Bjorn Engquist

Björn Engquist (also known as Bjorn Engquist) is a Swedish mathematician born on June 2, 1945, in Stockholm, Sweden. He is a professor at the Department of Computational and Applied Mathematics at the University of Texas at Austin, where he has made pioneering contributions to applied and computational mathematics with applications in science, engineering, and industry[1][2]. His notable work includes absorbing boundary conditions, shock capturing methods for nonlinear hyperbolic conservation laws, and multiscale modeling[2].