Jacob Fish

Professor, Civil Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Aerospace Engineering, Information Technology

Education:

B.S., Structural Engineering, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1982
M.S., Structural Mechanics, Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, 1985
Ph.D., Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Northwestern University, 1989

Career Highlights:

Fish has published over 100 journal articles and book chapters. Two of his papers have earned Best Paper Awards – one presented at the 1995 American Society of Mechanical Engineers International Computers in Engineering Conference and one on fatigue crack growth in aging aircraft presented at the 1993 Structures, Structural Dynamics, and Materials Conference. Fish has been named a fellow of both the United States Association for Computational Mechanics and International Association for Computational Mechanics. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal for Multiscale Computational Engineering, associate editor of Journal of Engineering Mechanics, editorial board member of International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, and past editor of the bulletin of United States Association for Computational Mechanics. He is the vice-president and president-elect of United States Association for Computational Mechanics, and he chairs the American Society of Civil Engineers Computational Mechanics committee. Fish is also a member of the National Research Council for the Air and Ground Vehicle Technology.

Fish received a National Science Foundation Young Investigator Award, NASA Langley research grant related to High Speed Civil Transport (HSCT), and contracts from Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Sikorski, Alcoa, Northrop-Grumman, General Electric Corporation and Allison Engines on various aspects of structural integrity. He also has earned numerous government grants for development of multiscale computational techniques for advanced materials and structures. Fish has delivered over 50 invited talks in the United States, Europe, South America, and Japan, presented several international keynote lectures, and taught short courses on advanced materials and structural integrity in the U.S. and Europe. He also has served as a consultant to the New York Department of Law, GE Global Research, Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, and several software houses.

Research Areas:

Fish's research interests include multiscale computational engineering, advanced materials, high performance computing, and structural integrity.

Selected Publications:

T. Belytschko and J. Fish, "Numerical Studies of Two-dimensional Shear Banding with the Spectral Overlay on Finite Elements," eds. M. Kleiber and J. A. Konig, Antony Sawczuk Memorial Volume, (1990)

J. Fish, S. Markolefas, R. Guttal, and P. Nayak, "On Adaptive Multilevel Superposition of Finite Element Meshes," Adaptive Methods for Partial Differential Equations, eds. J.E. Flaherty and M.S. Shephard, SIAM, (1994).

J. Fish and V. Belsky, "Adaptive Multi-grid Method for a Periodic Heterogeneous Medium in 1-D," IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications: "Modeling, Mesh Generation, and Adaptive Numerical Methods for PDEs," eds. J. Flaherty, I. Babuska, W. D. Henshay, J. E. Uglier, P.A. Tezduyar, Springer - Verlag, NY, Vol. 75, pp. 243-267, (1995).

J. Fish and V. Belsky, "Adaptive Multi-grid Method for a Periodic Heterogeneous Medium" The IMA Volumes in Mathematics and its Applications, Volume 75 Springer - Verlag, NY, pp. 243-266, 1995.

J. Fish, ed., "Computational Advances in Modeling Composites and Heterogeneous Materials," special issue of Computer Methods in Applied Mechanical Engineering, ELSEVIER, Vol. 127, 1999.

J. Fish and Q. Yu, "Computational Multiscale Fatigue Analysis and Life Prediction for Composite Structures," in Modeling and Simulation Based Life Cycle Engineering, ed. K. Chong and S. Saigal. Taylor & Francis/Spon Press, 11 New Fetter Lane, London, EC4P 4EE, 2001.

T. Belytschko, J. Fish, and B. E. Engelman, "A Finite Element with Embedded Localization Zones," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanical Engineering., Vol. 70, (1988), pp. 59-89.

T. Belytschko and J. Fish, "Embedded Hinge Lines for Plate Elements," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 76, No. 1, (1989), pp. 67-86.

T. Belytschko, J. Fish, and A. Bayliss, "The Spectral Overlay on the Finite Element Solutions with High Gradients," Computer Methods in Applied Mechanical Engineering, Vol. 81, (1990), pp. 71-89.

J. Fish and T. Belytschko, "Elements with Embedded Localization Zones for Large Deformation Problems," Computers and Structures, Vol. 30, No. 1/2, (1988), pp. 247-256.

Contact Information:

Jacob Fish
4042 Jonsson Engineering Center
(518) 276-6191
fishj@rpi.edu
www.rpi.edu/~fishj/