Serguei Nazarov - The Big Fish

Prof. Nazarov was invited to Erlangen 2 weeks before. Within my project topology optimization is also done via topology gradients, mathematical hard core where pure mathematicians meet the applied ones. I'm an engineer, I do SIMP and it is hard for me to understand what the mathematicians do (I want to start another try for a functinal analysis book the next weeks).

Anyway I was asked to give a short talk and present the piezoelectric-mechanical-acoustic coupled PDE from an practical engineering point of view (application, meshing, boundary conditions, ...). The talk was to be given for Prof. Nazarov, I never heard of. So I googled and it was interesting what I found.

First the image from his website in Russia


He is an expert on asymtotical extensios. On His page are links to his 13 books!! and 366 papers!! There is really nothing to add beside that he is a nice and funny guy. :)

SIMP Introduction

From time to time I give a introductory talk about the SIMP method. I only cover linear elasticity as the results can be more easy understand as my piezoelectricity stuff. This is an update of the older version.

This time we made a movie of my talk (45 minutes).

Here are the slides (1.3 MB)

Here is the divx movie (460 MB !!)

Topology Optimization Using the SIMP Method

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This is the second time I record a talk of mine. The first time I used the internal mic of the cam and as such one could not hear me but the audience. This time I used a wireless mic. We did not adjust the sound but for a first try ... on can at least understand me. The next time we shall give more attention on zooming and light conditions.

P.S.: Do you know where I could put the video online? Youtube has a 10min limit.