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  1. Light-Induced Waveguides in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Quantum Electronics, March 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  2. Radiating dispersive shock waves in non-local optical media

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, March 2016, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  3. Gerald Beresford Whitham. 13 December 1927 — 26 January 2014

    Article • Biographical Memoirs of Fellows of the Royal Society, June 2015, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  4. Elliptical optical solitary waves in a finite nematic liquid crystal cell

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, May 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  5. Diffraction-induced instability of coupled dark solitary waves

    Article • Optics Letters, April 2015, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  6. On optical Airy beams in integrable and non-integrable systems

    Article • Wave Motion, January 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  7. Spatial optical solitons in highly nonlocal media

    Article • Physical Review A, January 2015, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  8. Steering of optical solitary waves by coplanar low power beams in reorientational media

    Article • Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials, December 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  9. Nematic liquid crystals: An excellent playground for nonlocal nonlinear light localization in soft matter

    Article • Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials, December 2014, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  10. Comments on “Nonlinear refractive index induced collision and propagation of nematicons” by L. Kavitha, M. Venkatesh, S. Dhamayanthi and D. Gopi

    Article • Journal of Molecular Liquids, November 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  11. Exact and approximate solutions for optical solitary waves in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  12. Comments on “Breather-like director reorientations in a nematic liquid crystal with nonlocal nonlinearity” by L. Kavitha, M. Venkatesh and D. Gopi

    Article • Wave Motion, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  13. Vortex confinement and bending with nonlocal solitons

    Article • Optics Letters, January 2014, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  14. Deflection of nematicon-vortex vector solitons in liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review A, January 2014, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  15. Optical vortices in antiguides

    Article • Optics Letters, May 2013, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  16. Comment on “Solitons in highly nonlocal nematic liquid crystals: Variational approach”

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  17. Optical solitary waves in thermal media with non-symmetric boundary conditions

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, January 2013, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  18. Optical vortex solitary wave in a bounded nematic-liquid-crystal cell

    Article • Physical Review A, January 2013, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  19. Nematicons

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  20. Vortices in Nematic Liquid Crystals

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  21. Theoretical Approaches to Nonlinear Wave Evolution in Higher Dimensions

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  22. Interaction of Nematicons and Nematicon Clusters

    Article • October 2012, Wiley

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  23. APPROXIMATE TECHNIQUES FOR DISPERSIVE SHOCK WAVES IN NONLINEAR MEDIA

    Article • Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials, September 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  24. REFRACTION OF NONLINEAR LIGHT BEAMS IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS

    Article • Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials, September 2012, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  25. Refraction and instability of optical vortices at an interface in a liquid crystal

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, July 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  26. Semi-analytical solutions for dispersive shock waves in colloidal media

    Article • Journal of Physics B Atomic Molecular and Optical Physics, July 2012, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  27. Scattering of reorientational optical solitary waves at dielectric perturbations

    Article • Physical Review A, January 2012, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  28. Reorientational versus Kerr dark and gray solitary waves using modulation theory

    Article • Physical Review E, December 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  29. Propagation of optical spatial solitary waves in bias-free nematic-liquid-crystal cells

    Article • Physical Review A, October 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  30. Modulation analysis of nonlinear beam refraction at an interface in liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review A, September 2011, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  31. Lagrange solution for three wavelength solitary wave clusters in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  32. Refraction of nonlinear beams by localized refractive index changes in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review A, November 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  33. Solitary wave propagation and steering through light-induced refractive potentials

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  34. Stability of an optical vortex in a circular nematic cell

    Article • Physical Review A, March 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  35. Soliton Steering by Longitudinal Modulation of the Nonlinearity in Waveguide Arrays

    Article • Physical Review Letters, February 2010, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  36. Optical path control of solitary waves in dye-doped nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Photonics Letters of Poland, December 2009, Photonics Society of Poland

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  37. LIGHT SELF-LOCALIZATION IN NEMATIC LIQUID CRYSTALS: MODELLING SOLITONS IN NONLOCAL REORIENTATIONAL MEDIA

    Article • Journal of Nonlinear Optical Physics & Materials, December 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  38. Transcritical shallow-water flow past topography: finite-amplitude theory

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2009, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  39. Stabilization of vortex-soliton beams in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  40. Interaction of two-color solitary waves in a liquid crystal in the nonlocal regime

    Article • Physical Review A, June 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  41. Vector vortex solitons in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Optics Letters, April 2009, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  42. Modulation analysis of boundary-induced motion of optical solitary waves in a nematic liquid crystal

    Article • Physical Review A, April 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  43. Optical solitary waves escaping a wide trapping potential in nematic liquid crystals: Modulation theory

    Article • Physical Review A, March 2009, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  44. Collisionless shock resolution in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review A, December 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  45. Asymptotic description of solitary wave trains in fully nonlinear shallow-water theory

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, October 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  46. Modulation analysis of large-scale discrete vortices

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  47. Polarization kinetics in ferroelectrics with regard to fluctuations

    Article • Modelling and Simulation in Materials Science and Engineering, August 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  48. Nonlocal validity of an asymptotic one-dimensional nematicon solution

    Article • Journal of Physics A Mathematical and Theoretical, July 2008, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  49. Two-color, nonlocal vector solitary waves with angular momentum in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • Physical Review A, July 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  50. Dipole soliton formation in a nematic liquid crystal in the nonlocal limit

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, June 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  51. Two-color vector-soliton interactions in nematic liquid crystals in the local response regime

    Article • Physical Review A, January 2008, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  52. Two-colour nematicon interactions in local crystals

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  53. Dipole soliton formation in nematic liquid crystals

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  54. Mathematical modelling of nematicons and their interactions

    Article • January 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  55. Stabilization of vortex solitons in nonlocal nonlinear media

    Article • Physical Review A, December 2007, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  56. Modulation solutions for nematicon propagation in nonlocal liquid crystals

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, June 2007, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  57. Analysis of the Dynamics and Touchdown in a Model of Electrostatic MEMS

    Article • SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, January 2007, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  58. Large-amplitude nematicon propagation in a liquid crystal with local response

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, December 2006, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  59. Evolution of Benjamin-Ono solitons in the presence of weak Zakharov-Kutznetsov lateral dispersion

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, December 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  60. An undular bore solution for the higher-order Korteweg–de Vries equation

    Article • Journal of Physics A General Physics, August 2006, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  61. Undular bore solution of the Camassa-Holm equation

    Article • Physical Review E, May 2006, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  62. Spatial soliton evolution in nematic liquid crystals in the nonlinear local regime

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, February 2006, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  63. Unsteady undular bores in fully nonlinear shallow-water theory

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  64. Evolution of two-dimensional lump nanosolitons for the Zakharov-Kuznetsov and electromigration equations

    Article • Chaos An Interdisciplinary Journal of Nonlinear Science, September 2005, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  65. A variational approach to the stability of an embedded NLS soliton at the edge of the continuum

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, July 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  66. Approximate solutions for magmon propagation from a reservoir

    Article • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, March 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  67. One-dimensional fluid diffusion induced by constant-rate flow injection: Theoretical analysis and application to the determination of fluid permeability and specific storage of a cored rock sample

    Article • Journal of Geophysical Research Atmospheres, May 2004, American Geophysical Union (AGU)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  68. Davydov soliton evolution in temperature gradients driven by hyperbolic waves

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, April 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  69. Evolution of two-dimensional standing and travelling breather solutions for the Sine–Gordon equation

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  70. Raman induced destabilisation of asymmetric coupled solitary waves in nonlinear twin-core fibres

    Article • Optics Communications, April 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  71. Radiation from a cut-off point in a two layer nonlinear TE mode waveguide

    Article • Wave Motion, January 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  72. Active TM mode envelope soliton propagation in a nonlinear nematic waveguide

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, July 2002, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  73. The initial boundary problem for the Korteweg-de Vries equation on the negative quarter-plane

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, April 2002, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  74. Modelling the morning glory of the Gulf of Carpentaria

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2002, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  75. Quantum collapse of a small dust shell

    Article • Physical Review D, February 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  76. Pulse evolution for a two-dimensional Sine-Gordon equation

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, November 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  77. Pulse evolution in nonlinear optical fibers with sliding-frequency filters

    Article • April 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  78. Radiative losses due to pulse interactions in birefringent nonlinear optical fibers

    Article • February 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  79. Active propagation and cut-off for low TM modes in a nonlinear nematic waveguide

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, October 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  80. Effect of low momentum quantum fluctuations on a coherent field structure

    Article • Physical Review D, April 2000, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  81. Soliton-effect compression and dispersive radiation

    Article • Optics Communications, March 2000, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  82. Soliton evolution and radiation loss for the sine-Gordon equation

    Article • August 1999, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  83. Modulation solutions for the Benjamin–Ono equation

    Article • Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena, July 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  84. Optimization of soliton amplitude in dispersion-decreasing nonlinear optical fibers

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, March 1999, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  85. Pulse evolution for marangoni-bénard convection

    Article • Mathematical and Computer Modelling, November 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  86. Approximate evolution of lump initial conditions for the Benjamin-Ono equation

    Article • Wave Motion, October 1998, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  87. Solitary waves in nonlinear dispersive systems with zero average dispersion

    Article • July 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  88. Effect of radiative loss on pulses in periodically inhomogeneous birefringent optical fibers

    Article • June 1998, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  89. Dispersive radiation and nonlinear twin-core fibers

    Article • Journal of the Optical Society of America B, October 1997, Optical Society of America (OSA)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  90. A numerical method for predicting crystal micro-structure

    Article • Applied Mathematical Modelling, September 1997, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  91. Evolution of lump solutions for the KP equation

    Article • Wave Motion, November 1996, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  92. Effect of radiation losses on hotspot formation and propagation in microwave heating

    Article • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, October 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  93. Soliton interaction for the extended Korteweg-de Vries equation

    Article • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, January 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  94. Soliton evolution and radiation loss for the nonlinear Schrödinger equation

    Article • February 1995, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  95. Soliton evolution and radiation loss for the Korteweg–de Vries equation

    Article • January 1995, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  96. Resonant splitting of a vector soliton in a periodically inhomogeneous birefringent optical fiber

    Article • August 1994, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  97. Microwave heating of materials with power law temperature dependencies

    Article • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, January 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  98. Microwave Heating of Materials with Nonohmic Conductance

    Article • SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, December 1993, Society for Industrial & Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  99. Resonant shape oscillations and decay of a soliton in a periodically inhomogeneous nonlinear optical fiber

    Article • August 1993, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  100. Microwave Heating of Materials with Low Conductivity

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, June 1991, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  101. Initial-Boundary Value Problems for the Korteweg-de Vries Equation

    Article • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, January 1991, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  102. The extended Korteweg-de Vries equation and the resonant flow of a fluid over topography

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  103. Propagation of flame fronts

    Article • The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B Applied Mathematics, April 1990, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  104. Microwave heating of bodies with temperature dependent properties

    Article • Wave Motion, March 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  105. Dissipative effects on the resonant flow of a stratified fluid over topography

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  106. Hydraulic Jump and Undular Bore Formation on a Shelf Break

    Article • Journal of Physical Oceanography, July 1988, American Meteorological Society

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  107. Mean flow induced by the viscous critical layer in a stratified fluid

    Article • The Journal of the Australian Mathematical Society Series B Applied Mathematics, January 1988, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  108. High-Order Nonlinear Diffusion

    Article • IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics, January 1988, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  109. Modulation Theory Solution for Resonant Flow Over Topography

    Article • Proceedings of the Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences, January 1987, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  110. Numerical shock propagation using geometrical shock dynamics

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, October 1986, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth

  111. Resonant flow of a stratified fluid over topography

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 1986, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Noel Frederick Smyth