Rate My Professor Edward Sewell

Sewell's academic interests center on numerical analysis, with a focus on computational methods for solving ordinary and partial differential equations using finite element techniques. He developed PDE2D, an easy-to-use software package for solving nonlinear time-dependent partial differential equations in two-dimensional regions with general boundaries. His key textbooks include "Analysis of a Finite Element Method: PDE/PROTRAN" (Springer-Verlag, 1985), "The Numerical Solution of Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations" (Academic Press, 1988; second edition, John Wiley & Sons, 2005; third edition, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2015), "Computational Methods of Linear Algebra" (Ellis Horwood Ltd., 1990; third edition, World Scientific Publishing Company, 2014), and "Solving Partial Differential Equation Applications with PDE2D" (John Wiley & Sons, 2018). Sewell has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals, with representative works such as "Numerical Schemes for Pricing Asian Options under State-dependent, Regime-switching, Jump-diffusion Models" (Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 2016), "Non-Fraunhofer Interference Pattern in Inhomogeneous Ferromagnetic Josephson Junctions" (Physical Review Letters, 2012), and "Thermal Structure, Coupling and Metamorphism in the Mexican Subduction Zone beneath Guerrero" (Geophysical Journal International, 2004).