Computational and applied mathematicians model phenomena from a wide variety of science and engineering disciplines and design computer algorithms to solve the resulting mathematical problems. Faculty at Michigan Tech study problems from fluid dynamics, model polymers and multiphase flows, simulate optical phenomena, and study composite materials. Several faculty focus on the design and analysis of numerical methods for solving partial differential equations.
Faculty Areas of Interests
Finite element methods for fluids; Modeling and simulation of viscoelastic fluids
Inverse problems in partial differential equations; Numerical optimization; Mathematical software
Applied mathematics; Online and hybrid (online/classroom) education
Viscoelasticity, bifurcation and stability theory; Polymer rheology
Turbulence Modeling, Computational Fluid dynamics; High-accuracy numerical methods for PDEs; Uncertainty Quantification, high-dimensional integration
Composites Modeling
Algorithms that can be parallelized on GPUs; Applications of differential equations to science and engineering
Computational fluid dynamics, especially the modeling of sprays and multiphase flows
High order methods for PDE''s; Computational modeling of Nafion material