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Engineering and Technology
UK
2022

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Engineering and Technology

D-Index
129
Citations
109189
World Ranking
33
National Ranking
2

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United Kingdom Leader Award
  • 1998 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)
  • 1998 - Timoshenko Medal, The American Society of Mechanical Engineers
  • 1991 - IACM Congress Medal (Gauss-Newton Medal)

Overview

O.C. Zienkiewicz was affiliated with Swansea University in the United Kingdom. Their research spanned several fields, primarily within Engineering, with additional work in Computer Science and Environmental Science. The distribution of publications included 25 in Engineering, 3 in Computer Science, and 1 in Environmental Science.

Their work focused on various subfields related to engineering and computational methods. Notably, Zienkiewicz contributed to Computational Mechanics, Mechanics of Materials, Civil and Structural Engineering, Electrical and Electronic Engineering, and Computational Theory and Mathematics. These subfields had a representation of 11, 4, 4, 3, and 2 publications respectively.

Main research topics covered by Zienkiewicz included advanced numerical and mathematical methods applied in engineering and computational science. Specific topics comprised:

  • Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
  • Numerical methods in engineering
  • Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
  • Advanced Mathematical Modeling in Engineering
  • Electromagnetic Simulation and Numerical Methods
  • Soil Moisture and Remote Sensing
  • Seismic Waves and Analysis

Zienkiewicz collaborated frequently with several researchers. These co-authors included Robert L. Taylor, with whom they published seven works; Perumal Nithiarasu and Sanjay Govindjee, each with six collaborations; R.L. Taylor with four collaborations; and Ronald L. Taylor with one joint publication.

The scientist received recognition within the computational mechanics and engineering community. Awards received during their career included:

  • Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM), awarded in 1998
  • Timoshenko Medal from The American Society of Mechanical Engineers, awarded in 1998
  • IACM Congress Medal (Gauss-Newton Medal), awarded in 1991

Best Publications

  • The finite element method

    Ogierd Cecil Zienkiewicz

  • The finite element method in engineering science

    Olgierd Zienkiewicz

  • The Finite Element Method: Its Basis and Fundamentals

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;R. L. Taylor;J. Z. Zhu

  • A simple error estimator and adaptive procedure for practical engineerng analysis

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;J. Z. Zhu

  • The superconvergent patch recovery and a posteriori error estimates. Part 1: The recovery technique

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;J. Z. Zhu

  • The Finite Element Method for Solid and Structural Mechanics

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;R. L. Taylor;David D. Fox

  • Associated and non-associated visco-plasticity and plasticity in soil mechanics

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;C. Humpheson;R. W. Lewis

  • Reduced integration technique in general analysis of plates and shells

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;R. L. Taylor;J. M. Too

  • Analysis of thick and thin shell structures by curved finite elements

    Sohrabuddin Ahmad;Bruce M. Irons;O. C. Zienkiewicz

  • Finite elements and approximation

    Olgierd Zienkiewicz;K. Morgan

  • Dynamic behaviour of saturated porous media; The generalized Biot formulation and its numerical solution

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;T. Shiomi

  • The superconvergent patch recovery and a posteriori error estimates. Part 2: Error estimates and adaptivity

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;J. Z. Zhu

  • Adaptive remeshing for compressible flow computations

    J. Peraire;M. Vahdati;K Morgan;O. C. Zienkiewicz

  • Computational Geomechanics with Special Reference to Earthquake Engineering

    Olgierd Zienkiewicz

  • A FINITE POINT METHOD IN COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS. APPLICATIONS TO CONVECTIVE TRANSPORT AND FLUID FLOW

    Eugenio Oñate;Sergio Idelsohn;O.C. Zienkiewicz;RL Taylor

  • The coupling of the finite element method and boundary solution procedures

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;D. W. Kelly;P. Bettess

  • DRAINED, UNDRAINED, CONSOLIDATING AND DYNAMIC BEHAVIOUR ASSUMPTIONS IN SOILS

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;C. T. Chang;P. Bettess

  • The Finite Element Method for Fluid Dynamics

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;R. L. Taylor;Perumal Nithiarasu

  • Generalized plasticity and the modelling of soil behaviour

    M. Pastor;O. C. Zienkiewicz;A. H. C. Chan

  • Visco-plasticity—plasticity and creep in elastic solids—a unified numerical solution approach

    O. C. Zienkiewicz;I. C. Cormeau

  • The Finite Element Method in Structural and Continuum Mechanics

    O.C. Zienkiewicz;Y.K. Cheung

Frequent Co-Authors

Perumal Nithiarasu
Perumal Nithiarasu Swansea University
Kenneth Morgan
Kenneth Morgan Swansea University
Ramon Codina
Ramon Codina Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
David Owen
David Owen Swansea University
Eugenio Oñate
Eugenio Oñate Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya
Ivo Babuška
Ivo Babuška The University of Texas at Austin
Roland W. Lewis
Roland W. Lewis Swansea University
Mark Ainsworth
Mark Ainsworth Brown University
Juan C. Simo
Juan C. Simo Stanford University
Bernhard A. Schrefler
Bernhard A. Schrefler University of Padua

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