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.

Contact Info:

Office Location:	309 Gross Hall
Office Phone:	(919) 684-1922
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Education:

Ph.D., University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 2002

MS, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, 1999

BS, Purdue University, 1997

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).

Specialties:

Computational Mechanics

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2007
Daniel M. Lazar '29 Excellence in Teaching Award, 2008
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, National Science Foundation
Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program, National Science Foundation

• ME 555.06, ADVANCED TOPICS Synopsis

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• ME 490.01, SPECIAL TOPICS Synopsis

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• ME 555.01, ADVANCED TOPICS Synopsis

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Recent Publications   (More Publications)

1. 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].
2. 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].
3. Chen, MJ; Sivakumar, K; Banyay, GA; Golchert, BM; Walsh, TF; Zavlanos, MM; Aquino, W, Bayesian Optimal Sensor Placement for Damage Detection in Frequency-Domain Dynamics, Journal of Engineering Mechanics, vol. 148 no. 12 (December, 2022) [doi]  [abs].
4. 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].
5. Treweek, BC; Sanders, CM; Aquino, W; Walsh, TF, Optimization of Acoustic Channels to Minimize Scattered Pressure Fields, Journal of Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, vol. 30 no. 3 (September, 2022) [doi]  [abs].