North Carolina State
University Numerical Analysis

People

H. T. (Tom) Banks: (Drexel Professor of Mathematics): Director of the Center For Research in Scientific Computation

S. L. (Steve) Campbell: (Professor of Mathematics): Numerical and analytical methods for implicit systems of differential equations and their applications in mechanics and control.

Alina Chertock: (Assistant Professor of Mathematics): Free boundary problems for nonlinear PDEs, focusing on both analytic asymptotic methods and high-resolution numerical methods. Numerical methods for time dependent PDEs, hyperbolic conservation laws, degenerate parabolic equations.

M. T. (Moody) Chu: (Professor of Mathematics): Numerical analysis and implicit systems of differential equations.

R. E. (Bob) Funderlic: (Professor of Computer Science): Scientific computing, numerical linear algebra, parallel algorithms and high performance computing. Current work deals with insights into the Lanczos and conjugate gradient methods as well as the generalized singular value decomposition.

P. (Pierre) Gremaud: (Associate Professor of Mathematics): Variational methods in continuum mechanics, numerical methods for conservation Laws.

M.A. (Mansoor) Haider: (Assistant Professor of Mathematics): Scientific computing, boundary integral methods. Applications to modeling in orthopaedic biomechanics and electromagnetic scattering.

I. C. F. (Ilse) Ipsen: (Professor of Mathematics): Numerical linear algebra and parallel computing.

K. (Kazi) Ito: (Professor of Mathematics): Optimal control and inverse problems in systems governed by PDEs and analytical and numerical methods for solutions to PDEs; feedback synthesis for systems governed by nonlinear PDEs and boundary control as well as mathematical analysis and numerical methods in control of Navier-Stokes equation.

C. T. (Tim) Kelley: (Drexel Professor of Mathematics): Nonlinear equations, multilevel methods, large scale optimization, flow in porous media, radiative transfer, and integral equations.

Zhilin Li: (Associate Professor of Mathematics): Numerical methods for differential equations, especially for moving bounday/interface problems and applications.

C. D. (Carl) Meyer: (Professor of Mathematics): Numerical linear algebra and matrix computations, applied linear algebra, discrete Markov chains, aggregation/disaggregation algorithms.

J. F. (John) Monahan: (Professor of Statistics): Statistical computing, time series analysis and Bayesian analysis. Numerical analysis such as function approximation to "fast algorithms" for random number generation. Current work concerns random integration rules for Bayesian problems and applications to meteorology of complex principal components analysis of variables in time and space.

M. S. (Mette) Olufsen: (Assistant Professor of Mathematics): Computation biofluid dynamics. Especially modeling fluid dynamics and control of the cardiovascular system.

J. S. (Jeff) Scroggs: (Associate Professor of Mathematics): Development of parallel numerical methods for the approximation of solutions to partial differential equations with application to fluid dynamics.

C. E. (Chuck) Siewert: (Professor of Mathematics): Neutron-transport theory and radiative transfer, polarization problems in radiative transfer and combined mode, radiation-conduction, heat transfer. Recent work concerns an improved iterative method for solving a class of coupled conductive-radiative heat-transfer problems as well as the P-N method with mark boundary conditions.

Kartik K. Sivaramakrishnan: (Assistant Professor of Mathematics): Theory, algorithms, and applications of convex optimization including linear, second order, and semidefinite programming; interior point methods; and decomposition and nonsmooth approaches for large scale optimization.

W. J. (Billy) Stewart: (Professor of Computer Science): Numerical Linear algebra; computational Markov chains; queueing networks; performance analysis of computer and communication systems.

H. T. (Hien) Tran: (Professor of Mathematics): Numerical methods for identification and control of infinite-dimensional systems; mathematical modeling and control of gas flow dynamics in a rapid thermal chemical vapor epitaxy reactor; mathematical modeling of biological and physiological systems.

S. (Seymon) Tsynkov: (Associate Professor of Mathematics): Artificial Boundary Conditions (ABCs) for External Aerodynamics, combined Implementation of Non-Local ABCs with the New Generation of Advanced Multigrid Flow Solvers Based on Factorizable Schemes, Long-Term Numerical Integration of Wave-Type Solutions, Active Shielding and Control of Environmental Noise, Numerical Solution of the Nonlinear Helmholtz Equation.

P. J. (Paul) Turinsky: (Professor of Nuclear Engineering): Computational reactor physics; nuclear fuel management optimization and parallel solution of diffusion and transport equations; multilevel acceleration of the nodal solution form of the neutron diffusion equation; parallel solution utilizing domain decomposition of the integral form of the neutron transport equation; stochastic optimization of the in-core nuclear fuel management optimization problem.

R. E. (Bob) White: (Professor of Mathematics): Numerical solution of Richards' equation for the fluid flow in unsaturated porous media, numerical solution of the equilibrium equations.

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