Tel: +2712 420-2837
Fax: +2712 420-3893
E-mail: michael.chapwanya@up.ac.za
Office: Mathematics Building 2-32

Position: Lecturer
Academic qualifications: MSc, PhD (Univ of Limerick, Ireland)
NRF rating: Y2

Research Interest: Mathematical modeling, industrial mathematics and scientific computing

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Journal Articles

Chapwanya M, Stockie JM, Liu W A model for reactive porous transport during re-wetting of hardened concrete. Journal of Engineering Mathematics, 65(1)(2009), 53-73

Rojas J, Burke M, Chapwanya M, Hewitt I, Korobeinikov A, Meere M, McCarty S, O’Brien M, VoThi Ngoc Tuo, Winstaanley H  Modeling of autothermal thermophylic aerobic digestion. Mathematics in Industry Case Studies Journal, 2(2010), 34-63

Chapwanya M, O’Brien SBG, Williams JF  A perturbation solution for bioremediation in a porous medium with bio-clogging.  Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 234(2010), 2709-2723

Chapwanya M, Stockie JM Numerical simulations of gravity-driven fingering in unsaturated porous media using a nonequilibrium model.  Water Resources Research, 46(2010), W09534

Chapwanya M, Clark CD, Fowler AC  Numerical computations of a theoretical model of a ribbed moraine formation.  Earth Surface Processes and Landforms, 36(2011), 1105-1112

Winstanley HF, Chapwanya M, McGuinness MJ, Fowler AC  A polymer-solvent model of biofilm growth. Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 467(2011), 1449-1467

Chapwanya M, Lubuma JM-S, Mickens RE  From enzyme kinetics to epidemiological models with Michaelis-Menton contact rate: Design of nonstandard finite difference schemes.  Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 64(2012), 201-213

Chapwanya M, Lubuma JM-S, Mickens RE  Nonstandard finite difference schemes for Michaelis-Menten type reaction-diffusion equations.  Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 29(1)(2013), 337-360

Conference Proceedings

Chapwanya M, Stockie JM A mathematical model for reactive transport and self-desiccation in concrete. Proceedings of the International Conference on Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, ICNAAM 2009, (Crete, Greece), American Institute of Physics Conference Proceedings 2009, 1168(2), 1453-1456, ISBN: 978-0-7354-0708-4, ISSN: 0094-243X

Burke M, Chapwanya M, Doherty K, Hewitt I, Korobeinikov A , Meere M, McCarty S, O’Brien M, Vo Thi Ngoc Tuo and Winstanley H   Modeling wastewater treatment.  Proceedings of the 70th European Study Group with Industry (ESG170) , University of Limerick, (Limerick, Ireland), 2009, 107-139, (electronic proceedings: http://www.macsi.ul.ie/2/esgi70/)

Chapwanya M, Cregan V, Fowler A, William L, Meere M, Tuoi Vo thi Ngoc, Rivas JM, O'Brien SBG, Sadakov R, Winstanley H  Spin-coated substrates for cell growth.  In S O’Brien, M O’Sullivan, P Hanrahan, W Lee, J Mason, J Charpin and A Korobeinikov (eds), Proceedings of the 75th European Study Group with Industry (ESG175), (Limerick, Ireland), University of Limerick, 2010, pp 55-79, (electronic proceedings: http://www.macsi.ul.ie/esgi75/)

Chapwanya M, Gordon A, McDowell P  Predicting bus arrival times.  In S O’Brien, M O’Sullivan, P Hanrahan, W Lee, J Mason, J Charpin and A Korobeinikov (eds), Proceedings of the 82nd European Study Group with Industry (ESG182), (Limerick, Ireland), University of Limerick, 2011, pp 87-107, (electronic proceedings: http://www.macsi.ul.ie/esgi82/)
 
Aderogba AA, Chapwanya M, Djoko J  Travelling wave solution of the Kuramoto-Sivashinsky equation: A computational study.  In TE Simos, G Psihoyios, Ch Tsitouras and Z Anastassi (eds), Proceedings of the International Conference of Numerical Analysis and Applied Mathematics, ICNAAM 1012, (Kos, Greece), American Institute of Physics – AIP Conference Proceedings 2012, 1479, 777-780, ISBN: 978-0-7354-1091-6