The following speakers will be Sectional Speakers at U S National Congress on Computational and Applied Mechanics. The schedule of talks has been added. Click on the title of their talks to see the abstract.
Wednesday, June 6, 2:00 – 2:30 pm
COMPUTATIONS
Yonggang Huang
Mechanics-guided deterministic 3D assembly
Yonggang Huang is the Walter P. Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Civil and Environmental Engineering, and Materials Science and Engineering at Northwestern University. He is interested in mechanics of stretchable and flexible electronics, and mechanically guided deterministic 3D assembly. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering, a member of European Academy of Sciences and Arts, a foreign member of Academia Europaea, and a foreign member of Chinese Academy of Sciences. His recent research awards include the Larson Award in 2003, Melville Medal in 2004, Richards Award in 2010, Drucker Medal in 2013, and Nadai Medal in 2016, all from American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME); Young Investigator Medal in 2006 and Prager Medal in 2017 from the Society of Engineering Sciences; International Journal of Plasticity Medal in 2007; and Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation in 2008. He is the Editor of Journal of Applied Mechanics, a member of the Executive Committee of the ASME Applied Mechanics Division (Chair, 2019-2020), members of the Awards Committee and Nomination Committee of the Engineering Mechanics Institute of American Society of Civil Engineers, and was the President of the Society of Engineering Science in 2014.
FLUIDS
Daniel Livescu
Turbulence with Large Density Variations
Dr. Daniel Livescu is a scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory and, currently, is leading the fluid dynamics team within the Computer, Computational and Statistical Sciences Division and is the PI for the DOE/NNSA Defense Science Programs on DNS and QMD. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Buffalo, SUNY (2001) and his M.S. from the “Politehnica” University Bucharest (1991).
His research interests are in the general areas of theoretical and computational fluid mechanics, with emphasis on turbulence and turbulent mixing simulation, theory, and modeling. Dr. Livescu is a Fellow ASME, Associate Fellow AIAA, and the recipient of the 2017 (inaugural) Frank Harlow Distinguished Mentor Award. He also serves as the Associate Editor for ASME Journal of Fluids Engineering.
SOLIDS
Shaoqiang Tang
Dr. Shaoqiang Tang received BSc in mathematics and BEng in Electronics from University of Science and Technology of China (1990), and PhD in mathematics from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (1995). He joined Peking University in 1997, and is a professor in Department of Mechanics and Engineering Science. He had been an adjunct professor of Tsinghua University during 2005-2011.
His main research interests are in computational mechanics and applied mathematics, focusing on the design and analysis for multiscale algorithms in recent years.
He had served as an associate dean in College of Engineering, Peking University (2009-2013), and founding director of MoE Key Laboratory of High Energy Density Physics Simulations (2010-2017). He also serves in several journals, including Computational Mechanics (2017-), Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics (2008-2018), Mechanics in Engineering (associate editor-in-chief, 2007-), etc. He was elected twice by students as Ten Best Teachers at Peking University, and earned Excellent Teacher Award from Beijing Municipality.
Thursday, June 7, 2:00 – 2:30 pm
COMPUTATIONS
Xi-Qiao Feng
Xi-Qiao Feng is a Chang Jiang Chair Professor and the head of Department of Engineering Mechanics, Tsinghua University. He received bachelor, master, and doctoral degrees of solid mechanics in 1990, 1991, and 1995 at Tsinghua, respectively. From 1997 to 1999, he worked as an Alexander von Humboldt research fellow in the Technical University of Darmstadt and Delft University of Technology. He rejoined Tsinghua University as an associate professor in 1999 and was promoted as a professor in 2001.
During 2010–2014, he served as the secretary-general of the Chinese Society of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Since 2006, he has been the director of the Institute of Biomechanics and Medical Engineering (IBME) at Tsinghua University. Currently, he serves as an editor-in-chief of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, and an associate editor or editorial board member of about ten other international journals.
His research interests include damage and fracture mechanics, mechanics of biological materials, cells, and tissues. He has authored four books and about 300 papers. Selected Feng’s honors include the Award of Science and Technology for Young Scientists of China (2007), Distinguished Young Scholars Award of NSFC (2005), Young Scientist Award of Fok Ying Tong Education Foundation (2004), Award of Distinguished Doctoral Theses of China (1999), etc.
FLUIDS
Boyce Griffith
Fluid-Structure Interaction: Methods, Models, and Applications in Biology and Medicine
Dr. Boyce Griffith is Associate Professor of Mathematics and Adjunct Associate Professor of Applied Physical Sciences and Biomedical Engineering at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
SOLIDS
Sridhar Krishnaswamy
Photoacoustic Characterization of Materials
Sridhar Krishnaswamy obtained his B.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, and his M.S. and PhD in Aeronautics from the California Institute of Technology. He is currently a full Professor of Mechanical Engineering and Director of the Center for Smart Structures and Materials, which is an interdisciplinary center at Northwestern University. Prof. Krishnaswamy’s research interests are in multifunctional materials, optical and thin film sensors as applied to smart structures, nondestructive methods of materials characterization, and multiscale and multiphase 3D printing of phononic and photonic metamaterials. Prof. Krishnaswamy is a Fellow of ASME and Fellow of SPIE.
Friday, June 8, 2:00 – 2:30 pm
COMPUTATION
Nasr Ghoniem
A Mesh-Independent Method for 3-D Propagating Cracks in Finite Domains
Professor Ghoniem joined the faculty at UCLA in 1977 as an assistant Professor after finishing his Ph.D. in Nuclear Engineering from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He was promoted to Associate Professor in 1982, Full Professor in 1986, Senior Professor in 1996, and “Distinguished Professor” in 2006. He is a professor in the departments of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, and also Materials Science & Engineering at UCLA. He has wide experience in the development of materials in severe environments (Nuclear, Mechanical and Aerospace). He developed some of main multiscale computational methods in defect physics and mechanics. He is a fellow of the American Nuclear Society, the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, the Japan Society for Promotion of Science, and The Materials Research Society. He was the general chair of the Second International Multiscale Materials Modeling Conference in 2004, and is the co-chair of the 19th International Conference on Fusion Reactor Materials in 2019. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals, and has published over 350 articles, 10 edited books, and is the co-author of a two-volume book (Oxford Press) on the mechanics and physics of defects, computational materials science, radiation interaction with materials, instabilities and self-organization in non-equilibrium materials (Nasr Ghoniem and Daniel Walgraef, “Instabilities and Self-Organization in Materials: Part I- Fundamentals of Nanoscience, and Part II-Applications in Materials Design and Nanotechnology,”Oxford Press, 2007, 1100 pages.) He graduated 35 Ph.D. students and 25 post-doctoral scholars (14 are currently in faculty positions). His current research on “Materials in Extreme Environments” is supported by the National Science Foundation (Extreme strain rate effects), the U.S. Department of Energy (Thermomechanics at extreme temperatures for fusion energy), and the US Air Force Office for Scientific Research (Micro-engineered materials for Space Electric Propulsion).
FLUIDS
Xiyun Lu
Simulation and Analysis of Vortical Flows
Professor Lu is Cheung Kong Professor of Fluid Mechanics and the Executive Dean of the School of Engineering Science, the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC). He received his PhD degree at USTC in 1992. He was visiting professor and visiting scholar at some universities, such as The University of Tokyo, The Pennsylvania State University, The University of Tennessee Space Institute, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology.
Professor Lu’s area of research concerns physical analysis and numerical simulation of turbulent flows, biofluiddynamics of swimming and flying animals, vorticity and vortex dynamics, and interfacial flow and interface instability. His research findings are described in over 200 archival journal papers and over 100 international conference papers. He has received several awards, such as Chou Pei-Yuan Hydrodynamics Award, National Special Allowance, Cheung Kong Scholars Program Award, National Science Fund Award for Distinguished Scholars, and Supervisor of National Excellent Doctoral Dissertation. In addition, he serves on and has served on a large number of steering committees and journal editorial boards.
SOLIDS
Stelio Kyriakides
Dr. Kyriakides received a B.Sc. degree in Aeronautical Engineering with first class honors from the University of Bristol in the U.K., and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics, with specialty in the mechanics of solids, from the California Institute of Technology. He is Professor of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics at The University of Texas at Austin and holds the John Webb Jennings Chair in Engineering. Kyriakides’ major technical interests are in the mechanics of solids, structures and materials, with an emphasis on instability at both the macro (structural) and micro (material) levels. His work is motivated by practical problems and usually involves combined experimental, analytical and numerical efforts. He has more than 200 publications, has co-authored one book, co-edited 5 books, and has lectured extensively both nationally and internationally. Among other research contributions, he has pioneered propagating instabilities in structures and materials. The subject first appeared in the problem of buckle propagation in offshore pipelines in the 1980s, but the underlying mechanism of localization of deformation, local arrest, and propagation was subsequently demonstrated to govern other structures and a variety of material systems, including: propagating necks in polymers; the onset and spreading of crushing in cellular materials including trabecular bone; the propagation of kink bands in fiber composites and woods; the propagation of phase transition fronts in shape memory alloys; the propagation of Lüders bands in metals, and others. He has also maintained a long-term interest in plastic instabilities and crushing of structures, plasticity, forming problems in manufacturing, localization and ductile failure of metals, the mechanical behavior of composites, etc. He is recognized as a major contributor to these areas.
