In order to give you an idea of our interests and the scope of our research, we have included lists of selected recent publications and research grants and contracts for the period September, 1991 to August, 1994. Among the areas of research are such topics as element-free Galerkin methods (EFG); wavelets and reproducing kernel methods; multi-resolution analysis; modeling of smart materials; phase transformations; modeling of failure processes in materials; adaptive pseudo-spectral methods; combustion; fluid structure interaction which includes structural acoustics, underwater explosion, dynamic buckling of liquid-filled tanks, and hydrodynamic lubrication metal forming; nonlinear analysis strategies for computer-aided engineering systems; and probabilistic finite elements and reliability analysis. We also interact with several faculty members in the modeling of geotechnical problems and in constitutive equation development.
A large variety of computer resources are available to researchers in computational mechanics. Among them are a cluster of high speed Hewlett Packard and Sun workstations; we have access to CRAYs and parallel computers such as the Connection machine.