This paper considers in general the problem of finding the minimum of a given functional f(u) over a set B by approximately minimizing a sequence of functionals /„(«„) over a "discretized" set B„; theorems are given proving the convergence of the approximating points un in Bn to the desired point u in B. Applications are given to the Rayleigh-Ritz method, regularization, Chebyshev solution of d...

In the present study, a vibration analysis of functionally graded rectangular nano-/microplates was considered based on modified nonlinear coupled stress exponential and trigonometric shear deformation plate theories. Modified coupled stress theory is a non-classical continuum mechanics theory. In this theory, a material-length scale parameter is applied to account for the effect of nanostructu...

This paper is concerned with the reduction of the spectral problem for symmetric linear operator pencils to a spectral problem for the single operator. Also, a Rayleigh–Ritz–like bounds on eigenvalues of linear operator pencils are obtained.

The Sakurai-Sugiura method with Rayleigh-Ritz projection (SS-RR method) finds the eigenvalues in a certain domain of the complex plane of large quadratic eigenvalue problems (QEPs). The SS-RR method can suffer from numerical instability when the coefficient matrices of the projected QEP vary widely in norm. To improve the numerical stability of the SS-RR method, we combine it with a numerically...