Charles Peskin
Charles Peskin · Science & Medicine
Mathematical biology; the immersed boundary method
1946
United States
Charles Peskin is recognized among Jewish contributors to Science & Medicine — Mathematical biology; the immersed boundary method
Peskin is an American mathematician at NYU's Courant Institute who invented the immersed boundary method, a computational technique for simulating the interaction of elastic structures with a surrounding fluid — first developed to model blood flow in the beating heart and now used across engineering and biology. He is a MacArthur Fellow and member of the National Academy of Sciences. His Jewish background is not explicitly documented in standard biographical sources.
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Mathematical biology; the immersed boundary method
Source: Jinfo.org — Jews in Mathematics
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