List of Faculty in the Graduate Group in Applied Mathematics (GGAM)
GGAM comprises faculty members from departments across the campus, including its home, the Department of Mathematics. Below is a brief description of faculty research, links to personal and departmental web pages plus some "Related Courses" which can serve as a general study guideline for students interested in research with a particular faculty member. Students who want a more complete description of a faculty member's research interests are encouraged to contact them.
Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
| Name |
Research/Related Courses |
| Aldredge, Ralph
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Analytical, computational and experimental studies of turbulent flame propagation; diamond synthesis via chemical vapor disposition; combustion instabilities; development of algorithms for the computational study of reactive-flow dynamics |
| Barakat, A.I.
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Biofluid dynamics, cellular mechanics. [Related Courses]
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| Chattot, J.
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Characteristic based schemes; transonic flows; mesh generation. |
| Cheng, Harry B.
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Information science and technology in design and manufacturing, computational science, numerical analysis, multimedia, real-time computing, robotics. |
| D'Souza, Raissa
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Network theory, statistical physics, computational science, probability, applied math, cellular automata, and networking protocols.
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| Delplanque, Jean-Pierre
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Computational and theoretical fluid dynamics and transport phenomena. Multiphase flows, inert and reactive; emerging materials processing methodologies; free surface and interfacial flows; microscale transport phenomena and fluidics; bioengineering applications. |
| Farouki, Rida T.
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Geometrical algorithms and representations; computer-aided design and manufacturing; numerical analysis and scientific computing; particle simulation schemes (Coulomb systems); geometrical optics. |
| Hafez, Mohamed
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Mechanical Engineering. Transonic aerodynamics, computational fluid dynamics; numerical solutions of partial differential equations. |
| Kollmann, Wolfgang
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Turbulence; turbulent combustion; numerical simulation of turbulent flows. |
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