Research Interests

Numerical methods, scientific computations, motion of interfaces.  Applications include bacterial biofilms, neurophysiology, crack propagation, and solidification among others.

Research Website

http://people.esam.northwestern.edu/~chopp

Honors and Awards

Charles Deering McCormick Professor of Teaching Excellence

Selected Publications

1. N. Sukumar, D. L. Chopp, E. Béchet, N. Möes. Three-dimensional non-planar crack growth by a coupled extended finite element and fast marching method, Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., to appear, 2008.
   
   
2. M. J. Rempe, N. Spruston, W. L. Kath, and D. L. Chopp. Compartmental neural simulations with spatial adaptivity. J. Comp. Neuroscience, to appear, 2008.
   
   
3. D. L. Chopp. Another look at velocity extensions in the level set method. in review, 2007.
   
   
4. R. Duddu, S. Bordas, D. L. Chopp, and B. Moran. A combined extended finite element and level set method for biofilm growth. Int. J. Num. Meth. Eng., to appear, 2007. (journal)
   
   
5. B. G. Smith, B. L. Vaughan, and D. L. Chopp. The extended finite element method for boundary layer problems in biofilm growth,CAMCoS, 2(1):35-56, 2007. (journal)
   
   
6. M. J. Kirisits, J. Margolis, B. L. Purevdorj-Gage, B. Vaughan, D. L. Chopp, P. Stoodley, and M. R. Parsek. The influence of the hydrodynamic environment on quorum sensing in Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms, J. Bacteriology, 189(22):8357-8360, 2007. (journal)
   
   
7. B. L. Vaughan, Jr., B. G. Smith, and D. L. Chopp. A comparison of the extended finite element method with the immersed interface method for elliptic equations with discontinuous coefficients and singular sources. CAMCoS, 1(1):207-228, 2006. (journal)
   
   
8. J. D. Shrout, D. L. Chopp, C. L. Just, M. Hentzer, M. Givskov, and M. R. Parsek. The impact of quorum sensing and swarming motility on Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation is nutritionally conditional. Molecular Microbiology, 62(5):1264-1277, 2006. (journal)
   
   
9. A. Tongen and D. L. Chopp. Simulation of multigrain thin film growth. Interfaces and Free Boundaries, 8:1-19, 2006. (journal)
   
   
10. M. J. Rempe and D. L. Chopp. A predictor-corrector algorithm for reaction-diffusion equations associated with neural activity on branched structures. SIAM J Scientific Computing, 28(6):2139-2161, 2006. (journal)