Scholars@Duke

• Background
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  Education, Training, & Certifications

  • Ph.D., Cornell University 1975
  • B.S., University of Chicago 1972
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  Duke Appointment History

  • Professor with Tenure, Mathematics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1994 - 2012
  • Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Pratt School of Engineering 2003 - 2006
  • Associate Professor with Tenure, Mathematics, Trinity College of Arts & Sciences 1991 - 1994
• Research
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  Selected Grants

  • Multiscale Modeling and Simulation in Scientific Inference: Hierarchical Methods for Parameter Estimation in Porous Flow awarded by  National Science Foundation 1999 - 2002
  • (98-0368) Application of Distributed Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques to Problems Involving Diffusion awarded by  National Science Foundation 1998 - 2001
  • (96-1035) Multidimensional Problems in Dynamic Plasticity awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1999
  • (97-0828) Multidimensional Problems in Dynamic Plasticity awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1999
  • (98-0625) High Resolution 3D Simulation for Surfactant Enhanced Aquifer Remediation awarded by Army Research Office 1995 - 1999
  • (97-0663) High Resolution 3D Simulation for Surfactant Enhanced Aquifer Remediation awarded by Army Research Office 1995 - 1998
  • (95-0360) Mathematical Sciences Computing Research Environments awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1997
  • (95-0435) High Resoulution 3D Simulation for Surfactant Enhanced Aquifer Remediation awarded by Army Research Office 1996 - 1997
  • (94-0395) Adaptive Local Grid Refinement for Compositional Reservoir Simulation awarded by  National Science Foundation 1994 - 1996
  • (95-0285) Multidimensional Problems in Dynamic Plasticity awarded by  National Science Foundation 1995 - 1996
  • (95-0887) High Resolution Numerical Methods for Compressible Multi-phase Flow in Hierarchial Porous Media awarded by  National Science Foundation 1992 - 1996
  • (92-0361) High Resolution Numerical Methods for Compressible Multi-Phase Flow in Hierarchial Porus Media awarded by Department of Energy 1992 - 1995
  • (93-0712) High Resolution Numerical Methods for Compressible Multi-Phase Flow in Hierarchical Porous Media awarded by Department of Energy 1992 - 1995
  • (95-0131) High Resolution Numerical Methods Compressible Multi-phase Flow in Hierarchial Porous Media awarded by Department of Energy 1992 - 1995
  • (94-0621) High Resolution Numerical Methods for Compressible Multi-phase Flow in Hierarchial Porus Media awarded by  National Science Foundation 1992 - 1995
  • (92-0216) High Resolution Numerical Methods for Compressible Multi-Phase Flow in Hierarchial Porus Media awarded by  National Science Foundation 1992 - 1994
• Publications & Artistic Works
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  Selected Publications

  • Journal Articles

    • Trangenstein, JA, and Kim, C. "Operator splitting and adaptive mesh refinement for the Luo-Rudy I model." JOURNAL OF COMPUTATIONAL PHYSICS 196, no. 2 (May 20, 2004): 645-679.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Trangenstein, JA. "Multi-scale iterative techniques and adaptive mesh refinement for flow in porous media." Advances in Water Resources 25, no. 8-12 (August 2002): 1175-1213.  Full Text
    • Bi, Z, Higdon, D, Lee, H, and Trangenstein, J. "Upscaling Tensorial Permeability Fields Based on {G}Gaussian Markov Random Field Models and the Hybrid Mixed Finite Element Method (Submitted)." SPE Journal (2002). (Academic Article)  Link to Item
    • Miller, CT, Christakos, G, Imhoff, PT, McBride, JF, Pedit, JA, and Trangenstein, JA. "Multiphase flow and transport modeling in heterogeneous porous media: challenges and approaches." ADVANCES IN WATER RESOURCES 21, no. 2 (March 1998): 77-120.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Garaizar, FX, and Trangenstein, J. "Adaptive mesh refinement and front-tracking for shear bands in an antiplane shear model." SIAM J. Sci. Comput. (USA) 20, no. 2 (1998): 750-779. (Academic Article)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Hornung, RD, and Trangenstein, JA. "Adaptive Mesh Refinement and Multilevel Iteration for Flow in Porous Media." Journal of Computational Physics 136, no. 2 (September 1997): 522-545.  Full Text
    • Garaizar, FX, and Trangenstein, J. "Front Tracking for Shear Bands in an Antiplane Shear Model." Journal of Computational Physics 131, no. 1 (1997): 54-. (Academic Article)  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Khan, SA, Pope, GA, and Trangenstein, JA. "Micellar/polymer physical-property models for contaminant cleanup problems and enhanced oil recovery." TRANSPORT IN POROUS MEDIA 24, no. 1 (July 1996): 35-79.  Link to Item
    • TRANGENSTEIN, JA. "ADAPTIVE MESH REFINEMENT FOR WAVE-PROPAGATION IN NONLINEAR SOLIDS." SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING 16, no. 4 (July 1995): 819-839.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Trangenstein, JA. "A second-order Godunov algorithm for two-dimensional solid mechanics." Computational Mechanics 13, no. 5 (September 1994): 343-359.  Full Text
    • Trangenstein, JA, and Pember, RB. "Numerical algorithms for strong discontinuities in elastic—plastic solids." Journal of Computational Physics 103, no. 1 (November 1992): 63-89.  Full Text
    • TRANGENSTEIN, JA, and PEMBER, RB. "THE RIEMANN PROBLEM FOR LONGITUDINAL MOTION IN AN ELASTIC-PLASTIC BAR." SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL COMPUTING 12, no. 1 (January 1991): 180-207.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Trangenstein, JA. "A second-order algorithm for the dynamic response of soils." IMPACT Comput. Sci. Eng. 2 (1990): 1-39.  Full Text
    • TRANGENSTEIN, JA, and BELL, JB. "MATHEMATICAL STRUCTURE OF COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR SIMULATION." SIAM JOURNAL ON SCIENTIFIC AND STATISTICAL COMPUTING 10, no. 5 (September 1989): 817-845.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Subramanian, G, Trangenstein, JA, Mochizuki, S, and Shen, EI-C. "EFFICIENT FLUID BEHAVIOR COMPUTATIONS IN A SEQUENTIAL COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR SIMULATOR." Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, (Paper) SPE (1987): 321-327. (Academic Article)
    • Trangenstein, JA. "Customized minimization techniques for phase equilibrium computations in reservoir simulation." Chemical Engineering Science 42, no. 12 (1987): 2847-2863.  Full Text
    • BELL, JB, TRANGENSTEIN, JA, and SHUBIN, GR. "CONSERVATION-LAWS OF MIXED TYPE DESCRIBING 3-PHASE FLOW IN POROUS-MEDIA." SIAM JOURNAL ON APPLIED MATHEMATICS 46, no. 6 (December 1986): 1000-1017.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • Trangenstein John, A. "MINIMIZATION OF GIBBS FREE ENERGY IN COMPOSITIONAL RESERVOIR SIMULATION." Society of Petroleum Engineers of AIME, (Paper) SPE (1985): 233-246. (Academic Article)
    • TRANGENSTEIN, JA. "FINITE-ELEMENT METHOD FOR TRICOMI PROBLEM IN ELLIPTIC REGION." SIAM JOURNAL ON NUMERICAL ANALYSIS 14, no. 6 (1977): 1066-1077.  Full Text  Link to Item
    • More, JJ, and Trangenstein, JA. "On the global convergence of Broyden's method." Math. Comput. (USA) 30, no. 135 (1976): 523-540. (Academic Article)
• Scholarly, Clinical, & Service Activities
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  Service to the Profession

  • panel member : NSF CDI II-6. February 14, 2008  2008

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