Aleksandar Donev

Aleksandar Donev
Born
Veles, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Alma mater
Known forComputational Mathematics
Scientific career
Fields
Applied mathematics, scientific computing, computational physics, materials science, computational biology
Workplaces
Salvatore Torquato
Websitemath.nyu.edu/faculty/donev/

Aleksandar Nikola Donev (November 1979 – November 2023) was an American and Macedonian applied mathematician who worked on scientific computing, fluid dynamics, mathematical materials science and computational biology. He was a professor at the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University.[1]

Background

Donev grew up in Veles, Socialist Republic of Macedonia. At age 17 he began studies at the State University of New York at Plattsburgh, a small town in northern New York State. He soon transferred to Michigan State University in East Lansing from where he graduated at the top of his class in Physics. He earned a Ph.D. degree in Applied and Computational Mathematics from Princeton University in 2006 under the guidance of Salvatore Torquato.[2] His thesis work concerned packing of hard elliptical particles.[3][4][5]

He was a postdoctoral fellow at the Lawrence Livermore Laboratory and later won the Luis W. Alvarez Postdoctoral Fellowship to work at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory. In 2010 Donev joined the Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University as faculty.

Donev died on November 2023 before the age of 45. He is mourned by family, friends, students, colleagues and collaborators.[6]

Research

Donev worked on Scientific Computing, Computational Mathematics and particularly for his work on Fluctuating Hydrodynamics,[7][8] and numerical methods for suspensions in Stokes flow and complex fluids.[9][10][11][12] He worked on modeling the effect of thermal noise in physical systems, particularly gasses, liquids, colloids and cross linked networks of actin filaments and related applications.[13][14]

Honors

References

  1. ↑ "Aleksandar Donev". scholar.google.com.
  2. ↑ Aleksandar Donev at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. ↑ Donev A, Cisse I, Sachs D, Variano EA, Stillinger FH, Connelly R, Torquato S, Chaikin PM (2004-02-13). "Improving the density of jammed disordered packings using ellipsoids". Science: 990–993.
  4. ↑ Donev, A.; Stillinger, F. H.; Chaikin, P. M.; Torquato, S. (2004). "Unusually dense crystal packings of ellipsoids". Physical Review Letters. 92 (25 Pt 1) 255506. arXiv:cond-mat/0403286. doi:10.1103/PhysRevLett.92.255506. PMID 15245027.
  5. ↑ "Neighbor list collision-driven molecular dynamics simulation for nonspherical hard particles. I. Algorithmic details. A Donev, S Torquato, FH Stillinger. Journal of Computational Physics 202 (2), pg. 737-764 (2005)".
  6. ↑ "Obituary of Professor Aleksandar N. Donev (1979–2023)".
  7. ↑ "The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics". The Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. doi:10.1137/120864520&hl=en.
  8. ↑ "Fluctuating hydrodynamics of multi-species reactive mixtures. AK Bhattacharjee, K Balakrishnan, AL Garcia, JB Bell, A Donev. The Journal of chemical physics 142 (22) (2015)".
  9. ↑ "A hybrid particle-continuum method for hydrodynamics of complex fluids. A Donev, JB Bell, AL Garcia, BJ Alder. Multiscale Modeling & Simulation 8 (3), 871-911 (2010)". doi:10.1137/090774501.
  10. ↑ "An immersed boundary method for rigid bodies. B Kallemov, A Bhalla, B Griffith, A Donev. Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science 11 (1), pg.79-141 (2016)".
  11. ↑ "Hydrodynamics of suspensions of passive and active rigid particles: a rigid multiblob approach. F Balboa Usabiaga, B Kallemov, B Delmotte, A Bhalla, B Griffith, A Donev. Communications in Applied Mathematics and Computational Science 11 (2), pg. 217-296 (2017)".
  12. ↑ "Integral-based spectral method for inextensible slender fibers in Stokes flow.O Maxian, A Mogilner, A Donev. Physical Review Fluids 6 (1), 014102 (2021)". arXiv:2007.11728. doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.6.014102.
  13. ↑ "Unstable fronts and motile structures formed by microrollers. M Driscoll, B Delmotte, M Youssef, S Sacanna, A Donev, P Chaikin. Nature Physics 13 (4), pg.375-379 (2016)".
  14. ↑ Yang, T.; Sprinkle, B.; Guo, Y.; Qian, J.; Hua, D.; Donev, A.; Marr DWM; Wu, N. (2020). "Reconfigurable microbots folded from simple colloidal chains. T Yang, B Sprinkle, Y Guo, J Qian, D Hua, A Donev, DWM Marr, N Wu. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 117 (31), 18186-18193 (2020)". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America. 117 (31): 18186–18193. doi:10.1073/pnas.2007255117. PMC 7414297. PMID 32680965.
  15. ↑ "DOE Office of Science Early Career Research Program Awardee Abstracts Fiscal Year 2012".
  16. ↑ "AFOSR Awards Grants to 48 Scientists and Engineers through its Young Investigator Research Program".
  17. ↑ "Simons Fellows in Mathematics". June 20, 2012.
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