Another PHD for W.I.T.

Another PHD for W.I.T.

| NEWS ANOTHER PHD FOR W.I.T. Another PhD has graduated at the Wessex Institute of Technology last November. He is Dr. Degivaldo DeFigueiredo, of...

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Another PhD has graduated at the Wessex Institute of Technology last November. He is Dr. Degivaldo DeFigueiredo, of the National Research Council of Brazil. The external examiner was Professor R. Lewis of the Civil Engineering Department, University of Wales at Swansea, who is a well known expert in Numerical Methods. Dr. DeFigueiredo's thesis was on "Boundary Element Analysis of Convection Diffusion Problems" and deals with steady state and transient problems including those with a first order chemical reaction. Boundary Element examples of applications are presented throughout this work and they show good agreement with analytical solutions. The Boundary Element Method results behave well numerically and they show little oscillations and damping. The thesis, which is very well written, has now been submitted for publication in the Lecture Notes in Engineering Series. Dr. DeFigueiredo is the fifth PhD graduating from the Wessex Institute of Tcchnology which has now reached approximately twenty full-time students. The quality of his work testifies to the growing strength of W.I.T.

The Graduation Ceremony. From left to right: Dr. Carlos Brebbia, Director of W.1. T.; Professor R. Lewis o.f Swansea, External Examiner; Dr. DeFigueiredo, the new Graduate; and Dr. L. Wrobel, Reader in Computational Mechanics at W.LT.

Some o] the researchers.from the Wessex Institute of Technology, on their way to the EUROBEM'90 Symposium in Nice, France. France. The Symposium was organized by Computational Mechanics Institute and sponsored by the International Society for Boundary Elements/(ISBE) and CETIMPROGETM. The Symposium was opened by Dr. Carlos Brebbia, and in his speech he encouraged more research collaboration and regional links between the BEM community in Europe, and then Mrs A. Chaudouet-Miranda spoke for a few minutes welcoming the delegates to France. The meeting included eleven technical sessions covering the latest European research on numerical aspects, solid mechanics, fluid flow, electrostatics and electromagnetic thermal problems and dynamics. In addition to the above sessions, short presentations were made on the current state of boundary element research on Fracture Mechanics (M.H. Aliabadi, M. Bonnet, D.E. Beskos), Fluid Mechanics (P. Skerget), and Code Development (C.A. Brebbia, A. Chaudouet-Miranda). After the presentations, informal discussions followed between the panel and the delegates which lasted well into the evening. The Symposium was characterized by an informal setting and also by the participation of young scientists from the European Community, among which were researchers from the Wessex Institute of Technology, currently pursuing their PhD research work. It was decided to hold the next Symposium in 1992. The Conference Proceedings axe available from Computational Mechanics Publications, Ashurst Lodge, Ashurst, Southampton, Hunts, SO4 2AA, UK. 569 pages, Price £79.00 ISBN: 1-85312-062-6 ISBN: 0-945824-440-0 (USA, Canada, Mexico)

ICONFERENCE REPORTJ EUROBEM'90 Symposium

- European

Boundary

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The first European Boundary Element Symposium was held on May 15-17 1990, at the Beach Regency Hotel, Nice,

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