Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck

Jean-Marc Vanden-Broeck (born 11 September 1951) is a UK mathematician of Belgian origin. He is a Professor of Applied Mathematics at the University College, London.

Early life and education Vanden-Broeck was born in Liège, Belgium on 11 September 1951. He received a degree in engineering and physics from the University Of Liège in 1974 and another one in oceanology in 1975. at New Jersey Institute of Technology. Vanden-Broeck has had many graduate students, some of whom are Ersin Ozugurlu, Ben Binder, Tao Gao and Alex Doak, and has mentored and co-mentored numerous postdocs, including Emilian Parau, Dmitri Tseluiko, Zhan Wang and Olga Tritchtchenko.

Vanden-Broeck shares his life between London and Paris. He is married to the logician Mirna Dzamonja. They have a daughter, Ada Vanden-Broeck, who was born in 2006.

Scientific work Vanden-Broeck works on Applied Mathematics, Fluid Mechanics and Scientific Computing. He is known for his work on free boundary problems. His more recent research is concerned with three-dimensional free surface flows and the discovery of three-dimensional solitary waves, as well as studying the effects of electric fields on interfacial flows.

Vanden-Broeck's publication list as of September 2019 has more than 230 papers and he is the author of the book Gravity-Capillary Free Surface Flows, Cambridge University Press, 2010. His work is frequently cited, with his h index equal to 42, according to the Google Scholar page, September 2019. Many of his papers are available at his personal web site at UCL.

Selected work

Gravity-Capillary Free Surface Flows, book, Cambridge University Press, 2010 Fingers in a Hele-Shaw Cell with Surface Tension, 1983 Solitary and periodic gravity capillary waves of finite amplitude (with JK Hunter), 1983 Solitary waves in water of infinite depth and related free surface flows (with F Dias), 1992 Numerical calculations of the free-surface flow under a sluice gate, 1997 Nonlinear three-dimensional gravity-capillary solitary waves (with MJ Cooker and EI Parau), 2005 New hydroelastic solitary waves in deep water and their dynamics (with T Gao and Z Wang), 2016 Non-wetting impact of a sphere onto a bath and its application to bouncing droplets (with CA Galeano-Rios and PA Milewski), 2017 New exotic capillary free-surface flows (with A Doak), 2019