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Anna-Karin TornbergAssistant Professor of MathematicsPh.D. 2000 (numerical analysis), Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden, M.Sc. 1997 (engineering physics) Uppsala University, Sweden. Office Address: 251 Mercer Street New York, NY 10012 Phone: 212-998-3299 Fax: 212-995-4121 Personal Homepage: http://cims.nyu.edu/~tornberg/ Email: |
Areas of Research/Interest: Applied and computational mathematics, computational fluid dynamics, moving boundary problems, fluid-structure interaction.
Fellowships/Honors: Selected as an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow, February 2006; Carl-Axel Froberg prize, 2004 (awarded by the journal BIT Numerical Mathematics); Leslie Fox First Prize in Numerical Analysis, 2001; Werthén fellowship, 2001; President's fellowship (excellenstjänst) awarded at KTH (1997-2000).
Selected Works:
A numerical method for simulations of rigid fiber suspensions, with K. Gustavsson. J. Comput. Phys, 2006.
Numerical Approximations of Singular Source Terms in Differential Equations, with B. Engquist. J. Comput. Phys. 200:462-488, 2004.
Simulating the dynamics and interactions of flexible fibers in Stokes flow, with M.J. Shelley. J. Comput. Phys. 196:8-40, 2004.
The Segment Projection Method for Interface Tracking, with B. Engquist. Commun. Pur. Appl. Math, 56:47-79, 2003.
Multi-Dimensional Quadrature of Singular and Discontinuous Functions. 42:644-669, 2002.