Philip L. Roe

Philip L. Roe is a Professor of Aerospace Engineering at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor.

Roe made fundamental contributions to the development of high-resolution schemes for hyperbolic conservation laws.

[2] After completing his education at Cambridge University, UK, Roe worked for the Royal Aircraft Establishment from 1962 to 1984.

Initially he worked in the field of missile aerodynamics and later shifted to CFD and devised the Roe solver for numerical computation of compressible flows with shocks.

He published this work in the seminal paper titled "Approximate Riemann solvers, parameter vectors, and difference schemes" which appeared in the Journal of Computational Physics in 1981.

Philip L. Roe