Krzysztof Fidkowski

Background

Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2004 -2007

S.M., Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2003 - 2004

S.B., Aerospace Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 - 2003

S.B., Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1999 - 2003

Dissertation

K.J. Fidkowski. A Simplex Cut-Cell Adaptive Method for High-order Discretizations of the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations. MIT PhD Thesis. June 2007.

K.J. Fidkowski. A High-order Discontinuous Galerkin Multigrid Solver for Aerodynamic Applications. MIT Master's Thesis. June 2004.

Research Interest

Development of robust, scalable, and adaptive solution techniques for computational fluid dynamics, with application to practical problems in aerospace engineering. Topics include:

• • High-order methods

  • Numerical error estimation

  • Mesh adaptation and optimization

  • Space-time adaptive methods

  • Uncertainty quantification

Teaching

University of Michigan: Ann Arbor

• • Introduction to Aerospace Engineering (AEROSP 201)

  • Aerodynamics (AEROSP 325)

  • Computational Methods for Aerospace Engineering (AEROSP 423)

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics I (AEROSP 523)

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics II (AEROSP 623)

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

• • Computational Methods in Aerospace Engineering (16.90)

  • Aerodyamics (16.100)