Chi-Wang Shu

Professor and Chairman / Division of Applied Mathematics

shu@cfm.brown.edu

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Academic background

Professor Shu received his B.Sc. 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 assistant professor (1987-91), associate professor (1992-96), professor (1996- ), and chairman (1999- ). 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.

Current Research Interests

Numerical solutions of conservation laws 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

Professional Affiliations

He is the co-Chief Editor of the Journal of Scientific Computing, and a member of the editorial boards of Mathematics of Computation, the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, the Journal of Computational Mathematics, Communications in Applied Analysis, Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica, Journal of Dynamics of Continuous, Discrete and Impulsive Systems, Series B, and Methods and Applications of Analysis. Since 1989 he has been a consultant at the Institute for Computer Applications in Science and Engineering (ICASE). He has also been 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, and a Guest Professor of Shanghai University in China since 1997.

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