Publications by Jeremy Peter Parker

Ghost States Underlying Spatial and Temporal Patterns: How Nonexistent Invariant Solutions Control Nonlinear Dynamics

Tobias Schneider, Zheng Zheng, Pierre Beck, Omid Ashtari, Jeremy Peter Parker

Close to a saddle-node bifurcation, when two invariant solutions collide and disappear, the behavior of a dynamical system can closely resemble that of a solution which is no longer present at the chosen parameter value. For bifurcating equilibria in low-d ...

AMER PHYSICAL SOC2025

Koopman analysis of the periodic Korteweg-de Vries equation

Jeremy Peter Parker

The eigenspectrum of the Koopman operator enables the decomposition of nonlinear dynamics into a sum of nonlinear functions of the state space with purely exponential and sinusoidal time dependence. For a limited number of dynamical systems, it is possible ...

American Institute of Physics2023

Predicting chaotic statistics with unstable invariant tori

Tobias Schneider, Omid Ashtari, Jeremy Peter Parker

It has recently been speculated that long-time average quantities of hyperchaotic dissipative systems may be approximated by weighted sums over unstable invariant tori embedded in the attractor, analogous to equivalent sums over periodic orbits, which are ...

American Institute of Physics2023

Invariant tori in dissipative hyperchaos

Tobias Schneider, Jeremy Peter Parker

One approach to understand the chaotic dynamics of nonlinear dissipative systems is the study of non-chaotic yet dynamically unstable invariant solutions embedded in the system's chaotic attractor. The significance of zero-dimensional unstable fixed points ...

American Institute of Physics2022

Variational methods for finding periodic orbits in the incompressible Navier Stokes equations

Tobias Schneider, Jeremy Peter Parker

Unstable periodic orbits are believed to underpin the dynamics of turbulence, but by their nature are hard to find computationally. We present a family of methods to converge such unstable periodic orbits for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, bas ...

Cambridge University Press2022

The effects of Prandtl number on the nonlinear dynamics of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability in two dimensions

Jeremy Peter Parker

It is known that the pitchfork bifurcation of Kelvin-Helmholtz instability occurring at minimum gradient Richardson number Ri(m) similar or equal to 1/4 in viscous stratified shear flows can be subcritical or supercritical depending on the value of the Pra ...

Cambridge University Press2021

A study of the double pendulum using polynomial optimization

Jeremy Peter Parker

In dynamical systems governed by differential equations, a guarantee that trajectories emanating from a given set of initial conditions do not enter another given set can be obtained by constructing a barrier function that satisfies certain inequalities on ...

American Institute of Physics2021

Optimal perturbation growth on a breaking internal gravity wave

Jeremy Peter Parker

The breaking of internal gravity waves in the abyssal ocean is thought to be responsible for much of the mixing necessary to close oceanic buoyancy budgets. The exact mechanism by which these waves break down into turbulence remains an active area of resea ...

Cambridge University Press2021

Koopman Analysis of Isolated Fronts and Solitons

Jeremy Peter Parker

A Koopman decomposition of a complex system leads to a representation in which nonlinear dynamics appear to be linear. The existence of a linear framework with which to analyze nonlinear dynamical systems brings new strategies for prediction and control, w ...

2020