Analysis and Numerical Methods in Solid State Physics and Chemistry

Series
Dissertation Defense
Time
Thursday, April 27, 2017 - 10:00am for 2 hours
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Lei Zhang – Georgia Institute of Technology
Organizer
Lei Zhang
We present two distinct problems in the field of dynamical systems.I the first part, we cosider an atomic model of deposition of materials over a quasi-periodic medium, that is, a quasi-periodic version of the well-known Frenkel-Kontorova model. We consider the problem of whether there are quasi-periodic equilibria with a frequency that resonates with the frequencies of the medium. We show that there are always perturbative expansions. We also prove a KAM theorem in a-posteriori form.In the second part, we consider a simple model of chemical reaction and present a numerical method calculating the invariant manifolds and their stable/unstable bundles based on parameterization method.