Ami Harten

Amiram " Ami" Harten (* 1946, † August 5, 1994 ) was an Israeli mathematician who worked on Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations.

Harten in 1974 his doctorate from New York University with Peter Lax ( The Method of Artificial Compression for Shock and Contact Discontinuity calculation). He was a professor at Tel Aviv University and also at the University of California, Los Angeles. Since 1976 he has been every year as a visiting scientist at ICASE ( Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering) at the Langley Research Center of NASA. He died of a heart attack.

He developed 1983, the total variation diminishing ( TVD ) methods for the solution of flow problems oszillationsfreie with shock waves. With Stanley Osher, Björn Engquist, Sukumar Chakravarthy 1987 he developed ENO ( Essentially Non Oscillatory ) method for the numerical solution of hyperbolic conservation laws.

He was invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in 1990 in Kyoto ( Recent developments in shock capturing schemes ).