Chi-Wang Shu (Chinese: 舒其望, born 1 January 1957) is the Theodore B. Stowell University Professor of Applied Mathematics at

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. He is known for his research in the fields of

computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid dynamics, fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required ...

, numerical solutions of

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and Hamilton–Jacobi type equations. Shu has been listed as an ISI Highly Cited Author in Mathematics by the

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Career

He received his B.S. in Mathematics from the

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, in 1982 and his Ph.D. in Mathematics from the

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in 1986. His Ph.D. thesis advisor was

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. He started his academic career in 1987 as an assistant professor in the Division of Applied Mathematics at

. He was an associate professor from 1992 to 1996 and became full professor in 1996.

Honors and awards

* He is the 2021 recipient of the

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Prize, the highest honor and flagship lecture of

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(SIAM). The prize recognizes his fundamental contributions to the numerical solution of partial differential equations: "His work on finite difference essentially non-oscillatory (ENO) methods, weighted ENO (WENO) methods, finite element discontinuous Galerkin methods, and spectral methods has had a major impact on scientific computing." *The

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has included him in the 2020 class of AWM Fellows for "his exceptional dedication and contribution to mentoring, supporting, and advancing women in the mathematical sciences; for his incredible role in supervising many women Ph.D.s, bringing them into the world of research to which he has made fundamental contributions, and nurturing their professional success". *In 2012 he became a fellow of the

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.List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society
retrieved 2013-07-18. * In 2009, he was selected as one of the first 183 Fellows of the

(SIAM). *

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/ ACM Prize in Computational Science and Engineering (SIAM/ACM CSE Prize), 2007. He received the prize "for the development of numerical methods that have had a great impact on scientific computing, including TVD

temporal discretization In applied physics and engineering, temporal discretization is a mathematical technique for solving transient problems, such as flow problems. Transient problems are often solved using computer-aided engineering (CAE) simulations, which requir ...

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and

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finite difference schemes, discontinuous Galerkin methods, and

spectral method Spectral methods are a class of techniques used in applied mathematics and scientific computing to numerically solve certain differential equations. The idea is to write the solution of the differential equation as a sum of certain " basis funct ...

s." *Feng Kang Prize of Scientific Computing by the

Chinese Academy of Sciences The Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS; ) is the national academy for natural sciences and the highest consultancy for science and technology of the People's Republic of China. It is the world's largest research organization, with 106 research i ...

, 1995 *NASA Public Service Group Achievement Award for Pioneering Work in

Computational Fluid Dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid dynamics, fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required ...

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, 1992

References

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Shu, Chi-Wang Brown University faculty American mathematicians University of California, Los Angeles alumni Computational fluid dynamicists 1957 births Living people Fellows of the American Mathematical Society Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Fellows of the Association for Women in Mathematics University of Science and Technology of China alumni