Phillip Colella

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Philipp Colella 1980

Phillip Colella is an American applied mathematician.

Colella studied applied mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley , with a bachelor's degree in 1974, a master's degree in 1976 and a doctorate with Alexandre Chorin in 1979 ( An Analysis of the Effect of Operator Splitting and of the Sampling Procedure on the Accuracy of Glimm's Method ). He was at the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL). He also taught at Berkeley University (Mechanical Engineering Department).

He deals with the numerical solution of partial differential equations, including adaptive lattice refinement methods and numerical gas and hydrodynamics (shock waves, incompressible flow at low speed, combustion, astrophysics and there, among other things, star formation). He was also involved in the development of software for high-performance computers (including programming languages).

In 1998 he received the Sidney Fernbach Award and in 2003 he and John B. Bell received the SIAM / ACM Prize for Computational Science and Engineering. He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences (2004) and a fellow of SIAM . In 1994 he was an invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Zurich ( High-resolution computations of incompressible fluid flow ).

Fonts (selection)

  • with Paul R. Woodward : Piecewise parabolic method (PPM) for gas-dynamical simulations, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 54, 1984, pp. 174-201.
  • with PR Woodward: The numerical simulation of two-dimensional fluid flow with strong shocks, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 54, 1984, pp. 115-173.
  • with HM Glaz: Efficient solution algorithms for the Riemann problem for real gases, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 59, 1985, pp. 264-289
  • with MJ Berger: Local adaptive mesh refinement for shock hydrodynamics, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 82, 1989, pp. 64-84.
  • with John B. Bell , HM Glaz: A second-order projection method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, J. Comput. Phys., Vol. 85, 257-283.
  • Multidimensional upwind methods for hyperbolic conservation laws, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 87, 1990, pp. 171-200
  • with RI Klein, CF McKee: On the hydrodynamic interaction of shock waves with interstellar clouds. 1: Nonradiative shocks in small clouds, The Astrophysical Journal, Volume 420, 1994, pp. 213-236
  • with K. Yellick u. a .: Titanium: a high-performance Java dialect, Concurrency and Computation: Practice and Experience, Volume 10, 1998, pp. 825-836
  • with M. Sussman, AS Almgren, JB Bell, LH Howell, ML Welcome: An adaptive level set approach for incompressible two-phase flows, Journal of Computational Physics, Volume 148, 1999, pp. 81-124

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Phillip Colella in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)Template: MathGenealogyProject / Maintenance / id used
personal data
SURNAME Colella, Phillip
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH 20th century