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Abstract
The massacre at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University on April 16, 2007 is the greatest tragedy that U.S. higher education has faced. The university administration decided to close Norris Hall, the site of many of the shootings, displacing about 60 researchers and students. Through DARPA support, six of the displaced students came to the Advanced Technology Laboratory in The Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering. Approva Shende's thesis work is on modeling pedestrian traffic in buildings during emergency evacuation using partial differential equations. Dr. Igusa worked with Shende by using smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH) as a computationally efficient algorithm to solve these equations. Arun Nair and Kevin Hemker worked on atomistic simulations of materials in extreme environments. Wen Jiang worked with Professor Kaliat Ramesh on molecular dynamics simulations of indentation problems, and on developing formulations for the indentation of a nonlinear elastic solid. Kaushik Das and Matthew Lear worked together to develop a fully coupled fluid-structure-interaction simulation.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Dec 12, 2008
- Accession Number
- ADA527225
Entities
People
- Aproova Shende
- Arun Nair
- Kaliat Ramesh
- Kaushik Das
- Kevin Hemker
- Takeru Igusa
- Wen Jiang
Organizations
- Johns Hopkins University