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David A. Yuen is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their research spans multiple fields including Engineering, Mathematics, and Computer Science, with a focus on various subfields such as Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, Automotive Engineering, Computer Networks and Communications, Geometry and Topology, and Building and Construction.

Their research work extensively covers topics related to transportation and mobility innovations, optimization and search problems, smart parking systems research, vehicle routing optimization methods, and aspects of advanced algebra and geometry including algebraic structures, combinatorial models, and algebraic geometry and number theory.

Recent papers authored or coauthored by David A. Yuen include:

  • Finding all Borcherds product paramodular cusp forms of a given weight and level (2020, Mathematics of Computation)
  • Effects of Near-Surface Complexities on Differential Travel Times and Amplitude Ratios Between PP and Its Precursors (2020, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth)
  • Improved Bounds for Revenue Maximization in Time-Limited Online Dial-a-Ride (2021, Operations Research Forum)
  • Robustly assigning unstable items (2020, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization)
  • Eigenvalues and congruences for the weight 3 paramodular nonlifts of levels 61, 73, and 79 (2023, arXiv (Cornell University))

David A. Yuen frequently collaborates with several researchers including Christine Chung, Ananya Christman, Barbara M. Anthony, Nicholas Jaczko, and Scott Westvold.

Their publication record includes articles in a diverse set of venues such as Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Geophysical Research Solid Earth, Operations Research Forum, Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, and arXiv (Cornell University).

Best Publications

  • Layered convection induced by phase transitions

    Ulrich R. Christensen;David A. Yuen

  • Characteristics-based marker-in-cell method with conservative finite-differences schemes for modeling geological flows with strongly variable transport properties

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;David A. Yuen

  • Rayleigh^Taylor instabilities from hydration and melting propel 'cold plumes' at subduction zones

    Taras V Gerya;Taras V Gerya;David A Yuen

  • Probabilistic Tomography Maps Chemical Heterogeneities Throughout the Lower Mantle

    Jeannot Trampert;Frédéric Deschamps;Joseph Resovsky;David A Yuen

  • The interaction of a subducting lithospheric slab with a chemical or phase boundary

    Ulrich R. Christensen;David A. Yuen

  • Robust characteristics method for modelling multiphase visco-elasto-plastic thermo-mechanical problems

    Taras V. Gerya;David A. Yuen

  • The initiation of subduction: criticality by addition of water?

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;Dave A. Yuen;Joy Branlund

  • Rheological structure and deformation of subducted slabs in the mantle transition zone: implications for mantle circulation and deep earthquakes

    Shun-ichiro Karato;Michael R Riedel;David A Yuen

  • Role of Phase Transitions in a Dynamic Mantle

    Gerald Schubert;David A. Yuen;Donald L. Turcotte

  • Thermomechanical modelling of slab detachment

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;David A. Yuen;Walter V. Maresch

  • Under the Surface: Pressure-Induced Planetary-Scale Waves, Volcanic Lightning, and Gaseous Clouds Caused by the Submarine Eruption of Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai Volcano Provide an Excellent Research Opportunity

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  • Three-dimensional instabilities of mantle convection with multiple phase transitions.

    S. Honda;D. A. Yuen;S. Balachandar;D. Reuteler

  • Why is terrestrial subduction one-sided?

    Taras V. Gerya;James A.D. Connolly;David A. Yuen

  • Polar wandering and the forced responses of a rotating, multilayered, viscoelastic planet

    Roberto Sabadini;David A. Yuen;Enzo Boschi

  • Thermal-mechanical effects of low-temperature plasticity (the Peierls mechanism) on the deformation of a viscoelastic shear zone

    Masanori Kameyama;Masanori Kameyama;David A Yuen;Shun Ichiro Karato

  • Shear deformation zones along major transform faults and subducting slabs

    D. A. Yuen;L. Fleitout;G. Schubert;C. Froidevaux

  • Anomalous compressibility of ferropericlase throughout the iron spin cross-over.

    R. M. Wentzcovitch;J. F. Justo;J. F. Justo;Z. Wu;C. R. S. da Silva

  • Seismic implications of mantle wedge plumes

    Taras V. Gerya;Taras V. Gerya;James A.D. Connolly;David A. Yuen;Weronika Gorczyk

  • Modeling shear zones in geological and planetary sciences: solid- and fluid-thermal-mechanical approaches

    Klaus Regenauer-Lieb;D.A. Yuen

  • Numerical simulations of thermal-chemical instabilities at the core-mantle boundary

    Ulrich Hansen;David A. Yuen

  • Oceanic lithosphere and asthenosphere - Thermal and mechanical structure

    G. Schubert;C. Froidevaux;D. A. Yuen

  • Thinning of the lithosphere by small-scale convective destabilization

    David A. Yuen;Luce Fleitout

Frequent Co-Authors

Taras Gerya
Taras Gerya ETH Zurich
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb
Klaus Regenauer-Lieb University of New South Wales
Roberto Sabadini
Roberto Sabadini University of Milan
Frank J. Spera
Frank J. Spera University of California, Santa Barbara
Ondřej Čadek
Ondřej Čadek Charles University
Nicola Tosi
Nicola Tosi German Aerospace Center
Gerald Schubert
Gerald Schubert University of California, Los Angeles
Paolo Gasperini
Paolo Gasperini University of Bologna
Marlon Pierce
Marlon Pierce Indiana University
Enzo Boschi
Enzo Boschi University of Bologna

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