Radiative decay of the nonlinear oscillations of an adiabatic spherical bubble at small Mach number

WR Smith, Q Wang - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2018 - cambridge.org
A theoretical study is carried out for bubble oscillation in a compressible liquid with
significant acoustic radiation based on the Keller–Miksis equation using a multi-scaled …

Mathematical modeling of thermal runaway in semiconductor laser operation

WR Smith - Journal of Applied Physics, 2000 - pubs.aip.org
The basic property of thermal runaway is that the temperature blows up at some point in the
domain at a finite time for the appropriate choices of parameters and initial conditions. The …

Viscous decay of nonlinear oscillations of a spherical bubble at large Reynolds number

WR Smith, QX Wang - Physics of Fluids, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
The long-time viscous decay of large-amplitude bubble oscillations is considered in an
incompressible Newtonian fluid, based on the Rayleigh–Plesset equation. At large …

Traveling Waves in Two-Dimensional Plane Poiseuille Flow

WR Smith, JG Wissink - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2015 - SIAM
The asymptotic structure of laminar modulated traveling waves in two-dimensional high-
Reynolds-number plane Poiseuille flow is investigated on the upper-energy branch. A finite …

On the sensitivity of strongly nonlinear autonomous oscillators and oscillatory waves to small perturbations

WR Smith - IMA journal of applied mathematics, 2005 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Original asymptotic solutions are determined for two autonomous differential equations. The
application of initial conditions for the energy, wave number and phase shift proves to be …

Asymptotic analysis of the attractors in two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow

WR Smith, JG Wissink - European Journal of Applied Mathematics, 2018 - cambridge.org
The high Reynolds-number structure of the laminar, chaotic and turbulent attractors is
investigated in a two-dimensional Kolmogorov flow. The laminar attractors include the …

The radiated acoustic pressure and time scales of a spherical bubble

WR Smith, QX Wang - Fluid Dynamics Research, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Numerical simulations of violent bubble dynamics are often associated with numerical
instabilities at the end of collapse, when a shock wave is emitted. Based on the Keller …

Mathematical modelling of electrical-optical effects in semiconductor laser operation

WR Smith, JR King, B Tuck - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2001 - SIAM
A mathematical model describing the coupling of electrical and optical effects in
semiconductor lasers is introduced. Through a multiple-scale asymptotic expansion, the …

Mathematical modelling of thermal hot-spots in semiconductor laser operation

WR Smith - Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied …, 2000 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
A new mathematical model describing the coupling of electrical, optical and thermal effects
in semiconductor lasers is introduced. The underlying (perfect) isothermal system has a …

Explicit modulation equations, Reynolds averaging and the closure problem for the Korteweg-deVries–Burgers equation

WR Smith - IMA journal of applied mathematics, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Original explicit modulation equations are determined for cnoidal waves of the Korteweg-
deVries (KdV)–Burgers equation. This formal asymptotic analysis is used to demonstrate …