Profile
Ph.D. 2004 in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
M.Sc. 2002 in Mathematics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA.
B.Sc. 2000 in Mathematics, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus.
Research Interests
Partial Differential Equations and Applied Analysis.
Continuum Mechanics and Hyperbolic Conservation Laws.
Vanishing Viscosity Limits and Formation of Shock Waves.
Selected Publications
C. Christoforou and L. V. Spinolo, A uniqueness criterion for viscous limits of boundary Riemann problems, Jour. Hyp. Diff. Eqs., (accepted 2010).
J. Chen, C. Christoforou and K. Jegdic, Existence and uniqueness analysis of a detached shock for the potential flow, Nonlinear Analysis, Vol 74, Issue 3 (2011) 705-1004.
C. Christoforou and K. Trivisa, Sharp decay estimates for hyperbolic balance laws, Journal of Differential Equations, 247 (2009), 401-423.
G.-Q. Chen, C. Christoforou and Y. Zhang, Continuous dependence of entropy solutions to the Euler equations on the adiabatic exponent and Mach number, Archive for Rational Mechanics and Analysis DOI: 10.1007/s00205-007-0098-9.
C. Christoforou, Systems of conservation laws with fading memory, Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations, 4, (2007), (3) 435--478.
G.-Q. Chen, C. Christoforou and Y. Zhang, Dependence of entropy solutions in the large for the Euler equations on nonlinear flux functions, Indiana University Mathematics Journal, 56 (2007), (5) 2535--2568.
G.-Q. Chen and C. Christoforou, Solutions for a nonlocal conservation law with fading memory, Proceedings of the AMS, 135 (2007), 3905--3915.
C. Christoforou, Uniqueness and sharp estimates on solutions to hyperbolic systems with dissipative source, Communication in Partial Differential Equations, 31 (2006), (12), 1825--1839.
C. Christoforou, Hyperbolic systems of balance laws via vanishing viscosity, Journal of Differential Equations, 221 (2006), (2), 470--541. Personal Website: http://www2.ucy.ac.cy/~kleopatr |