A quadrature-based mixed Petrov-Galerkin finite element method is applied to a fourth-order linear ordinary differential equation. After employing a splitting technique, a cubic spline trial space and a piecewise linear test space are considered in the method. The integrals are then replaced by the Gauss quadrature rule in the formulation itself. Optimal order a priori error estimates are obtai...

A kind of generalized quadrature formulae of maximal degree of precision for numerical integration of analytic functions is considered. Precisely, a general weighted quadrature of Birkhoff-Young type with 4n+3 nodes and degree of precision 6n+5 is studied. Its nodes are characterized by an orthogonality relation and a general numerical method for their computation is given. Special cases and nu...

Polynomial approximations of computationally intensive models are central to uncertainty quantification. This paper describes an adaptive method for nonintrusive pseudospectral approximation, based on Smolyak’s algorithm with generalized sparse grids. We rigorously analyze and extend the nonadaptive method proposed in [P. G. Constantine, M. S. Eldred, and E. T. Phipps, Comput. Methods Appl. Mec...

In this work concerning steady-state radiative-transfer calculations in plane-parallel media, the equivalence between the discrete ordinates method and the spherical harmonics method is proved. More specifically, it is shown that for standard radiative-transfer problems without the imposed restriction of azimuthal symmetry the two methods yield identical results for the radiation intensity when...

In this paper, we propose a natural collocation method with exact imposition of mixed boundary conditions based on a generalized Gauss-Lobatto-Legendre-Birhoff quadrature rule that builds in the underlying boundary data. We provide a direct construction of the quadrature rule, and show that the collocation method can be implemented as efficiently as the usual collocation scheme for PDEs with Di...

In this study, based on nonlocal differential constitutive relations of Eringen, the first order shear deformation theory of plates (FSDT) is reformulated for vibration of nano-plates considering the initial geometric imperfection. The dynamic analog of the von Kármán nonlinear strain-displacement relations is used to derive equations of motion for the nano-plate. When dealing with nonlineariti...

where y(x) denotes the solution of the differential equation. The idea is to use a quadrature formula to estimate the integral of (1). This requires knowledge of the integrand at specified arguments x¿ in (xo, -To + h)—hence we require the values of y(x) at these arguments. A numerical integration method may be used to estimate y(x) for the required arguments. In this way a numerical integratio...