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Lately, I have been very interested in the regime when two-way effects between fluids and structures become significant. The degree of interaction depends on the degree of motion of the structure, along with how much the fluid is then affected. There are a variety of dimensionless numbers, including the mass number of reduced velocity number,…

While real-time hybrid simulation has been utilized for structures subjected to seismic events for decades, its use in fluid-structure interaction problems is still a novel endeavor. Gathering data for cascading seismic and tsunami events is difficult due to space constraints in existing experimental facilities, complications regarding the application of scaling laws for both the fluid…

I have become fascinated by the intersection of computer hardware and the fidelity of our numerical analyses. For example, graphics processors (GPUs), real-time computer chips used for gaming and machine learning, could be leveraged to accelerate our computational models, enabling faster and higher-fidelity simulations. In using GPU-based computing, the governing equations of motion would remain…