The 20th Annual Conference on Computational Mechanics
27-28th March 2012
The University of Manchester
Plenary Lectures
Smoothed Finite Element Methods: Theory, Formulation, and Applications
Professor Guirong Liu, University of Cincinnati, USA
Dr. Liu received PhD from Tohoku University, Japan in 1991. He was a PDF at Northwestern University, USA from 1991-1993. He is currently a Professor, Ohio Eminent Scholar (State Endowed Chair), and School Faculty Chair at the School of Aerospace Systems, University of Cincinnati. He served as a Deputy Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering, the Director of the Centre for Advanced Computations in Engineering Science (ACES), National University of Singapore, and the President of the Association for Computational Mechanics. He is the Secretary General of the Asia-Pacific Association for Computational Methods, and an Executive Council member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics. He authored a large number of international journal papers and books including two bestsellers: "Mesh Free Method: moving beyond the finite element method" and "Smoothed Particle Hydrodynamics: a Meshfree Particle Methods". He authored recently a new book on Smoothed Finite Element Methods that are now used for various types of problems. He is the Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Computational Methods, Associate Editor of the international technical journal Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (IPSE), and served as an editorial member of five other journals including the IJNME.
Computational Mechanics of Discontinuities and Interfaces
Professor Rene de Borst, Eindhoven University of Technology, Netherlands
Rene de Borst graduated in civil engineering in 1982 and received his PhD in 1986 from Delft University of Technology (both cum laude). In 1988 he was appointed as professor in computational mechanics at the Faculty of Civil Engineering of Delft University of Technology. In 1999 he was appointed as professor of engineering mechanics at the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering of this university. In 2000 he was made Distinguished Professor. From May 2007 till April 2011 he was Dean of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology. Currently, he holds the position of Distinguished Professor at this university. He is editor of the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, editor of the International Journal for Numerical and Analytical Methods in Geomechanics, editor of the Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, associate editor of the Aeronautical Journal, and member of the editorial board of another twenty journals. He is recipient of several honours and awards, including the Composite Structures Award (1995), the Max-Planck Research Award (1996), the Computational Mechanics Award (1998), and the Spinoza Prize (1999). He is a Fellow of the International Association of Computational Mechanics since 2002, and in 2005 he was elected as a Member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Improving the efficiency of unstructured mesh procedures for CFD
Professor Kenneth Morgan, Swansea University, UK
Kenneth Morgan is a Professor in the Civil and Computational Engineering Centre in the College of Engineering at Swansea University. He graduated, in mathematics, and obtained the degree of PhD, in fluid mechanics, at the University of Bristol. His research interests lie in the areas of computational fluid dynamics, mesh generation, adaptivity and wave propagation. He is a recipient of the IACM Computational Mechanics Award (1998) and the ECCOMAS Ludwig Prandtl Medal (2007). He was elected Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in 1997 and of the Learned Society of Wales in 2011.
The Scaled Boundary Finite-Element Method: Recent and Future Developments
Associate Professor Chongming Song, University of New South Wales, Australia
Dr. Chongmin Song is an Associate Professor at the School of Civil & Environmental Engineering, University of New South Wales. He obtained the degree of Bachelor of Engineering from Tsinghua University, China and the degree of Doctor of Engineering from the University of Tokyo, Japan. His current research interests are on the development of advanced numerical methods and their application in structural and geotechnical engineering. He is one of the two original developers of the Scaled Boundary Finite-Element Method. He has published more than 50 papers in top-tier archive journals in the area of numerical method, earthquake engineering, structural dynamics and fracture mechanics.