Rémi Abgrall

Rémi Abgrall
Born	1961 France
Occupation	Mathematician
Years active	1987–present
Known for	Applied mathematics, computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods for conservation laws, multiphase flow, Hamilton–Jacobi equations

Rémi Abgrall (born in 1961) is a French mathematician whose expertise lies in applied mathematics, particularly in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, numerical methods for conservation laws, multiphase flow, and Hamilton–Jacobi equations. Since 2015, he has held the position of editor-in-chief at the Journal of Computational Physics and contributes as a member of editorial boards for several international scientific periodicals. In 2014, Abgrall was invited to present at the International Congress of Mathematics held in Seoul. His scholarly output includes more than 100 research articles and the editorial oversight of four volumes addressing advanced subjects such as computational fluid dynamics, high-resolution numerical schemes, and conservation laws. Additionally, he authored a monograph dedicated to residual distribution methods for conservation laws utilizing adaptive quadrature techniques.

Education and career

Abgrall obtained his mathematics degree from the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud in 1985. He completed his doctoral studies at Pierre and Marie Curie University in 1987, focusing his dissertation on a semi-Lagrangian turbulence modeling approach. Prior to his academic appointments, he conducted research at ONERA and Inria. Between 1996 and 2013, he was a professor at both University of Bordeaux 1 and the Institut polytechnique de Bordeaux. Since 2014, he has been serving as a professor specializing in numerical analysis at the University of Zurich.

Honours and awards

Abgrall was honored with the Prix Blaise-Pascal by the French Academy of Sciences in 2001. He holds honorary membership at the Institut Universitaire de France and secured an advanced research grant from the European Research Council under the CORDIS program in 2008. In recognition of his significant advancements in numerical techniques for conservation laws—including multi-fluid flow modeling and residual distribution schemes—he was designated a Fellow of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics in 2022.