Publications
Books
Living books — works in progress. These three books are actively being written and refined. New content and revisions are generally uploaded about once a month, so chapters, examples, and explanations may evolve as each book develops.
Markets, Models, and Money, A Practical(ly) Introduction
A concise, practical tour of modern investing—from Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT), CAPM, and the Efficient Market Hypothesis to factor models, option valuation, the Greeks, and common option spreads. It connects the intuition, essential mathematics, and real-world uses of each idea while exploring the assumptions and limitations of financial models.
Engineering Design, An Brief Overview
An accessible overview of the engineering design process: defining problems and requirements, generating and evaluating concepts, using analysis and modeling, building prototypes, testing designs, and refining solutions. It also highlights teamwork, professional ethics, documentation, and clear technical communication.
Fem Fluids & Fun
An exploration of incompressible fluid mechanics through weighted residual methods, functional analysis, and finite element methods. Topics connect the governing Navier–Stokes and continuity equations to weak formulations, function spaces, boundary conditions, discretization, and the numerical solution of fluid-flow problems.
Selected manuscripts, papers, reports, and software
Selected research manuscripts, published papers, reports, and software span finance, engineering education, finite element methods, computational fluid dynamics, computational electromagnetics, and semiconductor device modeling. Current research emphasizes Expanded Portfolio Theory, portfolio computational methods, and implementation-aware backtesting.
Research manuscripts in development. The first three items below are works in preparation. They are not presented as peer-reviewed, accepted, or published papers.
In preparation — An Expanded Portfolio Theory
In preparation — Constraint Implementation within the EPT Approach
In preparation — Constructing Covered Call Portfolios via Expanded Portfolio Theory
2014 — A Novel Approach to Online Course Notebooks for ABET Assessment
ASEE Midwest Section Conference
2013 — Using Moodle for Algorithmic Grading of Homework Assignments
ASEE Midwest Regional Meeting
2011 — Experiments on the Experiment, Determining Uncertainty for Complex Experiments by Using Matlab or Octave
ASEE Midwest Regional Meeting
2011 — Using Open Source Software to Prepare Students for Senior Design
ASEE Midwest Regional Meeting
2010 — Use of Moodle in Engineering Course Presentations
ASEE Gulf Southwest Conference
2005 — StressComp, Finite Element Stress Analysis Software
US Copyright Office TXu001253296
2003 — Coupling of a nonlinear finite element structural method with a Navier-Stokes solver
Computers and Structures 81, 75-89
2002 — Use of a Web Based System for Material Delivery and Collection
ASEE Gulf Southwest Conference
2002 — Use of Excel and Matlab to Design General Linkage Systems for Orthopedic Devices
Computers in Education Journal, XII(2)
2002 — A Simple and Efficient Error Analysis for Multi-Step Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations
International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 38(6), 589-608
2001 — Least Square Finite Element Formulation for Hydrodynamic Modeling of Semiconductor Devices
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 190, 2875-2891
1998 — Four-Moment Hydrodynamic Modeling of a Submicron Semiconductor Device
J. Phys. D: Applied Physics 31, 913-921
1998 — A Numerical Study of U-Tube Passive Anti-Rolling Tanks
ISOPE Conference
1997 — A Study of Nonparabolic Hydrodynamic Modeling of a Sub-micrometer Device
J. Phys. D: Applied Physics 30, 2343-2353
1996 — A Comparative Study of Characteristic-Based Algorithms for the Maxwell Equations
Journal of Computational Physics 125, 378-394
1995 — P-Adaptive Finite Element Simulation of Incompressible Flows
Society of Engineering Science
1994 — A Comparative Study of Numerical Algorithms for Computational Electromagnetics in General Curvilinear Coordinates
AIAA Conference
1993 — Adaptive Finite Element Modeling of Three-Dimensional Viscous Flows
PhD Dissertation, Virginia Tech
1992 — An Adaptive Multilevel Numerical Scheme for the Solution of Navier-Stokes Equations
ASME AMD Vol. 157 / ASME Winter Annual Meeting
1988 — Finite-Element Analysis of Conjugate Heat Transfer in Axisymmetric Pipe Flows
Numerical Heat Transfer 13(2), 189-203