Assistant Professor

School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University

Affilate of

Center for Particulate Products and Processes (CP³)
Center for the Environment
Computational Interdisciplinary Graduate Program

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Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (June 2011)

Department of Engineering Sciences and Applied Mathematics, Northwestern University

M.S. in Mathematics (May 2007)

Department of Mathematics, Texas A&M University

S.B. in Mathematics (Applied Option) (June 2005)

Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

a) Complex and Nonlinear Systems: the study of the mechanics of natural phenomena using advanced mathematical techniques and state-of-the-art computational simulations; in particular: diffusion, mixing and self-organization of granular matter, flow in heterogeneous porous media, multiphase interfacial instabilities, fluid–structure interactions, shock-formation in compressible flows, viscoelastic flows and non-Newtonian rheology, dynamics of coherent structures in nonlinear wave equations, nonlinear Fourier analysis of physical data.

b) Numerical Methods/Analysis: the development of high-performance reliable simulation techniques for real-world applications; in particular: Godunov-type schemes for conservation laws and Hamilton–Jacobi equations, segregated two-way-coupled finite-volume approaches to viscous fluid–structure interactions, finite-volume methods for reservoir simulation, implicit conservative finite-difference and finite element methods for nonlinear diffusion and nonlinear wave equations.

• ORCiD: 0000-0001-8531-0531.
• ResearcherID: B-9418-2008 (now merged with Publons profile).
• h-index: 15 (source: Web of Science^®).
• Citations: 626 (source: Web of Science^®) or 679 (source: personal count excluding self-citations).
• Google scholar profile: click here.
• Scopus Author ID: 23007883200.
• Mathematical Reviews (MR) Author ID: 805473.
• Collaboration distances (source: MathSciNet):
  • Erdős number ≤ 4.
  • Feynman number ≤ 4.
  • Batchelor number ≤ 4.
• GitHub: github.com/ichristov.
• nanoHUB: nanohub.org/members/187912.

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  School of Mechanical Engineering,
  Purdue University,
  585 Purdue Mall,
  West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
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  Location: ME 2197
  Phone: +1-765-49-63733