King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Applied Mathematics and Differential Equations Group

Coordinator: B. Chanane

The main objective of the group is to review the courses offered in the BSc, MSc. And PhD programs falling under its umbrella and propose new ones, organize seminars and workshops. 

The Scientific  Group  has 26 members working in the following broad areas:

· Symmetry methods in Differential Equations

· Boundary Value Problems

· Multi-Valued Differential Equations

· Computational Spectral Theory

· Inverse Problems

· Analysis of Partial Differential Equations: Existence, Uniqueness of Solutions, Asymptotic  Behavior  and Blow up

· Dynamical Systems, Bifurcation and Chaos

· Fractional, Impulsive  Differential Equations

· Stochastic Differential Equations

· Optimization,  Optimal Control, Variational Inequalities

· Game Theory and Quantum games

· Interpolation Theory

· Mathematical Modeling

· Thermoelasticity, Elasticity,  Viscoelasticity, Mixed Heat Convection, Wave Propagation, Scattering, Diffraction, Fluid Dynamics, Flow in Porous media, Population Dynamics, Turbulence, Combustion

· Numerical Algorithms