Najwa Saleh Alshehri, PhD
Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
Jubail Industrial College · Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
Jubail Industrial College · Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu
My research is in numerical analysis and finite element methods for partial differential equations, with particular interest in interface and coupled multiphysics problems. I focus on fictitious domain methods, distributed Lagrange multipliers, and developing robust solvers and preconditioners for the resulting linear systems.
I am an Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics at Jubail Industrial College, Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu.
I received my PhD in Applied Mathematics and Computational Sciences from King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), under the supervision of Prof. Daniele Boffi. I also hold an MSc in Applied and Computational Mathematics and a Graduate Certificate in Modeling and Simulation from Old Dominion University, USA, and a BSc in Mathematics with honors from King Faisal University.
Interface and unfitted finite element methods
Fictitious domain methods with distributed Lagrange multipliers
Mixed finite element formulations
Coupled multiphysics and fluid–structure interaction problems
Robust solvers and preconditioners for saddle-point systems