Kari Santaoja Author

Kari Santaoja is a Senior University Lecturer emeritus of Mechanical Engineering, Aalto University, Finland. He is a member of the Finnish Association for Structural Mechanics. J. N. Reddy is a Distinguished Professor, Regents Professor, and holder of the O'Donnell Foundation Chair IV of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A & M University. He is internationally recognized for his research and education in applied and computational mechanics, and is the author of several hundred journal articles and twenty-four textbooks, including Finite Element and Finite Volume Methods for Heat Transfer and Fluid Dynamics (Cambridge University Press: 2022); Introduction to Continuum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press: 2013); and Principles of Continuum Mechanics (Cambridge University Press: 2009). He has been awarded The Leonardo da Vinci Award, the IACM (Gauss-Newton) Medal, the ASME Timoshenko Medal, the ASCE Theodore von Karman Medal, and the USACM John von Neumann Medal, among others. He is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and a foreign member of five other academies.