Title: Computational absorbing boundary conditions for wave phenomena

Speaker: Professor Dan Givoli, Technion University, Tel Aviv, Israel

Date/Time: Thursday, August 2, 2007, 11:00 am – 12:00 pm

Location: CSRI Building, Room 279 (Sandia NM)

Brief Abstract:  Computational absorbing boundaries for use in fields of applications like geophysics, acoustics and meteorology which involve waves in unbounded media, will be reviewed. The major milestones over the last four decades will be discussed, as well as recent advances.

Bio: Dan Givoli is Professor and Lawrence and Marie Feldman Chair in Engineering, at the Department of Aerospace Engineering, Technion University, Tel Aviv, Israel. He earned a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering at Stanford University in 1988. He joined the faculty of Technion University in 1988, and chaired the Department of Aerospace Engineering during the years 2004-05. His main interests are computational solid mechanics, finite element methods, computational methods for acoustic and elastic waves, combination of analytic and numerical methods, space structures. He was also Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (1995-1996), and Visiting Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics, Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey (2001-2002).

CSRI POC: Guglielmo Scovazzi, (505) 844-0707