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Overview

Robert M. Kirby is affiliated with the University of Utah in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on the field of Engineering with a significant emphasis on Computational Mechanics.

Their work covers several subfields, including Computational Mechanics, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Numerical Analysis, Mechanics of Materials, and Atomic and Molecular Physics, and Optics.

Key topics addressed by Robert M. Kirby include:

  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods
  • Numerical methods for differential equations
  • Electromagnetic Scattering and Analysis
  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Advanced Numerical Analysis Techniques
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

The scientist has contributed to multiple recent papers, documenting ongoing research trends and developments:

  • Transformations for Piola-mapped elements, 2023, SMAI Journal of Computational Mathematics
  • Bringing Trimmed Serendipity Methods to Computational Practice in Firedrake, 2022, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  • Finite Elements for Helmholtz Equations with a Nonlocal Boundary Condition, 2021, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • spyro: a Firedrake-based wave propagation and full-waveform-inversion finite-element solver, 2022, Geoscientific model development
  • Bounds-constrained polynomial approximation using the Bernstein basis, 2022, Numerische Mathematik

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Robert M. Kirby include:

  • Andreas Klöckner
  • Lawrence Mitchell
  • Jorge Marchena-Menéndez
  • Colin J. Cotter
  • Pablo D. Brubeck

The scientist often publishes in venues such as:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software
  • SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
  • Computers & Mathematics with Applications
  • Numerische Mathematik

Best Publications

  • Nektar++: An open-source spectral/hp element framework ✩

    Chris D. Cantwell;David Moxey;A. Comerford;A. Bolis

  • Parallel Scientific Computing in C++ and MPI: A Seamless Approach to Parallel Algorithms and their Implementation

    George Em Karniadakis;Robert M. Kirby

  • Analysis and reduction of quadrature errors in the material point method (MPM)

    Michael Steffen;Robert M. Kirby;Robert M. Kirby;Martin Berzins

  • Volumetric parameterization and trivariate B-spline fitting using harmonic functions

    T. Martin;E. Cohen;R. M. Kirby

  • Analysis-aware modeling: Understanding quality considerations in modeling for isogeometric analysis

    E. Cohen;T. Martin;R. M. Kirby;T. Lyche

  • Visualizing multivalued data from 2D incompressible flows using concepts from painting

    R. M. Kirby;H. Marmanis;David H. Laidlaw

  • Contour Boxplots: A Method for Characterizing Uncertainty in Feature Sets from Simulation Ensembles

    Ross T. Whitaker;Mahsa Mirzargar;Robert M. Kirby

  • To CG or to HDG: A Comparative Study

    Robert M. Kirby;Spencer J. Sherwin;Bernardo Cockburn

  • Comparing 2D vector field visualization methods: a user study

    D.H. Laidlaw;R.M. Kirby;C.D. Jackson;J.S. Davidson

  • Curve Boxplot: Generalization of Boxplot for Ensembles of Curves

    Mahsa Mirzargar;Ross T. Whitaker;Robert M. Kirby

  • From h to p efficiently: Implementing finite and spectral/hp element methods to achieve optimal performance for low- and high-order discretisations

    Peter E. J. Vos;Spencer J. Sherwin;Robert M. Kirby

  • De-aliasing on non-uniform grids: algorithms and applications

    Robert M. Kirby;George Em Karniadakis

  • A Radial Basis Function (RBF)-Finite Difference (FD) Method for Diffusion and Reaction---Diffusion Equations on Surfaces

    Varun Shankar;Grady B. Wright;Robert M. Kirby;Aaron L. Fogelson

  • Visualization in Meteorology—A Survey of Techniques and Tools for Data Analysis Tasks

    Marc Rautenhaus;Michael Bottinger;Stephan Siemen;Robert Hoffman

  • SDC-Net: Video prediction using spatially-displaced convolution

    Fitsum A. Reda;Guilin Liu;Kevin J. Shih;Robert Kirby

  • Unconditionally stable discretizations of the immersed boundary equations

    Elijah P. Newren;Aaron L. Fogelson;Robert D. Guy;Robert M. Kirby

  • Regular Article: A Discontinuous Galerkin ALE Method for Compressible Viscous Flows in Moving Domains

    I Lomtev;R.M Kirby;G.E Karniadakis

  • Parallel Scientific Computing in C++ and MPI

    George M. Karniadakis;Robert M. Kirby

  • STABILISATION OF SPECTRAL/HP ELEMENT METHODS THROUGH SPECTRAL VANISHING VISCOSITY: APPLICATION TO FLUID MECHANICS MODELLING

    Robert M. Kirby;Spencer J. Sherwin

  • Nektar++: Enhancing the capability and application of high-fidelity spectral/hp element methods

    David Moxey;Chris D. Cantwell;Yan Bao;Andrea Cassinelli

  • Efficient Stateful Dynamic Partial Order Reduction

    Yu Yang;Xiaofang Chen;Ganesh Gopalakrishnan;Robert M. Kirby

Frequent Co-Authors

Ganesh Gopalakrishnan
Ganesh Gopalakrishnan University of Utah
George Em Karniadakis
George Em Karniadakis Brown University
Spencer J. Sherwin
Spencer J. Sherwin Imperial College London
Ross T. Whitaker
Ross T. Whitaker University of Utah
Martin Berzins
Martin Berzins University of Utah
Chris R. Johnson
Chris R. Johnson University of Utah
Rajeev Thakur
Rajeev Thakur Argonne National Laboratory
Cláudio T. Silva
Cláudio T. Silva New York University
William Gropp
William Gropp University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Bryan Catanzaro
Bryan Catanzaro Nvidia (United States)

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