Peter Knabner

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Peter Knabner

Peter Knabner (born April 13, 1954 in Tettau , Upper Franconia ) is a German mathematician and currently Professor of Applied Mathematics at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg . His areas of work are applied analysis and numerical mathematics .

Life

After graduating from high school in Hamm in 1972 , Knabner studied mathematics in Berlin at the Free University of Berlin and computer science at the Technical University of Berlin . After graduating, he worked on inverse problems, particularly in free boundary value problems, with Karl-Heinz Hoffmann, and received his doctorate in 1983 from the University of Augsburg . There he completed his habilitation in 1983 on mathematical models for the transport and sorption of dissolved substances in porous media.

After a time as senior assistant at the University of Augsburg , he became a research group leader in numerical mathematics at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in 1992 . In 1994 he followed Hubertus Weinitschke to the Chair of Applied Mathematics I at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg , which he still holds today despite several appointments to other chairs. There he also took on management duties as dean, senator and department spokesman. He is married to soil scientist Ingrid Kögel-Knabner . The couple have two grown daughters.

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Peter Knabner is the author of well over 160 peer-reviewed publications in applied analysis , numerical mathematics and hydrogeology . He is the author and co-author of 10 monographs and textbooks, including on numerics of partial differential equations, mathematical modeling and linear algebra, and is co-editor of Computational Geosciences. He has supervised over 30 doctoral and post-doctoral students, from which a large number of professors have emerged.

Since the 1980s, Knabner has concentrated on the derivation, analysis and numerical approximation of mathematical models for flow and transport in porous media, with the aim of contributing not only to mathematics but also to the relevant real sciences, especially hydrogeology . The spectrum now extends to multi-phase multi-component flows, with disappearing / emerging phases, general chemical reactions and, due to their evolving porous media.

Selected textbooks

  • with Lutz Angermann: Numerical Methods for Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations (= Texts in Applied Mathematics. 44). Springer, New York 2003, ISBN 0-387-95449-X .
  • with Christof Eck, Harald Garcke: Mathematical Modeling. 2nd Edition. Springer, Berlin / Heidelberg 2011, ISBN 978-3-662-54334-4 .
  • with Wolf Barth : Linear Algebra. Basics and Applications. Springer Spectrum, Berlin / Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-32186-3 .

Web links

credentials

  1. ↑ List of publications. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .
  2. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved October 1, 2016 .
personal data
SURNAME Knabner, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Knabner, P.
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German mathematician and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH April 13, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Tettau , Upper Franconia , Germany