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Benito Chen-Charpentier Professor Office: RH 211 Phone: (307) 766-2280 Fax: (307) 766-6838 E-mail: bchen@uwyo.edu Office Hours: MW: 10:00-10:50, T: 14:00-15:00 and by appointment

 

Education

• B.Sc., Physics, Facultad de Ciencias, UNAM, 1973
• Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, California Institute of Technology, 1979

Research Interests

I have research interests in the areas of numerical analysis and partial differential equations as these areas relate to the problems of fluid flow through porous media, multiphase and multi-component flow, secondary oil recovery, flow with heat sources and reaction terms, and biofilm growth. In addition, I am also working on perturbation and numerical techniques for two point boundary value problems with sharp layers and reaction terms, and for water waves. I am also interested in bifurcation in numerical methods for molecular dynamics simulations and in scientific computation in general.

Four Recent Publications

B.CHEN and H. KOJOUHAROV, 2007, Biofilms in Porous Media: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation, in Bioremediation: a Novel Technology, ed. S.N. Singh and R. D. Tripathi, Springer Verlag, New York.

 

B. CHEN, D. T. DIMITROV, H. V. KOJOUHAROV, 2006, Combined Nonstandard   Numerical Methods for ODEs with Polynomial Right-hand Sides, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol. 73, pp. 105-113.

 

B. CHEN, R. GARCIA-BOLOS, L. JODAR and M.D. ROSELLO, 2005, Chebyshev Approximations for Nonlinear Differential Initial Value Problems, Nonlinear Analysis, Vol. 63, pp. 629-637.

 

       F. SOLIS, L. JODAR and B. CHEN, 2005, Chaos in the One-dimensional Wave Equation,

       Applied Mathematics Letters, Vol. 18, pp. 85-90.

Teaching Interests

I am interested in teaching Calculus, Differential Equations, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods, Mathematical Modeling and any other topic related with my research. I like to teach both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and one of my main objectives is to advise theses and dissertations.

Current Courses (Fall, 2007)

• MATH 5390-01  Finite Element Methods
• MATH1400-04 College Algebra

 

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