S.-Sum Chow Associate Professor Department of Mathematics Brigham Young University

Contact Information

Phone  +1 801 422 9088   Fax     +1 801 422 0504

Dept of Mathematics  308 TMCB  Brigham Young University  Provo, UT 84602

Teaching 

Class Information

For general class information, please visit the math department's class information page.

(Fall 2005)

(Winter 2006)

Research

Research Information

Areas of interest:

•  Finite element methods: Theory, applications and implementation
•  Flows in porous medium: Petroleum reservoir simulation and contaminant transport in groundwater
•  Nonlinear partial differential equations: Diffusion with gradient nonlinearity and reaction-diffusion
•  Superconvergence: Natural and postprocessed
•  Parallel and distributed computing

• Divergence free finite elements based on Powell-Sabin-Heindl triangle elements
• Numerical solutions of nonlocally diffusive and reactive equations

 

Service

•  Calculus Committee 

Recent Conference Presentations/Papers

• The 8th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Meshless method for reaction diffusion equations, in Meshless and Related Methods Minisymposium, Austin, Texas, July 2005.
• Midwest Numerical Analysis Conference,  Approximation and modelling errors for a glaciology problem, S.-S. Chow, G.F. Carey, M. Anderson, Iowa City, University of Iowa, Iowa, May 2005.

• Midwest Numerical Analysis Conference,  Equivalence of n-point Gauss-Chebyshev Rule and 4n-point Midpoint Rule in Computing the Period of a Lotka-Volterra System, S.-D. Shih, S.-S. Chow, University of Iowa, Iowa City, Iowa, May 2005.

• MAA Section Meeting,  A Flower Sleeve Measurement Problem, S.-S. Chow, Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho, March 2005.
• Maple Summer Workshop, Construction of Powell-Sabin-Heindl Divergence Free Basis Functions using Maple, S.-S.~CHOW,
  G.F.~Carey, Waterloo, Canada, July, 2004. 
• Seminar talk, Errors in approximation and modelling for a glaciology problem, Xiangtan University,China, June 2004. (Invited talk)
• Conference on Superconvergence in FEM,  A posteriori Bound for Powell-Sabin-Henidl Elements, S.-S.~CHOW, G.F.~Carey,
  Hunan, China, May 2004. (Invited talk)
• The 7th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Large Scale Finite Element Simulation of a Class of Incompressible Non-Newtonian Fluids with Application to Convection Flows, W. Barth, G.F. Carey, S.-S. Chow, Albuquerque, New Mexico, July 2003.
• International Congress on Industrial and Applied Mathematics 2003, Numerical Solution of Generalized Newtonian Fluid Flows
  using Powell-Sabin-Heindl Elements, S.-S. Chow, G.F. Carey, Sydney, Australia, July 2003.
• ICIAM 2003, Finite Element Simulation of a Class of Non-Newtonian Fluids with Applications to Industrial Fluids and Blood Flow, W.Barth,
  G.F. Carey, S.-S. Chow, Sydney, Australia, July 2003.
• Finite Elements in Fluids 2003, Simulation of Coupled Flow and Transport, G.F.Carey, W.Barth, S.-S. Chow, B.Kirk, J.Woods
  and M.Anderson, Nagoya City, Japan, April 2003. (Carey's invited talk.)
• SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Finite Element Solutions of a Glaciology Problem, S.-S.CHOW, G.F.Carey, Austin, Texas, March 2003 (Invited Talk.)
  

Personal

Education and Professional Experiences

Curriculum Vitae and List of Publications
 
 

	B.Sc.(Hons), University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand, 1980
	Ph.D., Australian National University, Canberra, ACT, Australia,1983

 

Post-doctoral Fellow, University of Texas at Austin,  Austin, Texas, 1983-85
Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming,  Laramie, Wyoming, 1985-90
Senior Lecturer, City University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, 1990-92
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Colorado at Denver, Denver, Colorado, 1993-94
Visiting Assistant Professor, University of Texas of the Permian Basin, Odessa, Texas, 1994-95
System Analyst, S.O.S. Computer Inc. (now SOSytems,) Orem, Utah, 1995-97
Associate Professor, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, Jan. 1998-present.

Others

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This page was last updated on 08/25/2005.