Dr Dave Smith

Dr Dave Smith

Senior Lecturer

School of Information and Physical Sciences

Career Summary

Biography

Dave is an applied mathematician whose work focuses on problems in mathematical physics. He uses partial differential equations to describe physical systems, and studies those differential equations. Examples include water waves and heat conductance. Dave is particularly interested in linear partial differential of high spatial order with complicated boundary conditions, and the associated spectral theory.

Before joining University of Newcastle, Dave completed Masters and PhD degrees in UK and held academic positions in UK, Greece, USA, and Singapore.


Qualifications

  • DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY, University of Reading - UK

Keywords

  • Dispersive revivals
  • Mathematical physics
  • Partial differential equations
  • Spectral theory of nonselfadjoint diff op
  • Unified transform method

Languages

  • English (Mother)

Fields of Research

Code Description Percentage
490410 Partial differential equations 100

Professional Experience

UON Appointment

Title Organisation / Department
Senior Lecturer University of Newcastle
School of Information and Physical Sciences
Australia

Academic appointment

Dates Title Organisation / Department
1/7/2016 - 30/6/2024 Assistant Professor Yale-NUS College
Singapore
1/7/2015 - 30/6/2016 Assistant Professor (Postdoctoral) University of Michigan
United States
12/8/2013 - 30/6/2015 Visiting Assistant Professor University of Cincinnati
United States
9/4/2012 - 11/8/2013 Postdoctoral Scholar University of Crete
Greece
1/8/2011 - 8/4/2012 Teaching Fellow University of Reading
United Kingdom
Edit

Publications

For publications that are currently unpublished or in-press, details are shown in italics.


Chapter (1 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2014 Mantzavinos D, 'Chapter 2: Evolution Problems: Linear', Unified Transform for Boundary Value Problems, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 13-47 (2014)
DOI 10.1137/1.9781611973822.ch2

Conference (2 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2023 Smith DA, 'Fokas Diagonalization', Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 301-318 (2023) [E1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-37404-3_21
2023 Pelloni B, Smith DA, 'The Role of Periodicity in the Solution of Third Order Boundary Value Problems', Springer Proceedings in Complexity, 333-345 (2023) [E1]
DOI 10.1007/978-3-031-37404-3_23

Journal article (16 outputs)

Year Citation Altmetrics Link
2024 Normatov B, Smith DA, 'The Airy equation with nonlocal conditions', STUDIES IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 152, 543-567 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/sapm.12652
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 2
2024 Pelloni B, Smith DA, 'Revivals, or the Talbot effect, for the Airy equation', STUDIES IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 153 (2024) [C1]
DOI 10.1111/sapm.12699
Citations Scopus - 1
2022 Fokas AS, Pelloni B, Smith DA, 'Time-periodic linear boundary value problems on a finite interval', Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, 80 481-506 (2022)
DOI 10.1090/qam/1615
Citations Scopus - 4Web of Science - 3
2022 Aitzhan S, Bhandari S, Smith DA, 'Fokas Diagonalization of Piecewise Constant Coefficient Linear Differential Operators on Finite Intervals and Networks', Acta Applicandae Mathematicae, 177 (2022)
DOI 10.1007/s10440-021-00456-9
Citations Scopus - 9Web of Science - 7
2022 Smith DA, Toh WY, 'Linear evolution equations on the half-line with dynamic boundary conditions', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 33, 505-537 (2022)
DOI 10.1017/S0956792521000103
Citations Scopus - 5Web of Science - 4
2021 Boulton L, Olver PJ, Pelloni B, Smith DA, 'New revival phenomena for linear integro-differential equations', STUDIES IN APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 147, 1209-1239 (2021)
DOI 10.1111/sapm.12397
Citations Scopus - 9Web of Science - 4
2020 Olver PJ, Sheils NE, Smith DA, 'REVIVALS AND FRACTALISATION IN THE LINEAR FREE SPACE SCHRODINGER EQUATION', QUARTERLY OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 78, 161-192 (2020)
DOI 10.1090/qam/1547
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 7
2018 Miller PD, Smith DA, 'The diffusion equation with nonlocal data', JOURNAL OF MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS AND APPLICATIONS, 466, 1119-1143 (2018)
DOI 10.1016/j.jmaa.2018.05.064
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 10
2018 Pelloni B, Smith DA, 'Nonlocal and Multipoint Boundary Value Problems for Linear Evolution Equations', Studies in Applied Mathematics, 141 46-88 (2018)
DOI 10.1111/sapm.12212
Citations Scopus - 17Web of Science - 15
2018 Kesici E, Pelloni B, Pryer T, Smith D, 'A numerical implementation of the unified Fokas transform for evolution problems on a finite interval', EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF APPLIED MATHEMATICS, 29, 543-567 (2018)
DOI 10.1017/S0956792517000316
Citations Scopus - 1Web of Science - 17
2016 Fokas AS, Smith DA, 'Evolution PDEs and augmented eigenfunctions. Finite interval', Advances in Differential Equations, 21, 735-766 (2016) [C1]

The so-called unified or Fokas method expresses the solution of an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for an evolution PDE in the finite interval in terms of an inte... [more]

The so-called unified or Fokas method expresses the solution of an initial-boundary value problem (IBVP) for an evolution PDE in the finite interval in terms of an integral in the complex Fourier (spectral) plane. Simple IBVPs, which will be referred to as problems of type I, can be solved via a classical transform pair. For example, the Dirichlet problem of the heat equation can be solved in terms of the transform pair associated with the Fourier sine series. Such transform pairs can be constructed via the spectral analysis of the associated spatial operator. For more complicated IBVPs, which will be referred to as problems of type II, there does not exist a classical transform pair and the solution cannot be expressed in terms of an infinite series. Here we pose and answer two related questions: first, does there exist a (non-classical) transform pair capable of solving a type II problem, and second, can this transform pair be constructed via spectral analysis? The answer to both of these questions is positive and this motivates the introduction of a novel class of spectral entities. We call these spectral entities augmented eigenfunctions, to distinguish them from the generalized eigenfunctions described in the sixties by Gel'fand and his co-authors.

Citations Scopus - 14
2016 Deconinck B, Sheils NE, Smith DA, 'The Linear KdV Equation with an Interface', COMMUNICATIONS IN MATHEMATICAL PHYSICS, 347, 489-509 (2016)
DOI 10.1007/s00220-016-2690-z
Citations Scopus - 2Web of Science - 22
2016 Pelloni B, Smith DA, 'Evolution PDEs and augmented eigenfunctions. Half-line', Journal of Spectral Theory, 6 185-213 (2016)
DOI 10.4171/jst/123
Citations Scopus - 16Web of Science - 14
2015 Sheils NE, Smith DA, 'Heat equation on a network using the Fokas method', JOURNAL OF PHYSICS A-MATHEMATICAL AND THEORETICAL, 48 (2015)
DOI 10.1088/1751-8113/48/33/335001
Citations Scopus - 2Web of Science - 12
2013 Pelloni B, Smith DA, 'Spectral theory of some non-selfadjoint linear differential operators', Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, 469 (2013)

We give a characterization of the spectral properties of linear differential operators with constant coefficients, acting on functions defined on a bounded interval, an... [more]

We give a characterization of the spectral properties of linear differential operators with constant coefficients, acting on functions defined on a bounded interval, and determined by general linear boundary conditions. The boundary conditions may be such that the resulting operator is not selfadjoint. We associate the spectral properties of such an operator S with the properties of the solution of a corresponding boundary value problem for the partial differential equation ¿tq ± iSq=0. Namely, we are able to establish an explicit correspondence between the properties of the family of eigenfunctions of the operator, and in particular, whether this family is a basis, and the existence and properties of the unique solution of the associated boundary value problem. When such a unique solution exists, we consider its representation as a complex contour integral that is obtained using a transform method recently proposed by Fokas and one of the authors. The analyticity properties of the integrand in this representation are crucial for studying the spectral theory of the associated operator. Copyright © The Royal Society 2013.

DOI 10.1098/rspa.2013.0019
Citations Scopus - 14
2012 Smith DA, 'Well-posed two-point initial-boundary value problems with arbitrary boundary conditions', MATHEMATICAL PROCEEDINGS OF THE CAMBRIDGE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 152, 473-496 (2012)
DOI 10.1017/S030500411100082X
Citations Scopus - 3Web of Science - 26
Show 13 more journal articles
Edit

Dr Dave Smith

Position

Senior Lecturer
School of Information and Physical Sciences
College of Engineering, Science and Environment

Contact Details

Email dave.smith@newcastle.edu.au
Phone 0240550862
Links Research Networks
Personal webpage

Office

Room SR272
Building Social Science
Location Callaghan Campus
University Drive
Callaghan, NSW 2308
Australia
Edit