Congratulations to David Del Rey Fernández, assistant professor of Applied Mathematics, who has received over $120,000 total in Alliance grants from the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada (NSERC) for two projects. Alliance grants are awarded by NSERC to researchers who “collaborate with partner organizations, which can be from the private, public or not-for-profit sectors.”
The Alliance grants will help to fund two projects led by Del Rey Fernández: “Provably stable reduced basis methods” ($25,000) and “Entropy stable and asymptotic preserving discretizations of kinetic models for fluid flow problems” ($97,998).
“It is wonderful to be supported by the Government of Canada in these projects,” Del Rey Fernández says. “Technological and societal development very firmly rest on significant and long-term investment in basic science. These projects lay at the intersection of basic science and industrial applications, on the one hand providing general use mathematics and algorithms while on the other hand firmly placed in an industrial application context. Thus, they will benefit future researchers in developing their own novel applications but will also help industry partners in tackling their current challenges.”
These projects are part of Del Rey Fernández’s overarching commitment to developing efficient and robust numerical algorithms for the solution of partial differential equations based on novel numerical methods with provable properties, applicable to high-performance computing systems. Before joining the Faculty of Mathematics in 2021, he was first a postdoctoral researcher and then a research scientist at NASA Langley Research Center and the National Institute of Aerospace in the United States.
“I would like to thank the fantastic people at the Math Innovation Office for their broad-based and incredible support in these and my other applications: Stephanie Whitney and Alexandra Krashaar,” Del Rey Fernández says. “I’m also grateful to the folks in the Office of Research, especially Ishari Waduwara-Jayabahu and Regan Child.”
Del Rey Fernández’s project funding is part of a group of 31 Alliance grants researchers at the University of Waterloo have received for projects proposed in 2023. You can see the full list of projects on the NSERC website.