Publications
This is a list of my
publications, most of which are available in PostScript or PDF
format.
- Boisvert, Muir, and Spiteri A Runge-Kutta BVODE solver with
global error and defect control, ACM Transactions of
Mathematical Software, Vol. 39, No. 2, Art. 11 (2013).
- Chidambaranathan and Spiteri Modelling and simulation
of the CLS cryogenic system, Applied Mathematical
Modelling, Vol. 37, No. 1-2, pp. 34-49 (2013).
- Karimipour, Gerspacher, Gupta, and
Spiteri A study of factors
affecting syngas quality and their interactions in fluidized
bed gasification of lignite coal, Fuel, Vol. 103,
pp. 308-320 (2013).
- Marsh, Torabi, and Spiteri The secrets to the success of the
Rush--Larsen method and its generalizations, IEEE
Transactions of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 59, No. 9,
pp. 2506-2515 (2013).
- Wanasundara, Spiteri, and Bowles Single file and normal dual mode
diffusion in highly confined hard sphere mixtures under
flow, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 37, No. 10,
pp. 104501 (2012).
- Marsh, Pomeroy, and Spiteri Implications of mountain shading on
calculating energy for snowmelt using unstructured triangular
meshes, Hydrological Processes, Vol. 26, No. 22,
pp. 1767-1778 (2012).
- McKenzie, Merrill, Spiteri, and Lewis:
How linear features alter predator
movement and the functional response,, Interface Focus, Vol. 27,
No. 2, pp. 206-216 (2012).
- Butler, Stauffer, Sinha, Lilly, and
Spiteri: The shape distribution of
splash-form tektites predicted by numerical simulations of rotating
fluid drops, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 667, pp. 358-368
(2011).
- Spiteri and Dean: Stiffness analysis of cardiac
electrophysiological models, Annals of Biomedical Engineering,
Vol. 38, No. 12, pp. 3592-3604 (2010).
- Marinova, Spiteri, and Essien: Time stepping for vectorial
operator splitting, Journal of Computational and Applied
Mathematics, Vol. 235, No. 2, pp. 460-469 (2010).
- Sellers, Spiteri, and Perrone: CO2 + CH4 Chemistry over Pd: Results of Kinetic Simulations Relevant to Environmental Issues, Journal of Physical Chemistry C, Vol. 113, No. 6, pp. 2340-2346 (2009).
- Adamo and Spiteri: He's
healthy, but will he survive the plague? Possible constraints on mate
choice for disease resistance, Animal Behaviour, Vol. 77, pp. 67-78 (2008).
- Helmuth, Spiteri, and
Szmigielski: One-dimensional magnetotelluric inversion with radiation
boundary conditions, Canadian Applied Mathematics Quarterly, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 419-445 (2008).
- Sellers, Perrone, and Spiteri: A
computational model of catalyzed carbon sequestration, 2008 CSPG CSEG
CWLS Convention.
- Mason and Spiteri: A new adaptive
folding-up algorithm for information retrieval, Proceedings of the SIAM
Text Mining 2007 Workshop.
- Spiteri and Dean: On the performance of implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods in models of cardiac electrical activity, IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 55, No. 5, pp. 1488-1495, (2008).
- Spiteri and Ter: pythNon: A PSE for the numerical solution of nonlinear algebraic equations, Journal of Numerical Analysis, Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 3, No. 1-2, pp. 123-137 (2008).
- Wang, Feng, and Spiteri:
Observations on the fifth-order WENO method with non-uniform meshes,
Applied Mathematics and Computation, Vol. 196, No. 1, pp. 174-193 (2008).
- Wang and Spiteri: Linear instability of the fifth-order WENO method, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 45, No. 5, pp. 1871-1901 (2007).
- Shafiei, S. Wang, Zhang,
Milios, Tang, Tougas, and Spiteri: Document Representation and
Dimension Reduction for Text Clustering, Workshop on Text Data Mining
and Management (TDMM) in conjunction with 23rd IEEE ICDE Conference, pp. 770-779 (2007).
- Ter, Donaldson, and Spiteri:
Observations on greedy composite Newton methods, Proceedings 2007
International Symposium on High Performance Computing and Applications, article number 4215561.
- MacLachlan, Sundnes, and
Spiteri: A comparison of non-standard solvers for ODEs describing
cellular reactions in the heart, Computer Methods in Biomechanics
and Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 10, No. 5, pp. 317-326 (2007).
- Tougas and Spiteri: Updating
the partial singular value decomposition in latent semantic indexing,
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Vol. 52, No. 1, pp. 174-183 (2008).
- Tougas and Spiteri: Two uses for
updating the partial singular value decomposition in latent semantic
indexing, Applied Numerical Mathematics, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 499-510 (2008).
- Adamo and Spiteri: Female choice for
male immunocompetence: when is it worth it?, Behavioural Ecology, Vol. 16, No. 5, pp. 871-879 (2005).
- Bearne and Spiteri: Reduction of intrinsic kinetic and
thermodynamic barriers in enzyme-catalyzed proton transfers from carbon
acid substrates, Journal of Theoretical Biology, Vol. 233, No. 4,
pp. 563-571 (2005) .
- Ruuth and Spiteri: High-order
strong-stability-preserving Runge-Kutta methods with downwind-biased
spatial discretizations, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol.
42, No. 3, pp. 974-996 (2004).
- Montagnier and Spiteri: A
Gramian-based controller for linear periodic systems, IEEE
Transactions on Automatic Control, Vol. 49, No. 8, pp. 1380-1384 (2004).
- Culshaw, Ruan, and Spiteri: Optimal HIV treatment by maximising immune response,
Journal of Mathematical Biology, Vol. 48, No. 5, pp. 545-562 (2004).
- Montagnier, Spiteri, and Angeles: The control of time-periodic linear systems using
Floquet-Lyapunov theory, International Journal of Control, Vol.
77, No. 5, pp.472-490 (2004).
- Spiteri and MacLachlan: An efficient non-standard
finite difference scheme for an ionic model of cardiac action
potentials, Journal of Difference Equations and Applications, Vol.
9, No. 12, pp. 1069-1082 (2003).
- Montagnier, Paige, and Spiteri: Real Floquet
factors of linear time-periodic systems, Systems and Control
Letters, Vol. 50, No. 4, pp. 251-262 (2003).
- Hundsdorfer, Ruuth, and Spiteri: Monotonicity-preserving linear multistep methods,
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 41 No. 2, pp. 605-623 (2003).
- Spiteri and Ruuth: Nonlinear
evolution using optimal fourth-order strong-stability-preserving
Runge-Kutta methods, Journal of Mathematics and Computers in
Simulation, Vol. 62, Nos. 1-2, pp.125-135 (2003).
- Spiteri and Ruuth: A
new class of optimal high-order strong-stability-preserving time
discretization methods, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol.
40, No. 2, pp.469-491 (2002).
- Ruuth and Spiteri: Two
barriers on strong-stability-preserving time discretization methods,
Journal of Scientific Computing, Vol. 17, Nos. 1-4, pp.211-220 (2002).
- Newbury and Spiteri: Inverting gravitational lenses, SIAM Review, 44
(1) pp.111-130 (2002).
- Lin and Spiteri: A predicted sequential regularization method for
index-2 Hessenberg DAEs, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol.
39, No. 6, pp. 1889-1913 (2002) .
- Maslowe and Spiteri: The continuous spectrum for a boundary layer in a
streamwise pressure gradient, Physics of Fluids, Vol. 13, No. 5,
pp. 1294-1299 (2001) .
- Montagnier, Spiteri, and Angeles: Pitfalls of a least-squares-equivalent controller for
linear, time-periodic systems, International Journal of Control,
Vol.74, No. 2, pp. 199-204 (2001) .
- Spiteri and Montagnier: The real story behind Floquet-Lyapunov theory, in Problems in Modern Applied Mathematics (Nikos Mastorakis,
editor), pp. 276-281 (2000).
- Spiteri, Ascher, and Pai: Programming and control of robots by means of
differential-algebraic inequalities, IEEE Transactions on Robotics
and Automation, Vol. 16, No. 2, pp. 135-145 (2000).
- Ostrovskaya, Angeles, and Spiteri: Dynamics of a mobile robot with three
ball-wheels, International Journal of Robotics Research, Vol. 19,
No. 4, pp. 383-393 (2000).
- Spiteri, Montagnier, and Angeles: Control of a shaking belt conveyor by a novel
application of Floquet-Lyapunov theory Refereed Proceedings The
Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering Forum, Vol. 4, pp. 392-399
(1998).
- Ascher, Ruuth, and Spiteri: Implicit-explicit Runge-Kutta methods for
time-dependent partial differential equations. Applied Numerical
Mathematics, Vol. 25, Nos. 2-3, pp. 151-167 (1997).
- Spiteri A
numerical algorithm for the solution of DAIs -- Differential systems
subject to Algebraic Inequality constraints. ICIAM95 Proceedings,
Zeitschrift fur Angwandte Mathematik und Mechanik, Issue I --
Scientific Computing and Computer Science (1996).
- Spiteri, Ascher, and Pai: Numerical solution of differential systems with
algebraic inequalities arising in robot programming, Refereed
Proceedings IEEE Robotics & Automation, Nagoya, Japan, pp.
2373-2380 (1995).
- Ascher and Spiteri: Collocation software for boundary value
differential algebraic equations, SIAM Journal on Scientific
Computing, Vol. 15, No. 4, pp. 938-952 (1994).
- Moulton and Spiteri: Non-conforming finite element solution of
the plate bending problem with application to visual surface
reconstruction UBC Technical Report
(1992) compressed tar file.
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- Nerenberg, Spiteri, and Blackburn:
Chaos in extended linear arrays of Josephson weak links, Phys. Rev. B,
Vol. 40, No. 16, pp.11294-11296 (1989).
Ph.D Thesis
The following is a link to my Ph.D. thesis,
titled
"Solution methods for differential systems subject to algebraic
inequality
constraints".
For other literature of interest, including unpublished and
in-process
works, please contact me directly, <spiteri@cs.dal.ca>.