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Silvester is best known for his work on finite element methods, fast iterative solvers for fluid dynamics, and uncertainty quantification. He has more than 65 refereed publications on topics such as iterative solution of Stokes and Navier–Stokes systems, preconditioning, and error estimation in
353:) was supervised by Ronald Thatcher. He was appointed lecturer in Mathematics at UMIST in 1984, and later promoted to Senior Lecturer and Reader. In 2003 he was promoted to a personal Chair of Numerical Analysis. Silvester held visiting positions in the Computer Science Department at 672: 346: 203: 327: 667: 397: 393: 682: 677: 55: 46: 547: 584: 557: 366: 132: 62: 113: 85: 692: 447: 24: 92: 687: 51: 349:, from which he gained his B.Sc. in Mathematics (1980) and Ph.D. in Numerical Analysis (1983). His Ph.D. thesis ( 99: 370: 331: 251: 233: 81: 662: 362: 464: 238: 657: 354: 323: 319: 228: 614: 492: 292: 70: 392:
Silvester has served as the elected President of the UK and Republic of Ireland section of the
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Finite Elements and Fast Iterative Solvers: With Applications in Incompressible Fluid Dynamics
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Finite Elements and Fast Iterative Solvers: With Applications in Incompressible Fluid Dynamics
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Alumni of the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology
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Griffiths, David F.; Dold, John W.; Silvester, David J. (2015).
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An Analysis of Finite Element Approximation for Swirling Flow
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An Analysis of Finite Element Approximation for Swirling Flow
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Elman, Howard; Silvester, David; Wathen, Andy (2014).
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He became a Fellow of the 541: 539: 367:University of the Littoral Opal Coast 318:(born 26 December 1958) is a British 7: 683:21st-century Scottish mathematicians 678:20th-century Scottish mathematicians 459: 457: 455: 14: 465:"Web CV of David James Silvester" 36: 634:Publications by David Silvester 402:Journal of Scientific Computing 497:personalpages.manchester.ac.uk 472:personalpages.manchester.ac.uk 1: 448:Mathematics Genealogy Project 63:secondary or tertiary sources 25:David Sylvester (medievalist) 69:, especially if potentially 47:biography of a living person 493:"Homepage: David Silvester" 67:must be removed immediately 23:. For the medievalist, see 709: 600:SIAM Fellows Class of 2023 18: 328:Department of Mathematics 283: 209: 16:British numerical analyst 622:publications indexed by 579:. 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