{"title":"A new approach to integrable evolution equations on the circle.","authors":"A S Fokas, J Lenells","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0605","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0605","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We propose a new approach for the solution of initial value problems for integrable evolution equations in the periodic setting based on the unified transform. Using the nonlinear Schrödinger equation as a model example, we show that the solution of the initial value problem on the circle can be expressed in terms of the solution of a Riemann-Hilbert problem whose formulation involves quantities which are defined in terms of the initial data alone. Our approach provides an effective solution of the problem on the circle which is conceptually analogous to the solution of the problem on the line via the inverse scattering transform.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200605"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897634/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25407094","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Jianhai Bao, Christoph Reisinger, Panpan Ren, Wolfgang Stockinger
{"title":"First-order convergence of Milstein schemes for McKean-Vlasov equations and interacting particle systems.","authors":"Jianhai Bao, Christoph Reisinger, Panpan Ren, Wolfgang Stockinger","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0258","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0258","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we derive fully implementable first-order time-stepping schemes for McKean-Vlasov stochastic differential equations, allowing for a drift term with super-linear growth in the state component. We propose Milstein schemes for a time-discretized interacting particle system associated with the McKean-Vlasov equation and prove strong convergence of order 1 and moment stability, taming the drift if only a one-sided Lipschitz condition holds. To derive our main results on strong convergence rates, we make use of calculus on the space of probability measures with finite second-order moments. In addition, numerical examples are presented which support our theoretical findings.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200258"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897642/pdf/rspa20200258.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414294","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Cliff, L A Fullard, E C P Breard, J Dufek, C E Davies
{"title":"Granular size segregation in silos with and without inserts.","authors":"A Cliff, L A Fullard, E C P Breard, J Dufek, C E Davies","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0242","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0242","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The storage of granular materials is a critical process in industry, which has driven research into flow in silos. Varying material properties, such as particle size, can cause segregation of mixtures. This work seeks to elucidate the effects of size differences and determine how using a flow-correcting insert mitigates segregation during silo discharge. A rotating table was used to collect mustard seeds discharged from a three-dimensional (3D)-printed silo. This was loaded with bidisperse mixtures of varying proportions. A 3D-printed biconical insert was suspended near the hopper exit to assess its effect on the flow. Samples were analysed to determine the mass fractions of small particle species. The experiments without the insert resulted in patterns consistent with segregation. Introducing the insert into the silo eliminated the observed segregation during discharge. Discrete element method simulations of silo discharge were performed with and without the insert. These results mirrored the physical experiment and, when complimented with coarse graining analysis, explained the effect of the insert. Most of the segregation occurs at the grain-air free surface and is driven by large velocity gradients. In the silo with an insert, the velocity gradient at the free surface is greatly reduced, hence, so is the degree of segregation.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200242"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897646/pdf/rspa20200242.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414293","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Nonlinear viscoelasticity of strain rate type: an overview.","authors":"Yasemin Şengül","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0715","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0715","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are some materials in nature that experience deformations that are not elastic. Viscoelastic materials are some of them. We come across many such materials in our daily lives through a number of interesting applications in engineering, material science and medicine. This article concerns itself with modelling of the nonlinear response of a class of viscoelastic solids. In particular, nonlinear viscoelasticity of strain rate type, which can be described by a constitutive relation for the stress function depending not only on the strain but also on the strain rate, is considered. This particular case is not only favourable from a mathematical analysis point of view but also due to experimental observations, knowledge of the strain rate sensitivity of viscoelastic properties is crucial for accurate predictions of the mechanical behaviour of solids in different areas of applications. First, a brief introduction of some basic terminology and preliminaries, including kinematics, material frame-indifference and thermodynamics, is given. Then, considering the governing equations with constitutive relationships between the stress and the strain for the modelling of nonlinear viscoelasticity of strain rate type, the most general model of interest is obtained. Then, the long-term behaviour of solutions is discussed. Finally, some applications of the model are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200715"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897644/pdf/rspa20200715.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25407097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A super Degasperis-Procesi equation and related integrable systems.","authors":"Binfang Gao, Kai Tian, Qing Ping Liu","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0780","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Based on a 4 × 4 matrix spectral problem, a super Degasperis-Procesi (DP) equation is proposed. We show that under a reciprocal transformation, the super DP equation is related to the first negative flow of a super Kaup-Kupershmidt (KK) hierarchy, which turns out to be a particular reduction of a super Boussinesq hierarchy. The bi-Hamiltonian structure of the super Boussinesq hierarchy is established and subsequently produces a Hamiltonian structure, as well as a conjectured symplectic formulation of the super KK hierarchy via suitable reductions. With the help of the reciprocal transformation, the bi-Hamiltonian representation of the super DP equation is constructed from that of the super KK hierarchy. We also calculate a positive flow of the super DP hierarchy and explain its relations with the super KK equation. Infinitely many conservation laws are derived for the super DP equation, as well as its positive flow.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200780"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897630/pdf/rspa20200780.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Topological mode switching in modulated structures with dynamic encircling of an exceptional point.","authors":"Linlin Geng, Weixuan Zhang, Xiangdong Zhang, Xiaoming Zhou","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0766","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0766","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Exceptional points are special degeneracies occurring in non-Hermitian systems at which both eigenfrequencies and eigenmodes coalesce simultaneously. Fascinating phenomena, including topological, non-reciprocal and chiral energy transfer between normal modes, have been envisioned in optical and photonic systems with the exceptional point dynamically encircled in the parameter space. However, it has remained an open question of whether and how topological mode switching relying on exceptional points could be achieved in mechanical systems. The present paper studies a two-mode mechanical system with an exceptional point and implements the dynamic encircling of such a point using dynamic modulation mechanisms with time-driven elasticity and viscosity. Topological mode switching with robustness against the input state and loop trajectories has been demonstrated numerically. It is found that the dynamical encircling of an exceptional point with the starting point near the symmetric phase leads to chiral mode transfer controlled mainly by the encircling direction, while non-chiral dynamics is observed for the starting point near the broken phase. Analyses also show that minor energy input is required in the process of encircling the exceptional point, demonstrating the intrinsically motivated behaviour of topological mode switching.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200766"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897639/pdf/rspa20200766.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414762","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
B Delourme, E Lunéville, J-J Marigo, A Maurel, J-F Mercier, K Pham
{"title":"A stable, unified model for resonant Faraday cages.","authors":"B Delourme, E Lunéville, J-J Marigo, A Maurel, J-F Mercier, K Pham","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0668","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We study some effective transmission conditions able to reproduce the effect of a periodic array of Dirichlet wires on wave propagation, in particular when the array delimits an acoustic Faraday cage able to resonate. In the study of Hewett & Hewitt (2016 <i>Proc. R. Soc. A</i> <b>472</b>, 20160062 (doi:10.1098/rspa.2016.0062)) different transmission conditions emerge from the asymptotic analysis whose validity depends on the frequency, specifically the distance to a resonance frequency of the cage. In practice, dealing with such conditions is difficult, especially if the problem is set in the time domain. In the present study, we demonstrate the validity of a simpler <i>unified</i> model derived in Marigo & Maurel (2016 <i>Proc. R. Soc. A</i> <b>472</b>, 20160068 (doi:10.1098/rspa.2016.0068)), where <i>unified</i> means valid whatever the distance to the resonance frequencies. The effectiveness of the model is discussed in the harmonic regime owing to explicit solutions. It is also exemplified in the time domain, where a formulation guaranteeing the stability of the numerical scheme has been implemented.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200668"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897637/pdf/rspa20200668.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414759","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Numerical calculation of <i>N</i>-periodic wave solutions to coupled KdV-Toda-type equations.","authors":"Yingnan Zhang, Xingbiao Hu, Jianqing Sun","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0752","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0752","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this paper, we study the <i>N</i>-periodic wave solutions of coupled Korteweg-de Vries (KdV)-Toda-type equations. We present a numerical process to calculate the <i>N</i>-periodic waves based on the direct method of calculating periodic wave solutions proposed by Akira Nakamura. Particularly, in the case of <i>N</i> = 3, we give some detailed examples to show the <i>N</i>-periodic wave solutions to the coupled Ramani equation, the Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV equation, the coupled Ito equation, the Blaszak-Marciniak lattice, the semi-discrete KdV equation, the Leznov lattice and a relativistic Toda lattice.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200752"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897633/pdf/rspa20200752.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414761","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J Del Águila Ferrandis, M S Triantafyllou, C Chryssostomidis, G E Karniadakis
{"title":"Learning functionals via LSTM neural networks for predicting vessel dynamics in extreme sea states.","authors":"J Del Águila Ferrandis, M S Triantafyllou, C Chryssostomidis, G E Karniadakis","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2019.0897","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2019.0897","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Predicting motions of vessels in extreme sea states represents one of the most challenging problems in naval hydrodynamics. It involves computing complex nonlinear wave-body interactions, hence taxing heavily computational resources. Here, we put forward a new simulation paradigm by training recurrent type neural networks (RNNs) that take as input the stochastic wave elevation at a certain sea state and output the main vessel motions, e.g. pitch, heave and roll. We first compare the performance of standard RNNs versus GRU and LSTM neural networks (NNs) and show that LSTM NNs lead to the best performance. We then examine the testing error of two representative vessels, a catamaran in sea state 1 and a battleship in sea state 8. We demonstrate that good accuracy is achieved for both cases in predicting the vessel motions for unseen wave elevations. We train the NNs with expensive CFD simulations <i>offline</i>, but upon training, the prediction of the vessel dynamics <i>online</i> can be obtained at a fraction of a second. This work is motivated by the universal approximation theorem for functionals (Chen & Chen, 1993. <i>IEEE Trans. Neural Netw.</i> <b>4</b>, 910-918 (doi:10.1109/72.286886)), and it is the first implementation of such theory to realistic engineering problems.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20190897"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897645/pdf/rspa20190897.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414292","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Emanuele Crosato, Mikhail Prokopenko, Michael S Harré
{"title":"The Polycentric Dynamics of Melbourne and Sydney: suburb attractiveness divides a city at the home ownership level.","authors":"Emanuele Crosato, Mikhail Prokopenko, Michael S Harré","doi":"10.1098/rspa.2020.0514","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1098/rspa.2020.0514","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Urban dynamics in large metropolitan areas result from complex interactions across social, economic and political factors, including population distribution, flows of wealth and infrastructure requirements. We develop a Census-calibrated model of urban dynamics for the Greater Sydney and Melbourne areas for 2011 and 2016, highlighting the evolution of population distributions and the housing market structure in these two cities in terms of their mortgage and rent distributions. We show that there is a tendency to homophily between renters and mortgage holders: renters tend to cluster nearer commercial centres, whereas mortgagors tend to populate the outskirts of these centres. We also identify a critical threshold at which the long-term evolution of these two cities will bifurcate between a 'sprawling' and a 'polycentric' configuration, showing that both cities lie on the polycentric side of the critical point in the long-run. Importantly, there is a divergence of these centric tendencies between the renters and mortgage holders. The polycentric patterns characterizing the mortgagors are focused around commercial centres, and we show that the emergent housing patterns follow the major transport routes through the cities.</p>","PeriodicalId":520758,"journal":{"name":"Proceedings. Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences","volume":" ","pages":"20200514"},"PeriodicalIF":3.5,"publicationDate":"2021-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7897640/pdf/rspa20200514.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25414758","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}