Peter M. Pinsky

Professor
Faculty of Mechanics and Computation, Department of Mechanical Engineering

Degrees

B.S. University of Wales (1969)
M.S. University of Toronto (1971)
Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley (1981)

 

Research Interests

Peter Pinsky works in computational aspects of structural and solid mechanics with a particular interest in the finite element method applied to nonlinear and dynamical problems. Recent application areas include: computational methods for wave propagation, including structural acoustics and fluid-structure interaction; quantum-atomistic-continuum multiscale modelling of materials; semiconductor device and process simulation; computational prototyping tools for micro-electro-mechanical systems (MEMS); diffusion and electromigration in polycrystalline structures; biomechanical modelling of the human eye and experimental studies of tissue behavior; simulation-based design methodologies. He has authored or co-authored over 100 publications and is a member of the editorial boards of the journals: Engineering Computations and Computational Mechanics.

 

Recent Publications

J.E. Rim, P.M. Pinsky and W.W. van Osdol, "Finite Element Modeling of Coupled
Diffusion with Partitioning in Transdermal Drug Delivery", accepted, Annals of Biomedical Engineering.

P.M. Pinsky, D. van der Heide and D. Chernyak, “Computational modeling of mechanical anisotropy in the cornea and sclera,” Journal of Cataract and Refractive Surgery, v.31, no.1, pp.136-145, Jan. 2005.

S.S. Blemker, P.M. Pinsky and S.L. Delp, “a 3D model of muscle reveals the causes of nonuniform strains in the biceps brachii,” Journal of Biomechanics, v. 38, pp. 657-665, 2005.

 H.W Liew and P.M. Pinsky, “Recovery of shear modulus in elastography using an adjoint method with B-spline representation,” Finite Elements in Analysis and Design, v.21, pp. 778-799, 2005.

G.R. Feijoo, P.M. Pinsky and A.A. Oberai, “An Application of Shape Optimization for the Solution of Inverse Acoustic Scattering problems,” Inverse Problems; v. 20, pp. 199-228, 2004.

M.M. Wagner, P.M. Pinsky, M. Malhotra and Assad Oberai "A Krylov subspace projection method for simultaneous solution of Helmholtz problems at multiple frequencies," Computer Methods In Applied Mechanics And Engineering, v.192, no.41-42, p. 4609-4640, 2003

M.M. Wagner, P.M. Pinsky and M. Malhotra, "Application of Pade via Lanczos approximations for efficient multifrequency solution of Helmholtz problems," Journal Of The Acoustical Society Of America, v.113, no.1, p.313-319, Jan. 2003

P.M. Pinsky, A. Guarnieri and J. Shimmick, “Computational investigation of the biomechanical response of the cornea to lamellar procedures,” Investigative Ophthalmology & Visual Science v.42, no.4, suppl.S, p.S603-S603, Mar. 2001

G.R. Feijoo, M. Malhotra, A.A. Oberai and P.M. Pinsky, “Shape Sensitivity Calculations for Exterior Acoustics Problems,” Engineering Computations, Vol. 18, No. 3/4, pp. 376-391, 2001.

Assad A. Oberai and P.M. Pinsky, “A Residual-Based Finite Element Method for the Helmholtz Equation,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 49, pp. 399-419, 2000.

Assad A. Oberai and P.M. Pinsky, “A Numerical Comparison of Finite Element Methods for the Helmholtz Equation,” Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 211-221 2000.

M. Malhotra and P.M. Pinsky, “Efficient Computation of Multi-Frequency Far-Field Solutions of the Helmholtz Equation Using Padé Approximation, Journal of Computational Acoustics, Vol. 8, No. 1, pp. 223-240, 2000

Assad A. Oberai and P.M. Pinsky, “A Multiscale Finite Element Method for the Helmholtz Equation,” Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 154, pp. 281-297, 1998

Recent Projects

GCEP, "Modeling, simulation and characterization of atomic force microscopy measurements for ionic transport and impedance in fuel cells"
VISX Corp. "Biomechanical modeling of the human cornea"
ALZA corp. "Multiscale modeling of transdermal drug delivery"
ONR, "Fundamental Studies in the Theory of Finite Element Discretization"
DARPA, "Computational Prototyping and Simulation-Based Design of MEMS Devices"
ONR, "Computational Methods for Structural Acoustics"
DARPA, "Backend (semiconductor interconnect) Simulation Tool"

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