Master of Engineering (M. E.)
Ecole Nationale Supérieure de l'Aéronautique et de l'Espace, Toulouse, France (1974)
Master of Sciences (M. S.)
Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University (1976) (Thesis: Over-relaxation applied to the MacCormack finite-difference
scheme to solve fluid-flow problem; advisor : Prof. John C. Tannehill)
Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph. D.)
Aerospace Engineering, Iowa State University (1978) (Dissertation:
On improving the iterative convergence properties of an implicit approximate-factorization finite-difference algorithm;
advisors : Prof. John C. Tannehill at ISU, Joseph L. Steger at NASA Ames R. C.)
Habilitation à Diriger des Recherches (HdR Sciences)
University of Nice Sophia Antipolis (1993) (Thesis: Construction and analysis of algorithms for compressible-flow simulation)
Appointments
1974 - 1978 :
Research Assistant Aerospace Engineering Department, Iowa State University (USA)
1978 - 1979 :
Service National Ecole de l'Air, Salon de Provence (France)
1980 - 1981 :
Post-Doctoral Fellow (National Research Council Associate) Computational Fluid Dynamics Branch, NASA Ames Research Center, Ames, California, USA
(Topic : multigrid and algebraic preconditioning - Director: Harvard Lomax)
1983 - 1986 :
Chargé de Recherche, 1ère classe Project-Team Sinus,
INRIA Sophia Antipolis Centre