Mark Sussman

Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
Florida State University
sussman@math.fsu.edu
Department of Mathematics, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306
Office: Love 002C, phone: 850-644-7194, fax: 850-644-4053

Blackboard , information for campus computer labs

Calculus Study tips (by: D.A. Kouba, UCD) , tips for plotting data. Burden and Faires sample programs (C,Fortran,...).

Below is one frame of a breaking wave movie generated solely from a computer simulation (numerical solution of a system of partial differential equations in three dimensions); this is work with V. Mihalef and D. Metaxas.

Click here for more exciting illustrations and movies resulting from computer simulations of underwater explosions, underwater implosions, waves, solid-fluid interaction, boiling, and more!

Research Synopsis

Research Key words: Level Set Methods, Volume of Fluid Methods, Spectral Methods, Multi-phase Flow, Adaptive Mesh Refinement.

Applications: Navy Ship waves, Breaking Waves, Underwater explosions and implosions, Computer Animation, Complex Fluids, Microscale Jetting devices, Shock Waves, Bubble and Drop dynamics, Spreading Phenomena (oil spreading under ice in water).

List of Publications and available downloads

FDMP (Fluid Dynamics and Materials Processing) homepage.

FDMP electronic submission system.

Links to others ...

VISIT (adaptive visualization tool)

Center for Computational Sciences and Engineering, Adaptive mesh methods (LBNL)

Applied Numerical Algorithms Group at LBNL (ANAG); Adaptive mesh methods, fluid/structure interaction

Structured Adaptive Mesh Refinement Application Infrastructure, LLNL

UCLA Computational and Applied Math (CAM) reports.

Stan Osher, level sets, shock capturing, image processing.

Peter Smereka, Level Sets, Bubbly Flow, Crystal Growth.

Gerry Puckett, Free Surface modeling of jetting devices.

Weidlinger Associates, Applied science, structural integrity.

Yabe Laboratory, CIP method, Computational Physics, laser experiments.

Xiao Laboratory, CFD, Ocean/Atmosphere Simulations.

Kensuke Yokoi, Blood flow, Contact angle dynamics.

John Lowengrub, Center for Computational Microstructure, tumor growth, crystal growth,..

Junseok Kim, phase field methods, adaptive Cahn-Hilliard methods.

Ron Fedkiw, Level Sets, Computer animation, CFD.

Frederic Gibou, Materials Science, Image Segmentation, CFD.

Ashley James, Interfacial Fluid flow and CFD.

Marco Picasso, Newtonian and Non-Newtonian free surface flow

Tim Colonius, Cavitation and bubble dynamics in Shockwave Lithotripsy

Greg Turk, Computer animation, contact line dynamics, solid fluid interaction.

Professor James O'Brien, Computer animation and modeling.

Professor Zoran Popovic, animation and control.

Viorel Mihalef, Computer animation, solid fluid interaction.

Gretar Tryggvason, Multiphase flow.

Gretar Tryggvason, bubble movies.

J.A. Sethian, level set methods, fast marching methods.

Stéphane Zaleski, Numerical simulations of multi-phase flow.

Marsha Berger, 3d Cartesian grid methods for embedded boundaries.

Leslie Greengard, fast multipole method.

ESI group, crash safety simulations.

FLUENT, CFD tools.

Cognitech, image restoration tools.

John Stockie, Fuel cells, pulp fibers.

Molecular dynamics, crack propagation.

Charles Peskin, Blood circulation and the heart.

John Strain, Tree Based redistancing.

Isaac Ginis, Hurricane tracking, coupled ocean atmosphere modeling.

M.Y. Hussaini, Computational Science and Engineering.

SAIC, Numerical Flow Analysis Tool.

National Maritime Research Institute, CFD.

Computational and Data Sciences, George Mason University.

Italian Ship Model Basin (INSEAN).

Particle based viscoelastic fluid simulations...

Applied Scientific Computing GmbH, single phase/multiphase flow simulations

Center for Turbulence Research

CFDRC: Spray/Atomization Modeling

Fluids, Materials and Microgravity, Marcello Lappa

Group for Research and Applications in Statistical Physics (GRASP)

Alain Berlemont, director of research for droplets and sprays at CORIA

Changhong Hu, research on water waves and floating bodies

CSIRO manufacturating and infrastructure technology

PETSc homepage; parallel libraries for solving PDEs

Overture: Object-oriented tools for solving PDEs in complex geometries

COMSOL unifying multiphysics simulation environment

Data for DDG5415 experiments

Randall J. LeVeque Books and Lecture Notes


Comments

Please send any comments, questions or requests for more information to me at sussman@math.fsu.edu.

Link to article describing one of our math faculty member's excellent teaching skills (Rudy Horne)

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Mathworld

CYGWIN installation homepage

UWIN homepage

FreeBSD

UBUNTU LINUX

C++ tutorial

Fortran tutorial

Free Fortran for Windows + Fortran Documentation

Seminole Toastmasters homepage

online dictionary.

online Thesaurus.

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