Arts & Sciences Program

Faculty & Staff

Dr. Amjad Tuffaha Assistant Professor of Mathematics Email: atuffaha@pi.ac.ae Phone:+971-2-607-75268  Office: 4027 (Umm Sheif)

Academic Qualifications

• Ph.D., Mathematics, University of Virginia, USA, 2007.
• MS, Mathematics, University of Virginia, USA, 2004.
• BA, Economics and Mathematics, Colby College, USA, 2002.

Experience

2010 to present	Assistant Professor of Mathematics, Arts & Sciences Program, Petroleum Institute, Abu Dhabi
2007 to 2010	Assistant Professor of Mathematics, University of Southern California, USA.
2002 to 2007	Teaching Assistant, University of Virginia, USA.

Research Interests
Fluid Dynamics, Analysis and Control of Fluid Structure Interaction, Boundary Control of Systems of Coupled PDE, Aeroelasticity. 

Teaching Interests
Calculus, Linear Algebra, Advanced Math for Engineers, Differential Equations, Real and Functional Analysis, Partial Differential Equations.

Selected Publications :

1. Kukavica, Igor; Tuffaha, Amjad; Ziane, Mohammed: Strong solutions to a Navier-Stokes-Lame' System on a domain with non-flat boundaries. To appear in Nonlinearity 2010.
2. Kukavica, Igor; Tuffaha, Amjad; Ziane, Mohammed: Strong solutions for a fluid structure interaction system. Adv. Differential Equations 15 (2010), no. 3-4, 231—254.
3. Lasiecka, Irena; Tuffaha, Amjad: Optimal feedback synthesis for Bolza control problem arising in linearized fluid structure interaction. Optimal control of coupled systems of partial differential equations, 171--190, Internat. Ser. Numer. Math., 158, Birkhäuser Verlag, Basel, 2009.
4. Tuffaha, Amjad: Flutter stability analysis of a wedge shaped airfoil with nonzero thickness in non-viscous airflow. Nonlinear Stud. 16 (2009), no. 3, 235--259.
5. Kukavica, Igor; Tuffaha, Amjad; Ziane, Mohammed: Strong solutions to a nonlinear fluid structure interaction system. J. Differential Equations 247 (2009), no. 5, 1452--1478.
6. Lasiecka, Irena; Tuffaha, Amjad Riccati theory and singular estimates for a Bolza control problem arising in linearized fluid-structure interaction. Systems Control Lett. 58 (2009), no. 7, 499--509.
7. Barbu, Viorel; Grujić, Zoran; Lasiecka, Irena; Tuffaha, Amjad: Smoothness of weak solutions to a nonlinear fluid-structure interaction model. Indiana Univ. Math. J. 57 (2008), no. 3, 1173--1207.
8. Lasiecka, I.; Tuffaha, A.: Riccati equations for the Bolza problem arising in boundary/point control problems governed by $C_0$ semigroups satisfying a singular estimate. J. Optim. Theory Appl. 136 (2008), no. 2, 229--246.
9. Lasiecka, I.; Tuffaha, A.: Riccati equations arising in boundary control of fluid structure interactions. Int. J. Comput. Sci. Math. 1 (2007), no. 1, 128--146.
10. Barbu, Viorel; Grujić, Zoran; Lasiecka, Irena; Tuffaha, Amjad: Existence of the energy-level weak solutions for a nonlinear fluid-structure interaction model. Fluids and waves, 55--82, Contemp. Math., 440, Amer. Math. Soc., Providence, RI, 2007.
11. Lasiecka, Irena; Tuffaha, Amjad: Differential Riccati equations for the Bolza problem associated with point boundary control of singular estimate control systems. Free and moving boundaries, 245--262, Lect. Notes Pure Appl. Math., 252, Chapman \& Hall/CRC, Boca Raton, FL, 2007.