Ed Bueler's Research
My interests include
ice flow,
partial differential equations, variational inequalities,
delay differential equations, and the
numerical
analysis thereof. Also practical
ice sheet models.
recent CV here (PDF)
Papers in applied mathematics: numerical ice sheet modeling
- Ed Bueler and Jed Brown (2009). The shallow
shelf approximation as a "sliding law" in a thermomechanically coupled
ice sheet model, J. Geophys. Res., 114, F03008,
doi:10.1029/2008JF001179.
- E. Bueler, J.
Brown, and C.
Lingle (2007). Exact solutions to
the thermomechanically coupled shallow ice approximation: effective
tools for
verification, J. Glaciol. 53
(182),
499--516.
- E. Bueler, C.
Lingle, J. Brown (2007). Fast
computation
of a viscoelastic
deformable earth model for ice flow simulations, Ann.
Glaciol. 46, 97--105.
- E. Bueler,
C. Lingle, J.
Kallen-Brown, D.
Covey, and L.
Bowman (2005). Exact solutions
and verification of
numerical models for isothermal ice sheets, J. Glaciol. 51 (173),
291--306.
Papers in applied mathematics: delay differential equations
- E. A. Butcher, M. Sari, E. Bueler, and T. Carlson (2009). Magnus' expansion for time-periodic
systems: parameter-dependent
approximations, Commun. Nonlinear Sci. Numer. Simulat. 14, 4226--4245.
- E. A. Butcher, O. A. Bobrenkov, E. Bueler, and P. Nindujarla
(2009). Analysis
of milling
stability by the Chebyshev collocation method: Algorithm and optimal
stable immersion levels, J. Comput. Nonlinear Dynam. 4 (3), 031003.
- V. Deshmukh, E.A. Butcher, and E. Bueler (2008). Dimensional
reduction of nonlinear delay
differential equations with periodic coefficients using Chebyshev
spectral collocation, Nonlinear Dynamics 52, 2008, 137--149.
- E. Bueler (2007). Error bounds for approximate eigenvalues
of periodic-coefficient linear delay differential equations,
SIAM J. Num. Analysis 45 (6), 2510--2536.
- E. A. Butcher, H. Ma, E. Bueler, V. Averina, and
Z. Szabo (2004), Stability
of time-periodic delay-differential
equations via Chebyshev polynomials, Int. J. Numer. Meth.
Engng. 59, 895--922.
- E. A. Butcher, H. Ma, and E. Bueler (2003). Chebyshev
expansion of linear dynamic systems with time delay and periodic
coefficients under control excitations, J. Dynamic Systems,
Measurement and Control (Trans. ASME), 125, 236--243.
Papers in mathematics
Reviewed conference proceedings, commentaries, and short notes
- W. Lipscomb, R.
Bindschadler, E.
Bueler, D. Holland, J. Johnson, and S. Price, A Community Ice Sheet Model for Sea Level
Prediction: Building
a Next-Generation Community Ice Sheet Model, A
Workshop Held at Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los
Alamos, New Mexico, 18-20 August 2008, Eos,
Transactions, Americal Geophysical Union, 90 (3), 23.
- E. Bueler, Lessons from the short history of ice
sheet model intercomparison, The Cryosphere Discuss., 2,
399-412, 2008.
- Butcher, E. A., V. Deshmukh, and E. Bueler, Center
manifold reduction of periodic delay differential systems,
Proceedings of the ASME 2007 International Design Engineering Technical
Conferences & Computers and Information in Engineering Conference
IDETC/CIE 2007, Las Vegas, Nevada, September 2007.
- Butcher, E. A., P. Nindujarla and E.
Bueler, Stability of up- and down-milling using a
Chebyshev collocation method, Proceedings of ASME IDETC/CIE
2005, Long Beach, CA, September 2005.
- Averina,
V., I. Kolmanovsky, A. Gibson,
G. Song and E. Bueler, Analysis
and control
of delay-dependent
behavior of engine air-to-fuel ratio, Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on
Control Applications, Toronto, August, 2005.
- Butcher, E. A., H. Ma, E. Bueler, V. Averina, and Z. Szabo,
Stability Analysis of Parametrically Excited Systems with
Time-Delay, Proceedings of 19th Biennial Conference on
Mechanical Vibration and Noise, ASME DETC 03, Chicago, September 2003.
Funded research projects
- Ed Bueler (PI), Regine Hock (Co-I), David Maxwell (Co-I), and
Martin Truffer (Co-I), A high
resolution Parallel Ice Sheet Model including fast, sliding flow:
advanced development and application, NASA Modeling Analysis and
Prediction, grant #NNX09AJ38G, $1.0M, 2009--2013.
- Craig Lingle (PI), Ed Bueler
(Co-I) and Dave Covey (Co-I), Ice Sheet
Modeling, A science team component of Polar Radar for Ice Sheet
Measurements (PRISM), NASA Cryospheric Sciences Grant # NAG5-11371,
$436K, 2003--2008. See ice sheet
modeling at UAF page.
- Eric A. Butcher (PI) and Ed Bueler
(Co-PI), Symbolic Stability and Bifurcation
Analysis of Time-Periodic Differential-Delay Equations: Applications to
High-Speed Machining Models, NSF Award # 0114500, Division of Civil
and Mechanical Systems, $205K, 2001--2004. See separate page on DDEs.
Preprints and Technical Reports
- Ed Bueler and Jed Brown, The
shallow shelf approximation as a "sliding law" in a thermomechanically
coupled ice sheet model,
preprint arXiv:0810.3449,
2008.
- Ed Bueler, An exact solution to
the temperature equation in a column of ice and bedrock,
preprint arXiv:0710.1314,
2007.
- Ed Bueler and Jed Brown, On exact solutions for cold, shallow, and
thermocoupled ice sheets, preprint arXiv:physics/0610106,
2006.
- Ed Bueler, Craig
S.
Lingle, Jed A. Kallen-Brown, Computation
of combined spherical-elastic
and viscous-half-space earth model for ice sheet simulation,
preprint arXiv:physics/0606074,
2006.
- Chebyshev
collocation for linear, periodic ordinary and delay differential
equations: a posteriori estimates, arxiv.org/abs/math.NA/0409464,
2004
- Ed Bueler, Craig Lingle, Jed Brown, Dave Covey, and Latrice
Bowman, Exact time-dependent similarity solutions for
isothermal
shallow ice sheets, UAF
DMS Technical Report 04-01, 2004. (20 pages, 406 KB, PDF)
- Construction
of steady state solutions for isothermal shallow ice sheets, UAF
DMS Technical Report 03-02, 2003. (7 pages, 183 KB, PDF)
- Ed Bueler and Eric Butcher, Stability of
periodic linear delay-differential equations and the Chebyshev
approximation
of fundamental solutions. UAF DMS
Technical Report 02-03, 2002 (33 pages: PDF).
- Numerical approximation of a two--dimensional
thermomechanical model for ice flow, UAF DMS Technical Report
02-02, 2002. (51 pages, 449 KB, PDF)
- Dirac operators as "annihilation operators" on Riemannian
manifolds, 2001 (8 pages: PDF ).
- Number operators for Riemannian manifolds, arxiv.org/abs/math-ph/0104022,
2000.
Computer programs and packages
- with Jed Brown, Constantine Khroulev, Andy Aschwanden, and
others, PISM, a
Parallel Ice Sheet Model
- I have Matlab codes
for exact
solution-based test cases for verifying numerical models of isothermal
and thermomechanically
coupled shallow ice
sheets. See ice sheet
modeling at UAF page.
- ddec, a Matlab suite for
stability sharts and other information on linear, periodic ODEs and
DDEs
Theses and projects by graduate students
- Jacob Stroh, Non-normality in scalar delay differential
equations, M.S. Thesis, UAF 2006.
- Jed Brown, Multi-modal ice
sheet dynamics: theory and implementation, M.S. Project, UAF
2006.
- Tim Carlson, Magnus' Expansion
as an Approximation Tool for Ordinary Differential Equations,
M.S. Thesis, UAF 2005.
- Latrice Bowman, Numerical Analysis of Ice Flow, M.S.
Project, UAF 2002.
- Victoria Averina, Symbolic stability of delay differential
equations, M.S. Thesis, UAF 2002.
- Mikhail Korotiaev, Critical points of the heat kernel on a
compact semisimple Lie group, M.S. Thesis, UAF 2002.
- Liane K. Hansen, Numerical solutions to a weighted Hodge
Laplacian on the torus, M.S. Project, UAF 1999.
Professional activities
- I have written 14 reviews for Mathematical
Reviews.
- I am a member of the:
Education
- Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute, Berkeley '97-'98. Postdoctoral Fellow.
- Cornell University, Ithaca '97.
Ph.D. Mathematics
- Cornell University, Ithaca '95.
M.S. Mathematics
- California State University, Chico '91.
B.S. Mathematics.
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