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Bifurcation Theory and Applications

The study in this area is on a new bifurcation theory developed recently by Ma and myself and its applications to various problems in science and engineering. The theory is based on a new notion of bifurcation  called attractor bifurcation, together with new strategies of central manifold and Lyapunov-Schmidt reductions.

  • Bifurcation theory and applications, World Scientific Series on Nonlinear Science, Series A - Vol. 53, World Scientific, Singapore 2005 (joint with Tian Ma)
  • Attractor bifurcation of three dimensional double-diffusive
    convection, submitted, 2005 (with C. Hsia and T. Ma)
  • Bifurcation and stability of two-dimensional double-diffusive
    convection, submitted, 2005 (with C. Hsia and T. Ma)
  • Structure of Bifurcated Solutions of 2D Rayleigh-B\'enard Convection, submitted, 2005 (with Tian Ma)
  • Dynamic Bifurcation and Stability of the Taylor Problem, Physica D, submitted, 2005 (with Tian Ma)
  • Stability and bifurcation of the Taylor problem, Archive Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 2006 (with Tian Ma)
  • Bifurcation and Stability of Superconductivity, Dedicated
    to Professor Louis Nirenberg on the occasion of his eightieth birthday, Journal of Mathematical Physics, 46(2005) (with Tian Ma).
  • Dynamic bifurcation of nonlinear evolution equations,
    Chinese Annals of Mathematics, 26:2(2005), 185-206 (with T. Ma).
  • Bifurcation of Nonlinear Equations: II. Dynamic Bifurcation Methods and Applications of Analysis, 11:2(2004), 179-210
    (with T. Ma).
  • Bifurcation of Nonlinear Equations: I. Steady State Bifurcation,
    Methods and Applications of Analysis, 11:2(2004), 155-178
    (with T. Ma).
  • Dynamic Bifurcation of the Ginzburg-Landau Equation, SIAM J. Applied Dynamics, 3:4(2004), 620-635 (with T. Ma and Jungho Park)
  • Dynamic Bifurcation and Stability in the Rayleigh-B\'enard Convection, Communication in Math. Sci., 2:2(2004), 159-183 (with T. Ma)
  • Hopf Bifurcation in Quasi-Geostrophic Channel Flow, SIAM J. Applied Math., 64:1(2004), 343-368 (with Z. Chen, M. Ghil and E. Simonnet)
  • Attractor bifurcation theory and its applications to Rayleigh-B\'enard convection, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 2:4(2003), 591--599 (with T. Ma)

The following papers are on numerical studies of shallow water models of the wind-driven ocean circulation.

  • Low-Frequency Variability in Shallow Water Models of the
    Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation. Part II: Time-Dependent Solutions, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33(2003), 729-752 (with E. Simonnet, M. Ghil, K. Ide, and R. Temam).
  • Low-Frequency Variability in Shallow Water Models of
    the Wind-Driven Ocean Circulation. Part I: Steady State Solutions, Journal of Physical Oceanography, 33(2003), 712-728 (with E. Simonnet, M. Ghil, K. Ide, and R. Temam)
  • Successive bifurcations in a shallow-water ocean model,
    Dedicated to M. Holt on his 80th Birthday, in Sixteenth International Conference on Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics, Edited by Charles-Henri Bruneau, Lecture Notes
    in Physics, Vol 515
    , Springer-Verlag, pp. 225-230, 1998
    (with E. Simonnet, R. Temam, M. Ghil and K. Ide)

   


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