Giovanni Paolo Galdi
Giovanni Paolo Galdi | |
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| Born | January 3, 1947 |
| Alma mater | University of Naples |
| Known for | fluid dynamics, fluid-structure interaction, hydrodynamic stability, magnetohydrodynamics, Navier-Stokes Equations |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Academic advisors | Salvatore Rionero, James Serrin |
| Website | https://www.engineering.pitt.edu/people/faculty/g.-paolo-galdi |
Giovanni Paolo Galdi (born January 3, 1947) is an Italian mathematician, who has both now and in the past worked on the mathematical analysis of the Navier-Stokes equations, in particular the topics of fluid-structure interactions and hydrodynamic stability. He is a Distinguished Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, the Leighton E. and Mary N. Orr Professor of Engineering, and Professor of Mathematics at the University of Pittsburgh, as well as adjunct professor at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. He serves on the editorial board of the European Journal of Mechanics B/Fluids and Nonlinear Analysis as well as being co-founder and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics and of the book series Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics and Lecture Notes in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics.[1][2][3][4]
Education and career
Galdi earned his doctorate in Physics from the University of Naples in 1971.[1] He would later serve as professor there, in the Department of Mathematics, after completing his post-doctoral mathematical training in 1976, under the mentorship of Salvatore Rionero and James Serrin.[5][6] In 1985, he joined the University of Ferrara, where he founded the School of Engineering, serving as engineering Dean from 1989 to 1995.[3] Since 1999, he has been a professor at the University of Pittsburgh, first in the Department of Mathematics, and then later in the Swanson School of Engineering, where he currently holds his tenure.[1]
Mathematical contributions
Galdi has worked in mathematical hydrodynamics, having written on the Navier-Stokes Equations and magnetohydrodynamics.[1] Among his purely mathematical contributions is a generalized theory of homogeneous Sobolev spaces for exterior domains, which has become a cornerstone in the study of external flows.[7] He has also done work in the mathematical theory of fluid-structure interactions,[8] a field of research in which he is still currently active. His book, An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of the Navier-Stokes Equations: Steady-State Problems (1994)[7] and article On the Motion of a Rigid Body in a Viscous Liquid: A Mathematical Analysis with Applications (2002)[8] are widely used.
In 2010, a special issue of Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics was published in honor of his 60th birthday.[3]
References
- ^ a b c d "University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering G. Paolo Galdi".
- ^ "Journal of Mathematical Fluid Mechanics". SpringerLink. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
- ^ a b c Rannacher, Rolf; Sequeira, Adélia, eds. (2010). Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics: Dedicated to Giovanni Paolo Galdi on the Occasion of his 60th Birthday. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg. doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04068-9. ISBN 978-3-642-04067-2.
- ^ "Lecture Notes in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics". Springer. Retrieved 2025-04-17.
- ^ Rannacher, Rolf; Sequeira, Adélia, eds. (2010). Advances in Mathematical Fluid Mechanics (PDF). doi:10.1007/978-3-642-04068-9. ISBN 978-3-642-04067-2.
- ^ "Giovanni Galdi - the Mathematics Genealogy Project".
- ^ a b An Introduction to the Mathematical Theory of the Navier-Stokes Equations. Springer Monographs in Mathematics. 2011. doi:10.1007/978-0-387-09620-9. ISBN 978-0-387-09619-3.
- ^ a b Galdi, Giovanni P. (2002). On the Motion of a Rigid Body in a Viscous Liquid: A Mathematical Analysis with Applications. Handbook of Mathematical Fluid Dynamics. Vol. 1. pp. 653–791. doi:10.1016/S1874-5792(02)80014-3. ISBN 978-0-444-50330-5.