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College / Department

College of Arts and Sciences
Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Teaching areas

Calculus, Differential Equations, Linear Algebra, Real and Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations.

Research areas

Partial Differential Equations, Fluid Dynamics, Optimal Control, Applied Mathematics.

Education

BA, Colby College, USA, 2002
MA,University of Virginia, USA, 2004
PhD, University of Virginia, USA, 2007

Professional experience

The Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi, UAE, 2010-2015
University of Southern California, CA, USA, 2007-2010

Contact

[email protected]
+971 6 515 2978

Dr. Amjad Tuffaha

Associate Professor
PhD in Mathematics, University of Virginia, USA

Amjad Tuffaha taught in the mathematics department at the University of Southern California for three years, and at the Petroleum Institute in Abu Dhabi for five years before joining AUS. His areas of interest are in partial differential equations, analysis, fluid dynamics and optimal control.

Publications

Levajkovic, Tijana, Hermann Mena and Amjad Tuffaha. "The Stochastic LQR Optimal Control with Fractional Brownian Motion." In Generalized Functions and Fourier Analysis, edited by Michael Oberguggenberger, Joachim Toft, Jasson Vindas and Patrik Wahlberg,115-151. Online: Springer, 2017.
Hafizoglu, Cavit, Irena Lasiecka, Tijana Levajkovic, Hermann Mena, and Amjad Tuffaha. "The Stochastic control problem with singular estimates." SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization 55, no. 2 (2017): 595–626.
Ignatova, Mihaela, Irena Lasiecka, Igor Kukavica, and Amjad Tuffaha. "Small data global existence for a fluid-structure model." Nonlinearity 30, no. 2 (2017): 848–898.
Levajkovic, Tijana, Hermann Mena, and Amjad Tuffaha. "The stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem in Hilbert spaces: A polynomial chaos approach." Evolution Equations and Control Theory 5, no. 1 (2016): 105–134.
Levajkovic, Tijana, Hermann Mena, and Amjad Tuffaha. "The stochastic linear quadratic optimal control problem in Hilbert spaces: A polynomial chaos approach." Evolution Equations and Control Theory 5, no. 1 (2016): 105–134.
Kukavica, Igor, and Amjad Tuffaha. "A regularity result for the incompressible Euler equation with a free interface." Applied Mathematics and Optimization 69, no. 3 (2014): 337-358.
Balakrishnan, A.V., Amjad Tuffaha, Iylene Patino, and Oleg Melnikov. "Flutter analysis of an articulated high aspect ratio wing in subsonic airflow." Journal of the Franklin Institute 351, no. 8 (2014): 4230-4250.
Ignatova, Mihaela, Igor Kukavica, Irena Lasiecka, and Amjad Tuffaha. "On well-posedness and small data global existence for an interface damped free boundary fluid-structure model." Nonlinearity 27, no. 3 (2014): 467-499.
Kukavica, Igor, Ann Mazzucato, and Amjad Tuffaha. "Sharp trace regularity for an anisotropic elasticity system." Proceedings of the American Mathematical Society 141, no. 8 (2013): 2673-2682.
Tuffaha, Amjad. "Riccati equations for generalized singular estimate control systems." Applicable Analysis: an international journal 92, no. 8 (2013): 1559-1596.
Kukavica, Igor, and Amjad Tuffaha. "Well-posedness for the compressible Navier-Stokes-Lamé system with a free interface." Nonlinearity 25, no. 11 (2012): 3111–3137.
Kukavica, Igor, and Amjad Tuffaha. "Solutions to a fluid-structure interaction free boundary problem." Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems. Series A 32, no. 4 (2012): 1355–1389.
Kukavica, Igor, Amjad Tuffaha, Vlad Vicol, and Fei Wang. "On the Existence for the Free Interface 2D Euler Equation with a Localized Vorticity Condition." Applied Mathematics and Optimization 73, no. 3 (2016): 523-544.
Kukavica, Igor, and Amjad Tuffaha. "Regularity of solutions to a free boundary problem of fluid-structure interaction." Indiana University Mathematics Journal 61, no. 5 (2012): 1817-1859.

Conference Presentations

"Free Boundary Problems in Fluids and Fluid-Structure Interactions", Applied Mathematics and Computational Science Seminar at King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST) on Jan. 26th 2016

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