Raúl Radovitzky
Contact Info
I'm interested in computational and applied mechanics of solids and structures subject to hypersonic flight conditions.
Specialization and Research Interests
Thermo-chemo-mechanical response of Thermal Protection Systems in Hypersonic Vehicles. Computational Solid Mechanics and Fluid, Structure Interaction, Mechanics of Materials, Multiscale Modeling and Simulation, High-Performance and Massively Parallel Computing.
Teaching Interests
Computational Mechanics, Aerospace Structures, Numerical Methods, Continuum Mechanics
Positions Held at MIT
Charles Stark Draper Assistant Professor, 2001-2006; Associate Professor, 2006-2012; Professor, 2012-present. Associate Director MIT Institute for Soldier Nanotechnologies, 2008-present.
Academic Degrees
Civil Engineer, 1991, University of Buenos Aires S.M., 1995, Brown University Ph.D., 1998, California Institute of Technology
Society Memberships
Associate Fellow, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics; American Society of Mechanical Engineers; Materials Research Society; American Association of Mechanics; International Association for Computational Mechanics; United States Association for Computational Mechanics
Awards & Honors
- MIT AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award, AIAA Student Chapter, 2021
- Arthur C. Smith Award, MIT, 2021
- Alan J. Lazarus Award (1953) Excellence in Advising Award, MIT, 2018
- MIT AIAA Undergraduate Teaching Award, AIAA Student Chapter, 2016
- AIAA Associate Fellow, AIAA, 2015
Research
- A fully-coupled computational framework for large-scale simulation of fluid-driven fracture propagation on parallel computers Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2020), Bianca Giovanardi, Santiago Serebrinsky, Raúl Radovitzky
- A path-following simulation-based study of elastic instabilities in nearly-incompressible confined cylinders under tension Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2019), Bianca Giovanardi, Adam A. Śliwiak, Anwar Koshakji, Shaoting Lin, Xuanhe Zhao, Raúl Radovitzky
- A parallel discontinuous Galerkin/cohesive-zone computational framework for the simulation of fracture in shear-flexible shells Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2017), Brandon L. Talamini, Raúl Radovitzky
- Large-scale 3D modeling of projectile impact damage in brittle plates Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids (2015), A. Seagraves, R. Radovitzky
- An animal-to-human scaling law for blast-induced traumatic brain injury risk assessment Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2014), Aurélie Jean, Michelle K. Nyein, James Q. Zheng, David F. Moore, John D. Joannopoulos, and Raúl Radovitzky