the plastic dissipation density, as well as the PDEs governing the gradient kinematic and isotropic hardening of the material, together with the related higher-order boundary conditions for both the fixed and the moving bounda…
A new approximation procedure for fractals
2003
AbstractThis paper is based upon Hutchinson's theory of generating fractals as fixed points of a finite set of contractions, when considering this finite set of contractions as a contractive set-valued map.We approximate the fractal using some preselected parameters and we obtain formulae describing the “distance” between the “exact fractal” and the “approximate fractal” in terms of the preselected parameters. Some examples and also computation programs are given, showing how our procedure works.
A Parametric Dirichlet Problem for Systems of Quasilinear Elliptic Equations With Gradient Dependence
2016
The aim of this article is to study the Dirichlet boundary value problem for systems of equations involving the (pi, qi) -Laplacian operators and parameters μi≥0 (i = 1,2) in the principal part. Another main point is that the nonlinearities in the reaction terms are allowed to depend on both the solution and its gradient. We prove results ensuring existence, uniqueness, and asymptotic behavior with respect to the parameters.
Invariant approximation results in cone metric spaces
2011
Some sufficient conditions for the existence of fixed point of mappings satisfying generalized weak contractive conditions is obtained. A fixed point theorem for nonexpansive mappings is also obtained. As an application, some invariant approximation results are derived in cone metric spaces.