Leszek F. Demkowicz
Professor
Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics
Chevron Centennial Fellowship in Engineering No. 2
Phone: (512) 471-4199
Fax: (512) 471-8694
Email: leszek@ices.utexas.edu
Dr. Demkowicz’s Web site
Leszek F. Demkowicz is Assistant Director of the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) and a Professor in the Department of Aerospace Engineering and Engineering Mechanics, at the University of Texas at Austin. He has a M.S. in mathematics from Jagiellonian University, and M.S. (Hons.), Ph.D. and Sc.D. degrees in mechanics from Cracow University University of Technology, Poland. Prior to joining the University of Texas faculty, he held various positions at Cracow University University of Technology. In years 1990-1993, he was the head of Section of Applied Mathematics and Director of Computer Center.
Dr. Demkowicz authored and co-authored five books, and co-edited two books. He has also authored over 150 journal articles, conference proceedings, book chapters and technical reports in the general area of computational mechanics and mathematics. He is Associate Editor of six international journals. Dr. Demkowicz was the founding member of Polish Association for Computational Mechanics and served as its first President. He is a fellow of both U.S. and International Associations for Computational Mechanics and a member of several other professional organizations. He graduated 9 Ph.D. and numerous M.S. students.
His work and scientific interests span across numerical analysis, adaptive finite element methods, and wave propagation problems, including acoustics, elastodynamics, electromagnetics and lumtiphysics problems. Among other applications, Dr. Demkowicz and his group developed original numerical methods for structural vibrations, analysis of acoustics of human ear, dynamic modeling of gears, analysis of optical waveguides, calculation of Radar Crossections, borehole electromagnetics and acoustics. He has given numerous invited talks on the subjects. His work has been sponsored by NSF, Navy, Air Force, DOE, Schlumberger, Baker-Hughes and Boeing. His research on high accuracy adaptive methods has recently been summarized in a two volume book - "Computing with hp Elements" (Chapman & Hall/CRC, 2006,2007). He has also recently got involved with new applications including a multiscale modeling of imprint lithography, bioengineering applications and analysis of railguns.
Research Interests:
- Numerical analysis
- Adaptive finite element methods
- Wave propagation problems
- Acoustics, elastodynamics and electromagnetics