Obituary - Professor Paul William Partridge

摘要

I am deeply sorry to announce that Professor Paul William Partridge has passed away unexpectedly after a short time in hospital. Paul graduated in civil engineering at the University of Southampton where he completed a PhD in 1976 working in my research group. His area of research was the solution of ocean currents in large areas such as the North Sea, using finite elements. At that time our group was closely involved with researchers at several Brazilian universities who were starting to become interested in boundary elements. I helped him apply for a post-doctoral position at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, in Porto Alegre, where he started to work on boundary elements and rose to become an Adjunct Professor.