Björn Engquist

Björn Engquist ( born June 2, 1945 in Stockholm ) is a Swedish applied mathematician.

Engquist in 1969 received his doctorate at the University of Uppsala in Heinz- Otto Kreiss in numerical mathematics. He then taught at the University of California, Los Angeles. In 2001 he was a professor at Princeton University and director of its Program in Applied and Numerical Mathematics and since 2005 professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Since 1993 he is also professor at the Royal Institute of Technology Stockholm, where he directs the Parallel and Scientific Computing Institute ( PSCI ).

It deals with numerical analysis and scientific computing, and especially the numerical methods for differential equations (such as multi -scale modeling ) with applications in electrodynamics and hydrodynamics.

With Ami Harten, Stanley Osher and Sukumar Chakravarthy 1987 he developed ENO ( Essentially Non Oscillatory ) method for the numerical solution of hyperbolic conservation laws.

Engquist has published over 100 scientific papers and supervised over 30 PhD students by 2009. He is a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. He was invited speaker at the International Mathematical Congresses in 1983 in Warsaw and in Berlin in 1998 ( wavelet based numerical homogenization ) and gave a plenary lecture at the European Congress of Mathematicians 1992 (Numerical approximation of hyperbolic conservation laws ). In 1982 he received the first James H. Wilkinson Prize and in 2012 he was awarded the George David Birkhoff Prize.

Writings

  • Publisher with Wilfried Schmid: Mathematics unlimited -2001 and beyond, Springer 2001
  • Publisher Lötstedt with Per Olof Runborg: Multiscale Methods in Science and Engineering, Springer 2005
  • Publisher with Lötstedt, Runborg: Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in Science, Springer 2009
  • Publisher: Highly oscillatory problems, Cambridge University Press 2009
  • Editor Gregory man of war: Computational Wave Propagation, Springer 1997
  • Editor with Stanley Osher, Richard Somerville: Large Scale computations in fluid mechanics, American Mathematical Society 1985
  • Editor Peter Deuflhard: Large Scale Scientific Computing, Birkhauser 1987
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