RESEARCH AWARDS

NATO Collaborative Research Grant (with C.A. Brebbia)
Compactly supported Radial Basis Function for Boundary Element Methods, 1997-98.

UNLV SITE Grant (with M.D. Marcozzi and S. Choi)
On the valuation of derivative securities, 1999-2000.

NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant (with Sarler Bozidar and C.J.S. Alves)
The method of fundamental solutions for non-homogeneous problems,2001-2003.

UNLV NIA Award (with Jichun Li)
Meshless methods for ground water transport prolbems, 2001-2003.

USA-Slovenia Exchange Grant (with Bozidar Slovenia, Jichun Li and Darrell Pepper)
Meshless methods for computational modeling of heat transfer and fluid flow, 2001-2003.

National Research Council (NRC, Collaboration in Basic Science and Engineering)
Meshless Methods using radial basis functions for heat transfer and fluid flow, 2003-2004.

National Science Foundation/INT (with Jichun Li)
Radial basis functions based meshless methods with applications to groundwater contaminant modeling, , 2003-2005.

NSF EPSCoR (with Yitung Chen)
Modeling of radionuclide migration through geosphere using meshless methods, 2004-2005.

NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant (with Evgeny Glushkov, C.J.S. Alves, G. Mishuris, S. Reutskiy)
Boundary meshlss methods for solving large scale problems, 2003-2005.

Nevada NASA EPSCoR (with A.S. Muleshkov)
Meshless methods using radial basis functions for solving bending problem of a thin plate, 2005

Pearson Custom Publishing Equipment Grant (with Rex. Gandy, Justin McKenzie), 2006-2007.

NATO Collaborative Linkage Grant (with Ahmed Naji, Sergiy Reutskiy)
Modeling Terrorist Attack on Environmental Pollution, 2007-2008.

IHL - National Center for Academic Transformation, (with Barry Piazza, Rex Gandy, H.Y. Tian, Janice Flechter)
Course Redesign: Emporium Model for Intermediate Algebra, 2008-2010.

NATO-RTO (Vladimir Kompis, C.S. Chen, H.Y. Tian), Advanced computational simulation of composites reinforced by short fibers, June 2009-Dec. 2011.