Tim van Beeck

Research

My research focuses on the numerical analysis of PDEs that model wave propagation in anisotropic media, where waves travel differently depending on their direction. Understanding and accurately simulating such phenomena is important in many applications. I am particularly interested in problems arising in Helioseismology, which studies the interior of the Sun through oscillations observed on the surface, and in Nematoacoustics, which investigates wave propagation in nematic liquid crystals.
I have also worked on divergence-preserving methods for geometrically unfitted finite element discretizations, on restoring pressure robustness for the axisymmetric Stokes problem, and on cohomology-preserving discretizations of surface flows.

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