Research Bio

Jon Wilkening is a professor in the Department of Mathematics. His research group at UC Berkeley and LBNL develops high-order numerical algorithms to study the dynamics of water waves, viscoelastic materials, mode-locked lasers, degenerate diffusion equations, and kinetic equations using orthogonal polynomials, asymptotic expansions, rational approximations and other tools from approximation theory.

Research Expertise and Interest

applied mathematics, numerical analysis, computational solid and fluid mechanics