Traian Dumitricã

Professor,

Mechanical Engineering

Contact

612-625-3797

dtraian@umn.edu

Mechanical Engineering

Rm 244

111 Church Street SE

Minneapolis,

55455

Affiliations

Graduate Faculty Member of:

Aerospace Engineering and Mechanics; Chemical Engineering and Materials Science; Civil, Environmental, and Geo-Engineering; Physics; and Scientific Computing

Education

Ph.D. 2000, Chemical Physics, Texas A&M University
M.S. 1996, Condensed Matter Physics, The "Abduis Salam" Center for Theoretical Physics, Italy
B.S. 1992, Physics, University of Bucharest, Romania

Professional Background

Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2019 – Present
Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2011 – 2018
Assistant Professor, Mechanical Engineering, University of Minnesota, 2005 – 2011
Postdoctoral Research Associate, Mechanical Engineering, Rice University, 2000 – 2004
Postdoctoral Associate, Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Freie Universitaet, Berlin 2003 (six months)
Teaching/Research Assistant, Physics, Texas A&M University, College Station 1996 – 2000

Research Interests

To investigate the thermal properties of nano-system
To describe the fundamental mechanical deformations of nano-materials
To determine an optimal equilibrium nano-structure

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Research Group

Computational Nanomechanics and Nanoscale Heat Transfer (ME 240-244)

Honors and Awards

Mercator Fellow, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, 2020-2023
Cundall Award, 2020
Fulbright US Scholar, 2019-2020
Visiting Fellow Commoner, Trinity College Cambridge UK, 2019
Senior Fellow in Energy, Hanse-Wissenschaftskolleg (Institute for Advanced Study), Delmenhorst,
Germany, 2017-2019
Fellow, Ecole Centrale Paris, 2013
NSF CAREER Award, Nano and Bio Mechanics Program, Division of Engineering, 2008

Selected Publications

Nikiforov, B. Hourahine, B. Aradi, Th. Frauenheim, and T. Dumitrica, Ewald summation on a helix: A route to self-consisent charge density-functional based tight-binding objective molecular dynamics.
E. Dontsova and T. Dumitrica, Nanomechanics of Twisted Mono- and Few-layer Graphene Nanoribbons, The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters (under review).
I. Ostanin, R. Ballarini, D. Potyondy, and T. Dumitrica, A distinct element method for large scale simulations of carbon nanotube assemblies, Journal of the Mechanics and Physics of Solids 61, 762-782 (2013).
L. Tapaszto, T. Dumitrica, S.J. Kim, P. Nemes-Incze, C. Hwang, and L.P. Biro, Breakdown of continuum mechanics for nanometre-wavelength rippling of graphene, Nature Physics 8 739-742 (2012).
E. Akatyeva and T. Dumitrica, Chiral Graphene Nanoribbons: Objective Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Phase-Transition Modeling, The Journal of Chemical Physics 23, 234702 (2012).

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