Current Projects
B. Akers and D. P. Nicholls,
Resonant spectral data for gravity-capillary waves in arbitrary depth
B. Akers,
On a limit of the Benjamin-Ono equation
B. Akers and Wenxuan Gao (Masters Student),
Wilton Ripples in approximate water wave models
B. Akers and D. Ambrose,
On water wave models
B. Akers and J. Wilkening,
Capillary-gravity solitary breathers
Submitted
B. Akers and D.P. Nicholls,
Spectral Stability of Deep Two-Dimensional
Gravity Water Waves: Repeated Eigenvalues pdf
Refereed Papers
B. Akers,
The generation of capillary-gravity solitary waves by a surface pressure forcing,
in press Math. and Comp. in Simulation
pdf
B. Akers and P.A. Milewski,
Dynamics of three-dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves in deep water, SIAM J. Appl. Math.
70(7), 2390-2408 (2010),
pdf Movie
B. Akers and D.P. Nicholls,
Traveling waves with gravity and surface tension,
SIAM J. Appl. Math.
70(7), 2373-2389 (2010),
pdf
B. Akers and P.A. Milewski,
A model equation for wavepacket solitary waves arising from capillary-gravity flows, Stud. Appl. Math.,
122, 249-274 (2009),
pdf
B. Akers and P.A. Milewksi,
A stability result for solitary waves in nonlinear dispersive equations, Comm. Math. Sci.,
6, 791-797 (2008)
pdf
B. Akers and P.A. Milewski,
Model Equations for gravity-capillary waves in deep water, Stud. Appl. Math.,
121, 49-69, (2008)
pdf
B. Akers and O. Bokhove,
Hydraulic flow through a channel contraction: multiple steady states. Phys. Fluids.,
20, 056601 (2008)
pdf ,
Movies
B. Akers and A. Belmonte,
Impact dynamics of a solid sphere falling into a viscoelastic micellar fluid, J. Non-Newt. Fluid Mech.,
135, 97-108 (2006)
pdf
B. Akers, S. Bohun, P. Gibson, A. Hofinger, M. Lamoureux, J. Lobb, B. Mawby and M. Roberts.
General statistical design of an experimental problem for harmonics.
Can. Appl. Math. Q., 12(4), 415--437, (2004)
MR2220896
Less Refereed
B. Akers, Shallow water flow through a channel contraction. Proceedings of the GFD Program. 97--117 (2005)
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution pdf ,
B. Akers, On model equations for gravity-capillary waves, PhD Thesis, University of Wisconsin - Madison (2008)
pdf
Collaborators and Friends
Paul Milewski,
Onno Bokhove, Andrew Belmonte, David Nicholls, David Ambrose, Jon Wilkening, Jerry Bona
