George Em Karniadakis
Professor of
Applied Mathematics
Room 106, 37 Manning Street
George_Karniadakis
Brown.edu
Phone: +1 401 863 1217
MIT Tel: +1 617 253 6760
Fax: +1 401 863 3369
Ph.D., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1987
BIOGRAPHY
Professor Karniadakis received his S.M. (1984) and Ph.D. (1987) from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He was appointed a Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MIT in 1987 and subsequently he joined the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford / Nasa Ames. He joined Princeton University as Assistant Professor in the Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering and as Associate Faculty in the Program of Applied and Computational Mathematics. He was a Visiting Professor at Caltech (1993) in the Aeronautics Department. He joined Brown University as Associate Professor of Applied Mathematics in the Center for Fluid Mechanics on January 1, 1994. He became a full professor on July 1, 1996. He has been a Visiting Professor of Ocean/Mechanical Engineering at MIT since September 1, 2000. He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS, 2004-), Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME, 2003-) and Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA, 2006-). He is the recipient of the CFD award (2007) by the US Association in Computational Mechanics.
RESEARCH INTERESTS
His research interests include diverse topics in computational science both on algorithms and applications. A main current thrust is stochastic simulations and multiscale modeling of physical and biological systems. Particular aspects include:
 Stochastic differential equations: SISC article |
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 Atomistic/Mesoscopic modeling - Dissipative Particle Dynamics: PRL article |
 Low Dimensional Modeling - Gappy Data - Data assimilation: JCP article |
 Spectral/hp Element and Discontinuous Galerkin methods : OUP Book |
 Turbulent Drag Reduction: Science article |
 DNS/LES of turbulence in complex geometries: JFM article |
 Flow-structure interactions: PRL article |
 Micro-transport and Dynamic self-assembly: Springer Book |
 Flow and heat control applications: JFM article |
 Parallel computing; Interactive/virtual reality computer graphics: CUP Book |
Modeling uncertainty with polynomial chaos: 
Multiscale modeling of biological systems:
HONORS AND AWARDS
Best poster in Supercomputing'08 (with L. Grinberg, J. Cazes) on “A Scalable Domain Decomposition Method for Ultra-Parallel Arterial Flow Simulation, SC08, Austin, TX, November 2008.
US Association of Computational Mechanics, 2007 Computational Fluid Dynamics award.
Fellow of the Society for Applied and Industrial Mathematics (SIAM), 2010-.
Fellow of the American Physical Society (APS), 2004-.
Fellow of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), 2003-.
Associate Fellow of the American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), 2006-.
Robert Bruce Wallace Lecture award, MIT, 2003.
Rheinstein junior faculty award, Princeton University, 1992.
RESEARCH ACCOMPLISHMENTS
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 Development of spectral/hp element methods on unstructured meshes |
 First DNS and LES of turbulence in complex geometries |
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 First DNS of 3D vortex-induced vibration of flexible bodies |
 Discovery of secondary instability/transition in wake flows |
 First spectral element simulations of 3D compressible/supersonic flows |
 First arterial tree simulation on the Teragrid |
Development of generalized polynomial chaos for stochastic PDEs
WORK FEATURED ON THE COVERS OF
Physical Review Letters (April 2004)
New Scientist (2000)
Science (2000) - featured article
Book on Recent Advances in DNS and LES (Kluwer, 1999)
ACCESS/NCSA (November 1998)
MHPCC'97 (November 1997)
Scientific Computing and Automation (June 1994)
Physics Today (March 1993)
Parity (Japanese, November 1993)
COURSES
 2008-Spring Courses: [APMA 2821A] |
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