MSc Projects Arghir Zarnescu
Turbulence-the most important unsolved problem of classical physics (R. Feynman)
Turbulent versus laminar flows
Navier-Stokes Equations classical formulation
Navier-Stokes equations-turbulent solutions
Prerequisites: Essential : Functional Analysis (Harmonic Analysis and Wavelets) Measure Theory PDE Theory Desirable: Some elements of probability theory
Topological Classification of Liquid Crystal Defects
Defects and topological restrictions: The hairy ball theorem
A defect that requires line fields
Prerequisites Essential: General Topology Algebraic Topology
Dynamics on graphs (joint project with Istvan Kiss)
Allen-Cahn equation on graphs and
An alphabet of graphs: graphlets
Prerequisites Essential: A good understanding of Ordinary Differential Equations Computational skills (Maple/Matlab/Mathematica) Desirable: some experience with dynamical systems