Nelson K. Butuk

Position:
    Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics

Education:
    PhD, Mechanical Engineering, University of Oklahoma, 1997
    MS, Biosystems & Agricultural Engineering, University of Minnesota, 1984
    BS, Agricultural Mechanical Engineering, University of Nairobi, 1980

Selected Recent Publications:

• Garza, A., and Butuk, N., "Time Marching Kernel Approximated PDE Solutions for Meshfree Computational Fluid Dynamics," CSC'06 - The 2006 International Conference on Scientific Computing, Las Vegas, Nevada (June 26–29), 2006.
• Butuk, N.K., and Johnson, K., “Investigation of the use of Kernel Smoothing Techniques in Dimension Reduction of Kinetic Chemical Reaction Mechanism Data,” Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields, January 9-11, 2005, Honolulu, Hawaii .
• Butuk, N.K., and Pemba, J-P., Computing CHEMKIN Sensitivities Using Complex Variables, ASME Journal of Engineering for Gas Turbine and Power, July 2003, pp. 854-858.
• Agrawal, A.J., Butuk, N.K., Gollahalli, S.R., and Devon G., Three-Dimensional Rainbow Schlieren Tomography for Measurements of Temperature in an Inclined Heated Air Jet, Applied Optics, January 20 1998, pp. 479-485.
• Butuk, N.K., and Gollahalli, S.R., Effect of Heating on Two Dimensional Mixing Layers, Journal of Energy Resources Technology, Vol. 119, 1997, pp. 180-183.

Related Web Sites:
Prairie View A&M University.
Department of Mathematics.

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Nelson K. Butuk
Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics
Prairie View A&M University
P. O. Box 519-MS 2225
Prairie View, TX 77446-0519
936-261-1971 (office)
936-261-2088 (fax)
email: nebutuk@pvamu.edu

Last Updated: January 31, 2007