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60
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2188
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691

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Overview

Paul Fischer is affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in the United States. Their research output spans multiple fields with a focus on engineering and computer science, particularly within computational mechanics and numerical methods.

The primary fields of study for their research are:

  • Engineering
  • Computer Science

Key subfields include:

  • Computational Mechanics
  • Aerospace Engineering
  • Hardware and Architecture
  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

Major topics covered in their work are:

  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Advanced Data Storage Technologies
  • Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows
  • Nuclear reactor physics and engineering
  • Nuclear Engineering Thermal-Hydraulics

Recent notable papers include:

  • "NekRS, a GPU-accelerated spectral element Navier-Stokes solver" (2022, Parallel Computing)
  • "Scalability of high-performance PDE solvers" (2020, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications)
  • "Toward Exascale: Overview of Large Eddy Simulations and Direct Numerical Simulations of Nuclear Reactor Flows with the Spectral Element Method in Nek5000" (2020, Nuclear Technology)
  • "Efficient exascale discretizations: High-order finite element methods" (2021, The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications)
  • "Feasibility of full-core pin resolved CFD simulations of small modular reactor with momentum sources" (2021, Nuclear Engineering and Design)

Frequent coauthors associated with Fischer's publications include:

  • Misun Min
  • Elia Merzari
  • Yu-Hsiang Lan
  • Ananias Tomboulides
  • Stefan Kerkemeier

Publication venues where Fischer has contributed multiple works are:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • Nuclear Technology
  • Nuclear Engineering and Design
  • Parallel Computing
  • The International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

Fischer has also authored books, including The Man Who Invented Motion Pictures published by Faber & Faber Limited eBooks in 2022.

The researcher was recognized as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in 2012.

Best Publications

  • High-Order Methods for Incompressible Fluid Flow

    MO Deville;PF Fischer;EH Mund;DK Gartling

  • High-Order Methods for Incompressible Fluid Flow: List of Figures

    M. O. Deville;P. F. Fischer;E. H. Mund

  • An Overlapping Schwarz Method for Spectral Element Solution of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations

    Paul F Fischer

  • Direct Numerical Simulation of Turbulent Pipe Flow at Moderately High Reynolds Numbers

    George K. El Khoury;Philipp Schlatter;Azad Noorani;Paul F. Fischer

  • Filter-based stabilization of spectral element methods

    Paul Fischer;Julia Mullen

  • Wall-induced forces on a rigid sphere at finite Reynolds number

    Lanying Zeng;S. Balachandar;Paul Fischer

  • Direct numerical simulation of stenotic flows, Part 1: Steady flow

    Sonu S. Varghese;Steven H. Frankel;Paul F. Fischer

  • Eliminating parasitic currents in the lattice Boltzmann equation method for nonideal gases.

    Taehun Lee;Taehun Lee;Paul F. Fischer

  • Forces on a finite-sized particle located close to a wall in a linear shear flow

    Lanying Zeng;Fady Najjar;S. Balachandar;Paul Fischer

  • Direct numerical simulation of transitional flow in a stenosed carotid bifurcation

    Seung E. Lee;Sang Wook Lee;Paul F. Fischer;Hisham S. Bassiouny

  • Direct numerical simulation of stenotic flows, Part 2 : Pulsatile flow.

    Sonu S. Varghese;Steven H. Frankel;Paul F. Fischer

  • A high-order discontinuous Galerkin method for the unsteady incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

    Khosro Shahbazi;Paul F. Fischer;C. Ross Ethier

  • NekRS, a GPU-Accelerated Spectral Element Navier-Stokes Solver.

    Paul Fischer;Stefan Kerkemeier;Misun Min;Yu-Hsiang Lan

  • Petascale algorithms for reactor hydrodynamics

    Paul Fischer;J. Lottes;D. Pointer;A. Siegel

  • Isogeometric analysis of 2D gradient elasticity

    Paul Fischer;Markus Klassen;Julia Mergheim;Paul Steinmann

  • Hybrid Multigrid/Schwarz Algorithms for the Spectral Element Method

    James W. Lottes;Paul F. Fischer

  • A Parareal in Time Semi-implicit Approximation of the Navier-Stokes Equations

    Paul F. Fischer;Frédéric Hecht;Yvon Maday

  • Spectral element methods for large scale parallel Navier—Stokes calculations

    Paul F. Fischer;Einar M. Rønquist

  • Fast Parallel Direct Solvers for Coarse Grid Problems

    H.M Tufo;P.F Fischer

  • PROJECTION TECHNIQUES FOR ITERATIVE SOLUTION OF Ax = b WITH SUCCESSIVE RIGHT-HAND SIDES

    Paul F. Fischer

  • Terascale Spectral Element Algorithms and Implementations

    H. M. Tufo;P. F. Fischer

Frequent Co-Authors

Philipp Schlatter
Philipp Schlatter Royal Institute of Technology
Tamay M. Özgökmen
Tamay M. Özgökmen University of Miami
Traian Iliescu
Traian Iliescu Virginia Tech
S. Balachandar
S. Balachandar University of Florida
Dan S. Henningson
Dan S. Henningson Royal Institute of Technology
Ananias G. Tomboulides
Ananias G. Tomboulides Aristotle University of Thessaloniki
Yassin A. Hassan
Yassin A. Hassan Texas A&M University
Jinqiao Duan
Jinqiao Duan Great Bay University
Fady Najjar
Fady Najjar Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

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