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: 2005. Optimization of a planar tendon-driven parrallel manipulator for a maximal dextrous workspace. Engineering Optimization, 37 (3) / Apr, pp 217-236.
Snyman JA: 2005. A gradient-only line search method for the conjugate gradient method applied to constrained optimization problems with severe noise in the objective function. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 62, pp 72-82.
Hay AM, Snyman JA: 2005. A multi-level optimization methodology for determining the dextrous workspaces of planar parallel manipulators. Structural and Multidisciplinary Optimization, 30, pp 422-427.
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