<html><head><style> body {height: 100%; color:#000000; font-size:12pt; font-family:times new roman, new york, times, serif;}</style></head><body><div><b style="font-size: small; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); line-height: 100%;">Post-Doctoral</b></div><div dir="ltr"><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span color="#222222" data-mce-style="color: #222222;" style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>Position </b></span></span></span></span><span color="#222222" data-mce-style="color: #222222;" style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b><span style="background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" data-mce-style="background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">in<br>Applied M</span></b></span></span></span></span><span color="#222222" data-mce-style="color: #222222;" style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><b>athematical<br>Modelling and Computational Mathematics</b></span></span></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">University<br>of São Paulo at São Carlos – ICMC- Department of Applied<br>Mathematics and Statistics</span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span color="#222222" data-mce-style="color: #222222;" style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">Location:<br>São Carlos – São Paulo State- Brazil</span></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span color="#222222" data-mce-style="color: #222222;" style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">Title:<br>Models for measured-surface simulation of lubricated contacts in the<br>mixed regime.</span></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">Supervisor:<br>Gustavo C. Buscaglia</span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span color="#222222" data-mce-style="color: #222222;" style="color: #222222;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background:rgb(255,255,255) none repeat scroll 0% 0%" data-mce-style="background: #ffffff none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">The<br>Center for Mathematical Sciences Applied to Industry (CEPID-CeMEAI)<br>has one post-doc position available, starting immediately. The plan<br>and requirements are described below. The monthly salary is R$5908,00<br>(USD 1500,00) tax free. The appointed post-doc will also receive<br>return travel from his/her country to Brazil paid by the grant.<br>CeMEAI is a consortium of several Universities in São Paulo State.<br>The position is initially for one year, renewable for a second year<br>pending on suitable performance.</span></span></span></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><b>Job<br>description/Requirements: </b></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US">Lubricated<br>contacts take place in many engineering applications. Of particular<br>interest are the highly loaded devices (piston ring/liner contact,<br>connecting-rod big and small ends among others), where the clearance<br>between the matching surfaces is so small that surface roughness must<br>be taken into account either because it determines the overall<br>hydrodynamics or because contact between the asperities takes place.<br>The challenging aspects of the problem are, among others, multiple<br>length and time scales (bearing scale much larger than roughness<br>scale), presence of two phases (lubricant and gases coming from<br>gaseous and vaporous cavitation) and multiphysics (hydrodynamics,<br>solid contact, elasticity, rigid-body dynamics, tribochemistry).<br>Prof. Buscaglia's group has already addressed the hydrodynamic (low<br>load) regime and an effective code for highly-resolved numerical<br>simulations in this regime is available, already validated against<br>carefully designed experiments (</span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="background:transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%" data-mce-style="background: transparent none repeat scroll 0% 0%;">Zhang<br>& Meng, Tribology Letters, 2012</span></span></span></span><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US">).<br>However, numerical models for the simulation of the mixed lubrication<br>regime with measured surface topography are still lacking.</span></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US">The<br>purpose of this project is to extend the available computer model to<br>the mixed (high load) lubrication regime, considering the measured<br>surface topographies exactly. This will allow for quantitative<br>performance predictions of numerous new surface coatings and surface<br>finishing techniques that are attracting industrial interest<br>nowadays, mainly for applications in the mixed regime. Simulations<br>using measured topographies will also allow for the correlation<br>between surface performance and relevant surface statistical<br>parameters.</span></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US">The<br>successful applicant will collaborate with the team lead by G.<br>Buscaglia and R. Ausas, with a proven record of research projects and<br>industrial collaborations in the field. A doctoral degree in Applied<br>Mathematics, Engineering or a related area is required, together with<br>experience in Computational Fluid Dynamics by finite elements or<br>finite volumes. Candidates showing familiarity with lubrication<br>problems and experience in high performance computing will be given<br>preference. </span></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;font-weight:normal;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; font-weight: normal; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">Interested<br>candidates should e-mail a CV and two letters of recommendation from<br>university professors as soon as possible to:</span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><br></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">Prof.<br>Gustavo C. Buscaglia</span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">Instituto<br>de Ciências Matemáticas e de Computação</span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2">Univ.<br>de Sao Paulo<br>Av. Trab. Sao-Carlense, 400, CEP 13560-970, Sao<br>Carlos, SP, Brasil<br>TEL:<br>55-16-33738176<br></span></span><span color="#0000ff" data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: #0000ff;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="http://www.lcad.icmc.usp.br/~buscaglia" target="_blank" data-mce-href="http://www.lcad.icmc.usp.br/~buscaglia"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;">http://www.lcad.icmc.usp.br/~buscaglia</span></a></span></span></p><p class="" style="margin-bottom:0cm;line-height:100%" lang="en-US" align="justify" data-mce-style="margin-bottom: 0cm; line-height: 100%;"><span color="#0000ff" data-mce-style="color: #0000ff;" style="color: #0000ff;"><span data-mce-style="text-decoration: underline;" style="text-decoration: underline;"><a href="mailto:gustavo.buscaglia@gmail.com" target="_blank" data-mce-href="mailto:gustavo.buscaglia@gmail.com"><span face="Arial, sans-serif" data-mce-style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;" style="font-family: Arial, sans-serif;"><span data-mce-style="font-size: small;" style="font-size: small;" size="2"><span lang="en-US"><span style="font-weight:normal" data-mce-style="font-weight: normal;">gustavo.buscaglia@gmail.com</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><br></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br></div></body></html>