Hendrik "Henk" Albertus van der Vorst (born 5 May 1944, Venlo) [1] is a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Numerical Analysis at Utrecht University. According to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), his paper [2] on the BiCGSTAB method was the most cited paper in the field of mathematics in the 1990s. [3] He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2002 [4] and the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation. [5] In 2006 he was awarded a knighthood of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. [6] Henk van der Vorst is a Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). [7]
His major contributions include preconditioned iterative methods, in particular the ICCG (incomplete Cholesky conjugate gradient) method (developed together with Koos Meijerink), a version of preconditioned conjugate gradient method, [8] [9] the BiCGSTAB [2] and (together with Kees Vuik) GMRESR [10] Krylov subspace methods and (together with Gerard Sleijpen) the Jacobi-Davidson method [11] for solving ordinary, generalized, and nonlinear eigenproblems. He has analyzed convergence behavior of the conjugate gradient [12] and Lanczos methods. He has also developed a number of preconditioners for parallel computers, [13] including truncated Neumann series preconditioner, incomplete twisted factorizations, and the incomplete factorization based on the so-called "vdv" ordering.
He is the author of the book Iterative Krylov Methods for Large Linear systems [14] and one of the authors of the Templates projects for linear problems [15] and eigenproblems. [16]
Hendrik "Henk" Albertus van der Vorst (born 5 May 1944, Venlo) [1] is a Dutch mathematician and Emeritus Professor of Numerical Analysis at Utrecht University. According to the Institute for Scientific Information (ISI), his paper [2] on the BiCGSTAB method was the most cited paper in the field of mathematics in the 1990s. [3] He is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2002 [4] and the Netherlands Academy of Technology and Innovation. [5] In 2006 he was awarded a knighthood of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. [6] Henk van der Vorst is a Fellow of Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM). [7]
His major contributions include preconditioned iterative methods, in particular the ICCG (incomplete Cholesky conjugate gradient) method (developed together with Koos Meijerink), a version of preconditioned conjugate gradient method, [8] [9] the BiCGSTAB [2] and (together with Kees Vuik) GMRESR [10] Krylov subspace methods and (together with Gerard Sleijpen) the Jacobi-Davidson method [11] for solving ordinary, generalized, and nonlinear eigenproblems. He has analyzed convergence behavior of the conjugate gradient [12] and Lanczos methods. He has also developed a number of preconditioners for parallel computers, [13] including truncated Neumann series preconditioner, incomplete twisted factorizations, and the incomplete factorization based on the so-called "vdv" ordering.
He is the author of the book Iterative Krylov Methods for Large Linear systems [14] and one of the authors of the Templates projects for linear problems [15] and eigenproblems. [16]