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Jan ten Thije Boonkkamp is an Associate Professor in the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science at Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e). His research interests include numerical analysis, particularly numerical methods for partial differential equations, finite volume methods, conservation laws, complete flux schemes, hyperbolic systems, time integration methods, the Monge-Ampère equation, and ray tracing. He also focuses on applied sciences, such as computational fluid dynamics, combustion theory, plasma physics, semiconductor simulation, and computational illumination optics. Jan operates major research lines that involve developing mathematical models of illumination optics, both analytically and numerically. His optical system is framed as an optimal transport problem, subject to energy conservation, which allows him to derive nonlinear partial differential equations defining optical surfaces. He has developed efficient numerical solution methods for these equations and novel flux approximation schemes for conservation laws, aiming for numerical flux computations in local boundary value problems that preserve the properties of exact solutions. Jan has a notable publication record in leading journals including the Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, the Journal of Computational Physics, and the Journal of Scientific Computing.
Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica • Amsterdam
Philips Research Laboratories • Eindhoven
Eindhoven University of Technology • Eindhoven
Department of Mathematics & Statistics, IIT Kanpur • India
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