in this paper the meshless local petrov-galerkin (mlpg) method is implemented to study the buckling of isotropic cylindrical shells under axial load. displacement field equations, based on donnell and first order shear deformation theory, are taken into consideration. the set of governing equations of motion are numerically solved by the mlpg method in which according to a semi-inverse method, ...

The essence of the boundary-field equation method is the reduction of the boundary value problem under consideration to an equivalent nonlocal boundary value problem in a bounded domain by using boundary integral equations. The latter can then be treated by the standard variational method including its numerical approximations. In this paper, various formulations of the nonlocal boundary value ...

reduced differential transform method (rdtm) is applied to various wave equations. to assessthe accuracy of the solutions, we compare the results with the exact solutions and variational iteration method.the results reveal that the rdtm is very effective, convenient and quite accurate to systems of nonlinearequations.

 ‎In this paper we study the existence of nontrivial‎ solutions for a variational inequality on the half-line‎. ‎Our‎ ‎approach is based on the non-smooth critical point theory‎ ‎for Szulkin-type functionals.

The aim of this article is to establish the existence of at least three‎ ‎solutions for a perturbed $p$-biharmonic equation depending on two‎ ‎real parameters‎. ‎The approach is based on variational methods‎.

This work introduces a Gaussian variational mean-field approximation for inference in dynamical systems which can be modeled by ordinary stochastic differential equations. This new approach allows one to express the variational free energy as a functional of the marginal moments of the approximating Gaussian process. A restriction of the moment equations to piecewise polynomial functions, over ...

In this paper, using a model transformation approach a system of linear delay differential equations (DDEs) with multiple delays is converted to a non-delayed initial value problem. The variational iteration method (VIM) is then applied to obtain the approximate analytical solutions. Numerical results are given for several examples involving scalar and second order systems. Comparisons with the...

Fractional differential equations have been of great interest recently. This is because of both the intensive development of the theory of fractional calculus itself and the applications of such constructions in various scientific fields such as physics, mechanics, chemistry, engineering, etc. Differential equations with impulsive effects arising from the real world describe the dyn...

this paper is devoted to the spectral theory (more precisely, tothe variational theory of the spectrum) of guided waves in anelastic half cylinder.  we use variational methods to investigateseveral aspects of propagating waves, including localization (seefigure 1), existence criteria and the formulas to find them. weapproach the problem using two complementary methods: thevariational methods fo...