Pavel B. Bochev

Pavel Bochev is a Principal Member of the Technical Staff at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque where he works in the Computational Mathematics and Algorithms Department. His research interests are in the area of applied mathematics and numerical analysis with particular focus on finite element methods for partial differential equations.

He earned his Magister of Mathematics degree from the University of Sofia, Bulgaria in 1987. After three years as a research associate at the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences he came to the US to pursue a graduate degree at Virginia Tech. Dr. Bochev completed his PhD under the supervision of Prof. M. Gunzburger in 1994. His thesis was awarded the SIAM Student paper prize for 1994. 

Before joining Sandia in 2001, Dr. Bochev was Assistant and then Associate Professor of Mathematics at the University of Texas at Arlington. There, his research focus was on finite element methods of least-squares type and their applications to computational fluid dynamics, including optimal control of fluid flows and mesh generation.

Since coming to Sandia Dr. Bochev’s research has been in the area of compatible and stabilized discretizations of multiphysics problems and multiscale methods for atomistic to continuum coupling. Some of his recent work deals with application of algebraic topology and differential geometry in the design of stable, mimetic discrete models of PDEs, formulation of new stabilized methods for incompressible flow problems, and analysis of stabilized methods for problems with multiple time scales arising in chemically reacting flows.

Dr. Bochev has authored and co-authored over 50 research papers, one book and several book chapters, and has given numerous plenary and invited lectures in the US and abroad. He serves on the editorial boards of the SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Discrete and Continuous Dynamical Systems – Series B, and the International Journal of Numerical Analysis and Modeling.

Pavel Bochev's home page: http://www.cs.sandia.gov/~pbboche/

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