Recent items

The evolution of Kirchhoff elliptic vortices A paper written with Travis Mitchell that just appeared in Physics of Fluids.

"Field interpolation and other challenges for high order vortex methods" Slides from a seminar on high order vortex methods and field interpolation from a seminar given at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

"Autonomous navigation of wireless robot swarms with covert leaders" (with Xiafeng Han, LFR, and Chien-Chung Shen) from ROBOCOMM 2007 (Athens Greece). A paper exploring swarm behavior when the leaders are under special constraints.

"Revisiting instabilities of highly elliptical vortices" (with Travis Mitchell) from the American Physical Society Division on Fluid Dynamics meeting. A poster presenting laboratory and computational results on the Love instability.

Fall 2008 courses

Math 351: Engineering Mathematics I

Math 512: Contemporary Applications of Mathematics

Spring 2008 schedule

Contact information

524 Ewing Hall
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
USA
(302) 831-1880

Links

My old home page. I'm still migrating.
Some mapleTA resources for colleagues.
Mixing of a passive scalar in a rotating flow.
UD Sigma Xi Chapter.
Turkey travelogue.

Projects

BlobFlow - an open source vortex method project.

Math 512: Contemporary applications of mathematics - Our mathematics capstone combining mathematical modeling, analysis, computation and experimentation.

Vitae
rossi@math.udel.edu

Revised 9 June 2008