Applied PDE Research Group Front Page Applied Partial Differential Equations Research Group Professor Athanasios Tzavaras leads the Applied PDE group, which stands for Applied Partial Differential Equations Research group areas of expertise and current scientific interests: analysis of partial differential equations, mathematical modeling, and numerical methods Our group is interested in mathematical modeling, analysis and the development of numerical methods for evolutionary partial differential equations in fluid and solid mechanics. Subjects of current interest include: Relative entropy and the comparison of thermomechanical