Eli Turkel

Eli L. Turkel (hebrew אלי טורקל) (born January 22, 1944) is an Israeli applied mathematician and currently an emeritus professor of applied mathematics at the School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University. He is known for his contributions to numerical analysis of Partial Differential equations particularly in the fields of computational fluid dynamics, computational electromagnetics and elasticity. His other research interests include algorithms for scattering and inverse scattering, image processing, and crack propagation. His main contributions include fast algorithms for the Navier-Stokes equations based on preconditioning techniques, radiation boundary conditions and high order accuracy for wave propagation in general shaped domains. His recent work is on reading ostraca from the first Temple period. Algorithmic handwriting analysis of Judah’s military correspondence sheds light on composition of biblical texts which appeared in PNAS was quoted by numerous sources including the front page of the NY Times. Turkel was listed as an ISI highly cited researcher in mathematics. with over 5000 citations.

Education

Turkel was born in New York City, United States. He received his B.A. degree from the Yeshiva University in 1965, M.S. degree from the New York University in 1967, and Ph.D. degree from the Courant Institute at New York University in 1970; all in mathematics. His Ph.D. thesis advisors were J. J. Stoker and Eugene Isaacson. He received rabbinical ordination from Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik.

External links

• Eli Turkel at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
• home page: http://www.math.tau.ac.il/~turkel/
• Index book for the Rav Soloveitchik https://www.otzar.org/wotzar/book.aspx?191322&&lang=eng