New Mexico Tech
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Research Projects in the Mathematics Department
Mathematics department and faculty are involved in a number of interesting research projects. The following is just a sampling of recent projects.
- Rakhim Aitbayev with B. Bialecki, Preconditioned conjugate gradient method for nonselfadjoint or indefinite orthogonal spline collocation problems. Published in the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 41 (2003), pp. 589-604.
- Rakhim Aitbayev with B. Bialecki, Orthogonal spline collocation for nonlinear Dirichlet problems. SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 38 (2000), pp. 1582--1602.
- Rakhim Aitbayev, X.-C. Cai, and M. Paraschivoiu, Parallel two-level methods for three-dimensional transonic compressible flow simulations on unstructured meshes, in Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics: Towards Teraflops, Optimization and Novel Formulations, D. Keyes, A. Ecer, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka and P. Fox (Editors), Elsevier, 2000, pp. 89 -- 96.
- Ivan Avramidi: List of Publications
- Brian Borchers: List of publications
- Anwar Hossain: List of Publications
- William D. Stone, Age Structured Population Models, To Appear in MAA Environmental Mathematics, January 1998.
- William D. Stone, X-H Du, T-M Yao, & J.M.H. Hendryckx. Stability Analysis of the Unsaturated Water Flow Equation. Water Resource Research; (in press).
- William D. Stone, F.M. Phillips, J.T. Fabrycka-Martin. Chemical Geology; Elsevier Science Ireland Ltd., (in press).
- G. Kerr, J. Tweed, and G. Melrose, "Stress Intensification Due To An Edge Crack In An Anisotropic Elastic Solid" International Journal of Fracture, 106: 47-56, 2000.
- G. Kerr, G. Melrose, and J. Tweed, "The Disturbance of a Uniform Heat Flow by Two Line Cracks in an Infinite Anisotropic Thermoelastic Solid" Journal of Thermal Stresses, v. 22(#6) pp. 547-562 (1999)
- G. Kerr, G. Melrose and J. Tweed, "Antiplane Shear of a Strip Containing a Periodic Array of Rigid Line Inclusions" Math. And Mechs. of Solids, Vol 3, #4, 505-512, (1998)
- G. Kerr, G. Melrose and J. Tweed, "Antiplane Shear of a Strip Containing a Staggered Array of Rigid Line Inclusions" Mathl. Comput. Modelling. Vol. 25 , pp. 11-18, (1997)
- G. Kerr, G. Melrose and J. Tweed, "Some Triple Sine Series" Appl. Math Lett. Vol. 7, No. 5, pp. 33-36 (1994)
- G. Kerr, G. Melrose and J. Tweed, "The Disturbance of a Uniform Heat Flow by a Line Crack in an Infinite Anisotropic Thermoelastic Solid" Int. J. Eng. Sci. Vol. 30, No. 10, pp. 1301-1313, (1992)
- G. Kerr, H. Kaneko, and Y. Xu, "Degenerate Kernel Methods for mult-variable Hammerstein Equations" Applied Numerical Mathematics 10, (1992)
- Steve Schaffer, J.G. Osorio, H.Y. Chen and L.W. Teufel, "A Two-Domain, 3D, Fully Coupled Fluid-Flow/Geometrical Simulation Model for Reservoirs with Stress-Sensitive Mechanical and Fluid-Flow Properties", SPE paper 47397, Proc. SPE/ISRM Eurock98 Conference, Trondheim, Norway, July 8-10, 1998.
- Steve Schaffer, "Semi-Coarsening Multigrid Methods for Elliptic Partial Differential Equations with Highly Discontinuous and anistropic Coefficients", SIAM J. Sci. Statist. Comput., Vol. 20, No. 1, pp. 228-242, 1998.
- Steve Schaffer, Liming Li and Rune Holt, "A Preliminary Study of a Fully Fluid Coupled Particle Model", proceedings, Norwegian Petroleum Research Seminar, Bergen, Norway, Nov. 15-16, 2000
- John Starrett, "Control of Chaos by Capture and Release", Physical Review E 67, 056221, 2003. PDF (221 kB)
- John Starrett, "Control of Chaos by Occasional Bang-Bang", Physical Review E 67, 036203, 2003. PDF (370 kB)
- John Starrett, "Time-Optimal Control of Chaos by Center Manifold Targeting", Physical Review E, Volume 6604, Issue 4, Page 6206, 2002. PDF (331 kB)
- John Starrett, Randall Tagg, "Control of a Chaotic Parametrically Driven Pendulum", Physical Review Letters, 74(11), 1995. PDF (843 kB)
- John Starrett, "Controlling Chaos in the Tent Map", Denver Metropolitan Journal of Mathematics and Computer Science, Summer 1994, #6.