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Universidade de São Paulo (USP). Escola de Engenharia de São Carlos (EESC) (Institutional affiliation from the last research proposal) Birthplace: Brazil
Graduate as a Civil Engineer at Universidade Estadual do Oeste do Paraná (2004), Master in Structural Engineering from Universidade de São Paulo (2006), Doctor in Structural Engineering at Univesidade de São Paulo (2011) with doctoral stage at University of Cambridge from november 2008 to october 2009, realized Post Doctoral research at Rice University Mechanical Engineering Department (2017-2018) and got his associate professor habilitation in solid mechanics from University of São Paulo (2022). Rodolfo is a professor at the Structural Engineering Department of the School of Engineering of São Carlos, of the University of São Paulo (USP) and has experience in Computation Mechanics, Solid Mechanics, Fluid Mechanics, Fluid-Structure Interaction and Steel Structures. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)
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Numerical analyses play an important role in solving complex engineering problems, such as fluid-structure interaction (FSI) problems. Although significant advancements have been made in the development of numerical methods for these problems in recent decades, several challenges remain, especially in cases involving large distortions of the fluid domain and non-Newtonian constitutive mod…
The study of Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI) problems with structural contact generates relevant contributions to Engineering (e.g. problems with immersed solids collision, dam gates and valves) and also to biomechanics (e.g. heart valve simulation). One of the challenges for these problems is the case of flows with topological changes in the fluid domain, which can be caused by free su…
Isogeometric analysis has been widely applied to structural analysis problems, having as main motivation the integration between computational design and computational mechanics. However, isogeometric discretization presents difficulties in inserting a physical discontinuity. In this sense, we propose the development and computational implementation of a numerical model to analyze the pro…
Motivated by the simulation of structures behavior in high temperatures, as well as the numerical analysis of manufacturing processes with thermo-mechanical effects, this project proposes the study and development of numerical models in Lagrangian description for the simulation of thermo-mechanical problems with visco-elasto-plastic solids, viscous incompressible fluids and solid-liquid p…
This project proposes to investigate the simulation of fluid-structure interaction problems employing a 3D general frame finite element. To this purpose, computational codes already developed by the research group where the project is inserted shall be used as a basis. This project seeks simulating such 3D problems in a realistic way. For simplicity, we deal with compressible inviscid flo…
This proposal aims at the development of a space-time formulation of the finite element method based on particle position (PFEM). The essence of this approach is the treatment of time as a dimension ofproblem, which leads to space-time discretizations. Space-time formulations have the potential to allow different space meshes within a time interval, eliminating the need for data projectio…
The main objective of this research proposal is the implementation of the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) for solving fluid-structure interaction problems with free-surface incompressible flows and thermo-coupling. The method is innovative for taking the individual advantages of both the particle and finite element methods, and using a Lagrangian approach, which is advantageous for …
Numerical analysis of fluid-structure interaction is a very challenging field. Fluid flow is better represented in the Eulerian mathematical description, resulting in a fixed mesh, while solid dynamics is much better represented in the Lagrangian description. In order to couple these two media, there are basically two approaches: The fitted mesh methods, in which an arbitrary Lagrangian E…
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