Brian Morton

Graduate Student

Department of Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
1326 Stevenson Center Ln
Nashville, TN 37212

General

I am a third-year PhD student in the Vanderbilt Department of Mathematics under the supervision of Professor Marcelo Disconzi. I received my Bachelors of Science degrees from Purdue University in Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering and Mathematics. My research interests are in partial differential equations and fluid dynamics. Currently, I am a member of the Vanderbilt PDE Research Group and the Vanderbilt Initiative for Gravity, Waves, and Fluids . Here are my CV and Google Scholar.

Contact Information

1400 18th Ave S
Office A3106
Nashville, TN 37212

1326 Stevenson Center Ln
Office SC1227F
Nashville, TN 37240

brian.f.morton(AT)vanderbilt(DOT)edu

Research

Partial Differential Equations and Fluid Dynamics

Publications

• Vorozhbit, E., Morton, B., Adhikari, N., Alexeenko, A., & Hu, J. Dgfs-Be Solver: An Open-Source Discontinuous Galerkin Fast Spectral Solver for the Full Boltzmann Equation pdf
• Adhikari, N., Morton, B., Alexeenko, A. A., & Hu, J. (2024, February). Verification of a discontinuous Galerkin fast spectral solver for the full Boltzmann equation. In AIP Conference Proceedings (Vol. 2996, No. 1). AIP Publishing. pdf

Notes

Here are some notes from previous talks

• Notes on Local Well-Posedness of Incompressible Fluids
• Notes on Relativistic Fluids

Here are some notes from previous courses

• Notes on Differential Topology

Teaching

• Spring 2026: Math 2400 (Sections 02 and 03)
• Fall 2025: Math 1301 (Sections 02 and 03)