Ivo Babuška
Czech-American mathematician (1926–2023) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Ivo M. Babuška (22 March 1926 – 12 April 2023) was a Czech-American mathematician, noted for his studies of the finite element method and the proof of the Babuška–Lax–Milgram theorem in partial differential equations.[1] One of the celebrated result in the finite elements is the so-called Ladyzenskaja–Babuška–Brezzi (LBB) condition (also referred to in some literature as Banach–Nečas–Babuška (BNB)), which provides sufficient conditions for a stable mixed formulation. The LBB condition has guided mathematicians and engineers to develop state-of-the-art formulations for many technologically important problems like Darcy flow, Stokes flow, incompressible Navier–Stokes, and nearly incompressible elasticity.
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Born | Ivo Milan Babuška 22 March 1926 Prague |
Died | 12 April 2023 (aged 97) Albuquerque |
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Occupation | Mathematician, teacher, civil engineer |
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Babuška is also well known for his work on adaptive methods and the p-- and hp--versions of the finite element method.[2] He also developed the mathematical framework for the partition of unity methods.
Babuška was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering in 2005 for contributions to the theory and implementation of finite element methods for computer-based engineering analysis and design.