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Suzanne L. Weekes

Associate Professor
Associate Department Head

Office: Stratton Hall, 109B
Phone: +1-508-831-5267
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
sweekes@wpi.edu

Related Information

• Personal Web Site

Educational Background

• B.S., Indiana University, 1989
• M.S., The University of Michigan, 1990
• Ph.D., The University of Michigan, 1995

Research & Teaching Interests

Numerical Analysis; numerical methods for hyperbolic conservation laws; Godunov-type methods; reservoir modelling; basin modelling; computational fluid dynamics; porous media flow; shock capturing schemes  

IQP Advising Interests

Water pollution; natural resource management; oil, natural gas & coal; social cost & social change; economics in developing countries; environmental law; policy & implementation conservation; other renewable energy; energy demand & supply (modeling); electric utilities; energy policy; energy pollution; theatre; visual arts

Recent Publications

• K. A. Lurie, S. L. Weekes, Wave Propagation through a Spatio-Temporal Material Assemblage with Rectangular Microstructure, submitted.

• K. A. Lurie, S. L. Weekes, Effective and Averaged Energy Densities in One-Dimensional Wave Propagation through Spatio-Temporal Dielectric Laminates with Negative Effective Values of epsilon and mu, in Nonlinear Analysis and Applications: To V. Lakshmikantham on His 80th Birthday, edited by R. Agarwal and D. O'Regan, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, pp. 767--789.

• S. L. Weekes, A Dispersive Effective Equation for Wave Propagation through Dynamic Laminates, in Wave Motion, 38 (2003), pp. 25-41.

• S. L. Weekes, A Stable Scheme for the Numerical Computation of Long Wave Propagation in Temporal Laminates, in Journal of Computational Physics, 176 (2002), pp. 345--362

• S. L. Weekes, Numerical Computation of Wave Propagation in Dynamic Materials, in Applied Numerical Mathematics, 37 (2001), pp. 417--440.

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