Fundamental Technologies for Complex, Multiscale Fluid Flow Calculations
Computational and Applied Mathematics Chair III
Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences
and
Department of Aerospace Engineering
The University of Texas at Austin
As one of the acknowledged pioneers of computational finite-element methods, Professor Hughes has examined and solved problems as apparently disparate as the design of ship hulls and parachutes and the simulation of flows in recording compact disks and the entire cardiovascular system.
Currently, Hughes and his postdoctoral researchers and graduate students are at work on numerous computationally intensive problems related to fluid flow, among them the longstanding problem of simulating the transition of a flow from smooth and even to turbulent and roiled. For a detailed description of one of these projects and of the research program of Professor Hughes throughout his career, see "The World of Thomas Hughes: Computational Mechanics for Engineering Design."
