Kenan KERGRENE Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) Département Ingénierie Mécanique Équipe Mécanique Numérique Laboratoire Roberval Université de Technologie de Compiègne Centre de Recherches de Royallieu, office H319 CS 60319 - 60203 Compiègne Cedex, France kenan.kergrene(AT)utc.fr

Welcome to my webpage!

My research interests are numerical solutions of partial differential equations using finite element methods (FEM). In particular, I am interested in:

• error estimation and adaptivity
• goal-oriented approaches
• reduced-order modeling (PGD)
• enrichment methods (XFEM/GFEM/SGFEM)

News

• Along with Diane Guignard and Serge Prudhomme we are organizing a minisymposium "Goal-Oriented Error Estimation and Adaptivity" at the ADMOS conference in Barcelona on June 9 - 11, 2025

Short bio

• From Sept 2020 onwards: Associate Professor (Maître de Conférences) at UTC
• Dec 2018 to Aug 2020: Postdoc at Inria Paris and Cermics ENPC
• Jan 2014 to Nov 2018: PhD at Polytechnique Montréal [thesis]
• Sept 2012 to Dec 2013: Research intern at ICES, University of Texas at Austin
• Sept 2009 to Aug 2013: Bachelor and Master at École Normale Supérieure Cachan

Publications (see also Full list, Google Scholar and ResearchGate)

1. Formal stabilization of a coupled ODE-PDE switched system, Adrien Le Coënt, Jonathan Vacher, KK, Conference on Decision and Control, CDC, 2024 [doi]
2. An Optimal Transport Based hr-Adaptive Mesh Pursuit, Sara Maad, KK, Jonathan Vacher, Diane Guignard, Serge Prudhomme, Alain Rassineux, 16ème colloque national en calcul des structures, CSMA, 2024 [doi]
3. Optimisation relaxée adaptative de maillages éléments finis, KK, Jonathan Vacher, Serge Prudhomme, Vincenzo-Enrico Iannuzzi, 15ème colloque national en calcul des structures, CSMA, 2022 [doi]
4. On a Goal-Oriented version of the Proper Generalized Decomposition Method, KK, Ludovic Chamoin, Marc Laforest, Serge Prudhomme, Journal of Scientific Computing, 81(1):92-111, 2019 [doi]
5. A new goal-oriented formulation of the finite element method, KK, Serge Prudhomme, Ludovic Chamoin, Marc Laforest, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 327:256-276, 2017 [doi]
6. Strongly stable generalized finite element method: Application to interface problems, Ivo Babuška, Uday Banerjee, KK, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 327:58-92, 2017 [doi]
7. Approximation of constrained problems using the PGD method with application to pure Neumann problems, KK, Serge Prudhomme, Ludovic Chamoin, Marc Laforest, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 317:507-525, 2017 [doi]
8. Stable generalized finite element method and associated iterative schemes; application to interface problems, KK, Ivo Babuška, Uday Banerjee, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 305:1-36, 2016 [doi]
9. A truncated conical beam model for analysis of the vibration of rat whiskers, Wenyi Yan, Qianhua Kan, KK, Guozheng Kang, Xi-Qiao Feng, Ramesh Rajan, Journal of Biomechanics, 46(12):1987-1995, 2013 [doi]

Editorial activities and Collective responsibilities

Reviewer for

• Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
• Journal of Scientific Computing
• Finite Element Analysis and Design
• Computational and Applied Mathematics
• International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering
• Computational Methods in Applied Mathematics
• Journal of Computational Physics
• IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis

Organization of conferences and minisymposia

• "Goal-Oriented Error Estimation and Adaptivity" - ADMOS, Barcelona, 2025
• "Congrès des Jeunes Chercheurs en Mécanique" - Meca-J, Online, 2024
• "Certification of simulations and model adaptation in computational science and engineering" - WCCM, Vancouver, 2024
• "Applications of Goal-Oriented Error Estimation and Adaptivity" - ADMOS, Gothenburg, 2023
• "Error Estimation and Adaptive Methods in CFD" - CFC, Cannes, 2023
• "Interplay of discretization, algebraic, and linearization errors" - WCCM/ECCOMAS, Paris, 2021

Selection committees

• MCF, Université de Technologie de Compiègne, 2024

Past Teaching

• Analysis and Scientific Computing at ENPC, 1st year - final year undergraduate equivalent (since 2018). Course coordinator: Gabriel Stoltz
• Differential Equations at Polytechnique Montréal, 2nd year undergraduate (2014-2016). Course coordinator: Donatien N'Dri
• Scientific Computing for Engineers at Polytechnique Montréal, 3rd year undergraduate (2015). Course coordinator: Donatien N'Dri