Kent-Andre Mardal Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory and Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. (20%), Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Norway, E-mail: kent-and@ifi.uio.no/kent-and@simula.no

Research

• Partial Differential Equations
• Finite Element Methods
• Fluid mechanics
• Scientific Software
• Scripting
• Multigrid
• Aneurysm Formation and Rupture in the Circle of Willis
• Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow and Cyst Formation in the Spinal Chord
• Pressure-Stress Conditions in the Brain under NPH
• The Shaken Baby Syndrome

Software

• Dolfin, a problem solving environment for ordinary and partial differential equations,
• Instant, a Python module for inlining of C/C++ code in Python,
• SyFi, a package for defining and using finite element methods,
• UFC, a unified form assembly code format.
• Finite Element Exterior Calculus
• Block operators and algebra for DOLFIN

Teaching

• INF5670 - Numerical Methods for Navier-Stokes equations
• INF5600 - Iterative Methods and Multigrid
• INF5660 - INF5660 - Advanced problem solving with high level languages

Students

Master Students

• Master Westlie - Utvikling av et Python grensesnitt til Diffpacks C++ biblioteker, 2004.
  Magne and I also developed instant a module for inlining of C++ in Python
• Asbjørn Reglund Thorsen - Ruby-grensesnitt til Diffpack og analyse av kompilator-opsjoner ved bruk av modifisert ACOVEA, 2005
• Nguyen Bao Anh - Visualisering av sammenhengen mellom krefter pa¥ et skrog og skrogets bevegelser i sjø, 2005
• Erica Madeleine Linger - Solving the Unsteady Stokes Equations with the Parareal Algorithm, 2005
• Richard Magnor Stenbro - Python - Realizer, 2005
• Didrik Lilja - On testing the optimum principles of Murray's law, 2006.
• Martin Sandve Alnæs - Finite element simulations of blood flow in the circle of Wills, 2006.
  See also the material on his homepage and the resulting publication in the journal Stroke
• Trygve Klovning Karper - Mixed finite element methods for coupled Darcy-Stokes flow, 2006,
  see also the preprint , to be published in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
• Robert Bauck Hamar - Kompilering av mindre Python moduler til C++, 2007.
• Susanne Hentschel - Modelling and Simulation of Blood Pressure in Rats, 2008.
• Anna Blechingberg - On the Shaking Baby Syndrome, 2010.
• Arne Jørgen Arnesen - Comparison of Finite Element Methods for the Navier-Stokes Equations, 2010.
• Gabriela Rutkowska - Computational Fluid Dynamics in Patient-Specific Models with Normal and Chiari I Geometries, 2011, see the additional material.
• Øvind Evju - Sensitivity analysis of simulated blood flow in cerebral aneurysms, 2011.
• Ida Norderhaug Drøsdal, ongoing.
• Adrian Hope, ongoing.
• Mikkel Sanderud, ongoing.

PhD Students

• Gunnar Andreas Staff - Numerical Computation of Initial Value Problems originated from Partial Differential Equations, 2006
• Martin Sandve Alnæs - A Compiler Framework for Automatic Linearization and Efficient Discretization of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, 2009
• Kristian Valen-Sendstad - Computational Cerebral Hemodynamics, 2011
• Karen Helene Støverud, ongoing
• Anna Bleckingberg, ongoing

Post Docs

• Martin Sandve Alnæs