Prof. Raul A Radovitzky

Professor Radovitzky's Research includes:

* development of numerical models for the analysis of different manufacturing processes in the steel industry
* the formulation of efficient finite element interpolation schemes, the analysis of thermomechanical effects in welding processes
* the Lagrangian formulations of viscous flows with applications to sloshing and wave-breaking
* unstructured tetrahedral mesh generation algorithms
* error estimation and adaptive remeshing schemes for nonlinear dynamic problems
* electromagnetic riveting analysis
* dynamic fracture and fragmentation of glass rods
* dry sliding wear of metals
* efficient algorithms formulation for computation of exponential and logarithmic mappings of square matrices
* scalable Eulerian-fluid/Lagrangian-solid coupling algorithms and shock-capturing schemes for the Lagrangian analysis of shocks in solids.
* multiscale modeling and advanced simulation of material behavior
* polycrystalline plasticity and microstructural evolution
* scalable algorithms for the analysis of coupled fluid-solid problems
* interaction between high-speed flows and highly -deformable solids
* large scale distributed computing
* scalable fragmentation and contact algorithms
* adaptive procedures for nonlinear dynamic problem
* free-surface flows