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Professor Petr Krysl

Charles Lee Powell Structural Research Laboratories
Jacobs School of Engineering
University of California San Diego

Biography:
Czech Republic in 1993. Prior to coming to UCSD in 2000, Petr Krysl was a staff scientist at the California Institute of Technology. Krysl is a member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics, the International Society for Grid Generation, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and is a reviewer for many highest-quality journals in the field of structural and computational mechanics, such as the Journal of Structural Engineering ASCE, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, and the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

Research Interests:
Finite element computational modeling techniques for solids and structures, model order reduction in nonlinear mechanics, and computer and engineering simulations in multiphysics problems.
Petr Krysl has made major advances in finite element and meshless discretization methods applied to problems of structural and solid mechanics: mesh generation, thin shell simulations, adaptive nonlinear computations, dynamic crack growth, adaptive mesh refinement, and parallel algorithms. Krysl is currently working on problems of optimal modeling for nonlinear dynamic applications, such as earthquake engineering and design of micromechanical devices, and adaptive finite element modeling for multiphysics problems. His research interests include finite element technology for computational mechanics of solids and structures; mesh generation and CAD/analysis integration; methods for solid and structural dynamics; computational modeling in earthquake engineering; and model order reduction for nonlinear dynamics. Recently, Krysl designed an adaptive finite element mesh refinement technique that is proving to be an important tool for engineering and scientific simulations.

Education:
Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (1993)
M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (1987)

Selected Publications:
P. Krysl and T. Belytschko, Analysis of thin plates by the element-free Galerkin method, Computational Mechanics, vol. 17, no. 1-2, pp. 26-35, 1995.
P. Krysl and T. Belytschko, Analysis of thin shells by the element-free Galerkin method, International Journal of Solids and Structures, vol. 33, no. 20-22, pp. 3057-3080, 1996.
T. Belytschko, Y. Krongauz, D. Organ, M. Fleming, and P. Krysl, Meshless methods: an overview and recent developments, _ Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 139, no. 1 _4, pp. 3 _47, 1996.
P. Krysl and T. Belytschko, ESFLIB: a library to compute the element free Galerkin shape functions, _ Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, vol. 190, no. 15 _17, pp. 2181 _2205, 2001.
Eitan Grinspun, Petr Krysl, and Peter Schröder. CHARMS: a simple framework for adaptive simulation. ACM Transactions on Graphics, 21(3):281–290, July 2002.
Petr Krysl, Abhishek Trivedi and Baozhi Zhu, “Object-oriented hierarchical mesh refinement with CHARMS”, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2002
Lall S, Krysl P, Marsden J. Structure-preserving model reduction for mechanical systems. Physica D 2003; 
184:304–318.
Petr Krysl, Eitan Grinspun and Peter Schröder, “Natural hierarchical refinement for finite element methods”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp 1109-1124, 2003
Castellazzi G, Gentilini C, Krysl P, Elishakoff I. Static analysis of functionally graded plates using a nodal integrated finite element approach. Compos Struct 2013;103:197–200.

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