Brown University’s E. Paul Sorensen Professor of Engineering Yuri Bazilevs, former postdoctoral researcher Masoud Behzadinasab, and Michael Hillman of Pennsylvania State University have been awarded the Journal of Mechanics Best Paper Award for 2022. The Best Paper Award recognizes distinguished papers published in the Journal of Mechanics the previous year, and is awarded to one manuscript that is technically excellent with novel ideas. Bazilevs, Behzadinasab and Hillman’s collaborative paper was selected from 61 published articles.
“IGA-PD penalty-based coupling for immersed air-blast fluid–structure interaction: A simple and effective solution for fracture and fragmentation” was published in December 2021, and presents a novel formulation for the immersed coupling of isogeometric analysis (IGA) and peridynamics for the simulation of fluid–structure interaction (FSI). It focuses on air-blast FSI and addresses the computational challenges of immersed FSI methods in the simulation of fracture and fragmentation by developing a weakly volume-coupled FSI formulation by means of a simple penalty approach. The authors show the mathematical formulation and present several numerical examples of inelastic ductile and brittle solids under blast loading that clearly demonstrate the power and robustness of the proposed methodology.
A leading figure in the computational and applied mechanics communities, Bazilevs received the International Association of Computational Mechanics (IACM) 2022 Computational Mechanics Award in August. He was also awarded an American Society of Mechanical Engineers (ASME) Materials Division Centennial Mid-Career Award in 2021. He has published more than 175 journal papers which have been cited more than 37,500 times. His h-index, a measure of research productivity and citation impact, is 82. He has co-authored two books, one on IGA and one on FSI.