A nonlinear chattering-free sliding mode control method is designed to stabilize fractional chaotic systems with model uncertainties and external disturbances. The main feature of this controller is rapid convergence to equilibrium point, minimize chattering and resistance against uncertainties. The frequency distributed model is used to prove the stability of the controlled system based on dir...

A novel method for the calculation of the free energy difference between two states of a molecular system is presented. The method, an extension of thermodynamic integration, treats the coupling parameter k as a variable in an extended Hamiltonian formulation and propagates it with the physical coordinates. In the resulting generalized ensemble, the crossing of barriers in the physical space is...

‎In this paper‎, ‎we present a new modification of Chebyshev-Halley‎ ‎method‎, ‎free from second derivatives‎, ‎to solve nonlinear equations‎. ‎The convergence analysis shows that our modification is third-order‎ ‎convergent‎. ‎Every iteration of this method requires one function and‎ ‎two first derivative evaluations‎. ‎So‎, ‎its efficiency index is‎ ‎$3^{1/3}=1.442$ that is better than that o...

Using a weak convergence approach, we prove a LPD for the solution of 2D stochastic Navier Stokes equations when the viscosity converges to 0 and the noise intensity is multiplied by the square root of the viscosity. Unlike previous results on LDP for hydrodynamical models, the weak convergence is proven by tightness properties of the distribution of the solution in appropriate functional spaces.

The Binding Energy Distribution Analysis Method (BEDAM) is employed to compute the standard binding free energies of a series of ligands to a FK506 binding protein (FKBP12) with implicit solvation. Binding free energy estimates are in reasonably good agreement with experimental affinities. The conformations of the complexes identified by the simulations are in good agreement with crystallograph...

We show that, for sequences of vectors of multiple Wigner integrals with respect to a free Brownian motion, componentwise convergence to semicircular is equivalent to joint convergence. This result extends to the free probability setting some findings by Peccati and Tudor (2005), and represents a multidimensional counterpart of a limit theorem inside the free Wigner chaos established by Kemp, N...

We investigate the rate of convergence to equilibrium for subcritical solutions to the Becker-Döring equations with physically relevant coagulation and fragmentation coefficients and mild assumptions on the given initial data. Using a discrete version of the log-Sobolev inequality with weights we show that in the case where the coagulation coefficient grows linearly and the detailed balance coe...