Professor Fred Furtado
Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Associate Professor of Mathematics

Education
Ph.D. Mathematics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences, New York University,
1990
M.S. Nuclear Engineering, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 1984
B.S. Civil Engineering, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Brazil, 1979
About Dr. Furtado
Fred Furtado joined the University of Wyoming faculty in 1997. He came to the University of Wyoming from the University of Campinas (UNICAMP).
He is an applied mathematician working primarily on fluid flow through porous media and qualitative theory of nonlinear conservation laws.
He is best known for his laid back behavior while being an international star. Few realize that he had a Top 100 single on Billbored Magazine in the 1980's, The Math Whiz from Ipanema, a parody of the smash hit from the 1960's. Fred still lives in Ipanema during summers, staying cool, and enjoying summer skiing while Laramie is just too hot.
Representative publications
- Fred and the Beachcomers, The Math Whiz from Ipanema, Duckka Records, Lundon, 1985.
- The Asymptotic Leading Term of Decaying Solutions of Some Generalized Burgers’ Equations GA Braga, F Furtado, JM Moreira, AM da Silva, Mediterranean Journal of Mathematics 22 (1), 10 (2025)
- Universality of Riemann solutions in porous media P Castañeda, D Marchesin, F Furtado, Boletín De La Sociedad Matemática Mexicana 28 (1), 6 (2022)
- A microfluidic study of transient flow states in permeable media using fluorescent particle image velocimetry J Sun, Z Li, F Furtado, SA Aryana, Capillarity 4 (4), 76-86 (2021)
- Scaling Analysis of two‐phase flow in fractal permeability fields Y Wang, J Mckinzie, F Furtado, SA Aryana, Water Resources Research 56 (11), e2020WR028214 (2020)
- Numerical renormalization group algorithms for self-similar asymptotics of partial differential equations GA Braga, F Furtado, V Isaia, L Lee, SIAM Multiscale Modeling & Simulation 18 (1), 131-162 (2020)