Geodesic theory of transport barriers in two-dimensional flows

G Haller, FJ Beron-Vera - Physica D: Nonlinear Phenomena, 2012 - Elsevier
We introduce a new approach to locating key material transport barriers in two-dimensional,
non-autonomous dynamical systems, such as unsteady planar fluid flows. Seeking transport …

Computing Lagrangian coherent structures from their variational theory

M Farazmand, G Haller - Chaos: An Interdisciplinary Journal of …, 2012 - pubs.aip.org
Using the recently developed variational theory of hyperbolic Lagrangian coherent
structures (LCSs), we introduce a computational approach that renders attracting and …

Forecasting sudden changes in environmental pollution patterns

MJ Olascoaga, G Haller - Proceedings of the National …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
The lack of reliable forecasts for the spread of oceanic and atmospheric contamination
hinders the effective protection of the ecosystem, society, and the economy from the fallouts …

Image-guided regularization of marine electromagnetic inversion

Z Guo, H Dong, Å Kristensen - Geophysics, 2017 - library.seg.org
Marine electromagnetic (EM) inverse methods have recently been rapidly developed for
offshore exploration. However, inverted resistivity results with low resolution are provided by …

Efficient computation of null geodesics with applications to coherent vortex detection

M Serra, G Haller - Proceedings of the Royal Society A …, 2017 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Recent results suggest that boundaries of coherent fluid vortices (elliptic coherent structures)
can be identified as closed null geodesics of appropriate Lorentzian metrics defined on the …

Attraction-based computation of hyperbolic Lagrangian coherent structures

D Karrasch, M Farazmand, G Haller - arXiv preprint arXiv:1405.4727, 2014 - arxiv.org
Recent advances enable the simultaneous computation of both attracting and repelling
families of Lagrangian Coherent Structures (LCS) at the same initial or final time of interest …

Derived metric tensors for flow surface visualization

H Obermaier, KI Joy - IEEE transactions on visualization and …, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Integral flow surfaces constitute a widely used flow visualization tool due to their capability to
convey important flow information such as fluid transport, mixing, and domain segmentation …

Sparse CSEM inversion driven by seismic coherence

Z Guo, H Dong, Å Kristensen - Journal of Geophysics and …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Marine controlled source electromagnetic (CSEM) data inversion for hydrocarbon
exploration is often challenging due to high computational cost, physical memory …

Automatic generation of anisotropic patterns of geometric features for industrial design

D Andrade, V Vyas, K Shimada - Journal of …, 2016 - asmedigitalcollection.asme.org
While modern computer aided design (CAD) systems currently offer tools for generating
simple patterns, such as uniformly spaced rectangular or radial patterns, these tools are …

[PDF][PDF] A variational approach to coherent structures in unsteady dynamical systems

M Farazmand - 2014 - research-collection.ethz.ch
Lagrangian coherent structures (LCSs) are time-evolving surfaces that shape trajectory
patterns in non-autonomous dynamical systems, such as turbulent fluid flows. Hyperbolic …