Thomas JR Hughes
Thomas JR Hughes (born August 3, 1943 ) is an American engineer and mathematician.
Life
Hughes studied engineering mechanics at the Pratt Institute (masters degree) and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley (masters degree), where he also received his doctorate in engineering. He then worked as an engineer at Grumman Aerospace and General Dynamics. He then went to Berkeley University, Caltech and Stanford University , where he was head of the Faculty of Mechanical Engineering. Hughes is Professor of Aircraft Design and Engineering Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin .
Hughes is a leading scientist in computational mechanics, especially the connection of finite elements and CAD ( isogeometric analysis ), in elasticity and plasticity theory and in hydrodynamics. He developed modeling methods for the flow in blood vessel systems from computer tomography data, specially tailored to individual patients.
Hughes has received numerous prizes, including the AC Eringen Medal (2020), the Wilhelm Exner Medal (2014), the Von Karman Medal (2009) and the Tymoshenko Medal (2007), the Melville Medal (1979) and the Computational Mechanics Award from the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (1978). He also received the Humboldt Research Award for US scientists. In 2010 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Hyderabad (Isogeometric Analysis). He is a member of the National Academy of Sciences , the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the National Academy of Engineering . In 1999 he received the Galileo Chair at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He is the founder of the International Association for Computational Mechanics.
Fonts
- with Erwin Stein , René de Borst (editor): Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, three volumes, Wiley, 2004.
- with Ernest Hinton (editor): Finite Element Methods for Plate and Shell Structures, 2 volumes, Pineridge Press, 1986.
- with Jerrold Marsden : Mathematical foundations of elasticity, Prentice-Hall 1983, Dover 1994
- with Marsden: A short course in fluid mechanics, Publish or Perish 1976
- with J. Austin Cottrell, Yuri Bazilevs: Isogeometric Analysis: Toward Integration of CAD and FEA, Wiley, 2009.
- The Finite Element Method: linear static and dynamics Finite Element Analysis, Prentice Hall 1985, 1987, Dover 2000
- with Ted Belytschko (editor): Computational methods in mechanics, North Holland 1983
- with Juan C. Simó: Computational inelasticity, Springer 1998
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| SURNAME | Hughes, Thomas JR |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American engineer and mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 3, 1943 |