A boundary condition-implemented immersed boundary-lattice Boltzmann method (IB-LBM) is presented in this work. The present approach is an improvement to the conventional IB-LBM. In the conventional IB-LBM, the no-slip boundary condition is only approximately satisfied. As a result, there is flow penetration to the solid boundary. Another drawback of conventional IB-LBM is the use of Dirac delta function interpolation, which only has the first order of accuracy. In this work, the no-slip boundary condition is directly implemented, and used to correct the velocity at two adjacent mesh points from both sides of the boundary point. The velocity correction is made through the second-order polynomial interpolation rather than the first-order delta function interpolation. Obviously, the two drawbacks of conventional IB-LBM are removed in the present study. Another important contribution of this paper is to present a simple way to compute the hydrodynamic forces on the boundary from Newton’s second law. To validate the proposed method, the two-dimensional vortex decaying problem and incompressible flow over a circular cylinder are simulated. As shown in the present results, the flow penetration problem is eliminated, and the obtained results compare very well with available data in the literature.

For a class of renewal queueing processes characterized by a rational Laplace–Stieltjes transform of the arrival inter-occurrence time distribution, the Laplace–Stieltjes transform of the equilibrium (actual) waiting time distribution is re-expressed in a manner which facilitates explicit inversion under certain conditions. The results are of interest in other contexts as well, as for example in insurance ruin theory. Various analytic properties of these quantities are then obtained as a result.

We investigate mean convergence of Lagrange interpolation at the zeros of orthogonal polynomials pn(W2, x) for Erdös weights W2 = e-2Q. The archetypal example is Wk,α = exp(—Qk,α), where

α > 1, k ≥ 1, and is the k-th iterated exponential. Following is our main result: Let 1 < p < ∞, Δ ∊ ℝ, k > 0. Let Ln[f] denote the Lagrange interpolation polynomial to ƒ at the zeros of pn(W2, x) = pn(e-2Q, x). Then for

to hold for every continuous function ƒ: ℝ —> ℝ satisfying

it is necessary and sufficient that

We complete our investigations of mean convergence of Lagrange interpolation at the zeros of orthogonal polynomials pn(W2, x) for Erdős weights W2 = e-2Q. The archetypal example is Wk,α = exp(—Qk,α), where

α > 1, k ≥ 1, and is the k-th iterated exponential. Following is our main result: Let 1 < p < 4 and α ∊ ℝ Let Ln[f] denote the Lagrange interpolation polynomial to ƒ at the zeros of pn(W2, x) = pn(e-2Q, x). Then for

to hold for every continuous function ƒ:ℝ. —> ℝ satisfying

it is necessary and sufficient that α > 1/p. This is, essentially, an extension of the Erdös-Turan theorem on L2 convergence. In an earlier paper, we analyzed convergence for all p > 1, showing the necessity and sufficiency of using the weighting factor 1 + Q for all p > 4. Our proofs of convergence are based on converse quadrature sum estimates, that are established using methods of H. König.

Properties of the Lebesgue function associated with interpolation at the equidistant nodes , are investigated. In particular, it is proved that the relative maxima of the Lebesgue function are strictly decreasing from the outside towards the middle of the interval [0, n], and upper and lower bounds, and an asymptotic expansion, are obtained for the smallest maximum when n is odd.