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Mayer Humi

Professor

Office: Stratton Hall, 303
Phone: +1-508-831-5213
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
mhumi@wpi.edu

Related Information

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Educational Background

B.S., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1963
M.S., Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1964
Ph.D., Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel, 1969

Research & Teaching Interests

Mathematical physics; applied mathematics and modeling; Lie groups; differential equations; numerical analysis; turbulence and chaos; atmospheric modeling and simulation

IQP Advising Interests

Trace gasses and their impact; alternative energy sources; humanity and space; fractal art; introducing new teaching materials; privacy and national security

Recent Publications

Motion in a central force field with power law drag (with T. Carter) (submitted to Celestial Mechanics)
Density Representation of Long's Equation,Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics, Volume 14, Number 3, pp. 273-283 (2007)
On the Solution of Long's Equation Over Terrain (Submitted to Il Nuovo Cimento C)
A Model for Parachute Canopy Deformation and Feedback on Descent Properties. (Accepted for publication in J. of Aircrafts)
The Two-Body Problem for Relatively High Tangential Speeds and Quadratic Drag (with T. Carter), AIAA J. Guidance Control & Dynamics Vol 30 No.1 pp.248-251 (2007).

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