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Professor Nam Mai-Duy


Name : Professor Nam Mai-Duy
Position : ARC Future Fellow
Section : Office of Research
Computational Engineering and Science Research Centre
Office : P9-117
Location : Toowoomba Campus
Phone : +61 7 4631 2748
Extension : 2748
E-mail :
Qualifications : MEng HoChiMinhUT
PhD USQ


Professional Affiliations
Member, Australian Association for Computational Mechanics
Member, International Association for Computational Mechanics
Member, Australasian Association for Engineering Education

Research Interests
Computational Rheology and Mechanics
Boundary-Integral-Equation Methods
Meshless RBFN-Based Methods
Spectral Methods

Recent Research Outcomes
Three most recent :
Nguyen-Van H, Mai-Duy N and Tran-Cong T (2007) A simple and accurate four-node quadrilateral element using stabilized nodal integration for laminated plates. Computers, Materials & Continua, 6(3), 159--175

Mai-Duy N and Tran-Cong T (2007) A Cartesian-grid collocation method based on radial-basis-function networks for solving PDEs in irregular domains. Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations, 23(5), 1192--1210

Le P, Mai-Duy N, Tran-Cong T and Baker G (2007) A numerical study of strain localization in elasto-thermo-viscoplastic materials using radial basis function networks. Computers, Materials & Continua, 5(2), 129--150
Most notable :
Mai-Duy N and Tanner RI (2007) A spectral collocation method based on integrated Chebyshev polynomials for biharmonic boundary-value problems. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics, 201(1), 30--47

Mai-Duy N and Tanner RI (2005) Solving high order partial differential equations with radial basis function networks. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 63, 1636--54

Mai-Duy N and Tran-Cong T (2003) RBF interpolation of boundary values in the BEM for heat transfer problems. International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, 13, 611--32

Mai-Duy N and Tran-Cong T (2002) Mesh-free radial basis function network methods with domain decomposition for approximation of functions and numerical solution of Poisson's equations. Engineering Analysis with Boundary Elements, 26, 133--56

Mai-Duy N and Tran-Cong T (2001) Numerical solution of differential equations using multiquadric radial basis function networks. Neural Networks, 14, 185--99

Currently Teaching Courses/Programs
MEC3403 Dynamics II

Teaching Experience
Tertiary : 6 years