Rate My Professor Eun-Hee Kim

Eun Heui Kim served as a full professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at California State University, Long Beach, where she was listed among former tenure-track faculty as of 2024. She earned her Ph.D. in Mathematics from the University of Connecticut. Her research specializations encompass the mathematical analysis of partial differential equations, with particular emphasis on nonlinear wave systems, transonic shock waves and reflection problems, compressible flows, free boundary problems, self-similar solutions in multidimensional conservation laws, numerical methods for wildfire spread simulations, biological pattern formation, and degenerate elliptic equations. She has expertise in overlapping domain decomposition methods implemented on parallel machines.

Kim produced 25 publications garnering over 760 citations. Key works include "Numerical solutions to shock reflection and shock interaction problems for the self-similar transonic two-dimensional nonlinear wave systems" (2013), "Transonic shock reflection problems for the self-similar two-dimensional nonlinear wave system" (2013), "Numerical solutions of transonic two-dimensional flows at a ninety-degree wedge" (2012), "Thermal-image-based wildfire spread simulation using a linearized model of an advection–diffusion–reaction equation" (2012), "Numerical solutions to the self-similar transonic two-dimensional nonlinear wave system" (2011), "A variational inequality formulation for transonic compressible steady potential flows with shock waves" (2017), and "Existence and stability of perturbed transonic shocks for compressible steady potential flows" (2008). Her research received funding from National Science Foundation grants DMS-1615266 and DMS-1109202 (RUI: Multidimensional Conservation Laws), and Department of Energy grant DE-FG02-03ER25571. At CSULB, she advised on graduate comprehensive exams for Numerical Analysis and Applied Nonlinear Ordinary Differential Equations, joined student success teams in 2019, and presented on shape evolution of geometric curvature flow and nonlocal interaction interfaces in 2022.