Personal Profile

1994 - 2000:   Student of Civil Engineering at the University of Hanover, Germany

1998 - 1999:   M.Sc Student at Swansea University

2000 - 2004:   Ph.D Student and Research Assistant at Swansea University

2004 - 2009:   Lecturer at Swansea University

since  2009:    Senior Lecturer

Awards & Scholarships

1998 - 1999:    scholarship of the German Academic Exchange Service

2000:    first recipient of Ernest Hinton Memorial Prize for best M.Sc.

2000 - 2004:    member of the Gottlieb Daimler- and Karl Benz-Foundation

2002:    first recipient of Mike Crisfield Prize

2005:    ECCOMAS award for best Ph.D Thesis of 2004

Research Interests

Finite Element Methods for Fluid and Solid Mechanics,

Continuum Mechanics and Constitutive Modelling in Small and Large Strains,

Multiscale Modelling,

Fluid-structure Interaction with Large Structural Deformations or Rotations,

Optimal Control of Coupled Systems,

Morphing Wings

See below for a sampling of example studies.

Research Grant

Development of a Novel Computational Framework for the Simulation of Fluid-Structure Interaction, EPSRC, £244,583, 2006-2009

Publications

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A list of peer reviewed journal papers is given below.

D. Peric and W. G. Dettmer, A Computational Model for Generalized Inelastic Materials at Finite Strains Combining Elastic, Viscoelastic and Plastic Material Behaviour, Engineering Computations, 20 (2003) 768-787

W. G. Dettmer, P. H. Saksono and D. Peric, On a Finite Element Formulation for Incompressible Newtonian Fluid Flows on Moving Domains in the Presence of Surface Tension, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 19 (2003) 659-668

W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, An Analysis of the Time Integration Algorithms for the Finite Element Solutions of Incompressible Navier-Stokes Equations Based on a Stabilised Formulation, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 192 (2003) 1177-1226

W. G. Dettmer and S. Reese, On the Theoretical and Numerical Modelling of Armstrong-Frederick Kinematic Hardening in the Finite Strain Regime, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 193 (2004) 87-116

W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, A Computational Framework for Free Surface Fluid Flows Accounting for Surface Tension, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195 (2006) 3038-3071

W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, A Computational Framework for Fluid-Rigid Body Interaction: Finite Element Formulation and Applications, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195(2006) 1633-1666, twice in top 25 downloads 

W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, A Computational Framework for Fluid-Structure Interaction: Finite Element Formulation and Applications, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 195(2006) 5754-5779, in top 10 cited of all CMAME papers published within last 5 years, three times in top 25 downloads

P. H. Saksono, W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, An Adaptive Remeshing Strategy for Flows with Moving Boundaries and Fluid-Structure Interaction, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 71, 9 (2007), 1009-1050

W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, A Fully Implicit Computational Strategy for Strongly Coupled Fluid-Solid Interaction, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering,14, 3 (2007) 205-247

W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, On the Coupling between Fluid Flow and Mesh Motion in the Modelling of Fluid-Structure Interaction, Computational Mechanics, 43, 1 (2008) 81-90

M. M. Joosten, W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, Analysis of the Block Gauß-Seidel Solution Procedure for a Strongly Coupled Model Problem with Reference to Fluid-Structure Interaction, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 78 (2009) 757-778

D. D. Somer, E. A. de Souza Neto, W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, A Substepping Scheme for Multi-scale Analysis of Solids, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 198 (2009) 1006-1016

M. M. Joosten, W. G. Dettmer and D. Peric, On the Temporal Stability and Accuracy of Coupled Problems with Reference to Fluid-Structure Interaction, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 64 (2010) 1363-1378

Example Studies

Click on the links below to view selected animations.

flutter of an elastic beam (11MB)

pressure wave in an elastic tube (3.5MB)

stretching of a liquid bridge (1MB)

study of a turbine (9.6MB)

study of a membrane roof (11MB)