Mary Wheeler

Mary Fanett Wheeler (born December 28, 1938) is an American mathematician. She is known for her work on numerical methods for partial differential equations, including domain decomposition methods.

In 1998, Wheeler was elected a member of the National Academy of Engineering for "the computer simulation of subsurface flow and the underlying mathematical algorithms".

In 2009 she was awarded the Theodore von Kármán Prize by the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM).

Personal background Mary Fanett Wheeler was born on December 28, 1938, in Cuero, Texas.

Professional background Wheeler studies finite element analysis and porous media problems with applications in engineering, oil-field exploitation, and the cleaning up of environmental pollution. at the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences. She retired from UT in 2024.

Wheeler is a Professional Engineer registered with the State of Texas since 1999. In 1989, she gave the prestigious Noether Lecture for the Association for Women in Mathematics in Phoenix, Arizona. Her talk was titled "Large Scale Modeling of Problems Arising in Flow in Porous Media".

Awards Noether Lecture (1989) Theodore von Kármán Prize (2009) Humboldt Prize (2011)

Memberships Fellow, Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics Society of Petroleum Engineers Fellow, International Association for Computational Mechanics National Academy of Engineering American Academy of Arts and Sciences