My New website

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: 352 

klkuttle@math.byu.edu

klkuttler@gmail.com


Telephone: 801-422-4756 

801-358-4668

 

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

My main course to teach in the last 17 years has been engineering math: Multivariable calculus and watered down linear algebra.

For my collection of notes and books, see the following link. I will be retiring and it is easier for me to update the following webpage.

 

 

 

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. I have also been studying extensions to stochastic equations and inclusions. 

 

 

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.

An Elastic viscoplastic quasistatic contact problem: existence and uniqueness of a weak solution, with Campo and Fernandez. Archive Rational Mechanics and Analysis, 191, March (2009) 423-445.

An Existence and uniqueness result for an Elasto-piezoelectric problem with damage, with Fernandez. Mathematical Models and Methods in Aplied Sciences, Vol. 19, No. 1 pp. 31 -50. January 2009

Existence Results for Dynamic Adhesive Contact of a Rod. With Menike R.S.R. and Shillor M. Journal of math analysis and applications. 351, March (2009),781-791.

Two rods in dynamic adhesive contact, with Shillor, M. and Nassar A. Sayed. Annals of the Academy of Romanian Scientists Series on Mathematics and its Applications 1(1) (2009), 83-111.

Lecture Notes And Books

Here is a pdf  file of my calculus book with a shorter collection of exercises and no solutions manual and answers to exercises. The published version is described at http://www.worldscibooks.com/mathematics/7917.html.   Calculus, Applications and Theory Here is page 170 of the published calculus book. It was defective.   page170 . Here is Page 178 of Volume 2 of the calculus book. It has an obvious error.  page178 . Here is Page 279 of Volume 1 of the calculus book. It has a garbled explanation corrected in what follows. page279 .

Here is a pdf  file of Notes for Math 214. This is mostly 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 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. I have made many changes recently. There is a solutions manual available on request.   elementary linear algebra book Also, here are alternate versions of the exercises along with their solutions.   LinearAlgebraProblems   LinearAlgebraSolutions . These files were computer generated using Scientific Notebook. The source files from which these were generated are available if anyone would like to use them and modify them as desired.

Here is a pdf  for lecture notes for math 302 .Fall 2009  Math 302 lecture notes

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

Here is a re-written version of this book. It has additional topics and is arranged differently.   linear algebra and analysis

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 Nonlinear Analysis Notes. I am still working on it.  Nonlinear analysis

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 for some courses on analysis. Apparently not for BYU. Analysis

Here is a pdf  file of notes for a seminar on stochastic integration and probability. It is a subset of the large topics book.   notes

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

Here is a pdf  for a short differential equations book. It is not done yet.   Differential equations notes

Here is a pdf file of a few 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. This is also an appendix in the above calculus book. 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. These notes have a more elementary flavor than those found in the above Topics book and 641-642 book. However there are some things in these notes which are not in the above.   complex variable notes

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