Jean Medard Ngnotchouye

Jean Medard is a Professor of Mathematics, in the School of Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. His research interests lie in the fields of Hyperbolic systems of conservation laws, Finite volume methods for partial differential equations, Numerical analysis of differential equations, and Computational fluid dynamics. Jean Medard obtained his Ph.D. in 2010, from the University of KwaZulu-Natal, under the supervision of Prof. Mapundi Kondwani Banda and Prof. Precious Sibanda. During his Ph.D., he studied conservation laws models in networks and multiscale flow optimization. His work considered the flow of a multiphase gas, described by the drift-flux model, in a network of pipes and that of water, modeled by the shallow water equations, in a network of rivers. The two models were systems of partial differential equations of first order generally referred to as systems of conservation laws.