Biographical and Bibliographic Information

Jirair Kevorkian
Professor (Joint with Aeronautics and Astronautics)

Professor Kevorkian received his BS (1955), and his MS (1956) in Aeronautical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology. After one year in industry, he pursued his doctoral degree in Aeronautics at the California Institute of Technology, receiving it in 1961. He teaches several service courses in addition to more advanced courses on partial differential equations and perturbation theory, topics that he has surveyed in two well-known texts with recent second editions. His research interests concern perturbation techniques for studying nonlinear problems in science and engineering.

Recent publications:

J. Kevorkian and J. D. Cole, Multiple Scale and Singular Perturbation Methods, Springer-Verlag, 1996.

L. Wang and J. Kevorkian, "Asymptotic electron trajectories and an adiabatic invariant for a helical-wiggler free electron laser with weak self-fields", Physics of Plasmas, 3, pp. 1162-1175, 1996.

J. Kevorkian and D.L. Bosley, "Multiple-scale homogenization for weakly nonlinear conservation laws with rapid spatial fluctuations", Stud. Appl. Math., 101, pp. 127-183, 1998.

J. Kevorkian, Partial Differential Equations: Analytical Solution Techniques; Second Edition, Springer-Verlag, 1999.

J. Yu, J. Kevorkian, and R. Haberman, "Weak nonlinear long waves in channel flow with internal dissipation", Stud. Appl. Math., 105, pp. 143-163, 2000.

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