Expertise

Expertise:

  • Hypersingular integral equations in heat conduction and stress analysis including fracture mechanics
  • Modeling strain gradient elasticity
  • Modeling functionally graded materials
  • Multipole methods accelerated with fast Fourier transforms
  • Airfoil design and modeling
  • Delaunay triangulations in representing and simulating random structure
  • Nonlinear, unpredictable random number generation
  • Ascent debris transport in supersonic flows
  • Dynamic modeling of space tethers 
Past Affiliations

Assistant Professor, William B. Burnsed Jr. Mechanical, Aerospace, and Biomedical Engineering Department, College of Engineering, University of South Alabama

Assistant Professor, Department of Mechanical Engineering, College of Engineering, Tennessee Technological University (past)

Postdoctoral Fellow, Oak Ridge Associated Universities
1998 - 2001

Communities
Mechanical Engineering
Degrees
PhD, Vanderbilt University, Mechanical Engineering, 1998
BS
MS
Keywords
finite element analysis mechanical engineering continuum mechanics mechanics solid mechanics computational mechanics fracture analysis or mechanics
Languages
English
Associations
American Society of Mechanical Engineers