Elbridge Gerry Puckett

Position: Professor
Year joining UC Davis: 1990
Degree: Ph.D., 1987, University of California, Berkeley
Refereed publications: Via Math Reviews
Recent publications: Via math arXiv


Education

California State University, Sonoma, Mathematics, B.A., 1981 (summa cum laude)
University of California, Berkeley, Mathematics, Ph.D., 1987
Thesis Advisor: A.J. Chorin

Collaborators

G. Miller (UC Davis), P. Colella (LBNL), D. Brown (LLNL), M. Minion (UNC, Chapel-Hill), M. Berger (Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, NYU), R. LeVeque (U. Washington), C. Rutledge (U. Wisconsin, Madison)
Ph.D./M.S. Students James Edward Pilliod, Jr.; Matthew Wayne Williams

Awards and Fellowships

  • Hudnell Distinguished Lecturer, Department of Geophysical Sciences, U. Chicago, Spring 1995

Selected Publications

    [1] M. Sussman, E.G. Puckett. (2000) "A coupled level set and volume-of-fluid method for computing 3D and axisymmetric incompressible two-phase flows", J. Comput. Phys. 162 (2000), N 2, 301-337.

    [2] M. Williams, D. Kothe, and E.G. Puckett. (1998) "Convergence and Accuracy of Kernel-Based Continuum Surface Tension Models" (LANL Report LA-UR-98-2268), Invited paper for the Chia-Shun Yih Memorial Symposium, in Proceedings of the Thirteenth U.S. National Congress of Applied Mechanics, Gainesville, FL (June 16-21, 1998).

    [3] J.E. Pilliod and E.G. Puckett. (1997) "Second-Order Accurate Volume-of-Fluid Algorithms for Tracking Material Interfaces", Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Technical Report No LBNL-40744. J. Comput. Phys., 199 (2004), N 2, 465-502.

    [4] J. Helmsen, P. Colella and E.G. Puckett (1997) "Non-Convex Profile Evolution in Two Dimensions Using Volume of Fluids" (submitted to J. Comput. Phys.).

    [5] E.G. Puckett (1997) "A Introduction to A Numerical Method for Solving Incompressible Viscous Flow Problems", J. Comput. Phys. 135, 134-164. (This is a short review paper that appeared as an introduction to the republication of Chorin's seminal paper on the Method of Artificial Compressiblity.)

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