Two new SFB 1313 Mercator Fellows

May 5, 2020 / pa

SFB 1313 introduces its two new Mercator Fellows Ivan Yotov and Florin A. Radu

Ivan Yotov from the Department of Mathematics at University of Pittsburgh and Florin A. Radu from the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bergen are appointed to be the new SFB 1313 Mercator Fellows.

Mercator Fellowships enable an intensive, long-term project-based collaboration between researchers from both domestic and foreign institutions. Although Mercator Fellows are on-site for only part of the project, they are associated to the project and remain in contact with the project team members once their research stay is over. With this collaboration, additional competence is to be gained for the project or the network and for increasing the project's visibility. The engagement of Mercator Fellows is more intensive than that of scientific guests.

About Ivan Yotov

Ivan Yotov is Professor in the Department of Mathematics at University of Pittsburgh. He served as Department Chair 2007-2017. His research interests are in numerical analysis of partial differential equations and large scale scientific computing with applications to flow in porous media, computational fluid dynamics, and biomedical problems. His recent work spans multiscale modeling of multiphysics systems of coupled flow and mechanics, advanced finite element and finite volume discretizations, scalable parallel solvers and preconditioners, stochastic modeling, uncertainty quantification, and parameter estimation.

Professor Yotov obtained his Ph.D. in Computational and Applied Mathematics from Rice University in 1996. He held a postdoctoral position at the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at The University of Texas at Austin before joining University of Pittsburgh in 1998. He is an author of more than 90 scientific papers. He is Editor in Chief of Computational Geosciences and has served as Associate Editor of SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Numerical Linear Algebra with Applications, and The Modeling and Computation for Flow and Transport, and as Guest Editor for a special issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering. He has been awarded Simons Visiting Professorship to Oberwolfach,  J.T. Oden Faculty Fellowship at the Institute for Computational Engineering  and Sciences, University of Texas at Austin, and Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty  Enhancement Award, Oak Ridge Associated Universities.

 

About Florin Adrian Radu

Florin Adrian Radu is a Professor at the Department of Mathematics at the University of Bergen (Norway). He obtained his PhD in Mathematics at the University Erlangen-Nürnberg (Germany) in 2004 with his thesis about “Mixed finite element discretization of Richards’ equation: error analysis and application to realistic infiltration problems”, and habilitated at the same institution in 2013 with his work on “Convergent mass conservative schemes for reactive solute transport and flow in variably saturated porous media”.

Research interests

  • Multiphase flow and multicomponent reactive transport in porous media.
  • Mixed Finite Element Method, Mixed Hybrid FEM, cell-centered FV, MPFA.
  • Mathematical modelling and numerical simulation of microbial enhanced oil recovery (MEOR).
  • Degenerate parabolic equations.
  • Deformable/degradable porous media. Biot model.
  • Numerical multiscale methods and upscaling techniques.
  • Stability of density driven flows.
  • Controlled drug release, enzymatic degradation.
  • Mathematical Models for Avascular and Vascular Tumor Growth.
  • High order finite elements. Continuous and discontinuous Galerkin method in time
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