Rémi Abgrall (born 1961) is a French applied mathematician. He is known for his contributions in

computational fluid dynamics Computational fluid dynamics (CFD) is a branch of fluid mechanics that uses numerical analysis and data structures to analyze and solve problems that involve fluid flows. Computers are used to perform the calculations required to simulate ...

, numerical analysis of

conservation laws In physics, a conservation law states that a particular measurable property of an isolated physical system does not change as the system evolves over time. Exact conservation laws include conservation of energy, conservation of linear momentum, ...

multiphase flow In fluid mechanics, multiphase flow is the simultaneous flow of materials with two or more thermodynamic phases. Virtually all processing technologies from cavitating pumps and turbines to paper-making and the construction of plastics involve so ...

and Hamilton–Jacobi equations. He has been editor in chief of the

Journal of Computational Physics The ''Journal of Computational Physics'' is a bimonthly scientific journal covering computational physics that was established in 1966 and is published by Elsevier. As of 2015, its editor-in-chief is Rémi Abgrall (University of Zurich). According ...

since 2015 and is part of the editorial board of several international scientific journals. In 2014 he was invited speaker at the

International Congress of Mathematics The International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) is the largest conference for the topic of mathematics. It meets once every four years, hosted by the International Mathematical Union (IMU). The Fields Medals, the Nevanlinna Prize (to be rename ...

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. He is author of more than 100 scientific papers published in international scientific journals. He is editor of 4 books and author of one book on advanced topics concerning

High-resolution scheme High-resolution schemes are used in the numerical solution of partial differential equations where high accuracy is required in the presence of shocks or discontinuities. They have the following properties: *Second- or higher-order spatial accur ...

and

Education and career

Abgrall received his degree in mathematics at

École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud École may refer to: * an elementary school in the French educational stages normally followed by secondary education establishments (collège and lycée) * École (river), a tributary of the Seine flowing in région Île-de-France * École, Sav ...

in 1985 and his PhD at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1987 with a thesis entitled ''Conception d’un modèle semi-lagrangien de turbulence bidimensionnelle''. He worked at

ONERA The Office National d'Etudes et de Recherches Aérospatiales (ONERA) is the French national aerospace research centre. It is a public establishment with industrial and commercial operations, and carries out application-oriented research to supp ...

and then at

Inria The National Institute for Research in Digital Science and Technology (Inria) () is a French national research institution focusing on computer science and applied mathematics. It was created under the name ''Institut de recherche en informatiq ...

as a research scientist. From 1996 until 2013 he was professor at

University of Bordeaux 1 The University of Bordeaux 1 (french: Université Bordeaux-I) was one of the four universities in the Academy of Bordeaux, together with the Bordeaux Segalen University (Bordeaux 2), Michel de Montaigne University (Bordeaux 3) and Montesquieu ...

and then at

Institut polytechnique de Bordeaux The Polytechnic Institute of Bordeaux (Bordeaux INP) (''Institut polytechnique de Bordeaux'', ''Groupe Bordeaux INP'' and before INPB) is a French technological university system consisting of six engineering schools. The institute is a Grand ét ...

. Since 2014, he has been a professor of

numerical analysis Numerical analysis is the study of algorithms that use numerical approximation (as opposed to symbolic manipulations) for the problems of mathematical analysis (as distinguished from discrete mathematics). It is the study of numerical methods ...

at the

University of Zurich The University of Zürich (UZH, german: Universität Zürich) is a public research university located in the city of Zürich, Switzerland. It is the largest university in Switzerland, with its 28,000 enrolled students. It was founded in 1833 f ...

Honours and awards

In 2001 he received the Prix Blaise-Pascal from the French Academy of Sciences. He is honorary member of the

Institut Universitaire de France The Institut Universitaire de France (IUF, Academic Institute of France), is a service of the French Ministry of Higher Education that distinguishes each year a small number of university professors for their research excellence, as evidenced by t ...

. In 2008 he got an advanced CORDIS grant from the European Research Council. He was elected as a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, in the 2022 Class of SIAM Fellows, "for fundamental contributions to the development of numerical methods for conservation laws, in particular for multi-fluid flows and residual distribution schemes".

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Abgrall, Rémi 1961 births Living people Pierre and Marie Curie University alumni 20th-century French mathematicians 21st-century French mathematicians Academic staff of the University of Bordeaux Academic staff of the University of Zurich Applied mathematicians French expatriates in Switzerland Fellows of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics