Recent items

Mathematical Modeling and analysis of a continuum model for three-zone swarming behavior.
A poster presented by graduate student Jen Miller at NJIT's 2010 Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics meeting.

Global field interpolation for particle methods.
Work with Lorena Barba in Journal of Computational Physics on field interpolation (replacing one set of particles with another without inducing significant field errors).

Using Global Interpolation to Evaluate the Biot-Savart Integral for Deformable Elliptical Gaussian Vortex Elements.
A paper written with Rodrigo Platte and Travis Mitchell that appeared recently in SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing.

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

Slime Mold Inspired Protocol for Wireless Sensor Networks.
Work with Chien-Chung Shen from CIS, and graduate student Ke Li and undergraduate Kyle Thomas for the IEEE Self-Adaptive and Self-Organizing systems meeting.

Analyzing BlobFlow: A Case Study Using Model Checking to Verify Parallel Scientific Software .
Work on formal serial/parallel software verification with colleague Steve Siegel from CIS for the EuroPVM meeting.

Spring 2012

Math 535: Partial differential equations (honors)

All course materials will be delivered through the UD Sakai server.

Fall 2012 schedule

Contact information

524 Ewing Hall
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Delaware
Newark DE 19716
USA
(302) 831-1880
rossi at math dot udel dot edu

Links

The Bullock Creek Cafe is one of the best places in the world to relax and think about mathematics. When I was there in April of 2010, I stole a cup, and I keep it in my office in Ewing Hall at the University of Delaware.

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

Doctoral students

Jennifer Miller: PDE modeling and analysis of swarms.

Claudio Torres: High performance computing with particles.

Rui Fang: Modeling and analysis of ant-based wireless protocols (GEMS summer 2010).

Sherry Vaughan: PDE modeling and analysis of swarms with leadership (GEMS summer 2010).

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 Feb 2012