Bei Hu

Associate Chairman, Professor

B.S., East China Normal University, 1982
M.S., East China Normal University, 1984
M.S., University of Minnesota, 1989
Ph.D., University of Minnesota, 1990

Research Interests

I am interested PDE elliptic and parabolic a priori estimates, variational inequalities, free boundary problems, reaction diffusion equations, singular perturbations, asymptotic analysis, homogenization approaches, optimal control in PDE problems, and the applications to industry.

Selected Publications

• Avner Friedman and Bei Hu. A Non-stationary Multi-scale Oscillating Free Boundary for the Laplace and Heat Equation Journal of Differential Equations. Vol. 137, No. 1, (1997), pp. 119-165.
• Avner Friedman and Bei Hu. Head-media interaction in magnetic recording Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis. Vol. 140 (1997), pp. 79-101.
• Bei Hu and Hong-Ming Yin. The Profile near Blowup Time for Solutions of the Heat Equation with a Nonlinear Boundary Condition. Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, 346: 117-135,1994.
• Avner Friedman and Bei Hu. The Stefan Problem with Kinetic Condition at the Free Boundary. Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore - Classe di Scienze, 19: 87-111, 1992.
• Avner Friedman, Bei Hu and Juan Jose Velazquez "A Stefan problem for a protocell model with symmetry-breaking bifurcations of analytic solutions" Interfaces and Free Boundaries Vol. 3, (2001), pp. 143-199

Please direct questions and comments to: Bei.Hu.1@nd.edu