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USA, Boston,, MA and Houston, TX, Research Centers
Serbia Yugoslavia - Kragujevac Research Center

IT Workforce:	15
Scientists:	15
Languages:	English, Serbian

	The two major areas of research are blood flow and blood vessels, and Cartilage mechanics. 15 specialists, including senior researchers, young engineers and medical doctors, are available for scientific projects covering software development and laboratory investigations. For general programming services another 15 software engineers complete the team.

	Prof. Dr. Milos Kojic, Mech. Eng. Ph.D. Rector of the University of Kragujevac and Professor of Mechanical Engineering. Director of the Center for Supercomputing, University of Kragujevac, Serbia and Montenegro. Senior Research Scientist at Harvard School of Public Health; Visiting Professor of health informatics at the School of Health Information Sciences, Department of Nanomedicine and Biomedical Engineering, The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston >> Milos Kojic is professor of Mechanics and Computational Methods at Faculty of Mechanical Engineering of University of Kragujevac. He was rector of the University and head of the Faculty. Currently he is visiting scholar at Harvard School of Public Health engaged in research in biomechanics. He was a visiting scholar of M.I.T. in Boston. Milos Kojic is Ph. D. of Rice University, Houston. He is the principal investigator of the general-purpose finite element program PAK for structural analysis, field problems and biomechanics. He is scientist renowned worldwide in the field of nonlinear computational mechanics. Author and co-author of over 200 publications, 14 books (two monographs in English) from the broad field of computational mechanics. President of Yugoslavian Society for Biomechanics, full member of International Academy for Nonlinear Sciences.

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	Prof. Nenad D. Filipovic, Mech. Eng. Ph.D. Assistant Professor of Biomechanics and Informatics and Mech. Engineering at the University of Kragujevac, Faculty of Technical Science. Vice-Director, Center for Supercomputing, University of Kragujevac, Serbia. Research Associate, Department of Environmental Health, Harvard University. Nenad Filipovic is assistant professor of Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, University of Kragujevac. His scientific research activities are: Computational Fluid Dynamics, Biomechanics and Biomedical Engineering, Coupled problems, Fluid-Structure Interaction. Nenad Filipovic has a broad knowledge and experience in development of software (computer graphics, OpenGL, object oriented programming, C/C++, Visual C++, Java, UML). He has authored over 30 scientific publications. Dr Nenad Filipovic is corresponding member of European Society of Biomechanics for Yugoslavia and scientific secretary of Yugoslavian Society of Biomechanics.

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Areas of Research	Muscle mechanics; Computational simulation; Comprehensive multi-scale approach Software development for large multiscale modeling and simulation of muscle mechanics Cardiovascular Biomechanics; Hemodynamics; Fluid-Structure Interaction Experimental and computational flow dynamics simulation of flow in the human aorta, three-dimensional flow analysis in the aorta and aortic bifurcation, flow dynamics and wall shear stress computation in vessels with lesions, fluid-structure interaction, moving boundary, artificial heart device, FEM analysis, ALE formulation, three-dimensional reconstruction of arterial segments from intravascular ultrasound imaging and computational flow analysis. Cartilage deformation; Swelling Pressure; FEM; Electrokinetic coupling; Finite deformation Cartilage analyze as mixture of porous solid and fluid, deformation cartilage include elektrokinetic coupling, finite element method, swelling pressure , large deformations of solid, change of porosity, estimated material constants from experimental and numerical data Respiratory system; Steady and Oscillatory Flow; Inspiratory and Expiratory Flow; Model Symmetric Bifurcation; Alevola Duct Flow; Aerosol Mixing; Particle Deposition; Pulmonary flow, lung airways, fluid-structure interaction, steady inspiratory and expiratory flow in a model symmetric bifurcation, special algorithm for alveola balloon pressure, 3D Lagrangian particle motion Pulsatile Albumin Transport; Wall Shear Stress; Oxygen Transport; Numerical Mass Transport; Large Scale Numerical Problems; Parallel computing; Mass transport to walls of stenosed arteries, pulsatile Albumin transport in large arteries, incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, convection diffusion equation, large Pecletov number, large scale numerical problems, iterative and direct solver CAD-software systems, Object-oriented Programming, C/C++, Visual C++, MFC, Java Aided design, visualization techniques, graphical user interface, OpenGL, internet applications, object-oriented framework, automatic mesh generation, scientific visualization, expert software systems, software engineering, parallel computing

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