Ahmed S. Bonfoh

Department of Mathematics 
King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals,

  P.O. Box 546, Dhahran 31261,  Saudi Arabia

phone: +966-13-860-7263

fax: +966-13-860-2340

email: bonfoh@kfupm.edu.sa

location: Room 203-4, Build. 5

Position	Associate Professor
	Visitor, School of Math, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, USA, 6/2024-7/2024 Postdoc Research Fellow, Math Section, ICTP, Italy, 1/2005-12/2006 Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Poitiers, France, 2001.
Education	M.Sc. in Applied Mathematics, University  of Poitiers, France, 1998.
	B.Sc. in  Mathematics, University  of Lome, Togo, 1996.

Teaching

Research Interests

•   Nonlinear partial differential equations

•   Infinite-dimensional  dynamical systems

Publications

•  A. Bonfoh, R. Alzahrani and A. Miranville, Stability of exponential attractors for singularly perturbed phase-field systems of Oono type, Evolution Equations and Control Theory, 13 no.3 (2024), 825-876.
• A. Bonfoh, Sufficient conditions for the continuity of inertial manifolds for singularly perturbed problems, Evolution Equations and Control Theory, 11 no.4 (2022),1399-1454.
•  A. Bonfoh and I.A. Suleman, Robust exponential attractors for singularly perturbed conserved phase-field systems with no growth assumption on the nonlinear term, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis, 20 no.10 (2021), 3655-3682.
• A. Bonfoh,  Existence and continuity of inertial manifolds for the hyperbolic relaxation of the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation,  Applied Mathematics and Optimization, 84 no.3 (2021), 3339-3416.
•  A. Bonfoh and C.D. Enyi,  The Cahn-Hilliard equation as limit of a conserved phase-field system, Asymptotic Analysis 101 no.3 (2017), 97-148
•   A. Bonfoh and C.D. Enyi,  Large time behavior of a conserved phase-field system, Communications on Pure and Applied Analysis 15 no.4 (2016),  1077-1105.
•   A. Bonfoh,  Dynamics of a conserved phase-field system,  Applicable Analysis 95 no.1 (2016), 44-62.
•   A. Bonfoh,  The viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation with inertial term, Nonlinear Analysis Series A: Theory, Methods and Applications 74 no.3 (2011), 946-964.
•   A. Bonfoh,  The singular limit dynamics of the phase-field equations, Annali di Matematica Pura ed Applicata 190 no.1 (2011), 105-144.
•    A. Bonfoh,  Slightly compressible 2D Navier-Stokes equations revisited,  Advances in Mathematical Sciences and Applications 20 no.1 (2010), 77-89.
•   A. Bonfoh, M. Grasselli and  A. Miranville,  Singularly perturbed 1D Cahn-Hilliard equation revisited, Nonlinear Differential Equations and Applications 17 no.6 (2010), 663-695.
•   A.  Bonfoh,  Dynamics of  Hodgkin-Huxley systems revisited, Applicable Analysis 89 no.8 (2010), 1251-1269.
•   A. Bonfoh, M. Grasselli and A.  Miranville,  Inertial manifolds  for a singular perturbation of the viscous Cahn-Hilliard-Gurtin equation, Topological Methods in Nonlinear Analysis, 35  no.1 (2010), 155-185.
•   A.S. Bonfoh,  Exponential attractors for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard equation in an unbounded domain,   International   Journal of Evolution Equations 4 no.1 (2009), 113-119.
•   A. Bonfoh, M. Grasselli and A.  Miranville,  Long time behavior of a  singular  perturbation of the viscous Cahn-Hilliard-Gurtin equation,  Mathematical Methods in the Applied Sciences 31 (2008), 695-734.
•   A.S. Bonfoh, Error analysis  of a  generalized Cahn-Hilliard equation, Southeast Asian  Bulletin of  Mathematics 31 (2007), 29-42.
•   A.S. Bonfoh,  Second grade fluids with enhanced viscosity as dynamical systems, International Journal of Evolution Equations 2 no.1 (2007), 11-17.
•   A.S. Bonfoh,  Longtime behaviour of solutions of a generalized Cahn-Hilliard equation with order  parameter dependent mobility, Intern. Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics 30 no.3 (2006), 415-427.
•   A. Bonfoh,  Finite-dimensional attractor for the viscous Cahn-Hilliard  equation in an unbounded  domain, Quarterly of  Applied  Mathematics 64 no.1 (2006), 93-104.
•   A. Bonfoh,  Existence and continuity of uniform exponential attractors for a singular perturbation  of a generalized Cahn-Hilliard equation, Asymptotic Analysis 43 no.3 (2005), 233-247.
•   A.S. Bonfoh,  Existence of solutions for a degenerate nonlinear evolution  equation,  Rev. Real  Acad.  Cienc. Serie A. Mat.  99 no.1 (2005), 119-124.
•    A.S. Bonfoh,  On  a system of  nonlinear partial differential equations, Bulletin of the  Australian Mathematical  Society  71 (2005), 435-446.
•   A. Bonfoh,  Some Cahn-Hilliard-Gurtin models with a logarithmic potential,   Applied Mathematics Letters 18 no.3 (2005), 253-259.
•   A. Bonfoh,  A fourth-order parabolic equation with a logarithmic nonlinearity, Bulletin of the  Australian Mathematical  Society 69 (2004), 35-48.

Proceedings:    

•   A.S. Bonfoh,   Error analysis  of a  Cahn-Hilliard  system with elasticity, Proc. Intern. Conf. Num.  Anal. Applied Math. 2005, Wiley-VCH, Weinheim, 67-70 (2005).
•   A. Bonfoh and  A. Miranville,  On Cahn-Hilliard-Gurtin equations, (Proc. 3rd World Congress of  Nonlinear Analysts), Nonlinear Analysis 47 (2001) 3455-3466.