I have an opening for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University. The postdoctoral fellow will work with PhD students and experimental collaborators on a range of projects dealing with coupled field phenomena and fracture/damage mechanics. Projects here involve collaborations with Duke's medical school as well as researchers at other institutions and the national laboratories.
I have an opening for a two-year postdoctoral fellowship at Duke University. The project is a collaboration with experimentalists. and concerns problems in which fractures are driven by fluid flow through porous media.
The ideal candidate will have some background in finite element methods and mechanics, nonlinear coupled field problems, C++, and high-performance computing. Experience with fracture mechanics is useful but not required.
Professors Wilkins Aquino and John Dolbow at Duke University are soliciting applications for candidates interested in a postdoctoral fellowship in computational mechanics at Duke University. Applicants are expected to have experience in the development of numerical methods for problems in mechanics. Experience with nonlinear systems of equations, high-performance computing, C++, and/or meshless methods will be viewed favorably.
Dear Colleagues,
I thought some of you may be interested in our recent paper which has been accepted to Soft Matter. The article is available online, here:
http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2014/SM/C7SM01245D?page=search
It contains a new model for the fracture of particulate rafts, and some new experimental results as well. Questions are welcome.
As many of you know, the scientific community lost William (Bill) Klug to a senseless act of violence on June 1, 2016. A memorial to Bill has been penned by his graduate advisor, Michael Ortiz. It has been posted at the following website:
The page includes information for those interested in making donations in support of the family.
The Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Pratt School of Engineering at Duke University invite applicants for a tenure-track faculty position in one or more of the areas of: (1) optimization, design, control, and decision making under uncertainty; (2) coupled-field problems in geo-mechanics with application to energy production, energy storage, hazardous waste storage/disposal, and environmental protection; (3) new or emerging materials with application to renewable energy; and (4) computational science and engineering with impact on societally-relevant problems and the
The Annual Robert J. Melosh Competition for the Best Student Paper in Finite Element Analysis was held last Friday, April 24, on the campus of Duke University.
The winner of the 2015 Melosh Medal is Maurizio Chiaramonte, from Stanford University, for his paper “The H-Version of the Method of Auxiliary Mapping for Higher Order Solutions of Crack Problems.”
Maurizio was selected as the winner on the basis of both his written paper and his oral presentation. The other finalists at the 2015 competition were:
The US Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM) is calling for nominations for the Gallagher Young Investigator Medal. The description from the USACM Awards page reads:
Phani Motamarri, from the University of Michigan, is the 2014 Melosh Medalist for his paper "A Spectral Finite-Element Based Method For Large-Scale Quantum Mechanical Calculations Using Kohn-Sham Density Functional Theory". Please join me in congratulating Phani!
Seven finalists have been identified for the 2014 Melosh Competition to be held Friday, April 25, at Duke University. The finalists and their current institutions are:
Amin Aghaei, Carnegie Mellon University
Sourish Chakravarty, SUNY Buffalo
Gina El Jannoun, MINES ParisTech
Mhadi Moghadam, UCSD
Phani Motamarri, University of Michigan
Nathan Roberts, University of Texas
Timothy Truster, University of Tennessee
Please join me in congratulating the finalists!!!