Our group is interested in mathematical modeling, analysis and the development of numerical methods for evolutionary partial differential equations in fluid and solid mechanics.

Subjects of current interest include:

• ​Relative entropy and the comparison of thermomechanical theories in non-equilibrium thermodynamics.
• Modeling and analysis of dilute suspensions: Passage from microscopic descriptions to the equations of viscoelasticity at the macroscopic scale
• Formation of singularities in solid mechanics (cavitation, shear bands)
• Numerical methods for hyperbolic-parabolic systems  
• Propagation of oscillations in hyperbolic and dispersive media, homogenization

Photo of the Applied PDE group, November 2018