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Catherine Sulem

Catherine Sulem

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Mathematics

D-Index
34
Citations
8595
World Ranking
2848
National Ranking
113

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2015 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
  • 2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society

Overview

Catherine Sulem is affiliated with the University of Toronto in Canada and conducts research primarily within Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work extensively covers Oceanography, Earth-Surface Processes, and Atmospheric Science, with additional focus on Statistical and Nonlinear Physics as well as Mathematical Physics.

The scientist's research interests and main topics include:

  • Ocean Waves and Remote Sensing
  • Coastal and Marine Dynamics
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Arctic and Antarctic Ice Dynamics
  • Tropical and Extratropical Cyclones Research
  • Cryospheric Studies and Observations
  • Nonlinear Waves and Solitons

Sulem has collaborated frequently with colleagues in the field. Notable coauthors include Philippe Guyenne, with whom they have co-authored twelve papers, Adilbek Kairzhan with nine coauthored works, Walter Craig twice, and Boyang Xu once.

The scientist has published several papers in respected venues. Frequent publication venues are Water Waves, arXiv (Cornell University), Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Fluids, and Multiscale Modeling and Simulation.

Recent papers by Sulem feature topics on nonlinear modulation and Hamiltonian formulations related to deep-water gravity waves and hydroelastic wave phenomena. These include:

  • Normal Form Transformations and Dysthe's Equation for the Nonlinear Modulation of Deep-Water Gravity Waves (2020, Water Waves)
  • Spatial Form of a Hamiltonian Dysthe Equation for Deep-Water Gravity Waves (2021, Fluids)
  • Hamiltonian Dysthe Equation for Three-Dimensional Deep-Water Gravity Waves (2022, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation)
  • A Hamiltonian Dysthe equation for deep-water gravity waves with constant vorticity (2022, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)
  • A Hamiltonian Dysthe equation for hydroelastic waves in a compressed ice sheet (2025, Journal of Fluid Mechanics)

Sulem has received recognition from professional societies, being named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2015 by the Academy of Science and a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society in 2013.

Best Publications

  • The nonlinear Schrödinger equation : self-focusing and wave collapse

    Catherine Sulem;Pirre-Louis Sulem

  • The nonlinear Schrödinger equation

    C. Sulem

  • Numerical simulation of gravity waves

    W. Craig;C. Sulem

  • Rate of blowup for solutions of the nonlinear Schrödinger equation at critical dimension.

    MJ Landman;GC Papanicolaou;C Sulem;PL Sulem

  • Tracing complex singularities with spectral methods

    Catherine Sulem;Pierre-Louis Sulem;Hélène Frisch

  • On asymptotic stability of solitary waves for nonlinear Schrödinger equations

    Vladimir S. Buslaev;Catherine Sulem

  • Nonlinear modulation of gravity waves: a rigorous approach

    W Craig;C Sulem;P L Sulem

  • On the continuous limit for a system of classical spins

    P. L. Sulem;P. L. Sulem;C. Sulem;C. Sulem;C. Bardos

  • Finite time analyticity for the two- and three-dimensional Kelvin-Helmholtz instability

    C. Sulem;P. L. Sulem;C. Bardos;U. Frisch

  • Solitary water wave interactions

    W. Craig;P. Guyenne;J. Hammack;D. Henderson

  • Focusing singularity of the cubic Schrödinger equation

    DW McLaughlin;GC Papanicolaou;C Sulem;PL Sulem

  • The modulational regime of three-dimensional water waves and the Davey-Stewartson system

    Walter Craig;Ulrich Schanz;Catherine Sulem

  • A classification of well‐posed kinetic layer problems

    François Coron;François Golse;Catherine Sulem

  • Hamiltonian long-wave expansions for water waves over a rough bottom

    Walter Craig;Philippe Guyenne;David P. Nicholls;Catherine Sulem

  • On a boundary layer problem for the nonlinear Boltzmann equation

    Francois Golse;Francois Golse;Benoit Perthame;Benoit Perthame;Catherine Sulem;Catherine Sulem

  • Interaction of lumps with a line soliton for the DSII equation

    A.S. Fokas;A.S. Fokas;D.E. Pelinovsky;C. Sulem

  • Focusing and multi-focusing solutions of the nonlinear Schro¨dinger equation

    B. J. LeMesurier;G. Papanicolaou;C. Sulem;C. Sulem;P. L. Sulem;P. L. Sulem

  • Longtime dynamics of a conductive fluid in the presence of a strong magnetic field

    C. Bardos;C. Sulem;P.-L. Sulem

  • Soliton Resolution for the Derivative Nonlinear Schrödinger Equation

    Robert Jenkins;Jiaqi Liu;Peter Perry;Catherine Sulem

  • Stability of isotropic singularities for the nonlinear schro¨dinger equation

    M. J. Landman;G. C. Papanicolaou;C. Sulem;P. L. Sulum

  • The focusing singularity of the Davey-Stewartson equations for gravity-capillary surface waves

    G. C. Papanicolaou;C. Sulem;P. L. Sulem;X. P. Wang

Frequent Co-Authors

Dmitry E. Pelinovsky
Dmitry E. Pelinovsky McMaster University
George Papanicolaou
George Papanicolaou Stanford University
Claude Bardos
Claude Bardos Université Paris Cité
James Colliander
James Colliander University of British Columbia
Uriel Frisch
Uriel Frisch Observatoire de la Côte d’Azur
Benoît Perthame
Benoît Perthame Sorbonne University
Athanassios S. Fokas
Athanassios S. Fokas University of Cambridge
Jean-Claude Saut
Jean-Claude Saut University of Paris-Saclay

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