[BANANA] Oct 9 ICME Seminar

[Chana Chiemi Motobu]

Subject
ICME Seminar (CME 500)

Date
Monday, October 9, 2006

Speaker
Margot Gerritsen, Assistant Professor of Petroleum Engineering in the School
of Earth Sciences and, by courtesy, of Mechanical Engineering and Civil and
Environmental Engineering

Title
Improving understanding of coastal ocean physics:
Where does the tidal energy go?

Location and Time
Building 380, Room 380C (basement), 4:15-5:05PM
Refreshments are served at 4:00PM in the courtyard outside Room 380C

Research Statement
My main interest is the design and analysis of efficient numerical solution
methods for partial differential equations that arise in fluid dynamics. My
PhD thesis work emphasized mathematical techniques. After my PhD work, my
focus has shifted to actual engineering applications.

In New Zealand I ventured into tidal flow modeling and sail performance
analysis. I am still heavily involved in these areas through Stanford Yacht
Research and the SUNTANS project. In Petroleum Engineering I am working on
Design of efficient and robust streamline methods for compositional
simulation Numerical simulation of in-situ combustion processes Direct
numerical simulation and laboratory simulation of pore-scale flows

Bio
  Highest Degree/Year/Institution:
  PhD Scientific Computing and Computational Mathematics, PhD minor
  Mechanical Engineering Stanford University

  Academic Honors & Awards:
  Frederick E. Terman Fellow, Stanford University

Links
ICME Seminar Schedule: http://icme.stanford.edu/Events/
Margot Gerritsen's page: http://icme.stanford.edu/faculty/margot.gerritsen/
School of Earth Sciences: http://pangea.stanford.edu/about/