Bonita V. Saunders
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B.A. in Mathematics
from The College of William and Mary,; MS in Mathematics from
the University of Virginia
PhD (1985) Mathematics
at Old Dominion University.
Research Interests: Boundary-fitted
Grid Generation, Numerical Solution of PDEs, Solidification Theory
NIST
http://math.nist.gov/mcsd/Staff/BSaunders/index.html
email: saunders@cam.nist.gov
After receiving her PhD, Bonita accepted a position at the BDM Corporation, a defense contractor in McLean, VA. Her work there involved the writing of defense analyses studies and the development and maintenance of database management systems for government agencies. After four years at BDM, Bonita decided she wanted to get back into doing research in mathematics. Dr. Saunders' personal webpage:
Currently, Bonita Saunders is designing boundary fitted grid generation algorithms to be used in solving partial differential equations on oddly shaped domains, and studying the factors that affect how crystals grow. Currently, Dr. Saunders holds the position of Mathematician in the Applied and Computational Mathematics Division of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). She has 7 papers published. For recent research, see Dr. Saunders' publications page
12. Bonita Saunders, The Application of Numerical Grid Generation to Problems in Computational Fluid Dynamics, Council for African American Researchers in the Mathematical Sciences, Contemporary Mathematics Series 275, American Mathematical Society, 2001.
11. Bonita Saunders and Qiming Wang, From 2D to 3D: Numerical Grid Generation and the Visualization of Complex Surfaces, in Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations (B.K. Soni et al., eds.), ISGG, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, September 2000.
10. Bonita Saunders and Qiming Wang, Using Numerical Grid Generation to Facilitate 3D Visualization of Complicated Mathematical Functions, NISTIR 6413, National Institute of Standards and Technology, November 1999.
9. Daniel W. Lozier, Bruce R. Miller and Bonita V. Saunders, Design of a Digital Mathematical Library for Science, Technology and Education, Proceedings of the IEEE Advances in Digital Libraries Conference, Baltimore, Maryland, May 1999.
8. Qiming Wang and Bonita Saunders, Interactive 3D Visualization of Mathematical Functions Using VRML, NISTIR 6289, National Institute of Standards and Technology, February 1999.
7. Bonita V. Saunders, A Boundary Fitted Grid Generation System for Interface Tracking, in Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, Mississippi State University (1996).
6. Bonita V. Saunders, A Boundary Conforming Grid Generation System for Interface Tracking, Computers and Mathmematics with Applications, 29 (1995).
5. Bonita V. Saunders, An Algebraic Grid Generation System for Interface Tracking, Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Fluid Dynamics and Related Fields, (1994).
4. B.T. Murray, G.B. McFadden, S.R. Coriell, and A.A. Wheeler, Bonita V. Saunders, Gravitational Modulation of Thermosolutal Convection During Directional Solidification, Journal of Crystal Growth 129 (1993).
3. Bonita V. Saunders, Boundary Fitted Grid Generation Using Tensor Product B-splines, Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics, Oxford University Press (1993).
2. B.T. Murray, G.B. McFadden, S.R. Coriell, and A.A. Wheeler, Bonita V. Saunders, The Effect of Gravity Modulation on Thermosolutal Convection in an Infinite Layer of Fluid, Physical Fluids A 4 (1992), 117.
1. with R.F. Boisvert and Bonita V. Saunders, Portable Vectorized Software for Bessel Function Evaluation, ACM Transactions on Mathematical Software 18 (1992).
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