Roland Glowinski (9 March 1937 – 26 January 2022) was a French-American mathematician. He obtained his PhD in 1970 from Jacques-Louis Lions[2] and was known for his work in applied mathematics, in particular numerical solution and applications of partial differential equations and variational inequalities. He was a member of the French Academy of Sciences and held an endowed chair at the University of Houston from 1985. Glowinski wrote many books on the subject of mathematics. In 2012, he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[3]

Roland Glowinski
Glowinski in 2006
Born(1937-03-09)9 March 1937
Paris, France
Died26 January 2022(2022-01-26) (aged 84)[1]
Houston, Texas, United States
Alma materÉcole Polytechnique
École Nationale Supérieure des Télécommunications
University of Paris VI
Scientific career
FieldsComputational and Applied Mathematics, Computational Mechanics and Physics
InstitutionsUniversity of Houston
Doctoral advisorJacques-Louis Lions
Doctoral studentsFatiha Alabau

Selected publications

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  • with Jacques-Louis Lions and Raymond Trémolières: Numerical Analysis of variational inequalities, North Holland 1981[4] 2011 pbk edition
  • Numerical methods for nonlinear variational problems, Springer Verlag 1984, 2008; 2013 pbk edition
  • with Michel Fortin: Augmented Lagrangian methods : applications to the numerical solution of boundary-value problems, North Holland 1983
  • with Patrick Le Tallec: Augmented Lagrangian and operator-splitting methods in nonlinear mechanics, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics 1989
  • Glowinski, R. (2003). Ciarlet, P. G.; Lions, J. L. (eds.). Numerical analysis for fluids (Part 3). Finite element methods for incompressible viscous flows. Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Vol. IX. North-Holland. ISBN 9780444512246.[5]
  • with Jacques-Louis Lions and Jiwen He: Exact and approximate controllability for distributed parameter systems: a numerical approach, Cambridge University Press 2008

References

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  1. ^ "University of Houston Mourns Passing of Roland Glowinski". University of Houston. 28 January 2022. Retrieved 23 April 2022.
  2. ^ Roland Glowinski at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
  4. ^ Hager, William W. (1983). "Book Review: Numerical analysis of variational inequalities". Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society. 8: 100–103. doi:10.1090/S0273-0979-1983-15096-6.
  5. ^ Girault, Vivette (2005). "Book Review: Numerical analysis for fluids, Part 3. Finite element methods for incompressible viscous flow by Roland Glowinski". Mathematics of Computation. 74 (252): 2095–2097. doi:10.1090/S0025-5718-05-01818-1.
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