Wing Kam Liu
Professor
BS, University of Illinois at Chicago
MS, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Professor
BS, University of Illinois at Chicago
MS, PhD, California Institute of Technology
Currently, he is a Professor of Mechanical and Civil Engineering at Northwestern University.
His research activities include development of numerical methods, computer simulation models, finite element methods and deterministic and probabilistic computational methods and design, and applications to fluid and solid mechanics, structural mechanics, heat transfer and coupled problems, and metal forming. Currently, Dr. Liu is investigating novel methods, which are based on multiple scales and reproducing kernel methods, smooth particle hydrodynamics, and wavelets, as an alternative to the study of highly nonlinear problems which involve multiple scales and localized physical phenomena.
His research developments led to his receipt of the 1995 Gustus L. Larson Memorial Award from ASME, the 1989 Thomas J. Jaeger Prize, International Association of Structural Mechanics, the 1985 Pi Tau Sigma Gold Medal from ASME, the 1983 Ralph R. Teetor Educational Award from the American Society of Automotive Engineers and the 1979 Melville Medal from ASME. He is elected to a Fellow of ASME in 1990, ASCE in 1993 and USACM in 1995.
Dr. Liu serves as an Associate Editor for the ASME Journal of Pressure Vessel Technology and the ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, and the Manager Editor of Computational Mechanics. He is the chairman of the ASME Computing in Applied Mechanics Committee, the Secretary (1995-1996) and the President Elect (2000-2001) of the United States Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM).
Dr. Liu has published 5 edited books and over 200 papers in journals and proceedings.
''Viscous Flow with Large Free Surface Motion,'' (with A. Huerta), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 69, pp. 277-324, 1988.
''Multi-Scale Finite Element Methods,'' (with Y. F. Zhang and M. R. Ramirez), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 32, pp969-990, 1991.
''Adaptive ALE Finite Elements with Particular Reference to External Work Rate on Frictional Interface,'' (with Y. F. Zhang, T. Belytschko and J. S. Chen), Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 93, 189-216, 1991.
''Elastic Interactions of a Fatigue Crack with a Micro-Defect by Mixed Boundary Integral Equation Method,'' (with Lua, Y. J.), International Journal of Numerical Methods, Vol. 36, pp. 2743-2759, 1993.
''Formulation of Dynamic Stability of Fluid-Filled Shells,'' (with K. Tsukimori and R. A. Uras), Nuclear Engineering and Design, Vol. 142, pp. 267-297, 1993.
''Three Reliability Methods for Fatigue Crack Growth,'' (with Chen, Y. J., Belytschko, T., and Lua, Y. J.), to appear in the Special volume of Engineering Fracture Mechanics, 1994.
''Reproducing Kernel Particle Methods for Structural Dynamics,'' (with Jun, S., Li, S, Adee, J., and Belytschko, T.,), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, vol. 38, pp. 1655-1679, 1995.
''Reproducing Kernel Particle Methods,'' International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, (with Jun, S., and Zhang, Y. F., ) vol. 20, pp. 1081-1106, 1995.
''Wavelet and Multiple Scale Reproducing Kernel Methods,'' (with Chen, Y. J.,), International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, accepted for publication, 1994.
''Overview and Applications of Reproducing Kernel Particle Methods,'' Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, State of the Art Reviews, to appear, 1996.