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Address INRIA Rocquencourt BP 105 78153 Le Chesnay Cedex FRANCE E-mail: Michel.Kern@inria.fr Telephone: (+33) (0)1 39 63 58 41 Fax: (+33) (0)1 39 63 58 84

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I am a Research Scientist in the Estime group at the INRIA Rocquencourt center.

My current research interests are in numerical methods for flow in porous media. Specifically, I am concerned with applications of high performance computing for the simulation of long term deep storage for nuclear waste.

• Scientific and parallel computing
• Mathematical methods in geophysics
• Inverse problems
• Numerical linear algebra

Current projects

• SHPCO2 : High performance simulation of geological CO₂ storage, ANR funded project (IFP, ENSMSE, BRGM, LAGA, INRIA).
• GDR Momas: Modélisations Mathématiques et Simulations numériques liées aux problèmes de gestion des déchets nucléaires.
• Waveform relaxation methods for convection--diffusion equations with discontinuous coeficients (with L. Halpern and M. Gander)
• HydroGrid: Hydrogeological codes coupling over the Grid

Recent publications

• Solution to the SIAM «Hundred-dollar, Hundred-digit Challenge», INRIA report RR 4472, 2002.
• Résolution numérique de l'équation des ondes par une méthode d'éléments finis d'ordre élevé sur calculateur parallèle (with P. Havé and Ch. Lemuet ), INRIA report RR 4381, 2001
• Construction of Higher Order Finite Element with Mass Lumping Using Computer Algebra Techniques (with A. Olouy, J.C. Faugère and F. Rouillier), talk at ICIAM 99, Edinbourgh, 1999.
• FDTD Modeling and Least-Squares Inversion for 2D GPR Data, talk at SIAM 99 Geosciences Conference, San Antonio. More details (in French): Imagerie du proche sous-sol par un radar géologique., (with G. Vigo), INRIA report RR 3255, 1997
• Parallel Solution of the Wave Equation Using Higher Order Finite Elements. MPI Developpers'and Users Group Conference, 1996 (with S. Mbouayouéou).
• A nonsplit 3D migration algorithm. Mathematical Methods in Geophysical Imaging III, 1995.
• Higher order numerical schemes for the paraxial wave equation (with E. Bécache, F. Collino and P. Joly), Mathematical Methods in Geophysical Imaging III, 1995.
• Task Level Parallelism for Sesimic Modelling and Inversion. (with R. Versteeg and W. W. Symes), INRIA report RR 2366, 1994.

Teaching

• Analyse Numérique, École des Mines de Paris (with H. Haddar).
• Éléments finis (click on "Modules", then "EF-Paris"), École des Mines de Paris (with Georges CAILLETAUD, Thierry COUPEZ, Frédéric FEYEL).

• Participation au Mig "Perception - Commande autour de la voiture intelligente", École des Mines de Paris (with J. Henry).
• Problèmes inverses. École Supérieure d'Ingénierie Léonard de Vinci.

Misc

• The presentations for the one day workshop Quelques problèmes rencontrés en chimie numérique : Hydrologie - combustion - atmosphère (December 16, 2004) are online
• I am a member of GAMNI, the Groupe pour l'Avancement des méthodes de l'ingénieur, a group of SMAI
• MPI man pages
• A list of Interesting sites

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