caption doctoral_advisor thesis_year work_institution thesis_title nationality thesis_url known_for prizes image article_title name alma_mater
colella in 1980 alexandre chorin 1979 lawrence of california , berkeley livermore national laboratory lawrence berkeley national laboratory university an of the sampling procedure on the accuracy of glimm 's analysis method of the effect of operator splitting and 20px http://search.proquest.com/docview/302906847/ high-resolution schemes adaptive mesh refinement member prize -lrb- 2003 -rrb- sidney fernbach award -lrb- 1998 -rrb- national academy of sciences -lrb- 2004 -rrb- siam/acm phillip colella.jpg phillip colella
 phillip colella university of california , berkeley
phillip colella

phillip colella is an american applied mathematician and the head of the applied numerical algorithms group at the lawrence berkeley national laboratory .
he has also worked at lawrence livermore national laboratory .
he is known for his fundamental contributions in the development of mathematical methods and numerical tools used to solve partial differential equations , including high-resolution and adaptive mesh refinement schemes .
colella is a member of the us national academy of sciences .
