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Research projects in CCMA:

  • Theory of mathematical models of physical phenomena: Partial Differential Equations, esspecially equations comming from physical sciences.
    • Liquid crystal hyperbolic wave motion, vortex-sheet evolution in incompressible fluid, Kinetic theory.
    • Modeling, analysis and computations in superconductivity. Gauge invariant approximations, artificial boundary conditions.
    • Liquid Crystal modeling: Patterns and configurations in liquid crystals, hydrodynamic theory for complex fluid, multi-scale kinetic theories. sciences
  • Fluid Mechanics: Experimental and theoretical work on water waves, non-Newtonian fluids: The William G. Pritchard Fluid Mechanics Laboratory
  • Numerical methods for PDEs; Discretization of PDEs in various applications; finite element and finite difference methods, spectral methods
  • Large Scale Computations: Subspace correction methods (Domain Decomposition methods, multigrid methods), fast solution of linear systems arizing from PDE discretizations.
  • Powder compaction modelling
  • Battery and Fuel Cells Simulation