Rolf J. Ryham 芮若芙
Lovett Instructor
Department of Mathematics
Rice University
Contact Information
Office: Room
452, Herman Brown Hall
Phone: (713) 348-2385
Fax: (713)
348-5231
E-mail: [my last name] at rice dot edu
Mailing address: Department of Mathematics, MS-136, Rice University, Houston, TX 77251
Degrees
Ph.D. Pennsylvania State University, 2006
B.S. University of Georgia, 2001
Professional Appointments
VIGRE Lovett Instructor, Rice University, 2006-present
VIGRE Graduate Research Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, 2003-2006
Graduate Teaching Assistant, Pennsylvania State University, 2001-2003
Research Interests
Partial differential equations, calculus of variations and geometric measure theory.
Publications
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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.
journal
preprint
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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.
journal preprint
- "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.
journal
preprint
- "A phase field formulation of the Willmore problem." (with
Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang) Nonlinearity 18 (2005), no. 3, 1249--1267.
journal preprint
Preprints
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"Global existence and long term behavior of 2D electro-hydrodynamics." arXiv:0810.2064 preprint
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"Energetic variational approaches in modeling vesicle and fluid interactions." (with Qiang Du, Chun Liu and Xiaoqiang Wang), accepted by Physica D. preprint
Teaching
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