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Professor Gennady El

Professor

Department: Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering

Gennady El's main research interests lie in the theory and applications of dispersive hydrodynamics---a mathematical theory of multiscale nonlinear wave phenomena in dispersive media, encompassing deterministic and stochastic aspects of wave propagation. G. El has extensively worked on modulation theory of dispersive shock waves in integrable and non-integrable systems with applications in water waves, nonlinear optcs and condensed matter physics. His current research at the intersection of integrable systems and statistical mechancs is concerned with various aspects of spectral theory of soliton and breather gases using the inverse scattering transform and the tools of generalised hydrodynamics combined with high accuracy numerical simulations. G.El is  involved in close collaborations with experimentalists  in fluids and fibre optics. He has also completed several projects with industrial partners.

Before joining in 2018 the Department of Mathematics, Physics and Electrical Engineering at Northumbria University as a Professor of Applied Mathematics G. El had held positions of a Lecturer, Senior Lecturer and Reader in Applied Mathematics at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University. In 2015-2020 he has been an Invited Professor at the Laboratoire de Physique des Lasers, Atomes et Molécules (PhLAM), University of Lille, France.  He currently holds Visiting Professorship at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, Loughborough University.

G. El is a member of the London Mathematical Society (LMS) and of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). He is also a member of the SIAM Activity Group in Nonlinear Waves. G. El is co-founder and Deputy Editor of  Journal of Nonlinear Waves, Cambridge University Press

Gennady El

Nonlinear dispersive waves; Solitons; Asymptotic methods for PDE's; Dispersive hydrodynamics; Fluid dynamics and nonlinear optics applications

  • Please visit the Pure Research Information Portal for further information
  • Interaction of soliton gases in deep-water surface gravity waves, Fache, L., Bonnefoy, F., Ducrozet, G., Copie, F., Novkoski, F., Ricard, G., Roberti, G., Falcon, E., Suret, P., El, G., Randoux, S. 15 Mar 2024, In: Physical Review E
  • Soliton Gas: Theory, numerics and experiments, Suret, P., Randoux, S., Gelash, A., Agafontsev, D., Doyon, B., El, G. 11 Jun 2024, In: Physical review. E
  • Statistics of Extreme Events in Integrable Turbulence, Congy, T., El, G., Roberti, G., Tovbis, A., Randoux, S., Suret, P. 17 May 2024, In: Physical Review Letters
  • Dispersive hydrodynamics of soliton condensates for the Korteweg-de Vries equation, Congy, T., El, G., Roberti, G., Tovbis, A. 19 Sep 2023, In: Journal of Nonlinear Science
  • Refraction of a soliton by a soliton gas in a recirculating fiber loop, Suret, P., Dufour, M., Roberti, G., El, G., Copie, F., Randoux, S. 26 Jun 2023, 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics Europe and European Quantum Electronics Conference, CLEO/Europe-EQEC, Piscataway, US, IEEE
  • Soliton Gas: optical fiber experiments and theory, Suret, P., Lebel, A., Randoux, S., Roberti, G., El, G., Copie, F. 23 Aug 2023, 2023 Conference on Lasers and Electro-Optics, CLEO 2023, Piscataway, US, IEEE
  • Soliton–mean field interaction in Korteweg–de Vries dispersive hydrodynamics, Ablowitz, M., Cole, J., El, G., Hoefer, M., Luo, X. 1 Oct 2023, In: Studies in Applied Mathematics
  • Soliton refraction by an optical soliton gas, Suret, P., Dufour, M., Roberti, G., El, G., Copie, F., Randoux, S. 2 Oct 2023, In: Physical Review Research
  • Generalized hydrodynamics of the KdV soliton gas, Bonnemain, T., Doyon, B., El, G. 16 Sep 2022, In: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical
  • Prediction and manipulation of hydrodynamic rogue waves via nonlinear spectral engineering, Tikan, A., Bonnefoy, F., Roberti, G., El, G., Tovbis, A., Ducrozet, G., Cazaubiel, A., Prabhudesai, G., Michel, G., Copie, F., Falcon, E., Randoux, S., Suret, P. 3 May 2022, In: Physical Review Fluids

  • Giacomo Roberti Analysis and Control of Rogue Waves in Fibre Lasers and in Hydrodynamics: Integrable Turbulence Framework Start Date: 01/10/2018 End Date: 02/03/2022
  • Henry Carr ??Soliton gas interactions in dispersive hydrodynamics? Start Date: 18/01/2021 End Date: 25/10/2024

  • Theoretical Physics PhD June 30 1991
  • Fellow of Higher Education Academy FHEA 2008


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