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Professor Emeritus
Department of Mechanical Engineering
University of Colorado Boulder, Colorado, USA
Structural Dynamics, Finite and Boundary Element Methods
Formerly with: Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory, Palo Alto, California 94304
Education:
Ph.D. Applied Mechanics, MIT
M.S. Mechanical Engineering, MIT
B.S. Physics, MIT
Research Interests:
Structural acoustics; Structural dynamics, Bubble dynamics, Computational dynamics
“My research in structural acoustics has focused on transient fluid-structure interaction, with applications to the shock-response analysis of naval structures. Recent work on the dynamics of dry structures has emphasized the shock-response analysis of hard disk drives. The research on bubble dynamics has addressed large bubbles associated with underwater explosions. Finally, the preceding has been directed toward the use of finite-element and boundary-element computational methods to treat complex engineering problems.”
2001 Recipient of SAVIAC’s Melvin L. Baron Award:
SAVIAC’s (Shock And Vibration Information Analysis Center) most prestigious honor, the Melvin L. Baron Award, was presented to Professor Thomas L. Geers, for his pioneering work in numerical simulation methods and tools that analyze the response of submarines and surface ships to underwater explosions. He is
one of the community’s outstanding researchers. The award was named for one of Weidlinger Associates’s founding principals, Dr. Melvin L. Baron, in recognition of his technical contributions and leadership in computational structural dynamics and shock- and vibration-related specialties. The award is given for unique contributions to the field as well as for lifetime achievement.
Selected Publications:
T.L. Geers, "Residual Potential and Approximate Methods for Three Dimensional Fluid Structure Interaction Problems," Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 49,5,2 (1971), 1505-1510.
C.A. Felippa, T.L. Geers and J.A. DeRuntz, "Response of a Ring-Stiffened Cylindrical Shell to a Transient Acoustic Wave," Lockheed Palo Alto Research Laboratory report LMSC-D403671, 1974.
Geers, Thomas L., “Doubly Asymptotic Approximations for Transient Motions of Submerged Structures”, The
Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, Vol. 64, pp 1500-1508, 1978
Geers TL, Felippa CA. Doubly asymptotic approximations for vibration analysis of submerged structures. Journal of Acoustical Society of America, 1980, 73:1152-1159
DeRuntz, J.A., Geers, T.L., and Felippa, C.A. — The Underwater Shock Analysis Code (USA-Version 3): A Reference Manual, Final Report No. LMSC-0777843, Lockheed Missiles and Space Co., Inc., Palo Alto, CA (1980).
For more see the link, Prof. Thomas L. Geers
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