Thursday, April 28th, 2022. Time: 12 noon

Blended Learning - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo

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ABSTRACT

It is well known how humanity has contributed to technological progress based, in the past, on empirical results and currently seeking to take advantage of the advances that technology itself has to offer. This synergistic effect has accelerated in recent years and one of the factors that has led to this exponential growth is the appearance of increasingly powerful computers that allow us to virtually recreate the physical phenomena that lie behind all innovation. But it's not just about attributing the success of this synergy to the hardware.

The contribution from computer science theory, from mathematics and from physics and chemistry has also produced a part of the responsibility today for the appearance of a discipline that we can summarize in computational mechanics. This ability to anticipate problems that may arise in the development of a product or process positions us more quickly and safely in an advantageous situation.

It is not just anticipating, it is better understanding what this type of virtual radiography offers us when it comes to simulating a problem. In this work we intend to show some examples that, derived from industrial problems or from the technology itself, allowed us to deepen with a scientific method to offer more and better solutions than those of good engineering practices developed long ago. In addition for the fact of being located within a land where a Technology Park (www.ptlc.org.ar) operates, our Institute helps the growth of several spin-offs and technology-based companies, many of them inspired by lines of research supported by computational mechanics, which makes the appearance of a product on the market more viable.

SPEAKER CV

Norberto Marcelo Nigro Sardella, Mechanical Engineer graduated from Universidad Tecnológica Nacional of Buenos Aires  in 1985. After 3 years in industrial activities in companies such as Acindar, Sevel and SADE and also a brief stay at the Comisión Nacional de Investigaciones Espaciales (CNIE), he decided during  1988 to move to the scientific world to carry out a doctoral thesis,  reaching his doctorate in Engineering Sciences at the Universidad  Nacional de Córdoba during 1993 under the direction of Sergio Idelsohn on issues related to FEM solutions to CFD problems, especially stabilization. In 1994-1995 he did a post-doctorate at the  Minnesota Supercomputer Institute under the advice of Tayfun Tezduyar. Since 1996 Researcher at CONICET (National Council of Science and Technology of Argentina). Currently, is a Principal Researcher at CONICET and Associate Professor at the Universidad Nacional del Litoral in Santa Fe, Argentina, working on issues related to problems involving both liquid and gaseous fluid flows, at one and several phases, including multispecies and chemical reactions using CFD techniques for its approach.

His main applications are oriented to energy management in general, in particular internal combustion engines, industries related to oil & gas, renewable energy, green energy, hydrodynamic and aerodynamic problems, even environmental problems. It has approximately 100 papers published in international journals, more than 200 papers presented in different congresses, 12 doctoral theses directed in the last 13 years and more than 35 consultant activities to different industries, among which YPF and Y-TEC, Siderar, Acindar and many others to PyME companies. He currently chairs the Parque Tecnológico del Litoral Centro, a company dedicated to the creation and incubation of technology-based companies.

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