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Lorena Barba
Lorena Barba
PhD Aeronautics, Caltech 2004.
Department of Mathematics
University of Bristol
University Walk, Clifton
Bristol BS81TW, U.K.
ph. +44 117 954 6883
fax +44 117 928 7999
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Research interests
My main research interests are in fluid mechanics and computational methods in applied science. In particular, I work with vortex particle methods and their applications for the computation of unsteady viscous flows. I have strong interests in fundamental problems of fluid dynamics, in particular high-Reynolds number flows with concentrated areas of vorticity and vortex dynamics in general.
In addition, I am interested in the development of the meshless paradigm for computational methods. The vortex particle method is a meshless method; there are also a variety of new methods being developed that do not rely on the construction of a mesh in the computational domain. This approach holds great promise to allow for computations of highly complex, unsteady flows, flows with moving boundaries, material problems with discontinuities (such as cracks), multi-scale computations, and many other extremely challenging problems.
Keywords:
fluid mechanics vortex dynamics unsteady, high-Re flow |
scientific computing meshless methods vortex particle method |
