Eric Darve

Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering
Faculty of Mechanics and Computation Division,Flow Physics and Computation Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering

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Degrees

Classes préparatoires Grandes Ecoles, Lycée Louis-Le-Grand, Paris - Mathematics (1990-1992).

Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris - Mathematics and Computer Science (1992-1998).

B.S. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris & Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris - Mathematics and Physics (1992).

M.Sc. Université Paris Dauphine, Paris - Applied Mathematics (1993).

Ph.D. Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris - Numerical Analysis (1999).
Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University - Computational Mathematics (1999-2001)

Research Interests

Prof. Eric Darve's research is focused on the development of numerical methods for large scale scientific computing with applications in Bio Molecular simulations, Electrodynamics and Acoustics. In these applications, the computational expense of simulating large and complex systems is very significant and in many instances beyond current computer capabilities. Prof. Darve is developing innovative numerical techniques to reduce this computational expense and enable the simulation of industrial size systems over realistic time scales. Examples of numerical techniques are new formulations of the Fast Multipole Method applicable to simulations of proteins, biological membranes, drug design, etc., and to electromagnetic scattering from aircraft, nuclear missile, aircraft carrier, etc. The contributions are on the mathematical side with theoretical results in numerical analysis, on the numerical side with faster computational methods involving less floating point operations, on the computer science side by formulating algorithms which are adapted to specific hardwares such as massively parallel platforms, streaming computing, etc.

Awards/Honors

Second Leslie Fox Prize, 2001.

 

Recent Publications

Eric Darve, Michael Wilson and Andrew Pohorille. "Calculating Free Energies Using Scaled-force Molecular Dynamics Algorithm," Molecular Simulation, 2001.

Eric Darve and Andrew Pohorille. "Calculating Free Energies Using Average Force," Journal of Chemical Physics, 2001.

Eric Darve. "Efficient Fast Multipole Method for Low Frequency Scattering," submitted to Journal of Computational Physics, 2001.

 

Previous Publications

Eric Darve. "Fast-multipole method: a mathematical study (abridged version)", C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, Série I (t.325): pp. 1037-1042, 1997.

E. Darve. "Fast-multipole method: a mathematical study", Laboratoire d'analyse numérique de l'université Pierre et Marie Curie, référence R97001, January 1997.

E. Darve. "The multistep fast-multipole method", Laboratoire d'analyse numérique de l'université Pierre et Marie Curie, référence R97024, July 1997.

E. Darve. "The Fast Multipole Method (I) : Error Analysis and Asymptotic Complexity", SIAM Numerical Analysis, Vol. 38 No. 1, pp. 98-128, 2000 (4.0 Mb).

E. Darve. "The Fast Multipole Method: Numerical Implementation", Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 160 No. 1, pp. 195-240, 2000 (3.7 Mb).

 

Ph.D. thesis manuscript

PhD thesis manuscript (7.8 Mb).

Last updated 1/2/02

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