V.S. "Mano" Manoranjan
Professor
Neill Hall Room 231
Phone: (509) 335-7811
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Education
- Bachelor of Sciences, Mathematics, University of Sri Lanka (1977)
- Doctor of Philosophy, University of Dundee, Scotland (1982)
Professional Experience
- Research Fellow, University of Dundee
(1982-84)
- Research Fellow, Oxford University
(1984-86)
- Lecturer, University of Surrey (1986-89)
- Assistant Professor, Mathematics, Washington
State University (1989-92)
- Associate Professor, Mathematics, Washington
State University (1992-95)
- Associate Chair, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University (1993-96)
- AFOSR visiting Professor, Armstrong
Laboratory, Tyndall AFB (1994-95)
- Professor, Mathematics, Washington State
University (1995- )
- Chair, Department of Mathematics, Washington State University (1996-1999) and (2006-2008)
- Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (1999-2011)
- Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts and Sciences (2012-2017)
Instruction and Seminar Topics
- Contaminant transport with nonlinear sorption;
Spatial structures for tissue interactions; Solitons and blow-up
solutions of long wave equations; Two-step iterative method for
advection-diffusion computations.
Specialties and Research Areas
- Mathematical and computer modeling of nonlinear
phenomena that arise in engineering and life sciences. Problems of
particular interest are: Contaminant transport in ground water;
Transdermal drug delivery; Models in developmental biology; Nonlinear
waves - Solitons; Iterative methods with large convergence regions.
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