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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

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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:

Bolton HPJ, Groenwold AA, Snyman JA: 2004. The application of a unified bayesian stopping criterion in competing parallel algorithms for global optimization. Computers & Mathematics with Applications, 48, pp 549-560.

Jarmai K, Snyman JA, Farkas J: 2004. Application of novel constrained optimization algorithms to the minimum volume design of planar CHS trusses with parallel chords. Engineering Optimization, 36 (4) / Aug, pp 457-471.

Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2004. Methodologies for the optimal design of parallel manipulators. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 59, pp 131-152.

 

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