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Olivier Pironneau

Olivier Pironneau

D-Index & Metrics

Mathematics

D-Index
47
Citations
14417
World Ranking
1241
National Ranking
64

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
47
Citations
14402
World Ranking
4728
National Ranking
94

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2014 - Member of the European Academy of Sciences
  • 2004 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Overview

Olivier Pironneau is affiliated with Sorbonne University in France. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a focus on Computational Mechanics, Global and Planetary Change, Mathematical Physics, Atmospheric Science, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The scientist's work extensively covers topics including Radiative Heat Transfer Studies, Atmospheric aerosols and clouds, Numerical methods in inverse problems, Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics, Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics, Thermal Radiation and Cooling Technologies, and Meteorological Phenomena and Simulations.

Frequent publication venues include arXiv (Cornell University), Comptes Rendus Mathématique, Journal of Computational Physics, HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), and Comptes Rendus Mécanique.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Olivier Pironneau include:

  • "An energy stable one-field monolithic arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian formulation for fluid-structure interaction," 2020, Journal of Fluids and Structures
  • "Radiative transfer in a fluid," 2022, Revista de la Real Academia de Ciencias Exactas Físicas y Naturales Serie A Matemáticas
  • "Stratified radiative transfer for multidimensional fluids," 2022, Comptes Rendus Mécanique
  • "The radiative transfer model for the greenhouse effect," 2021, SeMA Journal
  • "A Fast and Accurate Numerical Method for Radiative Transfer in the Atmosphere," 2021, Comptes Rendus Mathématique

Olivier Pironneau has collaborated frequently with several researchers, including François Golse, Claude Bardos, Gilles Pagès, Pierre-Henri Tournier, and Charles Thoulon.

Recognition for their work includes membership in the European Academy of Sciences since 2014 and fellowship in the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) since 2004.

Best Publications

  • Optimal Shape Design for Elliptic Systems

    Olivier Pironneau

  • Applied Shape Optimization for Fluids

    Bijan Mohammadi;Olivier Pironneau

  • On the transport-diffusion algorithm and its applications to the Navier-Stokes equations

    O. Pironneau

  • On optimum design in fluid mechanics

    O. Pironneau

  • Analysis of the K-epsilon turbulence model

    B. Mohammadi;Olivier Pironneau

  • Finite Element Methods for Fluids

    Olivier Pironneau

  • Computational Methods for Option Pricing

    Yves Achdou;Olivier Pironneau

  • On optimum profiles in Stokes flow

    O. Pironneau

  • Error estimates for finite element method solution of the Stokes problem in the primitive variables

    M. Bercovier;O. Pironneau

  • Anisotropic unstructured mesh adaption for flow simulations

    M. J. Castro-Díaz;F. Hecht;F. Hecht;B. Mohammadi;O. Pironneau

  • Numerical methods for the first biharmonic equation and for the two-dimensional Stokes problem

    Roland Glowinski;Olivier Pironneau

  • SHAPE OPTIMIZATION IN FLUID MECHANICS

    Bijan Mohammadi;Olivier Pironneau

  • Effective Boundary Conditions for Laminar Flows over Periodic Rough Boundaries

    Yves Achdou;O. Pironneau;F. Valentin

  • FINITE ELEMENT METHODS FOR NAVIER-STOKES EQUATIONS

    Roland Glowinski;Olivier Pironneau

  • The Stokes and Navier-Stokes equations with boundary conditions involving the pressure

    C. Conca;F. Murat;O. Pironneau

  • Convection of Microstructure and Related Problems

    D. W. McLaughlin;G. C. Papanicolaou;O. R. Pironneau

  • On a mixed finite element approximation of the Stokes problem (I)

    R. Glowinski;O. Pironneau

  • Pressure boundary condition for the time‐dependent incompressible Navier–Stokes equations

    R. L. Sani;J. Shen;O. Pironneau;P. M. Gresho

  • Characteristic-Galerkin and Galerkin/least-squares space-time formulations for the advection-diffusion equation with time-dependent domains

    O. Pironneau;J. Liou;T. Tezduyar

  • Finite Elements and characteristics for some parabolic-hyperbolic problems

    M. Bercovier;O. Pironneau;V. Sastri

  • A Framework for Adaptive Multiscale Methods for Elliptic Problems

    James Nolen;George Papanicolaou;Olivier Pironneau

  • Elliptic Partial Differential Equations

    Olivier Pironneau

Frequent Co-Authors

Bijan Mohammadi
Bijan Mohammadi University of Montpellier
Roland Glowinski
Roland Glowinski University of Houston
Jacques-Louis Lions
Jacques-Louis Lions Collège de France
Claude Bardos
Claude Bardos Université Paris Cité
George Papanicolaou
George Papanicolaou Stanford University
David W. McLaughlin
David W. McLaughlin Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences
Elijah Polak
Elijah Polak University of California, Berkeley
Franco Brezzi
Franco Brezzi National Research Council (CNR)
Pekka Neittaanmäki
Pekka Neittaanmäki University of Jyväskylä
Gilles Pagès
Gilles Pagès Sorbonne University

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