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Bongsuk Kwon

Ulsan National Institute of Science and Technology · Mathematics

About the Lab

Professor Bongsuk Kwon's research lab specializes in mathematical analysis of kinetic and fluid-particle interaction systems, with a focus on emergent collective behavior in active matter and plasma physics. The lab investigates the global existence, stability, and large-time dynamics of solutions to coupled PDE systems, including hydrodynamic models of flocking particles, Vlasov-Navier-Stokes equations, and Euler-Poisson systems. A central theme is the development of Lyapunov functionals and energy methods to analyze velocity alignment, flocking, and sheath formation in complex multiscale systems. The lab also contributes to uncertainty quantification in dynamical systems through optimal experimental design for ODE-based models.

flocking dynamicskinetic-fluid systemsLyapunov functionalplasma sheathoptimal experimental design

Research Overview

Papers
57
Total Citations
415
Papers (5y)
20
Primary Field
Mathematics

Research Output Trend

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Publications per year (5y)
20total
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Citations per year (5y)
20total
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Selected Papers

15
1
Article|86 citations·2014
A hydrodynamic model for the interaction of Cucker–Smale particles and incompressible fluid
Seung‐Yeal Ha, Moon-Jin Kang, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

We present a new hydrodynamic model for the interactions between collision-free Cucker–Smale flocking particles and a viscous incompressible fluid. Our proposed model consists of two hydrodynamic models. For the Cucker–Smale flocking particles, we employ the pressureless Euler system with a non-local flocking dissipation, whereas for the fluid, we use the incompressible Navier–Stokes equations. These two hydrodynamic models are coupled through a drag force, which is the main flocking mechanism b

Condensed Matter PhysicsPhysics and Astronomy
2
Article|52 citations·2015
Global well-posedness and large-time behavior for the inhomogeneous Vlasov–Navier–Stokes equations
Young-Pil Choi, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1Nonlinearity

We study the global solvability and the large-time behavior of solutions to the inhomogeneous Vlasov-Navier-Stokes equations. When the initial data is sufficiently small and regular, we first show the unique existence of the global strong solution to the kinetic-fluid equations, and establish the a priori estimates for the large-time behavior using an appropriate Lyapunov functional. More specifically, we show that the velocities of particles and fluid tend to be aligned together exponentially f

Applied MathematicsMathematics
3
Article|42 citations·2015
Emergent Dynamics for the Hydrodynamic Cucker--Smale System in a Moving Domain
Seung‐Yeal Ha, Moon-Jin Kang, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1SIAM Journal on Mathematical Analysis

We study the emergent dynamics for the hydrodynamic Cucker--Smale system arising in the modeling of flocking dynamics in interacting many-body systems. Specifically, the initial value problem with a moving domain is considered to investigate the global existence and time-asymptotic behavior of classical solutions, provided that the initial mass density has bounded support and the initial data are in an appropriate Sobolev space. In order to show the emergent behavior of flocking, we make use of

Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science
4
Article|34 citations·2019
Synchronization of Kuramoto oscillators with time-delayed interactions and phase lag effect
Chun-Hsiung Hsia, Chang‐Yeol Jung, Bongsuk Kwon, Yoshihiro Ueda
SJR Q1Journal of Differential Equations
Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science
5
Article|19 citations·2016
Quasi-neutral limit for the Euler–Poisson system in the presence of plasma sheaths with spherical symmetry
Chang‐Yeol Jung, Bongsuk Kwon, Masahiro Suzuki
SJR Q1Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences

The purpose of this paper is to mathematically investigate the formation of a plasma sheath near the surface of a ball-shaped material immersed in a bulk plasma, and to obtain qualitative information of such a plasma sheath layer. Specifically, we study existence and the quasi-neutral limit behavior of the stationary spherical symmetric solutions for the Euler–Poisson equations in a three-dimensional annular domain. We first propose a suitable condition on the velocity at the sheath edge, referr

Applied MathematicsMathematics
6
Article|14 citations·2020
Quasi-neutral limit for Euler-Poisson system in the presence of boundary layers in an annular domain
Chang‐Yeol Jung, Bongsuk Kwon, Masahiro Suzuki
SJR Q1Journal of Differential Equations
Applied MathematicsMathematics
7
Article|13 citations·2018
Small amplitude limit of solitary waves for the Euler–Poisson system
Junsik Bae, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1Journal of Differential Equations
Atomic and Molecular Physics, and OpticsPhysics and Astronomy
8
Article|13 citations·2017
The Maslov Index and Spectral Counts for Linear Hamiltonian Systems on [0, 1]
Peter Howard, Soyeun Jung, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
9
Article|11 citations·2021
Optimal Experimental Design for Uncertain Systems Based on Coupled Differential Equations
Youngjoon Hong, Bongsuk Kwon, Byung-Jun Yoon
SJR Q1IEEE AccessOA

We consider the optimal experimental design (OED) problem for an uncertain system described by coupled ordinary differential equations (ODEs), whose parameters are not completely known. The primary objective of this work is to develop a general experimental design strategy that is applicable to any ODE-based model in the presence of uncertainty. For this purpose, we focus on non-homogeneous Kuramoto models in this study as a vehicle to develop the OED strategy. A Kuramoto model consists of N int

Computer Networks and CommunicationsComputer Science
10
Article|10 citations·2009
ASYMPTOTIC BEHAVIOR OF MULTIDIMENSIONAL SCALAR RELAXATION SHOCKS
Bongsuk Kwon, Kevin Zumbrun
SJR Q1Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations

We establish pointwise bounds for the Green function and consequent linearized stability for multidimensional planar relaxation shocks of general relaxation systems whose equilibrium model is scalar, under the necessary assumption of spectral stability. Moreover, we obtain nonlinear L 2 asymptotic behavior/sharp decay rate of perturbed weak shocks of general simultaneously-symmetrizable relaxation systems, under small L 1 ∩ H [d/2]+3 perturbations with first moment in the normal direction to the

Control and Systems EngineeringEngineering
11
Article|10 citations·2016
Asymptotic stability and bifurcation of time-periodic solutions for the viscous Burgers' equation
Shih-Hsin Chen, Chun-Hsiung Hsia, Chang‐Yeol Jung, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics
12
Article|9 citations·2013
Large-time behavior of solutions to an outflow problem for a shallow water model
Bongsuk Kwon, Masahiro Suzuki, Masahiro Takayama
SJR Q1Journal of Differential Equations
Applied MathematicsMathematics
13
Article|9 citations·2021
On approximate solutions to the Euler–Poisson system with boundary layers
Chang‐Yeol Jung, Bongsuk Kwon, Masahiro Suzuki
SJR Q1Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical SimulationOA
Applied MathematicsMathematics
14
Article|9 citations·2012
Asymptotic stability analysis for transition front solutions in Cahn–Hilliard systems
Peter Howard, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1Physica D Nonlinear Phenomena
Materials ChemistryMaterials Science
15
Article|9 citations·2021
Linear Stability of Solitary Waves for the Isothermal Euler–Poisson System
Junsik Bae, Bongsuk Kwon
SJR Q1Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis
Mathematical PhysicsMathematics

Research Areas

Applied MathematicsComputer Networks and CommunicationsMathematical PhysicsMaterials ChemistryComputational MechanicsAtomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics

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