Beatrice Riviere, Noah Harding Chair and Professor of Computational Applied Mathematics and Operations Research (CMOR) at Rice, has received the 2024 Fellows Award from the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
Riviere was recognized for her “distinguished record of research, accomplishment, and publication in areas of computational mechanics.”
She earned her Ph.D. in computational and applied mathematics (CAAM) from the University of Texas at Austin in 2000. Riviere joined the Rice faculty in 2008 and served as CMOR (formerly known as CAAM) department chair from 2015 to 2018.
She has published more than 140 scholarly articles in numerical analysis and scientific computation. Her book on the theory and implementation of discontinuous Galerkin methods is highly cited and her research group is funded by the National Science Foundation, the oil and gas industry and the Gulf Coast Consortia for the Quantitative Biomedical Sciences.
Riviere has worked in the development and analysis of numerical methods applied to problems in porous media and in fluid mechanics. Her research focuses on development of high-order methods in time and in space for multiphase, multicomponent flows (in rigid and deformable media); the modeling of pore scale flows for immiscible and partially miscible components; the numerical model of oxygen transport in a network of blood vessels; the development of scientific machine learning algorithms for partial differential equation simulations and analysis of neural networks for image segmentation.
She has advised 19 doctoral students, with 11 working in academia, one in a national lab and seven in industry. Riviere is the director of Computational Modeling of Porous Media, which develops numerical algorithms for use at the pore and Darcy scales.
In 2022, Riviere was elected to a three-year term on the board of trustees of the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). She was president of the SIAM TX-LA Section and has served as chair and secretary of the SIAM Activity Group on Geosciences. She is an associate editor for the SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing and for Results in Applied Mathematics.
Riviere formally received the award at IACM’s 16th World Congress on Computational Mechanics held July 22 in Vancouver. IACM is a professional society with almost 5,000 affiliates worldwide. Its Fellows Award is conferred every two years.