Contact Information
269 Altgeld Hall
1409 W Green Street (MC-382)
Urbana, IL 61801
Biography
Vera Mikyoung Hur is a Professor of Mathematics and Associate Chair for Faculty. She is the Philippe Tondeur Scholar in Mathematics and a Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. She is a faculty affiliate of the Computational Science and Engineering program. She was a Visiting Professor at Brown University in 2016-2017.
Research Interests
Differential Equations and Applied Mathematics
Research Description
Professor Hur puts together rigorous analysis, numerical computation, and modeling to address fundamental issues in the mathematical aspects of water waves: particularly, global regularity versus finite time singularities, and; the existence of traveling waves and their characterization; the stability and instability of traveling waves. Her projects emphasize large scale dynamics and genuinely nonlinear behaviors, such as breaking and peaking.
Education
PhD, Brown University, 2006
Awards and Honors
Distinguished Promotion Award, University of Illinois, 2019
Associate, University of Illinois, Center for Advanced Study, 2019
Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar, University of Illinois, LAS, 2018
Philippe Tondeur Scholar in Mathematics, 2016
Simons Fellow in Mathematics, 2016
Invited Plenary Hour Address, AMS Sectional Meeting, 2015
Beckman Fellow, University of Illinois, Center for Advanced Study, 2014
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, University of Illinois, 2014, 2016
NSF CAREER Award, 2014
Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellowship, 2012
Courses Taught
External Links
Recent Publications
Hur, V. M., & Vanden-Broeck, J-M. (2020). A new application of Crapper’s exact solution to waves in constant vorticity flows. European Journal of Mechanics, B/Fluids, 83, 190-194. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.euromechflu.2020.04.015
Hur, V. M., & Wheeler, M. H. (2020). Exact free surfaces in constant vorticity flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2020.390
Dyachenko, S. A., & Hur, V. M. (2019). Stokes waves with constant vorticity: I. Numerical computation. Studies in Applied Mathematics, 142(2), 162-189. https://doi.org/10.1111/sapm.12250
Dyachenko, S. A., & Hur, V. M. (2019). Stokes waves with constant vorticity: folds, gaps and fluid bubbles. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. https://doi.org/10.1017/jfm.2019.634
Hur, V. M., & Pandey, A. K. (2019). Modulational instability in a full-dispersion shallow water model. Studies in Applied Mathematics, 142(1), 3-47. https://doi.org/10.1111/sapm.12231