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In Evans function computations of the spectra of asymptotically constant-coefficient linear operators, a basic issue is the efficient and numerically stable computation of subspaces evolving according to the associated eigenvalue ODE. For…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Jeffrey Humpherys , Kevin Zumbrun

We consider the numerical evaluation of the Evans function, a Wronskian-like determinant that arises in the study of the stability of travelling waves. Constructing the Evans function involves matching the solutions of a linear ordinary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2008-05-12 Simon Malham , Jitse Niesen

The Evans function is an analytic function that encodes information about the intersection of certain subspaces in ODE boundary value problems. As such it is a useful tool for computing the spectrum of boundary value problems arising in the…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2026-04-23 George Bayliss , Jared C. Bronski

The spectral problem associated with the linearization about solitary waves of spinor systems or optical coupled mode equations supporting gap solitons is formulated in terms of the Evans function, a complex analytic function whose zeros…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-10 Gianne Derks , Georg A. Gottwald

The Evans function has been used extensively to study spectral stability of travelling-wave solutions in spatially extended partial differential equations. To compute Evans functions numerically, several shooting methods have been…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2018-01-17 Blake Barker , Rose Nguyen , Björn Sandstone , Nathan Ventura , Colin Wahl

The nonlinear Schr\"{o}dinger equation with a linear periodic potential and a nonlinearity coefficient $\Gamma$ with a discontinuity supports stationary localized solitary waves with frequencies inside spectral gaps, so called surface gap…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2011-03-01 Elizabeth Blank , Tomáš Dohnal

We present a numerical method for computing the pure-point spectrum associated with the linear stability of multi-dimensional travelling fronts to parabolic nonlinear systems. Our method is based on the Evans function shooting approach.…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2009-03-17 Veerle Ledoux , Simon J. A. Malham , Jitse Niesen , Vera Thümmler

The recent work [Kurz et al., Numer. Math., 147 (2021)] proposed functional a posteriori error estimates for boundary element methods (BEMs) together with a related adaptive mesh-refinement strategy. Unlike most a posteriori BEM error…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Alexander Freiszlinger , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius

This paper presents high-order numerical methods for solving boundary value problems associated with the Lane-Emden equation, which frequently arises in astrophysics and various nonlinear models. A major challenge in studying this equation…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-08-28 Dang Quang A , Nguyen Thanh Huong , Vu Vinh Quang

The Evans function is a tool for assessing the stability of travelling wave solutions for partial differential equations. A recent paper (math.NA/0605581) analyzes the order reduction experienced when evaluating the Evans function…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Jitse Niesen

We study nonparametric distance-based (isotropic) local polynomial methods for estimating the boundary average treatment effect curve, a causal functional that captures treatment effect heterogeneity in boundary discontinuity designs. We…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-05-26 Matias D. Cattaneo , Rocio Titiunik , Ruiqi Rae Yu

In this work, we systematically generalize the Evans function methodology to address vector systems of discrete equations. We physically motivate and mathematically use as our case example a vector form of the discrete nonlinear Schrodinger…

Pattern Formation and Solitons · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Rothos , P. G. Kevrekidis

Functional error estimates are well-established tools for a posteriori error estimation and related adaptive mesh-refinement for the finite element method (FEM). The present work proposes a first functional error estimate for the boundary…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-10-29 Stefan Kurz , Dirk Pauly , Dirk Praetorius , Sergey Repin , Daniel Sebastian

For practical applications, the long time behaviour of the error of numerical solutions to time-dependent partial differential equations is very important. Here, we investigate this topic in the context of hyperbolic conservation laws and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-04-20 Philipp Öffner , Hendrik Ranocha

This paper is concerned with goal-oriented a posteriori error estimation for nonlinear functionals in the context of nonlinear variational problems solved with continuous Galerkin finite element discretizations. A two-level, or discrete,…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-10 Brian N. Granzow , D. Thomas Seidl , Stephen D. Bond

The Evans function has become a standard tool in the mathematical study of nonlinear wave stability. In particular, computation of its zero set gives a convenient numerical method for determining the point spectrum of the associated linear…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2017-07-10 Blake Barker , Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

We survey recent contributions to finite element exterior calculus on manifolds and surfaces within a comprehensive formalism for the error analysis of vector-valued partial differential equations on manifolds. Our primary focus is on…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2024-01-02 Martin W. Licht

Stochastic processes are often represented through orthonormal series expansions, a framework originating in the classical works of Lo\`eve and Karhunen and widely used for simulation and numerical approximation. While truncation error in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Oleksandr Mokliachuk

Extending recent results in the isentropic case, we use a combination of asymptotic ODE estimates and numerical Evans-function computations to examine the spectral stability of shock-wave solutions of the compressible Navier--Stokes…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2017-06-09 Jeffrey Humpherys , Gregory Lyng , Kevin Zumbrun

Probabilistic models are proposed for bounding the forward error in the numerically computed inner product (dot product, scalar product) between of two real $n$-vectors. We derive probabilistic perturbation bounds, as well as probabilistic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Ilse C. F. Ipsen , Hua Zhou
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