Kyle T. Mandli ICES Postdoctoral Fellow
Address:	University of Texas - Austin Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences 201 E 24th ST. Stop C0200 Austin, TX 78712-1229 USA
Phone:	(512) 232-7783
Fax:	(512) 471-8694
E-mail:	kyle at ices utexas edu
Office:	ACE 6.424

Research Interests

Publications

A Numerical Method for the Multilayer Shallow Water Equations

Kyle T. Mandli.
Submitted to Ocean Modeling (2012).

ManyClaw: Slicing and dicing Riemann solvers for next generation highly parallel architectures

A. R. Terrel and K. T. Mandli.
TACC-Intel Symposium on Highly Parallel Architectures, 2012.

PyClaw: Accessible, Extensible, Scalable Tools for Wave Propagation Problems

David I. Ketcheson, Kyle T. Mandli, Aron J. Ahmadia, Amal Alghamdi, Manuel Quezada de Luna, Matteo Parsani, Matthew G. Knepley, and Matthew Emmet,
SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 34(4), C210–C231.

The GeoClaw software for depth-averaged flows with adaptive refinement

M. J. Berger, D. L. George, R. J. LeVeque, and K. T. Mandli.
Advancement in Water Resources, Volume 34, Issue 9, Pages 1195-1206, September 2011.

Finite Volume Methods for the Multilayer Shallow Water Equations with Applications to Storm Surges

K.T. Mandli, Ph.D. Thesis, July 2011.

PetClaw: A Scalable Parallel Nonlinear Wave Propagation Solver for Python

Amal Alghamdi, Aron Ahmadia, David I. Ketcheson, Matthew G. Knepley, Kyle T. Mandli and Lisandro Dalcin.
2011 Spring Simulation Multi-Conference, SpringSim'11, Boston, MA, USA, April 03-07, 2011. Volume 6: Proceedings fo the 19th High Performance Computing Symposium (HPC); 01/2011.

Links to Code Projects

Clawpack

Conservation Laws Package

PyClaw

Python-based solver based on Clawpack that includes bridges to multiple other packages including PETSc and SharpClaw

ManyClaw

Research into exploitation of intra-node parallelism for hyperbolic PDE solvers via Clawpack like interfaces.

GitHub Clawpack Project Pages

Presentations and Invited Talks

• Building a Solver Based on PyClaw for the Solution of the Multi-Layer Shallow Water Equations, SciPy 2012, Austin, TX.
• Patch-Level Parallelism vs. Loop-Level Parallelism, SIAM Parallel Processing, Savannah, GA. February 15-17, 2012.
• Modeling Storm Surges Using the Multi-Layer Shallow Water Equations Waves 2011, Vancouver, BC. July 28th, 2011. pdf, Movies
• Using Python to Construct a Scalable Parallel Nonlinear Wave Solver, Scipy 2011, Austin, TX. July 11-16 , 2011.
• Thesis Defense, University of Washington, June 24th, 2011. Movies
• Calculating storm surge and other coastal hazards using Geoclaw, CSCAMM, College Park, MD. October 18-22, 2010. Movies
• Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement to Model Ocean Flows, IMUM, Boston, MA. August 17-20, 2010.
• Storm Surge Simulations Using Adaptive Mesh Refinement, SIAM Annual Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA. July 12-16, 2010.
• Simulation of Geophysical Hazards, MAA Northwest Section Meeting, Seattle, WA. April 9-10, 2010.
• Using Python in an HPC Evironment, KAUST, November 1-7, 2009.
• Using Depth Averaging to Predict Hazardous Geophysical Flows, KAUST, November 1-7, 2009.
• Pyclaw - The Evolution of Clawpack into Python, Scipy, Pasadena, CA. August 18-23, 2009.
• High Performance Scientific Computing Lectures, Spring 2009.
  • Languages
  • Parallel Architecture
  • Fortran
  • OpenMP
• Inclusion of Non-Hydrostatic Pressure in Numerical Schemes for Free-Surface Gravity Flows, SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. July 6-11, 2008.
• EagleClaw: Easy Access Graphical Laboratory for Exploring Conservation Law, SIAM Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA. July 6-11, 2008.
• Numerical Models for the Interaction of Volcanic Flows with Water, SIAM Computational Science and Engineering Conference, Costa Mesa, CA. February 19-23, 2007.