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Current PhD students:
- Kirsten Fagnan, elastic wave propagation in tissue and bone,
numerical simulation of lithotripsy and shock
wave therapy.
- David Ketcheson,
high-order methods for wave propagation in heterogeneous media,
WENOCLAW, SSP methods
- Kyle Mandli,
Volcanic flows, multiphase flow, debris flow.
- Jihwan Kim,
Multi-layer shallow water equations.
- Jonathan Claridge, Shock wave therapy
Former PhD Students:
- 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
- Marica Pelanti, PhD, 2005,
Wave Propagation Algorithms for Multicomponent Compressible Flows with
Applications to Volcanic Jets.
- Long Lee,
PhD, 2002, "Immersed interface methods for incompressible flow
with moving interfaces"
- James Rossmanith,
PhD, 2002, "A Wave Propagation Method with Constrained Transport
for Ideal and Shallow Water Magnetohydrodynamics"
- 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"
- Donna Calhoun,
PhD, 1999, "A Cartesian grid method for solving the
streamfunction-vorticity equations in irregular geometries"
- L. G. Ted Stern, PhD,
1996, "An Explicitly Conservative Method for Time-Accurate Solution of
Hyperbolic Partial Differential Equations on Embedded Chimera Grids"
- 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"
- 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"
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