A Radau pseudospectral method is derived for solving state-inequality path constrained optimal control problems. The continuous-time state-inequality path constrained optimal control problem is modified by applying a set of tangency conditions at the entrance of the activity of the path constraint. It is shown that the first-order optimality condition of the nonlinear programming problem associ...

When finite-difference methods are used to solve the elastic wave equation in a discontinuous medium, the error has two dominant components. Dispersive errors lead to artificial wave trains. Errors from interfaces lead to circular wavefronts emanating from each location where the interface appears *‘jagged” to the rectangular grid. The pseudospectral method can be viewed as the limit of finite ...

An aircraft/engine integrated optimal control method is proposed for turbine-based combined cycle (TBCC) engines based on the Gauss pseudospectral method. The flight trajectory and TBCC law are obtained a TBCC-powered aircraft, “thrust trap” that occurs during turbo-ramjet mode transition further analyzed suppressed. Results show aircraft goes through phase using “climb-dive” trajectory, which ...

An orthogonal system of rational functions is introduced. Some results on rational approximations based on various orthogonal projections and interpolations are established. These results form the mathematical foundation of the related spectral method and pseudospectral method for solving differential equations on the half line. The error estimates of the rational spectral method and rational p...

We consider the numerical solution of nonlinear, dissipative partial differential equations using a pseudospectral method and the methodology of approximate inertial manifolds. Coarse and fine grids are employed, with a nonlinear mapping to relate the solutions computed on these grids. The approach is illustrated by consideration of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation subject to periodic solution...

In this article we study the solvability of some boundary value problems for inhomogenous biharmobic equations. As a boundary operator we consider the differentiation operator of fractional order in the Miller-Ross sense. This problem is a generalization of the well known Neumann problems.