2026 Susanne C. Brenner: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	43	1647	1424	709	569	170	14507
Engineering and Technology	43	5989	5779	1658	1538	168	14507

Research.com Recognitions

2013 - Fellow of the American Mathematical Society
2012 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2010 - SIAM Fellow For advances in finite element and multigrid methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations.

Overview

Susanne C. Brenner is affiliated with Louisiana State University in the United States and has a significant body of research contributions in engineering, computer science, and mathematics. Their work primarily engages with computational mechanics, computational theory and mathematics, mechanics of materials, numerical analysis, and applied mathematics.

Their research topics cover a broad spectrum of advanced numerical and mathematical modeling methods, including:

Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
Numerical methods in engineering
Composite Material Mechanics
Contact Mechanics and Variational Inequalities
Nonlinear Partial Differential Equations
Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics

Susanne C. Brenner has published extensively in reputable venues. Frequent publication venues include:

Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics
arXiv (Cornell University)
Results in Applied Mathematics
Journal of Scientific Computing
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics

Recent scholarly articles highlight a focus on finite element methods, optimal control problems, and Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations. Selected papers include:

"A C1 virtual element method for an elliptic distributed optimal control problem with pointwise state constraints," 2021, Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied Sciences
"P1 finite element methods for an elliptic state-constrained distributed optimal control problem with Neumann boundary conditions," 2020, Results in Applied Mathematics
"Adaptive C0 interior penalty methods for Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman equations with Cordes coefficients," 2020, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
"Multigrid methods for saddle point problems: Optimality systems," 2020, Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
"Additive Schwarz preconditioners for a localized orthogonal decomposition method," 2021, ETNA - Electronic Transactions on Numerical Analysis

Their collaborative network includes frequent co-authors such as Li-yeng Sung, Zhiyu Tan, José C. Garay, Li-Yeng Sung, and Sijing Liu.

In book publications, Susanne C. Brenner has contributed to works released by Springer Nature and the American Mathematical Society. Examples include:

Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering XXVI, 2022, Springer Nature
75 Years of Mathematics of Computation, 2020, American Mathematical Society

The scientist has been recognized with several awards, including:

Fellow of the American Mathematical Society (2013)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (2012)
SIAM Fellow (2010) for advances in finite element and multigrid methods for the numerical solution of partial differential equations

Best Publications

The Mathematical Theory of Finite Element Methods

Susanne C Brenner;L. Ridgway Scott

7976
Citations
Poincaré-Friedrichs Inequalities for Piecewise H 1 Functions

Susanne C. Brenner

602
Citations
Korn's inequalities for piecewise $H^1$ vector fields

Susanne C. Brenner

411
Citations
C0 Interior Penalty Methods for Fourth Order Elliptic Boundary Value Problems on Polygonal Domains

Susanne C. Brenner;Li-Yeng Sung

374
Citations
Linear finite element methods for planar linear elasticity

Susanne C. Brenner;Li-Yeng Sung

313
Citations
Virtual element methods on meshes with small edges or faces

Susanne C. Brenner;Li-Yeng Sung

193
Citations
Some Estimates for Virtual Element Methods

Susanne C. Brenner;Qingguang Guan;Li-Yeng Sung

177
Citations
Two-level additive Schwarz preconditioners for nonconforming finite element methods

Susanne C. Brenner;Susanne C. Brenner

159
Citations
A nonconforming mixed multigrid method for the pure displacement problem in planar linear elasticity

Susanne C. Brenner

151
Citations
{C}^0$ penalty methods for the fully nonlinear Monge-Ampère equation

Susanne C Brenner;Thirupathi Gudi;Michael Neilan;Li-Yeng Sung

149
Citations
BDDC and FETI-DP without matrices or vectors

Susanne C. Brenner;Li-Yeng Sung

128
Citations
An a posteriori error estimator for a quadratic C0-interior penalty method for the biharmonic problem

Susanne C. Brenner;Thirupathi Gudi;Li-yeng Sung

122
Citations
Convergence of nonconforming multigrid methods without full elliptic regularity

Susanne C. Brenner

122
Citations
Finite Element Methods

C. Carstensen;S. C. Brenner

122
Citations
An Optimal-Order Multigrid Method for P1 Nonconforming Finite Elements

Susanne C. Brenner

117
Citations
Multigrid methods for parameter dependent problems

Susanne C. Brenner

115
Citations
Multigrid methods for the computation of singular solutions and stress intensity factors I: corner singularities

Susanne C. Brenner

108
Citations
An optimal-order nonconforming multigrid method for the Biharmonic equation

S. C. Brenner

105
Citations
A multigrid algorithm for the lowest-order Raviart-Thomas mixed triangular finite element method

Susanne C. Brenner

104
Citations
A WEAKLY OVER-PENALIZED SYMMETRIC INTERIOR PENALTY METHOD

Susanne C. Brenner;Luke Owens;Li-Yeng Sung

95
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Carsten Carstensen Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Peter Monk University of Delaware

Daniel B. Szyld Temple University

Olof B. Widlund Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences

Harald Niederreiter Austrian Academy of Sciences

Lawrence F. Shampine Southern Methodist University

Igor E. Shparlinski University of New South Wales

Boris Vexler Technical University of Munich

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