For further details, please contact:

Dr. Sophie Dale

Interdisciplinary Bridging Officer

bridgingthegaps at nottingham.ac.uk

Tel: 0115 84 68923

     
Visiting Scholar Programme 2007

 

The judging panel are pleased to support the following visits, resulting from applications to call 2 of the Visiting Scholar Programme 2007:-

 

Host Applicant: Dr. Herve Morvan

Host School: Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering

Visiting Scholar: Prof. Edward Kansa

Visitor's Institution: University of California, Davis, USA and Convergent Solutions

Dates of Visit: September 24th 2007 - October 6th 2007

Purpose of visit: To review current meshless development methodology at Nottingham, expose colleagues and partners to meshless techniques and to work on joint publication(s) and future proposal(s). Open lectures will be given on meshless methods. Prof. Kansa will work with the School of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering on Kansa's Radial Basis Function (RBF), with participation from the School of Mathematical Sciences, the UTC in Gas Turbine Transmission, the School of Physics and Astronomy, the School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering and the School of Computer Science and IT.

 

Click here for further details of Prof. Kansa's visit including a seminar programme

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Host Applicant: Dr. Wei Sun

Host School: Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering

Visiting Scholar: Prof. Shandong (Shan-Tung) Tu

Visitor's Institution: East China University of Science & Technology (Vice-President)

Dates of Visit: 8 weeks during Summer 2008

Purpose of visit: To develop multiscaling mathematics of creep processes of materials and to establish new and long-standing collaborations between Nottingham and East China University of Science & Technology. An open lecture will be given during Prof. Tu's visit. Prof. Tu will work will the School of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering to discriminate the life prediction tools for creep of materials, an area in which errors can be of several orders of magnitude. In addition, Prof. Tu will work with the School of Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering and the School of Mathematical Sciences to examine the current scale tools, improving the mathematical analysis and solutions techniques for such problems.

 

Congratulations to Herve Morvan and Wei Sun!

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A review of Prof. Kansa's visit, hosted by Herve Morvan:-

 

Prof. Edward Kansa (University of California) visited Nottingham in autumn 2007, supported by Bridging the Gaps. Prof. Kansa is internationally renowned for his work on fluid mechanics simulation based on meshless numerical methods, particularly the radial basis function (RBF) method, often named the Kansa method. During Prof. Kansa’s two week stay at Nottingham, he gave three lunch-time seminars, attended by a total of 100 people. Prof. Kansa engaged with staff in the Schools of Mechanical, Materials and Manufacturing Engineering and Mathematical Sciences as planned, in addition to engaging with staff from Electrical and Electronic Engineering as a result of publicity of the visit. Prof. Kansa also met with representatives of both Rolls Royce and BAe Systems during his stay. Benefits to Nottingham included an internal scientific review of ongoing research projects, leading to the identification of new research areas for further investigation. New research ideas are currently being developed to build on the outcomes of this visit and the guidance that Prof. Kansa gave.

 

Herve Morvan, Mechanical, Materials & Manufacturing Engineering