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01-14-20

The Quanta Magazine has featured Thomas Y. Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, for his work in Euler singularity. Mathematicians and physicists have used Euler equations to model how fluids evolve over time. If you toss a rock into a still pond, how will the water be moving five seconds later? The Euler equations can tell you. Hou provided a numerical description of the initial state of a fluid and used a computer to apply the Euler equations to determine the fluid’s motion in the future. “From the top the fluid is spiraling down, and from the bottom it is swirling up in the opposite direction,” said Professor Hou. [Quanta article]

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04-09-18

Yizhao T. (Thomas) Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, and his former postdoc Dr. Guo Luo are recipients of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM) 2018 Outstanding Paper Prize for their paper entitled Toward the Finite-Time Blowup of the 3D Axisymmetric Euler Equations: A Numerical Investigation. The prizes are given for outstanding papers published in SIAM journals during the three years prior to the year of the award. [Read the paper]

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05-31-17

Computing and mathematical sciences student Celia Yuxin Zhang advised by Professor Yizhao Thomas Hou is a recipient of the 2017 Henry Ford II Scholar Award. She has broad research interests in astrophysics, software engineering, and evolution. The Henry Ford II Scholar Award is funded under an endowment provided by the Ford Motor Company Fund. The award is made annually to engineering students with the best academic record at the end of the third year of undergraduate study.

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04-19-11

Frances H. Arnold, Dick and Barbara Dickinson Professor of Chemical Engineering, Bioengineering and Biochemistry, Scott E. Fraser, Anna L. Rosen Professor of Biology and Professor of Bioengineering, and Thomas Y. Hou, Charles Lee Powell Professor of Applied and Computational Mathematics, have been elected to the 2011 American Academy of Arts and Sciences class of fellows. They have joined an assembly that was founded in 1780 by John Adams, James Bowdoin, John Hancock, and other scholars to provide practical solutions to pressing issues. [Caltech Feature]

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