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Quasi-analytical root-finding for non-polynomial functions
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Previous issue date: 2017-11-01Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo (FAPESP)A method is presented for the calculation of roots of non-polynomial functions, motivated by the requirement to generate quadrature rules based on non-polynomial orthogonal functions. The approach uses a combination of local Taylor expansions and Sturm’s theorem for roots of a polynomial which together give a means of efficiently generating estimates of zeros which can be polished using Newton’s method. The technique is tested on a number of realistic problems including some chosen to be highly oscillatory and to have large variations in amplitude, both of which features pose particular challenges to root–finding methods.Departamento de Matemática Aplicada UNESP–University Estadual PaulistaDepartment of Mechanical Engineering University of BathDepartamento de Matemática Aplicada UNESP–University Estadual PaulistaFAPESP: 2014/17357-1FAPESP: 2014/22571-
Rational approximation for solving an implicitly given Colebrook flow friction equation
The empirical logarithmic Colebrook equation for hydraulic resistance in pipes implicitly considers the unknown flow friction factor. Its explicit approximations, used to avoid iterative computations, should be accurate but also computationally efficient. We present a rational approximate procedure that completely avoids the use of transcendental functions, such as logarithm or non-integer power, which require execution of the additional number of floating-point operations in computer processor units. Instead of these, we use only rational expressions that are executed directly in the processor unit. The rational approximation was found using a combination of a Pade approximant and artificial intelligence (symbolic regression). Numerical experiments in Matlab using 2 million quasi-Monte Carlo samples indicate that the relative error of this new rational approximation does not exceed 0.866%. Moreover, these numerical experiments show that the novel rational approximation is approximately two times faster than the exact solution given by the Wright omega function.Web of Science81art. no. 2
An Analytical Study on the Multi-critical Behaviour and Related Bifurcation Phenomena for Relativistic Black Hole Accretion
We apply the theory of algebraic polynomials to analytically study the
transonic properties of general relativistic hydrodynamic axisymmetric
accretion onto non-rotating astrophysical black holes. For such accretion
phenomena, the conserved specific energy of the flow, which turns out to be one
of the two first integrals of motion in the system studied, can be expressed as
a 8 degree polynomial of the critical point of the flow configuration.
We then construct the corresponding Sturm's chain algorithm to calculate the
number of real roots lying within the astrophysically relevant domain of
. This allows, for the first time in literature, to {\it
analytically} find out the maximum number of physically acceptable solution an
accretion flow with certain geometric configuration, space-time metric, and
equation of state can have, and thus to investigate its multi-critical
properties {\it completely analytically}, for accretion flow in which the
location of the critical points can not be computed without taking recourse to
the numerical scheme. This work can further be generalized to analytically
calculate the maximal number of equilibrium points certain autonomous dynamical
system can have in general. We also demonstrate how the transition from a
mono-critical to multi-critical (or vice versa) flow configuration can be
realized through the saddle-centre bifurcation phenomena using certain
techniques of the catastrophe theory.Comment: 19 pages, 2 eps figures, to appear in "General Relativity and
Gravitation
Discontinuous Galerkin finite element approximation of quasilinear elliptic boundary value problems II: Strongly monotone quasi-Newtonian flows
In this article we develop both the a priori and a posteriori error analysis of hp–version interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin finite element methods for strongly monotone quasi-Newtonian fluid flows in a bounded Lipschitz domain = 2,3. In the latter case, computable upper and lower bounds on the error are derived in terms of a natural energy norm which are explicit in the local mesh size and local polynomial degree of the approximating finite element method. A series of numerical experiments illustrate the performance of the proposed a posteriori error indicators within an automatic hp–adaptive refinement algorithm
Polynomial Lie algebra methods in solving the second-harmonic generation model: some exact and approximate calculations
We compare exact and SU(2)-cluster approximate calculation schemes to
determine dynamics of the second-harmonic generation model using its
reformulation in terms of a polynomial Lie algebra and related
spectral representations of the model evolution operator realized in
algorithmic forms. It enabled us to implement computer experiments exhibiting a
satisfactory accuracy of the cluster approximations in a large range of
characteristic model parameters.Comment: LaTex file, 13 pages, 3 figure
Approximating the Permanent of a Random Matrix with Vanishing Mean
We show an algorithm for computing the permanent of a random matrix with
vanishing mean in quasi-polynomial time. Among special cases are the Gaussian,
and biased-Bernoulli random matrices with mean 1/lnln(n)^{1/8}. In addition, we
can compute the permanent of a random matrix with mean 1/poly(ln(n)) in time
2^{O(n^{\eps})} for any small constant \eps>0. Our algorithm counters the
intuition that the permanent is hard because of the "sign problem" - namely the
interference between entries of a matrix with different signs. A major open
question then remains whether one can provide an efficient algorithm for random
matrices of mean 1/poly(n), whose conjectured #P-hardness is one of the
baseline assumptions of the BosonSampling paradigm
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