Basic Projects 

• Storm Surge Simulations

• Fluid flow in porous media, high-level nuclear waste transport

• Numerical Methods for solving Partial Differential Equations

• Mathematical Biology: HIV-1, Vibrio cholerae colonization in the human intestine, Chagas disease transmission in Latin America

• MAKERS Lab: STEM and Arts initiative with students to make Modules for teaching

Research Grants (this page is under construction, so more details will be included soon).

• National Science Foundation Grant for "Collaborative Research: Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling on Petascale Computers," (10/1/2007 - 9/30/2011) (extended through Sept. 15, 2014) PI at Oakland University, with main collaborative PI: Clint Dawson at University of Texas at Austin and PI: Joannes Westerink at University of Notre Dame, ~$330,679 (Oakland University portion)

• National Science Foundation Grant, SGER (10/1/2006 - 9/30/2007) co-PI with Darrin M Hanna for "Numerical Speedup Using Flowpaths" $63,000.

• Oakland University Research Committee Award (Indirect Cost Recovery), "Real-Time Simulations Using Numerical Analysis and Flowpaths" July 2006 - July 2007, $16,955.

• LVAD, Technology, Inc. $1,500 for Collaborative Project on Device Improvement.

• Oakland University Research Fellowship, May - August 2001, $7,500.

• Purdue University Research Foundation Grant (student grant) (January 1996 - August 1998)

Other Grants

• J. T. Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program for "Collaborative Research: Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling on Petascale Computers" ~$4,500 for a visit to Clint Dawson at UT Austin on July 19 - August 2, 2009.

• J. T. Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program for "Collaborative Research: Hurricane Storm Surge Modeling on Petascale Computers" ~$3,000 for a visit to Clint Dawson at UT Austin on April 24 - May 10, 2008

• Senior Personnel on the National Science Foundation Grant for the Conference: Modeling, Analysis and Simulation of Multiscale Nonlinear Systems, PI: Malgorzata Peszynska, co-PIs: Ralph Showalter and Son-Young Yi, co-Senior Personnel: Seth Oppenheimer, Alex Panchencko, Noel Walkington, for organizing the conference on June 25- 29, 2007 at Oregon State University, $27,634

• J. T. Oden Faculty Fellowship Research Program for "Speedup of Numerical Algorithms Using Flowpaths'' ~$3,000 for a visit to Clint Dawson at UT Austin on May 18 - June 10, 2007

• Accelogic Academic Nonprofit Grant $1,500 for attending the short course, "Algorithm Design in the Era of Reconfigurable Computing" which was held at the Holiday Inn Dayton/Fairborn, Ohio, July 12 - 14, 2006.

• Travel grant from the Oakland University Research Committee to visit the NIH and the NSF 1/31/2006 - 2/1/2006.

• Travel grant from the National Science Foundation $450.00 to attend the NSF-CBMS conference on "Mathematical and Numerical Treatment of Fluid Flow and Transport in Porous Media" at the University of Nevada at Las Vegas in May 2006.

Awards

• Oakland University Founders' Day Scholarship Award, April 2006.

• Award for speaking at the 25th Annual Meeting of the Brazilian Computational and Applied Mathematics Society, September 16-19, 2002 in Nova Friburgo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil