Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology
School of Engineering
Department of Mechanical and Aeronautical Engineering
Snyman, JA
BSc(Hons)(Fsk)(Cape Town) BSc(Hons)(Wis)(Pret) MSc(Unisa) DSc(Pret) - Professor
NRF Rating: B2
Contact Details
Research Interests
Research Output
Contact Details:
Telephone number: 012 420 3165
Fax number: 012 362 5087
E-mail address: jan.snyman@eng.up.ac.za
Research Interests:
Simulation of fluid and heat transfer
Optimisation of structures and mechanisms
Research Output:
Research articles in refereed specialist journals:
Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2002. The chord method for the determination of nonconvex workspaces of planar parallel manipulators. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 43 (8-9) / Apr/May, pp 1135-1151.
Snyman JA, Hay AM: 2002. The Dynamic-Q optimization method: An alternativeto SQP?. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 44 (12) / Dec, pp 1589-1598.
Groenwold AA, Snyman JA: 2002. Global optimization using dynamic search trajectories. Journal of Global Optimization, 24, World Scientific, pp 51-60.
Smit WJ, Snyman JA: 2002. The optimal design of a planar parallel platform for prescribed machining tasks. Multibody System Dynamics, 8 (2) / Sep, pp 103-115.
Papers in refereed, published conference proceedings:
Groenwold AA, Snyman JA: 2002. Global optimization using dynamic search trajectories. In Conference on Combinatorial and Global Optimization: Selected papers, World Scientific, pp 123-132.
du Plessis LJ, Snyman JA: 2002. Design and optimum operation of a reconfigurable planar Gough-Stewart machining platform. In Conference Proceedings PKS (Parallel Kinematics Seminar) 2002: Development Methods and Application Experience of Parallel Kinematics, Fraunhofer / Verlag, pp 729-749.
Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2002. The optimal synthesis of parallel manipulators for desired workspaces. In Eighth International Symposium on Advances in Robot Kinematics: Theory and Applications, Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp 337-346.
Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2002. The synthesis of parallel manipulators for optimal desired workspaces with respect to the condition number. In Proceedings of DETC2002, American Society of Mechanical Engineers, pp 1-7.
de Kock DJ, Snyman JA: 2002. The teaching of creative mathematical modelling via an educational toolkit for design optimization (TDO). In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Teaching of Mathematics (ICTM2), J Wiley & Sons, p. CD.
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