Steve Pennell
Professor of Mathematical Sciences
University of Massachusetts Lowell
Email address
Stephen_Pennell@uml.edu
Phone
(978) 934-2710
Spring 2011 Courses
Engineering Differential
Equations
Tablelands in
Gros Morne National Park, Newfoundland, Canada
Research Interests
- Mathematical modeling
- Fluid mechanics, including nonlinear wave propagation and interaction,
flow through porous media, and drop shape analysis
Education
- Ph. D., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI.
- Sc. M., Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI.
- B. S., Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY.
Selected Publications
-
Golomb,
D., and Pennell, S., 2010,
Ocean
Sequestration of Carbon Dioxide (CO2),
Developments and Innovation in Carbon Dioxide (CO2)
Capture and Storage Technology, M. Mercedes Maroto-Valer, ed., Woodhead Publishing,
Cambridge, UK.
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Pennell, S.,
Avitabile,
P., and
White,
J., 2009, An Engineering-Oriented Approach to the Introductory
Differential Equations Course,
PRIMUS
19 (1), 88 - 99.
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Golomb,
D., Pennell, S., Ryan,
D., Barry,
E., and Swett, P., 2007, Ocean Sequestration of
Carbon Dioxide: Modeling the Deep Ocean Release of a Dense Emulsion of Liquid
CO2-in-Water Stabilized by Pulverized Limestone
Particles, Environmental Science and
Technology 41, 4698 - 4704.
- Inyang, H. I., Rossi,
L., Graham-Eagle,
J., Pennell, S., and Menezes, G. B. 2007, Modelling smectite illitization in earthen barriers of
buried radioactive wastes, Geomechanics and Geoengineering: An International
Journal 2 (2), 87 - 95.
- Rossi,
L., Inyang, H. I.,
Graham-Eagle,
J. and Pennell, S., 2004,
A model of
coupled heat and moisture transport in an annular clay barrier,
Journal of Environmental Engineering
130, 855 862.
- Hays, M. D.;
Ryan,
D. K.; and Pennell, S., 2004, A Modified Multisite Stern-Volmer Equation
for the Determination of Conditional Stability Constants and Ligand
Concentrations of Soil Fulvic Acid with Metal Ions,
Analytical Chemistry
8, 848 - 854.
- Amirfazli, A.;
Graham-Eagle,
J.; Pennell, S.; and Neumann, A.W., 2000,
Implementation
and examination of a new drop shape analysis algorithm to measure contact
angle and surface tension from the diameters of two sessile drops,
Colloids And Surfaces A: Physicochemical And
Engineering Aspects 161, 63 - 74.
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Graham-Eagle,
James, and Pennell, Stephen, 2000,
Contact angle
calculations from the diameter of sessile drops,
International Journal for Numerical Methods in
Fluids 32, 851-861.
- Pennell, S., and
Graham-Eagle,
J., 1999, Sessile drops
on slightly uneven hydrophilic surfaces,
Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly 7
, 283 - 299.
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Pennell,
C.;
Rasmussen,
S.; , and Pennell, S., 1996,
Three
Applications of Combinatorics to Problems in Immunology,
The Journal of Undergraduate Mathematics and its
Applications 17, 15 - 24.
- Pennell, S., and
Mirie,
R ., 1994,
On weak,
oblique collisions of interfacial solitary waves,"
Wave Motion 21, 385 - 404.
-
Mirie,
R ., and Pennell, S., 1992,
On weak,
oblique collisions of solitary waves, in
Nonlinear Dispersive Wave Systems,
Lokenath Debnath, ed., World Scientific Publishing Company.
- Pennell, S., and
Seitter, K., 1990,
On
inertial motion on a rotating sphere,
Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
47, 2032-2034.
Teaching Interests
"We must know; we shall know." David Hilbert
"Circumstances have dumped into my life the
excesses of a technological culture: differential equations, a fur hat."
Smilla Jasperson, from Smilla's Sense of
Snow, by Peter Hψeg
"Despite all that, she was natural. In the way
wild animals share qualities with Bach's music: a naturalness where one doesn't
dream of changing a single note because it simply cannot be any other way."
Kasper Krone, from The Quiet Girl, by Peter Hψeg
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