The Modeling and Simulation research group at the Mechanical Engineering department of the ETSI Industriales is devoted to the design, analysis and implementation of numerical methods for the simulation of complex problems in solid and fluid mechanics.
Recent Posts
Marie Curie postdoctoral opportunities at IMDEA Materials Insitute
IMDEA Materials institute has opened the applications to its Marie Curie program ATENEA.
ATENEA is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions (MSCA) postdoctoral fellowship programme. The ATENEA programme will offer ten 30-month Postdoctoral Research (PRs) fellowships in the field of Materials Science and Engineering (MSE).
The programme will launch one open call during its 48 months, offering high-level, interdisciplinary and intersectoral training, both in core and advanced scientific topics and transferable skills. After the programme, the fellows will be well-versed, experienced researchers with highly attractive profiles for the academic and non-academic sectors, particularly for industry.
Ignacio Romero keynote presentation at HFSS
Prof. Ignacio Romero delivered a keynote presentation at the 2nd International Conference on Highly Flexible Slender Structures held at the Fraunhofer Institute for Industrial Mathematics ITWM, Kaiserslautern, Germany.
The talk was entitled “Embedding slender structures in continua: Theory, numerical methods, and applications”, and described recent results of the group that can be already seen in our preprint
New article: Fluid-structure interaction between dimensionally-reduced nonlinear dragged solids and incompressible flows
New article from the group: Cantón-Sánchez, R. and Romero, I. (2025). Fluid-structure interaction between dimensionally-reduced nonlinear dragged solids and incompressible flows, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 446, 118211 (link)
In this article, we propose a new framework that allows the coupling of structural models (beams, shells, etc.) with incompressible flows based on the Navier-Stokes equations. The idea is based on leveraging standard ALE fluid/solid interaction methods with new operators that transfer the structural kinematics to surrogate solids that enclose the latter. Numerical examples illustrate these ideas.
New article: A fully variational numerical method for structural topology optimization based on a Cahn-Hilliard model
New article: E. Bell-Navas, D. Portillo, I. Romero (2025). A fully variational numerical method for structural topology optimization based on a Cahn-Hilliard model. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (445) (enlace)
New journal article on a new method for MCMC calculations
New article from the group: Romero, I. and Ortiz, M. (2025). An energy-stepping Markov Monte Carlo method. Meccanica (60), pg. 1411-1436 (link)