Wilkins Aquino, Professor in the Thomas Lord Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science

Wilkins Aquino

Wilkins Aquino obtained a BSCE from Purdue University, and a MS and PhD in Civil Engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Before joining the Duke Faculty, he was an associate professor in the School of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Cornell University. He was also a member of the fields of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics and Applied Mathematics at Cornell. Prof. Aquino has broad interests in computational mechanics, including finite element methods, computational inverse problems, uncertainty quantification, coupled chemo-mechanics, and computational acoustics, among others.

Office Location:  309 Gross Hall, Durham, NC 27708
Email Address: send me a message
Web Pages:  https://iomechlab.pratt.duke.edu
https://iomechlab.pratt.duke.edu/

Teaching (Fall 2024):

Education:

Ph.D.University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign2002
MSUniversity of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign1999
BSPurdue University1997
Specialties:

Computational Mechanics
Research Interests:

Computational mechanics, finite element methods, computational inverse problems and their applications in engineering and biomedicine, scientific computing, computational acoustics and acoustics-structure interaction, coupled chemo-mechanics (e.g. electrochemistry-mechanics).

Keywords:

computational mechanics • computational inverse problems • engineering in biomedicine • chemo-mechanics • machine learning in mechanics • multiscale problems • acoustics-structure interaction • finite element method

Recent Publications

  1. Zhao, Y; Parlak, Z; Yu, W; French, D; Aquino, W; Zauscher, S, Microfluidic QCM enables ultrahigh Q-factor: a new paradigm for in-liquid gravimetric sensing., Microsystems & nanoengineering, vol. 10 no. 1 (August, 2024), pp. 116 [doi]  [abs]
  2. Aquino, W; Desmond, J; Eldred, M; Kurzawski, A; McCormick, C; Sanders, C; Smith, C; Walsh, T, Assessing decision boundaries under uncertainty, Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, vol. 67 no. 7 (July, 2024) [doi]  [abs]
  3. Aquino, W; Rouse, J; Bonnet, M, Active design of diffuse acoustic fields in enclosures., The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, vol. 155 no. 2 (February, 2024), pp. 1297-1307 [doi]  [abs]
  4. Baek, Y; Aquino, W; Mukherjee, S, Generalized Bayes approach to inverse problems with model misspecification., Inverse problems, vol. 39 no. 10 (October, 2023), pp. 105011 [doi]  [abs]
  5. Zou, Z; Kouri, DP; Aquino, W, A Locally Adapted Reduced-Basis Method for Solving Risk-Averse PDE-Constrained Optimization Problems, SIAM-ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification, vol. 10 no. 4 (December, 2022), pp. 1629-1651 [doi]  [abs]
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