Mary Fanett Wheeler

Director, Center for Subsurface Modeling, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences; Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in Engineering; Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics; Professor of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering; Professor of Mathematics. Identified new computational and numerical methods to study flow through porous media, oil reservoir simulation, and CO2[sub] sequestration and environmental pollution remediation. Developed penalty versions of the discontinuous Galerkin method and proof of convergence for finite element approximations for parabolic equations. Created parallel computing system for modeling variety of geological applications including ground-water flow, reservoir simulations, and large-scale optimizations methods. Founding Director of Center of Subsurface Modeling at Institute for Computational Engineering and Science. Recipient of SIAM Theodore von K?rm?n Prize (2009).