Research opportunities
Current researchers
Past PDFs
Zhao, Peng
Yang, Zhengzheng
Past graduate students
Ahmadpoortorkamani, Maryam, M.Sc. (2024), thesis "Extended SIR Models with Nonstandard Diffusion: Their Properties and Symmetry Analysis" [PDF]
Keller, Jason, M.Sc. (2022), thesis "Exact Equilibrium Solutions of the Magnetohydrodynamic Plasma Model" [PDF]
Tarayrah, Mahmood, Ph.D. (2022), thesis "Exact and Approximate Symmetries and
Approximate Conservation Laws of Differential Equations with a Small parameter" [PDF]
Agyemang, Samuel Opoku, M.Sc. (2019), thesis "Shear Wave Models in Linear and Nonlinear Elastic Materials" [PDF]
Mia, Abdus Sattar, M.Sc. (2015), thesis "Conservation Laws of a Nonlinear Incompressible Two-Fluid Model" [PDF]
St. Jean, Simon, M.Sc. (2014), thesis "Applications of Symmetries and Conservation Laws to the Study of Nonlinear Elasticity Equations" [PDF]
- Conference Poster: [PDF] presented at the CMSC-2014 conference, Saskatoon, Canada.
- Paper: A. C. and S. St. Jean. A comparison of conservation law construction approaches for the two-dimensional incompressible Mooney-Rivlin hyperelasticity model. J. Math. Phys. 56, 121505 (2015) [PDF]
- Paper: A. C., J.-F. Ganghoffer, and S. St.Jean. Fully non-linear wave models in fiber-reinforced anisotropic incompressible hyperelastic solids. International Journal of Non-Linear Mechanics 71 (2015) 8–21 [PDF]
Yang, Zhengzheng, Ph.D. (2013), thesis "Nonlocally Related Partial Differential Equation Systems, the Nonclassical Method and Applications" [PDF] (Co-supervisor: G. Bluman, UBC)
- Paper: Z. Yang and A. C., Some relations between symmetries of nonlocally related systems. J. Math. Phys. 55, 083514 (2014) [PDF]
Hoskins, Jeremy G., M.Sc. (2012), thesis "The application of symmetry methods and conservation laws to ordinary differential equations and a linear wave equation" [PDF] (Co-supervisor: G. Bluman, UBC)
Olinov, Andrey, M.Sc. (2011), thesis "Symbolic Software for Symmetry Reduction and Computation of Invariant Solutions of Differential Equations" [PDF]
Korneeva, Daria, M.Sc. (2011), thesis "Numerical simulation of Compressible Gas Flow Coupled to Heat Conduction in Two Space Dimensions" [PDF]
Wan, Andy T.S., M.Sc (2010). thesis "Finding Conservation Laws of Partial Differential Equations" [PDF] (Co-supervisor: G. Bluman, UBC)
Past summer students
Chen, Cindy (2022) summer research student.
Pitzel, Brian NSERC USRA (2021) summer research student.
- Paper (co-authored): "Two approximate symmetry frameworks for nonlinear partial differential equations with a small parameter:Comparisons, relations, approximate solutions" [PDF]
Keller, Jason NSERC USRA (2019) summer research student.
- Paper (co-authored): "New exact plasma equilibria with axial and helical symmetry" [PDF]
- Poster: "Exact Axially and Helically Symmetric Magnetohydrodynamic Equilibria" [PDF]
- Poster: "Discrete Mathematical Modeling of Powder Bed 3D Printing Process" [PDF]
- Paper: V. Srivastava and A.C. Brownian dynamics simulations for the narrow escape problem in the unit sphere. Physical Review E 104.6 (2021): 064113. [PDF]
- Poster: "Brownian Dynamics Modelling for the Narrow Escape Problem" [PDF]
- Poster: "Energy-Minimizing Arrangements of Repelling Particles on the Sphere: Coulombic and Narrow Escape Potentials" [PDF]
- Award: 2nd place in UofS USRA student Poster Competition (2016).
- Paper: Ridgway, Wesley and A.C. Locally and globally optimal configurations of N particles on the sphere with applications in the narrow escape and narrow capture problems." Physical Review E 100.4 (2019): 042413. [PDF]
- Paper: Ridgway, Wesley and A.C. An iterative procedure for finding locally and globally optimal arrangements of particles on the unit sphere. Computer Physics Communications 233 (2018): 84-109. [PDF]
- Poster: "Nonlinear Dynamics of Viscous Fluids with Gas Bubbles" [PDF]
- Award: 3rd place in UofS USRA student Poster Competition (2016).
- Paper: Thiessen, Ryan and A.C. Nonlinear dynamics of a viscous bubbly fluid. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 73 (2019): 244-264. [PDF]
- Paper: A.C., C. Lee, and R. Naz. Radial waves in fiber-reinforced axially symmetric hyperelastic media. Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation 95 (2021): 105649. [PDF]
- Poster: "Shear Cylindrical Waves in the Framework of Finite Fiber-Reinforced Hyper- and Viscoelasticity: Applications to Blood Vessel Models" [PDF]
- Poster: "Mathematical Modelling of the Dynamics of a Viscous Fluid with Gas Bubbles" [PDF]
- Poster: "Narrow Escape Problems in Three-Dimensional Domains" [PDF]
- Award: 2nd place in UofS USRA student Poster Competition (2013).
- Conference Poster: [PDF] presented at the 2013 CMS Winter Meeting, Ottawa.
- Paper: A. C. and D. Gomez. Asymptotic analysis of narrow escape problems in nonspherical three-dimensional domains. Physical Review E 91, 012137 (2015) [PDF]
Goertzen, Stephanie, UofS USTEP (2011) summer research student.
- Poster: "Exact Solutions of Ideal Plasma Equilibria" (2011) [PDF]
Zawada, Daniel, NSERC USRA (2011) summer research student.
- Poster: "Optimal Arrangements and Homogenization Limit for Traps on the Sphere" (2011) [PDF]
- Paper: A.C. and D. Zawada. Narrow-escape problem for the unit sphere: Homogenization limit, optimal arrangements of large numbers of traps, and the N^2 conjecture. Phys. Rev. E 87 (2013), 021131 [PDF]
- Poster: "Mathematical Modelling of Narrow Escape Problems" [PDF]
- Paper: A.S. Reimer, A.C., A Matlab-based finite-difference solver for the Poisson problem with mixed Dirichlet–Neumann boundary conditions. Computer Physics Communications 184 (2012), 783–798 [PDF]
- Paper: A.C., A.S. Reimer, M. J. Ward, Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Computation of Narrow Escape Problems. Phys. Rev. E 85 (2012), 021131 [PDF]
- Award: 2nd place in UofS USRA student Poster Competition (2010).