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Associate Professor of Mathematics


Center for Computational Mathematics 
Department of Mathematics

University of Colorado at Denver                UPS:
Lynn S. Bennethum                                               Lynn S. Bennethum
Campus Box 170                                                    Dept. of Mathematics
1250 14th St.,  Suite 600                                        University of Colorado at Denver
P. O. Box 173364,                                                  1250 14th St., Sixth Floor
Denver, Colorado 80217-3364                             Denver, CO  80202

Phone: (303) 556-4810
Fax: (303) 556-8550
E-mail: Lynn.Bennethum@cudenver.edu 


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Research Interests

I am currently interested in determining constitutive relations for swelling porous media. A swelling porous medium is any material consisting of two or more phases which swells due to the addition of more material, the removal of ions, or the unloading of a pressure load. Examples of swelling porous media include clays (very pervasive here in the Denver area!), polymers (such as plastics, or bio-polymers), and cell membranes. Constitutive relations are the equations unique to the particular medium of interest - as oppose to the balance laws, such as conservation of mass, momentum, and energy, which hold for all systems of interest. 
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Last updated: Nov. 9, 2000