Professor
Constantine M. Dafermos
Brown University
Mathematician; Educator
Area
Mathematical and Physical Sciences
Specialty
Mathematics, Applied Mathematics, and Statistics
Elected
2001
Research in partial differential equations and applications to continuum physics. World leader in nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, including the methods of generalized characteristics and artificial viscosity. Fundamental contributions to modeling and analysis of materials with memory, thermoelastic systems and properties of multiphase flows.
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