Physical Modeling and Computational Techniques for Thermal and Fluid-dynamics: Practical Numerical Mathematics

Maurizio Bottoni was born in 1941 in Ferrara, Italy. After humanistic studies in Ferrara and basic courses in mathematics and physics at the Ferrara University, he studied nuclear engineering at the University of Bologna where he obtained  a Ph.D in December 1965, with a thesis in neutron physics, which was awarded the RIGHI price of the Bologna University. For about 25 years Dr. Bottoni worked at the former Nuclear Research Centre of Karlsruhe (actually Karlsruhe Institute of Technology), Germany, and at the Argonne National Laboratory of Chicago, Illinois, on fast nuclear reactor safety analysis.  

After the demise of the fast reactor projects, both in Germany and in USA, years followed as visiting professor at the Tokyo Institute of Technology (1996 - 1997) and at the TsinghuaUniversity in Beijing (1999 - 2002). 

The experience gained with the research work in fast breeder reactor theory was collected in a series of monographspresented for the first time in 1994 at the Chinese Institute of Atomic Energy (CIAE) in Beijing. These preliminary teaching courses were extended and reorganized as a full course of about fifty teaching hours and formed the bulk of the teaching material for the lectures given over years at the Tsinghua University. 

Excerpts of these courses were adopted between 2003 and 2006 for lectures held on numerical methods in atmospheric physics and molecular dynamics at the Physic Department of the University of Ferrara, Italy.