Seid Koric

Ph.D. student
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Advisor: Professor Brian G. Thomas

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Research Interests: Finite element analysis of highly nonlinear constitutive models coupled with transient heat transfer, parallel linear solver technologies applied to highly ill-conditioned finite element systems.

Research Area:

Coupled transient heat transfer and thermal stress analysis of solidifying steel shells

Education:

Positions Held:

1999-current
Engineering Applications Analyst and Consultant
Research Programmer in Computational Structural Mechanics Group
National Center for Supercomputer Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1997-1999
Research Assistant
National Center for Supercomputer Applications, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

1993-1995
Chief Engineer, Municipal Field Probing Team for Natural Distribution Gas System
Assistant Designer, Distribution Gas Network Design Team
Research and Development Center of Gas Technology, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina & International Rescue Committee in Bosnia, New York, USA

Awards:

Selected Publications:

SEID KORIC, BRIAN G. THOMAS. "New Thermo-Mechanical Model in the Steel Continuous Casting Process", submitted to the International Journal for
Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2005.

JOHN FETTIG, SEID KORIC, and NAHIL SOBH. "A Comparison of Direct and Iterative Linear Sparse Solvers in Computational Solid Mechanics", presented at the 2003 International Conference on Preconditioning Techniques for Large Sparse Matrix Problems, Napa, California, October 27-29, 2003

ANSHUL GUPTA, SEID KORIC. "Solving Large Sparse Systems of Linear Equations on Linux Clusters", presented at the LCI Workshop, IBM TJ Watson Research Center Yorkton Heights, New York, August 18-23 2003.

P. PARTHASARTHY, S. KORIC. "A Taste of Teraflop", published at NCSA Access Online Stories, April 2002.

H. H. HILTON, S. KORIC, C. E. BELDIC. "A Piezoelectric creep divergence control of viscoelastic lifting surfaces - masively parallel computational simulations", presented at Fourth Asia-Pacific Conference on Computational Mechanics for the Next Millennium (APCOM 99), Singapore, December 15 - 17, 1999.

C. E. BELDICA, H. H. HILTON, S. KORIC. "Bending and torsion of nonlinear viscoelastic beams under piezoelectric control - analytical and massively parallel computational simulations", presented at the Third National Conference on Computational Mechanics, Volos, Greece, June 24 - 26, 1999. Accepted for presentation at the High Performance Computing Conference (HPC 2000), Maui, Hawaii, January 26 - 28, 2000.

H. POON, S. KORIC, F. AHMAD. "Three dimensional thermoset composite curing simulations involving heat conduction cure kinetic and viscoelastic stress-strain response", presented at the 39th AIAA/ASME/ASCE/AHS/ASC Conference 4/1998.