Benson Muite

Department of Mathematics
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
MI 48109-1043
USA
Fax: +1 734 763 0937
Email: muite at umich dot edu
 

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Lecturer in mathematics

Brief Curriculum Vitae

Current Research

Continuum models for microstructure formation
Partial differential equations
Spectral methods

Presentations

SIAM Annual meeting July 2006

 Multimat Cambridge Conference March 2006

Seminar at Humboldt University, July 2008, Combines work presented at ICOMAT and WCCM

Preprints

B.K. Muite, "A numerical comparison of Chebyshev methods for solving fourth-order semilinear initial boundary value problems", 
Forthcoming to Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
old version - pdf programs accepted version - pdf

Publications

B.K. Muite, "Analysis, Modelling and Simulation of Shape Memory Alloys", D. Phil Thesis, pdf supervised by John Ball and Petr Plechac 

B.K. Muite, "The secondary flow in a cylindrical container with a rotating end-wall at small but finite Reynolds number", Physics of Fluids 16, 3614-3626, (2004) pdf. Copyright 2004 American Institute of Physics. The article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The above article may be found here http://link.aip.org/link/PHFLE6/v16/p3614. 

B.K. Muite, M. HuntG.G. Joseph, "The effects of a counter-current interstitial flow on a discharging hourglass", Physics of Fluids 16, 3415-3425, (2004) pdfCopyright 2004 American Institute of Physics. The article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The above article may be found here http://link.aip.org/link/PHFLE6/v16/p3415.

B.K. Muite, S.F. Quinn, K. Kesava Rao, S. Sundaresan, "Silo quake and silo music: Granular flow induced vibration", Powder Technology 145, 190-202, (2004) Please email me to obtain a copy, or see the journal article here. 

Recent Conferences

B.K.MuiteO.U. Salman"Computations of geometrically linear and nonlinear Ginzburg-Landau models for martensitic pattern formation", European Symposium on Martensitic Transformations (ESOMAT), Prague, 2009, pdf

R. de la Cruz, B.K. Muite, H. Servat, "Strong linear scaling for spectral simulations of time dependent semilinear partial differential equations on Marenostrum", World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM), Venice, 2008, pdf

In Preparation

W. Tirry, J.M. BallB.K. Muite, D. Schryvers, "Stress-induced interfaces between austenite and untwinned martensite"

Links

HPC-Europa

Lady Margaret Hall

Multimat Research Training Network

NAG

OxMOS - New frontiers in the mathematics of solids

OxPDE - Center for Nonlinear PDE

The Queen's College