Per-Olof Persson Assistant Professor Department of Mathematics University of California, Berkeley Mathematician Faculty Scientist/Engineer Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory E-mail: persson@berkeley.edu Office: 1089 Evans Hall (map) Phone: (510) 642-6947 Fax: (510) 642-8204

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.
• 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.

• My current research interests are in high-order methods for fluid and solid mechanics, in particular techniques based on the Discontinuous Galerkin method.
• In our 3DG Group, I work with Jaime Peraire and other members of MIT's Aerospace Computational Design Laboratory on new discretization techniques and efficient solvers, which we apply to problems in aerodynamics, large deformation solid dynamics, aeroacoustics, and biologically inspired flapping flight.

News

• Jul 9, 2009: In the Fall of 2009, I am teaching UCB Math 1B Calculus and UCB Math 228A Numerical Solutions of Differential Equations.
• Jun 30, 2009: Here is our ILES paper from the AIAA CFD conference in San Antonio:
  
  • A. Uranga, P.-O. Persson, M. Drela, and J. Peraire,
    Implicit Large Eddy Simulation of Transitional Flows Over Airfoils and Wings.
    Proc. of the 19th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, June 2009. AIAA-2009-4131.
    
• Jun 24, 2009: The DG front tracking paper has now been accepted:
  
  • V.-T. Nguyen, J. Peraire, K. B. Cheong, P.-O. Persson,
    A Discontinuous Galerkin Front Tracking Method for Two-Phase Flows with Surface Tension.
    Comput. & Fluids, to appear.
    
• Apr 29, 2009: My talk from HONOM'09 is available here:
  • High-Order Non-Oscillating Methods (HONOM'09), Trento, Italy, March 29, 2009.
    High Order Discontinuous Galerkin Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics
• Jan 13, 2009: In the Spring of 2009, I am teaching UCB Math 128A Numerical Analysis.
• Jan 9, 2009: The journal paper on our DG ALE formulation has been accepted. It includes new applications and many minor improvements:
  
  • P.-O. Persson, J. Bonet, and J. Peraire,
    Discontinuous Galerkin Solution of the Navier-Stokes Equations on Deformable Domains.
    Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., to appear.
    
• Dec 30, 2008: The two papers in the AIAA ASM conference in Orlando are now available:
  
  • P.-O. Persson,
    Scalable Parallel Newton-Krylov Solvers for Discontinuous Galerkin Discretizations.
    Proc. of the 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2009. AIAA-2009-606.
    
  • P.-O. Persson, J. Peraire,
    Curved Mesh Generation and Mesh Refinement using Lagrangian Solid Mechanics.
    Proc. of the 47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting and Exhibit, January 2009. AIAA-2009-949.
    
• Dec 27, 2008: New webpage released!