In this work,we demonstrate that the existence of an Z-shaped connected component within the set of positive solutions for the one-dimensional prescribed mean curvature equation in Minkowski space■with boundary condi...In this work,we demonstrate that the existence of an Z-shaped connected component within the set of positive solutions for the one-dimensional prescribed mean curvature equation in Minkowski space■with boundary conditions having parameter in two cases f(O)=0 and f(0)>0 by using upper and lower solution method,where λ>0 is a parameter,f∈C^(2)([0,∞),R)is monotonically increasing and lim_(μ→1)^(f(u)/1-u=0,h∈C^(1)([0,1],(0,∞))is a nonincreasing function and h(t)>1.展开更多
By combining the results of laboratory model tests with relevant flow rules, the failure mode of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnels and the corresponding velocity field were established. According to the principle ...By combining the results of laboratory model tests with relevant flow rules, the failure mode of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnels and the corresponding velocity field were established. According to the principle of virtual power, the upper bound solution for surrounding rock pressure of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnel was derived and verified by an example. The results indicate that the calculated results of the derived upper bound method for surrounding rock pressure of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnels are relatively close to those of the existing "code method" and test results, which means that the proposed method is feasible. The current code method underestimates the unsymmetrical loading feature of surrounding rock pressure of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnels, so it is unsafe; when the burial depth is less or greater than two times of the tunnel span and the unsymmetrical loading angle is less than 45°, the upper bound method or the average value of the results calculated by the upper bound method and code method respectively, is comparatively reasonable. When the burial depth is greater than two times of the tunnel span and the unsymmetrical loading angle is greater than 45°, the code method is more suitable.展开更多
The investigation of supporting pressure is of great significance to the design of underground structures.Based on the kinematical approach of limit analysis,an improved failure mechanism is proposed,and the supportin...The investigation of supporting pressure is of great significance to the design of underground structures.Based on the kinematical approach of limit analysis,an improved failure mechanism is proposed,and the supporting pressure is investigated for deep buried cavity.Three failure mechanisms are first introduced according to the existing failure mechanisms of geotechnical structures of limit analysis.A comparison with respect to the optimal failure mechanisms and the upper bound solutions provided among these three mechanisms are then conducted in an attempt to obtain the improved failure mechanism.The results provided by the improved failure mechanism are in good agreement with those by the existing method,the numerical solution and field monitoring,which demonstrates that the proposed failure mechanism is effective for the upper bound analysis of supporting pressure.展开更多
Near-infrared light(NIR)triggered transdermal drug delivery systems are of great interest due to their on-demand drug release,which enable to enhance drug treatment efficiency as well as reduce side effect.Herein,a NI...Near-infrared light(NIR)triggered transdermal drug delivery systems are of great interest due to their on-demand drug release,which enable to enhance drug treatment efficiency as well as reduce side effect.Herein,a NIR-triggered microneedle(MN)patch array has been fabricated through depositing the photothermal conversion agent and anti-diabetic drug-loaded polymer vesicles with upper critical solution temperature(UCST)into dissolvable polymer matrix.The UCST-type polymer has a clearing point temperature of 41℃ and the drug-loaded polymer vesicles present excellent NIR-triggered and temperature responsive drug release behavior in vitro due to the disassociation of polymer vesicles upon NIR irradiation.After applying MNs to diabetic rats,significant hypoglycemic effect is achieved upon interval NIR irradiation and the blood glucose concentration can decrease to normal state for several hours,which enables to achieve the goal of on-demand drug release.This work suggests that the NIR-triggered MN drug release device has a potential application in the treatment of diabetes,especially for those requiring an active drug release manner.展开更多
Suction caisson foundation derives most of their uplift resistance from passive suction developed during the pullout movement. It was observed that the passive suction generated in soil at the bottom of the caisson an...Suction caisson foundation derives most of their uplift resistance from passive suction developed during the pullout movement. It was observed that the passive suction generated in soil at the bottom of the caisson and the failure mode of suction caisson foundation subjecting pullout loading behaves as a reverse compression failure mechanism.The upper bound theorems have been proved to be a powerful method to find the critical failure mechanism and critical load associated with foundations, buried caissons and other geotechnical structures. However, limited attempts have been reported to estimate the uplift bearing capacity of the suction caisson foundation using the upper bound solution. In this paper, both reverse failure mechanisms from Prandtl and Hill were adopted as the failure mechanisms for the computation of the uplift bearing capacity of the suction caisson. New equations were proposed based on both failure mechanisms to estimate the pullout capacity of the suction caisson. The proposed equations were verified by the test results and experimental data from published literature. And the two solutions agree reasonably well with the other test results. It can be proved that both failure mechanisms are reasonably and more consistent with the actual force condition.展开更多
This paper presents new existence results for singular discrete boundary value problems. In particular our nonlinearity may be singular in its dependent variable and is allowed to change sign.
In this paper, we establish the existence of upper and lower solutions for a periodic boundary value problems (PBVP for short) of impulsive differential equations. which guarantees the existence of at least one soluti...In this paper, we establish the existence of upper and lower solutions for a periodic boundary value problems (PBVP for short) of impulsive differential equations. which guarantees the existence of at least one solution for the problem. As an application, these results are applied to PBVP of ODE and some examples are given to illustrate our results.展开更多
A kinematically admissible velocity field which is different from Avitzur's is established in Cartesian Coordinates. An upper-bound analytical solution to strip drawing andextrusion is obtained by using the integr...A kinematically admissible velocity field which is different from Avitzur's is established in Cartesian Coordinates. An upper-bound analytical solution to strip drawing andextrusion is obtained by using the integral as a function of the upper limit in this paper.展开更多
The existence of solutions for singular nonlinear two point boundary value problems subject to Sturm Liouville boundary conditions with p Laplacian operators is studied by the method of upper and lower solution...The existence of solutions for singular nonlinear two point boundary value problems subject to Sturm Liouville boundary conditions with p Laplacian operators is studied by the method of upper and lower solutions. The proof is based on an application of Schauder’s fixed point theorem to a modified problem whose solutions are that of the original one. At the same time, Arzela Ascoli theorem is used to prove that the defined operator N is a compact map.展开更多
We mainly study the existence of positive solutions for the following third order singular multi-point boundary value problem{x^（3）（t） ＋ f（t, x（t）, x′（t）） = 0, 0 〈 t 〈 1,x（0）-∑i=1^m1 αi x（ξi） = 0...We mainly study the existence of positive solutions for the following third order singular multi-point boundary value problem{x^（3）（t） ＋ f（t, x（t）, x′（t）） = 0, 0 〈 t 〈 1,x（0）-∑i=1^m1 αi x（ξi） = 0, x′（0）-∑i=1^m2 βi x′（ηi） = 0, x′（1）=0,where 0 ≤ ai≤∑i=1^m1 αi 〈 1, i = 1, 2, ···, m1, 0 〈 ξ1〈 ξ2〈 ··· 〈 ξm1〈 1, 0 ≤βj≤∑i^m2=1βi〈1,J=1,2, ···, m2, 0 〈 η1〈 η2〈 ··· 〈 ηm2〈 1. And we obtain some necessa βi 〈=11, j = 1,ry and sufficient conditions for the existence of C^1[0, 1] and C^2[0, 1] positive solutions by constructing lower and upper solutions and by using the comparison theorem. Our nonlinearity f（t, x, y）may be singular at x, y, t = 0 and/or t = 1.展开更多
A class of singularly perturbed boundary value problems for semilinear equations of fourth order with two parameters are considered. Under suitable conditions, using the method of lower and upper solutions, the existe...A class of singularly perturbed boundary value problems for semilinear equations of fourth order with two parameters are considered. Under suitable conditions, using the method of lower and upper solutions, the existence and the asymptotic behavior of the solution to the boundary value problem are studied, In the present paper, the solution to the original singularly perturbed problem with two parameters has only one boundary layer.展开更多
This paper is to investigate the positive solutions of the systems of second-order ordinary differential equations with nonhomogeneous multi-point boundary conditions. By the lower and upper solutions method, Schauder...This paper is to investigate the positive solutions of the systems of second-order ordinary differential equations with nonhomogeneous multi-point boundary conditions. By the lower and upper solutions method, Schauder fixed point theorem and fixed point index theory, under certain conditions, it is proved that there exist appropriate regions of parameters in which the problem has at least two, at least one or no positive solution.展开更多
This paper is concerned with the following n-th ordinary differential equation:{u～(n)(t)=f(t,u(t),u～(1)(t),···,u～(n-1) (t)),for t∈(0,1),u～(i) (0)=0,0 ≤i≤n3,au～(n-2)(0)du～(n-1)(0)=0,cu～(n-2)(1)...This paper is concerned with the following n-th ordinary differential equation:{u～(n)(t)=f(t,u(t),u～(1)(t),···,u～(n-1) (t)),for t∈(0,1),u～(i) (0)=0,0 ≤i≤n3,au～(n-2)(0)du～(n-1)(0)=0,cu～(n-2)(1)+du～(n-1)(1)=0,where a,c ∈ R,,≥,such that a～2 + b～2 >0 and c～2+d～2>0,n ≥ 2,f:[0,1] × R → R is a continuous function.Assume that f satisfies one-sided Nagumo condition,the existence theorems of solutions of the boundary value problem for the n-th-order nonlinear differential equations above are established by using Leray-Schauder degree theory,lower and upper solutions,a priori estimate technique.展开更多
This paper is concerned with a class of degenerate and nondegenerate stable diffusion models.By using the upper and lower solution method and Schauder fixed point principle,the author studies the existence of positive...This paper is concerned with a class of degenerate and nondegenerate stable diffusion models.By using the upper and lower solution method and Schauder fixed point principle,the author studies the existence of positive solutions for these stable_diffusion models under some conditions.展开更多
An analysis of tunnel face stability generally assumes a single homogeneous rock mass.However,most rock tunnel projects are excavated in stratified rock masses.This paper presents a two-dimensional(2D)analytical model...An analysis of tunnel face stability generally assumes a single homogeneous rock mass.However,most rock tunnel projects are excavated in stratified rock masses.This paper presents a two-dimensional(2D)analytical model for estimating the face stability of a rock tunnel in the presence of rock mass stratification.The model uses the kinematical limit analysis approach combined with the block calculation technique.A virtual support force is applied to the tunnel face,and then solved using an optimization method based on the upper limit theorem of limit analysis and the nonlinear Hoek-Brown yield criterion.Several design charts are provided to analyze the effects of rock layer thickness on tunnel face stability,tunnel diameter,the arrangement sequence of weak and strong rock layers,and the variation in rock layer parameters at different positions.The results indicate that the thickness of the rock layer,tunnel diameter,and arrangement sequence of weak and strong rock layers significantly affect the tunnel face stability.Variations in the parameters of the lower layer of the tunnel face have a greater effect on tunnel stability than those of the upper layer.展开更多
In this article, the existence and uniqueness of positive solution for a class of nonlinear fractional differential equations is proved by constructing the upper and lower control functions of the nonlinear term witho...In this article, the existence and uniqueness of positive solution for a class of nonlinear fractional differential equations is proved by constructing the upper and lower control functions of the nonlinear term without any monotone requirement. Our main method to the problem is the method of upper and lower solutions and Schauder fixed point theorem. Finally, we give an example to illuminate our results.展开更多
The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability and asymptotic behavior of the time-dependent solutions to a linear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition in relation to their corresponding ste...The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability and asymptotic behavior of the time-dependent solutions to a linear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition in relation to their corresponding steady state solutions. Then, the above results are extended to a semilinear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition by analyzing the corresponding eigenvalue problem and using the method of upper and lower solutions.展开更多
In this paper, we consider the existence of multiple positive solutions of discrete boundary value problem. The theory of fixed point index is used here to derive the existence theorem.
The singularly perturbed initial value problem for a nonlinear singular equation is considered. By using a simple and special method the asymptotic behavior of solution is studied.
In this paper,using the existence and comparison result for the quasi-monotone increasing system developed by C V Pao,the upper and lower solutions principle and an iterative method,we investigate the existence of the...In this paper,using the existence and comparison result for the quasi-monotone increasing system developed by C V Pao,the upper and lower solutions principle and an iterative method,we investigate the existence of the positive solutions of the Volterra-Lotka cooperating model.展开更多
基金Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(12361040)。
文摘In this work,we demonstrate that the existence of an Z-shaped connected component within the set of positive solutions for the one-dimensional prescribed mean curvature equation in Minkowski space■with boundary conditions having parameter in two cases f(O)=0 and f(0)>0 by using upper and lower solution method,where λ>0 is a parameter,f∈C^(2)([0,∞),R)is monotonically increasing and lim_(μ→1)^(f(u)/1-u=0,h∈C^(1)([0,1],(0,∞))is a nonincreasing function and h(t)>1.
基金Project(2014M560652)supported by China Postdoctoral Science FoundationProjects(2011CB013802,2013CB036004)supported by the National Basic Research Program of China
文摘By combining the results of laboratory model tests with relevant flow rules, the failure mode of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnels and the corresponding velocity field were established. According to the principle of virtual power, the upper bound solution for surrounding rock pressure of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnel was derived and verified by an example. The results indicate that the calculated results of the derived upper bound method for surrounding rock pressure of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnels are relatively close to those of the existing "code method" and test results, which means that the proposed method is feasible. The current code method underestimates the unsymmetrical loading feature of surrounding rock pressure of shallow unsymmetrical loading tunnels, so it is unsafe; when the burial depth is less or greater than two times of the tunnel span and the unsymmetrical loading angle is less than 45°, the upper bound method or the average value of the results calculated by the upper bound method and code method respectively, is comparatively reasonable. When the burial depth is greater than two times of the tunnel span and the unsymmetrical loading angle is greater than 45°, the code method is more suitable.
基金Project(51674115)supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(51434006)supported by the Key Program of the National Natural Science Foundation of ChinaProject(2015JJ4024)supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province,China
文摘The investigation of supporting pressure is of great significance to the design of underground structures.Based on the kinematical approach of limit analysis,an improved failure mechanism is proposed,and the supporting pressure is investigated for deep buried cavity.Three failure mechanisms are first introduced according to the existing failure mechanisms of geotechnical structures of limit analysis.A comparison with respect to the optimal failure mechanisms and the upper bound solutions provided among these three mechanisms are then conducted in an attempt to obtain the improved failure mechanism.The results provided by the improved failure mechanism are in good agreement with those by the existing method,the numerical solution and field monitoring,which demonstrates that the proposed failure mechanism is effective for the upper bound analysis of supporting pressure.
基金financially supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province(No.LY20E030005)the Opening Project of Jiangxi Province Key Laboratory of Polymer Micro/Nano Manufacturing and Devices(No.PMND201905)。
文摘Near-infrared light(NIR)triggered transdermal drug delivery systems are of great interest due to their on-demand drug release,which enable to enhance drug treatment efficiency as well as reduce side effect.Herein,a NIR-triggered microneedle(MN)patch array has been fabricated through depositing the photothermal conversion agent and anti-diabetic drug-loaded polymer vesicles with upper critical solution temperature(UCST)into dissolvable polymer matrix.The UCST-type polymer has a clearing point temperature of 41℃ and the drug-loaded polymer vesicles present excellent NIR-triggered and temperature responsive drug release behavior in vitro due to the disassociation of polymer vesicles upon NIR irradiation.After applying MNs to diabetic rats,significant hypoglycemic effect is achieved upon interval NIR irradiation and the blood glucose concentration can decrease to normal state for several hours,which enables to achieve the goal of on-demand drug release.This work suggests that the NIR-triggered MN drug release device has a potential application in the treatment of diabetes,especially for those requiring an active drug release manner.
基金financially supported by the National Key Research and Development Program(Grant No.2017YFC0703408)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.51678145 and 51878160)
文摘Suction caisson foundation derives most of their uplift resistance from passive suction developed during the pullout movement. It was observed that the passive suction generated in soil at the bottom of the caisson and the failure mode of suction caisson foundation subjecting pullout loading behaves as a reverse compression failure mechanism.The upper bound theorems have been proved to be a powerful method to find the critical failure mechanism and critical load associated with foundations, buried caissons and other geotechnical structures. However, limited attempts have been reported to estimate the uplift bearing capacity of the suction caisson foundation using the upper bound solution. In this paper, both reverse failure mechanisms from Prandtl and Hill were adopted as the failure mechanisms for the computation of the uplift bearing capacity of the suction caisson. New equations were proposed based on both failure mechanisms to estimate the pullout capacity of the suction caisson. The proposed equations were verified by the test results and experimental data from published literature. And the two solutions agree reasonably well with the other test results. It can be proved that both failure mechanisms are reasonably and more consistent with the actual force condition.
文摘This paper presents new existence results for singular discrete boundary value problems. In particular our nonlinearity may be singular in its dependent variable and is allowed to change sign.
文摘In this paper, we establish the existence of upper and lower solutions for a periodic boundary value problems (PBVP for short) of impulsive differential equations. which guarantees the existence of at least one solution for the problem. As an application, these results are applied to PBVP of ODE and some examples are given to illustrate our results.
文摘A kinematically admissible velocity field which is different from Avitzur's is established in Cartesian Coordinates. An upper-bound analytical solution to strip drawing andextrusion is obtained by using the integral as a function of the upper limit in this paper.
文摘The existence of solutions for singular nonlinear two point boundary value problems subject to Sturm Liouville boundary conditions with p Laplacian operators is studied by the method of upper and lower solutions. The proof is based on an application of Schauder’s fixed point theorem to a modified problem whose solutions are that of the original one. At the same time, Arzela Ascoli theorem is used to prove that the defined operator N is a compact map.
基金supported by the National Science Foundation of Shandong Province(ZR2009AM004)
文摘We mainly study the existence of positive solutions for the following third order singular multi-point boundary value problem{x^（3）（t） ＋ f（t, x（t）, x′（t）） = 0, 0 〈 t 〈 1,x（0）-∑i=1^m1 αi x（ξi） = 0, x′（0）-∑i=1^m2 βi x′（ηi） = 0, x′（1）=0,where 0 ≤ ai≤∑i=1^m1 αi 〈 1, i = 1, 2, ···, m1, 0 〈 ξ1〈 ξ2〈 ··· 〈 ξm1〈 1, 0 ≤βj≤∑i^m2=1βi〈1,J=1,2, ···, m2, 0 〈 η1〈 η2〈 ··· 〈 ηm2〈 1. And we obtain some necessa βi 〈=11, j = 1,ry and sufficient conditions for the existence of C^1[0, 1] and C^2[0, 1] positive solutions by constructing lower and upper solutions and by using the comparison theorem. Our nonlinearity f（t, x, y）may be singular at x, y, t = 0 and/or t = 1.
基金supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Nos.40676016 and 40876010)the Knowledge Innovation Program of Chinese Academy of Sciences (No.KZCX2-YW-Q03-08)the LASG State Key Laboratory Special Fund,and the E-Institute of Shanghai Municipal Education Commission (No.E03004)
文摘A class of singularly perturbed boundary value problems for semilinear equations of fourth order with two parameters are considered. Under suitable conditions, using the method of lower and upper solutions, the existence and the asymptotic behavior of the solution to the boundary value problem are studied, In the present paper, the solution to the original singularly perturbed problem with two parameters has only one boundary layer.
文摘This paper is to investigate the positive solutions of the systems of second-order ordinary differential equations with nonhomogeneous multi-point boundary conditions. By the lower and upper solutions method, Schauder fixed point theorem and fixed point index theory, under certain conditions, it is proved that there exist appropriate regions of parameters in which the problem has at least two, at least one or no positive solution.
文摘This paper is concerned with the following n-th ordinary differential equation:{u～(n)(t)=f(t,u(t),u～(1)(t),···,u～(n-1) (t)),for t∈(0,1),u～(i) (0)=0,0 ≤i≤n3,au～(n-2)(0)du～(n-1)(0)=0,cu～(n-2)(1)+du～(n-1)(1)=0,where a,c ∈ R,,≥,such that a～2 + b～2 >0 and c～2+d～2>0,n ≥ 2,f:[0,1] × R → R is a continuous function.Assume that f satisfies one-sided Nagumo condition,the existence theorems of solutions of the boundary value problem for the n-th-order nonlinear differential equations above are established by using Leray-Schauder degree theory,lower and upper solutions,a priori estimate technique.
文摘This paper is concerned with a class of degenerate and nondegenerate stable diffusion models.By using the upper and lower solution method and Schauder fixed point principle,the author studies the existence of positive solutions for these stable_diffusion models under some conditions.
基金supported by the Key Innovation Team Program of Innovation Talents Promotion Plan by MOST of China(Grant No.2016RA4059)the Science and Technology Project of Yunnan Provincial Transportation Department(No.25 of 2018)。
文摘An analysis of tunnel face stability generally assumes a single homogeneous rock mass.However,most rock tunnel projects are excavated in stratified rock masses.This paper presents a two-dimensional(2D)analytical model for estimating the face stability of a rock tunnel in the presence of rock mass stratification.The model uses the kinematical limit analysis approach combined with the block calculation technique.A virtual support force is applied to the tunnel face,and then solved using an optimization method based on the upper limit theorem of limit analysis and the nonlinear Hoek-Brown yield criterion.Several design charts are provided to analyze the effects of rock layer thickness on tunnel face stability,tunnel diameter,the arrangement sequence of weak and strong rock layers,and the variation in rock layer parameters at different positions.The results indicate that the thickness of the rock layer,tunnel diameter,and arrangement sequence of weak and strong rock layers significantly affect the tunnel face stability.Variations in the parameters of the lower layer of the tunnel face have a greater effect on tunnel stability than those of the upper layer.
基金supported by Science and Technology Project of Chongqing Municipal Education Committee (kJ110501) of ChinaNatural Science Foundation Project of CQ CSTC (cstc2012jjA20016) of ChinaNational Natural Science Foundation of China (11101298)
文摘In this article, the existence and uniqueness of positive solution for a class of nonlinear fractional differential equations is proved by constructing the upper and lower control functions of the nonlinear term without any monotone requirement. Our main method to the problem is the method of upper and lower solutions and Schauder fixed point theorem. Finally, we give an example to illuminate our results.
基金The project is supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China (10071026)
文摘The purpose of this paper is to investigate the stability and asymptotic behavior of the time-dependent solutions to a linear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition in relation to their corresponding steady state solutions. Then, the above results are extended to a semilinear parabolic equation with nonlinear boundary condition by analyzing the corresponding eigenvalue problem and using the method of upper and lower solutions.
文摘In this paper, we consider the existence of multiple positive solutions of discrete boundary value problem. The theory of fixed point index is used here to derive the existence theorem.
基金Supported by Important Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China( 90 2 1 1 0 0 4 ) andby the"Hundred Talents Project" of Chinese Academy of Science
文摘The singularly perturbed initial value problem for a nonlinear singular equation is considered. By using a simple and special method the asymptotic behavior of solution is studied.
文摘In this paper,using the existence and comparison result for the quasi-monotone increasing system developed by C V Pao,the upper and lower solutions principle and an iterative method,we investigate the existence of the positive solutions of the Volterra-Lotka cooperating model.
