Dr Angela Mihai
Overview
Position:
Lecturer in Applied Mathematics
Email:
MihaiLA@cardiff.ac.ukTelephone: +44(0)29 208 75570
Fax: +44(0)29 208 74199
Extension: 75570
Location: M/2.14
Research Interest
My research is in the area of applied and computational mathematics at the interface with physical sciences and engineering disciplines. In particular, my research focus is on the rigorous mathematical modelling and numerical analysis of damage in structural and solid mechanics, including multiscale modelling, limit states analysis, and computational simulation for applications. Due to its economic impact, the development of robust and accurate methods to predict the appearances and progress of structural and material damage is of strategic importance and of long-term scientific interest. My work in this area is both theoretical and computational in nature and involves the integration of tools from several disciplines, including mathematics and mechanics of solids, modelling and analysis of transport processes in materials, numerical analysis and optimization of differential equations, and scientific computing.
Research Group
Recent Significant Publications
L. A. Mihai, A. Goriely, Positive or negative Poynting effect? The role of adscititious inequalities in hyperelastic materials, Proceedings of the Royal Society A 467 (2011), no. 2136, 3633--3646.
L. A. Mihai, A fixed-point approach to the limit load analysis of multibody structures with Coulomb friction, Computers and Structures 88 (2010), no. 13-14, 859--869.
L. A. Mihai, M. Ainsworth, A finite element procedure for rigorous numerical enclosures on the limit load in the analysis of multibody structures, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 199 (2009), no. 1-4, 48--60.
M. Ainsworth, L. A. Mihai, An adaptive multi-scale approach to the modelling of masonry structures, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 78 (2009), no. 10, 1135--1163.
Teaching
Spring Semester
MA1300 Mechanics I
Publications
Articles in Scientific Journals
L. A. Mihai, A. Goriely, Positive or negative Poynting effect? The role of adscititious inequalities in hyperelastic materials, Proceedings of the Royal Society A 467 (2011), no. 2136, 3633--3646.
L. A. Mihai, A fixed-point approach to the limit load analysis of multibody structures with Coulomb friction, Computers and Structures 88 (2010), no. 13-14, 859--869.
L. A. Mihai, M. Ainsworth, A finite element procedure for rigorous numerical enclosures on the limit load in the analysis of multibody structures, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 199 (2009), no. 1-4, 48--60.
L. A. Mihai, M. Ainsworth, An adaptive multi-scale computational modelling of Clare College Bridge, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 198 (2009), no. 21-26, 1839--1847.
M. Ainsworth, L. A. Mihai, An adaptive multi-scale approach to the modelling of masonry structures, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 78 (2009), no. 10, 1135--1163.
L. A. Mihai, A. W. Craig, Alternate slice-based substructuring in three dimensions, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis 29 (2009), no. 3, 508--538.
M. Ainsworth, L. A. Mihai, Modeling and numerical analysis of masonry structures, Numerical Methods for Partial Differential Equations 23 (2007), no. 4, 798--816.
M. Ainsworth, L. A. Mihai, A comparison of solvers for linear complementarity problems arising from large-scale masonry structures, Applications of Mathematics 51 (2006), no. 2, 93--128.
L. A. Mihai, A. W. Craig, Alternate strip-based substructuring algorithms for elliptic PDEs in two dimensions, IMA Journal of Numerical Analysis 26 (2006), no. 2, 354--380.
Biography
I hold a BSc in Mathematics from the University of Bucharest, Romania, a Certificate of Advanced Study in Mathematics from the University of Cambridge, and a DPhil in Numerical Analysis from Durham University.
Currently I am a Lecturer in Applied Mathematics at the Cardiff School of Mathematics, Cardiff University. Previously I was a postdoctoral researcher at the Universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and Strathclyde in Glasgow.
Prizes, Awards and Scholarships
Postdoctoral Researcher Prize, UK Association of Computational Mechanics in Engineering, 2006.
Student Presentation Prize, UK & Republic of Ireland Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 2002.
Shell Centenary Scholarship, Shell Group & Cambridge University Trust, 1999-2000.