Prince Chidyagwai

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Research Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics Temple University 1805 N. Broad Street Philadelphia, PA 19122 Office: Wachman Hall 514 Phone: (215) 204-8607 chidyagp at Temple dot edu Postdoctoral advisor: Benjamin Seibold

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Curriculum Vitae: PDF Research Statement: PDF

• Ph.D Computational and Applied Mathematics, Rice University, 2010
Thesis Advisor: Beatrice Riviere
• M.A Mathematics, University of Pittsburgh , 2006
• B.S Mathematics(Hons), Lafayette College,2005
• B.A Computer Science, Lafayette College, 2005

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Teaching:

• Spring 2012: Math 2043, Calculus III
• Spring 2012, Senior Year Individual Study
• Fall 2011, Calculus III
• Spring 2011, Topics in Numerical Analysis (Finite Element Methods)
• Fall 2010, Calculus III

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Research Interests:

• Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing
• Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Elliptic Problems
• Finite Element Methods
• Finite Volume Methods
• Flow in Porous Media
• Coupling Free Flow and Porous Media Flow
• Computational Fluid Dynamics
• Moment methods for Radiative transfer
• Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Hyperbolic Problems

Research Support:

09/2011 - 08/2014 NSF grant DMS-1115269
Collaborative Research: Numerical approaches for incompressible viscous flows with high order upto the boundary
(with Benjamin Seibold and Rodolfo Ruben Rosales)

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Publications:

11. Discontinuous Galerkin method for 2D moment closure models for radiative transfer.(with M. Frank, P. Monreal, B. Seibold), in preparation
10. A comparative study of efficiency of jet schemes. (with J.-C. Nave, R. R. Rosales, B. Seibold), to appear in Int.J. Numer. Anal. Model.-B, 2012
9. Continuous and discontinuous finite element methods for coupled surface-subsurface flow and transport problem.( with A. Cesmelioglu and B. Riviere) ,submitted
7. On the Coupling of Finite Volume and Discontinuous Galerkin for Reservoir Simulation Problems. (with I. Mishev and Beatrice Riviere) Proceedings of SPE Reservoir Simulation Symposium , SPE 14197
[Abstract] [Preprint]
6. A Two-grid Method for Coupled Free Flow with Porous Media Flow. (with B. Riviere) Advances in water Resources,34 p.1113-1123, 2011
[Abstract] [Preprint]
5. On the coupling of the finite volume method and the Discontinuous Galerkin method for elliptic problems. (with I. Mishev and B. Riviere) Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics,231 p2193-2204,2011
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4. Numerical Modeling of Coupled Surface and Subsurface Flow Systems. (with B. Riviere) Advances in Water Resources,33 p.92-105, 2010
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3. On the Solution of the Coupled Navier-Stokes and Darcy Equations. (with B. Riviere) Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 198 p.3806-3820, 2009
[Abstract] [Preprint].
2. A Local Cellular Model for Growth of Quasicrystals. (with Clifford A. Reiter),Chaos,Solitions & Fractals, 24 p.803-812, 2005
[Abstract] [Preprint].
1. Auxilliary materials for: A Local Cellular Model for Growth on Quasicrystals. (with Clifford A. Reiter)[Link]

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Other Links:

• Applied Mathematics and Scientific Computing Seminar
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