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Dr. Kenneth B. Howell

Associate Professor Emeritus (i.e., retired with honors)

"A journey of a thousand miles begins with a nice cup of coffee."

Address Information

• Office: none
• E-Mail: howellkb@uah.edu  (or howell@math.uah.edu)

Areas of Expertise:

• partial differential equations
• mathematical physics and modeling
• mathematics of elasticity
• potential theory
• signal processing
• optics and limited photon optics
• systems performance analysis
• generalized functions
• Fourier analysis.

Current Project: Enjoying Retirement

Selected Works

• "Fourier Transforms," Chapter 2 in The Transforms and Applications Handbook (editor: A. Poulerikas) C.R.C. Press, 1995.
• "A New Theory for Fourier Analysis, Part V: Generalized Multiplication and Convolution on the Dual Space", Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 187 (1994), 567-582.
• "A New Theory for Fourier Analysis, Part I: The Space of Test Functions," Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 168 (1992), 342-350.
• "Thermal Modeling of Blowout Phenomena" (in Two Parts), technical report prepared for the U.S. Army Strategic Defense Command (1989), 60+ pages
• "The Asymptotic Behavior of Doubly Periodic Strain States," Journal of Elasticity, 16 (1986), 43-61.

Books:

• Principles of Fourier Analysis, Chapman & Hall/CRC, First Edition 2001, Second Edition 2017.
• Ordinary Differential Equations:  An Introduction to the Fundamentals, Chapman & Hall/CRC, First Edition 2016, Second Edition 2020.

Professional Background

• Ph.D. (math) Indiana University, 1978.
• M.S. (math) Indiana University, 1975.
• B.S. (math) and B.S. (physics) Rose-Hulman Inst. of Technology, 1973.
• At UAH since 1981 (retired 2014).