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Applied Mathematics
Computational Mathematics

Thomas F. Russell is currently a professor in the Department of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he has taught since 1987 and served as department chair from 1996 to 2001. From 1980 to 1987 he was a research mathematician at the Petroleum Technology Center of Marathon Oil Company in Littleton, CO. He received his Ph.D. in mathematics from the University of Chicago in 1980 under the supervision of Jim Douglas, Jr. He was the chair of the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences from 1998 to 2000 and of the organizing committee for the 2001 SIAM Conference on Geosciences.

His research interests are in the numerical solution of partial differential equations, particularly with applications to subsurface flows in porous media, including groundwater flow and transport and petroleum reservoir simulation. His current major thrusts include control-volume mixed finite element methods, which compute accurate velocities/fluxes for flow equations in heterogeneous media on distorted meshes; Eulerian-Lagrangian localized adjoint methods, which compute accurate solutions for transport equations, even when advection-dominated; efficient algebraic equation solvers for these methods; and upscaling techniques based on stochastic models and the solution of moment equations.

For more information: http://www-math.cudenver.edu/~trussell

E-mail: trussell@nsf.gov
Phone: 703-292-4863
Fax: 703-292-9032

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