Randall J. LeVeque is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at University of Washington

University of Washington

University of Washington is a public research university, founded in 1861 in Seattle, Washington, United States. The UW is the largest university in the Northwest and the oldest public university on the West Coast. The university has three campuses, with its largest campus in the University...

 who works in many fields including numerical analysis

Numerical analysis

Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation for the problems of mathematical analysis ....

 computational fluid dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics

Computational fluid dynamics, usually abbreviated as CFD, is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical methods and algorithms to solve and analyze problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate the interaction of liquids and gases with...

, and mathematical theory of conservation laws. Among other contributions, he has devised a numerical technique called immersed interface method for solving problems with elastic boundaries or surface tension. Randall is the son of well known mathematician William J. LeVeque

William J. LeVeque

William Judson LeVeque was an American mathematician and administrator who worked primarily in number theory. He was executive director of the American Mathematical Society during the 1970s and 1980s when that organization was growing rapidly and greatly increasing its use of computers in academic...

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Education

LeVeque received his B.A. in mathematics from University of California, San Diego

University of California, San Diego

The University of California, San Diego, commonly known as UCSD or UC San Diego, is a public research university located in the La Jolla neighborhood of San Diego, California, United States...

 in 1977. He then continued to Stanford University

Stanford University

The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...

to get his Ph.D. in computer science in 1982.

Books

LeVeque has authored several textbooks and monographs:

• Finite Volume Methods for Hyperbolic Problems, Cambridge University Press (2002). ISBN 0521009243
• Numerical Methods for Conservation Laws, 2nd ed., Birkhäuser Basel (2005). ISBN 3764327235
• Computational Methods for Astrophysical Fluid Flow, Springer (1998). ISBN 3540644482
• Finite Difference Methods for Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations, Steady State and Time Dependent Problems, SIAM (2007). ISBN 978-0-898716-29-0

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