Pieter Wesseling

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Pieter Wesseling (born August 18, 1942 in Rotterdam ) is a Dutch engineering scientist and applied mathematician who deals with numerical mathematics. He was a professor at the TU Delft .

Wesseling studied aircraft engineering at the TU Delft and received his doctorate in 1967 at Caltech with Paco Lagerstrom (The driving mechanism of strongly developed Taylor Vortex Flow).

He is particularly concerned with numerical fluid mechanics and wrote a standard work on multigrid methods .

Fonts

  • Principles of Computational Fluid Mechanics, Springer Verlag 2001 (with Matlab examples)
  • An introduction to Multigrid Methods, Wiley 1992, RT Edwards 2004
  • as editor High performance computing in fluid mechanics , Kluwer 1996 (summer school TU Delft 1996)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Mathematics Genealogy Project
personal data
SURNAME Wesseling, Pieter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Dutch engineer and applied mathematician
DATE OF BIRTH August 18, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Rotterdam