PDEs
The Forest That Burns All at Once
Over forty fire seasons in British Columbia, the number of fires varied six-fold and the area burned nearly a thousand-fold. Fewer fires now burn thirty-five times the area they did in the 1990s. A percolation threshold explains why, and a fire PDE on a patchy forest shows fuel 12.5% drier turning the same lightning strike into a fire a hundred times larger.
Read more →Everybody Wants the Cheap Plug
Ten thousand vehicles, two cheap places to charge and one hour. A mean field game — Hamilton–Jacobi–Bellman backwards, Fokker–Planck forwards — solved on a torus and animated, and the 1.60% that nobody's mistake accounts for.
Read more →The Neuron as a Density: Fokker–Planck with a Reset
The same absorbing barrier, seen forward: the firing rate is a probability flux, the reset kinks the density, and a recurrent network has to solve for its own rate.
Read more →Heat Diffusion in an Iron Sphere — A FEniCSx Simulation
A 3D FEniCSx simulation of heat diffusing through an iron sphere with a hot core. Full PDE, boundary conditions, weak form, and DOLFINx code.
Read more →Solar Magnetohydrodynamics: Solving Magnetic Diffusion in a Sphere
Solving the MHD induction equation in spherical geometry with Dedalus — magnetic diffusion on the 2D sphere surface and inside a 3D conducting ball, with animated GIF simulations.
Read more →Solving the 2D Wave Equation with Spectral Methods
Using the Dedalus spectral PDE solver to simulate the 2D wave equation on a periodic domain, with animated GIF output and applications across physics, finance, and medical imaging.
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