K. R Arun

K. R. Arun is an Associate Professor at the School of Mathematics, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Thiruvananthapuram. His research focuses on hyperbolic conservation laws, asymptotic preserving schemes, and nonlinear wavefront propagation. He has held prestigious positions including an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship and has contributed to multidimensional numerical methods for fluid dynamics.

• PhD in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
• M.Sc. in Mathematics from Indian Institute of Technology Madras

His work spans numerical analysis, partial differential equations, and computational fluid dynamics, with a focus on developing schemes for shallow water flows, acoustic waves, and gas dynamics. Publications highlight applications in heterogeneous media and low Froude number flows.

Scientific awards include the Martin Forster Medal for his PhD thesis and a DST-DAAD joint research grant. He has collaborated with institutions in Germany and contributed to advanced numerical algorithms.