A novel arbitrary Lagrangian Eulerian framework for large strain solid dynamics 

    Giusto, Thomas B. J. di (Date of defense: 2024-01-24)

    (English) In the realm of Computer-Aided Engineering applied to fast solid dynamics, the intricate mechanical behaviours exhibited by materials when subjected to strong dynamic forces, high speed impacts and complex ...

    Adaptive low and high-order hybridized methods for unsteady incompressible flow simulations 

    Karkoulias, Alexandros (Date of defense: 2020-06-17)

    Simulations of incompressible flows are performed on a daily basis to solve problems of practical and industrial interest in several fields of engineering, including automotive, aeronautical, mechanical and biomedical ...

    Finite element simulation of additive manufacturing with enhanced accuracy 

    Moreira Filho, Carlos Augusto (Date of defense: 2022-07-21)

    This thesis develops numerical methods to improve the accuracy and computational efficiency of the part-scale simulation of Additive Manufacturing (AM) (or 3D printing) metal processes. AM is characterized by multiple ...

    High-order hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin formulation and implicit Runge-Kutta schemes for multiphase flow through porous media 

    Costa Solé, Albert (Date of defense: 2020-07-17)

    This dissertation presents high-order hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin (HDG) formulations coupled with implicit Runge-Kutta (RK) methods for the simulation of one-phase flow and two-phase flow problems. High-order-methods ...

    Large-scale tree-based unfitted finite elements for metal additive manufacturing 

    Miranda Neiva, Eric (Date of defense: 2020-10-07)

    This thesis addresses large-scale numerical simulations of partial differential equations posed on evolving geometries. Our target application is the simulation of metal additive manufacturing (or 3D printing) with powder-bed ...

    Mixed finite elements with independent strain interpolation for isotropic and orthotropic damage 

    Barbat Vlad, Gabriel (Date of defense: 2021-02-11)

    The numerical modelling of fracture has been an active topic of research for over five decades. Most of the approaches employed rely on the use of the Finite Element Method, which has shown to be an effective and cost-efficient ...

    On the mechanics of strain localization in plasticity : isotropic and orthotropic, cohesive and frictional, associated and non-associated models 

    Kim, Sungchul (Date of defense: 2021-07-21)

    In this thesis, two main topics have been covered: the mechanics of strain localization in plasticity and the performance of several mixed finite elements subjected to plastic strain localization. Throughout the thesis, ...

    A parallel algorithm for deformable contact problems 

    Rivero, Matias Ignacio (Date of defense: 2018-04-27)

    In the field of nonlinear computational solid mechanics, contact problems deal with the deformation of separate bodies which interact when they come in touch. Usually, these problems are formulated as constrained minimization ...

    Phase field approach to fracture : massive parallelization and crack identification 

    Ziaei-Rad, Vahid (Date of defense: 2016-05-02)

    The phase field method has proven to be an important tool in computational fracture mechanics in that it does not require complicated crack tracking and is able to predict crack nucleation and branching. However, the ...

    PIV applications in vortex rings and oscillatory boundary layers 

    Mujal Colilles, Anna (Date of defense: 2013-05-13)

    Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) is one of the most used experimental techniques in fluid mechanics to obtain the velocity field of a flow. One of its most celebrated characteristics is that it does not have interference ...

    Stabilized reduced order models for low speed flows 

    Reyes Sotomayor, Ricardo (Date of defense: 2020-03-23)

    This thesis presents the a stabilized projection-based Reduced Order Model (ROM) formulation in low speed fluid flows using a Variational Multi-Scale (VMS) approach. To develop this formulation we use a Finite Element (FE) ...

    Towards stochastic methods in CFD for engineering applications 

    Tosi, Riccardo (Date of defense: 2021-12-21)

    Recent developments of high performance computing capabilities allow solving modern science problems employing sophisticated computational techniques. However, it is necessary to ensure the efficiency of state of the art ...

    Wave propagation problems with aeroacoustic applications 

    Espinoza Román, Héctor Gabriel (Date of defense: 2015-05-08)

    The present work is a compilation of the research produced in the field of wave propagation modeling. It contains in-depth analysis of stability, convergence, dispersion and dissipation of spatial, temporal and spatial-temporal ...