Peter Knabner
| Peter Knabner | |
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 Peter Knabner.jpg Knabner in 2018 | |
| Born | April 13, 1954 Tettau, Upper Franconia, Germany |
| 🎓 Alma mater | Free University Berlin (diploma) University of Augsburg (PhD) University of Augsburg (habilitation) |
| 💼 Occupation | |
| 👩 Spouse(s) | Ingrid Kögel-Knabner |
| 👶 Children | 2 daughters |
| 🏅 Awards | Argyris Visiting Professor[1] (2018) |
Peter Knabner (bprm April 13, 1954 in Tettau, Upper Franconia, Germany) is a German mathematician and was till 2020 full professor for Applied mathematics at the University of Erlangen–Nuremberg. His areas of expertise are applied mathematics and numerical analysis.
Life
After graduating from high school in Hamm, Germany in 1972, Knabner studied mathematics at the Free University of Berlin and computer science at the Technische Universität Berlin. After graduating (with a German university diploma "with distinction"), he worked on inverse problems, in particular for free boundary value problems, supervised by Karl-Heinz Hoffmann and received his doctorate from the University of Augsburg in 1983. He also habilitated in 1988 on mathematical models for the transport and sorption of solutes in porous media.
After a period as a senior assistant ("Oberassistent") at the University of Augsburg, he became the research group leader for numerical mathematics at the Weierstrass Institute for Applied Analysis and Stochastics in 1992. In 1994, he followed Hubertus Weinitschke as the Chair of Applied Mathematics I at the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg, which he held for 26 years. There he also held leadership roles as dean (1997 to 1999), senator, and in particular department spokesman from 2007 to 2011 forming the present Department of Mathematics and supervising the construction of its new building[1]. In 2018 he was Argyris visiting professor at the University of Stuttgart, with ongoing connection after his retirement.[2][3]. He is still active as an author of textbooks in mathematics. He is married to the soil scientist Ingrid Kögel-Knabner. The couple have two grown-up daughters.
Work
Peter Knabner is the author of around 200 peer-reviewed publications in applied analysis, numerical analysis, and hydrogeology [4] . He is the author and co-author of far more than 10 monographs and textbooks in German and English, including on the numerics of partial differential equations, mathematical modeling, and linear algebra, and is co-editor of Computational Geosciences[5]. He has supervised over 30 doctoral and post-doctoral students, from whom a large number of professors have emerged [6]. Since the 1980s, Knabner has concentrated on the derivation, analysis, and numerical approximation of mathematical models for flow and transport in porous media, intending to make contributions not only to mathematics but also to the relevant real sciences, in particular hydrogeology. The spectrum now extends to multiphase/multicomponent flows, with vanishing/emerging phases, general chemical reactions, and, as a result, evolving porous media.
Besides numerous contributions to the analysis of models including non-Lipschitzian nonlinearities and thus exhibit free boundaries and to general transport and reaction systems (homogeneous and surface reactions, equilibrium and kinetic reactions, full coupling to the porous system, and multi-phase flow) concerning the existence, uniqueness, regularity of general solutions, and similarity and traveling wave solutions, accurate, stable and efficient numerical schemes were a further focus. Besides conformal also hybrid mixed finite elements as spatial discretization schemes, and multi-level Newton-type strategies have been investigated. Together with several coworkers, Knabner developed the reduction scheme numerical analysis, and hydrogeology [7], a general procedure to detect and utilize the inherent conservation structure in a general multi-phase reaction, flow, and transport system. In proprietary software, all these components together have been realized leading to one of the most efficient tools for this class of problems.[8] After the dissolution of the working group, this tool is no longer available.
Selected text books
- with Lutz Angermann: Numerical Methods for Elliptic and Parabolic Partial Differential Equations (= Texts in Applied Mathematics. 44). Springer, New York 2003, ISBN 0-387-95449-X, 2. largely extended edition 2021, ISBN 978-3-030-79384-5.
- with Christof Eck, Harald Garcke: Mathematical Modeling. (= Springer Undergraduate Mathematics Series.). Springer International 2017, ISBN 978-3-319-55160-9.
- with Wolf Barth: Lineare Algebra. Grundlagen und Anwendungen. (in German) Springer Spektrum, Berlin/Heidelberg 2013, ISBN 978-3-642-32186-3, 2. extended edition 2018, ISBN 978-3-662-55599-6.
References
- ↑ "Knabner's cv". Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ "Argyris Visiting Professorship | Cluster of Excellence SimTech Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science | University of Stuttgart". www.simtech.uni-stuttgart.de. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
- ↑ "Interview with Peter Knabner | News | Jan 25, 2019 | Cluster of Excellence SimTech Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science | University of Stuttgart". luster of Excellence SimTech Stuttgart Center for Simulation Science | University of Stuttgart. 2019-01-25. Retrieved 2025-07-09.
- ↑ "list of publications". Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ "list of books". Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ "Mathematics Genealogy Project". Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ "Reduction scheme". Archived from the original on 2024-05-20. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
- ↑ "MoMas benchmark". Retrieved 2024-12-18.
External links
- Literature by and about Peter Knabner in the German National Library catalogue
- Further information about Peter Knabner on the website of the University Erlangen-Nuremberg
- Peter Knabner in the database zbMATH
- "Peter Knabner". Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 2024-12-18.
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