Computer Modeling and Simulation
Modeling and simulation represent catalysts capable of synthesizing
formal theory and experimental results, breaking artificial barriers
between these two main approaches to scientific discovery and
engineering advances. Recently, computational simulation has become
a third approach - along with theory and laboratory simulation -
to studying and solving scientific and engineering problems.
Computational simulation is based on the use of high-performance
computers to model and simulate complex systems. In this approach,
a computer equipped with problem-solving software tools may represent
a virtual laboratory in which researchers can build a model for a
given problem and run it under varying conditions.
These increasingly complex computational methodologies require
sophisticated models and numerical algorithms, and vice versa.
In this lab, we develop new computational methods for performing
simulation of complex engineering and mechanics models.
Excerpts from the Timoshenko Medal Acceptance Speech
delivered by Professor J. Tinsley Oden in 1996.
"The Revolution in Applied Mechanics from Timoshenko to Computation",
Some Topics in Computational Mechanics
Computational Solid Mechanics
- Material Modeling
- Viscoelasticity and Creep
- Plasticity and Localization
- Viscoplasticity
- Damage and Fracture
- Phase Transformations
- Composites
- Porous Materials
- Biomaterials
- Smart Materials
- Large Deformations
- Material Forming
- Impact and Wave Propagation
- Heat Transfer
- Other Field Problems
Computational Structural Mechanics
- Beams, Plates and Shells
- Engineering Structures
- Nano Structures
- Structural Stability
- Structural Vibrations
- Multibody Dynamics
- Structural Optimization
- Stochastic Structural Analysis
- Reliability and Safety
- Smart Structures
- Biomechanics
Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Non-Newtonian and Multiphase Flows
- Boundary Layers and Transition
- Free Surface Flows
- Unsteady Flow and Flow Stability
- Turbulence and Transitions
- Vortex Dynamics
- Convective/Heat Transfer Flows
- High Speed Flows
- Environmental Flows
- Combustion Reactive Flows
- Flow in Porous Media
- Biological Fluid Dynamics
- Flows in Thin Films
- Microfluid Dynamics
- Smart Fluids
Multidisciplinary Topics Involving Mechanics
- Fluid-Structure Interaction
- Structural Acoustics
- Aeroacoustics
- Chemothermomechanics
- Magnetohydrodynamics
- Mechanics of Active Cells and Molecules
Some of the Methods Used/Developed in Computational Mechanics
- Adaptive Modeling
- Approximation Techniques
- Evolutionary Algorithms
- Visualization
- Grid Generation
- Inverse Methods
- Neural Networks
- Meshless Methods
- Nonlinear Solvers
- Iterative Solvers
- Optimization
- Parallel Computing
- Virtual Reality
-L.L.Thompson
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