e-mail: manukian@math.ku.edu

phone: (785) 864-4362

Degrees:

• Ph.D. Ohio State University (2005)

• M.A.   SUNY at Buffalo         (1998)

Teaching

Research Interests

• Nonlinear  waves

• Homoclinic, heteroclinic bifurcations

• Existence and stability of traveling waves

• N. Costanzino, V. Manukian, C.K.R.T Jones, Solitary waves of the regularized short pulse and Ostrovsky equations. SIAM J. Math. Anal. 41 (2009) 2088-2106.

• V. Manukian, N. Costanzino, C.K.R.T Jones, B. Sandstede, Existence of multi-pulses of the regularized short-pulse and Ostrovsky equations. Journal of Dynamics and Differential Equations. Published online 26 Aug. 2009.

• V. Manukian, B. Sandstede, Multi-hump pulses in systems with reflection and phase invariance. Journal of Differential Equations 247 (2009) 1866-1898.
  

• V. Manukian, S. Schecter, Traveling waves for a thin liquid film with surfactant on an inclined plane. Nonlinearity 22 (2009) 85-122.

• Existence and stability of multi-pulses with applications to nonlinear optics. PhD thesis