Prof. Dr. Mary Fanett Wheeler

Profile

Academic positionFull Professor
Research fieldsGeneral and overarching topics in Mathematics; collections,Numerical Analysis, Optimization, Simulation
Keywordspartial differential equations, finite element methods, flow in porous media, parallel simulation, carbon sequestration

Current contact address

CountryUnited States of America
CityAustin
InstitutionUniversity of Texas at Austin
InstituteCenter for Subsurface Modeling

Host during sponsorship

Prof. Dr. Gabriel WittumGoethe-Zentrum für Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Simulation und Modellierung, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt am Main
Start of initial sponsorship01/03/2012

Programme(s)

2011Humboldt Research Award Programme

Nominator's project description

Mary Fannett Wheeler is an internationally leading scientist in numerical analysis and scientific computing. In more than forty years of active research she has made substantial contributions to the numerics of partial differential equations and laid the basis for new research fields. Mary Fannett Wheeler has brought the whole area of numerics forward. This holds for numerical analysis as well as the simulation of subsurface flows for practically relevant applications. During her stay in Germany, she will focus on development of simulation approaches for groundwater flow and transport, on discretization methods like discontinous Galerkin, and methods and tools for high performance computing.