Peter Petropoulos
Associate Professor, Mathematical Sciences
608 Cullimore Hall (CULM)
Education
Ph.D. ; Northwestern University ; Applied Mathematics ; 1991

M.S. ; Northwestern University ; Applied Mathematics ; 1988

B.S. ; Rutgers University-New Brunswick ; Electrical Engineering ; 1986

2025 Fall Courses
MATH 213 - CALCULUS III B

Teaching Interests
Undergraduate & Graduate courses in the Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations.
Past Courses
MATH 112: CALCULUS II

MATH 211: CALCULUS IIIA

MATH 213: CALCULUS III B

MATH 213: CALCULUS IIIB

MATH 222: DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS

MATH 328: MATH METHODS FOR SCI & ENGR

MATH 331: INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQ

MATH 331: INTRO PARTIAL DIFF EQ - HONORS

MATH 332: INTRO COMPLEX VARIABLES

MATH 332: INTRODUCTION TO FUNCTIONS OF A COMPLEX VARIABLE

MATH 335: VECTOR ANALYSIS

MATH 337: LINEAR ALGEBRA

MATH 340: APPLIED NUMERICAL METHODS

MATH 440: ADV APPL NUMERICAL METH

MATH 611: NUMER METH FOR COMPUTATN

MATH 639: MATHEMATICAL MODELING II

MATH 651: METHODS OF APPLIED MATH I

MATH 712: NUMERICAL METHODS II

MATH 713: ADVANCED SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING

Research Interests
fluid mechanics, wave propagation, scientific computing.
Journal Article
Thomas G Anderson, Radu Cimpeanu, Demetrios T Papageorgiou, Peter G. Petropoulos. 2017. "Electric field stabilization of viscous liquid layers coating the underside of a surface." Phys. Rev. Fluids , vol. 2 , no. 5 , pp. 25 pages.

Radu Cimpeanu , Demetrios T. Papageorgiou, Peter G. Petropoulos. 2014. "On the control and suppression of the Rayleigh-Taylor instability using electric fields." Physics of Fluids , vol. 26 , no. 2 , pp. 022105-1 to 022105-19.

Matthew F. Causley, Peter G. Petropoulos. 2013. "On the Time-Domain Response of Havriliak-Negami Dielectrics." IEEE Transactions on Antennas and Propagation , vol. 61 , no. 6 , pp. 3182-3189.

Lyudmyla Barannyk, Demetrius T. Papageorgiou, Peter G. Petropoulos. 2012. "Suppression of Rayleigh–Taylor instability using electric fields." Mathematics and Computers in Simulation , vol. 82 , no. 6 , pp. 1008-1016.

Matt Causley, Peter G. Petropoulos, Shidong Jiang. 2011. "Incorporating the Havriliak-Negami dielectric model in the FD-TD method." Journal of Computational Physics , vol. 230 , no. 10 , pp. 3884–3899.

Matthew F. Causley, Peter G. Petropoulos, Shidong Jiang. 2011. "Incorporating the Havriliak–Negami dielectric model in the FD-TD method." Journal of Computational Physics , vol. 230 , no. 10 , pp. 3884-3899 .