Thomas P Witelski, Professor of Mathematics

Office Location:	295 Physics
Office Phone:	(919) 660-2841
Email Address:

Education:

PhD, Applied Math	Caltech	1995
BS in Engineering	Cooper Union	1991
Diploma	Stuyvesant High School	1987

Specialties:

Applied Math

Research Interests: Fluid Dynamics, Perturbation Methods, Asymptotic Analysis, Nonlinear Ordinary and Partial differential equations

Keywords:

Fluid Dynamics • Perturbation Methods • Asymptotic Analysis • Nonlinear Ordinary and Partial differential equations

Current Ph.D. Students  

• Harrison D. Potter  

Postdocs Mentored

• Rachel Levy (July, 2005 - June, 2007)  
• Anne Catlla (2005 - 2008)  
• Anand Jayaraman (September 1, 2004 - August 15, 2005)  
• Sandra Wieland (January 1, 2004 - December, 2004)  
• Linda Smolka (April 8, 2002 - July 1, 2004)  
• Karl Glasner (2001/12-2002/05)  
• Mark Bowen (2000/03-2001/12)  

Undergraduate Research Supervised

• Veronica Ciocanel (May, 2010 - present)
  2012 Faculty Scholar, Honorable mention 
• Jeremy Semko (May, 2009 - May, 2010)
  Thesis: Statistical Analysis of Simulations of Coarsening Droplets Coating a Hydrophobic Surface 
• Lingren Zhang (July, 2006 - September, 2006)
  Thesis: The Motion of Sets of Vortices
  Undergraduate summer research 
• Qinzheng Tian (July, 2005 - September, 2005)
  Thesis: Simulation of Newtonian fluid fluid between rotating cylinders
  Undergraduate summer research 

Recent Publications

1. T.P. Witelski, D. Ambrose, A. Bertozzi, A. Layton, ZL. Li, M. Minion, Preface: special issue on fluid dynamics, analysis and numerics, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems Series B, vol. 17 no. 4 (June, 2012), pp. i-ii
2. C. Breward, E. Aydemir, T.P. Witelski, The effect of polar lipids on tear film dynamics, Bulletin of Mathematical Biology, vol. 73 (2011), pp. 1171-1201 [doi]
3. A.J.Bernoff and T.P. Witelski, Stability and dynamics of self-similarity in evolution equations, Journal of Engineering Mathematics, vol. 66 no. 1-3 (March, 2010), pp. 11-31, ISSN 1573-2703 [s10665-009-9309-8]
4. T.P. Witelski, The subtle art of blowing bubbles (News and Views: Fluid Dynamics), Nature Physics, vol. 5 (May, 2009), pp. 315-316 (doi:10.1038/nphys1265.) [=NDgyMTgzMzQS1&mt=1&rt=0]
5. H.-J. Hwang and T.P. Witelski, Short-time Pattern formation in thin film equations, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems A, vol. 23 no. 3 (March, 2009), pp. 867-885, ISSN 1078-0947 (doi: 10.3934/dcds.2009.23.867.) [displayArticles.jsp]

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