While at LANL, he has mainly been working on extending the methods developed during his thesis to magnetohydrodynamic models, with applications to the magnetosphere and magnetic confinement fusion.
Expertise
- Structure preserving finite element methods
with focus on (magneto-)hydrodynamic flows in Eulerian framework
for structure such as geostrophic balance, consistent energy transfers, helicity conservation
including efficient solvers and transport-stabilized discretizations - Advanced numerical methods for plasma phenomena such as anisotropic diffusion