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We study the propagation, observation and control properties of the 1-d wave equation on a bounded interval discretized in space using the quadratic classical finite element approximation. A careful Fourier analysis of the discrete wave…
We proposed a distributed approximating functional method for efficiently describing the electronic dynamics in atoms and molecules in the presence of the Coulomb singularities, using the kernel of a grid representation derived by using the…
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Space-time varying media enable unprecedented control over electromagnetic waves, yet most existing studies assume idealized, nondispersive materials and thus fail to capture the intrinsic frequency dispersion of realistic platforms. Here,…
This thesis deals with some theoretical aspects of deterministic freak wave generation in the wave basin of a hydrodynamic laboratory. We adopt the spatial nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation as a mathematical model to describe the deformation…
We have developed a new family of limited-diffraction electromagnetic X-shaped waves based on the scalar "X waves" discovered previously. These waves are diffraction-free in theory and particle-like (wave packets), in that they maintain…
This work is concerned with asymptotic approximations of the semi-classical Schr\"odinger equation in periodic media using Gaussian beams. For the underlying equation, subject to a highly oscillatory initial data, a hybrid of the Gaussian…
This work develops a nonlinear multigrid method for diffusion problems discretized by cell-centered finite volume methods on general unstructured grids. The multigrid hierarchy is constructed algebraically using aggregation of degrees of…
In this study, potential scatterings are formulated in experimental setups with Gaussian wave packets in accordance with a probability principle and associativity of products. A breaking of an associativity is observed in scalar products…
We apply boundary integral equations for the first time to the two-dimensional scattering of time-harmonic waves from a smooth obstacle embedded in a continuously-graded unbounded medium. In the case we solve the square of the wavenumber…
We explore the form of rogue wave solutions in a select set of case examples of nonlinear Schr\"odinger equations with variable coefficients. We focus on systems with constant dispersion, and present three different models that describe…
High-frequency wave propagation is often modelled by nonlinear Friedrichs systems where both the differential equation and the initial data contain the inverse of a small parameter $\varepsilon$, which causes oscillations with wavelengths…
We consider the wave equation with highly oscillatory initial data, where there is uncertainty in the wave speed, initial phase and/or initial amplitude. To estimate quantities of interest related to the solution and their statistics, we…
We consider small amplitude wave packet-like solutions to the 3D inviscid incompressible irrotational infinite depth water wave problem neglecting surface tension. Formal multiscale calculations suggest that the modulation of such a…
We present high order accurate numerical methods for the wave equation that combines efficient Hermite methods with eometrically flexible discontinuous Galerkin methods by using overset grids. Near boundaries we use thin boundary fitted…
We study the Strang splitting scheme for quasilinear Schr\"odinger equations. We establish the convergence of the scheme for solutions with small initial data. We analyze the linear instability of the numerical scheme, which explains the…
We develop a hybrid spatial discretization for the wave equation in second order form, based on high-order accurate finite difference methods and discontinuous Galerkin methods. The hybridization combines computational efficiency of finite…
Coherent structures/motions in turbulence inherently give rise to intermittent signals with sharp peaks, heavy-skirt, and skewed distributions of velocity increments, highlighting the non-Gaussian nature of turbulence. That suggests that…
We consider the problem of recovering a spatially-localized cubic nonlinearity in a nonlinear Schr\"odinger equation in dimensions two and three. We prove that solutions with data given by small-amplitude wave packets accrue a nonlinear…
Fractional evolution equations lack generally accessible and well-converged codes excepting anomalous diffusion. A particular equation of strong interest to the growing intersection of applied mathematics and quantum information science and…