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The nonlinear dynamics of an obliquely oriented wave packet at sea surface is studied both analytically and numerically for various initial parameters of the packet, in connection with the problem of oceanic rogue waves. In the framework of…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2015-04-10 V. P. Ruban

The numerical treatment of quantum mechanics in the semi-classical regime is known to be computationally demanding, due to the highly oscillatory behaviour of the wave function and its large spatial extension. A recently proposed…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-02-13 Christoph Nölle

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Gabriela Malenova , Mohammad Motamed , Olof Runborg , Raul Tempone

Gaussian graphical models are widely used to infer dependence structures. Bayesian methods are appealing to quantify uncertainty associated with structural learning, i.e., the plausibility of conditional independence statements given the…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-05 Deborah Sulem , Jack Jewson , David Rossell

In the context of simulating precision laser interferometers, we compare via several examples two wavefront decomposition methods: the Mode Expansion Method (MEM) and the Gaussian beam decomposition (GBD) for their precision and…

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…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2022-10-26 Siyang Wang , Gunilla Kreiss

In this study, we consider a beam summation method adapted from the semiclassical regime of quantum mechanics to study the classical properties of thin light bundles in gravity. In Newtonian paraxial optics, this method has been shown to…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2025-12-04 Nezihe Uzun

Gaussian process is a theoretically appealing model for nonparametric analysis, but its computational cumbersomeness hinders its use in large scale and the existing reduced-rank solutions are usually heuristic. In this work, we propose a…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2015-11-25 Leo L. Duan , Xia Wang , Rhonda D. Szczesniak

In this paper, we consider a semi-linear stochastic strongly damped wave equation driven by additive Gaussian noise. Following a semigroup framework, we establish existence, uniqueness and space-time regularity of a mild solution to such…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-08-10 Ruisheng Qi , Xiaojie Wang

We consider two `Classical' Boussinesq type systems modelling two-way propagation of long surface waves in a finite channel with variable bottom topography. Both systems are derived from the 1-d Serre-Green-Naghdi (SGN) system; one of them…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2020-06-08 G. Kounadis , D. C. Antonopoulos , V. A. Dougalis

In this study, we discuss an approximate set of equations describing water wave propagating in deep water. These generalized Klein-Gordon (gKG) equations possess a variational formulation, as well as a canonical Hamiltonian and…

Classical Physics · Physics 2020-02-20 Denys Dutykh , Marx Chhay , Didier Clamond

Computation of high frequency solutions to wave equations is important in many applications, and notoriously difficult in resolving wave oscillations. Gaussian beams are asymptotically valid high frequency solutions concentrated on a single…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2009-05-30 Hailiang Liu , James Ralston

To model wave propagation in inhomogeneous media with frequency-dependent power-law attenuation, it is needed to use the fractional powers of symmetric coercive elliptic operators in space and the Caputo tempered fractional derivative in…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2019-11-19 Yajing Li , Yejuan Wang , Weihua Deng

The paper proposes a new, conservative fully-discrete scheme for the numerical solution of the regularised shallow water Boussinesq system of equations in the cases of periodic and reflective boundary conditions. The particular system is…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2021-05-12 Dimitrios Mitsotakis , Hendrik Ranocha , David I. Ketcheson , Endre Süli

We introduce new finite-dimensional spaces specifically designed to approximate the solutions to high-frequency Helmholtz problems with smooth variable coefficients in dimension $d$. These discretization spaces are spanned by Gaussian…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2025-02-04 T. Chaumont-Frelet , V. Dolean , M. Ingremeau

In this paper a finite difference/local discontinuous Galerkin method for the fractional diffusion-wave equation is presented and analyzed. We first propose a new finite difference method to approximate the time fractional derivatives, and…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2015-07-29 Leilei Wei

The analytic inference, e.g. predictive distribution being in closed form, may be an appealing benefit for machine learning practitioners when they treat wide neural networks as Gaussian process in Bayesian setting. The realistic widths,…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2023-08-01 Chi-Ken Lu

The paper presents an ab initio account of the paraxial complex geometrical optics (CGO) in application to a scalar Gaussian beam propagation and diffraction in a 3D smoothly inhomogeneous medium. The paraxial CGO deals with quadratic…

Optics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. Berczynski , K. Yu. Bliokh , Yu. A. Kravtsov , A. Stateczny

In this paper we consider the Benjamin equation, a partial differential equation that models one-way propagation of long internal waves of small amplitude along the interface of two fluid layers under the effects of gravity and surface…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2014-05-23 V. A. Dougalis , A. Duran , D. Mitsotakis

Gaussian beams describe the amplitude and phase of rays and are widely used to model acoustic propagation. This paper describes four new results in the theory of Gaussian beams. (1) A new version of the \v{C}erven\'y equations for the…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-04-12 Steven Thomas Smith