Research Bio
Applications of computational schemes for partial differential equations to such areas as semiconductor manufacturing, two and multi-phase fluid flows, industrial processes, including microjetting and efficient combustion, optimization in structural design, image segmentation in medical imaging and inverse problems, wave propapagation. Inverse problems and data extraction from experiment, especially those from synchrotron science and microscopy.
Research Expertise and Interest
mathematics, applied mathematics, partial differential equations, computational physics, level set Methods, computational fluid mechanics and materials sciences, fast marching methods
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Three faculty members named to National Academy of Sciences
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Berkeley Lab mathematicians win Cozzarelli Prize
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