Phillip Colella

Phillip Colella
Colella in 1980
Born (1952-06-28) June 28, 1952 (age 72)
Nationality American
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
Known forHigh-resolution schemes
Adaptive mesh refinement
AwardsMember National Academy of Sciences (2004)
SIAM/ACM prize (2003)
Sidney Fernbach Award (1998)
Scientific career
FieldsApplied Mathematics
InstitutionsLawrence Livermore National Laboratory
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
University of California, Berkeley
ThesisAn Analysis of the Effect of Operator Splitting and of the Sampling Procedure on the Accuracy of Glimm's Method (1979)
Doctoral advisorAlexandre Chorin

Phillip Colella is an American applied mathematician and a member of the Applied Numerical Algorithms Group at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. He has also worked at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. He is known for his fundamental contributions in the development of mathematical methods and numerical tools used to solve partial differential equations, including high-resolution and adaptive mesh refinement schemes. Colella is a member of the US National Academy of Sciences.[1]

  1. ^ "Berkeley Lab computational scientist Phil Colella elected to National Academy of Sciences". hoise.com. 2004-04-23. Archived from the original on 2008-07-05. Retrieved 2009-11-01.