Introduction

• Since July 2008, I am an assistant professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley.
• I am also affiliated with the Mathematics Department at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and the Department of Aeronautics and Astronautics at MIT.
• Between 2005-2008, I was an instructor of Applied Mathematics at MIT.
• I wrote my Ph.D. thesis on Mesh Generation for Implicit Geometries under the supervision of Gilbert Strang and Alan Edelman. MATLAB implementations of many of my methods are available in the widely used DistMesh Software package

• My current research interests are in high-order methods for fluid and solid mechanics, in particular techniques based on the Discontinuous Galerkin method.
• My 3DG Software package is based on new discretization techniques and efficient solvers, which I apply to problems in aerodynamics and solid dynamics, such as aeroacoustics, biologically inspired flapping flight, wind tubines, and micromechanical devices.

News

• Aug, 2012: My office hours for Fall 2012 are: Mon 1:30pm - 3:00pm and Wed 10:00am - 11:30am in 1089 Evans, or by appointment.
• Aug, 2012: In the Fall of 2012, I am teaching UCB Math 128A Numerical Analysis.
• Oct, 2011: Here are some of the animations that I have been showing in my talks this year:
  
  • LES flow around an SD7003 wing (from my IMEX paper)
    
  • Optimized flapping wing, no camber (from our energetically optimal flight paper)
    
  • Optimized flapping wing, dynamic camber
    
  • Deforming mesh around flapping wings (unpublished, but uses the solid mechanics approach from my curved mesh generation paper)
    
• Oct, 2011: Here are two of my talks from this Fall:
  • Berkeley Optimization Day, October 1, 2011.
    High-Fidelity Simulation of Flapping Wings Designed for Energetically Optimal Flight.
    
  • UC Berkeley Department of Mathematics Colloquium, September 15, 2011.
    High-Order Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws.
    
• Sep, 2011: My office hours for Fall 2011 are: Mon 1:30pm - 3:00pm and Wed 10:00am - 11:30am in Evans 1089, or by appointment.
• Sep, 2011: In the Fall of 2011, I am teaching UCB Math 1B Calculus and UCB Math 228A Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations.
• Jun, 2011: Here is a pre-print of my recent work on micromechanical resonators, with Sanjay Govindjee:
  
  • S. Govindjee and P.-O. Persson,
    A Time-Domain Discontinuous Galerkin Method for Mechanical Resonator Quality Factor Computations.
    J. Comp. Phys., in review.
• Jun, 2011: The journal paper on our multi-fidelity flapping wing simulations has now been accepted for publication:
  
  • P.-O. Persson, D. Willis, and J. Peraire,
    Numerical Simulation of Flapping Wings using a Panel Method and a High-Order Navier-Stokes Solver.
    Int. J. Num. Meth. Engrg., accepted for publication.
  
  
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