Curriculum Vitæ
Name: Ken Mattsson
Date of birth: July 29, 1970
Contact information
Dr. Ken Mattsson
Department of Information Technology,
Division of Scientific Computing
MIC, Lägerhyddsv. 2
Building 2, Room 2421
Box 337, 751 05 UPPSALA
Uppsala University
Email: Ken.Mattsson@it.uu.se
Phone: +46 18 471 29 75
Fax: +46 18 52 30 49
Degrees
- Studentexamen, Natur, Jakobsbergsskolan, Jakobsberg, June 1989
- M.Sc. in Physics, specialization in Astronomy,
Uppsala University, October 1996
- Ph.D. in Scientific Computing, Uppsala University, May 2003
Professional employment
- Researcher, FOI, August 1 2009 -
- Analysis, Forsmarks Kraftgrupp AB, August 18 2008 - July 31 2009.
- Researcher FMB, Uppsala University, June 25 2007 - August 17 2008.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Center for turbulence research (CTR), Stanford University, September 2004 - September 2006.
- Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Physics, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA, Januari 2004 - August 2004.
Research Interests
- Time dependent wave propagation problems
- High order finite difference methods
- Time stable and accurate methods on unstructured grids
- Domain decomposition
- Multi physics, Multi solvers
- Boundary and interface conditions
- Numerical Relativity.
Refereed Publications
- Ken Mattsson,
Boundary Procedures for Summation-by-Parts Operators,
Journal of Scientific Computing, 18(1): 133-153; February 2003.
- Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd, Mark Carpenter, and Jan
Nordström,
Accuracy requirement for steady and transient
aerodynamics, AIAA Paper no. 2003-3689, 16th AIAA
Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando Florida,
2003.
- Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd, and Jan Nordström,
Stable and Accurate Artificial Dissipation,
Journal of Scientific Computing, 21 (1): 57-79, 2004.
- Magnus Svärd, Ken Mattsson, and Jan Nordström,
Steady State Computations Using Summation-by-Parts Operators,
Journal of Scientific Computing, 24: 79-95, 2005.
- Ken Mattsson and Jan Nordström,
Summation by Parts Operators for Finite Difference Approximations of Second Derivatives, Journal of Computational Physics, 199 (2): 503-540, September 2004.
- Ken Mattsson and Jan Nordström,
High order finite difference methods for wave propagation in
discontinuous media, Journal of Computational Physics, 220: 249-269, 2006.
- Frank Ham, Ken Mattsson, Gianluca Iaccarino and Parviz Moin,
Towards Time-Stable and Accurate LES on Unstructured Grids, In Complex Effects in Large Eddy Simulation, Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering 56 , pp. 235-249. Springer.
- Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd, Mark Carpenter, and Jan
Nordström,
High Order Accurate Computations for Unsteady Aerodynamics,
Computers & Fluids, 36: 636-649, 2007.
- J. Alonso, S. Hahn, F. Ham, M. Herrmann, G. Iaccarino, G. Kalitzin, P. LeGresley, K. Mattsson, G. Medic, P. Moin, H. Pitsch, J. Schluter, M. Svärd, E. van der Weide, D. You and X. Wu,
A High- Performance Scalable Module for Multi- Physics Simulations, AIAA Paper no. 2006-5274, 42nd AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference & Exhibit.
- Jan Nordström, Ken Mattsson and R.C.
Swanson,
Boundary Conditions for a Divergence Free Velocity-Pressure Formulation
of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations, Journal of Computational Physics, 225 (1): 874-890, 2007.
- Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd and Mohammad Shoeybi,
Stable and accurate schemes for the compressible Navier-Stokes equations, Journal of Computational Physics, 227 (4), 2293-2316, 2008.
- Ken Mattsson, Frank Ham and Gianluca Iaccarino,
Stable and accurate wave propagation in discontinuous media , Journal of Computational Physics, 227, 8753-8767, 2008.
- Ken Mattsson, Frank Ham and Gianluca Iaccarino,
Stable Boundary Treatment for the Wave Equation on Second-Order Form, Journal of Scientific Computing, 41, 366-383, 2009.
- Jan Nordström, Frank Ham, Mohammad Shoeybi, Edwin van der Weide, Magnus Svärd, Ken Mattsson, Gianluca Iaccarino and Jing Gong,
A hybrid method for unsteady inviscid fluid flow,
Computers & Fluids, 38: 875-882, 2009.
- Ken Mattsson and Florencia Parisi,
Stable and accurate second-order formulation of the shifted wave equation,Communications in Computational Physics, 7, 101-137, 2010.
- Ken Mattsson and Mark H Carpenter,
Stable and Accurate Interpolation Operators for High-Order Multi-Block Finite-Difference Methods,SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, 32 (4), 2298-2320, 2010.
- Ken Mattsson,
Summation-by-Parts Operators for High Order Finite
Difference Methods, Ph.D. thesis, Dept. of
Information Technology, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden,
2003.
Technical reports and preprints
- Ken Mattsson,
Imposing Boundary Conditions with the Injection, the
Projection and the Simultaneous Approximation Term
Method, Report No. 2000-016, Dept. of Information
Technology, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, 2000.
- Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd, Mark Carpenter, and Jan Nordström,
Accuracy Requirements for Steady and Transient
Aerodynamics, Report No. 2002-035, Dept. of
Information Technology, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden,
2002.
- Ken Mattsson and Jan Nordström,
Finite Difference Approximations of Second Derivatives
on Summation by Parts Form, Report No. 2003-012, Dept. of
Information Technology, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, 2003.
- Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd, and Jan Nordström,
Stable Artificial Dissipation Operators for High Order
Finite Difference Schemes, Report No. 2003-013, Dept. of
Information Technology, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden, 2003.
- Magnus Svärd, Ken Mattsson, and Jan Nordström,
Steady State Computations Using Summation-by-Parts
Operators, Report No. 2003-018, Dept. of
Information Technology, Uppsala Univ., Uppsala, Sweden,
2003.
- Ken Mattsson, Ioulia Iourokina, and Frank Ham,
Towards a stable and accurate coupling of compressible and incompressible flow solvers.
Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2005.
Stanford University, 2005.
- Ken Mattsson, Frank Ham and Gianluca Iaccarino,
Efficient wave propagation on complex domains.
Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2006.
Stanford University, 2006.
- Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd and Mohammad Shoeybi,
Stable and compact finite difference schemes.
Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2006.
Stanford University, 2006.
- Frank Ham, Ken Mattsson and Gianluca Iaccarino,
Accurate and stable finite volume operators for unstructured flow solvers.
Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2006.
Stanford University, 2006.
- Ken Mattsson,
Stable second-order formulation of Einstein's equations
Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2007.
Stanford University, 2007.
Conference Presentations
- The
first International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics
(ICCFD) , July 10-14, 2000, Kyoto, Japan.
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Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando Florida, 2003.
- The Thermal & Fluid Sciences Affiliates 2005 Conference, Stanford.
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Waves 2005, Brown University, June 20-24 2005.
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The Cyprus International Symposium on Complex Effects in Large Eddy Simulations (CY-LES 2005), Limassol Cyprus, September 20-25 2005.
- The Thermal & Fluid Sciences Affiliates 2006 Conference, Stanford.
- The 2006 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 10-14, 2006, Boston.
- ECCOMAS 2008, June 30 - July 4, 2008, Venice.
- ECCOMAS 2010, May 16-21, Paris.
- ECUA 2010, July 5-9, 2010, Istanbul.
Scholarships
- Berndt Järmark's foundation for scientific research, 10.000 SEK, 1998.
- Lisa och Carl-Gustav Essens Stiftelse, 1998, 37.000 SEK, 2007.
Reviewer for the journals
- Journal of Scientific Computing
- Journal of Computational Physics
- Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Communications in Computational Physics
- SIAM Journal in Scientific Computing
Research visits
- Visiting Scientist, one month, ICASE, USA, 1999.
- Visiting Scientist, one month, ICASE, USA, 2000.
- Visiting Scientist, one week, Center for Computation and Technology (CCT), Louisiana State University, 2006.
- Visiting Scientist, three weeks, School of Aeronautics, Universidad Politecnica, Madrid, Spain, 2007.
- Visiting Scientist, one month, Stanford University, USA, 2008.
Teaching experience
- Senior level teacher, Turebergskolan, Sollentuna, Sweden, 1991.
- Numerical methods for engineers, Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala
Univ., 1997-2000.
- Computers and Programming, first course,
Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala Univ., 1998.
- Numerical Analysis I, Dept. of Scientific Computing, Uppsala
Univ., 2001.
- Project course, Department of Scientific Computing, Uppsala
University, 2001.
- Supervision of 3 Students doing their diploma work in Scientific Computing, in collaboration with the Department of Scientific Computing at Uppsala University and Sandvik. Spring 2008.
- Supervising one Students doing his diploma work in Scientific Computing at Uppsala University. Spring 2010.
Programming experience
- Fortran 90, C++, C, Fortran 77, Pascal, Basic, Excel
- MPI, HPF
- MATLAB, Maple
Languages
- Swedish (mother tongue)
- English (fluent in speaking and writing)