Robert Bennell
Chair (Interim), Associate Professor
Department of Applied Mathematics and Sciences
Khalifa University
United Arab Emirates
Biography
Dr. Robert Bennell served as Professor of Mathematics at Zayed University (UAE), Professor of Mathematics at the Virginia Military Institute (USA), and Lecturer in Mathematics, Statistics & Operational Research at Cranfield University (UK).
Research Interest
Dr Bennell’s research focuses on the application of cubic splines and orthogonal polynomials as the basis functions for approximation methods and algorithms for solving practical data fitting problems.
Publications
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Bivariate orthogonal polynomial approximation to curves of data, R.P. Bennell & J.C. Mason, in Orthogonal Polynomials & their Applications, C. Brezinski, L. Gori & A. Ronveaux (Eds.), IMACS Annals on Computing & Applied Mathematics, Vol. 9, Nos. 1-4, pp 177-183, (1991).
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Efficient multivariate approximation methods for lines and curves of data, J.C. Mason & R.P. Bennell, Computer Aided Surface Geometry & Design, Proceedings of the Fourth IMA Conference on the Mathematics of Surfaces, pp 33-50, (1993).
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Regularised cubic B-spline approximation for processing laser Doppler anemometry data, in Experimental and Numerical Methods for solving ill-posed Inverse Problems: Medical and Non-medical Applications, Randall L. Barbour, Mark J. Carvlin & Michael A. Fiddy (Eds.), Proceedings SPIE 2570, pp 242-253, (1995).
