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Adrian Florin Radu
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Adrian Florin Radu

Position

Professor

Affiliation

E-mail
florin.radu@uib.no
Phone number
+47 55583690
Visitor address
Allégaten 41
5007 Bergen
Room: 4A15b
Postal address
P.O. Box 7803
NO-5020 Bergen
Norway

Adrian Florin Radu

Position

Professor

Affiliation

Research groups

Short info

Florin A. Radu studied pure mathematics at the University of Bucharest, Romania. After graduation, he made his PhD in applied mathematics in 2004 at the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany under the supervision of Prof. Peter Knabner.
Research

Florin A. Radu received his PhD in Applied Mathematics from the Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nuremberg (FAU), Germany. The topic of his thesis was design, analysis and implementation of numerical methods for variable saturated flow and transport in porous media. After the PhD, Florin had several researcher positions at FAU, Max-Planck Institute for Mathematics in Science, Leipzig, University of Jena and Helmholtz Center for Environmental Research, Leipzig. He was acting professor at FAU for one semester in spring 2011. In autumn 2011 he finally moved to UUniversity of Bergen, Norway (UoB) as Associate Professor. In 2013 Florin finished his habilitation at FAU. Since 2015 he is Full Professor of Applied Mathematics at UoB. He is elected member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Technology (NTVA).

Florin A. Radu has over 25 years experience in porous media research, working with applications including water and soil pollution, enhanced oil recovery, CO2 storage, cancer research, pharmaceutical technology or enhance geothermal energy extraction. He made relevant contributions in the development of efficient and robust solvers for coupled, nonlinear partial differential equations, in mathematical modelling of multicomponent, multiphase flow and deformation in porous media, upscaling (homogenization) and in numerical analysis in connection with discretization methods for partial differential equations. His work has been cited over 5000 times at google scholar so far.

Florin A. Radu is Associate Editor at Computational Geosciences.

Florin A. Radu has over 5500 citations at google scholar (see here).

 

Teaching

Florin A. Radu has a very strong teaching experience which extends over 25 years, more than 20 courses and seminars, and in four languages: Romanian, English, German and Norwegian. He taught both undergraduate courses, as well as courses for Master and PhD students. 

Florin A. Radu has advised 21 Master students (17 as main adviser). He has advised 15 PhD students (7 as main adviser).

  • U. Shekhar, Microseismic characterization in fractured anisotropic media using elastic waveform inversion, 2025 (co-advisor).
  • E. Storvik, Development of robust and efficient solution strategies for coupled problems, 2022.
  • J. Varela, A posteriori error estimation and modeling of unsaturated flow in fractured porous media, 2022 (co-advisor).
  • D. Illiano, Robust solvers for fully coupled transport and flow in saturated/unsaturated porous media, 2021.
  • A. Kassa, The Role of Wettability Alteration in Subsurface CO2 Storage: Modeling and Numerical Analysis, 2021 (co-advisor).
  • M. Bastidas, Multi-scale methods for the numerical simulation of flow and reactive transport in porous media, 2021 (co-advisor).
  • D. Seus, LDD schemes for two-phase flow systems, 2021 (co-advisor).
  • A. Budisa, Preconditioning for Flow in Fractured Porous Media, 2020  (co-advisor).
  • M.A. Borregales, Iterative solvers for poromechanics, 2019.
  • J.W. Both, Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Flow in Deformable Porous Media, 2019.
  • M.K. Brun, Upscaling, analysis, and iterative numerical solution schemes for thermo-poroelasticity, 2019.
  • D. Landa-Marban, Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Flow in Deformable Porous Media, 2019.
  • L. Vasilyev, Development and implementation of the generalized continuum model for transport in porous media, 2018.
  • S. Karpinski, Numerical analysis of an interior penalty discontinuous Galerkin scheme for two phase flow in heterogeneous porous media with discontinuous dynamic capillary pressure effects, 2016 (co-adviser).
  • C. Bringedal, Modeling of heat transfer in porous media in the context of geothermal energy extraction, 2015 (co-adviser).
Publications
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