Center for Advanced Research in Engineering Sciences (CARES)
The extensive research activities at CARES have perhaps been most widely recognized for significant contributions to the problems associated with the aging civilian and military, aircraft and rotorcraft fleets. The studies in the discipline of mechanics of solids, structures, and materials, have been major thrust areas and involve the analysis and synthesis of low-mass structures, keeping in mind their strength, stiffness, stability, toughness, damage tolerance, longevity, and optimal life-cycle costs. Self-adaptivity and smartness of structures is also of importance.
A fundamental focus is placed on developing innovative computational methods for mechanical and aerospace engineering problems, for the near-real-time simulation of various physical phenomena of relevance in fluids, solids, structures, transport processes, and engineered materials, etc., at various length and time scales. Emphasis is placed on a diverse array of spatial discrtetization techniques, such as the weighted residual and weak solution methods, finite-difference methods, finite volume methods, finite element methods, boundary element methods, spectral methods, and the new class of meshless methods in general, and the Meshless Local Petrov-Galerkin (MLPG) method in particular.
Multiple length scale problems involving the interplay of quantum mechanics-molecular dynamics-mesomechanics-and continuum mechanics, are of particular interest. Multi-physics problems, involving the interplay between the mechanical, electrical, chemical, thermal, and optical fields are subjects of inquiry. Also, multi-time-scale problems involving the interaction of systems governed by fast time scales, with systems governed by slower time scales, are of emerging importance in computational nano-meso-macro engineering. The study of engineered materials involves both structural as well as functional materials, with emphasis on their (nano-micro) structure-property (stength, stiffness, fracture-toughness) relationships. Metals (encompassing elastic, elastoplastic, viscoplastic, and creep behavior at large strains), high temperature ceramics, multi-functional and smart materials, fiber-reinforced composite materials, and nano-structured materials are objects of study. Nature-inspired functional and structural materials are of growing importance.
The Center for Aerospace Research and Education's multidisciplinary vision encompasses an array of emerging science & engineering fields; where as, many of CARE's researchers are also in collaboration with UCI's Center for Computational Modeling in Information Technology, and the Center for Systems Engineering in Biotechnology.
Contemporary Engineering, Physical, Chemical, and Biological Sciences
Aeroacoustic Impact Reduction for Human Factors
Bionanotechnology
Boundary Element Methods
Combustion & Reactive Flows
Composite Materials: Modeling, Fabrication and Processing
Computational Electromagnetics
Computational Penetration Mechanics
Computational Structural Mechanics and High-performance Computing
Finite Element Methods
Prediction Fatigue Life of Structures
Finite Rotations in Beam, Plate and Shell Structures
Flexible Multi Body Dynamics, Space Structures
Fluid Flow & Heat Transfer
Fluid-Structure Interactions
Fracture and Damage Mechanics
Homogenization & Computational Meso/Micro/Damage Mechanics
Inverse problems and optimization
Mesh Adaptation & Optimization for Engineering Applications
Meshless Methods in Modeling
Molecular & Quantum Computing
Modeling of Fabrics and Membranes
Multi-scale ( quantum-nano-micro-meso-macro ) Modeling
Multiphysics & Multibody Dynamics
Nanomechanics
Nanotechnology
Optimization and Inverse Design Engineering
Simulation of Fracture and Failure in Solids
Stability and bifurcation
Turbulence
Turbomachinery
Two-Phase Flows
Systems Integration Through Computations
Computational Educational Engineering( real-time simulations in class-room instruction)
Factory of the Future
Flight Safety & Continued Airworthiness
Integrated Product and Process Design; Visualization and Virtual Reality
Life-Cycle Costs
Life Extension of Aging Infrastructure (Bridges, Aircraft, Railroad, etc)
MEMS & Semiconductor Technology
Minimally Invasive Surgery Thru Computer Modeling
Modeling of Smart Structures and Repairs
Multidisciplinary Design and Optimization
Navigation, Guidance & Control
NEMS
Nonlinear Dynamical Systems & Chaos
Nonlinear System Control
Optimal Design of Structures
Rapid Prototyping & Minimization of Product-to-Market Costs
Advanced Communications and Information Processing Technologies
Computational Animation/ Entertainment
Computational Electronic Packaging
Computational Finance & Market Indicators
Computational Intelligence and Advanced Information Technologies in Engineering Science
Computational Mechanics for Electronic Devices/Components
Data Mining
Geographically Distributed Real Time Computing
Informatics
Large-scale data management
Multi-media & entertainment
Multiscale Simulations: Quantum-Molecular Dynamics-Meso-Macro Mechanics
Parallel Computation for Visualization and Virtual Reality
Real-Time Scientific Visualization
Sensors & Actuators
Symbolic Computer Programming in Computational Mechanics
Visualization
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