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Marcus Sarkis

Associate Professor

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Office: Stratton Hall, 206
Phone: +1-508-831-5287
Fax: +1-508-831-5824
msarkis@wpi.edu

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Educational Background

B.S, Instituto Tecnologico de Aeronautica (ITA), Brazil, 1984
M.A., PUC-Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1989
Ph.D, New York University, 1994

Research & Teaching Interests

Domain decomposition methods; Numerical analysis; Parallel computing; Computational fluid dynamics; Preconditioned iterative methods for linear and non-linear problems; Numerical partial differential equations; Mixed and non-conforming finite methods; Overlapping non-matching grids; Mortar finite elements; Eigenvalue solvers; Aeroelasticity; Porous media reservoir

IQP Advising Interests

Air pollution, acid rain, oil, natural gas & coal, environmental risks, industrial training programs, technological transfer

Recent Publications

Overlapping non-matching grid mortar element methods for elliptic problems (with X. C. Cai and M. Dryja), SIAM J. Numer. Anal., to appear.
A restricted additive Schwarz preconditioner for general sparse linear systems (with X. C. Cai), SIAM J. Sci. Comput, to appear.
Local multiplicative Schwarz algorithms for convection-diffusion equations (with X. C. Cai), East-West J. Numer. Math., 6 (1998).
Nonstandard coarse spaces and Schwarz methods for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients using non-conforming elements, Numer. Math., 77 (1997), pp. 383--406.
Multilevel Schwarz methods for elliptic problems with discontinuous coefficients in three dimensions (with M. Dryja and O. Widlund), Numer. Math., 72 (1996), pp. 313-348

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