On June 11, 2020, the “Innovation Base of Earthquake Engineering Comprehensive Simulation” held the 11th “Cloud Report” and invited Prof. John Williams from Queen Mary University of London, to present a report named “Fluid/Structure Interaction using the CgLes/Y-Code”.
This report was hosted by Associate Prof. Jie Xu, School of Civil Engineering. Prof. Chunning Ji, Professor of School of Civil Engineering, attended the report and delivered a welcome speech.
This online report covered the original development of the CgLes/Y-Code, its subsequent development and use by the universities of Hohai, Tianjin, Sichuan and Queen Mary University of London. The audience at the meeting had a deeper understanding of the CgLes/Y-Code in the field of Fluid/Structure Interaction. After the report, Prof. John William and the audience conducted an online discussion on related issues and took a group photo.
This “Cloud Report” attracted a total of 134 teachers and students from Tianjin University, Hebei University of Water Resources and Electric Engineering etc. They all responded enthusiastically to the report.
A total of 115 teachers and students participated this “Cloud Report”, including 12 teachers, 53 graduate students, 21 international students and 29 undergraduate students.
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Fig.1. Online group photo of some participating teachers and students |
Introduction to John Williams:
Prof. Williams joined Queen Mary, University of London (QMUL) in 1980 as a lecturer, he was subsequently promoted to Senior Lecture, Reader, Professor and, finaly, Dean of Science and Engineering. In 2014 he retired and was appointed an emeritus professor. Since retirement, he has been appointed as a Visiting Professor at the universities of Sichuan and Tianjin. He is also an International Expert, on a large 111 Project, Hohai University, China.Prof. Williams’ first involvement with CFD was with regard to its application to the numerical simulation of free surface flows. Acting mainly as either sole or principal applicant, he has been awarded a total of 19 Science and Engineering Research Council (SERC), Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and European Union (EU) grants for this and associated work. In 2009 Prof Williams and Prof Munjiza established a Fluid/Structure interaction group within the School of Engineering and Material Sciences. Their work covered a broad range of topics from the entrainment of solids in turbulent flow, flow over submarines and torpedoes, marine current and wind turbines to the numerical simulation of red blood cells and the ureter, as a result of combining Prof Williams’ CFD code, CgLes, with Prof Munjiza’s discrete finite element code, DFEM.
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