Misun Min

Assistant Computational Scientist
Mathematics and Computer Science Division,
Argonne National Laboratory.

Phone (630) 252-5380, Email: mmin@mcs.anl.gov

Academic Background

Ph.D, September 2002, Spectral methods for discontinuous problems,
Applied Mathematics, Brown University. Thesis advisor : Prof. David Gottlieb

Current Research Activities

High-order numerical methods:
Spectral element discontinuous Galerkin method, Exponential integrator, Time adaptive p-type resolution
Fourier method with Gegenbauer reconstructions, Padé approximations
High performance parallel computation:
Nanophotonics device simulations, Wakefield calculations for accelerator modeling,
Waveguiding simulations, Photonic Band Gap calculations
Software package NEKCEM (NEKTON for Computational Electromagnetics): [ Nanophotonics || Accelerator Modeling ]

Publication

  • M. S. Min, T. W. Lee, P. F. Fischer, S. K. Gray, Fourier spectral simulations and Gegenbauer reconstructions for electromagnetic waves in the presence of a metal nanoparticle, Journal of Computational Physics, 213 (2): pp.730-747, 2006.
  • M. S. Min, S. M. Kaber, W. S. Don, Fourier-Padé rational approximations and filtering for the spectral simulations of incompressible inviscid Boussinesq convection flows, Mathematics of Computation, Vol 76, pp.1275-1290, 2007.
  • M. S. Min, D. Gottlieb, Domain decomposition spectral approximations for an eigenvalue problem with a piecewise constant coefficient, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 43 (2): pp.502-520, 2005.
  • M. S. Min, D. Gottlieb, On the convergence of the Fourier approximation for eigenvalues and eigenfunctions of discontinuous problems, SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, 40 (6): pp.2254-2269, 2003.
  • M. S. Min, Spectral methods for discontinuous problems: applications in electromagnetic problems and image reconstructions, Ph.D. Thesis, Division of Applied Mathematics, Brown University, Sept. 2002.
  • M. S. Min, C. H. Teng, The instability of the Yee scheme for the "magic time step", Journal of Computational Physics, 166 (2): pp.418-424, 2001.
  • M. S. Min, An efficient computation for Gegenbauer approximations and its application to medical image reconstruction in computer tomography, 2000(preprint).

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