Research interests

A number of my publications and slides for some talks are available online.

My primary research interests are in numerical analysis, partial differential equations, mechanics, and in particular, the interplay between these fields. Much of my work has concerned finite element methods, with the main applications being to the numerical simulation of elastic plates and shells, and also of incompressible fluids. Recently I have been working in computational relativity, with the long-term goal of the numerical simulation of massive astrophysical events, such as black hole collisions, and the resulting gravitational radiation emission. I gratefully acknowledge the long term support of my research by the National Science Foundation.