People at UWO Applied Mathematics

Christopher Essex
Professor and Associate Chair

Department of Applied Mathematics University of Western Ontario Middlesex College, Rm. 255D London, ON, Canada N6A 5B7 tel: (519) 661-2111 ext. 88782 fax: (519) 661-3523 email: essex@uwo.ca web: http://www.apmaths.uwo.ca/~essex/ Ph.D. York 1982 M.Sc. Rice 1978 B.Sc. U.W.O. 1976

Research Interests

• Radiation Thermodynamics
• Anomalous Diffusion
• Chaos, Dynamical Systems and Predictability

Representative Publications

• Minimum Entropy Production of Neutrino Radiation in the Steady State (with D. Kennedy) J. Stat. Phys. 94 (1999), 253-267.
• Radiation Entropy Equilibrium (with G. Holden) J.Quant.Spectrosc.Radiat.Trans. 57 (1997) p. 33-40.
• Fractional Diffusion and Entropy Production (with K.H. Hoffmann and C. Schulsky) J. Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics 23 (1998) 23, 166-175
• Fractional Diffusion Equations and Initial Value Problems (with M. Davison) The Mathematical Scientist 23 (1998) p. 108-116.
• A study of Hyper Chaos for Multi-coupled Nonlinear Systems (with W. Yao, P.Yu) Canadian Applied and Industrial Mathematics Society, 20th Annual Meeting (1999) p. 102-103
• Operator Uncertainty as a Pseudo-Error in Initial Conditions: (with M. Davison) Open Systems and Information Dynamics, (Kluwer), 5, (1998) 125-138