Kenneth Kuttler

 

General Information

I am a professor at Brigham Young University  

Address

Department of Math 
Brigham Young University 
342 TMCB 
Provo, Utah 84602 
U.S.A. 

 Office Room: 342 
Telephone: 801-422-4756 

 
Fax: 801-422-0504 

 

Some Courses I've taught 

  Calculus and Analytic Geometry  
  Introduction to Ordinary Differential Equations
  Vector Analysis 
  Matrix Analysis
  Advanced Calculus
  Point Set Topology
  Real Analysis  
  Complex Analysis

 

 

Areas of research

My primary area of research is Partial Differential Equations and Inclusions.  I work on abstract methods for determining whether problems of this sort are well posed. Lately, I have been working on the mathematical theory of problems from contact mechanics including friction, wear, and damage.  

 

 

Other interests

I am usually interested in topics in analysis, especially measure and integration, functional analysis and such things.

 

A Vita

Here is a pdf file of a vita vita . .

 

 

 

Some Publications

A Book, Basic Analysis Rinton Press 2001. 
There are some things I have found in this book which would be better changed.  Here is a pdf file containing these pages  errors . If you have trouble with the pdf file, here is a postscipt file of the same thing mistakes .

A Book, Modern Analysis CRC press 1998.
There are some things I have found in this book which would be better changed.  Here is a pdf file containing these pages  errors . If you have trouble with the pdf file, here is a postscipt file of the same thing mistakes

Quasi-Static Thermoviscoelastic Contact Problem with Slip Dependent Friction Coefficient With A. Amassad, M. Rochdi and M. Shillor, {Mathematical and Computer Modelling}, 36, (2002) pp. 839-854.

Dynamic Contact with Normal Compliance Wear and Discontinuous Friction Coefficient. With Shillor. SIMA Vol. 34 #1 pp. 1-27, (2002).

J. Bajkowski, Fernandez, Kuttler, and M. Shillor,  A thermoviscoelastic beam model for brakes,'' European. Journal of Applied Math. 15(2)(2004), 181-202

Existence for a thermoviscoelastic beam model of brakes,  With Shillor and Fernandez. Nonlinear Analysis: 5 (2004) 857-880.

Analysis and Simulations of Vibrations of a Beam with a Slider with Dumont and Shillor. Journal of Engineering Mathematics 47 61-82. (2003)

K. L. Kuttler, Meir Shillor and J. R. Fernandez, ``Existence for the Thermoviscoelastic Thermistor Problem,''J. Diff. Eqn. Dyn. Systems, to appear

K. L. Kuttler, Meir Shillor, Heat conduction with flux condition on a free patch, Journal of Applied Math. and Optimization., 50(2)(2004), 143-159

Dynamic contact with Signorini's condition and slip rate dependent friction, With Shillor.  Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., Vol. 2004(2004), No. 83, pp. 1-21.

Regularity of solutions for dynamic frictionless contact problems with normal compliance, with Shillor. To appear in Nonlinear Analysis as of Sept. 2004.

Quasistatic evolution of damage in an elastic-viscoplastic material, Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., Vol. 2005(2005), No. 147, pp. 1-25.

Dynamic frictional contact for elastic viscoplastic material, Electron. J. Diff. Eqns., Vol. 2007(2007), No. 75, pp. 1-20.

Lecture Notes And Books

Here is a pdf  file of the latest version of my calculus book.  calculus book

Here is a pdf  file of the latest version of my book on topics on analysis.. It contains a review of advanced calculus and then discusses  measure and integration, and complex analysis at a more advanced level than the other complex variable notes on this page.. It also includes the main theorems about Sobolev Spaces  and interpolation theorems in Banach space as well as other abstract topics. I am still working on it..  Topics

Here is a pdf  file of Notes for Math 214. This is a subset of the material in the calculus book consisting of multivariable calculus and a brief treatment of linear algebra..   Math 214 Notes

Here is a pdf  file for a single variable advanced calculus book. It is mostly done.   Single Variable Advanced Calculus

Here is a pdf  file for a multvariable advanced calculus book. I am still working on it.  Many Variable Advanced Calculus

Here is a pdf  file for the latest version of a linear algebra book.   linear algebra book

Here is a pdf file for a more elementary linear algebra book. This one presents everything for the first time in terms of the row reduced echelon form and emphasizes row operations.  elementary linear algebra book

Here is a pdf  for lecture notes for math 302 .Fall 2007  Math 302 lecture notes

Here is a pdf  for lecture notes for math 113 .Fall 2006  Math 113 lecture notes

Here is a pdf  for lecture notes for math 641 and 642 .Fall 2005, Winter 2006. These are a subset of the above Topics book.   Math 641-642 Lecture Notes

Here is a pdf file of notes for math 547, Partial Differential Equations to be used in the Fall of 2003. You should click on the blue phrase "547 notes". Then save the pdf file in whatever folder you want. 547 notes

Here is a pdf file of notes on vector analysis for 547, Partial Differential Equations to be used in the Fall of 2003. You should click on the blue phrase "vector analysis". Then save the pdf file in whatever folder you want. vector analysis

Here is a pdf file for some lecture notes for Math 532, complex variables, to be used in the summer of 2001. You should click on the blue phrase "complex variable notes". Then save the pdf file in whatever folder you want. These notes have a more elementary flavor than those found in the above Topics book.  complex variable notes

Here is a pdf file for notes for math 570, matrix analysis, to be used in Winter of 2001. These notes are somewhat different than the linear algebra book. . math 570 notes pdf

Here is a postscript file for notes for pde seminar based on book by Panagiotopolous and Naniewicz. notes postscript

Here is a postscript file for some recipes for importing eps files into Latex. notes postscript

Here is the Latex file for the above postscript file. notes postscript

Here is a pdf. file for a pattern for a gingerbread house. It is a Latex exercise using the picture environment.  ginger bread house

 

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