This paper provides a unified modeling framework for ferroelectric, ferromagnetic and ferroelastic materials operating in hysteretic and nonlinear regimes. Whereas the physical mechanisms which produce hysteresis and constitutive nonlinearities in these materials differ at the microscopic level, shared energy relations can be derived at the lattice, or mesoscopic, scale. This yields a class of ...

This paper addresses the development of homogenized energy models which characterize the ferroelastic switching mechanisms inherent to ferroelectric materials in a manner suitable for subsequent transducer and control design. In the first step of the development, we construct Helmholtz and Gibbs energy relations which quantify the potential and electrostatic energy associated with 90 and 180 di...

Various methods for treating nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions for the p-version of the finite element method are presented. These methods are theoretically and comrutationally analyzed. Numerical experimentations are given. They clearly illustrate the importance of the right treatment of the nonhomogeneous Dirichlet boundary conditions.

This paper investigates a nonlinear and non-homogeneous system of partial differential equations. The motivation comes from the fact that in a particular case the problem discussed here can be used in modeling the behavior of nonlinear Hencky-type materials. The main result of the paper establishes the existence of a nontrivial solution in an adequate functional space of Orlicz-Sobolev type by ...

* Correspondence: mathwy@hit. edu.cn Department of Mathematics, Harbin Institute of Technology, Harbin 150001, People’s Republic of China Abstract In this paper, we introduce the obstacle problem about the nonhomogeneous A-harmonic equation. Then, we prove the existence and uniqueness of solutions to the nonhomogeneous A-harmonic equation and the obstacle problem.

Under various weaker conditions, we establish various results on the existence and nonexistence of positive solutions for singular third-order nonhomogeneous boundary value problems with nonlocal boundary conditions. The arguments are based upon the fixed point theorem of cone expansion and compression. Finally, we give two examples to demonstrate our results. Key–Words: Positive solutions, Fix...

Recently, the concept lattices working with the heterogeneous structures have been fruitfully applied in a fuzzy formal concept analysis. We present a situation under nonhomogeneous formal contexts and explore the bonds in a such nonhomogeneous case. This issue requires to formulate the alternative definition of a bond and to investigate the relationships between bonds and the particular formal...