My name is Mohammed Sayyari; I work on positivity-preserving provably stable high-fidelity numerical schemes for the Navier-Stokes equations as a postdoc in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Old Dominion University. With a strong background in computer science, my current project integrates efficient and scalable computation with rigorous mathematical analysis to preserve the stable structure of the underlying model. Through international collaborations, I have contributed to impactful research, such as in the relaxation Runge-Kutta method, where we extended the method to include nonlinear convex functionals such as mathematical entropy. This method provides provable stability for fully-discrete schemes, in contrast to the stability of only the discrete spatial operators, common in this area of research. My long-term research plan is to develop provably stable, robust, and efficient schemes on high-performance computing (HPC) platforms for problems in fire simulation and numerical weather prediction (NWP). These schemes enhance the accuracy and stability of simulations for critical applications like climate modeling and aerospace engineering.
In addition to my research, I have consistently been passionate about teaching. Even when it was not required, I served as a Teaching Assistant during my PhD for a variety of courses spanning computer science and mathematics. For example, I assisted in creating homework and held office hours for courses such as Numerical Analysis of PDEs and Numerical Optimization. Additionally, I inaugurated the course of Numerical Methods for Internal Aerodynamics at Ruhr-Universität Bochum, creating all the course content, from slides and notes to a unique problem set and computer programming examples. I am committed to continuing learning and researching pedagogical methods. For example, I attended a course on the eight practices in teaching mathematics, where I learned key practices such as productive struggle, purposeful questioning, and eliciting evidence of student thinking.
PhD in Applied Mathematics, 2022
King Abdullah Universty of Science and Technology
MSc in Applied Mathematics, 2018
King Abdullah Universty of Science and Technology
BSc in Computer Science with a minor in Mathematics, 2016
Kansas State University
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The continuum approach employing porous media models is a robust and efficient solution method in the area of the simulation of fixed-bed reactors. This paper applies the double-averaging methodology to refine the continuum approach, opening a way to alleviate its main limitations: space-invariant averaging volume and inaccurate treatment of the porous/fluid interface. The averaging operator is recast as a general space–time filter allowing for the analysis of commutation errors in a classic large eddy simulation (LES) formalism. An explicit filtering framework has been implemented to carry out an a posteriori evaluation of the unclosed terms appearing in the double-averaged Navier–Stokes (DANS) equations, also considering a space-varying filter width. Two resolved simulations have been performed. First, the flow around a single, stationary particle has been used to validate derived equations and the filtering procedure. Second, an LES of the turbulent flow in a channel partly occupied with a porous medium has been realized and filtered. The commutation error at the porous–fluid interface has been evaluated and compared to the prediction of two models. The significance of the commutation error terms is also discussed and assessed. Finally, the solver for DANS equations has been developed and used to simulate both of the studied geometries. The magnitude of the error associated with neglecting the commutation errors has been investigated, and an LES simulation combined with a porous drag model was performed. Very encouraging results have been obtained indicating that the inaccuracy of the drag closure overshadows the error related to the commutation of operators.
Nonlinear entropy stability analysis is used to derive entropy stable no-slip wall boundary conditions for the Eulerian model proposed by Svärd (Phys A Stat Mech Appl 506:350–375, 2018). The spatial discretization is based on entropy stable collocated discontinuous Galerkin operators with the summation-by-parts property for unstructured grids. A set of viscous test cases of increasing complexity are simulated using both the Eulerian and the classic compressible Navier–Stokes models. The numerical results obtained with the two models are compared, and similarities and differences are then highlighted. However, the differences are very small and probably smaller than what the current experimental technology allows to measure.
The framework of inner product norm preserving relaxation Runge–Kutta methods [D. I. Ketcheson, SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 57 (2019), pp. 2850–2870] is extended to general convex quantities. Conservation, dissipation, or other solution properties with respect to any convex functional are enforced by the addition of a relaxation parameter that multiplies the Runge–Kutta update at each step. Moreover, other desirable stability (such as strong stability preservation) and efficiency (such as low storage requirements) properties are preserved. The technique can be applied to both explicit and implicit Runge–Kutta methods and requires only a small modification to existing implementations. The computational cost at each step is the solution of one additional scalar algebraic equation for which a good initial guess is available. The effectiveness of this approach is proved analytically and demonstrated in several numerical examples, including applications to high order entropy-conservative and entropy-stable semidiscretizations on unstructured grids for the compressible Euler and Navier–Stokes equations.