Ben Schweizer

Ben Schweizer is a Professor at the Faculty of Mathematics, Technical University of Dortmund, specializing in Applied Analysis. His research focuses on partial differential equations and their applications to natural sciences.

• Research Areas:
  • Porous Media: Existence, approximation, and homogenization of degenerate diffusion and hysteresis effects, including models for gravity fingering and oil trapping.
  • Plasticity: Stochastic homogenization of plastic materials to understand memory effects.
  • Maxwell's Equations: Homogenization in degenerate geometries and large contrast materials, such as negative index meta-materials.
  • Helmholtz Equation: Resonance effects, radiation conditions in periodic media, and effective acoustic properties.
  • Wave Equation: Effective dispersive equations for heterogeneous media and lattice dynamics, with applications to linearized KdV equations.
• Collaborations: Collaborated with G. Bouchitte, T. Dohnal, A. Lamacz, S. Pop, M. Ohlberger, P. Henning, J. Koch, A. Rätz, RV Kohn, J. Lu, M. Weinstein, and others.
• Tools & Applications: Developed radiation conditions for periodic media, numerical schemes for wave equations, and models for negative index materials (cloaking).