curriculum vitae

CURRICULUM VITAE
March 12, 2010
Name : Jaffré Jérôme Serge
Personal address : 7 rue Jules Laforgue, 78860 Saint-Nom La Bretèche, France.
Telephone : 33-1-30 56 77 81.
Professional address : Institut National de Recherche en Informatique (INRIA),
BP 105, 78153 Le Chesnay Cédex, France.
Telephone : 33-1-39 63 53 54.
Date of birth : March 13, 1950.
Nationality : French.
Diplomas
1. Baccalauréat - July 1966.
2. Maı̂trise de Mathématiques Appliquées - Option : Analyse Numérique - University Paris
6 - June 1971.
3. Diplômes d’Etudes Approfondies de Mathématiques Appliquées - Option : Analyse
Numérique - University Paris 6 - June 1972.
Certificates : Contrôle optimal de systèmes gouvernés par des équations aux dérivées
partielles (Pr. J.L. Lions), Optimisation (Pr. R. Glowinski).
4. Thèse de 3ème cycle - Option : Mathématiques Appliquées (Analyse numérique). “Analyse numérique de deux problèmes de domaine optimal et de contrôle ponctuel”.
(Thesis committee : Prs. P.A. Raviart, R. Glowinski, J.P. Yvon) - University Paris 6 March 1974.
5. Habilitation à diriger des recherches - University Paris-Dauphine - June 1992.
Employment
1971-74: “Chercheur”, Institut de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique (IRIA), Rocquencourt, France.
1974-76: National Service in Algeria. Professor at a technical center of Société Nationale
d’Electricité et du Gaz (elementary mathematics), and lecturer at the University of
Algiers (numerical analysis).
1976-80: “Chercheur”, IRIA.
1980-91: “Directeur de Recherche de 2ème classe”, INRIA (on leave 1981-82).
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1981-82: Dickson instructor, Department of mathematics of the University of Chicago,
Chicago, Illinois.
1991- : “Directeur de Recherche de 1ère classe”, INRIA (on leave 1991-92).
1991-92: Visiting Associate Professor, Department of Mathematics at Purdue University,
West Lafayette, Indiana.
1997- : Head of the Estime group at INRIA-Rocquencourt.
Current research interest
Mixed finite element methods, numerical schemes for nonlinear hyperbolic equations, numerical methods for simulation of flow in porous media, domain decomposition, inverse problems.
Publications
Books
[1] G. Chavent and J. Jaffré. – Mathematical Models and Finite Elements for Reservoir Simulation, Studies in Mathematics and its Applications, 17 . North Holland, Amsterdam, 1986.
[2] M.-O. Berger, R. Deriche, I. Herlin, J. Jaffré, and J.-M. Morel, eds. – ICAOS’96 : Images,
Wavelets and PDEs, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences. Springer, 1996.
Articles
[3] J. Jaffré. – Analyse Numérique de Deux Problèmes de Domaine Optimal et de Contrôle
Ponctuel . – Thèse de 3ème cycle, Université Paris 6, 1974.
[4] A. Bamberger, J. Jaffré, and J.P. Yvon. – Ponctual control of a vibrating string : numerical
analysis. – Computer and Mathematics with Applications 4 (1978), pp. 113–138.
[5] J. Jaffré. – Approximation of a diffusion-convection equation by a mixed finite element method :
application to the water flooding problem. – Computer and Fluids 8 (1980), pp. 171–197.
[6] J. Jaffré. – Simulation numérique de déplacements bidimensionnels d’huile par de l’eau. – In :
Analysis and Optimization of Systems, Lecture Notes in Control and Information Sciences 28 ,
A. Bensoussan and J.L. Lions, eds. Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1980, pp. 858–873.
[7] J. Jaffré. – Mixed finite elements for the water flooding problem. – In : Numerical Methods for
Coupled Problems, E. Hinton, P. Bettess, and R.W. Lewis, eds. Pineridge Press, Swansea, 1981,
pp. 968–976.
[8] G. Chavent, G. Cohen, and J. Jaffré. – Discontinuous upwinding and mixed finite elements
for two-phase flows in reservoir simulation. – Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and
Engineering 24 (1984), pp. 93–118.
[9] G. Chavent, G. Cohen, J. Jaffré, M. Dupuy, and I. Ribera. – Simulation of twodimensional waterflooding by using mixed finite elements. – Society of Petroleum Engineers
Journal 24 (1984), pp. 382–390.
[10] J. Jaffré. – Décentrage et éléments finis mixtes pour les équations de diffusion-convection. –
Calcolo 21 (1984), pp. 171–197.
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[11] J. Jaffré and J.E. Roberts. – Upstream weighting and mixed finite elements in the simulation
of miscible displacements. – Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Analysis 19 (1985), pp. 443–
460.
[12] G. Chavent, G. Cohen, and J. Jaffré. – A finite element simulator for incompressible
two-phase flow. – Transport in Porous Media 2 (1987), pp. 465–478.
[13] J.P. Hennart, J. Jaffré, and J.E. Roberts. – A constructive method for deriving finite
element of nodal type. – Numerische Mathematik 53 (1988), pp. 701–738.
[14] G. Chavent, G. Cohen, J. Jaffré, R. Eymard, D. Guérillot, and L. Weill. – Discontinuous and mixed finite elements for two-phase incompressible flow. – SPE Reservoir Engineering
5 (1990), pp. 567–575.
[15] G. Chavent, P. Hemmerich, J. Jaffré, and J. Planchard. – Ajustement automatique
des données neutroniques et perturbations inverses. – EDF-Bulletin des Etudes et Recherches,
Série A (1990), pp. 19–23.
[16] Y. Brenier and J. Jaffré. – Upstream differencing for multiphase flow in reservoir simulation.
– SIAM J. in Numerical Analysis 28 (1991), pp. 685–696.
[17] C. Chardaire, G. Chavent, J. Jaffré, and J. Liu. – Relative permeabilities and capillary
pressure estimation through least square fitting. – In : The Mathematics of Oil Recovery, P. King,
ed. Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1992, pp. 721–734.
[18] C. Chardaire, G. Chavent, J. Jaffré, J. Liu, and B. Bourbiaux. – Simultaneous estimation of relative permeabilities and capillary pressure. – SPE Formation Evaluation 7 (1992),
pp. 283–289.
[19] J. Jaffré and J.-L. Vaudescal. – Experiments with the power and Arnoldi methods for
solving the two-group neutron diffusion eigenvalue problem. – In : Advances in Optimization and
Numerical Analysis, S. Gomez and J.-P. Hennart, eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht,
1994, pp. 233–244.
[20] J. Jaffré. – Flux calculation at the interface between two rock types for two-phase flow in
porous media. – Transport in Porous Media 21 (1995), pp. 195–207.
[21] J. Jaffré, C. Johnson, and A. Szepessy. – Convergence of the discontinuous Galerkin finite
element method for hyperbolic conservation laws. – Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied
Sciences 5 (1995), pp. 367–386.
[22] P. Siegel, R. Mosé, Ph. Ackerer, and J. Jaffré. – Solution of the advection-diffusion
equation using a combination of discontinuous and mixed finite elements. – International Journal
For Numerical Methods in Fluids 24 (1997), pp. 595–613.
[23] C. Alboin, J. Jaffré, J. Roberts, and C. Serres. – Domain decomposition for flow in
porous media with fractures. – In : Domain Decomposition Methods in Science and Engineering,
C.-H. Lai, P.E. Bjorstad, M. Cross, and O.B. Widlund, eds. Domain Decomposition Press, Bergen,
Norway, 1999, pp. 363–373.
[24] G. Chavent, J. Jaffré, and S. Jan-Jégou. – Estimation of relative permeabilities in threephase flow in porous media. – Inverse Problems 15 (1999), pp. 33–39.
[25] J. Jaffré and M. Jaoua. – Guest editors introduction to invited papers from the conference
on inverse problems, control and shape optimization, carthage, tunisia, 8-10 april 1998. – Inverse
Problems 15 , 1 (1999), pp. 1–1.
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[26] C. Alboin, J. Jaffré, P. Joly, J. E. Roberts, and C. Serres. – A comparison of methods
for calculating the matrix block source term in a double porosity model for contaminant transport.
– Computational Geosciences 6 (2002), pp. 523–543.
[27] H. Ben Ameur, G. Chavent, and J. Jaffré. – Refinement and coarsening indicators for
adaptive parametrization: application to the estimation of hydraulic transmissivities. – Inverse
Problems 18 (2002), pp. 775–794.
[28] W. Hundsdorfer and J. Jaffré. – Implicit-explicit time stepping with spatial discontinuous
finite elements. – Applied Numerical Mathematics 45 (2003), pp. 231–254.
[29] Adimurthi, J. Jaffré, and Veerappa Gowda. – Godunov-type methods for conservation
laws with a flux function discontinuous in space. – SIAM Journal in Numerical Analysis (2004),
pp. 179–208.
[30] J. Jaffré, V. Martin, and J. Roberts. – Modelling fractures and barriers as interfaces for
flow in porous media. – SIAM J. Sci. Comput. (2005), pp. 1667–1691.
[31] A. Sboui and J. Jaffré. – Discrétisation en temps par sous-domaine pour un problème
d’advection en milieu poreux. – ARIMA (2006), pp. 330–346.
[32] Adimurthi, G. D. Veerappa Gowda, and J. Jaffré. – Monotonization of flux, entropy and
numerical schemes for conservation laws. – Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications
352 (2009), pp. 427–439.
[33] A. Sboui, J. Jaffré, and Roberts. – A composite mixed finite element for hexahedral grids.
– SIAM J. Sci. Comput. (2009), pp. 2623–2641.
[34] J. Jaffré and A. Sboui. – Henry’s law and gas phase disappearance. – Transport in Porous
Media (2010). – to appear, Preprint INRIA report 6891 (March 2009).
[35] S. Mishra and J. Jaffré. – On the upstream mobility scheme for two-phase flow in porous
media. – Computational Geosciences 14 (2010), pp. 105–124. – Preprint INRIA report 6789
(December 2008).
Proceedings
[36] G. Chavent, G. Cohen, J. Jaffré, and P. Lemmonier. – Récupération du pétrole : simulation de déplacement eau-huile par une méthode d’éléments finis mixtes. – In : Journées de
Rencontre Industrie-Recherche sur la Maı̂trise des Systèmes Complexes AFCET-IRIA, Rocquencourt, France, 1978.
[37] J. Jaffré. – Méthodes numériques d’aide à l’exploitation des gisements pétrolifères. – In :
3ème Séminaires Tuniso-Français : Les Méthodes Numériques dans les Sciences de l’Ingénieur
et l’Economie, Tunis, Tunisie, 1980.
[38] J. Jaffré and J.E. Roberts. – Décentrage et éléments finis mixtes pour les déplacements de
fluides miscibles incompressibles en milieu poreux. – In : Proceedings of 16ème Colloque d’Analyse
Numérique, Guidel, France, 1983.
[39] J. Jaffré and J.E. Roberts. – A finite element method for miscible displacement. – In :
Proceedings of the International Conference on Accuracy Estimates and Adaptive Refinements in
Finite Element Comutations (ARFEC), Lisbon, Portugal , 1984.
[40] G. Chavent, G. Cohen, and J. Jaffré. – Bidimix : a variational simulator for incompressible two-phase flow. – In : Proceedings of the CIMMS International Symposium on Variational
Methods in Geosciences, Norman, Oklahoma, U.S.A., 1985.
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[41] Y. Brenier and J. Jaffré. – Un schéma aux éléments finis décentré phase par phase d’ordre
supérieur pour des déplacements multiphasiques. – In : Proceedings of the 6th International
Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Flow Problems, Antibes, France, 1986.
[42] G. Chavent, B. Cockburn, G. Cohen, and J. Jaffré. – A discontinuous finite element
method for nonlinear hyperbolic equations. – In : Innovative Numerical Methods in Engineering,
R.P. Shaw, J. Periaux, A. Chaudouet, J. Wu, C. Marino, and C.A. Brebbia, eds., Springer-Verlag,
Berlin, 1986, pp. 337–342.
[43] G. Chavent, P. Hemmerich, J. Jaffré, and J. Planchard. – An off-line calibration method
to improve the accuracy of a PWR reactor diffusion model. – In : Computers and Experiments in
Fluid Flow , G.M. Carlomagno and C.A. Brebbia, eds., Springer-Verlag, Berlin, 1989, pp. 459–466.
[44] J. Jaffré and P. Losco. – Discontinuous finite elements for the Euler equations. – In : Finite
Element Analysis in Fluids, T.J. Chang and G.R. Karr, eds., University of Alabama in Huntsville
Press, 1989, pp. 1075–1079.
[45] C. Chardaire, G. Chavent, J. Jaffré, and J. Liu. – Multiscale representation for simultaneous estimation of relative permeabilities and capillary pressure (paper SPE 20501). –
In : Proceedings of the 65th SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans,
Louisiana, 1990.
[46] G. Chavent, P. Hemmerich, J. Jaffré, and J. Planchard. – Adjustment of neutronic
coefficients of a PWR-reactor diffusion model using generalized perturbation theory. – In : Proceedings of the International Topical Meeting on Advances in Mathematics, Computations, and
Reactor Physics, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, April 1991.
[47] J. Jaffré and L. Kaddouri. – Discontinuous finite elements for the Euler equations. – In :
Third International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, Uppsala, Sweden (June 1990), Vol. II ,
B. Engquist and B. Gustafsson, eds., Studentlitteratur, Chartwell-Bratt, Uppsala, 1991, pp. 602–
610.
[48] J. Douglas Jr, J. Hensley, Y. Wei, J. Jaffré, P.G. Paes Leme, T. Ramakrishnan,
and D. Wilkinson. – A derivation for Darcy’s law for miscible fluids and a revised model for
miscible displacement in porous media. – In : Mathematical Modeling in Water Ressources Vol.
2 , T.F. Russel, R. E. Ewing, C. A. Brebbia, W. G. Gray, and G. F. Pinder, eds., Elsevier Applied
Science, Southampton, 1992, pp. 165–178.
[49] J. Jaffré and J.-L. Vaudescal. – Arnoldi’s method for two-group neutron diffusion. – In :
Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Supercomputing in
Nuclear Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany, H. Kusters, E. Stein, and W. Werner, eds., Kernforschungszentrum and Karlsruhe, 1992, pp. 512–520.
[50] G. Chavent, J. Jaffré, and J. E. Roberts. – Mixed-hybrid finite elements and cell-centered
finite volumes for two-phase flow in porous media. – In : Mathematical Modelling of Flow Through
Porous Media, A. Bourgeat, C. Carasso, S. Luckhaus, and A. Mikelić, eds., World Scientific,
Singapore, 1995, pp. 100–114.
[51] J. Jaffré and J.-L. Vaudescal. – Nodal methods based on mixed-hybrid finite elements for
two-group neutron diffusion. – In : Numerical Methods for Reactor computations 1995 , J.-L.
Vaudescal, ed., EDF-DER, Clamart, France, 1995, pp. 1–9.
[52] P. Siegel, R. Mosé, Ph. Ackerer, P. Blaschke, and J. Jaffré. – Solution of advection
dispersion equation using operator and time splitting. – In : Proceedings of IX International
Conference on Finite Elements in Fluids, New Trends and Applications, Venice, Italy (October
15-21), 1995.
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[53] J. Jaffré. – Numerical calculation of the flux across an interface between two rock types of a
porous medium for a two-phase flow. – In : Hyperbolic Problems: Theory, Numerics, Applications,
J. Glimm, M.J. Graham, J.W. Grove, and B.J. Plohr, eds., World Scientific, Singapore, 1996,
pp. 165–177.
[54] G. Chavent, J. Jaffré, S. Jégou, and J. Liu. – A symbolic code generator for parameter estimation. – In : Computational Differentiation, M. Berz, C. Bischof, G. Corliss, and A. Griewank,
eds., SIAM, 1997, pp. 129–136.
[55] G. Chavent, J. Jaffré, and J. Roberts. – Generalized cell-centered finite volume methods
: application to two-phase flow in porous media. – In : Computational Science for the 21st
Century, M.-O. Bristeau, G. Etgen, W. Fittzgibbon, J.-L. Lions, J. Périaux, and M.-F. Wheeler,
eds., John Wiley, Chichester, England, 1997, pp. 231–241.
[56] C. Alboin, J. Jaffré, P. Joly, and J. E. Roberts. – On a convolution operator arising in
a double porosity model. – In : Proceedings of MTNS 2000 , 2000.
[57] C. Alboin, J. Jaffré, J. E. Roberts, X. Wang, and C. Serres. – Domain decomposition
for some transmission problems for flow in porous media. – In : Fluid flow and transport in
porous media: mathematical and numerical treatment, Z. Chen, R.E. Ewing, and Zhong-Ci Shi,
eds., Lecture Notes in Physics, 552, Springer, 2000, pp. 22–34.
[58] H. Ben Ameur, G. Chavent, and J. Jaffré. – Refinement and coarsening of parameterization for the estimation of hydraulic transmissivity. – In : Proceedings of the 3rd International
Conference on Inverse Problems in Engineering: Theory and Practice, Port Ludlow, Washington,
USA, June 13-18, 1999 , 2000. to appear.
[59] C. Alboin, J. Jaffré, J. E. Roberts, and C. Serres. – Modeling fractures as interfaces
for flow and transport in porous media. – In : Fluid flow and transport in porous media: mathematical and numerical treatment, Z. Chen and R.E. Ewing, eds., Contemporary mathematics,
295, American Mathematical Society, 2002, pp. 13–24.
[60] J. Jaffré, V. Martin, and J. Roberts. – Generalized cell-centered finite volume methods for
flow in porous media with faults. – In : Finite Volumes for Complex Applications III , R. Herbin
and D. Kröner, eds., Hermes Penton Science, 2002, pp. 357–364.
Short papers and reports
[61] J. Jaffré. – Approximation par une méthode d’éléments finis mixtes d’une équation du type
diffusion-convection linéaire stationnaire. – Report 367 , IRIA-Laboria, 1979.
[62] J. Jaffré. – Formulation mixte d’écoulements diphasiques incompressibles dans un milieu
poreux. – Report 37 , INRIA, 1980.
[63] G. Chavent, B. Cockburn, G. Cohen, and J. Jaffré. – Une méthode d’éléments finis pour
la simulation dans un réservoir de déplacements bidimensionnels d’huile par de l’eau. – Report
353 , INRIA, 1985.
[64] J. Jaffré. – Eléments finis discontinus pour les lois de conservation. – Report 364 , INRIA,
1985.
[65] M. Bernadou and J. Jaffré. – Numerical analysis. – a SASIAM course, Bari, Italy, 1986.
[66] M. Bernadou and J. Jaffré. – Optimization. – a SASIAM course, Bari, Italy, 1986.
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[67] G. Chavent, P. Hemmerich, J. Jaffré, and J. Planchard. – Identification des coefficients
d’un problème de diffusion neutronique ; calcul du gradient de la fonction écart quadratique. –
rapport de contrat INRIA-EDF, 1988.
[68] V. Gowda and J. Jaffré. – Discontinuous finite elements for nonlinear conservation laws. –
Report 1848 , INRIA, 1993.
[69] H. Ben Ameur, G. Chavent, and J. Jaffré. – Raffinement et déraffinement de
paramétrisation pour l’estimation de conductivités hydrauliques. – Rapport de Recherche 3623 ,
Inria, Rocquencourt, France, 1999.
[70] Adimurthi, G. D. Veerappa Gowda, and J. Jaffré. – Applications of the DFLU flux to
systems of conservation laws. – Report 7009 , INRIA, B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay cedex, France,
July 2009. – submitted.
[71] J. Zhang, G. Chavent, and J. Jaffré. – Estimating nonlinearities in twophase flow in porous
media. – Report 6892 , INRIA, B.P. 105, 78153 Le Chesnay cedex, France, March 2009.
Conferences, seminars, invitations
1. Applications de la Méthode des Eléments Finis. Séminaire IRIA (April 1978). Presentation of “Application de la méthode des éléments finis mixtes à l’étude de l’écoulement
de deux fluides non miscibles en milieu poreux”.
2. Journées de Rencontre AFCET-IRIA, Industrie-Recherche sur la Maı̂trise des Systèmes
Complexes. Rocquencourt, France (Dec.1978). Presentation of short paper [36].
3. 2nd International Conference on Computational Methods in Nonlinear Mechanics (TICOM).
Austin, Texas (1979). Presentation of publication [5].
4. 10 days visit in USSR at the Computing Center of the Siberian Section of the Academy
of Sciences at Novossibirsk and at the Institute of Cybernetics of the Ukrainian Section
of the Academy of Sciences at Kiev.
5. 3ème Séminaire Tunisien - Franç : Les Méthodes Numériques dans les Sciences de
l’Ingénieur et l’Economie. Tunis, Tunisie (1980). Presentation of short paper [37].
6. 4th International Conference on Analysis and Optimization of Systems. Versailles,
France (Dec.1980). Presentation of publication [6], invited lecture.
7. International Conference on Numerical Methods for Coupled Problems. Swansea, U.K.
(Sept.1981). Presentation of publication [7].
8. Finite Element Circus. Austin, Texas, U.S.A. (Nov.1981). Presentation of “Mixed and
Discontinuous Finite Elements in the Simulation of Two-Phase Flow in Porous Media”.
9. 6th SPE Symposium on Reservoir Simulation, New Orleans, Louisiana (Feb.1982). Presentation of preprint SPE 10502 of publication [9].
10. One week invitation from Pr. M. Fortin to Laval University, Quebec City, Canada
(March 1982).
11. One week invitation from Pr. M. Delfour to the University of Montreal, Montreal,
Canada (March 1982).
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12. One week invitation from Pr. P. Concus to Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory at the University of California, Berkeley, California (July 1982).
13. La Récupération du Pétrole : Modèles Mathématiques et Numériques. Ecole INRIA,
Rocquencourt, France (Oct.1982).
14. Three days invitation from Pr. Magenes to the department of mathematics of the
University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy (Feb.1983).
15. 16ème Colloque d’Analyse Numérique, Guidel, France (May 1983). Presentation of
short paper [38].
16. Euromech 178 : The Mechanics of Oil Recovery, INCREST, Bucarest, Romania (April
1984). Presentation of ”Modelling black oil with the global pressure”, with G. Chavent,
invited lecture.
17. International Conference on Accuracy Estimates and Adaptive Refinements in Finite
Element Computation. (ARFEC). Lisbon, Portugal (June 1984). Short paper [39]
presented by J.E. Roberts.
18. Ecole Polytechnique, Centre de Mathématiques Appliquées, Palaiseau, France (Nov.1984).
Presentation of “Eléments finis et limiteurs de pente pour les lois de conservation
scalaires”.
19. SEG/SIAM/SPE Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in Seismic
Exploration and Reservoir Modelling. Houston, Texas (Jan.1985). Presentation of ”A
finite element method for incompressible two-phase flow”, with G. Chavent, G. Cohen,
B. Cockburn, R. Eymard, J.L. Téron, I. Ribera, D. Guérillot and L. Weill.
20. One week invitation from Pr. Jim Douglas to the department of mathematics of the
University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (Feb.1985).
21. One week invitation from Pr. R.E. Ewing to the department of mathematics of the
University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming (Feb.1985).
22. Two weeks invitation from Pr. J.P. Hennart at IIMAS-UNAM, Mexico City, Mexico
(Feb.1985).
23. University Paris 6, Paris, France (May 1985). Seminar of the Laboratoire d’Analyse
Numérique.
24. International Symposium on Variational Methods in Geosciences. Norman, Oklahoma
(Oct.1985). Short paper [40] presented by G. Chavent.
25. IUTAM Symposium on Single and Multiphase Fluid Flow Through Heterogeneous Permeable Materials. Hamilton, New Zealand (Nov.1985). Presentation by G. Cohen of a
preprint of [12].
26. 4th International Symposium on Numerical methods in Engineering, Atlanta, Georgia
(March 1986). Presentation of short paper [42].
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27. NSF-CBMS Regional Conference on Mathematical Modeling in the Energy and Environmental Sciences. Morgantown, West Virginia, U.S.A. (June 1986). Presentation of
”On some inverse problems arising in reservoir simulation”, invited lecture.
28. 6th International Symposium on Finite Element Methods in Flow Problems, Antibes,
France (June 1986). Presentation of short paper [41].
29. A Gordon Research Conference on Modeling of Flow in Permeable Media, New Hampshire (July 1986). Presentation of “Upstream weighted numerical schemes for conservation laws arising in multiphase flow”, invited lecture.
30. Institut Français du Pétrole, Principes et Techniques de la Modélisation Mathématique
(Jan.1987). Seminar.
31. University of Saint Etienne - Ecole Centrale de Lyon, France (March 1987). Seminar of
the Department of Mathematics.
32. 9th SPE Symposium on Reservoir Simulation, San Antonio, Texas (Feb.1987). Presentation of a preprint of publication [14].
33. First International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Paris
(July 1987). Organizer of minisymposium “Simulation of Petroleum Reservoirs”.
34. First International Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ICIAM), Paris
(July 1987). Presentations of “The finite element - Godunov approach” in minisymposium “Reservoir Modelling and Simulation - View 1987”, and of “Discontinuous finite
elements for nonlinear scalar conservation laws” (co-author Veerappa Gowda). Presentation by J.E. Roberts of “A constructive method for deriving finite elements of nodal
type” (other co-author J.P. Hennart).
35. University of Nancy, France (Feb.1988). Seminar of the Department of Mathematics.
36. 2nd International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, Aachen, Fed. Rep. of Germany (March 1988). Presentation of ”Discontinuous finite element approximations for
nonlinear conservation laws”, with B. Cockburn and V. Gowda.
37. Four weeks invitation from Pr. J. Douglas to Purdue University, Center for Applied
Mathematics, West Lafayette, Indiana (July 1988).
38. 7th International Conference on Finite Element Methods in Flow Problems, Huntsville,
Alabama, U.S.A. (April 1989). Presentations of short paper [44] and of “Mixed finite
elements in reservoir simulation”.
39. 4th International Conference on Computational Methods and Experimental Measurements, Capri, Italy (May 1989). Presentation by P. Hemmerich of short paper [43].
40. Joint IMA/SPE European Conference on The Mathematics of Oil Recovery, Cambridge
University, Great Britain (July 1989). Presentation by C. Chardaire of publication [17].
41. Three weeks invitation from Pr. R.G. Voigt to ICASE, NASA Langley Research Center,
Hampton, Virginia (July 1989).
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42. Chevron Oil Field Research Company, La Habra, California (Aug.1989). Presentation
of “Upstream weighting in reservoir simulation” and of “Simultaneous estimation of
relative permeabilities and capillary pressure”.
43. SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in Geophysical Fluid and
Solid Mechanics, Houston, Texas (Sept.1989). Presentation of ”Upstream differencing
for multiphase flow in reservoir simulation”, with Y. Brenier.
44. 64th SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, San Antonio, Texas (Oct.1989).
Presentation by C. Chardaire of SPE paper 19680, a preprint of publication [18].
45. Third International Conference on Hyperbolic Problems, Uppsala, Sweden (June 1990).
Presentation of publication [47].
46. University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming, Department of Mathematics (Aug.1990),
seminar.
47. 65th SPE Annual Technical Conference and Exhibition, New Orleans, Louisiana (Sept.1990).
Presentation by C. Chardaire of publication [45].
48. INRIA, Rocquencourt, Cours Eléments Finis Mixtes (Oct.1990). Presentation of “Eléments
finis mixtes pour les équations de diffusion-convection”.
49. USTHB, Alger, Algérie, Institut de Mathématiques (Nov.1990). Seminar of the Departement of Mathematical Analysis.
50. International Topical Meeting on Advances in Mathematics, Computations, and Reactor
Physics, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, USA (Avril 1991). Presentation of [46].
51. Four weeks invitation from Pr. R.E. Ewing to the Department of Mathematics of the
University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming (July 1991).
52. 6th IIMAS-UNAM Workshop on Numerical Analysis and Optimization, Oaxaca, Mexico
(Jan.1992). Presentation of a preprint of publication [19].
53. IBM Thomas J. Warson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, New York, USA (April
1992). Seminar.
54. Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, Connecticut, USA (April 1992). Seminar.
55. University at Stony Brook, Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics, Stony
Brook, New York, Etats-Unis (April 1992). Seminar.
56. Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach Conference on Porous Media, Oberwolfach, Germany (June 1992). Presentation of “Riemann solvers for two-phase flow at
the interface between two rock types”, invited lecture.
57. One week invitation from Pr. Alfredo Bermudez to the University of Santiago de Compostelo, Spain (Nov. 1992).
58. University of Nancy, France (Jan. 1993). Seminar of the Department of Mathematics.
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59. International Conference on Mathematical Methods and Supercomputing in Nuclear
Applications, Karlsruhe, Germany (April 19-23, 1993). Presentation by J.-L. Vaudescal
of publication [49].
60. SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences, Houston, Texas, USA (April 19-21, 1993). Presentation of “Riemann solvers for two-phase
flow at the interface between two rock types”.
61. Three days invitation from Pr. Henrik H. Martens to the Norwegian Institute of Technology, Trondheim, Norway. Seminar of the Institute of Mathematics.
62. AMS Conference : 50th Anniversary-Mathematics of Computation, Vancouver, British
Columbia, Canada (aug. 9-13, 1993). Presentation of “A shock-capturing streamline
diffusion discontinuous finite element method for hyperbolic conservation laws”, with
C. Johnson and A. Szepessy.
63. Modélisation et Méthodes Numériques en Ingéniérie Pétrolière, La Marsa, Tunisie (1995).
Presentation of “Volumes finis basés sur des éléments finis mixtes-hybrides pour des
déplacements diphasiques dans un milieu hétérogène”, invited lecture.
64. Oberwolfach Conference on Porous Media, Oberwolach, Allemagne (february 25-march
2, 1996), Presentation of “Generalized finite volume methods for two-phase flow in
porous media”.
65. CESA’96 IMACS Multiconference: Symposium on Modelling, Analysis and Simulation; minisymposium Mixed, Hybrid and Nodal Methods for Transport Problems, Lille,
France (july 9-12, 1996). Presentation of “Generalized cell-centered finite volume methods”.
66. Ecole Polytechnique de Tunisie, Tunis, Tunisia (may 1996). Seminar.
67. CRS4, Cagliari, Italy (june 1996). Seminar.
68. University of Colorado at Denver, Dept. of mathematics, Denver, Colorado, USA (august 1996). Seminar.
69. One week invitation from Jim Douglas to Purdue University, Dept. of mathematics,
West Lafayette, Indiana, USA (august 1996). Seminar.
70. One week invitation from Zoubida Mghazli to SIANO, Faculté des Sciences, Université
Ibn Tofail, Kenitra, Maroc (december 1996). Seminar.
71. Journée Milieux Poreux et Environnement, Université Paris-Sud (january 30, 1997).
Presentation of “Volumes finis généralisés centrés sur les mailles pour les écoulements
diphasiques avec plusieurs types de roche”.
72. 3èmes Journées d’Etude sur les Milieux Poreux, Université Pierre et Marie Curie,
Paris (june 24-25 1997). Presentation of “Méthodes numériques pour les écoulements
diphasiques dans un milieu poreux à plusieurs types de roches”.
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73. 4th SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences,
Albuquerque, New Mexico, Etats-Unis (june 16-19, 1997). Organisation (with Ted
Watson) of the minisymposium “Estimating Nonlinear Properties in Models of Flow
Through Porous Media” and presentation of “Domain decomposition for two-phase
flow in a porous medium with two rock types”.
74. 10th Domain Decomposition Conference, Boulder, Colorado, USA (august 1997). Presentation of “Domain decomposition for two-phase flow in a porous medium with two
rock types”.
75. Three week invitation from R.E. Ewing to Texas A&M University, Institute for Scientific
Computation, College Station, Texas, USA (july 1997). Seminar.
76. Texas Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of Texas,
Austin, Texas, USA (july 1997). Seminar.
77. Department of mathematics, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA (july 1997).
Seminar.
78. One week invitation from Magne Espedal to the Department of mathematics de l’Université
de Bergen, Bergen, Norway (november 1997). Seminar.
79. One week invitation from Mohamed Jaoua to the Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de
Tunisie, Tunis, Tunisia (december 1997). Seminar.
80. Conference on Inverse Problems, Control and Shape Optimization (Picof’98), Carthage,
Tunisie (april 8-10, 1998). Presentation of “Estimation of relative permeabilities in
threephase flow in porous media”, invited lecture.
81. 7th International Colloquium on Numerical Analysis and Computer Science with Applications, Plovdiv, Bulgaria (august 13-17, 1998). Presentation of “Domain decomposition techniques for flow in porous media”, invited lecture.
82. Université Technologique de Compiègne, Department of mathematics, Compiègne, France
(October 1998). Seminar.
83. One week invitation from Mohamed Jaoua to the Ecole Nationale d’Ingénieurs de
Tunisie, Tunis (december 1998). Seminar.
84. Southern Methodist University, Department of mathematics, Dallas, Texas, USA (march
1998). Seminar.
85. 5th SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Issues in the Geosciences,
San Antonio, Texas (march 24-27, 1999). Presentation of “Domain decomposition methods for two-phase flow in a porous medium with two rock types” in minisymposium
“Computational Issues in the Simulation of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media”.
86. Texas A&M University, Institute for Scientific Computation, College Station, Texas,
USA (march 1999). Seminar.
87. TICAM, Center for Subsurface Modeling, Austin, Texas, 2 week visiting M. F. Wheeler
(August 2001).
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88. ICES, Center for Subsurface Modeling, Austin, Texas, 2 week visiting M. F. Wheeler
(August 2003).
89. Conference MAMERN 05, Oujda, Marocco, 9-11 May, 2005.
90. Conference SIAM Geosciences, Avignon, France, June 2005. Presentation of ”Assessment of Contaminant Transport Around a Nuclear Waste Repository”, invited plenary
lecture.
91. ICES, Center for Subsurface Modeling, Austin, Texas, 3 week visiting M. F. Wheeler
(May 2006).
92. Conference MAFELAP 2006, Twelfth Conference on the Mathematics of Finite Elements and Applications, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, June 2006.
93. Conference MAMERN 07, Granada, Spain, July 11-13, 2007. Presentation of ”Subdomain time stepping for contaminant transport in the subsurface”.
94. Conference Euromech 499, Nonlinear Mechanics of Multiphase Flow in Porous Media,
Nancy, France, June 9-12, 2008. Presentation of ”Henry’ law, phase diagrams and
complementary constraints for two-phase flow with dissolution”.
95. International Conference Scaling Up and Modeling for Transport and Flow in Porous
Media, Dubrovnik, Croatia, 13-16 October 2008. Presentation of ”Phase Exchange for
Flow in Porous Media and Complementarity Problems”.
96. TIFR-CAM, Bangalore, India. 3 week visiting Prof. Adimurthi.
97. Depart. of mathematics, University of Erlangen, Germany, 1 week visiting P. Knabner.
98. Conference MAFELAP 2009, 13th Conference on the Mathematics of Finite Elements
and Applications, Brunel University, Uxbridge, UK, 9-12 June 2009. Presentation of
”Subdomain time stepping and space time domain decomposition”.
99. 2009 SIAM Conference on Mathematical & Computational Issues in the Geosciences,
Leipzig, Germany, 13-18 June, 2009. Presentation of ”Phase Exchange in Two-phase
Flow in Porous Media and Complementarity Problems”.
100. ICES, Center for Subsurface Modeling, Austin, Texas, 3 weeks visiting M. F. Wheeler
(September 2009).
Teaching experience
1. 1975-76 : University of Algiers, Department of Mathematics, Algeria. Undergraduate
course : Numerical Analysis.
2. 1974-76 : SONELGAZ (Société Nationale d’Electricité et du Gaz), Algiers, Algeria.
Elementary mathematics courses.
3. 1981-82 : University of Chicago, Department of Mathematics, USA. Undergraduate
courses : Analysis in <n , Ordinary Differential Equations.
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4. 1986-91 : University of Paris Nord, Department of Mathematics, France. Undergraduate
course : Finite Element Methods.
5. 1986 : School for Advanced Studies in Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Bari, Italy.
Undergraduate courses : Numerical Analysis and Optimization (with M. Bernadou).
6. 1991-1992 : Purdue University, Department of Mathematics, USA. Undergraduate
course : ODE’s and Linear Algebra. Graduate course : Finite Element Methods.
7. 1996-2005 : Université Paris-Dauphine, DESS Mathématiques de la Décision (graduate
course), “Numerical analysis: Subspace methods for solving linear and nonlinear systems
and eigenvalue problems”.
8. 2002 : IMA 2002 Summer Program in Scientific Computing, University of Kentucky,
”Mixed Finite Elements for 2nd order elliptic problems”, 1 week course, with J. E. Roberts.
9. 2005 : Saint-Joseph University, Beirut, Lebanon, DEA PDE’s and Numerical Analysis,
Finite elements, 3 week course, with J. E. Roberts.
10. 2004-2007 : ENSTA, 3rd year ( Master 2nd year) , Problèmes inverses.
11. 2000 – : École Nationale d’Ingénieurs de Tunis (ENIT), Tunisia, Master Mathématiques
Appliquées, Volumes finis et éléments finis mixtes, with J. E. Roberts.
Course and conference organization
1. Organization committee for ICAOS’96, Images, Wavelets and PDEs, Paris, 26-28 June,
1996.
2. Organisation (with Helge Ogden) of the special sessions “Mathematics for the Oil Industry” at the 9th Conference of the European Consortium for Mathematics in Industry
(ECMI’96), Copenhagen, 25-29 June 1996.
3. Special course INRIA-CEA-EDF “Transport de Contaminants Multiespèces en Milieu
Poreux”, Rocquencourt, 2-5 June 1997.
4. Organization (with M. Jaoua) of the Conferences PICOF’98 and PICIF’02 on Inverse
Problems, Control and Shape Optimization, Carthage, Tunisia, 1998 and 2002.
5. Organization of minisymposium “Quelques Méthodes Numériques Pour des Problèmes
d’Environnement” at the 30th Colloque d’Analyse Numérique (CANUM’98), Arles,
France (18-22 may, 1998).
6. Organizer of MathGeo 04, New Trends in Mathematical and Numerical Methods
for Geosciences: Direct and Inverse Problems, for the 60th birthday of G. Chavent,
Rocquencourt, December 9-10, 2004.
7. Co-organizer of the conference Mod & Sim 07, Partial Differential Equations in Applied and Engineering Sciences: Modelling and Simulation, for the 80th birthday of Jim
Douglas Jr, held in Rocquencourt, December 13-14, 2007.
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Software
Program Bidimix (20 000 lines) for simulating the flow of two immiscible incompressible fluids
in a petroleum reservoir, written with G. Cohen (INRIA), D. Guérillot, L. Weill (IFP), R.
Eymard (SNEA(P)).
PhD students
1. Veerappa Gowda, “Eléments finis discontinus pour les lois de conservation scalaires non
linéaires”, University of Paris-Dauphine (June 1988).
2. Lahcen Kaddouri, ”Une méthode d’éléments finis discontinus pour les équations d’Euler
compressibles” (March 1993).
3. J.-L. Vaudescal, “Résolution numérique des équations de la diffusion neutronique multigroupe” (Oct. 1993).
4. K. Pinchedez, “Calcul parallèle pour les équations de diffusion et de transport homogènes en neutronique” (February 1999).
5. A. Fornel, ”Monitoring de réservoirs : Mise à jour du modèle géologique par les données
de production et de sismique 4D” (2007).
6. A. Sboui, ”Quelques méthodes numériques robustes pour l’écoulement et le transport
en milieu poreux” (2007).
7. I. Ben Gharbia, ”
Contracts and consulting
• 1979-1985 : contracts INRIA-IFP-SNEA(P) “Numerical methods for reservoir simulation.
• 1988-1993 : contract INRIA-IFP “Automatic estimation of relative permeabilities and
capillary pressure in 1-D two-phase displacements”.
• 1988-1989 : consultant at Electricité de France and contract INRIA-EDF ”Estimation
of neutron parameters in a nuclear core”.
• 1988-1990 : contracts Hermès INRIA-AMD/BA ”Discontinuous finite elements for hypersonic flow”.
• 1994-1997 : contracts INRIA-IFP “Estimation of three-phase relative permeabilities”.
• 1995-1999 : contracts INRIA-CEA Serma “Parallel methods for neutron diffusion”.
• 1996-1999 : contracts INRIA-ISPN “Nucleide transport in a fractured porous medium”.
• 2004-2007 : contract INRIA-I FP ”Monitoring de réservoirs utilisant données de production et données sismiques”
• 1995-2006 : member of the Scientific Council of ANDRA (French agency for nuclear
waste management).
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Other responsabilities
• 1989 - 1995 : Member of the Evaluation Committee of INRIA.
• 1990 - 1994 : Director of a cooperation project DPRS/CCST in scientific computation
between INRIA, and the University of Algiers, Institute of Mathematics, Department
of Analysis.
• 1993 - 1999 : Member of the Conseil d’Administration de l’INRIA
• 1995 – : Director of several cooperation projects between INRIA and Ecole Nationale
d’Ingénieurs de Tunisie.
• 1996 - 2008 : Member of the Editorial advisory board of Computational Geophysics.
2003-2008 Co-Editor in Chief with M. F. Wheeler.
• 2003 - 2004 : Co-Head of the ARC DYNAS with A. Ern.
• 2004 - 2005 : Review committee of the Center of Integrated Research (CIPR) at the
university of Bergen, Norway.
• 2006 – : Co-Head of the Indo-French IFCPAR cooperation project ”Nonlinear conservation laws and Hamilton-Jacobi equations” with Adimurthi..
Professional societies
Société de Mathématiques Appliquées et Industrielles, Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Interpore.
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