Ken's Professional Information

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Education

Ph.D. in Mathematics, 1982, Department of Mathematics, at Colorado State University

M.A. in Mathematics and Physics, 1976, Department of Mathematical Sciences, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, at Ball State University

B.S. in Computer Science, Mathematics and Physics, 1974, Department of Computer Science, Department of Mathematical Sciences, and Department of Physics and Astronomy, at Ball State University

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Professional Career

Head, Department of Mathematical Sciences,
Montana State University, 2001 - present

Professor of Mathematics,
Montana State University, 1993 - present

Associate Professor of Mathematics,
Montana State University, 1987 - 1993

Assistant Professor of Mathematics,
Montana State University, 1981 - 1987

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Research Interests

Applied Mathematics and Mathematical Modeling

Biofilms

Numerical Analysis

Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations

Porous Media and Packed Bed Flow

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Reprints of Recent Publications, in PostScript form

"The Fully Sinc-Galerkin Method for Time-Dependent Boundary Conditions", (with Sanoe Koonprasert), Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 20, 494-526 (2004).

"Block Matrix Sinc-Galerkin Solution of the Wind-Driven Current Problem", (with Sanoe Koonprasert), Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 155, 607-635 (2004).

"Modeling Biofilm Growth for Porous Media Applications", (with Sunil K. Tiwari), Computation and Control VI, Mathematical and Computer Modelling, Vol. 33, 299-319 (2001).

"Wind-Driven Currents in a Sea with Variable Eddy Viscosity Calculated via a Sinc-Galerkin Technique", (with Don F. Winter and John Lund), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 33, 1041-1073 (2000).

"Convergence of the Overlapping Sinc Domain Decomposition Method", (with Anne C. Morlet and Nancy J. Lybeck), Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 98, 209-227 (1999).

"A Biofilm Growth Model for a Porous Medium", (with Sunil K. Tiwari), in Volume 4 of Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, the Proceedings of the 3rd IMACS International Symposium on Iterative Methods in Scientific Computation, IMACS, 129-134 (1998).

"The Schwarz Alternating Sinc Domain Decomposition Method", (with Anne C. Morlet and Nancy J. Lybeck), Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 25, 461-483, (1997).

"Domain Decomposition in Conjunction with Sinc Methods for Poisson's Equation", (with Nancy J. Lybeck), Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 12, 461-487 (1996).

"Sinc Methods for Domain Decomposition", (with Nancy J. Lybeck), Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 75, 13-41 (1996).

"The Sinc-Galerkin Schwarz Alternating Method for Poisson's Equation", (with Nancy J. Lybeck), Computation and Control IV, Vol. 20 of the series Progress in Systems and Control Theory, Birkhauser Boston, Inc., 247-258 (1995).

"Advection-Diffusion Equations: Temporal Sinc Methods", (with Tim S. Carlson and John Lund), Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, Vol. 11, 399-422 (1995).

"The Sinc-Galerkin Patching Method for Poisson's Equation", (with Nancy J. Lybeck), Proceedings of the 14th IMACS World Congress on Computational and Applied Mathematics, IMACS, Vol. 1, 325-328 (1994).

"A Sinc-Galerkin Method for Convection Dominated Transport", (with Tim S. Carlson and John Lund), Computation and Control III, Vol. 15 of the series Progress in Systems and Control Theory, Birkhauser Boston, Inc., 121-139 (1993).

A Publications Database is maintained by the Department of Mathematical Sciences where you can find even more information pertaining to publications.

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