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Clint N. Dawson, P.E., Ph.D.

Professor

Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
The University of Texas at Austin
Temple Foundation Faculty Fellow #7

Email Address: clint@ices.utexas.edu

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Background

Ph. D., Mathematical Sciences, Rice University 1988

Research interests

Numerical methods for partial differential equations, specifically flow and transport problems in CFD; scientific computing and parallel computing; finite element analysis, discontinuous Galerkin methods; shallow water systems, hurricane storm surge modeling, rainfall-induced flooding; ground water systems, flow in porous media, geochemistry; data assimilation, parameter estimation, uncertainty and error estimation.

Computational Hydraulics Group and Center for Subsurface Modeling

Prof. Dawson is head of the Computational Hydraulics Group within the Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) housed in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES), at The University of Texas at Austin ( UT-Austin).

Some past and present research projects

Adaptive Multinumerical Finite Element Methods for Shallow Water Flow (funded by NSF and ONR)

Numerical Modeling of Coupled Ground and Surface Water Flow and Transport (funded by NSF)

Data Assimilation for Parameter and State Estimation in Porous Media Flow (funded by NSF and industry)

Modeling Overland Flow (funded by NSF)

Hurricane Storm Surge Simulation on Petascale Computers (funded by NSF)

The ADCIRC Modeling Group

Last modified: January, 2009