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Research group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering

Jacobo Ayensa Jimenez

Personal data

Education

  • BSc. Mathematics (Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya) | 2012.

  • MEng. Civil engineering, Numerical methods major (Universidad Politécnica de Catalunya) | 2013.

  • MEng. Mechanical Engineering (Universidad de Sevilla) | 2016.

  • PhD. Mechanical Engineering, extraordinary prize (Universidad de Zaragoza) | 2022.

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Research group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering

Jesus Felez

Personal data

Education

  • Industrial Engineer, major in Mechanical Engineering (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | 1985
  • PhD Mechanical Engineering (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | 1989

Recognitions and Awards

  • Honorary Member of the Conference of Directors of Industrial Engineering 2014
  • Teaching Excellence Award 2014
  • UPM Educational Innovation Groups Award 2008
  • Best Book of the UPM. Award for the textbook Fundamentos de Ingeniería Gráfica. 1998

University Experience

  • Full at UPM 1998 - X
  • Associate Professor at UPM 1990 - 1998

R&D Experience

  • Visiting Professor at University of California at Berkeley 09/2017 - 08/2018
  • Visiting Professor at University of California at Davis 05/2014 - 07/2014
  • Director of the Research Group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 07/2016 - X
  • Member of the Scientific and Technical Commission for the establishment of improvements in the railway sector. Spanish Ministry of Infrastructures 07/2013 - 08/2015
  • Director of the Research Group in Railway Technologies at UPM - CITEF 06/1998 - 10/2014
  • Researcher at INSIA - Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil UPM 1990 - 1997
  • Researcher at ITAINNOVA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón 1986 - 1990

Management Experience

  • Director of the ETS Industrial Engineers UPM 2006 - 2014
  • Deputy Director Head of Studies of the ETS Ingenieros Industriales UPM 2000 - 2006
  • President of the Conference of Directors of Industrial Engineering 2006 - 2014
  • Vice-president of the Association of Industrial Engineers of Madrid - AIIM 2009 - 2012
  • Member of the University Degree Verification and Accreditation Commissions. Participation in the commissions of ANECA (national), UNIBASQ (Basque Country), ACCUA (Andalusia), ACSUG (Galicia) and ACPUA (Aragon) 2014 - X

Lines of research

  • Railway Systems, Railway Signalling, Railroad Engineering.
  • Dynamic simulation, Mathematical modelling.
  • Vehicle Dynamics, Transportation Systems.

Recent publications

  • Vaquero-Serrano MA; Felez J. A decentralized robust control approach for virtually coupled train sets. Computer-Aided Civil And Infrastructure Engineering. 38(14):1896-1915 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mice.12985
  • Felez J; Vaquero-Serrano MA. Virtual Coupling in Railways: A Comprehensive Review. Machines. 11(5) 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/machines11050521
  • Felez R; Castro J; Felez J. Design of a predictive control system for the smart regulation of renewable climatization systems. Renewable Energy And Power Quality Journal. 21:172-177 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24084/repqj21.272
  • Sala AJ; Felez J; Cano-Moreno JD. Efficient Railway Turnout Design: Leveraging TRIZ-Based Approaches. Applied Sciences-Basel. 13(17) 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13179531
  • Felez, J; Sala, Antonio J. J.; Sanz Bobis, Juan de Dios And Gonzalez, Jaime. New Anti-Derailment System in Railway Crossings. Machines. 10(12) 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/machines10121224
  • Felez, J; Vaquero-Serrano, Miguel Angel; Sanz, Juan de Dios;. A Robust Model Predictive Control for Virtual Coupling in Train Sets. Actuators. 11(12) 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/act11120372
  • Felez J; Kim Y; Borrelli F. A Model Predictive Control Approach for Virtual Coupling in Railways. Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 20(7):2728-2739 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2019.2914910

Active Research Projects

  • 2023 - 2026. Concept Development of a System for Pods and Pod-Carriers to be used as Moving Infrastructures mainly for Rail, but as well for Road and Ropeways. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA7-01. Web: Pods4Rail
  • 2023 - 2025. European Shift Enabler Portal 4 Freight. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-ExplR-03. ESEP4Freight
  • 2023 - 2024. Maglev-Derived Systems for Rail. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA7-02 FA7-2. MaDe4Rail
  • 2022 - 2025. Intelligent virtual coupling applied to railway operation. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Ref:PID2021-124761OB-I00.
  • 2020 - 2023. Intelligent Secure Trustable Things Ref: H2020-ECSEL-2019-1-IA. 06/2020-06/2023. InsecTT
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Research group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering

David Portillo

Personal data

Education

  • BSc & MSc Energy Engineering (UPM)
  • MSc Nuclear Engineering (UPM)
  • BSc & MSc Mathematics (UCM)
  • PhD Nuclear Fusion (UPM)

Academic positions

  • Predoctoral researcher at Instituto de Fusión Nuclear (UPM).
  • Postdoctoral researcher at ETSII (UPM).
  • Assistant Professor.
  • Associate Professor.

Lecturing during 2022/23

  • Solid mechanics.
  • Strength of materials.
  • Advanced strength of materials.

Research lines

Computational solid and fluid mechanics. More specifically:

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Research group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering

Ignacio Romero

Personal data

Education

  • Industrial Engineer, Mechanical Engineering major (UPComillas) | 1995
  • MSc Mechanical Engineering (Stanford University, US) | 1997
  • PhD Civil & Environmental Engineering (UC Berkeley, US) | 2001

Scholarships and awards

  • Fulbright scholarship (1996/97)
  • “Ramón y Cajal” award (2001/05), Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación
  • Scholarship for the mobility of professors (2011/12), Fundación Caja Madrid
  • Zienkiewicz award and medal (2011), The Institution of Civil Engineers (UK) & Wiley & sons, to a post-graduate researcher under the age of 40 who submits the paper that contributes most to research in the field of numerical methods in engineering.

Academic and professional positions

  • “Ramón y Cajal” researcher (2001/05)
  • Assistant Professor (2005/06)
  • Associate Professor (2006/11)
  • Full Professor (2011–)
  • Visiting scholar, California Institute of Technology (2011/12)
  • Vice-dean for research and doctoral studies (2013/14)
  • Senior researcher at IMDEA Materials Institute (2014–)
  • Deputy director, IMDEA Materials Institute (2015/17)
  • Vice-president of the Spanish Association of Mechanics and Computational Engineering (SEMNI)
  • Director, IMDEA Materials Institute (2017/21)

Lecturing during 2022/23

  • Continuum mechanics (see moodle).
  • Advanced strength of materials - in English (see moodle).
  • Methods for advanced simulation (see moodle).
  • Lecture notes can be found in here

Research lines

Computational and Applied Solid Mechanics, and more specifically:

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Research group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering

Edmund Bell

Academic education

PhD in Mechanical Engineering (currently) Optimal structures of assembled laminates: numerical methods, design and manufacture Technical School of Industrial Engineering (U.P.M.)

Master’s Degree in Industrial Mathematics (Specialisation in Modelling) Technical School of Aeronautical and Space Engineering (U.P.M.)

Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering (Specialisation in Aerospace sciences and technologies) Technical School of Aeronautical and Space Engineering (U.P.M.)

Professional experience

Wind energy and meteorology researcher Reduce Order Modelling (ROM) for microscale LES to mesoscale downscaling Technical School of Aeronautical and Space Engineering (U.P.M.) - Etulos SOLUTE S.L contract

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Research group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering

Eva Andrés

Academic education

  • PhD in Mechanical Engineering (currently)
    Multiscale simulation of thermomechanical problems in severe conditions
    Technical University of Madrid (UPM)

  • Master’s Degree in Aeronautical Engineering (Specialisation in Aircraft)
    Technical University of Madrid (UPM)

  • Bachelor’s degree in Aerospace Engineering (Specialisation in Aerospace vehicles)
    Technical University of Madrid (UPM)

Professional experience

  • Postgraduate researcher
    Mechanical Engineering Department
    Technical School of Industrial Engineering (U.P.M.)

  • Teacher Assistant
    Aerospace Materials and Production Department
    Technical School of Aeronautics and Space Engineering (U.P.M.)

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Tag: Article

April 24, 2025

Article

We have a new article on the modelling of mass diffusion with particle methods based on optimal transport theory.

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February 20, 2025

New journal article on the simulation of strongly coupled problems

New article from the group: Ortiz-Toranzo, Á. and Romero, I. (2024). Finite Element Discretization of the Thermo-Diffusive-Mechanical Problem with Large Deformations, Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería, 40. (enlace)

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September 26, 2024

Article

Check our new article describing new numerical methods for the simulation of hydrogen diffusion in metals. The method, extremely robust and efficient, will be the starting point for future studies of the effect of hydrogen in metals.

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September 16, 2024

Article

Check our new article based on the collaboration with IMDEA Materials: Model-based reinforcement learning control of reaction-diffusion problems (2024) Christina Schenk, Aditya Vasudevan, Maciej Haranczyk, Ignacio Romero in the Journal of Optimal Control, Application and Methods.

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Tag: Post

February 12, 2025

PhD defense of Ángel Ortiz-Toranzo

Today, Ángel Ortiz-Toranzo successfully defended his thesis entitled “Formulation of numerical methods for thermomechanical problems with mass transport” with the grade of Sobresaliente cum laude. The thesis is available in the link Congratulations!

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October 10, 2024

Scholarship

The research group on modeling and simulation of the UPM offers a scholarship to students for the development of control models in virtual train coupling.

Interested candidates can contact Prof. Jesús Félez attaching their cv.

More information is available in the link.

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February 13, 2024

Open Ph.D. position at IMDEA Materials - Filled!!

The Computational Solid Mechanics Group at IMDEA Materials Institute is seeking to fill a position of Research Assistant to work on the simulation of additive manufacturing processes. The researcher will work in the development of finite element models for complex thermomechanical processes and their calibration using experimental data. Funding for this researcher will come from IRIDISCENTE, a competitive research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.

The tasks envisioned for the researcher involve involve using Mechanics, Finite Elements, Programming and Statistics. The researcher will be enrolled in a PhD program and carry out his/her PhD dissertation while working at IMDEA.

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November 23, 2023

Job position at IMDEA Materials

New position in the Computational Solid Mechanics group of IMDEA Materials. See the announcement published in the following web link.

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September 18, 2023

Defence TFG

The student Inés Muruzábal defended today her TFG entitled “Design and manufacturing of optimal cardboard structures”. Congratulations!

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September 7, 2023

New article

New article by the group on the variational formulation of connected beams and solids.

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April 7, 2023

Open PhD position

The Simulation and Modeling Group at the Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros Industriales of the Technical University of Madrid has opened a research position for a PhD student. For it, the group is searching for enthusiastic candidates to complete a PhD during, at most, four years in the Mechanical Engineering department of this school.

The selected candidate will join a dynamic group of researchers and work on a competitively-funded project that investigates numerical methods for topology optimization in solid mechanics.

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Tag: Conference

September 7, 2024

Talk at MNE 2024 conference

David Portillo gave a talk entitled Embedded structures in continua in the Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering 2024 in Aveiro, Portugal.

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September 7, 2024

Talk at MNE 2024 conference

Edmund Bell-Navas gave a talk entitled A variational framework for thermodynamic topology optimisation in the Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering 2024 in Aveiro, Portugal.

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September 7, 2024

Talk at MNE 2024 conference

Ignacio Romero gave a talk entitled Numerical methods for the simulation of the interaction between incompressible fluids and structural models in the Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering 2024 in Aveiro, Portugal.

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September 3, 2024

Talk at MNE 2024 conference

Eva M. Andrés gave a talk entitled A variational method for simulation of hydrogen transport in metals in the Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering 2024 in Aveiro, Portugal.

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July 23, 2024

Talk at WCCM 2024 conference

Ignacio Romero gave a talk entitled The energy-stepping Monte Carlo method: a Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithm based on a symplectic, energy-conserving time integrator in the 16th World Congress on Computational in Vancouver.

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July 22, 2024

Talk at WCCM 2024 conference

David Portillo gave a talk entitled Embedded reduced models in three-dimensional bodies in the 16th World Congress on Computational in Vancouver.

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June 6, 2024

Talk in ECCOMAS2024 conference

Eva Andrés gave the talk entitled A variational method for the simulation of hydrogen diffusion in metals in the ECCOMAS2024 conference, in Lisbon.

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Tag: Hydrogen

June 6, 2024

Talk in ECCOMAS2024 conference

Eva Andrés gave the talk entitled A variational method for the simulation of hydrogen diffusion in metals in the ECCOMAS2024 conference, in Lisbon.

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Tag: Homogenization

February 13, 2024

New publication

A new article of the group, in collaboration with researchers from CONICET in Argentina. Download the pdf from this link.

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Tag: Instabilities

February 13, 2024

New publication

A new article of the group, in collaboration with researchers from CONICET in Argentina. Download the pdf from this link.

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Tag: Metamaterials

February 13, 2024

New publication

A new article of the group, in collaboration with researchers from CONICET in Argentina. Download the pdf from this link.

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Tag: Personas

Research group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering

Jesus Felez

Personal data

Education

  • Industrial Engineer, major in Mechanical Engineering (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | 1985
  • PhD Mechanical Engineering (University of Zaragoza, Spain) | 1989

Recognitions and Awards

  • Honorary Member of the Conference of Directors of Industrial Engineering 2014
  • Teaching Excellence Award 2014
  • UPM Educational Innovation Groups Award 2008
  • Best Book of the UPM. Award for the textbook Fundamentos de Ingeniería Gráfica. 1998

University Experience

  • Full at UPM 1998 - X
  • Associate Professor at UPM 1990 - 1998

R&D Experience

  • Visiting Professor at University of California at Berkeley 09/2017 - 08/2018
  • Visiting Professor at University of California at Davis 05/2014 - 07/2014
  • Director of the Research Group on Modelling and Simulation in Mechanical Engineering at Universidad Politécnica de Madrid 07/2016 - X
  • Member of the Scientific and Technical Commission for the establishment of improvements in the railway sector. Spanish Ministry of Infrastructures 07/2013 - 08/2015
  • Director of the Research Group in Railway Technologies at UPM - CITEF 06/1998 - 10/2014
  • Researcher at INSIA - Instituto Universitario de Investigación del Automóvil UPM 1990 - 1997
  • Researcher at ITAINNOVA - Instituto Tecnológico de Aragón 1986 - 1990

Management Experience

  • Director of the ETS Industrial Engineers UPM 2006 - 2014
  • Deputy Director Head of Studies of the ETS Ingenieros Industriales UPM 2000 - 2006
  • President of the Conference of Directors of Industrial Engineering 2006 - 2014
  • Vice-president of the Association of Industrial Engineers of Madrid - AIIM 2009 - 2012
  • Member of the University Degree Verification and Accreditation Commissions. Participation in the commissions of ANECA (national), UNIBASQ (Basque Country), ACCUA (Andalusia), ACSUG (Galicia) and ACPUA (Aragon) 2014 - X

Lines of research

  • Railway Systems, Railway Signalling, Railroad Engineering.
  • Dynamic simulation, Mathematical modelling.
  • Vehicle Dynamics, Transportation Systems.

Recent publications

  • Vaquero-Serrano MA; Felez J. A decentralized robust control approach for virtually coupled train sets. Computer-Aided Civil And Infrastructure Engineering. 38(14):1896-1915 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/mice.12985
  • Felez J; Vaquero-Serrano MA. Virtual Coupling in Railways: A Comprehensive Review. Machines. 11(5) 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/machines11050521
  • Felez R; Castro J; Felez J. Design of a predictive control system for the smart regulation of renewable climatization systems. Renewable Energy And Power Quality Journal. 21:172-177 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.24084/repqj21.272
  • Sala AJ; Felez J; Cano-Moreno JD. Efficient Railway Turnout Design: Leveraging TRIZ-Based Approaches. Applied Sciences-Basel. 13(17) 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/app13179531
  • Felez, J; Sala, Antonio J. J.; Sanz Bobis, Juan de Dios And Gonzalez, Jaime. New Anti-Derailment System in Railway Crossings. Machines. 10(12) 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/machines10121224
  • Felez, J; Vaquero-Serrano, Miguel Angel; Sanz, Juan de Dios;. A Robust Model Predictive Control for Virtual Coupling in Train Sets. Actuators. 11(12) 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/act11120372
  • Felez J; Kim Y; Borrelli F. A Model Predictive Control Approach for Virtual Coupling in Railways. Ieee Transactions On Intelligent Transportation Systems. 20(7):2728-2739 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2019.2914910

Active Research Projects

  • 2023 - 2026. Concept Development of a System for Pods and Pod-Carriers to be used as Moving Infrastructures mainly for Rail, but as well for Road and Ropeways. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA7-01. Web: Pods4Rail
  • 2023 - 2025. European Shift Enabler Portal 4 Freight. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-ExplR-03. ESEP4Freight
  • 2023 - 2024. Maglev-Derived Systems for Rail. Ref: HORIZON-ER-JU-2022-FA7-02 FA7-2. MaDe4Rail
  • 2022 - 2025. Intelligent virtual coupling applied to railway operation. Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology Ref:PID2021-124761OB-I00.
  • 2020 - 2023. Intelligent Secure Trustable Things Ref: H2020-ECSEL-2019-1-IA. 06/2020-06/2023. InsecTT
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