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Eirik Valseth

Eirik Valseth

Associate Professor

  • Department of Data Science

Currently, I am an Associate Professor of Scientific Computing at the Norwegian University of Life Science (NMBU) Department of Data Science as well as a research associate at the Oden Institute at the University of Texas at Austin, and an affiliated researcher at Simula Research Laboratory Department of Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computing. Prior to joining NMBU and Simula, I was also a postdoc funded by an individual Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions project working with Kent-Andre Mardal. I attended the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology where I earned my Ph.D. in mechanical engineering supervised by Albert Romkes.

My work is in the development of finite element methods for PDEs where classical finite element methods typically fail to produce acceptable approximations. Currently, my focus is within the context of flood modeling (e.g., hurricane storm surge and riverine flooding) as well as modeling for hydropower applications.

  • Areas of Work
    • Scientific Computing
    • Numerical Analysis
    • Applied Mathematics
    • Finite Element Methods
    • Computational Mechanics
    • Computational Mathematics
  • Publications

    List of publications from my research. (Cristin)

    Valseth, E., Behnoudfar, P., Dawson, C., Romkes, A. (2024) Automatic Variationally Stable Analysis for Finite Element Computations: Transient Convection-Diffusion Problems. accepted in Computers and Mathematics with Applications

    Wichitrnithed, C., Valseth, E., Kubatko, E., Kang, Y., Hudson, M., Dawson, C. (2024) A Discontinuous Galerkin Finite Element Model for Compound Flood Simulations. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116707

    Loveland, M., Meixner, J., Valseth, E., Dawson, C. (2023) WAVEx: Stabilized Finite Elements for Spectral Wind Wave Models Using FEniCSx. Coastal Engineering https://doi.org/10.1016/j.coastaleng.2023.104425

    Pachev, B., Arora, P., del-Castillo-Negrete, C., Valseth, E., Dawson, C. (2023) A framework for flexible peak storm surge prediction. Coastal Engineering https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0378383923001308?via%3Dihub 

    Valseth, E., Buskey, E., Dawson, C. A Study of the Potential Effects of Deepening the Corpus Christi Ship Channel on Hurricane Storm Surge. Journal of Computational Science https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877750323001989?via%3Dihub  (2023)

    Chen, C., Valseth, E., Dawson, C. Cross-Mode Stabilized Stochastic Shallow Water Systems Using Stochastic Finite Element Methods. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.115873 (2023)

    Contreras, M.T., Woods, B., Blakely, C., Wirasaet, D., Westerink, J.J.,  Cobell, Z., Pringle, W., Moghimi, S., Vinogradov, S., Myers, E., Seroka, G., Lalime, M.,  Funakoshi, Y., Van der Westhuysen, A., Abdolali, A., Valseth, E., Dawson C,. A Channel-to-Basin Scale ADCIRC Based Hydrodynamic Unstructured Mesh Model for the US East and Gulf of Mexico Coasts.  NOAA Technical Memorandum NOS CS 54 (2023)

    Pachev, B., Arora, P.,  del-Castillo-Negrete, C., Valseth, E., Dawson, C., A Framework for Flexible Peak Storm Surge Prediction. Submitted, arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.13168 (2023)

    Valseth, E., Dawson, C., Buskey, E.J., A Study of the Potential Effects of Deepening the Corpus Christi Ship Channel on Hurricane Storm Surge. Submitted to Natural Hazards, https : //www.researchsquare.com/article/rs − 1620179/v1 (2022)

    Maczuga, P., Oliver-Serra, A., Paszynska, A., Valseth, E., Paszynski, M., Graph-Grammar Based Algorithm for Asteroid Tsunami Simulations. Journal of Computational Science (2022)

    Loveland, M.D., Valseth, E., Lukac, M., Dawson, C., Extending FEniCS to Work in Higher Dimensions Using Tensor Product Finite Elements. Journal of Computational Science (2022)

    Valseth, E., Dawson, C., An Adaptive Stable Space-Time FE Method for the Shallow Water Equations. Computational Geosciences https : //doi.org/10.1007/s10596 − 021 − 10108 − 4 (2021)

    E. Valseth, M.D. Loveland, C. Dawson, E.J. Buskey, A Study of the Impact of Dredging the Corpus Christi Ship Channel on Passive Particle Transport. Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2021) https : //doi.org/10.3390/jmse9090935

    Valseth, E., Romkes, A., Kaul, A.R., Dawson, C., A Stable Mixed FE Method for Nearly Incompressible Linear Elastostatics. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, https : //doi.org/10.1002/nme.6743 (2021).

    Valseth, E., Dawson, C., An Unconditionally Stable Space-Time FE Method for the Korteweg-de Vries Equation. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 371 (2020), DOI: https : //doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2020.113297.

    Valseth, E., Romkes, A., Kaul, A.R., A Stable FE Method For The Space-Time Solution of the Cahn- Hilliard Equation. Journal of Computational Physics, https : //doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110426 (2021).

    Valseth, E., Romkes, A., Goal-Oriented Error Estimation for the Automatic Variationally Stable FE Method for Convection-Dominated Diffusion Problems. Computers and Mathematics With Applications (2020) DOI: https : //doi.org/10.1016/j.camwa.2020.10.019.

    Calo, V.M., Romkes, A., and Valseth, E., Variationally Stable Analysis for Finite Element Computations: An Introduction. Lecture Notes in Computational Science and Engineering, Springer Verlag (2018)  https : //doi.org/10.1007/978 − 3 − 030 − 41800 − 7 2.

  • Research and projects

    Research projects with a website outside NMBU