Dr. Mikhail Khenner

Mikhail Khenner

Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics
Western Kentucky University
Bowling Green, KY 42101

Member, WKU Applied Physics Institute

Office:	4139 STH
Phone:	270-745-2797
Email:	mikhail.khenner AT wku dot edu
Home Page:	http://www.wku.edu/~mikhail.khenner/

PhD : Université de la Mediterranée, Aix-Marseille II, France PhD Thesis in French Figures Journal article
Perm State University, Russia

Advisors: Prof. Dmitrii V. Lyubimov
Dr. Bernard Roux

CV <----- updated 12/22/2011

Published research (1998-2011) <----- updated 12/22/2011 Research news:

Stability of a strongly anisotropic thin epitaxial film in a wetting interaction with elastic substrate,

with Wondimu Tekalign (RIT) and Margo Levine (Harvard), Eur. Phys. Lett. 93, 26001 (2011)

Formation of organized nanostructures from unstable bilayers of thin metallic liquids,

with Sagar Yadavali and Ramki Kalyanaraman (UTK) , Phys. Fluids 23, 122105 (2011)

Long-wave Marangoni convection in a thin film heated from below,

with Sergey Shklyaev (Caltech, U Puerto Rico) and Alexei Alabuzhev (Perm State U, Rus Acad Sci), Phys. Rev. E 85, 016328 (2012)

Controlling nanoparticles formation in molten metallic bilayers by pulsed-laser interference heating,

with Sagar Yadavali and Ramki Kalyanaraman (UTK) (to appear in Math. Modeling of Natural Phenomena)

Some recent presentations:

Experiments, Modeling and Computations of Pulsed Laser Induced Dewetting in Thin Metallic Films : poster from 2011 Fall Meeting of the Materials Research Society

Stability analysis of pulsed laser-melted bilayer thin films : one-hour presentation for graduate students in Mathematics (2011)

Lubrication approximation-based model and computations of pulsed laser-induced dewetting in thin metallic films : presentation at 2011 Meeting of the Society of Engineering Sciences

Morphological evolution of single-crystal ultrathin solid films: one-hour presentation for undergraduate Physics majors (2010)

Analytical and Computational Modeling of the Stability and Dynamics of a Dewetting Ultrathin Solid Film : one-hour presentation for graduate students in Mathematics (2010)

Research interests:

Mathematical modeling in materials science, crystal growth, and fluid dynamics

Numerical methods for evolving surfaces and interfaces

Pattern formation on surfaces and stability of surfaces and interfaces

Dynamics of thin solid and liquid films

Engineering mathematics

Teaching Fall 2011:

MATH 137, Calculus II

Former PhD students: Phu Vu, University at Buffalo, SUNY (degree granted in August, 2009; Thesis title: "Grid-based and meshless methods
for the computation of the curvatures and related local geometric quantities of a 3D surface";
presently employed by: University of Hanoi, Vietnam)
Agegnehu Atena, University at Buffalo, SUNY (degree granted in December, 2009; Thesis title: "Thermocapillary effects in driven
dewetting and self-assembly of pulsed laser-irradiated metallic films";
present employment: Assistant Professor, Savannah State University