Philippe G. Ciarlet

Philippe G. Ciarlet ( born October 14, 1938 in Paris ) is a French mathematician who deals with numerical mathematics and applications in mechanics.

Ciarlet studied from 1959 to 1961 at the Ecole Polytechnique and from 1962 to 1964 at the École Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées. From 1964 he worked at the Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, where he earned his doctorate under Richard S. Varga ( Variational Methods for nonlinear boundary value problems ). 1971 was followed by a Thèse d' Etat ( advanced doctorate) at Jacques -Louis Lions at the University of Paris. 1966 to 1973 he was head of the mathematics department at the Laboratoire Central des Ponts et Chaussées. From 1974 he was a professor at the University of Paris VI (Pierre et Marie Curie ), where he was from 1981 to 1992 Head of the Laboratory for Numerical Analysis. 1967 to 1985 he was also Maitre de Conferences at the Ecole Polytechnique and from 1978 to 1987 professor at the Ecole Normale Superieure. After retirement in 2002 he was a professor at the City University of Hong Kong. He was, among other things several times visiting professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research.

Ciarlet is known for his contributions to the theory of finite elements and the (nonlinear) elasticity theory and mechanics ( theory of plates and shells ). He also dealt with other numerical methods and differential geometry.

He is a member of the Academia Europaea (1989 ), the Académie des Sciences (1991 ), the Romanian Academy of Sciences ( 1996), the National Academy of Sciences in India ( 2003), the Chinese Academy of Sciences (2009), the Academy of Sciences of the third World, Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics ( SIAM ) and the French art academy. Ciarlet is a member of the French Legion of Honour in 1999. In 1981 he was awarded the Poncelet Prize in 1989 and the Prix Jaffé of the Académie des sciences. In 1996 he was awarded the Alexander von Humboldt Research Award ( Gay - Lussac- Humboldt Prize ). He is much honorary doctorates (including Krakow and several Chinese and Romanian universities). He is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society.

Writings

  • Introduction à l' analyze Numérique Matricielle et à l' Optimisation, Masson, 1982 ( English translation Introduction to numerical linear algebra and optimization, Cambridge University Press, 1989)
  • With P. Rabier Les Equations de von Kármán, Lecture Notes in Mathematics 826, Springer Verlag 1980
  • Lectures on the Finite Element Method, Tata Institute, 1975
  • Lectures on Three -Dimensional Elasticity, Springer, 1983 ( Lecture Tata Institute )
  • Numerical Analysis of the Finite Element Method, University of Montreal in 1976
  • The Finite Element Method for Elliptic Problem, North Holland, 1978 ( Reprint SIAM Classics in Applied Mathematics 2002)
  • Mathematical Elasticity, 3 volumes, North Holland 1988, 1991, 2000 ( Volume 1 Three dimensional elasticity, Volume 2 Theory of Plates, Volume 3 Theory of Shells )
  • Introduction to linear shell theory, Elsevier, Gauthier -Villars, Paris 1998
  • An introduction to differential geometry with applications to elasticity, Springer 2005
  • Plates and Junctions in Elastic Multi -Structures: An Asymptotic Analysis, Masson, Springer 1990
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