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 jan mandel mathematician
jan mandel

jan mandel is a czech-american mathematician .
he received his phd from the faculty of mathematics and physics , charles university in prague and was a senior research scientist there .
since 1986 , he is professor of mathematics at the university of colorado denver .
he has worked in the field of multigrid methods and domain decomposition methods .
he developed the balancing domain decomposition method and , with coauthors , published the convergence proofs of the feti , feti-dp , and bddc methods , and the proof of the equivalence of the feti-dp and the bddc methods .
he has been involved in the field of dynamic data driven application systems and data assimilation with applications in wildfire and epidemic modeling .
he has contributed to the wrf-fire software .
