Haim Waisman

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

in Prof. Ted Belytschko`s group

Department of Mechanical Engineering
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208-3111, USA 

Tel: (847)-491-3046

Email: h-waisman@northwestern.edu

 

 

 

 

Education

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ph.D. in Civil Engineering (Computational Mechanics)

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

(2005)

 

M.S. in Aerospace Engineering (Structures)

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

(2001)

 

B.Sc. in Aerospace Engineering

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology, Haifa, Israel

(1999)

 

 

 

Research Interests

 

 

 

Computational solid mechanics

 

Numerical simulation of shear band localization problems

 

Adaptive eXtended Finite Element Methods

 

Multigrid methods for indefinite and non-symmetric problems

 

Acceleration methods for molecular dynamics simulations

 

 

 

 

Positions and Experience

 

 

 

 

 

 

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

(Sep. 2006-present)

 

Postdoctoral Research associate

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY

(Nov. 2005-Aug. 2006)

 

Student Internship program

Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA

(Summer 2004)

 

Student Internship program

Sandia National Labs, Livermore, CA

(Summer 2003)

 

Student Internship program

Sandia National Labs, Albuquerque, NM

(Summer 2002)

 

 

 

 

 

 

Selected Honors and Awards

 

 

 

 

 

 

Finalist in the Robert J. Melosh medal competition

Duke University, NC

(Apr. 2006)

 

Best student paper award at the 10th Copper Mountain Conference

Copper Mountain, CO

(Apr. 2006)  

 

 

for the paper A space-time multigrid approach for acceleration of molecular dynamics simulations

 

 

USNCCM8 - Keynote presentation

Austin, TX

(Jul. 2005)

 

Best student paper award at the 12th Copper Mountain Conference

CopperMountain, CO

(Apr.2005)

 

 

for the paper A Multiscale filter to accelerate multigrid methods

 

Best Teaching Assistant Award

Technion, Israel

(Dec. 2001)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Working Papers

 

 

 

Haim Waisman, Jeong-Hoon Song and Ted Belytschko, Adaptive XFEM for simulation of shear band evolution (2007) 

 

Haim Waisman, Jeong-Hoon Song and Ted Belytschko, Multiscale simulation of shear bands (2007)

 

 

Publications

 

 

 

 

[9]

Haim Waisman and Ted Belytschko, Parametric Enrichment Adaptivity in the extended finite element method , submitted to International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (2007)

 

[8]

Haim Waisman and Jacob Fish, A Heterogeneous Space-Time Full Approximation Storage Multilevel Method for Molecular Dynamics Simulations , In print International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering (2007).

 

[7]

Aiqin Li, HaimWaisman and Jacob Fish, A space-time multiscale method for molecular dynamics simulation of biomolecules, International Journal of Multiscale Computational Engineering, 4 (5-6): 791-802 (2006).

 

[6]

Haim Waisman and Jacob Fish, A Space-Time multilevel method for molecular dynamics simulations , Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 195, Issues 44-47, pages 6542-6559 September (2006).

 

[5]

Haim Waisman, Jacob Fish, Raymond S. Tuminaro and John Shadid, Acceleration of the Generalized Global Basis (GGB) method for nonlinear problems , Journal of Computational Physics, 210(1): 274-291, November 2005.

 

[4]

Haim Waisman, Jacob Fish, Raymond S. Tuminaro and John Shadid, The Generalized Global Basis (GGB) Method , International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 61 (8): 1243-1269, October 2004.

 

[3]

Haim Waisman and Haim Abramovich, Open-loop flutter analysis of a composite UAV model using the active stiffening effect, Finite Element in Analysis and Design, 40 (11): 1283-1295, July 2004.

 

[2]

Haim Waisman and Haim Abramovich, Variation of natural frequencies of beams using the active stiffening effect , Composite Part B - Engineering , 33 (6): 415-424, 2002.

 

[1]

Haim Waisman and Haim Abramovich, Active stiffening of laminated composite beams using piezoelectric actuators , Composite Structures, 58(1): 109-120, October 2002.

 

 

Collaborators

 

Jeong-Hoon Song

PhD Candidate

Northwestern University

Robert Gracie

PhD Candidate

Northwestern University

Dr. Stefan Loehnert

Postdoctoral fellow

Northwestern University

 

Last updated 04/01/2007