Applied Mathematics
This is the collection for the University of Waterloo's Department of Applied Mathematics .
Research outputs are organized by type (eg. Master Thesis, Article, Conference Paper).
Waterloo faculty, students, and staff can contact us or visit the UWSpace guide to learn more about depositing their research.
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A modelling investigation into the impacts of the convective parameterization on the tropical circulation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-08-15)Many studies have shown that the tropical circulations (Walker and Hadley circulations) will weaken in a warmer world. This is sometimes attributed to changes in the tropical mean water cycling rate (driven by convective ... -
Sensor Choice for Minimum Error Variance Estimation
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2017-06-12)A Kalman filter is optimal in that the variance of the error is minimized by the estimator. It is shown here, in an infinite-dimensional context, that the solution to an operator Riccati equation minimizes the steady-state ... -
Modeling and Stabilizability of Voltage-Actuated Piezoelectric Beams with Magnetic Effects
(Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2014-01-01)Models for piezoelectric beams and structures with piezoelectric patches generally ignore magnetic effects. This is because the magnetic energy has a relatively small effect on the overall dynamics. Piezoelectric beam ... -
The hydrodynamics of two-dimensional oscillating flows over ripples: the effect of asymmetries in ripple shape and currents
(University of Waterloo, 2017-04-28)The research presented in this thesis involved consideration of three increasingly asymmetric oscillatory flows over two ripple profiles, one of which is asymmetric and represents a small deviation from a symmetric ripple. ... -
Evolutionary Dynamics of Cancer: Spatial and Heterogeneous Effects
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Despite significant advances in the study of cancer and associated combination therapeutic treatments, cancer still remains one of the most common and complex often-terminal diseases. Acquisition of high-throughput ... -
Lithium-Ion battery SOC estimation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)Lithium-ion batteries are frequently used in Hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs), which are taking the place of gas-engine vehicles. An important but not measurable quantity in HEVs is the amount of charge remaining in the ... -
Existence and uniqueness of attracting slow manifolds: An application of the Ważewski principle
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-23)In this work we present some of the geometric constructs that aid the application of the Ważewski Theorem. To illustrate the procedure the Michaelis-Menten mechanism will be considered. We show that M, a slow manifold, ... -
Direct Numerical Simulation of Salt Fingering Gravity Currents and Double-Diffusive Rayleigh-Taylor Instabilities
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-18)Double-diffusion refers to a class of instabilities that develops when the density of a fluid depends on two components with different diffusivities. For example, when warm, salty water is layered over cool, fresh water, ... -
Structured Reverse Mode Automatic Differentiation in Nested Monte Carlo Simulations
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-17)In many practical large scale computational problems, the calculation of partial derivatives of the object function f with respect to input parameters are entailed and the dimension of inputs n is much larger the one of ... -
Probing Quantum Fields: Measurements and Quantum Energy Teleportation
(University of Waterloo, 2017-01-10)Quantum Energy Teleportation provides a testbed for modern ideas involving the interplay between quantum correlations and energy in the quantum thermodynamical regime. In this work, we provide a new class of Quantum Energy ... -
Iterated Function Systems with Place-Dependent Probabilities and the Inverse Problem of Measure Approximation Using Moments
(University of Waterloo, 2016-10-25)The study of iterated function systems has close ties with the subject of fractal-based analysis. One important application is the approximation of a target object by the fixed point of a contractive iterated function ... -
Mathematical Aspects of Scalar-Tensor Field Theories
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-27)This thesis is based on a study of Lagrange scalar densities which are, in general, concomitants of the metric tensor gij (and its first and second derivatives) together with a scalar field ∅ (and its first derivative). ... -
Infectious Disease Modeling with Interpersonal Contact Patterns as a Heterogeneous Network
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)In this thesis, we study deterministic compartmental epidemic models. The conventional mass-mixing assumption is replaced with infectious disease contraction occurring within a heterogeneous network. Modeling infectious ... -
Early Warning Signals of Vaccine Scares.
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-26)There exists strong evidence that vaccines are extremely effective in the prevention of pediatric infectious disease, yet despite this evidence, vaccine refusal is still popular amongst some parents. Existing mathematical ... -
Non-compact groups, tensor operators and applications to quantum gravity
(University of Waterloo, 2016-09-23)This work focuses on non-compact groups and their applications to quantum gravity, mainly through the use of tensor operators. Non-compact groups appear naturally if the space-time is of Lorentzian signature, but can also ... -
Decoupling of Information Propagation from Energy Propagation
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-31)Information and energy are concepts central to our understanding of nature. Their relevance, in physics, ranges from fundamental physics, e.g., in black hole physics, all the way to future quantum computing technology. ... -
A Taylor polynomial expansion line search for large-scale optimization
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)In trying to cope with the Big Data deluge, the landscape of distributed computing has changed. Large commodity hardware clusters, typically operating in some form of MapReduce framework, are becoming prevalent for ... -
Stability of Nonlinear Functional Differential Equations by the Contraction Mapping Principle
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-29)Fixed point theory has a long history of being used in nonlinear differential equations, in order to prove existence, uniqueness, or other qualitative properties of solutions. However, using the contraction mapping ... -
Halocline mixing due to heavy rainfall in the cenote's of the Yucatan Peninsula
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-23)The hydrodynamics of the Yucatan peninsula are extremely important due to the strain on water resources caused by increasing development along the eastern coast. The geology of the peninsula is unique geologically in that ... -
Floating Bodies with Surface Tension
(University of Waterloo, 2016-08-18)Capillary phenomena have been studied by mathematicians and physicists for hundreds of years. In this thesis, both two-dimensional(2D) and three-dimensional(3D) bodies floating on an unbounded reservoir are studied based ...
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