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Computational Mechanics PhD opportunities for Top Class Chinese Students

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on

Dear Chinese students interested in a PhD in computational mechanics, 

You will find below some information on a fellowship you can apply for.  

http://www.gla.ac.uk/studying/scholarships/internationalscholarships/...

China Scholarships Council

PS2 Question 6

Submitted by Pratheev Sreetharan on

I have not taken any courses focusing on mechanics before, though ES51 (Computer Aided Machine Design) briefly touched on some topics.  My undergraduate major was Physics.  My strengths will be my comfort with mathematics as well as my exposure to professor Howard Stone's undergraduate class in Fluid Mechanics (ES123).  My weakness will definitely be my lack of exposure to any other mechanics courses.

Scholarships for Computational Mechanics in the UK for non-EU students

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on

Dear non-EU students who want to study in the UK,

You are encouraged to look at the fellowship offers below. If you qualify for these and are interested in working in a dynamic group in computational mechanics in Glasgow, please contact me directly stephane dot bordas at gmail dot com

 Our department has a growing team of PhD students (more than 20 at the moment) working in cognate disciplines, which will give you a unique opportunity for a strong PhD in computational mechanics. 

Error runing LS-DYNA explosion model, NEED HELP ?

Submitted by aaj on

Hello There

I as a student of master of structural engineering, try to do a project on simulating the effect of explosion on the concrete by using LS-DYNA as the hydrocode.

I've a problem running my model, that is an error by means of insufficient memory (about 900,000,000 words short), and I'm not able to increase it beyond 300,000,000. Then if there is anything that could help I'll be very appreciated if you could announce.

Looking forward your comment?

iMechanica will be down briefly at 10 am this Friday

Submitted by Zhigang Suo on

Just got a message from Lesley Lam, iMechanica user number 1, as follows.  Harvard School of Engineering and Applied Sciences IT is in the process of moving our servers to a faster, newer host.  As part of this process, I would like to take down iMechanica for about 10 minutes on Friday October 3rd at 10am.  I am hoping this will improve performance and reliability on the machine as well.

Call for fellowship applicants PhD ORSAS

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on

Dear international, non EU students,

 I am looking for high quality applicants for the following prestigious fellowship:  http://www.orsas.ac.uk/

If you have experience in computational mechanics or numerical methods and would like to join a vibrant research group in Glasgow, UK, if you already have international publications in leading journals, then, send me 

- your CV

- a statement concerning why you think you are the best candidate 

- a list of three references

MSc+PhD position Fully Funded -- Massively parallel biomechanics simulation of brain surgery on HECToR

Submitted by Stephane Bordas on

High Performance Computing MSc+Ph.D. position available at the
University of Glasgow on Massively Parallel Brain Surgery Simulation
with the extended finite element method (XFEM and FleXFEM)  (University
of Glasgow) -- funding body is EPSRC.

One year MSc in HPC in Edinburgh (all costs covered by funding) + 3 year Ph.D.  and access to HecToR,
one of the world's largest super-computer, including training with
experts in massively parallel simulation (10,000+ processors).