Joseph Powers joined the University of Notre Dame in 1989. His research has focused on the dynamics of high-speed reactive fluids and on computational science, especially as it applies to verification and validation of complex multi-scale systems. He has held positions at the NASA Lewis Research Center, the Los Alamos National Laboratory, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Argonne National Laboratory, and the Chinese Academy of Sciences. He is a member of AIAA, APS, ASME, the Combustion Institute, and SIAM. He is the recipient of numerous teaching awards.
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1. Multivariable calculus 2. Vectors and tensors in Cartesian coordinates 3. First-order ordinary differential equations 4. Linear ordinary differential equations 5. Approximation methods 6. Linear analysis 7. Linear algebra 8. Linear integral equations 9. Dynamical systems.
