Mary Fanett Wheeler
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering
Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Chair in Engineering
Phone: (512) 475-8625
Fax: (512) 232-2445
Email: mfw@ticam.utexas.edu
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Dr. Mary F. Wheeler earned her Ph.D. in mathematics from Rice University in 1971. She joined the faculty at The University of Texas at Austin in 1995. She directs the Center for Subsurface Modeling. Dr. Wheeler is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, the nation’s highest honor for engineering professionals. She was the first woman to receive an honorary doctorate from the University of Eindhoven in The Netherlands.
Wheeler uses computer simulations to model the behavior of fluids in geological formations. Her research covers a broad range of applications, including computer modeling of estuaries and coastal waters, subsurface modeling for petroleum exploration, and reservoir engineering. She studies numerical solutions of partial differential systems with applications to flow in porous media, geomechanics, surface flow and parallel computation. In current projects, Wheeler models reactive multi-phase flow and transport in a heterogeneous porous media, with the goal of simulating these systems on parallel computing platforms.
Research interests:
- Numerical solution of coupled nonlinear partial differential equations
- Hydrodynamics
- Fluid mechanics
- Parallel computation