Publications

I have links to electronic drafts of some papers here. Also, there are some links to scanned papers, but note that these are for private study, scholarship and research only. (Refer the the Fair Use doctrine document, please.)

Peer-reviewed publications

  1. M. Broccardo, M. Micheloni, Krysl P, (2008), Assumed-deformation gradient Finite Elements with Nodal Integration for nearly incompressible Large Deformation Analysis, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, accepted November 2008.

  2. Cranford TW, Mckenna MF, Soldevilla MS, Wiggins SM, Goldbogen JA, Shadwick RE, Krysl P, Leger JAS, Hildebrand JA (2008), Anatomic geometry of sound transmission and reception in Cuvier's beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), ANATOMICAL RECORD-ADVANCES IN INTEGRATIVE ANATOMY AND EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY, 291, 4, 353-378, APR 2008.

  3. Ted W Cranford, Petr Krysl and John A Hildebrand (2008), Acoustic pathways revealed: simulated sound transmission and reception in Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), Bioinsp. Biomim. 3 (2008) (PDF)

  4. P. Krysl, B. Zhu, Locking-free continuum displacement finite elements with nodal integration, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, Published Online: Apr 15 2008 9:23AM, DOI: 10.1002/nme.2354.

  5. L.  Hoyte, M.  S. Damaser,  S.  K. Warfield,  G.  Chukkapalli, A.  Majumdar,  D.  J.  Choi,  A.  Trivedi,  P.  Krysl, (2008) , Quantity and distribution of levator ani stretch during simulated vaginal childbirth, American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2008 ; DOI: 10.1016/j.ajog.2008.04.027.

  6. Ted W Cranford, Petr Krysl and John A Hildebrand (2008), Sound Pathways Revealed: Simulated sound Transmission And Reception In Cuvier’s Beaked Whale Ziphius Cavirostris Using The Vibro-Acoustic Toolkit, Bioacoustics 17, 69-70. 

  7. Petr Krysl (2007), Dynamically equivalent implicit algorithms for the integration of rigid body rotations, Communications for Numerical Methods in Engineering, published online 10.1002/cnm.963. (PDF of draft)

  8. Endres L, Petr Krysl (2007), Second-order explicit integrator via composition for coupled rotating rigid bodies applied to roller cone drill bits , Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, Dec 27 2007 4:23AM, DOI: 10.1002/cnm.1079.

  9. T. W. Cranford, and J. A. Hildebrand (2007): Lagrangian finite element treatment of transient vibration/acoustics of biosolids immersed in fluids, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING, in print.

  10. P. Krysl, T. W. Cranford, S. M. Wiggins and J. A. Hildebrand (2006): Simulating the effect of high-intensity sound on cetaceans: Modeling approach and a case study for Cuvier’s Beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris), JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA 120 (4): 2328-2339 OCT 2006. (PDF of draft) 

  11. Zhu B, Asaro RJ, Krysl P, Zhang K, Weertman JR, Effects of grain size distribution on the mechanical response of nanocrystalline metals: Part II , ACTA MATERIALIA 54 (12): 3307-3320 JUL 2006 .

  12. Ramroth WT, Asaro RJ, Zhu B, Petr Krysl, Finite element modelling of fire degraded FRP composite panels using a rate dependent constitutive model , COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING 37 (7): 1015-1023 2006.

  13. Ramroth WT, Krysl P, Asaro RJ, Sensitivity and uncertainty analyses for FE thermal model of FRP panel exposed to fire , COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING 37 (7): 1082-1091 2006

  14. Krysl P, Direct time integration of rigid body motion with discrete-impulse midpoint approximation: Explicit Newmark algorithms , COMMUNICATIONS IN NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING 22 (5): 441-451 MAY 2006

  15. Krysl P, Trivedi A,Instructional use of MATLAB software components for computational structural engineering applications, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ENGINEERING EDUCATION 21 (5): 778-783 2005 (PDF of draft)

  16. Zhu B, Asaro RJ, Krysl P, Bailey R, Transition of deformation mechanisms and its connection to grain size distribution in nanocrystalline metals , ACTA MATERIALIA 53 (18): 4825-4838 OCT 2005

  17. Krysl P, Explicit momentum-conserving integrator for dynamics of rigid bodies approximating the midpoint Lie algorithm , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING 63 (15): 2171-2193 AUG 21 2005

  18. Majumdar A, Birnbaum A, Choi DJ, Trivedi A, Warfield SK, Baldridge K, Krysl P, A dynamic data driven grid system for intra-operative image guided neurosurgery , LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3515: 672-679 2005

  19. Krysl P, Endres L, Explicit Newmark/Verlet algorithm for time integration of the rotational dynamics of rigid bodies , INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL FOR NUMERICAL METHODS IN ENGINEERING 62 (15): 2154-2177 APR 21 2005

  20. P. Krysl, Lennox Hoyte, Giridhar Chukkapalli, Amitava Majumdar, Dong Ju Choi, Margot Damaser, Abhishek Trivedi, Simon K. Warfield (2004): Computational Model of Levator Ani Muscle Stretch during Natural Birth, Journal of Biomechanics, in preparation.

  21. P. Krysl (2004): Explicit time integrators for nonlinear dynamics derived from the midpoint rule, CTU Reports, Czech Technical University in Prague, to appear. (PDF of draft)

  22. P. Krysl (2004): Explicit Momentum-conserving Integrator for Dynamics of Rigid Bodies Approximating the Midpoint Lie Algorithm, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, to appear. (PDF of draft)

  23. R. J. Asaro, P. Krysl, B. Zhu, and W. T. Ramroth (2004): Rate Dependent Constitutive Modelling of Laminated FRP Composites Degraded by Fire, Journal of composite structures, to appear. (PDF of draft)

  24. P. Krysl, L. Endres (2004): Explicit Newmark/Verlet algorithm for Time Integration of the Rotational Dynamics of Rigid Bodies, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, to appear. (PDF of draft)

  25. P. Krysl, W. T. Ramroth, and R. J. Asaro (2004): FE modelling of FRP sandwich panels exposed to heat: Uncertainty analysis, SAMPE 2004, Long Beach.

  26. P. Krysl, W. T. Ramroth, L. K. Stewart, and R. J. Asaro (2003): Finite Element Modelling of Fiber Reinforced Polymer Sandwich Panels Exposed to Heat, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, to appear. (PDF of draft)

  27. Petr Krysl, Abhishek Trivedi, Baozhi Zhu (2003): Object-Oriented Hierarchical Mesh Refinement with CHARMS, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, to appear. (Download PDF of draft)

  28. Robert J. Asaro, Petr Krysl and Bimal Kad (2003): Deformation Mechanism Transitions in Nano-Scale FCC Metals, Phil. Mag. Letters, to appear.

  29. Endres, L. and P. Krysl (2004): Octasection-based Refinement of Finite Element Approximations on Tetrahedral Meshes that Guarantees Shape Quality, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 59 (1): 69-82. (Download PDF of draft) 

  30. Hammon, P. and P. Krysl (2003): Implementation of a General Mesh Refinement Technique, CTU Reports, Czech Technical University in Prague, 1, Vol. 7, 57—70. (Download PDF of draft)

  31. Krysl, P., E. Grinspun, and P. Schröder (2003): Natural Hierarchical Refinement for Finite Element Methods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, v.56(8), 1109-1124. (Download PDF of draft)

  32. Lall, S., P. Krysl, and J. E. Marsden (2003): Structure-Preserving Model Reduction of Mechanical Systems, PhysicaD, 184 (1-4): 304-318.

  33. Grinspun E, Krysl P, Schröder P (2002): CHARMS: A simple framework for adaptive simulation, ACM TRANSACTIONS ON GRAPHICS, 21 (3): 281-290 JUL 2002.

  34. Grinspun, E, P. Krysl, and P. Schröder (2002): CHARMS: A Simple Framework for Adaptive Simulation, Proceedings of SIGGRAPH 2002.

  35. Krysl, P., S. Lall, and J. E. Marsden (2001): Dimensional Model Reduction in Non-linear Finite Element Dynamics of Solids and Structures, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, v.51 (4), 479—504.

  36. Krysl, P. and M. Ortiz (2001): Extraction of Boundary Representation from Surface Triangulations, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, v.50 (7), 1737-1758. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  37. Krysl, P. and M. Ortiz (2001): VariationalDelaunay Approach to the Generation of Tetrahedral Finite Element Meshes, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, v.50 (7), 1681-1700. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  38. Krysl, P. and Z. Bittnar (2001): Parallel explicit finite element solid dynamics with domain decomposition and message passing: Dual partitioning scalability , Computers and Structures, v.79 (3), 345-360. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  39. Krysl, P (1999): Model dimension reduction in non-linear finite element dynamics of solids and structures, CTU Reports, Czech Technical University in Prague, 4, Vol. 3, 69--85.

  40. Krysl, P. and Z. Bittnar (1999): Parallel finite element solid dynamics with domain decomposition and message passing Vol. 39, No 2, Acta Polytechnica of the CTU in Prague.

  41. Pandolfi, A. and P. Krysl, M. Ortiz (1999): Finite element simulation of ring expansion and fragmentation: The capturing of length and time scales through cohesive models of fracture, Int. J. Fracture, 95, 279--297.

  42. Krysl, P. and T. Belytschko (1999): Application of the element free Galerkin method to the propagation of arbitrary 3D cracks, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Volume 44, 767-800. (PDF copy of paper)

  43. Krysl, P. and T. Belytschko (1998): Object-oriented parallelization of explicit structural dynamics with PVM, Computers and Structures, 66/2-3, 259--273. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  44. Krysl, P. and T. Belytschko (2000): An efficient linear-precision partition of unity basis for unstructured meshless methods, Communications in Numerical Methods in Engineering, 16:239-255. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  45. Krysl, P. and T. Belytschko (2001): ESFLIB: A library to compute the element free Galerkin shape functions, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Vol. 190 (15-17) 2181-2205. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  46. Belytschko, T. and P. Krysl and Y. Krongauz (1997): A three-dimensional explicit element-free Galerkin method, International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 24, 1253--1270. (PDF copy of paper)

  47. Belytschko, T. and Y. Krongauz and D. Organ and M. Fleming and P. Krysl (1996): MeshlessMethods: An Overview and Recent Developments, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 139, 3--47.

  48. Krysl, P. and T. Belytschko (1997): Element-Free Galerkin Method: Convergence of the continuous and discontinuous shape functions, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 148, 257--277. (Postscript copy of draft) (Postscript PDF of draft)

  49. Rypl D. and P. Krysl (1997): Triangulation of 3D Surfaces, Engineering with Computers, 13, 87--98.

  50. Krysl, P. and T. Belytschko (1996): Analysis of Thin Shells by the Element-Free Galerkin Method, Int. J. Solids and Structures, 33, 3057--3080. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  51. Krysl, P. and T. Belytschko (1996): Analysis of Thin Plates by the Element-Free Galerkin Method, Computational Mechanics, 17, 26--35. (Download postscript of draft) (Download PDF of draft)

  52. Krysl P. (1996): Computational Complexity of the Advancing Front Triangulation, Engineering with Computers, 12, 16-22.

  53. Krysl P. (1993): FLIPP: Fortran Library for Interactive Persistent Programming, Engng. Comput. 11, 213-225.

  54. Krysl P. (1993): Complete Stiffness Matrices for Buckling Analysis of Frames, J. Engng. Mech. ASCE, 225-235

  55. Krysl P. (1992): On some issues of scientific computations, Acta Polytechnica of the CTU in Prague 32, 15-25

Publications in proceedings

  1. Betty Hu, Sadaf Soleymani , Angela Thompson, Kathy Gao, Marshal Sherman, Randy Werneth, Ablation Frontiers, Carlsbad, CA, Petr Krysl, University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA, Hakan Oral , Fred Morady, Multi-phase Radio Frequency Cardiac Tissue Ablation: In vitro experiments and finite element analysis, 13th annual international Boston atrial fibrillation symposium, January 17-19, 2008 ,

  2. Petr Krysl, Vibro-acoustic Toolkit for Computational Biology and Biomedical Modeling, Presentation at the US national Congress for computational mechanics, Computational acoustics and computational ultrasonics symposium, 2007.

  3. Cranford Ted W., Krysl P.  (2007), Sound Propagation in Cuvier’s Beaked Whale (Ziphius cavirostris): A Test Case for Simulating Sound Propagation in Aquatic Organisms using FEM, Poster and presentation at international conference on Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life to take place in Nyborg, Denmark August 13-17, 2007.

  4.  A dynamic data driven grid system for intra-operative image guided neurosurgery, Majumdar A, Birnbaum A, Choi DJ, Trivedi A, Warfield SK, Baldridge K, Krysl P, COMPUTATIONAL SCIENCE - ICCS 2005, PT 2 LECTURE NOTES IN COMPUTER SCIENCE 3515: 672-679 2005

  5. Krysl, P. (2002): Hierarchical Adaptive Finite Element Approximation Via Natural Mesh Refinement, Proceedings of the Fifth World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM V), July 7-12, 2002, Vienna, Austria, Editors: Mang, H.A.; Rammerstorfer, F.G.; Eberhardsteiner, J., Publisher: Vienna University of Technology, Austria, ISBN 3-9501554-0-6, http://wccm.tuwien.ac.at.

  6. Krysl, P. (2001): Nonlinear dynamics of solids and structures, Proceedings, 6th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Dearborn, Michigan, August 1-4, 2001, p. 689, 2001.

  7. Krysl, P. (2001): Hierarchical Refinement of Finite Element Meshes: A Meshless Viewpoint, Proceedings, 6th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Dearborn, Michigan, August 1-4, 2001, p. 10, 2001.

  8. Krysl, P. (2001): From Meshless Methods to Natural Hierarchical Refinement of Finite Element Meshes, Proceedings, First MIT Conference on Computational Fluid and Solid Mechanics, June 12-15, 2001, 1595-1597, 2001.

  9. Krysl, P. (2001): Hierarchical Refinement for General Finite Element Grids, Proceedings, 2001 SIAM Annual Meeting, July 9-13, 2001, San Diego, p.39.

  10. Krysl, P. E. Grinspun, and P. Schröder (2000): A Refinement Method for Adaptive Computations on Subdivision Surfaces, NSF-KDI/IGPP Workshop 2000 on Accurate Simulation and Modeling of Physical Systems , Institute of Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institute of Oceanography, La Jolla, California, USA November 9-10, 2000.

  11. Grinspun E, Krysl, P. and P. Schröder (2000): A Refinement Method for Adaptive Computations on Subdivision Surfaces, Workshop on Meshfree Methods, University of Iowa, November 4, 2000

  12. Weinstein D., P. Krysl, C.Johnson (2000): The BIOPSE Inverse EEG Modeling Pipeline, 7th International Conference on Numerical Grid Generation in Computational Field Simulations, September 25-28, 2000 Whistler, British Columbia, Canada.

  13. Krysl P and M. Ortiz (2000): Extraction of Boundary Representation from Surface Triangulations, ICES'2K: August 2000, Los Angeles. .

  14. Krysl P., S. Lall, and J.E. Marsden (2000): Reduced-dimension Models in Nonlinear Finite Element Dynamics of Continuous Media, ICES'2K: August 2000, Los Angeles. . (Download PDF of draft)

  15. Patzak B., D. Rypl, Z. Bittnar, and P. Krysl (1999): Explicit finite element dynamics with nonlocal constitutive models on parallel computers, Fifth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, Boulder, CO.

  16. Krysl P and M. Ortiz (1998): Generation of Tetrahedral Finite Element Meshes: Variational Delaunay Approach, 7th International Meshing Roundtable, Dearborn, Michigan, October 1998.

  17. T. Belytschko, C. Gerlach, Y. Krongauz, P. Krysl and J. Dolbow (1998): Why meshfree methods?, Keynote lecture, Fourth World Congress on Computational Mechanics.

  18. Krysl P., Belytschko, T. (1997): Propagation of 3D Cracks by the Element Free Galerkin Method, Fourth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco.

  19. Krysl P., Belytschko, T. (1997): Recent Advances in the Element Free Galerkin Method, Fourth U.S. National Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco.

  20. Krysl P., Belytschko, T. (1997): Dynamic propagation of arbitrary 3D cracks by the element free Galerkin method, Proc. of Joint ASME/ASCE/SES Summer Meeting (McNU'97), Evanston, IL.

  21. Krysl P., Belytschko, T. (1997): Modeling of 3D propagating cracks by the element-free Galerkin method, Proc. of Int. Conf. ICES'97, Costa Rica, 128--133.

  22. T. Belytschko, Y. Krongauz and P. Krysl (1997): Advances in Element Free Galerkin and Meshless Methods, J. T. Oden Symposium on Advances in Computational Mechanics, Austin, TX, January 1997

  23. Belytschko, T., Krongauz, Y., Krysl, P. (1997): Recent developments in meshless methods and the Element-Free Galerkin method, Proc. of Int. Conf. ICES'97, Costa Rica.

  24. Krysl P. (1996): PVM parallelization of explicit finite element programs, Workshop of the CTU in Brno (1996).

  25. Krysl P., Rypl D. (1995): Triangulation of 3D CAD surfaces, Workshop of the CTU in Prague.

  26. Chudoba R., Krysl P. (1995): Object-Oriented Explicit Finite Element Computations, Workshop of the CTU in Prague.

  27. Krysl P. (1995): Computational Complexity of the Advancing Front Triangulation, Proc. ICES'95, Hawaii.

  28. Chudoba R., Krysl P. (1995): Explicit Finite Element Computations: Object-Oriented Approach, 6th Int. Conf. of Comp. in Civil and Building Engineering, Berlin, July 1995.

  29. Krysl P., Bittnar Z. (1995): Use of free software in research and education of post-graduate students, Workshop of the CTU in Prague.

  30. Krysl P., Bittnar Z. (1994): Automatic triangulation of 2D domains with $O(N)$ computational complexity, Proc. Workshop of the CTU in Prague.

  31. Krysl P. (1994): Discrete-component finite element for buckling analysis of trusses, Proc. Workshop of the CTU in Prague.

  32. Krysl P. (1994): Automatic triangulation of 2D domains by the advancing front algorithm. Int. Symp. on Mathematical Modelling and Computational methods, Prague.

  33. Krysl P. (1994): Central difference time integrators for finite rotation kinematics of beams and shells. Int. Coll. Comput. Methods, Pernink.

  34. Krysl P., Patz\'{a}k B., Rypl D., Bittnar Z. (1994): Adaptive Finite Element Analysis Of 2D Structures, Int. Conf. Reliability of Structures, Prague.

  35. Krysl P., Studni\v ckov\' a M., Kr\'{a}l J. (1993): Long-span footbridge: computations and tests, Proc. Eurodyn 1993, Trondheim.

  36. Krysl P., Bittnar Z. (1993): Options in post-buckling and imperfection analysis of trusses, Proc. Int. Conf. FEMCAD 1993.

  37. Krysl P. (1993): FLIPP: Fortran Library for Interactive Persistent Programming, Workshop of the CTU in Prague, 223-225

  38. Krysl P., (1991): Simulation of nonlinear mechanical response of spatial elastic structures on a microcomputer, Proc. 6th Int. Conf. Math. Methods in Engng, Plzen.

  39. Chudoba R., Krysl P., Bittnar Z. (1992): Distributed Object-Oriented Development Integrating, Proc. Workshop of the CTU in Prague

  40. Krysl P. (1992): Complete Stiffness Matrices for Buckling Analysis of Frames, Proc. Workshop of the CTU in Prague,

Unpublished talks

  1. Krysl P. , R. J. Asaro (2002): Comprehensive Investigation of the Mechanical Properties of Nanostructured Materials: Aspects of  Adaptivity, invited presentation at the Advanced NSF workshop on the Durability of Materials, Prague, July 4-7,  2002.

  2. Krysl P. , E. Grinspun, and P. Schröder (2001): Hierarchical Finite Element Mesh Refinement, poster for the Seattle review of the DARPA/NSF OPAAL project.

  3. Krysl P. (2000): Nonlinear Finite Element Simulation:  To do [it] or not to do [it], that is not the question, Structural Engineering seminar, Nov 13, 2000.

  4. Krysl P. and M. Ortiz (1998): Finite element analysis of fragmentation with continuous remeshing, invited lecture at the Mechanics of Quasibrittle Materials and Structures workshop in Honour of Prof. Z.P. Bazant's 60th Birthday, March 27-28, Prague.

  5. Krysl P. (1997): Meshlessmethods: comparison to the finite element method, principles, applications, Invited lecture at Czech Technical University, Prague, Oct 1997.

  6. Krysl P. and T. Belytschko (1995): Application of the Element-Free Galerkin Method to Kirchhoff-Love Shells, invited lecture, Mechanics Club, Northwestern University, Oct 1995.

  7. Krysl P. (1995): Generation of finite element meshes: Techniques and tools, Invited lecture at the EcolePolytechnique Federale Lausanne, Jan 1995

  8. Bittnar Z., Krysl P. (1993): Computational modelling of RC structures. Invited lecture at the Institute for statics and dynamics of the Ruhr University in Bochum, Sep 1993.

Technical reports

  1. Krysl P., Chudoba R. (1991): Non-linear computation of the pedestrian bridge over the Vranov Lake, report of the Klokner Institute of the CTU in Prague.

If you have questions or suggestions, email me at pkrysl@ucsd.edu