Jeffrey Banks

Mathematical Sciences

About

Dr. Banks received his Ph.D. in applied mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2006. Subsequently he completed postdoctoral appointments at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in Livermore, California. In 2010 he was appointed as a staff scientist at LLNL where he remained until moving back to RPI. In  2015 he was appointed the Eliza Ricketts Foundation Career Development Chair in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at RPI, and was promoted to full professor in 2023.

 

 

Education & Training

Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2006

M.S., Mathematics, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002

B.S., Mathematics of Computation, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, 2002

 

 

Research

Other Focus Areas

Numerical methods for partial differential equations, Fluid-structure interaction, Computational fluid dynamics and solid mechanics, Scientific computing, Wave phenomenon, Laser plasma interaction

Publications

The following is a selection of recent publications in Scopus. Jeffrey Banks has 76 indexed publications in the subjects of Mathematics, Physics and Astronomy, Computer Science.

Entropy-stable discontinuous Galerkin difference methods for hyperbolic conservation laws
Ge Yan, Sharanjeet Kaur, Jeffrey W. Banks, Jason E. Hicken
Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics
, 422
, 2023
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The competing effects of wave amplitude and collisions on multi-ion species suppression of stimulated Brillouin scattering in inertial confinement fusion Hohlraums
R. L. Berger, W. Arrighi, T. Chapman, A. Dimits, J. W. Banks, S. Brunner
Physics of Plasmas
, 30
, 2023
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Efficient Upwind Schemes for Linear and Nonlinear Dispersive Maxwell's Equations on Overset Grids
Jordan B. Angel, Jeffrey W. Banks, Allison M. Carson, William D. Henshaw
2023 International Applied Computational Electromagnetics Society Symposium, ACES-Monterey 2023
, 2023
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Fractional-step finite difference schemes for incompressible elasticity on overset grids
J. W. Banks, W. D. Henshaw, A. Newell, D. W. Schwendeman
Journal of Computational Physics
, 488
, 2023
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EFFICIENT UPWIND FINITE-DIFFERENCE SCHEMES FOR WAVE EQUATIONS ON OVERSET GRIDS
J. B. Angel, J. W. Banks, A. M. Carson, W. D. Henshaw
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
, 45
, 2023
, pp.A2703-A2724
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LOCAL COMPATIBILITY BOUNDARY CONDITIONS FOR HIGH-ORDER ACCURATE FINITE-DIFFERENCE APPROXIMATIONS OF PDEs
Nour G. Al Hassanieh, Jeffrey W. Banks, William D. Henshaw, Donald W. Schwendeman
SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing
, 44
, 2022
, pp.A3645-A3672
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Continuous/Discontinuous Galerkin Difference Discretizations of High-Order Differential Operators
J. W. Banks, B. Brett Buckner, T. Hagstrom
Journal of Scientific Computing
, 92
, 2022
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Direct Verification of the Kinetic Description of Wave Turbulence for Finite-Size Systems Dominated by Interactions among Groups of Six Waves
J. W. Banks, T. Buckmaster, A. O. Korotkevich, G. Kovačič, J. Shatah
Physical Review Letters
, 129
, 2022
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High-order accurate schemes for Maxwell's equations with nonlinear active media and material interfaces
Qing Xia, Jeffrey W. Banks, William D. Henshaw, Alexander V. Kildishev, Gregor Kovačič, Ludmila J. Prokopeva, Donald W. Schwendeman
Journal of Computational Physics
, 456
, 2022
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Improved effective linearization of nonlinear Schrödinger waves by increasing nonlinearity
Katelyn Plaisier Leisman, Douglas Zhou, J. W. Banks, Gregor Kovačič, David Cai
Physical Review Research
, 4
, 2022
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