Christopher E. Kees
Postdoctoral Fellow
University Corporation for Atmospheric Research
Visiting Scientist Program
P.O. Box 3000
Fl-4/VSP/Suite 2200
Boulder, CO 80307-3000

Phone: (919) 966 7892
Fax: (919) 966 7911
chris_kees@unc.edu

Education

• Ph.D. Environmental Science and Engineering, 2001.
  Dissertation: Multiphase Flow Modeling with DAE/MOL Methods.
  Research Advisor: Cass T. Miller
• MS Mathematics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1996.
  Master's Thesis: The Development of an Object-Oriented Code for Solving Differential-Algebraic Equations.
  Research advisor: Dr. Jon Tolle
• BS Mathematics, Millsaps College, 1994

Current Research Activities

• Object-Oriented Modeling of Subsurface Flow and Transport Phenomena
• Numerical Solution of Differential-Algebraic Equations
• Multiphase flow modeling
• Compositional modeling
• Problem-solving environments

Publications

Kees, C.E., C.T. Miller, E.W. Jenkins, and C.T. Kelley (2002) Versatile Two-level Schwarz Preconditioners for Multiphase Flow, in review.

Kees, C.E., and C.T. Miller (2002) Higher Order Time Integration Methods for Two-Phase Flow, Advances in Water Resources, 25(2), 159-177.

Farthing, M.W., C.E. Kees, and C.T. Miller (2001) Mixed Finite Element Methods and Higher-Order Temporal Approximations, Advances in Water Resources, 25(1), 85-101.

Jenkins, E.W., C.E. Kees, C. T. Kelley, and C. T. Miller (2000) An Aggregation-based Domain Decomposition Preconditioner for Groundwater Flow, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computation, 24(2), 430-441.

Kees, C.E., and C.T. Miller (1999) C++ Implementations of Numerical Methods for Solving Differential-Algebraic Equations: Design and Optimization Considerations, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software, 25(4), 377-403.

Tocci, M.D., C.T. Kelley, C.T. Miller, and C.E. Kees (1999) Inexact Newton Methods and the Method of Lines for Solving Richards' Equation in Two Space Dimensions, Computational Geosciences, 2(4), 291-309.