Faculty Profiles

Petr Krysl has made major advances in finite element and meshless discretization methods applied to problems of structural and solid mechanics: mesh generation, thin shell simulations, adaptive nonlinear computations, dynamic crack growth, adaptive mesh refinement, and parallel algorithms. Krysl is currently working on problems of optimal modeling for nonlinear dynamic applications, such as earthquake engineering and design of micromechanical devices, and adaptive finite element modeling for multiphysics problems. His research interests include finite element technology for computational mechanics of solids and structures; mesh generation and CAD/analysis integration; methods for solid and structural dynamics; computational modeling in earthquake engineering; and model order reduction for nonlinear dynamics. Recently, Krysl designed an adaptive finite element mesh refinement technique that is proving to be an important tool for engineering and scientific simulations.

Capsule Bio:

Czech Republic in 1993. Prior to coming to UCSD in 2000, Petr Krysl was a staff scientist at the California Institute of Technology. Krysl is a member of the International Association for Computational Mechanics, the International Society for GridGeneration, the American Society for Engineering Education, and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, and is a reviewer for many highest-quality journals in the field of structural and computational mechanics, such as the Journal of Structural EngineeringASCE, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, and the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering.

Education:

• Ph.D. in Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (1993)
• M.Sc. in Civil Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic (1987)

Selected Publications:

• Cranford TW, Krysl, P, Amundin, M (2010), A New Acoustic Portal into the Odontocete Ear and Vibrational Analysis of the Tympanoperiotic Complex, PLoS ONE, Aug 4 2010, http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0011927.

• M Lau, B Hu, R Werneth, M Sherman, H Oral, F Morady, P Krysl (2010), A Theoretical and Experimental Analysis of Radiofrequency Ablation with a Multielectrode, Phased, Duty-Cycled System, Published Online: Jun 10 2010 12:24PM, Pacing and Clinical Electrophysiology, DOI: 10.1111/j.1540-8159.2010.02801.x

• G. Castellazzi, P. Krysl (2009), Displacement-based finite elements with nodal integration for Reissner-Mindlin plates, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Volume 80 Issue 2, Pages 135 – 162.

• M. Broccardo, M. Micheloni, Krysl P, (2008), Assumed-deformation gradient Finite Elements with Nodal Integration for nearly incompressible Large Deformation Analysis, International journal for numerical methods in engineering, ISSN: 00295981, Vol: 78, Issue: 9, Date: 2009-01-01, Page: 1113.

• P. Krysl, B. Zhu, Locking-free continuum displacement finite elements with nodal integration, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Published Online: Apr 15 2008 9:23AM, DOI: 10.1002/nme.2354.

• L. Hoyte, M. S. Damaser, S. K. Warfield, G. Chukkapalli, A. Majumdar, D. J. Choi, A. Trivedi, P. Krysl, (2008) , Quantity and distribution of levator ani stretch during simulated vaginal childbirth, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2008 ; DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.04.027.

• Petr Krysl (2007), Dynamically equivalent implicit algorithms for the integration of rigid body rotations, Communications for Numerical Methods in Engineering, published online 10.1002/cnm.963. 

• Endres, L., and Krysl, P., (2004). “Octasection-based Refinement of Finite Element Approximations on Tetrahedral Meshes that Guarantees Shape Quality”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 59, No.1, pp. 69-82.
   
• Lall, S., Krysl, P., and Marsden, J. E., (2003). “Structure-Preserving Model Reduction of Mechanical Systems”, Physica D, Vol. 184 (1-4), pp. 304-318.
   
• Krysl, P., Grinspun, E., and Schröder, P., (2003). “Natural Hierarchical Refinement for Finite Element Methods”, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Vol. 56, No. 8, pp. 1109-1124.
   
• Grinspun, E., Krysl, P., Schroder, P., (2002). “CHARMS: A simple framework for adaptive simulation”, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS, Vol. 21, No. 3, pp. 281-290.
   
• An efficient linear-precision partition of unity basis for unstructured meshless methods," Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 16:239-255, 2000; with T. Belytschko.
   
• Pandolfi, A., Krysl, P., Ortiz, M., (1999). "Finite element simulation of ring expansion and fragmentation: The capturing of length and time scales through cohesive models of fracture,” International Journal of Fracture, Vol. 95, pp. 279-297.
   
• "Application of the element free Galerkin method to the propagation of arbitrary 3-D cracks," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 44, pp. 767-800, 1998; with T. Belytschko.
   
• "Object-oriented parallelization of explicit structural dynamics with PVM," Computers and Structures, Vol. 66, Issue: 2-3, pp. 259-273, 1998, with T. Belytschko.
   
• "Element-free Galerkin method: Convergence of the continuous and discontinuous shape functions," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 148, pp. 257-277, 1997; with T. Belytschko.
   
• "A three-dimensional explicit element-free Galerkin method," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, Vol. 24, pp. 1253-1270, 1997; with T. Belytschko, and Y. Krongauz.