About UChicago Argonne, LLC
Board of Governors
Mary F. Wheeler, Ph.D.
- Member, UChicago Argonne, LLC Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory
- Ernest and Virginia Cockrell Professor, The University of Texas at Austin, Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering, Department of Mathematics
Mary Fanett Wheeler is a world-renowned expert in massive parallel-processing. She has served on the faculty of The University of Texas at Austin since 1995 and is presently director of the Center for Subsurface Modeling in the Institute for Computational and Applied Mathematic (ICES).
Her research interests include numerical solution of partial differential systems with application to the modeling of subsurface and surface flows and parallel computation. Her numerical work includes formulation, analysis and implementation of finite-difference/finite-element discretization schemes for nonlinear, coupled PDE's as well as domain decomposition iterative solution methods.
Her applications include multiphase flow and geomechanics in reservoir engineering, contaminant transport in groundwater and bays and estuaries, and angiogenesis in biomedical engineering.
Her current work has emphasized multiscale mixed finite element and discontinuous Galerkin methods for modeling reactive multi-phase flow and transport in a heterogeneous porous media, with the goal of simulating these systems on parallel computing platforms.
Wheeler is a member of numerous professional and honorary societies including the Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics, the Society of Petroleum Engineers, American Women in Mathematics, Mathematical Association of America and American Geophysical Union. She is a Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics and is a certified Professional Engineer in the State of Texas .
She is and has been a member of many major governmental committees including The National Science Foundation's New Technologies Review Committees and Division of Mathematical Sciences Advisory Committee; the Science Board of the American Mathematical Society; and Advisory Committees for both Oak Ridge National Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory to name a few.
Wheeler has published more than 150 technical papers and edited seven books. She is currently an editor of nine technical journals, managing editor of Computational Geosciences, and a founding member of the SIAM Activity Group in Geosciences. In 1998 she was elected to the National Academy of Engineering. In 2006 she was named to The University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratory.
