Keynote SpeakerKeynote Speaker
Dr. Oubay Hassan
Dr. Oubay Hassan is a Senior Lecturer in the
Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Wales Swansea.
He obtained his MSc in 1986 and his PhD in
1989 from the University of Wales. Dr. Hassan has been working in the field of
Computational modelling and mesh generation for the last 13 years. His main
areas of research are the generation of unstructured meshes, Computational
Fluid Mechanics, Computational Electromagnetic and the parallel implementation
of the various computational tools used in the previous fields. In 1998 Dr.
Hassan was awarded an MBE for his contribution to the success of the analysis
of the design of the THRUST SSC supersonic car.
Invited Speakers
Ted D. Blacker
One of the original founders of the Sandia CUBIT
meshing research group and the International
Meshing Roundtable, Dr. Blacker has been an active researcher
in mesh generation for many years. He developed the paving algorithm
for quadrilateral meshing and has made significant contributions
with various hexahedral meshing algorithms. He graduated from
Brigham Young University in 1983 with a Masters in Civil Engineering,
and later obtained a Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics
from Northwestern University. He is currently employed by Fluent and is responsible for
the Gambit
software product, a preprocessor tool for geometry and mesh
generation for the Fluent suite of analysis tools. Dr. Blacker
will speak about hexahedral mesh generation; its history, the
state of the art, and some musings about the future of this research
area with a particular emphasis on the practical application of
the various techniques.
David L. Marcum
Dr. Marcum has developed an established research
program in unstructured grid technology for computational field
simulation (CFS). This research program is an integral part of
the Mississippi State University/National Science Foundation Engineering Research Center
for Computational Field Simulation. Dr. Marcum has also developed
the AFLR technique for tetrahedral mesh generation, a highly successful
method which has been incorporated into several commercial software
packages. Dr. Marcum will speak about current issues related to
robust triangle and tetrahedral mesh generation.
Charlie Seick
Charlie is a Senior Staff Engineering in the Caterpillar Technical
Center working in the Center of Manufacturing Excellence. He graduated
from Iowa State University with a B.S. in Engineering Science and a
Masters in Engineering Mechanics. Previous affiliations include the U.S.
Department of Energy working in ultrasonic spectroscopy and Cummins Engine
Co working in Applied Mechanics prior to joining Caterpillar in 1981.
He has spent the last 19 years developing, implementing, and applying
measurement and simulation methods for structural design and evaluation
and has worked on virtually all Caterpillar product lines.
Keynote
Speaker Presentation
8IMR, 10/10/99
