Nakao Scientific Computing and Research at Swarthmore (NaSCaRS)

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The Scott Amphitheater (photo credit: Meristem Horticulture)


Welcome to Dr. Joseph Nakao's research lab (NaSCaRS) at Swarthmore College! The NaSCaRS group focuses on developing efficient structure-preserving numerical solvers for partial differential equations. Our projects include Eulerian-Lagrangian/semi-Lagrangian methods, projection-based rank-adaptive methods, and high-order discretizations. We are interested in the broad range of applications where high-dimensional partial differential equations appear, particularly related to fluid and kinetic dynamics.

We gratefully acknowledge the generous funding support from Swarthmore College.


Several NaSCaRS students will be presenting their research at the upcoming SIAM NNP26 conference!