J. Douglas Wright
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Drexel University

CONTACT:

office: Room 265---Korman Center
email: jdoug -at-sign- math . drexel . edu
phone: 215 895 0981


TEACHING:
Spring Term 2009:
MATH 200 (Multivariable Calculus)

Office Hours: Tuesdays 1-2, Wednesdays 4-5, Thursdays 9-10, or by appointment.
(You may also drop by my office at your leisure; if I am there and not too busy
with other things, I'll be happy to talk to you.)

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

I am interested in nonlinear waves and their interactions, particularly those which arise in the study of free surface water waves and reaction-diffusion systems.

  • "Separating dissipative pulses---the exit manifold"
    Accepted to the Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations in February, 2009. [pdf]

  • "Linear dispersive decay estimates for the 3+1 dimensional water wave equation with surface tension"
    with D. Spirn. Accepted to the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin in January, 2009.

  • "Linear dispersive decay estimates for vortex sheets with surface tension"
    with D. Spirn. Accepted to Communications in Mathematical Sciences in April, 2009.. [pdf]

  • "Colliding dissipative pulses---the shooting manifold"
    with A. Scheel. Journal of Differential Equations, v. 245, no. 1, 59-79 (2008). [pdf]

  • "Solitary waves and their linear stability in weakly coupled KdV equations"
    with A. Scheel. ZAMP, v. 58, no. 4, 535-570 (2007). [pdf]

  • "Ground state mass concentration in the L2 critical nonlinear Schrodinger equation below H1"
    with J. Colliander, S. Raynor and C. Sulem. Mathematical Research Letters, v. 12, no. 2-3, 357-375 (2005). [pdf]

  • "Corrections to the KdV approximation for water waves".
    SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis, v. 37, no. 4, 1161-1206 (2005). [pdf]

  • "Higher order modulation equations for a Boussinesq equation"
    with C. Eugene Wayne. SIAM Journal of Applied Dynamical Systems, v. 1, pp 271-302 (2002). [pdf]

  • "Corrections to the KdV approximation for water waves." (My thesis.)

    SEMINAR: Drexel University Partial Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics Seminar
    View my vitae.