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Nationality
  
French

Fields
  
Applied mathematics

Name
  
Olivier Pironneau

Known for
  
Scientific computing

Doctoral advisor
  
Elijah Pollak


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Born
  
24 July 1945 (age 79) Paris, Portugal (
1945-07-24
)

Institutions
  
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie

Alma mater
  
Ecole Polytechnique University of California Berkeley

Doctoral students
  
Yves AchdouBijan Mohammadi

Institution
  
Pierre-and-Marie-Curie University

Olivier Pironneau (born 1945) is a French mathematician who is a Professor at the Université Pierre et Marie Curie and member of the French Academy of Sciences.

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Pironneau is a worldwide recognized expert in fluid mechanics, scientific computing, optimal design, numerical analysis and partial differential equations. He is a highly cited author, having written 8 books and 693 papers. He is a member of French Academy of Sciences since 2002. He was awarded the Marcel Dassault Prize by the French Academy of Sciences in 2000. He is also the recipient of the Blaise Pascal Prize of the French Academy of Sciences in 1983, the Ordre National du Mérite (1989) and is an Associate member of the Russian Academy of Sciences since 2004. His group has developed the software FreeFem++ which is used by researchers worldwide for finite element computations.

References

Olivier Pironneau Wikipedia


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