Applied physical math focuses on new foundational theory and experimental approaches to areas concerning wave, energy, heat and momentum dynamics. A key aspect is connecting the physicality of the problem to well posed mathematics. Emphasis is placed on spatio-temporal problems utilizing methods that maintain geometric order and seek to develop a minimum description of the spatio-temporal relatedness.
Mathematical Topic Areas
- Theory and methods that are order preserving (monotonicity), invertible, symmetric and optimal (principle of stationary action).
- Reduction of many-body problems to one-body problems that respects the dynamic or statistical order not solely reliant on mean-field assumptions.
- Noise and statistical modeling, in particular non-Gaussian distributions. Higher order and non-linear treatment of noise processes using mathematical and physics-based approaches for noise reduction or disambiguation in complex environments.
- Generalized mathematical inversion methods for large complex problems or systems.
- Mathematics that govern fundamental physical dynamics that allow for invertible, nonlinear transformations, and full vector solution of constituent equations without the use of linear encoding methods.
- New theory based in calculus of variations.
Physical Topic Areas
- Models and methods that make use of Langrangian frameworks to preserve and simplify geometrical order in transport problems.
- Hydrodynamic analogs, gravito-electromagnetism and methods to unify different theories or provide new insight and understanding through local realist approaches to physical theories.
- Methods, theory and experiments that provide the ability to understand how a material, fluid, particle(s) or system acts on or with its environment through transport of mass, heat, energy, and momentum.
- Physical theory, methods and experiments that use conservation laws and symmetries to gain new insight or break previous assumptions in hydrodynamics, materials, quantum/classical mechanics, electronic and chemical processes.
- Active matter, non-equilibrium systems and collective system dynamics.
Current and Legacy Areas
Google Scholar Sustained Adaptability
Google Scholar Wave Transport Dynamic
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