Chi-Wang Shu
Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics / Division of Applied Mathematics
Academic background
Professor Shu received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from the University of
Science and Technology of China, Hefei, in 1982. In 1986 he received
his Ph.D. degree in Mathematics from the
Mathematics Department of the
University of California at Los Angeles
with Professor Stanley Osher as his advisor. He then spent a year at the
Institute for Mathematics and Its
Applications (IMA) in University of Minnesota as a post doctoral
fellow. Since 1987 he has been with the Division of Applied Mathematics,
Brown University,
as an Assistant Professor (1987-91),
Associate Professor (1992-96), Professor (1996- ), Chairman
(1999-2005), and Theodore B. Stowell University Professor
(2008- ). In 1992 he
received the NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award for
the pioneering work in Computational Fluid Dynamics as part of the
ICASE algorithm team.
In 1995 he received the first
Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing
from the Chinese Academy of Sciences.
Since 2004 he has been listed as an
ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics
by the ISI Web of Knowledge, Thomson Scientific Company.
In 2007 he received the
SIAM/ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering
(SIAM/
ACM
CSE Prize) "for the development of numerical methods that
have had a great impact
on scientific computing, including TVD temporal discretization, ENO and
WENO finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and
spectral methods" (from the prize citation). See
SIAM News Article.
In 2009 he was selected as one of the first 183
Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).
Current Research Interests
- Numerical solutions of conservation laws and in general convection dominated
problems using:
- Finite difference essentially non-oscillatory (ENO)
methods and weighted ENO (WENO) methods
- Finite element discontinuous Galerkin methods
- Spectral methods
- Numerical solution of Hamilton-Jacobi type equations
- Computational fluid dynamics
- Numerical solution of equations appearing in semi-conductor
device simulations
- Computational cosmology
Professional Affiliations
He is the Managing Editor of
Mathematics of Computation,
the Chief Editor of the
Journal of Scientific Computing, and
a member of the editorial boards of
the
Journal of Computational Mathematics,
Communications in Applied Analysis,
Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica,
Computational Fluid Dynamics Journal,
Methods and Applications of Analysis,
Science in China, Series A,
International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling,
Pure and Applied Mathematics Quarterly,
Communications in Computational Physics,
and
Boletin de la Sociedad Espanola de Matematica Aplicada,
and
a former editor of
the
SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis,
Chinese Journal of Computational Physics,
and
Journal of Hyperbolic Differential Equations.
Between 1989 and 2002 he was a consultant at the
Institute for Computer
Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE), NASA Langley Research Center.
He has also been an Overseas Assessor of the Chinese Academy of Sciences
(since 2001),
a Guest Professor (since 1995) and a Changjiang Lectureship
Professor (since 2000) of the Department of Mathematics of
the University of Science and Technology of China,
a Guest Professor of the School of Mathematics of Nankai University in
China since 1996, a Guest Professor of Shanghai University in China
since 1997, a Guest Professor of Yunnan Polytechnic University in
China since 1999, a Guest Professor of the Southeast University
in China since 2000, a Guest Professor of the
Nanjing Aeronautic and Space University since 2001,
and a Guest Professor of Nanjing University since 2005.
Where to contact Prof. Chi-Wang Shu:
Professor Chi-Wang Shu
Division of Applied Mathematics
Box F
182 George Street
Brown University
Providence RI 02912
Tel: (401) 863-2549 (work)
FAX: (401) 863-1355