Thomas J. R. Hughes

Thomas JR Hughes ( born August 3, 1943) is an American engineer and mathematician.

Hughes studied engineering mechanics at the Pratt Institute ( master's degree ) and mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley ( master's degree ), where he earned his doctorate as an engineer. He was then an engineer at Grumman Aerospace and General Dynamics. After that he went to the University of Berkeley, Caltech and Stanford University, where he served on the Board of the Faculty of Engineering Mechanics (Mechanical Engineering ). Hughes is Professor of Aircraft Design and Applied Mechanics at the University of Texas at Austin.

Hughes is a leading scientist in computational numerical Mechanics ( Computational Mechanics ), especially the combination of finite elements and CAD ( Isogeometric Analysis ) in elasticity and plasticity theory and hydrodynamics. He developed specifically tailored to individual patients modeling methods for the flow in the blood vessel systems from computer tomography data.

Hughes has received numerous awards, including the Von Karman Medal ( 2009) and the Timoshenko Medal ( 2007), the Melville Medal ( 1979) and the Computational Mechanics Award of the Japan Society of Mechanical Engineers (1978). He was also awarded the Humboldt Research Award for U.S. 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 and the National Academy of Engineering. In 1999 he was awarded the Galileo Chair at the Scuola Normale Superiore in Pisa. He is the founder of the International Association for Computational Mechanics.

Writings

  • 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
  • Ted Belytschko (Editor): Computational methods in mechanics, North Holland 1983
  • With Juan C. Simó: Computational inelasticity, Springer 1998
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