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    General Hybrid Meshes and Its Application to Flow/Structure Interactions

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    I would like to express my profound gratitude to my advisor, Professor Yannis Kallinderis, for his advices, comments, and encouragement during my dissertation research. I am also grateful to him for asking questions that helped me consolidating my ideas and giving me considerable freedom to follow my own paths in research. His good sense of humor also has been invaluable to me while I was struggling with research. I would like to express my sincere appreciation to the members of my dissertation committee. I am extremely indebted to Professor Clinton Dawson, my co-advisor, for his comments and advices about my work as well as hosting me at the Institute of Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) and providing the excellent parallel computing resources of the Center for Subsurface Modeling (CSM) at ICES. My heartfelt gratitude must be expressed to Professor Graham Carey for his advices both in academics and life. Prof. Carey brought me a perspective view of my dissertation, and helped me to identify important parts and less important parts. I wish to thank Professor Spyridon Kinnas for giving me a chance to present m
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