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Albert Romkes
Assistant Professor (Ph.D., Texas)
785-864-4397
romkes@ku.edu

Finite Element Analysis, Continuum Mechanics, Solid Mechanics

Career History; Contact Information; Education; Professional Organizations; Research Interests; Publications

Career History

  • Assistant Professor, The University of Kansas, Mechanical Engineering; 2005-present
  • Postdoctoral Fellow, Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, The University of Texas at Austin; June 2003 - July 2005

Contact Information

Mechanical Engineering
University of Kansas
3138 Learned Hall
Lawrence, Kansas 66045-2234

Office: 3144C Learned Hall

Phone: 785-864-4397
Fax: 785-864-5254
Email: romkes@ku.edu

Education

  • Ph.D., Aerospace Engineering, University of Texas at Austin, 2003
  • MS, (Cum Laude) Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands, 1997

Professional Organizations

  • American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
  • U. S. Association for Computational Mechanics (USACM)
  • Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM)

Research Interests

Computational mechanics, solid mechanics, modeling of multi-scale phenomena, numerical analysis (finite element methods), error estimation, parallel computing.

Publications

- J. Tinsley Oden, Serge Prudhomme, Albert Romkes, and Paul Bauman, Multi-Scale Modeling of Physical Phenomena: Adaptive Control of Models, SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing, under review.

- Albert Romkes, J. Tinsley Oden, and Kumar Vemaganti, Multi-Scale Goal-Oriented Adaptive Modeling of Random Heterogeneous Materials, Mechanics of Materials, to appear.

- Albert Romkes, Serge Prudhomme, J. Tinsley Oden, Convergence Analysis of a Discontinuous Finite Element Formulation based on Second Order Derivatives, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering}, Special issue on DG methods, To appear.

- Albert Romkes and J. Tinsley Oden, Adaptive Modeling of Wave Propagation in Heterogeneous Elastic Solids, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 193 (2004), pp. 539-559.

- Albert Romkes, Serge Prudhomme, J. Tinsley Oden, A Priori Error Analyses of a Stabilized Discontinuous Galerkin Method, Computers and Mathematics with Applications, 46 (2003), pp. 1289-1311.

- Albert Romkes, Serge Prudhomme, J. Tinsley Oden, A Posteriori Error Estimation for a New Stabilized Discontinuous Galerkin Method, {\em Applied Mathematics Letters, 16 (2003), pp. 447-452.

- Serge Prudhomme, Frederic Pascal, J. Tinsley Oden, and Albert Romkes, A Priori Error Estimate for the Baumann-Oden Version of the Discontinuous Galerkin Method, Comptes Rendus de l'Academie des Sciences I, Numerical Analysis 332 (2001), pp. 851-856.