CURRICULUM VITAE-- C. V.Easwaran


I. IDENTIFICATION

Name: CHIRAKKAL V. EASWARAN

Department: Mathematics and Computer Science

Rank: Professor

e-mail:easwaran@newpaltz.edu


II. EDUCATION:

Ph. D. : The University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada ( Applied Mathematics )

M. Sc. : Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India ( Mathematics )

B. Sc. : University of Kerala, India (Mathematics and Statistics)


III. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

1987--present : (Assistant/Associate/Full) Professor, SUNY New Paltz.

1983--1987 : Teaching/Research Assistant, Dept. of Mathematics, University of Calgary.

1996--1997 : UNIX and Database Systems Consultant, Quire Inc.


IV. Recent GRANTS

1998 National Science Foundation Grant #9850904

1998 National Partnership Advanced Computing Infrastructure Award of CPU time for joint work with L. Fialkow.

1994 National Science Foundation Grant #9451805

1994 United University Professions' Classroom Scholarship Grant (To develop Mathematica notebooks for Numerical Analysis)

1991 Mathematica Software license grant from Wolfram Inc.

1989-1992 Grant for Research and Creative Projects, SUNY, New Paltz


V. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS

PERTURBATIONS, ASYMPTOTICS AND WAVES

1. "An averaged Lagrangian for capillary-gravity Stokes waves and modulational instability" Physics Letters A, Vol. 116 (1986), pp.224-226.

2. "Instability of Capillary-Gravity waves in water of arbitrary uniform depth" (with S. R. Majumdar), Wave Motion, Vol. 9 (1987), pp.483-492.

3. "The evolution of perturbations of the renormalised long wave equation" (with S. R. Majumdar), Journal of Mathematical Physics, Vol. 29 (1988), pp. 390-392.

4. "Solitary waves on a conducting fluid layer", Physics of Fluids, Vol. 31 (1988), pp. 3442-3443.

5. "Capillary-Gravity waves on a slow current", Journal of Physical Oceanography, Vol. 28, (1989), pp. 1171--1173.

6." Multiple scale solution of initial--boundary value problems for the weakly nonlinear wave equation on the semi--infinite line", (with S. C. Chikwendu), SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 52 (1992), pp. 946-958.

7. "A theory for transient discharge in tubes with applications to a new type of viscometer", (with S.L.Kokal), SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, Vol. 52, (1992), pp.1501-1508.

8. "A scaled characteristics method for the asymptotic solution of weakly nonlinear partial differential equations". Electronic Journal of Differential Equations, Vol. 1998.

9. "A Laplace-Transform multiple-scale method for weakly nonlinear wave equations" (with S. Chikwendu). International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, Vol. 34, (1998), pp.529-535.

POLAR FLUIDS, NON-NEWTONIAN FLUID MECHANICS

10. "A uniqueness theorem for compressible micropolar flows} {(with S. R. Majumdar), Acta Mechanica, Vol. 68,(1987), pp. 185-191.

11. "An application of MACSYMA in the flow of a micropolar fluid in a meandering channel", (with S. R. Majumdar) Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol. 65 (1987), pp. 529-535.

12. "On the uniqueness of exterior boundary value problems in viscoelastic fluids, (with S. R. Majumdar and H. Ramkissoon) , Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik , Vol. 68 (1988), pp. 53--55.

13. " Unsteady flows of an Elastico-Viscous fluid in tubes of uniform cross section", (with S. R. Majumdar and H. Ramkissoon), International Journal of Nonlinear Mechanics, Vol. 24 (1989), pp.585--597.

14. " Causal fundamental solution for the two-dimensional flow of a micropolar fluid", (with S. R. Majumdar), International Journal of Engineering Science, Vol. 28 (1990), pp. 843--850.

15. "A uniqueness theorem for incompressible micropolar flows", (with S. R. Majumdar), Quarterly of Applied Mathematics, Vol. 48 (1990), pp. 201--207.

16. "Longitudinal and torsional oscillations of a rod in a polar fluid", (with H. Ramkissoon), International Journal of Engineering Science , Vol.29 (1991), pp. 215-221.

17. "Oseen flow past a split plate in a polar fluid", (with S. R. Majumdar), Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 73 (1993), pp. 179-181.

18. "Non-Newtonian flow between concentric cylinders", (with H. Ramkissoon), Zeitschrift fur Angewandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Vol. 73 (1993) , pp. 329-332.

19. "Unsteady Visco-elastic flow in tubes", (with H. Ramkissoon and S. R. Majumdar), Journal of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, Vol. 27, (1993), pp. 129-140.

PETROLEUM ENGINEERING

20. "Analytical solutions for vertical fractures in a composite system", {(with J. Stanislav and S. Kokal) Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, Vol. 26 (1987), pp. 51-56.

21. "Interpretation of thermal well fall-off testing", (with J. F. Stanislav and S. L. Kokal) Journal of Formation Evaluation Reservoir Engineering, (Society of Petroleum Engineers), Vol. 4 (1989), pp. 181--186. (Presented at the Annual meeting of The Society of Petroleum Engineers, Dallas, Sept. 30, 1987).

22. "Elliptical flow in composite reservoirs", (with J. Stanislav and S. Kokal), Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology, Vol. 31, (1992), pp. 47-50.

23. "Pressure transient analysis of channelled oil sand reservoirs", (with J. Stanislav and J. Belgrave), in Enhanced Oil Recovery, Symposium Series of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers, No. 280, Vol. 87, (1991), pp. 141-147.

24. "Theoretical studies of interference testing in channelled oilsand reservoirs", (with J. Stanislav and J. Belgrave), AOSTRA Journal of Research}, Vol. 7, 1992, pp. 209-216.

25. "Pressure transient testing of heterogeneous reservoirs", (with J. Stanislav and J. Pecher), Journal of Canadian Petroleum Technology}, Vol. 34, (1995), pp.19-26.

ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING

26. "Nonlinear distributed model for MESFET", (with H. Javan and H.Chamas), International Journal of Electronics, Vol. 74, No. 5, pp. 671-681.

MATHEMATICS EDUCATION

27. "Polynomial and Spline Interpolation using Derive", International Derive Journal, Vol. 2(3), Pages 11 -- 26, Dec. 1995.

COMPUTER SCIENCE

28. "A heterogeneous Linux-Windows95 Network", Linux Journal, Vol.76, pages 62-69, 2000.

29. " ATCP: TCP-based Communication Protocol for Massive Multi-agent Systems", ( Chirakkal Easwaran and Hanh Pham. Proceedings of the International Conference on Internet Computing (IC'2001, Las Vegas, June2001) Vol. II, pages 1069-1075, 2001.

Preprints

30. "Asymptotic theory and slow characteristics solution techniques for non-linear wave equations insemi-infinite domains", Preprint.

31. "Asymptotics of certain non-linear elliptic partial differential equations", Preprint.

VI. Talks/Lectures

June '86, "Perturbations of the Renormalised Long Wave Equation", Canadian Symposium on Fluid Dynamics, Sackville, New Brunswick.}

June '86, (i) "Uniqueness theorems for compressible and incompressible micropolar flows", (ii) "Instability of capillary-gravity waves in water of uniform depth", 10th U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, Austin, Texas.

August '86 "Causal fundamental solutions for the two dimensional flow of a micropolar fluid", Annual meeting of the Society of Engineering Science, Buffalo, New York.

January '87 "A uniqueness theorem for viscoelastic flows", Annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, San Antonio.

January '89 (i) "A Laplace Transform-Multiple scale method for weakly nonlinear differential equations'', (ii) ``Micropolar flow past a split plate", First Caribbean conference on Fluid Dynamics, Trinidad, West Indies.

June '90 " Asymptotic solution of weakly nonlinear equations" Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting, Chicago

March '91 "Asymptotics of weakly nonlinear wave equations on the semi-infinite line" ,Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut.

July '91 "Singular perturbation study of diffusion-type equations", International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Washington, D.C.

January '93 "Asymptotics of weakly nonlinear equations", Annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, San Antonio.

January '95 "Asymptotic theories for some nonlinear equations", Annual meeting of the American Mathematical Society, San Francisco.

July '98 "Existence, uniqueness and regularity of solutions of weakly nonlinear hyperbolic equations", Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Annual Meeting, Toronto.

January '99 "Linux -- powerful, flexible and free". Invited talk at the Association of Comuting Machinery (ACM) Poughkeepsie Chapter.


VII. Other Professional Activities

Refereed for

Software Developed (All available at http://isolde.mcs.newpaltz.edu)