Bio
Vaughan R. Voller
Contact
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota
122 Pilsbury Drive SE
Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA
e-mail:volle001@umn.edu, phone:612-625-0764
Biographical Data
Date of Birth: June 24, 1954
Citizenship: British, U.S. Permanent Resident
Degrees Conferred
1980 Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, University of Sunderland U.K.
1977 M.S., Continuum Mechanics, University of East Anglia, U.K.
1975 B.S., Applied Mathematics, University of East Anglia, U.K.
Research Interests
- Modeling and analysis of geo-physical systems, fluvio-deltatic sedimentation, and unsaturated seepage.
- Development of computational methodologies for analysis of thermal-fluid systems.
- Modeling of engineering systems that involve free and moving boundaries.
- Modeling of the solidification of alloys across a range of length scales.
- Extensive developments of numerical techniques for free and moving boundary problems, fixed and deforming finite element and finite element control volume methods.
- Simulations and tools for analysis of polymer mold filling
- Analysis of thermal stress, residual stress development during solidification, thermal cracking in thin films and pavements
Employment
8/97- Professor
8/87-7/96 Asso. Professor
12/85-7/87 Asst. Professor
Civil Engineering,University of Minnesota
7/82-12/85 Senior Lecturer
Department of Mathematics, Statistics and Computing
University of Greenwich London, U.K.
10/80-7/82Post Doctoral Fellow
Mineral Resources Research Center (MRRC)
Department of Civil Engineering
University of Minnesota
Honors and Awards
- 2006 Aditya Birla Chair, Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore
- 2005 Listed in Who?s Who in Computational Science and Engineering
(http://www.wwcse.com/whosin.html)
- 1998 Best Paper Award. Modeling of Casting, Welding and Advances Solidification Processes.
- 1994 Outstanding Instructor Award, Institute of Technology, University of Minnesota
- 1985 Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications (U.K.)