Last update of "Alain Bossavit at TUT": June 6, 2015   
( Recent additions: Numelec 15 2-pp. summary and slides. CEFC 14 final paper and slideshow. Slides for SGE 2014 talk at ENS Cachan.)

Alain Bossavit

  • Born May 4, 1942
  • École polytechnique, promotion 61
  • PhD Paris 6, 1971 (Numerical Analysis)
  • Électricité de France, 1971-2002
  • Scientific advisor, LGEP-CNRS, 1991-
  • Docent, Tampere University of Technology, 1997-

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    Address:
       LGEP, 11 Rue Joliot-Curie,
       91192 Gif-sur-Yvette CEDEX, France
    Email address:
       bossavit at lgep dot supelec dot fr
    Fax:
       33(0)1 6941 8318

    Slideshows:
       Go there.
        (Latest ones: Numelec15 at St-Nazaire, 3 June 2015; SGE 14 at Cachan, 8 Jul. 2014, on the Whitney forms saga; CEFC 14 at Annecy, May 2014, on EM forces.)
    Papers:
       Listed there.
        To get the list of publications as a .pdf document (72 kO), click there.
    Books:
       Scroll down.
    Unpublished stuff:
       Go there.

    Main areas of interest:

    Background occupation:

    On the geometry of electromagnetism.

    Some relevant material can be downloaded (in .ps and/or .pdf format): Under "DGSNME.pdf" or "DGSNME.ps" you may find a small book (150 pp. as a single .pdf file, about 700 kO, or .ps, about 1100 kO), drafted in 1990, entitled

          Differential Geometry for the Student of
          Numerical Methods in Electromagnetism,

    the last chapter of which introduces Maxwell's equations in differential-geometric language. This purported to be an elementary course, which deserves its title by not containing anything about numerical methods.

    Less ancient, more numerics-oriented, the "Japanese papers", a serial published from 1998 to 2000 in J. Japan Society Appl. Electromagn. & Mech. The substance of these papers, rehashed and completed by a tutorial on Whitney forms, later made

          Discretization of electromagnetic problems,

    which can be found here. This was a contribution to a tutorial depository set up by the ICM Institute in Warsaw. Other tutorials or lecture notes are there, including a course in Convex Analysis (CA).
    A slightly updated version of Discretization of electromagnetic problems can now be found in the Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Vol. 13, Elsevier (Amsterdam), 2005, pp. 105-97. (Blurb.) A French rewriting became Chapter 1, Géométrie de l'électromagnétisme et éléments finis, of a 2003 Hermès-Lavoisier treatise edited by G. Meunier, described here and downloadable from this page (scroll down). Japanese readers may find similar material in this book, coauthored with H. Igarashi, A. Kameari, Y. Kagawa, I. Nishiguchi in 2003.

    Books:

    (Errata sheets, in .pdf format, less than 100 kO. Please download... Omission reports welcome.)

         Méthodes numériques en électromagnétisme,
         Eyrolles (Paris), 1991.   Errata.     
    (With C. Emson and I. Mayergoyz. In print. English translation, later, produced DGSNME, described above.)
         Électromagnétisme, en vue de la modélisation,
         Springer-Verlag (Paris), 1994.   Errata     
    (Second printing, corrected, 2004. Residual errata here.)
         Computational Electromagnetism,
         Academic Press (Boston), 1998.    Errata
    This one, out of print, can be downloaded here, in .pdf format (errata corrected). First print out the cover page and front pages, which contain a template to help you check on fonts and dimensions. (The format of a page should be 117 x 196 mm.) Carry on with Contents, Preface, Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, Appendices A, B, C, Author Index, and Subject Index. Most files around 300k, summing up to 3.5 MO.
         Géométrie de l'électromagnétisme et éléments finis,
         Hermès-Lavoisier (Paris), 2003.   Errata (last touch, Dec. 2010).
    This fell out of print in Feb. 2007. Can be downloaded here, in .pdf format (errata corrected, 129 pp., 840 kO).

    Miscellanies:

    Family links:    Pascal Bossavit    Laurent Bossavit    Ginette Horcholle-Bossavit