I don't believe in Mathematics
- Albert Einstein

 

 

Benito Chen-Charpentier

Professor of Mathematics

University of Texas at Arlington

Arlington, Texas 76019-0408

Office: Pickard Hall 439
Phone: (817) 272-3913
Fax: (817) 272-5802
E-mail: bmchen@uta.edu
Office Hours: M 13:30-14:20, W: 16:00-17:00,  and by appointment

 

Education

Research Interests

I have research interests in the areas of numerical analysis and partial differential equations as these areas relate to the problems of fluid flow through porous media, multiphase and multi-component flow, secondary oil recovery, flow with heat sources and reaction terms, and biofilm growth. In addition, I am also working on perturbation and numerical techniques for two point boundary value problems with sharp layers and reaction terms, and for water waves. I am also interested in bifurcation, in non standard numerical methods, differential equations with random coefficients and in scientific computation in general.

Four Recent Publications

B. CHEN, D. T. DIMITROV and H. V. KOJOUHAROV, 2009, Numerical Simulation of Multi-Species Biofilms in Porous Media for Different Kinetics, Mathematics and Computers in Simulation, Vol 79, pp. 1846-1861.

 

D. STANESCU and B. CHEN, 2008, Random Coefficient Differential Equation Models for Bacterial Growth, submitted to Mathematical and Computer Modelling.

 

A. J. ARENAS, G. GONZALEZ and B. M. CHEN,  2008, Dynamical analysis of the transmission of seasonal diseases using the differential transformation method , submitted Mathematical and Computer Modelling.

 

B.CHEN and H. KOJOUHAROV, 2007, Biofilms in Porous Media: Mathematical Modeling and Numerical Simulation, in Bioremediation: a Novel Technology, ed. S.N. Singh and R. D. Tripathi, Springer Verlag, New York.

 

 

Teaching Interests

I am interested in teaching Calculus, Differential Equations, Applied Mathematics, Numerical Methods, Mathematical Modeling and any other topic related with my research. I like to teach both at the undergraduate and graduate levels and one of my main objectives is to advise theses and dissertations.

Current Courses (Spring, 2009)