{"id":220,"date":"2010-07-03T18:12:02","date_gmt":"2010-07-03T22:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/people\/rio-yokota-phd\/"},"modified":"2019-07-05T13:18:58","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T17:18:58","slug":"rio-yokota","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/people\/rio-yokota\/","title":{"rendered":"Rio Yokota, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-224\" src=\"\/pasi\/files\/2010\/07\/RioYokota200x200.png\" alt=\"RioYokota200x200\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/files\/2010\/07\/RioYokota200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/files\/2010\/07\/RioYokota200x200-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>About the speaker<\/h2>\n<p>Rio Yokota obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 2009. He then joined the group of Prof Lorena Barba as a postdoc at the University of Bristol (Department of Mathematics), and is due to continue his postdoc with Prof Barba in Boston University from Fall 2010.<\/p>\n<p>Dr \u00a0Yokota was a co-author of the paper that won the Gordon Bell prize (price\/performance) at the Supercomputing Conference 2009, with work carried out on GPUs. His research interests span:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>computational fluid dynamics and turbulence<\/li>\n<li>particle methods for fluid simulation<\/li>\n<li>fast algorithms including the fast multipole method, and<\/li>\n<li>high-performance computing using graphics processors (GPUs)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sample publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>PetRBF\u2014A parallel\u00a0O(N) algorithm for radial basis function interpolation\u201d, Rio Yokota, L. A. Barba, M. G. Knepley,\u00a0<em>Comput. Meth. Appl. Mech. Eng.<\/em> Vol. 199(25\u201328): 1793\u20131804 (2010) [<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1016\/j.cma.2010.02.008\" target=\"_blank\">doi:10.1016\/j.cma.2010.02.008<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Comparing vortex methods and finite difference methods in a homogeneous shear flow, Rio Yokota, S. Obi, <em>Int. J. Num. Meth. Fluids<\/em>, Vol. 63(7): 828\u2013846 (2009) [<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1002\/fld.2102\" target=\"_blank\">doi:10.1002\/fld.2102<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the speaker Rio Yokota obtained a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Keio University, Japan, in 2009. He then joined the group of Prof Lorena Barba as a postdoc at the University of Bristol (Department of Mathematics), and is due to continue his postdoc with Prof Barba in Boston University from Fall 2010. Dr \u00a0Yokota [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3344,"featured_media":0,"parent":148,"menu_order":18,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1682,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/220\/revisions\/1682"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}