Fourier and Laplace Transformations

An alternative way of modelling an unknown function is to write it as a linear combination of a set of known functions, often called a basis set. The basis functions may or may not be orthogonal. 

This corresponds to describing the function/in an M-dimensional space of the basis functions x- For a fixed basis set size M, only the components of/that lie within this space can be described, and/is therefore approximated. As the size of the basis set M is increased, the approximation becomes better since more and more components of / can be described. If the basis set has the property of being complete, the function / can be described to any desired accuracy, provided that a sufficient number of functions are included. The expansion coefficients C are often determined either by variational or perturbational methods. For the expansion of the molecular orbitals in a Flartree-Fock wave function, for example, the coefficients are determined by requiring the total energy to be a minimum. 

The basis set expansion can be illustrated by using polynomials as basis functions for reproducing the Morse potential in eq. (16.94), i.e. the approximating function is given by eq. (16.96). 

The fitting coefficients a, can be determined by requiring that the integrated difference in a certain range a,b is a minimum. 

Transforming functions between different coordinate systems can often simplify the description. In some cases, it may also be advantageous to switch between different representations of a function. A function in real space, for example, can be transformed into a reciprocal space, where the coordinate axes have units of inverse length. 

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The traditional way is to measure the impedance curve, Z(co), point-after-point, i.e., by measuring the response to each individual sinusoidal perturbation with a frequency, to. Recently, nonconventional approaches to measure the impedance function, Z(a>), have been developed based on the simultaneous imposition of a set of various sinusoidal harmonics, or noise, or a small-amplitude potential step etc, with subsequent Fourier- and Laplace transform data analysis. The self-consistency of the measured spectra is tested with the use of the Kramers-Kronig transformations [iii, iv] whose violation testifies in favor of a non-steady state character of the studied system (e.g., in corrosion). An alternative development is in the area of impedance spectroscopy for nonstationary systems in which the properties of the system change with time. 

Fourier and Laplace transforms are linear transforms and are very often used for analyzing problems in various branches of science and engineering. Since receptivity is studied with respect to onset of instability, it is quite natural that these transform techniques will be the tool of choice for such studies. Fourier transform provides an approach wherein the differential equation of a time dependent system is solved in the transformed plane as. 

The problem posed by (3-119) with the boundary and initial conditions, (3-120b), is very simple to solve by either Fourier or Laplace transform methods.14 Further, because it is linear, an exact solution is possible, and nondimensionalization need not play a significant role in the solution process. Nevertheless, we pursue the solution by use of a so-called similarity transformation, whose existence is suggested by an attempt to nondimensionalize the equation and boundary conditions. Although it may seem redundant to introduce a new solution technique when standard transform methods could be used, the use of similarity transformations is not limited to linear problems (as are the Fourier and Laplace transform methods), and we shall find the method to be extremely useful in the solution of certain nonlinear DEs later in this book. 

Integral transforms were discussed, including Fourier and Laplace transforms. Fourier transforms are the result of allowing the period of the function to be represented by a Fourier series to become larger and larger, so that the series approaches an integral in the limit. Fourier transforms are usually written with complex exponential basis functions, but sine and cosine transforms also occur. Laplace transforms are related to Fourier transforms, with real exponential basis functions. We presented several theorems that allow the determination of some kinds of inverse Laplace transforms and that allow later applications to the solution of differential equations. 

Substitution of (3.146) into (3.150) and inversion of the Fourier and Laplace transforms leads to the RD equation (2.3) with D = j l (t>- If we substitute (3.147) into (3.150) and invert the Fourier and Laplace dansforms, we obtain the reaction-telegraph equation ... 

Because the equilibrium ensemble is time translationally invariant, C is a function of t — t. Since we will be more interested in the Fourier and Laplace transforms of (19), we introduce the definitions... 

Fourier- and other transformations (e.g., Laplace-, Hadamard-, and Wavelet transformation) are the bases to transfer information complete and... 

An integral transform is similar to a functional series, except that it contains an integration instead of a summation, which corresponds to an integration variable instead of a summation index. The integrand contains two factors, as does a term of a functional series. The first factor is the transform, which plays the same role as the coefficients of a power series. The second factor is the basis function, which plays the same role as the set of basis functions in a functional series. We discuss two types of transforms, Fourier transforms and Laplace transforms. 

Up to this point we have described methods in which impedance is measured in terms of a transfer function of the form given by Eq. (56). For frequency domain methods, the transfer function is determined as the ratio of frequency domain voltage and current, and for time domain methods as the ratio of the Fourier or Laplace transforms of the time-dependent variables. We will now describe methods by which the transfer function can be determined from the power spectra of the excitation and response. 

When the system responds in a linear range, however, the same information can be obtained from steady-state frequency response measurements . On the other hand, in the nonlinear response region this is no longer the case, and it is inappropriate to derive frequency response results from a Fourier or Laplace transform of transient response results. 

The relaxation time spectrum can be calculated exactly from the measured stress relaxation modulus using Fourier or Laplace transform methods, and similar eonsiderations apply to the retardation time spectrum and the creep compliance. It is more convenient to consider these transformations at a later stage, when the final representation of linear viscoelasticity, that of the complex modulus and complex compliance, has been discussed. 

Still apply also for fractional order operators including semigroup properties, integration by parts, etc. Moreover, in Fourier and Laplace domains, RL fractional operators exactly behave like the classical derivatives and integrals. Such an example, by denoting the Fourier transform operator of f(t) as Pyr coi) defined as... 

Since the integral is over time t, the resulting transform no longer depends on t, but instead is a function of the variable s which is introduced in the operand. Hence, the Laplace transform maps the function X(f) from the time domain into the s-domain. For this reason we will use the symbol when referring to Lap X t). To some extent, the variable s can be compared with the one which appears in the Fourier transform of periodic functions of time t (Section 40.3). While the Fourier domain can be associated with frequency, there is no obvious physical analogy for the Laplace domain. The Laplace transform plays an important role in the study of linear systems that often arise in mechanical, electrical and chemical kinetic systems. In particular, their interest lies in the transformation of linear differential equations with respect to time t into equations that only involve simple functions of s, such as polynomials, rational functions, etc. The latter are solved easily and the results can be transformed back to the original time domain. 

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K v,t) is called the transform kernel. For the Fourier transform the kernel is e j ". Other transforms (see Section 40.8) are the Hadamard, wavelet and the Laplace transforms [4]. 

The explicit solution of Eq. (27), which uses a Fourier transform or a bilateral Laplace transform, is described in detail in Ref. 38. Its eigenvalues and eigenvectors are determined by the nonlinear eigenvalue equation... 

The convolution and general properties of the Fourier transform, as presented in Section 11.1, are equally applicable to the Laplace transform. Thus,... 

An important technical development of the PFG and STD experiments was introduced at the beginning of the 1990s the Diffusion Ordered Spectroscopy, that is DOSY.69 70 It provides a convenient way of displaying the molecular self-diffusion information in a bi-dimensional array, with the NMR spectrum in one dimension and the self-diffusion coefficient in the other. While the chemical-shift information is obtained by Fast Fourier Transformation (FFT) of the time domain data, the diffusion information is obtained by an Inverse Laplace Transformation (ILT) of the signal decay data. The goal of DOSY experiment is to separate species spectroscopically (not physically) present in a mixture of compounds for this reason, DOSY is also known as "NMR chromatography."... 

The analytical methods for solving the Fourier equation, in which Q and T are functions of the spatial co-ordinate and time, include a change of variables by combination, and in the more general case the use of Laplace transforms. 

This equation is a partial differential equation whose order depends on the exact form of/ and F. Its solution is usually not straightforward and integral transform methods (Laplace or Fourier) are necessary. The method of separation of variables rarely works. Nevertheless, useful information of practical geological importance is apparent in the form taken by this equation. The only density distributions that are time independent must obey... 

Different techniques are commonly used to solve the diffusion equation (Carslaw and Jaeger, 1959). Analytic solutions can be found by variable separation, Fourier transforms or more conveniently Laplace transforms and other special techniques such as point sources or Green functions. Numerical solutions are calculated for the cases which have no simple analytic solution by finite differences (Mitchell, 1969 Fletcher, 1991), which is the simplest technique to implement, but also finite elements, particularly useful for complicated geometry (Zienkiewicz, 1977), and collocation methods (Finlayson, 1972). 

Considerable effort has gone into solving the difficult problem of deconvolution and curve fitting to a theoretical decay that is often a sum of exponentials. Many methods have been examined (O Connor et al., 1979) methods of least squares, moments, Fourier transforms, Laplace transforms, phase-plane plot, modulating functions, and more recently maximum entropy. The most widely used method is based on nonlinear least squares. The basic principle of this method is to minimize a quantity that expresses the mismatch between data and fitted function. This quantity /2 is defined as the weighted sum of the squares of the deviations of the experimental response R(ti) from the calculated ones Rc(ti) ... 

We denote the fluctuations of the number density of the monomers of component j at a point r and at a time t as pj r,t). With this definition we have pj(r,t))=0. In linear response theory, the Fourier-Laplace transform of the time-dependent mean density response to an external time dependent potential U r,t) is expressed as ... 

A similar approach, also based on the Kubo-Tomita theory (103), has been proposed in a series of papers by Sharp and co-workers (109-114), summarized nicely in a recent review (14). Briefly, Sharp also expressed the PRE in terms of a power density function (or spectral density) of the dipolar interaction taken at the nuclear Larmor frequency. The power density was related to the Fourier-Laplace transform of the time correlation functions (14) ... 

There are three known techniques to solve equation (E2.7.1) Laplace transforms, Fourier transforms, and change of variables, which incorporates both luck and skill We will use change of variables ... 

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