Publications

N. Riemer, M. West, R. A. Zaveri, and R. C. Easter, Simulating the evolution of soot mixing state with a particle-resolved aerosol model, Journal of Geophysical Research 114(D09202), 2009.

T.-C. Liang and M. West, Numerical evidence for cutoffs in chaotic microfluidic mixing, in Proceedings of the 2008 ASME Dynamic Systems and Control Conference, 2008.

R. McGraw, L. Leng, W. Zhu, N. Riemer, and M. West, Aerosol dynamics using the quadrature method of moments: Comparing several quadrature schemes with particle-resolved simulation, Journal of Physics: Conference Series 125(012020), 2008.

L. Lessard, D. MacMynowski, M. West, A. Bouchez, and S. Lall, Experimental validation of single-iteration multigrid wavefront reconstruction at the Palomar Observatory, Optics Letters 33(18), 2047-2049, 2008.

N. Lee, A. Zorn, and M. West, Passive vertical stabilization of two tethered nanosatellites with engineered damping, in Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference 2008, AIAA-2008-6450, 2008.

S. Pifko, A. Zorn, and M. West, Geometric interpretation of adjoint equations in optimal low thrust trajectories, in Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference 2008, AIAA-2008-6954, 2008.

M. Souder and M. West, Solar sail technology for nanosatellites, in Proceedings of the AIAA Guidance, Navigation and Control Conference 2008, AIAA-2008-7078, 2008.

J.-H. Kim, M. West, E. Scholte, and S. Narayanan, Multiscale consensus for decentralized estimation and its application to building systems, in American Control Conference, 2008, 888-893, ISBN: 978-1-4244-2078-0, 2008.

L. Lessard, M. West, D. MacMynowski, and S. Lall, Warm-started wavefront reconstruction for adaptive optics, Journal of the Optical Society of America A 25(5), 1147-1155, 2008.

S. M. Jalnapurkar, M. Leok, J. E. Marsden, and M. West, Discrete Routh reduction, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 39(19), 5521-5544, 2006.

S. Lall and M. West, Discrete variational Hamiltonian mechanics, Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and General 39(19), 5509-5519, 2006.

H. S. Bhat, R. C. Fetecau, J. E. Marsden, K. Mohseni, and M. West, Lagrangian averaging for compressible fluids, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation 3(4), 818-837, 2005.

F. Cirak and M. West, Decomposition contact response (DCR) for explicit finite element dynamics, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 64(8), 1078-1110, 2005.

T. Wang, S. Lall, and M. West, Polynomial level-set methods for nonlinear dynamical systems analysis, in Proceedings of the Allerton Conference on Communication, Control, and Computing 2005, 640-649, 2005.

A. Lew, J. E. Marsden, M. Ortiz, and M. West, An overview of variational integrators, in Finite Element Methods: 1970's and Beyond, 98-115, CIMNE, ISBN: 84-95999-49-8, 2004.

A. Lew, J. E. Marsden, M. Ortiz, and M. West, Variational time integrators, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 60(1), 153-212, 2004.

M. Oliver, M. West, and C. Wulff, Approximate momentum conservation for spatial semidiscretizations of semilinear wave equations, Numerische Mathematik 97(3), 493-535, 2004.

M. West, Variational integrators, Ph.D. thesis, California Institute of Technology, 2004.

R. C. Fetecau, J. E. Marsden, M. Ortiz, and M. West, Nonsmooth Lagrangian mechanics and variational collision integrators, SIAM Journal on Applied Dynamical Systems 2(3), 381-416, 2003.

R. C. Fetecau, J. E. Marsden, and M. West, Variational multisymplectic formulations of nonsmooth continuum mechanics, in Perspectives and Problems in Nonlinear Science, 229-261, Springer-Verlag, ISBN: 0-387-00312-6, 2003.

A. Lew, J. E. Marsden, M. Ortiz, and M. West, Asynchronous variational integrators, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis 167(2), 85-146, 2003.

J. E. Marsden, S. Pekarsky, S. Shkoller, and M. West, Variational methods, multisymplectic geometry and continuum mechanics, Journal of Geometry and Physics 38(3-4), 253-284, 2001.

J. E. Marsden and M. West, Discrete mechanics and variational integrators, Acta Numerica 10, 357-514, 2001.

C. Kane, J. E. Marsden, M. Ortiz, and M. West, Variational integrators and the Newmark algorithm for conservative and dissipative mechanical systems, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 49(10), 1295-1325, 2000.

M. West, C. Kane, J. E. Marsden, and M. Ortiz, Variational integrators, the Newmark scheme, and dissipative systems, in EQUADIFF 99 (Vol. 2): Proceedings of the International Conference on Differential Equations, 1009-1011, World Scientific, ISBN: 981-02-4359-6 (set), 981-02-4989-6 (Vol. 2), 2000.

D. Allingham, M. West, and A. I. Mees, Wavelet reconstruction of nonlinear dynamics, International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos 8(11), 2191-2201, 1998.