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Class Schedule: No Classes Spring/Summer 2023
Research Interests: Numerical solution of partial differential equations, Wave scattering, and Asymptotic methods
Degrees: Universidad Central de Venezuela, BS in Mathematics (1977), MS in Mathematics (1983), Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, PhD in Mathematics (1987)
Served as Mission President 2011-2014
Publications:
- Generation of Smooth Grids with Line Control for Scattering from Multiple Obstacles, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, 79 (2009), 2506-2520.
- Elliptic Grids with Nearly Uniform Cell Area and Line Spacing, Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis, 34 (2009), 59-75.
- Coupling of Dirichlet-to-Neumann boundary condition and finite difference methods in curvilinear coordinates for multiple scattering, Journal of Computational Physics, 229 (2010), 5498-5517.
- Finite Difference on Grids with Nearly Uniform Cell Area and Line Spacing for the Wave Equation on Complex Domains, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 234(6) (2010), 1970-1979.
- The DtN nonreflecting boundary condition for multiple scattering problems in the half-plane, Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg. 200, 2012, pp. 1-11.