September 30, 2011
As head of the ICES Computational Hydraulics Group, Dr. Dawson leads a team of a dozen researchers in areas including numerical methods for partial differential equations, specifically flow and transport problems in computational fluid dynamics; scientific computing and parallel computing; finite element analysis, discontinuous Galerkin methods; shallow water systems, hurricane storm surge modeling, rainfall-induced flooding; ground water systems, flow in porous media, geochemistry; data assimilation, parameter estimation, uncertainty and error estimation.
In addition to his teaching and research duties, Dr. Dawson is the graduate advisor of the Computational Sciences, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSEM) graduate program within ICES.
