Thomas J.R. Hughes

Mary and Gordon Crary Family Professor of Engineering and Chairman of the Division of Mechanics and Computation
Emeritus Faculty of Mechanics and Computation Division, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

B.S. Pratt Institute - Mechanical Engineering (1965)

M.S. Pratt Institute - Mechanical Engineering (1967)

M.S. U. C. Berkeley - Mathematics (1974)

Ph.D. U.C. Berkeley - Engineering Science (1974)

Research Interests

Computational methods in solid, structural and fluid mechanics.
Dr. Hughes has published over 300 works on computational mechanics.

Awards and Honors

Dr. Hughes is a fellow of the American Academy of Mechanics, the American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME), the U.S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM), the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He is co-editor of the international journal Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, a founder and past President of USACM, and a founder and current President of IACM. He has received the Walter L. Huber Civil Engineering Research Prize from ASCE, the Melville Medal from ASME, the Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers, the von Neumann Medal from USACM, the Gauss-Newton Medal from IACM, and the Worcester Reed Warner Medal from ASME. Dr. Hughes is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Recent Publications

C.A. Taylor, T.J.R. Hughes and C.K. Zarins, "Finite element modeling of blood flow in arteries," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 158, 158-196 (1998).

K. Garikipati and T.J.R. Hughes, "A study of strain localization in a multiple scale framework: The one-dimensional problem," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 159, 193-222 (1998).

T.J.R. Hughes, "Multiscale phenomena: Green's functions, the Dirichlet-to-Neumann formulation, subgrid-scale models, bubbles and the origins of stabilized methods," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. l27, 387-401 (1995).

I. Harari, T.J.R. Hughes, K. Grosh, M. Malhotra, P.M. Pinsky, J.R. Stewart and L.L. Thompson, "Recent developments in finite element methods for structural acoustics," Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, Vol 3, 131-309 (1996).

J.C. Simo and T.J.R. Hughes, Computational Inelasticity, Springer-Verlag, New York, 1998.

R.M. Ferencz and T.J.R. Hughes, "Iterative finite element solutions in nonlinear solid mechanics," pp. 3-178 in Handbook of Numerical Analysis, Vol. V, Numerical Methods for Solids (eds. P.G. Ciarlet and J.L. Lions) North-Holland, 1998. 

F. Brezzi, T.J.R. Hughes, D. Marini, A. Russo and E. Suli, "A priori error analysis of a finite element method with residual-free bubbles for advection dominated problems," SIAM Journal on Numerical Analysis, Vol. 36, 1933-1948 (1999).

T.J.R. Hughes, The Finite Element Method--Linear Static and Dynamic Finite Element Analysis, Dover Publishers, New York, 2000.

K. Garikipati and T.J.R. Hughes, "Embedding a Micromechanical Law in the Continuum Formulation -- A Multiscale Approach Applied to Discontinuous Solutions," International Journal for Computational Civil and Structural Engineering, Vol. 1, 64-78 (2000)

K. Garikipati and T.J. R. Hughes, "A Variational Multiscale Approach to Strain Localization -- Formulation for Multidimensional Problems," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 188, Nos. 1-3, 39-60 (2000).

S.M. Rifai, J.C. Buell, Z. Johan and T.J.R Hughes, "Automotive Design Applications of Fluid Flow Simulation on Parallel Computing Platforms," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 184 (2-4), 449-466 (2000).

A.A. Oberai, F. Roknaldin and T.J. R. Hughes, "Computational Procedures for Determining Structural Acoustic Response Due to Hydrodynamic Sources," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 190, 345-361 (2000).

T.J.R. Hughes, L. Mazzei and K. Jansen, "Large Eddy Simulation and the Variational Multiscale Method," Computing and Visualization in Science, Vol. 3, No. 1/2, 47-59 (2000).

T.J.R. Hughes, G. Engle, L. Mazzei and M. Larson, "The Continuous Galerkin Method is Locally Conservative," Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 163 (2), 467-488, September 20, 2000.

V.S. Rao and T.J.R. Hughes, "On Modelling Thermal Oxidation of Silicon 1: Theory," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 47, 341-358 (2000).

V.S. Rao, T.J.R. Hughes and K. Garikipati, "On Modelling Thermal Oxidation of Silicon II: Numerical Aspects," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 47, 359-377 (2000).

T.J.R. Hughes, L. Mazzei, A.A. Oberai and A. Wray, "The Multiscale Formulation of Large Eddy Simulation: Decay of Homogenous Isotropic Turbulence," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 13, No. 2, 505-512 (2001).

T.J.R. Hughes, A.A. Oberai and L. Mazzei, "Large Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Channel Flows by the Variational Multiscale Method," Physics of Fluids, Vol. 13, No. 6, 1784-1799 (2001).

Current Projects

ONR Computational Procedures for Determining Acoustic Response due to Hydrodynamic Sources.

NASA Development of Fundamental Technologies for Fluid Flow Problems.

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