Professor G. D. Veerappa Gowda TIFR CAM, Bangalore: Dr. G. D. Veerappa Gowda is Professor at TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore. He has done fundamental work in the areas of Hyperbolic conservation laws, Control theory and Numerical approximation of conservation laws. Dr. Gowda obtained an explicit formula for the entropy weak solution of convex conservation laws with boundary conditions, extending the earlier work of Hopf and Lax for the initial value problem. This formula played a major role in solving exact controllability problems. He developed a well-posed theory for scalar conservation laws with discontinuous flux. This theory has important applications in two-phase problems. Dr. Gowda has developed numerical schemes to solve problems arising in oil recovery and sand pile problem on a vertical source.
Dr. Gowda is a fellow of Indian National Science Academy and Dean of TIFR Centre for Applicable Mathematics, Bangalore. Indian Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics (ISIAM) honours Professor Gowda for his outstanding contribution in Applied Mathematics on the occasion of Silver Jubilee of ISIAM (2016).
