Brown Engineering is recruiting exceptionally talented researchers who have received their Ph.D. degree in engineering, or an engineering-related discipline, after July 2015, or who expect to do so by July 2017, and who aspire to create independent research and pursue careers as leaders of innovation. 

While we will consider applications in all areas of our engineering programs, preference will be given for the 17-18 academic year in the fields of fluids and thermal sciences, and mechanics of solids.

Posted on Behalf of Professor Wing Kam Liu, Walter P Murphy Professor of Mechanical Engineering & Civil and Enviornmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (w-liu [at] northwestern.edu)

Assistant Director (Research Assistant Professor)

Northwestern University - Center for Advanced Material Systems and Simulation Global Collaboratory

Part 2 of the series on CFL. http://www.parresianz.com/dem/CFL-condition-discrete-elements-part-2/

-- Biswajit

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad invites application for M.Tech and PhD positions in all areas of Mechanical Engineering.
The applications are to be made online via this portal.

M.Tech: http://www.iith.ac.in/mtechadmissions/

PhD: http://www.iith.ac.in/phdadmissions/

Heres th efirst part of my new article on the CFL condition. http://www.parresianz.com/dem/CFL-condition-discrete-elements/

Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth College, an Ivy League institution in New Hampshire, cordially invites applications for TWO Research Associate positions to start immediately. Collaborative projects led by Dr. John Zhang and Dr. Zi Chen are sponsored by NIH Director’s Transformative Award and Fortune 500 companies in the Silicon Valley. We are looking for outstanding junior scholars with great research potential who are desirous of independent academic or industrial R&D careers.

Research Associate positions

Dear Imechanicians, I hope this turns out to be useful for some of you who are interested in sharing their computer codes. We are working on a free platform, cdmHUB.org, to allow users to quickly turn your scripts into Apps connected with HPC power in the cloud. Currently, the system can easily handle Linux or Windows executables. We are developing new functionalities so that other typical scripts such as Abaqus UMATs, Python scripts, matlab scripts can also be disseminated as launchable Apps in cloud.

This paper aims to maximize optical force or torque on arbitrary micro- and nanoscale objects using numerically optimized structured illumination. By developing a numerical framework for computer-automated design of 3d vector-field illumination, we demonstrate a 20-fold enhancement in optical torque per intensity over circularly polarized plane wave on a model plasmonic particle. The nonconvex optimization is efficiently performed by combining a compact cylindrical Bessel basis representation with a fast boundary element method and a standard derivative-free, local optimization algorithm.

We run regular one-day training courses that include introductory, advanced and bespoke training days in the UK on using Simpleware software.

Join a session to learn about how to get the most out of Simpleware when generating models from 3D image data (MRI, CT. micro-CT...) suitable for FEA, CFD, CAD and 3D Printing applications.

Fundamentals of Simpleware is ideal for new and existing users wanting to gain a working knowledge of the software, and how to use it within specific projects. 

Indian Institute of Technology Hyderabad is organising the 2017 International Conference on Composite Materials and Structures.

Conference webpage: http://www.iccms2017hyd.com

Dates of conference: 27-29 December

Abstract submission is now open. Last date for submission of abstracts is 30th May 2017.