The Cahn–Hilliard Equation: Recent Advances and Applications
The Cahn–Hilliard Equation: Recent Advances and Applications

Author: Alain Miranville

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2019-09-09

Total Pages: 231

ISBN-13: 1611975921

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This is the first book to present a detailed discussion of both classical and recent results on the popular Cahn–Hilliard equation and some of its variants. The focus is on mathematical analysis of Cahn–Hilliard models, with an emphasis on thermodynamically relevant logarithmic nonlinear terms, for which several questions are still open. Initially proposed in view of applications to materials science, the Cahn–Hilliard equation is now applied in many other areas, including image processing, biology, ecology, astronomy, and chemistry. In particular, the author addresses applications to image inpainting and tumor growth. Many chapters include open problems and directions for future research. The Cahn-Hilliard Equation: Recent Advances and Applications is intended for graduate students and researchers in applied mathematics, especially those interested in phase separation models and their generalizations and applications to other fields. Materials scientists also will find this text of interest.

Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications
Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications

Author: Tamas Terlaky

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2017-04-26

Total Pages: 730

ISBN-13: 1611974674

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Optimization is of critical importance in engineering. Engineers constantly strive for the best possible solutions, the most economical use of limited resources, and the greatest efficiency. As system complexity increases, these goals mandate the use of state-of-the-art optimization techniques. In recent years, the theory and methodology of optimization have seen revolutionary improvements. Moreover, the exponential growth in computational power, along with the availability of multicore computing with virtually unlimited memory and storage capacity, has fundamentally changed what engineers can do to optimize their designs. This is a two-way process: engineers benefit from developments in optimization methodology, and challenging new classes of optimization problems arise from novel engineering applications. Advances and Trends in Optimization with Engineering Applications reviews 10 major areas of optimization and related engineering applications, providing a broad summary of state-of-the-art optimization techniques most important to engineering practice. Each part provides a clear overview of a specific area and discusses a range of real-world problems. The book provides a solid foundation for engineers and mathematical optimizers alike who want to understand the importance of optimization methods to engineering and the capabilities of these methods.

Piecewise Affine Control: Continuous-Time, Sampled-Data, and Networked Systems
Piecewise Affine Control: Continuous-Time, Sampled-Data, and Networked Systems

Author: Luis Rodrigues

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2019-11-06

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1611975905

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Engineering systems operate through actuators, most of which will exhibit phenomena such as saturation or zones of no operation, commonly known as dead zones. These are examples of piecewise-affine characteristics, and they can have a considerable impact on the stability and performance of engineering systems. This book targets controller design for piecewise affine systems, fulfilling both stability and performance requirements. The authors present a unified computational methodology for the analysis and synthesis of piecewise affine controllers, taking an approach that is capable of handling sliding modes, sampled-data, and networked systems. They introduce algorithms that will be applicable to nonlinear systems approximated by piecewise affine systems, and they feature several examples from areas such as switching electronic circuits, autonomous vehicles, neural networks, and aerospace applications. Piecewise Affine Control: Continuous-Time, Sampled-Data, and Networked Systems is intended for graduate students, advanced senior undergraduate students, and researchers in academia and industry. It is also appropriate for engineers working on applications where switched linear and affine models are important.

Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Applications
Recent Advances in Scientific Computing and Applications

Author: Jichun Li

Publisher: American Mathematical Soc.

Published: 2013-04-24

Total Pages: 397

ISBN-13: 0821887378

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This volume contains the proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Scientific Computing and Applications, held April 1-4, 2012, at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. The papers in this volume cover topics such as finite element methods, multiscale methods, finite difference methods, spectral methods, collocation methods, adaptive methods, parallel computing, linear solvers, applications to fluid flow, nano-optics, biofilms, finance, magnetohydrodynamics flow, electromagnetic waves, the fluid-structure interaction problem, and stochastic PDEs. This book will serve as an excellent reference for graduate students and researchers interested in scientific computing and its applications.

Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs
Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs

Author: Per-Gunnar Martinsson

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2019-12-16

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 1611976049

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Fast solvers for elliptic PDEs form a pillar of scientific computing. They enable detailed and accurate simulations of electromagnetic fields, fluid flows, biochemical processes, and much more. This textbook provides an introduction to fast solvers from the point of view of integral equation formulations, which lead to unparalleled accuracy and speed in many applications. The focus is on fast algorithms for handling dense matrices that arise in the discretization of integral operators, such as the fast multipole method and fast direct solvers. While the emphasis is on techniques for dense matrices, the text also describes how similar techniques give rise to linear complexity algorithms for computing the inverse or the LU factorization of a sparse matrix resulting from the direct discretization of an elliptic PDE. This is the first textbook to detail the active field of fast direct solvers, introducing readers to modern linear algebraic techniques for accelerating computations, such as randomized algorithms, interpolative decompositions, and data-sparse hierarchical matrix representations. Written with an emphasis on mathematical intuition rather than theoretical details, it is richly illustrated and provides pseudocode for all key techniques. Fast Direct Solvers for Elliptic PDEs is appropriate for graduate students in applied mathematics and scientific computing, engineers and scientists looking for an accessible introduction to integral equation methods and fast solvers, and researchers in computational mathematics who want to quickly catch up on recent advances in randomized algorithms and techniques for working with data-sparse matrices.

Dissipative Phase Transitions
Dissipative Phase Transitions

Author: Pierluigi Colli

Publisher: World Scientific

Published: 2006-03-06

Total Pages: 321

ISBN-13: 9814478652

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Phase transition phenomena arise in a variety of relevant real world situations, such as melting and freezing in a solid-liquid system, evaporation, solid-solid phase transitions in shape memory alloys, combustion, crystal growth, damage in elastic materials, glass formation, phase transitions in polymers, and plasticity.The practical interest of such phenomenology is evident and has deeply influenced the technological development of our society, stimulating intense mathematical research in this area.This book analyzes and approximates some models and related partial differential equation problems that involve phase transitions in different contexts and include dissipation effects.

Inverse Scattering Theory and Transmission Eigenvalues
Inverse Scattering Theory and Transmission Eigenvalues

Author: Fioralba Cakoni

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2022-12-07

Total Pages: 259

ISBN-13: 1611977428

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Inverse scattering theory is a major theme in applied mathematics, with applications to such diverse areas as medical imaging, geophysical exploration, and nondestructive testing. The inverse scattering problem is both nonlinear and ill-posed, thus presenting challenges in the development of efficient inversion algorithms. A further complication is that anisotropic materials cannot be uniquely determined from given scattering data. In the first edition of Inverse Scattering Theory and Transmission Eigenvalues, the authors discussed methods for determining the support of inhomogeneous media from measured far field data and the role of transmission eigenvalue problems in the mathematical development of these methods. In this second edition, three new chapters describe recent developments in inverse scattering theory. In particular, the authors explore the use of modified background media in the nondestructive testing of materials and methods for determining the modified transmission eigenvalues that arise in such applications from measured far field data. They also examine nonscattering wave numbers—a subset of transmission eigenvalues—using techniques taken from the theory of free boundary value problems for elliptic partial differential equations and discuss the dualism of scattering poles and transmission eigenvalues that has led to new methods for the numerical computation of scattering poles. This book will be of interest to research mathematicians and engineers and physicists working on problems in target identification. It will also be useful to advanced graduate students in many areas of applied mathematics.

Time Parallel Time Integration
Time Parallel Time Integration

Author: Martin J. Gander

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2024-10-15

Total Pages: 273

ISBN-13: 1611978025

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Predicting the future is a difficult task but, as with the weather, it is possible with good models. But how does one predict the far future before the near future is known? Time parallel time integration, also known as PinT (Parallel-in-Time) methods, aims to predict the near and far future simultaneously. In this self-contained book, the first on the topic, readers will find a comprehensive and up-to-date description of methods and techniques that have been developed to do just this. The authors describe the four main classes of PinT methods: shooting-type methods, waveform relaxation methods, time parallel multigrid methods, and direct time parallel methods. In addition, they provide historical background for each of the method classes, complete convergence analyses for the most representative variants of the methods in each class, and illustrations and runnable MATLAB code. An ideal introduction to this exciting and very active research field, Time Parallel Time Integration can be used for independent study or for a graduate course.

Solving Problems in Multiply Connected Domains
Solving Problems in Multiply Connected Domains

Author: Darren Crowdy

Publisher: SIAM

Published: 2020-04-20

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1611976154

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Whenever two or more objects or entities—be they bubbles, vortices, black holes, magnets, colloidal particles, microorganisms, swimming bacteria, Brownian random walkers, airfoils, turbine blades, electrified drops, magnetized particles, dislocations, cracks, or heterogeneities in an elastic solid—interact in some ambient medium, they make holes in that medium. Such holey regions with interacting entities are called multiply connected. This book describes a novel mathematical framework for solving problems in two-dimensional, multiply connected regions. The framework is built on a central theoretical concept: the prime function, whose significance for the applied sciences, especially for solving problems in multiply connected domains, has been missed until recent work by the author. This monograph is a one-of-a-kind treatise on the prime function associated with multiply connected domains and how to use it in applications. The book contains many results familiar in the simply connected, or single-entity, case that are generalized naturally to any number of entities, in many instances for the first time. Solving Problems in Multiply Connected Domains is aimed at applied and pure mathematicians, engineers, physicists, and other natural scientists; the framework it describes finds application in a diverse array of contexts. The book provides a rich source of project material for undergraduate and graduate courses in the applied sciences and could serve as a complement to standard texts on advanced calculus, potential theory, partial differential equations and complex analysis, and as a supplement to texts on applied mathematical methods in engineering and science.