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Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
and Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in Engineering

Education: Ph.D., Rice University

Office Location: Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES)
Applied Computational & Engineering Science Building (ACES)
Room 5.324A, Mail Code: C0200

Phone: (512) 475-8625

Email: mfw@ices.utexas.edu

Research Interests:

• Numerical Solution of Partial Differential Equations
• Flow and Transport in Porous Media
• Algorithms for Massively Parallel Machines

Dr. Wheeler's expertise is in the numerical solution of coupled partial differential equations. Her research areas include modeling reactive and multiphase flows and parallel computations. She joined the Cockrell School of Engineering faculty in 1995 and has published more than 160 technical articles and reports. Dr. Wheeler is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and the recipient of the 1997 Women in Aerospace Outstanding Aerospace Educator Award.

Her administrative assistant is Connie Baxter and she can be reached at (512) 475-8625, connie@ices.utexas.edu.

Dr. Wheeler is affiliated with the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences.