Homepage of Kent-Andre Mardal

Kent-Andre Mardal
Research Scientist at Simula Research Laboratory
and Associate Professor at the University of Oslo. (20%),
Department of Informatics,
University of Oslo,
Norway,
E-mail: kent-and@ifi.uio.no/kent-and@simula.no

Research

Partial Differential Equations
Finite Element Methods
Fluid mechanics
Scientific Software
Scripting
Multigrid
Aneurysm Formation and Rupture in the Circle of Willis
Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow and Cyst Formation in the Spinal Chord
Pressure-Stress Conditions in the Brain under NPH
The Shaken Baby Syndrome

I work at Simula, you can found out more about my research here.
A list of my publications can be found here here.

Popular scientific presentations of my work can be founds International Innovation (July 2012, page 100-102) and Apollon (November 2011).

Software

I am involved in the following FEniCS projects,

Dolfin, a problem solving environment for ordinary and partial differential equations,
Instant, a Python module for inlining of C/C++ code in Python,
SyFi, a package for defining and using finite element methods,
UFC, a unified form assembly code format.
Finite Element Exterior Calculus
Block operators and algebra for DOLFIN

I am also one of the developers of the tools for multilevel methods and mixed elements in Diffpack.

Zombies

Zombies have become popular lately and they have even made their way into science. In 2009, Munz et. al. showed that a zombie infection almost certainly will lead to doomsday (or Z-day), see the paper. In our response to this paper we demonstrate that it is not very likely that a zombie infection will lead to the end of mankind, see the paper that will appear in the upcoming book Zombies in the Academy. In other words, most zombie movies are not surprisingly unrealistic! The model for zombie outbreaks are based on the familiar SIR model frequently used to analyze many common diseases such as influenza, HIV, Malaria, etc.

Teaching

I am teaching the courses:

Earlier I have also teached INF3330 - Problem solving with high level languages

Students

Master Students

Master Westlie - Utvikling av et Python grensesnitt til Diffpacks C++ biblioteker, 2004.
Magne and I also developed instant a module for inlining of C++ in Python
Asbjørn Reglund Thorsen - Ruby-grensesnitt til Diffpack og analyse av kompilator-opsjoner ved bruk av modifisert ACOVEA, 2005
Nguyen Bao Anh - Visualisering av sammenhengen mellom krefter på et skrog og skrogets bevegelser i sjø, 2005
Erica Madeleine Linger - Solving the Unsteady Stokes Equations with the Parareal Algorithm, 2005
Richard Magnor Stenbro - Python - Realizer, 2005
Didrik Lilja - On testing the optimum principles of Murray's law, 2006.
Martin Sandve Alnæs - Finite element simulations of blood flow in the circle of Wills, 2006.
See also the material on his homepage and the resulting publication in the journal Stroke
Trygve Klovning Karper - Mixed finite element methods for coupled Darcy-Stokes flow, 2006,
see also the preprint , published in Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations
Robert Bauck Hamar - Kompilering av mindre Python moduler til C++, 2007.
Susanne Hentschel - Modelling and Simulation of Blood Pressure in Rats, 2008.
Anna Blechingberg - On the Shaking Baby Syndrome, 2010.
Arne Jørgen Arnesen - Comparison of Finite Element Methods for the Navier-Stokes Equations, 2010.
Gabriela Rutkowska - Computational Fluid Dynamics in Patient-Specific Models with Normal and Chiari I Geometries, 2011, see the additional material and the paper in American Journal of Neuroradiology.
Øvind Evju - Sensitivity analysis of simulated blood flow in cerebral aneurysms, 2011.
Ida Norderhaug Drøsdal - Porous and Viscous Modeling of Cerebrospinal Fluid Flow in the Spinal Canal Associated with Syringomyelia, 2012 .
Adrian Hope, ongoing.
Mikkel Sanderud, ongoing.
Sebastian Warmbrunn (Stuttgart), ongoing.
Håkon Østerbø, ongoing.

PhD Students

Gunnar Andreas Staff - Numerical Computation of Initial Value Problems originated from Partial Differential Equations, 2006
Martin Sandve Alnæs - A Compiler Framework for Automatic Linearization and Efficient Discretization of Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations, 2009
Kristian Valen-Sendstad - Computational Cerebral Hemodynamics, 2011
Sigrid Dahl - Numerical simulations of blood flow in the left side of the heart, 2012.
Karen Helene Støverud, ongoing
Øvind Evju, ongoing.
Ole Elvetun, ongoing.

Post Docs

Martin Sandve Alnæs