Nationality American Doctoral advisor Peter Lax Fields Mathematics | Role Professor of mathematics Name Alexandre Chorin | |
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Born June 25, 1938 (age 85)
Warsaw, Poland ( 1938-06-25 ) Institutions University of California, Berkeley, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Alma mater Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences Thesis Numerical Study of Thermal Convection in a Fluid Layer Heated from Below (1966) Doctoral students Phillip Colella
Charles S. Peskin
James Sethian Known for Artificial Compressibility Method
Projection Method
Random Vortex Method
Implicit Sampling Education Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences (1966) Awards Guggenheim Fellowship for Natural Sciences, US & Canada Books A mathematical introducti, Stochastic Tools in Mathemat, Vorticity and turbulence, Lectures on turbulenc, Numerical methods in statistical Similar People Jerrold E Marsden, Andrew Majda, James Sethian, Phillip Colella, Peter Lax | ||
Science lives alexandre chorin
Alexandre Joel Chorin (born 25 June 1938) is a University Professor at the University of California, a Professor of Mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley and a Senior Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He is known for his contributions to computational fluid mechanics, turbulence, and computational statistical mechanics.
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Chorin received the Ing. Dipl. Physics degree from the Ecole Polytechnique of Lausanne in 1961, an M.S. in Mathematics from New York University in 1964, and a PhD in Mathematics from New York University in 1966.
Chorin's work involves developing methods for solving physics and fluid mechanics problems computationally. His early work introduced several widely used numerical methods for solving the Navier-Stokes equations, including the method of artificial compressibility , the projection method, and vortex methods. He has made numerous contributions to turbulence theory. In recent years he has been developing methods for prediction in the face of uncertainty and for filtering and data assimilation .
Chorin's awards include the National Academy Award in Applied Mathematics and Numerical Analysis (1989), the Norbert Wiener Prize of the American Mathematical Society and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2000), the Lagrange Prize of the International Council on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (2011) and the National Medal of Science (2012). He is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and the American Mathematical Society.
Chorin is widely recognized for his mentoring of graduate students and postdoctoral fellows, many of whom have become nationally and internationally recognized scientists in their own right. In 2008 he was honored with the Sarlo mentoring award by the University of California Berkeley.
Journal publications
- Chorin, A. J. (1967). "A numerical method for solving incompressible viscous flow problems". Journal of Computational Physics. 2: 12. Bibcode:1967JCoPh...2...12C. doi:10.1016/0021-9991(67)90037-X.
- Chorin, A. J. "A numerical method for solving incompressible viscous flow problems" J. Comput. Phys. 2 (1967), pp. 12-26.
- Chorin, A. J. Numerical solution of the Navier-Stokes equations Math. Comp. 22 (1968) pp. 745-762
- Chorin, A. J., Numerical study of slightly viscous flow, J. Fluid. Mech. 57 (1973), pp. 785-796.
- Chorin, A.J., Hald, O.H., and Kupferman, R., Optimal prediction and the Mori-Zwanzig representation of irreversible processes, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 97 (2000), pp. 2968–2973.
- Chorin, A.J. and Tu, X., Implicit sampling for particle filters, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA 106 (2009), pp. 17249–17254.