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Mailing Address
Computational Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Linköping University
SE-581 83 Linköping
Sweden

Email
jan.nordstrom@liu.se

Phone
+46 - 13 - 28 14 59

Fax
+46 - 13 - 10 07 46

Visiting address
Linköping University Campus Valla B-building

Positions
Research interest
Degrees
Previous postions
  • Research Scientist, FFA, The Aeronautical Research Institute of Sweden, 1980 - 1995
  • Acting head at the Viscous Flow Branch, FFA, 1986 - 1991
  • Senior Scientist, FFA, 1995 - 2001
  • Research leader for the Unsteady Aerodynamics group at FFA, 1995 - 1999
  • Research leader for the Wave Propagation group at FFA, 1999 - 2001
  • Research leader for the Numerical Methods group at FFA, 1999 - 2001
  • Senior Scientist, FOI (The Swedish Defence Research Agency), 2001 - 2002
  • Adjunct Professor in Numerical Analysis (Adjungerad), UU, 2001 - 2004
  • Director of Research (Forskningschef) in Numerical Analysis, FOI, 2002 - 2010
  • Adjunct Professor in Numerical Analysis (Adjungerad), UU, 2006 - 2009
  • Visiting Professor, 1 month, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (SU), USA, 2007
  • Visiting Professor, 1 month, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (SU), USA, 2008
  • Visiting Professor, 4 months, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (SU), USA, 2009
  • Adjunct Professor in Scientific Computing (Adjungerad), UU, 2009 - 2010
  • Professor in Aeronautical Engineering, School of Mechanical, Industrial and Aeronautical Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand (WITS), South Africa, 2009 - 2010
  • Visiting Professor, 3 months, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Stanford University (SU), USA, 2011
Current affiliations
  • Senior Research Fellow, Center for Turbulence Research, Stanford University, USA, 2009 -
  • Visiting Professor, School of Electrical and Information Engineering, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2010 -
  • Honorary Professor, School of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa, 2010 -
Teaching
Masters student supervision
  • A. Bengtsson & E. Ziakouli, The Influence of Open Boundary Conditions and Difference Operators on the Time-integration of the Burgers Equation, FFA TN 1988-57, Stockholm 1988.
  • N. Nordin, The Fringe Region Technique Used in the Direct Numerical Simulation of the Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations, FFA TN 1995-04, Stockholm 1995.
  • F. Jansson, Boundary Conditions for the Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations at a Subsonic Outflow Boundary, FFA TN 1995-05, Stockholm 1995.
  • N. Lindberg (jointly with G. Efraimsson FFA), Numerical Investigation of Extrapolation Boundary Conditions for the Euler Equations, FFA TN 1998-03, Stockholm 1998.
  • I. Karlsson, Boundary Conditions in the $\kappa-\omega$ and $\kappa-\epsilon$ Turbulence Models, FFA TN 1998-49, Stockholm 1998.
  • E. Petrini (jointly with G. Efraimsson FFA), A Numerical Study of the Introduction and Propagation of a 2-D Vortex, FFA TN 1998-66, Stockholm 1998.
  • R. Lindkvist, Boundary Conditions for the Euler Equations, FFA TN 1999-31, Stockholm 1999.
  • M. Björck, Finite Volume Approximations and Strict Stability for Hyperbolic Problems, FFA TN 2000-35, Stockholm 2000.
  • B. Bretz (jointly with K. Forsberg FFA), High Order Finite Difference Approximations of Hyperbolic Problems, FFA TN 2000-09, Stockholm 2000.
  • J. Persson, Discrete Approximations of Electromagnetic Problems, Scientific Report FOI-R--0119-SE, Stockholm 2001.
  • R. Gustafsson, High Order Finite Difference Approximations of Electromagnetic Wave Propagation Close to Material Discontinuities, Scientific Report FOI-R--0120-SE, Stockholm 2001.
  • C. Adamsson (jointly with K. Forsberg FFA), Finite Volume Methods, Unstructured Meshes and Strict Stability, Scientific Report FOI-R--0121-SE, Stockholm 2001.
  • O. Fogelklou, Investigation of Time and Frequency Domain Based Methods for Radar Cross Section Calculations, Scientific Report FOI-R--0149-SE, Stockholm 2001.
  • A. Carlsson, Conservative Difference Formulations, Energy Estimates and Artificial Dissipation, Scientific Report FOI-R--0509-SE, Stockholm 2002.
  • S. Eriksson (jointly with M. Svärd SU), Simulation of Ground Effects on Wake Vortices at Runways, UPTEC F07062, May 2007.
  • J. Lundberg (jointly with M. Svärd SU), A Computational Study of Wing-Vortex Interaction Using a High Order Accurate Finite Difference Method, UPTEC F07089, May 2007.
  • P. Pettersson (jointly with G. Iaccarino SU), Numerical Analysis of Burgers' Equation with Uncertain Boundary Conditions Using the Stochastic Galerkin Method, UPTEC STS08011, March 2008. Thesis
  • N. Forsberg (jointly with G. Efraimsson KTH), Simulation of Acoustic Waves in a Turbofan Engine Air Intake, UPTEC F09028, March 2009.
  • B. Lönn, Energy Decay in Vortices, UPTEC F11031, June 2011. Thesis
  • O. O'Reilly (jointly with E. M. Dunham SU) Coupled Finite Difference and Finite Volume Methods for Earthquake Rupture Dynamics in Complex Geometries, UPTEC F11040, August 2011. Thesis
  • C-F. Arndt, Energy estimates and variance estimation for hyperbolic stochastic partial differential equations, LiTH-MAT-EX-2011/18-SE, September 2011 Thesis
  • T. Lundquist, Stability of SBP schemes on overlapping domains, LiTH-MAT-EX-2011/17-SE, September 2011 Thesis
PhD student supervision
  • Ken Mattsson, Thesis title: Summation-by-Parts Operators for High Order Finite Difference Methods, 1997-2003 Thesis
  • Magnus Svärd, Thesis title: Stable High Order Finite Difference Methods for Aerodynamics, 1999-2004 Thesis
  • Jing Gong, Thesis title: Hybrid Methods for Unsteady Fluid Flow Problems in Complex Geometries, 2003-2007 Thesis
  • Qaiser Abbas, Project: Weak Boundary and Interface Procedures for Wave and Flow Problems, 2006 - 2011 Thesis
  • Sven-Erik Ekström, Project: A Vertex-Centered Dual DG Method for Hyperbolic Problems, (Martin Berggren UMU 1st advisor), 2006 -
  • Sofia Eriksson, Project: Hybrid Methods for Unsteady Aerodynamics, 2007 -
  • Kenneth Duru, Project: Perfectly Matched Layers for Non-linear Wave Propagation Problems, (Gunilla Kreiss UU 1st advisor), 2007 -
  • Jens Berg, Project: Computational Methods for Heat Transfer in Micro-mechanical Systems, 2008 -
  • Per Pettersson, Project: Unceartainties in Aerodynamics, (jointly with Gianluca Iaccarino Stanford University), 2008 -
  • Samira Nikkar, Project: High Order Accurate Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics, 2011 -
  • Tomas Lundquist, Project: High Order Accurate Numerical Methods in Fluid Dynamics for Complex Geometries, 2011 -
  • Ossian O'Reilly, Project: High Order Accurate Numerical Methods in Geophysics, (jointly with Eric Dunham Stanford University), 2011 -
  • Frida Johansson, Project: High Order Accurate Numerical Methods in Hydrodynamics, 2011 -
  • Hannes Frennander, Project: High Order Accurate Numerical Methods for Wave Propagation Problems, 2012 -
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