Irad Yavneh Irad Yavneh
 
 
  • CONTACT INFORMATION
 
Email:irad@cs.technion.ac.il
Office:618
Phone:+972-4-829-4945
Office Hours:Monday, 9:30-10:30


  • RESEARCH INTERESTS
Multigrid computational methods; scientific computing; image processing; computational fluid dynamics; geophysical turbulence; numerical analysis.

Demos and examples of selected research


Megilat Hamuamad - Purim 2005

  • SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
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Achi Brandt and Irad Yavneh.
Inadequacy of first-order upstream difference schemes for some recirculating flows.
J. Comput. Phys., 93(1):128-141, 1991. [bibtex]
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Achi Brandt and Irad Yavneh.
On multigrid solution of high-Reynolds incompressible entering flows.
J. Comput. Phys., 101(1):151-164, 1992. [bibtex]
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Achi Brandt and Irad Yavneh.
Accelerated multigrid convergence and high- Reynolds recirculating flows.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 14(3):607-626, 1993. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh.
A method for devising efficient multigrid smoothers for complicated PDE systems.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 14(6):1437-1463, 1993. [bibtex]
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Eli Tziperman, Irad Yavneh, and Shlomo Ta'asan.
Multilevel turbulence simulations.
Europhysics Lett., 24(4):239-244, 1993. [bibtex]
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Yossef Rosenwaks, Irad Yavneh, and Arthur I. Nozik.
The effect of electric fields on time-resolved photoluminescence spectra in semiconductors.
J. Appl. Phys., 75(8):4255-4257, 1994. [bibtex]
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James C. McWilliams, Jeffery B. Weiss, and Irad Yavneh.
Anisotropy and coherent vortex structures in planetary turbulence.
Science, 264(5157):410-413, 1994. [bibtex]
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Y. Rosenwaks, B. R. Thacker, R. K. Ahrenkiel, A. J. Nozik, and Irad Yavneh.
Photogenerated carrier dynamics under the influence of electric fields in III-V semiconductors.
Phys. Rev. B: Condensed matter, 50(3):1746-1754, 1994. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh and James C. McWilliams.
Breakdown of the slow manifold in the shallow-water equations.
Geo. and Astr. Fluid Dyn., 75:131-161, 1994. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh.
Multigrid smoothing factors of red-black Gauss-Seidel applied to a class of elliptic operators.
SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 32(6):1126-1138, 1995. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh and James C. McWilliams.
Robust multigrid solution of the shallow-water balance equations.
J. Comput. Phys., 119:1-25, 1995. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh.
On red-black SOR smoothing in multigrid.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 17(1):180-192, 1996. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Irad Yavneh and James C. McWilliams.
Multigrid solution of stably stratified flows: The quasigeostrophic equations.
J. Sci. Comput., 11(1):47-69, 1996. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh.
Analysis of a fourth-order compact scheme for convection-diffusion.
J. Comput. Phys., 133:361-364, 1997. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Irad Yavneh, Alexander A. Shchepetkin, James C. McWilliams, and Lee P. Graves.
Multigrid solution of stably stratified flows: The balance equations and their turbulent dynamics.
J. Comput. Phys., 136(2):245-262, 1997. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh, Cornelius H. Venner, and Achi Brandt.
Fast multigrid solution of the advection problem with closed characteristics.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 19(1):111-125, 1998. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Irad Yavneh.
Coarse-grid correction for nonelliptic and singular perturbation problems.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 19(5):1682-1699, 1998. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Irad Yavneh and Elena Olvovsky.
Multigrid smoothing for symmetric nine-point stencils.
Appl. Math. Comput., 92:229-246, 1998. [bibtex]
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James C. McWilliams and Irad Yavneh.
Fluctuation growth and instability associated with a singularity of the balance equations.
Phys. Fluids, 10(10):2587-2596, 1998. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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James C. McWilliams, Irad Yavneh, Michael J. P. Cullen, and Peter R. Gent.
The breakdown of large-scale flows in rotating stratified fluids.
Phys. Fluids, 10(12):3178-3184, 1998. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Amnon J. Meir and Irad Yavneh.
An elliptic problem with integral constraints, with application to large-scale geophysical flow.
Comput. Geosciences, 2:337-346, 1998. [bibtex]
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James C. McWilliams, Jeffrey B. Weiss, and Irad Yavneh.
The vortices of homogeneous geostrophic turbulence.
J. Fluid Mech., 401:1-26, 1999. [bibtex]
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Achi Brandt, Moshe Israeli, Irad Yavneh, and Andrew Siegel.
Multigrid solution of an elliptic boundary-value problem with integral constraints.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 21(4):1357-1369, 2000. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Amir Averbuch, Boris Epstein, Ludmila Ioffe, and Irad Yavneh.
Efficient parallelization of a three-dimensional Navier-Stokes solver on MIMD multiprocessors.
J. Supercomputing, 17:123-142, 2000. [bibtex]
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Amir Averbuch, Moshe Israeli, Igor Ravve, and Irad Yavneh.
Computation for electro-migration in interconnects of microelectronic devices.
J. Comput. Phys., 167:316-371, 2001. [bibtex]
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Boris Epstein, Amir Averbuch, and Irad Yavneh.
An accurate ENO driven multigrid method applied to 3D turbulent transonic flows.
J. Comput. Phys., 168(2):316-338, 2001. [bibtex]
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M. Jeroen Molemaker, James C. McWilliams, and Irad Yavneh.
Instability and equilibration of centrifugally-stable stratified Taylor-Couette flow.
Phys. Rev. Lett., 86(23):5270-5273, 2001. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Andrew Siegel, Jeffrey B. Weiss, Juri Toomre, James C. McWilliams, Pavel Berloff, and Irad Yavneh.
Eddies and vortices in ocean basin dynamics.
Geo. Res. Lett., 28(16):3183-3186, 2001. [bibtex]
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Irad Yavneh, James C. McWilliams, and M. Jeroen Molemaker.
Non-axisymmetric instability of centrifugally-stable stratified Taylor-Couette flow.
J. Fluid Mech., 448:1-21, 2001. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Joseph Gil, Zvi Gutterman, Shmuel Onn, and Irad Yavneh.
Automated transformations for PDE systems with application to multigrid solvers.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 24(3):886-904, 2003. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Ron Kimmel and Irad Yavneh.
An algebraic multigrid approach to image analysis.
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 24(4):1218-1231, 2003. [bibtex] [ps.gz]
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Jacques Vanneste and Irad Yavneh.
Exponentially small inertia-gravity waves and the breakdown of quasi-geostrophic balance.
J. Atmos. Sci., 61(2). [bibtex] [pdf]
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Gregory Dardyk and Irad Yavneh.
A multigrid approach to two-dimensional phase unwrapping.
Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, 11:241-259, 2004. [bibtex] [ps.gz]