Phillip Colella | |
|---|---|
 Colella in 1980 | |
| Born | June 28, 1952 |
| Nationality |  American |
| Alma mater | University of California, Berkeley |
| Known for | High-resolution schemes Adaptive mesh refinement |
| Awards | Member National Academy of Sciences (2004) SIAM/ACM prize (2003) Sidney Fernbach Award (1998) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Applied Mathematics |
| Institutions | Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory University of California, Berkeley |
| Thesis | An Analysis of the Effect of Operator Splitting and of the Sampling Procedure on the Accuracy of Glimm's Method (1979) |
| Doctoral advisor | Alexandre 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]
- ^ "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.