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Current PhD students:
- Kirsten Fagnan, elastic wave propagation in tissue and bone,
numerical simulation of lithotripsy and shock
wave therapy.
- Kyle Mandli,
Debris flows, non-hydrostatic depth-averaged models, storm surges.
- Jihwan Kim,
Multi-layer shallow water equations, submarine landslides.
- Jonathan Claridge,
Diffusion equations, fast transform methods.
- Grady Lemoine, Cut-cell methods for diffusion in complex geometries.
Former Students:
- David Ketcheson,
PhD, 2009
- PhD
thesis: High Order Strong Stability Preserving Time Integrators and
Numerical Wave Propagation Methods for Hyperbolic PDEs
- First position: Assistant Professor, KAUST
- Randall Hoberecht, MS, 2009
- Masters thesis:
A finite volume approach to modeling
injury mechanisms of blast-induced traumatic brain injury
- First position: West Point (active duty, US Army)
- David George, PhD,
2006
- Master's Thesis: Numerical Approximation of the Nonlinear
Shallow Water Equations with Topography and Dry-Beds: A Godunov-Type Scheme.
- PhD Thesis:
Finite Volume Methods and Adaptive Refinement for Tsunami
Propagation and Inundation
- First position: Postdoc, University of Utah
- Current position: Mendenhall Postdoc, USGS Cascades Volcano Observatory
- Marica Pelanti, PhD, 2005
-
PhD Thesis:
Wave Propagation Algorithms for Multicomponent Compressible Flows with
Applications to Volcanic Jets.
- First position: Postdoc, Paris VI
- Current position: Postdoc, INRIA, Paris
- Long Lee,
PhD, 2002, "Immersed interface methods for incompressible flow
with moving interfaces"
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longlee:thesis.ps.gz
- First position: Postdoc, University of North Carolina
- Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Wyoming
- James Rossmanith,
PhD, 2002,
- PhD thesis: A Wave Propagation Method with Constrained Transport
for Ideal and Shallow Water Magnetohydrodynamics"
- rossmanith_thesis.tar tar file containing all chapters
- .ps.gz files for each chapter:
chap0
chap1
chap2
chap3
chap4
chap5
chap6
chap7
chap8
- errata.ps An important correction.
- First position: Postdoc, University of Michigan
- Current position: Assistant Professor, University of Wisconsin
- Derek Bale,
PhD, 2002, "Wave propagation algorithms on curved manifolds with
applications to relativistic hydrodynamics"
- Tiernan Fogarty,
PhD, 2001, "Finite volume methods for elastic-plastic wave propagation in
heterogeneous media"
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fogartyphd.ps.gz
- fogartyms.ps.gz Masters Thesis
- First position: Instructor, Oregon Institute of Technology
- Current position: Assistant Professor, Oregon Institute of Technology
- Donna Calhoun,
PhD, 1999, "A Cartesian grid method for solving the
streamfunction-vorticity equations in irregular geometries"
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calhounphd.ps.gz
- First position: Postdoc, Courant Institute, NYU
- Current position: Researcher, CEA, Paris
- L. G. Ted Stern, PhD,
1996, "An Explicitly Conservative Method for Time-Accurate Solution of
Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations on Embedded Chimera Grids"
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stern:thesis.ps.gz
- First position: Consulting company
- Current position: Researcher, Boeing
- Chaoming Zhang, PhD,
1996, "Immersed Interface Methods for Hyperbolic Systems of Partial
Differential Equations with Discontinuous Coefficients"
- Zhilin Li, PhD,
1994, "The Immersed Interface Method --- A Numerical Approach for Partial
Differential Equations with Interfaces"
-
liphd.pdf
- First position: Postdoc, UCLA
- Current position: Professor, North Carolina State University
- Keh-Ming Shyue, PhD, 1993,
"Front Tracking Methods based on Wave Propagation"
- Richard P. Beyer, PhD, 1989,
"A computational model of the cochlea using the immersed boundary method"
- First position: Postdoc, University of Washington
- Current position: Researcher, University of Washington
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