Curriculum Vitæ

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

Military service

• Arctic Ranger, 22nd Infantry Regiment, specialized in communication and telegraphy, Kiruna, Sweden, 1989-1990.

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

1. Ken Mattsson, Boundary Procedures for Summation-by-Parts Operators, Journal of Scientific Computing, 18(1): 133-153; February 2003.
2. 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.
3. Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd, and Jan Nordström, Stable and Accurate Artificial Dissipation, Journal of Scientific Computing, 21 (1): 57-79, 2004.
4. Magnus Svärd, Ken Mattsson, and Jan Nordström, Steady State Computations Using Summation-by-Parts Operators, Journal of Scientific Computing, 24: 79-95, 2005.
5. 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.
6. Ken Mattsson and Jan Nordström, High order finite difference methods for wave propagation in discontinuous media, Journal of Computational Physics, 220: 249-269, 2006.
7. 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.
8. Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd, Mark Carpenter, and Jan Nordström, High Order Accurate Computations for Unsteady Aerodynamics, Computers & Fluids, 36: 636-649, 2007.
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. 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.
12. Ken Mattsson, Frank Ham and Gianluca Iaccarino, Stable and accurate wave propagation in discontinuous media , Journal of Computational Physics, 227, 8753-8767, 2008.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. Ken Mattsson and Florencia Parisi, Stable and accurate second-order formulation of the shifted wave equation,Communications in Computational Physics, 7, 101-137, 2010.
16. 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.
17. 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

1. 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.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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.
7. Ken Mattsson, Frank Ham and Gianluca Iaccarino, Efficient wave propagation on complex domains. Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2006. Stanford University, 2006.
8. Ken Mattsson, Magnus Svärd and Mohammad Shoeybi, Stable and compact finite difference schemes. Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2006. Stanford University, 2006.
9. 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.
10. Ken Mattsson, Stable second-order formulation of Einstein's equations Center for turbulence research, Annual Research briefs 2007. Stanford University, 2007.

Conference Presentations

1. The first International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD) , July 10-14, 2000, Kyoto, Japan.
2. Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, Orlando Florida, 2003.
3. The Thermal & Fluid Sciences Affiliates 2005 Conference, Stanford.
4. Waves 2005, Brown University, June 20-24 2005.
5. The Cyprus International Symposium on Complex Effects in Large Eddy Simulations (CY-LES 2005), Limassol Cyprus, September 20-25 2005.
6. The Thermal & Fluid Sciences Affiliates 2006 Conference, Stanford.
7. The 2006 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 10-14, 2006, Boston.
8. ECCOMAS 2008, June 30 - July 4, 2008, Venice.
9. ECCOMAS 2010, May 16-21, Paris.
10. ECUA 2010, July 5-9, 2010, Istanbul.

Other conference and meetings visited

1. International Conference On Spectral and High Order Methods (ICOSAHOM-01), June 11-15 2001, Uppsala, Sweden.

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