Dear colleagues and students, Here is a flyer (pdf attached) for a new graduate-level course I'm teaching this fall. Feel free to send it to students/faculties that might be interested. Thank you for the help! CE597 (3-credit): Modeling Large Deformations in Earth, Ocean, and Fractured Materials Large deformations are ubiquitous in natural materials, as demonstrated by phenomena such as landslides, debris flows, coastal tsunamis, concrete cracking, ice sheet calving, and so on. Finite Element Method (FEM) is limited to small deformation analyses and cannot model post-failure behaviors. New numerical methods are being developed to simulate the entire instability process from the static stability analysis at small deformation to the dynamic post-failure run-out behavior. In this course, we introduce material point method (MPM), a “hybrid EulerianLagrangian” method to simulate large deformations and fractures of materials, with applications in geotechnical and coastal engineering, structural analysis, material science, geophysics, and computer vision. Prerequisites: • Familiarity with continuum mechanics and finite element method is recommended but not required. • Familiarity with a programming language (MATLAB, Python, C++, etc) is recommended. Time: Tue/Thu 1:30-2:45p Place: MATH 215 Best, Dr. Yue (Olivia) Meng Assistant Professor, Department of Civil Engineering Purdue University https://olivmeng.github.io/<https://nam04.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%2F%2Folivmeng.github.io%2F&data=05%7C02%7Ccce-graduates-list%40ecn.purdue.edu%7C19af972084284120dbfd08dd56869286%7C4130bd397c53419cb1e58758d6d63f21%7C0%7C0%7C638761858410031284%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJFbXB0eU1hcGkiOnRydWUsIlYiOiIwLjAuMDAwMCIsIlAiOiJXaW4zMiIsIkFOIjoiTWFpbCIsIldUIjoyfQ%3D%3D%7C0%7C%7C%7C&sdata=TItXFofZM%2FnDtv1IdYBcGfNkOKMpdyVi8AKp%2FkKSr%2FQ%3D&reserved=0>