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Photo: Out to lunch with my former research lab, circa 2018, and Pat Fox, the Department Head.

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last updated 10/6/2022

Former PhD Students


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2020-2022

​Andy Groeneveld
PhD student

Topic

"An immersed variational multiscale reproducing kernel particle method with application to fiber reinforcement in ultra-high performance concrete"

Now in Dr. Chen's group at PSU


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2020-2022

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Feihong Liu
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PhD student

Topic

"Hybrid reproducing kernel peridynamic method for extreme event simulation"
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Now in Dr. Peco's group at PSU

Graduated Students

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2020-2022

Iris Wang
MS student
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Thesis topic
A cohesive reproducing kernel particle method for brittle fracture

Current position
PhD student at UCSD with JS Chen

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2017-2021

Sam Yang
PhD student

Thesis
"Reproducing kernel finite volume methods for dynamic brittle fracture​"

Current position
​Working at MathWorks

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2018-2021

​Dr. Jiarui Wang

PhD student

Thesis
"
Stabilized meshfree methods for material failure and composite analysis"

Current position
Hibbett Fellow at Brown

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2016-2020

​Dr. Chris Lin
PhD student

​Thesis
"
A Nodally Integrated Thermo-Mechanical Meshfree Formulation with Application to Fused Deposition Modeling"

Current position
​Assistant Professor at National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan

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2017-2019

Mr. Guang Chen
​MS student

​Thesis
"Meshfree Viscoelastic Modeling: Toward Numerical Simulation of Printing Concrete Structures"

Former Postdoctoral Scholars

Dr. Saivash Jafarzadeh (2021-2022) 

Research
Corrosion damage, and fracture based on peridynamic theory, spectral-methods, peridynamic mathematical models for deformation-corrosion-damage problems, failure of fiber reinforced composite laminates.

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Dr. Jiarui Wang (2021-2022)

Research
Collocation meshfree methods, stabilized meshfree methods, immersed methods for composites and fluid-structure interaction, meshfree methods for large deformation and fracture.

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Dr. Anna Madra (2018-2020)

​Topics
Data-driven analysis, machine learning techniques for transforming X-ray microtomography into models suitable for numerical simulation.

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Dr. Guohua Zhou (2017-2018)

​Topics
Unified local non-local meshfree methods, immersed methods for composite analysis, particle based shock algorithms for local and non-local meshfree methods.

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