Motivated by the desire to investigate vehicle fording scenarios, we analyze four frameworks for the simulation of the fluid-solid interaction problem. While all of these approaches rely on a general multibody dynamics simulation framework that supports impact, contact, and constraint, they differ in (i) the fluid representation; (ii) the simulation methodology; and (iii) the fluid-solid interf...

We introduce non-autonomous continuous dynamical systems which are linked to the Newton and Levenberg-Marquardt methods. They aim at solving inclusions governed by maximal monotone operators in Hilbert spaces. Relying on the Minty representation of maximal monotone operators as lipschitzian manifolds, we show that these dynamics can be formulated as first-order in time differential systems, whi...

In this paper, we investigate the connection between closed Newton-Cotes formulae, trigonometrically-fitted methods, symplectic integrators and efficient integration of the Schr¨odinger equation. The study of multistep symplectic integrators is very poor although in the last decades several one step symplectic integrators have been produced based on symplectic geometry (see the relevant lit...

We investigate the efficiency of multi-step Newton method (the classical Newton method in which the first derivative is re-evaluated periodically after m steps) for solving nonlinear equations, F(x) = 0, F : D ⊆ Rn → Rn. We highlight the following property of multi-step Newton method with respect to some other Newton-type method: for a given n, there exist thresholds of m, that is an interval (...

Inexact Newton methods are constructed by combining Newton’s method with another iterative method that is used to solve the Newton equations inexactly. In this paper, we establish two semilocal convergence theorems for the inexact Newton methods. When these two theorems are specified to Newton’s method, we obtain a different Newton-Kantorovich theorem about Newton’s method. When the iterative m...

Inexact Newton methods are constructed by combining Newton’s method with another iterative method that is used to solve the Newton equations inexactly. In this paper, we establish two semilocal convergence theorems for the inexact Newton methods. When these two theorems are specified to Newton’s method, we obtain a different Newton-Kantorovich theorem about Newton’s method. When the iterative m...

Gauss words are finite sequences of letters associated with self-intersecting closed curves in the plane. (These curves have no “triple” self-intersection). These sequences encode the order of intersections on the curves. We characterize, up to homeomorphism, all curves having a given Gauss word. We extend this characterization to the n-tuples of closed curves having a given n-tuple of words, t...