Rolf J. Ryham 芮若芙
Postdoctoral Research Associate
Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering
Complimentary Visiting Scholar
Department of Mathematics
Rice University
Contact Information
Office: Room
C112, Abercrombie Hall
Phone: 713.348.2495
Fax: 713.348.5478
E-mail: [my last name] at rice dot edu
Mailing address: Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, MS-362, Rice University, P.O. Box 1892, Houston, TX 77251
Degrees
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2006
B.S. University of Georgia, 2001
Professional Appointments
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Rice University, 2009-present
VIGRE Lovett Instructor, Rice University, 2006-2009
VIGRE Graduate Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, 2003-2006
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, 2001-2003
Research Interests
Partial differential equations, computational modeling and geometric measure theory.
Curriculum Vitae PDF
Publications
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"Energetic variational approaches in modeling vesicle and fluid
interactions." (with Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang),
Phys. D 238 (2009), no. 9-10, 923--930.
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"Mathematical models for the deformation of electrolyte droplets." (with Chun Liu and Ludmil Zikatanov) Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B 8 (2007), no. 3, 649--661.
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charge density velocity phase-field
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"Diffuse interface energies capturing the Euler number: relaxation and renormalization."
(with Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang) Commun. Math. Sci. 5 (2007), no. 1, 233--242.
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"On electro-kinetic fluids: one dimensional configurations." (with Chun Liu and Zhi-Qiang Wang) Discrete Contin. Dyn. Syst. Ser. B 6 (2006), no. 2, 357--371.
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- "Modeling the spontaneous curvature effects in static cell membrane deformations by a phase field formulation."
(with Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang) Comm. Pure App. Ana. 4 (2005), no. 3, 537--548.
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- "A phase field formulation of the Willmore problem." (with
Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang) Nonlinearity 18 (2005), no. 3, 1249--1267.
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"An Energetic Variational Approach to Mathematical Modeling of Charged Fluids: Charged Phases, Simulation and Well Posedness,"
Rolf Ryham, Ph.D. Dissertation, Pennsylvania State University, 2006.
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Preprints
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"Existence, Uniqueness, Regularity and Long-term Behavior
for Dissipative Systems Modeling
Electro-hydrodynamics," (60 pages), 2009
arXiv PDF
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"On Linear Growth Variational Problems Without the
Convex Hull Property," 2009
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"On the Small Mass Limit of the Debye-Hueckel System"
Some Computational Projects
Teaching
- MATH 310: Mathematics of Music, (Spring 2010) course webpage
- CHBE 692: Numerical Methods for Differential Equations in Engineering and Biology (co-teaching), (Fall 2009) course webpage
- CHBE 401: Transport Phenomena I (co-teaching), (Fall 2009) course webpage
- MATH 424: Partial Differential Equations II, Index Theory (Spring 2009) course webpage
- MATH 425: Integration Theory (Fall 2007) course webpage
- MATH 468/CAAM 436: Potpourri, Partial Differential Equations in Mathematical Physics (Fall 2008) course webpage
- MATH 499: VIGRE Seminar (Spring 2009) seminar webpage
- MATH 699: VIGRE Seminar (Spring 2009) seminar webpage
- MATH 211: Ordinary Differential Equations (Spring 2008) course webpage
- MATH 213: Mathematical Biology (Fall 2006) course webpage
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