In this paper, the method of fundamental solutions (MFS) for solving the eigenfrequencies of multiply connected plates is proposed. The coefficients of influence matrices are easily determined when the fundamental solution is known. True and spurious eigensolutions appear at the same time. It is found that the spurious eigensolution using the MFS depends on the location of the inner boundary wh...

By considering a constraint on the energy profile, a new implicit approach is developed to solve nonlinear eigensolution problems. A corresponding minimax method is modified to numerically find eigensolutions in the order of their eigenvalues to a class of semilinear elliptic eigensolution problems from nonlinear optics and other nonlinear dispersive/diffusion systems. It turns out that the con...

The characterization of energy dissipation or damping in rotor dynamic model is of fundamental importance. Noise and vibration are not only uncomfortable to the users, but also may lead to fatigue, fracture and even failure. During the design process of asymmetric damped systems, it is often required to make changes in the design variables such that the design is optimal. This paper is aimed at...

We present a detailed study of spatially propagating waves in a discontinuous Galerkin scheme applied to a system of linear hyperbolic equations. We start with an eigensolution analysis of the semi-discrete system in one space dimension with uniform grids. It is found that, for any given order of the basis functions, there are at most two spatially propagating numerical wave modes for each phys...

The dynamic behavior of structural systems may be strongly characterized by the occurrence of multiple internal resonances for particular combinations of the mechanical parameters. The linear models governing these resonant or nearly-resonant systems tend to exhibit high sensitivity of the eigenvalues and eigenvectors to small parameter modifications. This pathological condition is recognized a...

Numerical issues arising in computations of viscous flows in corners formed by a liquidfluid free surface and a solid boundary are considered. It is shown that on the solid a Dirichlet boundary condition, which removes multivaluedness of velocity in the ‘moving contact-line problem’ and gives rise to a logarithmic singularity of pressure, requires a certain modification of the standard finite-e...

this paper presents a mathematical model for the vibration analysis of a three-component piezoelectric force sensor. the cubic theory of weakly nonlinear electroelasticity is applied to the model for describing the electromechanical coupling effect in the piezoelectric sensing elements which operate in thickness-shear and thickness-stretch vibration modes. hamilton's principle is used to d...