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I am a Professor in Numerical Mathematics at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz. My research is focused on the analysis and development of numerical methods for partial and ordinary differential equations. In particular, I am interested in the stability of these schemes as well as mimetic and structure-preserving techniques, allowing the transfer of results from the continuous level to the discrete one.

Research Interests

  • Numerical Analysis
    • Numerical schemes for hyperbolic balance laws and dispersive-dissipative equations: Discontinuous Galerkin methods, continuous and discontinuous spectral element methods, finite difference schemes, flux reconstruction, finite volume methods
    • Structure-preserving methods: Conservation/dissipation of entropy/energy, summation by parts operators, (skew-symmetric) splitting techniques, mimetic properties, filtering, artificial dissipation
    • Runge-Kutta methods, stability of time integration schemes
    • Adaptivity in time and space
    • Data-driven approaches combining analysis and data
    • Uncertainty quantification
  • Scientific Computing
    • Compressible Euler equations, shallow water equations, magnetic induction equation, numerical plasma physics, magnetohydrodynamics, dispersive wave equations
    • Multi-physics problems and astrophysical applications
    • Modeling and analysis of physical processes
    • High-performance computing (HPC) in Julia
    • Heterogeneous computing on CPUs and GPUs using OpenCL
    • Open source projects such as Trixi.jl, SummationByPartsOperators.jl, OrdinaryDiffEq.jl, NodePy, RK-Opt

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News

Louis Petri presents our research at the European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications (ENUMATH) 2025 in Heidelberg 2025-08-19

New Paper ‘Modeling Still Matters: A Surprising Instance of Catastrophic Floating Point Errors in Mathematical Biology and Numerical Methods for ODEs’ published in SIAM Review 2025-08-09

New Preprint ‘The domain-of-dependence stabilization for cut-cell meshes is fully discretely stable’ on arXiv 2025-08-08

New Preprint ‘Convergence of hyperbolic approximations to higher-order PDEs for smooth solutions’ on arXiv 2025-08-07

New Preprint ‘Real-time rail vehicle localisation using spatially resolved magnetic field measurements’ on arXiv 2025-07-28