3D simulation of magneto-mechanical coupling in MRI scanners using high order FEM and POD 

    Seoane Chouciño, Marcos (Date of defense: 2020-07-15)

    Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scanners have become an essential tool in the medical industry due to their ability to produce high resolution images of the human body. To generate an image of the body, MRI scanners combine ...

    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 ...

    Advanced physics-based and data-driven strategies 

    Ibáñez Pinillo, Rubén (Date of defense: 2019-09-02)

    Simulation Based Engineering Science (SBES) has brought major improvements in optimization, control and inverse analysis, all leading to a deeper understanding in many processes occuring in the real world. These noticeable ...

    Complexity reduction in parametric flow problems via Nonintrusive Proper Generalised Decomposition in OpenFOAM 

    Tsiolakis, Vasileios (Date of defense: 2020-01-31)

    The present thesis explores the viability of the proper generalised decomposition (PGD) as a tool for parametric studies in a daily industrial environment. Starting from the equations modelling incompressible flows, the ...

    Efficient simulation tools for real-time monitoring and control using model order reduction and data-driven techniques 

    Quaranta, Giacomo (Date of defense: 2019-09-02)

    Numerical simulation, the use of computers to run a program which implements a mathematical model for a physical system, is an important part of today technological world. It is required in many scientific and engineering ...

    Model order reduction of coupled thermo-hydro-mechanical processes in geo-environmental applications 

    Larion, Ygee (Date of defense: 2022-02-01)

    In a large number of geo-environmental applications, it is essential to model coupled processes that depend on several design parameters such as material properties and geometrical features. Thermo-hydro-mechanical (THM) ...

    Simulation tools for biomechanical applications with PGD-based reduced order models 

    Zou, Xi (Date of defense: 2018-03-12)

    Numerical simulation tools are generally used in all modern engineering fields, especially those having difficulties in performing large number of practical experiments, such as biomechanics. Among the computational methods, ...

    An upwind cell centred finite volume method for large strain explicit solid dynamics in OpenFOAM 

    Haider, Jibran (Date of defense: 2018-04-20)

    In practical engineering applications involving extremely complex geometries, meshing typically constitutes a large portion of the overall design and analysis time. In the computational mechanics community, the ability to ...