In this paper we investigate the performance of the weighted essential non-oscillatory (WENO) methods based on different numerical fluxes, with the objective of obtaining better performance for the shallow water equations by choosing suitable numerical fluxes. We consider six numerical fluxes, i.e., Lax-Friedrichs, local Lax-Friedrichs, Engquist-Osher, Harten-Lax-van Leer, HLLC and the first-or...

We show a surprising connection between known integrable Hamiltonian systems with quartic potential and the stationary flows of some coupled KdV systems related to fourth order Lax operators. In particular, we present a connection between the Hirota-Satsuma coupled KdV system and (a generalisation of) the 1 : 6 : 1 integrable case quartic potential. A generalisation of the 1 : 6 : 8 case is sim...

In this paper we further investigate some applications of Nambu mechanics in hydrodynamical systems. Using the Euler equations for a rotating rigid body Névir and Blender [J. Phys. A 26 (1993), L1189–L1193] had demonstrated the connection between Nambu mechanics and noncanonical Hamiltonian mechanics. Nambu mechanics is extended to incompressible ideal hydrodynamical fields using energy and hel...

Instead of studying Lax equations as such, a solution Z of a Lax equation is assumed to be given. Then Z is regarded as defining a constraint on a non-autonomous linear differential equation associated with the Lax equation. In generic cases, quadrature and sometimes algebraic formulae in terms of Z are then proved for solution x of the linear differential equation, and examples are given where...

In this article, we prove that we can introduce a small ~ parameter in the six Painlevé equations through their corresponding Lax pairs and Hamiltonian formulations. Moreover, we prove that these ~-deformed Lax pairs satisfy the Topological Type property proposed by Bergère, Borot and Eynard for any generic choice of the monodromy parameters. Consequently we show that one can reconstruct the fo...

The Lax-Wendroff theorem stipulates that a discretely conservative operator is necessary to accurately capture discontinuities. The discrete operator, however, need not be derived from the divergence form of the continuous equations. Indeed, conservation law equations that are split into linear combinations of the divergence and product rule form and then discretized using any diagonal-norm ske...

BACKGROUND Quantification of left ventricular (LV) volume from cardiovascular magnetic resonance images relies on subjective and often challenging selection of short-axis (SAX) slices. We hypothesized that this could be solved by defining mitral annular (MA) plane and apex in long-axis (LAX) views, which could be combined with automated LV volume analysis that does not rely on manual tracing of...