Dr.-Ing. Rodrigo R. PAZ

Scientific Research & High Quality Consulting in Engineering

figure78 Resume: Rodrigo R. Paz is a scientist at CONICET (Inv. Adjunto, INTEC). He received his degree in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering from "Universidad Nacional de Córdoba", Argentina, in 1999. In 2006, after postgraduate studies in France ( Université Pierre et Marie Currie -- Paris VI and Faculté des Sciences of the Université Jean Monnet in Saint Etienne) he received the Ph.D. degree in Engineering Sciences and Computational Mechanics from Universidad Nacional del Litoral, Argentina, where he is currently a professor in postgraduate and undergraduate programs. His research interests include computational fluid dynamics, domain decomposition methods, parallel computing, finite elements method, weak/strong fluid/structure coupling, absorbing boundary conditions, and multiphase flows.

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Personal data

Name:
PAZ, Rodrigo Rafael
Nationality:
Argentine
Date of birth:
May 8, 1974
Place of birth:
Río Turbio, Santa Cruz, Patagonia Argentina. (Grew up in San Juan).

Work address:: INTEC, Guemes 3450, 3000. Santa Fe, Argentina
Tel/Fax
+54-342-4511594 ext 1016.
E-mail:
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  • rodrigop (at) intec.unl.edu.ar
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    http://www.cimec.org.ar/rodrigop
    Marital status:
    married, 1 daughter

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    Contents

    Studies

    • Doctor in Engineering Sciences (PhD ), Field of Computational Mechanics. Title: Parallel Domain Decomposition Techniques and Distributed Programming in Computational Fluid Dynamics.
    • 6-years Degree in Aeronautical and Mechanical Engineering (Licensed). Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales. Universidad Nacional de Córdoba. Córdoba, Argentina (1993-1999).
    • D.E.A. en Mécanique - Amérique Latine Formation Académique. Projet ALFA Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris VI. Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécanique. Paris, France. Title: ``Numerical tests in the Asymptotic Domain Decomposition Method'' (2000).
    • Posdoctoral in Computational Fluid Dynamics--INTEC-CONICET
    • Chemical and Biological Undergraduate School. Colegio Central Universitario ``Mariano Moreno''. Universidad Nacional de San Juan. San Juan, Argentina (1988-1992).

    Currently I'm working on

    • Numerical Methods with NURBS. Using PETSc and IGA structs (from Nathan Collier).
    • CFD-FSI and Linear Algebra Algorithms on GPGPU's. Equip: 2 Nvidia Tesla C1060 GPU on an Intel i7 950 server. CUDA and OpenCL API's.
    • Fluid-Structure Interaction with ALE formulation (supersonic, hypersonic, dynamics of large vehicles). Equip: 2 Beowulf clusters of Intel Xeon arch.
    • Hybrid Parallel Computing with MPI and OpenMP . Equip: 2 Beowulf clusters of Intel Xeon arch.
    • Geometric Conservation Law in FEM-ALE formulations.
    • Absorbent Boundary Conditions for Hyperbolic Equations.
    • Turbulence Synthesis.
    • PETSc-FEM author & developer (Multi-physics Parallel FEM Code using MPI, PETSc & OpenMP ).
    • Multiphase Flow using Fluent (License for CIMEC-INTEC).
    • Parallel Implementation of Atmospheric Prediction Models (ARPS).

    Languages

    french, english, spanish.

    Occupation

    • Scientific Researcher at CONICET (Investigador Adjunto, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina).
    • Professor (head), ``Iterative Methods for Large Scale Linear and Non-Linear Systems''. Ph.D. Course in Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at UNL.
    • Professor (head), ``High Performance Computing in Computational MEchanics. MPI, PETSc and OPENMP''. Ph.D. Course in Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at UNL.
    • Professor (Profesor Adjunto), ``Algorithms and Data Structures''.. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Santa Fe, Argentina (since year 2002).
    • Invited Professor, ``Continuum Mechanics and Numerical Methods''.. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional, Facultad Regional San Nicolás. Buenos Aires, Argentina (since year 2009).
    • Assistant Professor, ``Continuum Mechanics''.. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Santa Fe, Argentina (since year 2002).
    • Assistant Professor, ``Computational Fluid Dynamics''. Ph.D. course in Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Santa Fe, Argentina (since year 2009).
    • Assistant Professor, ``C++ Programming in Science and Engineering''. Ph.D. course in Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Santa Fe, Argentina (since year 2011).
    • Assistant Professor, ``Introduction to Tensor Calculus and its Applications on Continuum Mechanics''. Ph.D. course in Engineering, Physics and Mathematics at Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Santa Fe, Argentina (since year 2004).
    • Former Posdoctoral Fellow at CONICET.
    • Former Ph.D. fellow at CONICET (Argentina).


    • Former ``European Union'' Fellow in France (Paris VI - Pierre et Marie Curie, Univ Saint-Etienne).

    High Quality Consulting

    • ESA European Space Agency, ESTEC, Open Engineering, Université de Liege (Belgium) and Gesval S.A. ``Weak/Strong Fluid Structure Interaction at Hypersonic Mach Numbers''. SAT UNL 417477/01. Start:02/10/2006, End: 2008. Contact: Open-Engineering SA.
    • CIMNE (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain). Development of CFD algorithms for GPGPU computing. In progress.
    • TERNIUM-SIDERAR Numerical simulations of the new torpedo ladle car cleaning station and the powder pollution. Start:01/05/2011 End: 31/7/2011. TERNIUM SIDERAR Planta San Nicolás, Argentina.
    • TERNIUM-SIDERAR: Powder Deposition in industrial gas ventilation ducts. Start:01/07/2007, End:31/10/2007. Contact: Ing. Mario Zucco, TERNIUM SIDERAR.
    • CFD determination of flow patterns in a system of open channels for acid conduction. Argentina, 2008
    • Invited at Livermore Software Technology Corporation, Livermore, California. USA. for Presentation of main results in ``Domain Decomposition Techniques and Parallel Programming in Computational Fluid Dynamics'' area. July-August, 2006. California, USA.
    • Muelle RENOVA. CFD flow pattern determination in the vecinity of a harbor for barges in Paraná River. 2011. Argentina
    • CFD Determination of the flow pattern in a wharf and a harbor installation. Contact: Dr. José Ramón Orengo. 2005. Argentina.

    Editorial Board and Referee in Journals

    • Referee for the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. John Wiley & Sons. UK.
    • Referee for the journal Hydraulic Engineering, Mexico.
    • Referee for the journal Computational Mechanics, Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics (AMCA).
    • Editorial Board of COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS, Vol.XXVII, Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics (AMCA), 2008.
    • Editorial Board of COMPUTATIONAL MECHANICS, Vol.XXVI, Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics (AMCA), 2007.
    • Reviewer for the Latin American Conference on Informatics and ”Lecture Notes in Computer Science” – CLEI 2008.

    Conference Chairmanship

    • Chairman of ``Fluid Mechanics''- ENIEF 2011. Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics. Argentina.
    • Organization of Session and Chairman: ``Fluid Mechanics''- ENIEF 2009. Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics. Argentina.
    • Organization of Session and Chairman: ``Fluid Mechanics''- ENIEF 2009. Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics. Argentina.
    • Scientific and Organizing Commitee of the XVII Congress on Computational Mechanics. ENIEF 2008. AMCA Argentina.
    • Organization of Session and Chairman: ``Fluid Mechanics''- ENIEF 2008. Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics. Argentina.
    • Organization of Session and Chairman: ``Water Resources and Envornmental Science''- ENIEF 2008. Argentine Association for Computational Mechanics. Argentina.
    • Organization of Session: ``Fluid-Structure Interaction''- ENIEF 2007 - MACI 2007. Argentina.
    • Chairman in Session ``Fluid Mechanics'' - ENIEF 2006. Argentina.
    • Organising Committee of the XV Congress on Numerical Methods and their Applications. ENIEF 2006. Argentina.
    • Organising Committee of the First South-American Congress on Computational Mechanics. MECOM 2002. Argentina.

    I+D Projects Head

    • PICT 2008-0270. Absorbent boundary conditions for hyperbolic problems and their applications in computational fluid dynamics. Role: Director. 2009-2012. Agencia Nacional de Promoción Cientíca y Tecnológica (ANPCyT -FONCYT).
    • CAI+D 2009 - Code: 65/334 - Numerical Modeling of Moving Boundaries Problems. Role: Director. Start: 2009. End:2011. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Argentina.
    • PICT 2007 - Code: PICT 01141/2007 - Numerical Modeling of Moving Boundaries for Free Surface and Fluid/Structure Interaction Problems. Role: Researcher in charge. 2008. Agencia Nacional de Promoción Cientíca y Tecnológica (ANPCyT -FONCYT).
    • PI 2011 - Code: UTN1350 - Dynamic behavior of the adapted 3rd central shaft of heavy trucks. Role: Director. Start: 2011. End:2013. Universidad Tecnológica Nacional - Facultad Regional San Nicolás. Argentina.

    Jury and Scientific Evaluations

    • Evaluation of Researchers at "Scientific Researchers Career" (CIC) CONICET (National Council for Scientific Research, Argentina).
    • Argentine Ministry of Defence Evaluator.
    • Research Projects External Evaluation for FONDECYT – CONICYT, National Council for Scientific and Technological Research, Chile.
    • Evaluation of Research Projects at University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2011-2014.
    • Jury of Ph.D. Thesis in Computational Mechanics (FICH-UNL). Student: Msc.Ing. Aylen Carrasco Milian. Title: Spatial scales in alluvial channels: on 2D coherent turbulent structures and alternate bars formation. 2008.
    • Jury of Ph.D. Thesis Proposal in Engineering & Hydrology (CONICET-FICH-UNL). Student: Msc.Ing. Mariana Morell. Title: About 3D Coherent Structures in Curved Open Channel Flows. 2011.
    • Jury of Ph.D. Thesis Proposal in Engineering & Hydrology (CONICET-FICH-UNL). Student: Eng. Omar Müller. Title: Hydro-meteorological Prognosis System and its Sensibility to the Change of Soils. 2010.
    • Jury of Ph.D. Thesis Proposal in Engineering & Hydrology (CONICET-FICH-UNL). Student: Msc.Eng. Andrea A. Gómez. Title: Equivalent Flux Equation for Heterogeneous Porous Media and its Application in the Modeling of the Guaraní Basin. 2009.
    • Jury of Ph.D. Thesis Proposal in Computational Mechanics (CONICET-FICH-UNL). Student: Eng. Ezequiel López. Title: Numerical modelling of the fluid flow inside an isochoric rotative engine . 2008.
    • Jury of Ph.D. Thesis Proposal in Computational Mechanics (CONICET-FICH-UNL). Student: Eng. Laura Battaglia. Title: Numerical modelling of free surface flows. 2007.
    • Jury of Graduate Thesis in Informatics Engineering. Student: Gustavo Bellino. Title: A GUI for generating and editing 3D NURBS curves and surfaces. 2007.
    • Jury of Graduate Thesis in Informatics Engineering. Student: Emiliano López. Title: A MIPS Router implementation with Embedded Linux. 2007.
    • Jury in the 14th Meeting of Young Researchers of the ``Universities of Santa Fe'' and ``Universidad Nacional del Litoral''. Santa Fe, Argentina. 2010.
    • Jury in the 8th Meeting of Young Researchers - ``Universidad Nacional del Litoral''. Santa Fe, 2004. Argentina

    Awards and Jury

    • PICT 2009 Young Researchers. National Founding for Scientific and Technological Research (ANPCyT - FONCYT). 2009.
    • 3rd Nomination in Student Poster Contest, ENIEF-MACI 2007. Article: Federico Langhi, Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti. ``Transition from Oblique Shock Waves Regular Reflections to Non-Regular Reflections''.
    • Jury in the 8th Meeting of Young Researchers of the Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Santa Fe, 2004. Argentina.

    Publications

    In referred journals.

    Total: 22, 12 published, 5 in press, , 2 submitted, 3 in preparation.

    1. Rodrigo R. Paz, Mario A. Storti and Luciano Garelli. ``Local Absorbent Boundary Condition for Non-Linear Hyperbolic Porblems with Unknown Riemann Invariants''. Computers and Fluids, In press, available online. 2010.
    2. Rodrigo R. Paz, Mario A. Storti Hugo G. Castro and Lisandro D. Dalcín. ``Using Hybrid Parallel Programming Techniques for the Computation, Assembly and Solution Stages in Finite Element Codes''. Accepted in Lat American Applied Research. Vol 41, No 4. 2011.
    3. Mario A. Storti, Luciano Garelli and Rodrigo R. Paz. ``A DGCL compliant FEM formulation based on averaged Jacobians''. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids. Accepted, 2011.
    4. Luciano Garelli, Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti. ``Fluid-Structure Interaction Study of the Start-Up of a Rocket Engine Nozzle'' Computers and Fluids. 39:1208–1218. 2010.
    5. Rodrigo R. Paz, Mario A. Storti, Lisandro Dalcín and Gustavo Rios Rodriguez. ``Parallel Domain Decompostion Methods in Computational Fluid Dynamics'' Computational Mechanics Research Trends. Nova Publisher Pags. 495-555. 2009.
    6. Lisandro Dalcín, Pablo Kler, Mario A. Storti and Rodrigo R. Paz. ``MPI and PETSc for Python'' Computational Mechanics Research Trends. Nova Publisher Pags. 453-493. 2009.
    7. Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti. ``An Interface Strip Preconditioner for Domain Decomposition Methods: Application to Hydrology''. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 62(13):1873-1894, 2004.
    8. Storti, M. ; Dalcín, L. ; Paz, R. ; Yommi, A. ; Sonzogni, V. ; Nigro, N. ``Interface Strip Preconditioner for Domain Decomposition Methods''. Journal of Computational Methods in Sciences and Engineering (2003).
    9. S. A. Vera; M. Febbo; C. G. Mendez; R. R. Paz. ``Vibrations of a plate with an attached two degree of freedom system''. Letter to the editor Journal of Sound an Vibration, 285(1-2):457-466, 2004.
    10. Lisandro Dalcín, Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti. ``MPI for Python.''. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing (2005), 65(9):1108-1115, 2005. (within the 15 most downloaded articles of the journal)
    11. Rodrigo R. Paz, Norberto M. Nigro and Mario A. Storti. ``On the quality of numerical solutions in CFD problems using the Interface Strip Preconditioner for domain decomposition methods''. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 52(1):89-118, (2006).
    12. Storti, M. ; Dalcín, L. ; Paz, R. ; Yommi, A. ; Sonzogni, V. ; Nigro, N. ``A Preconditioner for Schur Complement Matrix''. Advances in Engineering Software, 37:754-762, (2006).
    13. Mario Storti, Ricardo Prado, Norberto Nigro, Rodrigo Paz, Lisandro Dalcín, Jorge D'Elía, Javier Garibaldi. ``Computational Methods for Boundary Layer equations (in spanish)''. 92:61-78, 2008. ISBN 978-987-537-079-1 National Academy for Science in Buenos Aires.
    14. Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz and Lisandro Dalcín. ``Strong coupling strategy for fluid-structure interaction problems in supersonic regime via fixed point iteration''. Journal of Sound and Vibration, 30:859–877 (2009).
    15. Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz and Lisandro Dalcín. ``Dynamic Boundary Conditions in Fluid Mechanics''. Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 197(13-16):1219-1232, 2008. Within the 3 most downloaded articles of the journal.
    16. Lisandro Dalcín, Rodrigo R. Paz, Mario A. Storti, Jorge D'Elia . ``MPI for Python: Performance Improvements and MPI Extensions''. Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing. 68:655–662, 2008.
    17. Luciano Garelli, Rodrigo R. Paz, Mario A. Storti and Lisandro D. Dalcin. ``Fluid/Structure Interaction and Galilean Invariance''. Computational Fluid Dynamics: Theory, Analysis and Applications Nova Publisher. In press, 2010. ISBN: 978-1-60876-057-2.
    18. Lisandro Dalcí­n, Rodrigo R. Paz, Pablo Kler and Alejandro Cósimo. ``Parallel Distributed Computing using Python''. Advances in Water Resources. 34(9):1124-1139. 2011.
    19. Hugo G. Castro and Rodrigo R. Paz. ``A new turbulence synthesis mehod for LES inlet boundary conditions''. Submitted. 2011.
    20. César A. Aguirre and Rodrigo R. Paz, Armando B. Brizuela, Germán Rearte, Claudio A. Fontana and Mario R. Lopez. ``The sensibility of spatial resolution grid in a simulation of a severe thunderstorm that occurred in Aranguren-Argentina using sequential and parallel computational techniques.''. Submitted. 2011.
    21. Rodrigo R. Paz, Hugo G. Castro, Lisandro Dalcí­n and Mario A. Storti. ``An approach to general tensor algebra in C++''. Submitted. 2011.
    22. Pablo Kler, Rodrigo R. Paz, Lisandro Dalcí­n and Tayfun Tezduyar. ``Stabilized formulation for electrophoretic transport problems''. Submitted. 2011.
    23. Rodrigo R. Paz, Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro. ``Frame Invariance in ALE Formulations''. In preparation.

    In books or book chapters.

    see an updated list in this pdf file.

    Total: 18.

    1. Luciano Garelli, Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti.“Interacción Fluido-Estructura en Flujo Compresible y Régimen Supersónico”. (Referred). Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXVII. Carlos Zupa, Alberto Cardona, Mario Storti (edts.), AMCA, 2008. ISSN 1666-6070.
    2. Luciano Garelli, Rodrigo R. Paz, Gustavo Rios, Mario A. Storti and Norberto M. Nigro. ``Explosiones de Gas en Recintos Cerrados''. (referred). Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXVI. Sergio Elaskar, Elvio Pilotta, Germán Torres (edts.). AMCA, 2007. Pags. ISSN 1666-6070.
    3. Mario A. Storti, Gustavo R. Ríos Rodríguez, Norberto M. Nigro, Lisandro Dalcín and Rodrigo R. Paz. ``Particle-Trace Visualization Technique''. referred). Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXVI. Sergio Elaskar, Elvio Pilotta, Germán Torres (edts.). AMCA, 2007. Pags. ISSN 1666-6070.
    4. Federico Langhi, Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti. ``Transición desde la Reflexión Regular a la Reflexión Irregular de Ondas de Choque Oblicuas''. referred). Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXVI. Sergio Elaskar, Elvio Pilotta, Germán Torres (edts.). AMCA, 2007. Pags. ISSN 1666-6070.
    5. Rodrigo R. Paz, Lisandro D. Dalcín, Mario A. Storti and Norberto M. Nigro. ``Flow-Induced Vibration of Elastic Bodies in Supersonic Regime Via Fixed Point Iteration Algorithm''. (referred). Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXV. Alberto Cardona, Victorio Sonzogni, Norberto Nigro, Mario Storti (edts.). AMCA, 2006. Pags. ISSN 1666-6070.
    6. Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz, Gustavo R. Ríos Rodríguez and Ezequiel López. ``Fluids Structure Interaction with a Staged Algorithm''. (referred). Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXV. Alberto Cardona, Victorio Sonzogni, Norberto Nigro, Mario Storti (edts.). AMCA, 2006. Pags. ISSN 1666-6070.
    7. Germán Filippini, Norberto M. Nigro, Mario A. Storti and Rodrigo R. Paz. ``Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV) of a Cylinder at Low Reynolds Numbers. The Lock-in Phenomenon''. (referred). Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXV. Alberto Cardona, Victorio Sonzogni, Norberto Nigro, Mario Storti (edts.). AMCA, 2006. Pags. ISSN 1666-6070.
    8. Rodrigo R. Paz, Norberto M. Nigro and Mario A. Storti..``Inviscid/Viscous Hypersonic Flow in Confined Ducts and Around of Immersed Bodies Considering Anisotropic Shock Capturing and Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques''. Referred. Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXIV. Axel Larreteguy (edts.). AMCA, 2005. Pags 2223-2246. ISSN 1666-6070.
    9. Lisandro Dalcín, Rodrigo R. Paz, Andrés Anca, Mario A. Storti and Jorge D'Elia. .``Parallel Fem Application Development in Python''. Referred. Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXIV. Axel Larreteguy (edts.). AMCA, 2005. Pags 1823-1838. ISSN 1666-6070.
    10. Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz and Lisandro Dalcín..``Dynamic Boundary Conditions in Fluid Mechanics''. Referred. Mecánica Computacional - Vol. XXIV. Axel Larreteguy (edts.). AMCA, 2005. Pags 2573-2595. ISSN 1666-6070.
    11. Paz, Rodrigo R. ; Storti, Mario A..``An Interface Strip Preconditioner for Domain Decomposition Methods: Application to the Coupled Surface and Ground-water Flow''. Referred. Proceedings of ``XIV Congress on Numerical Methods and its applications''. Bariloche, Argentina.
    12. Dalcín, Lisandro ; Storti, Mario A. ; Paz, Rodrigo R. .``Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Paralelas en Python''. Referred. Proceedings of ``XIV Congress on Numerical Methods and its applications''. Bariloche, Argentina.
    13. Vera, Sergio A. ; Febbo, Mariano ; Méndez, Carlos G. ; Paz, Rodrigo R..``Analisis de Vibraciones Libres de una Viga con un Sistema de Dos Grados de Libertad Montado Elásticamente''. Referred. Proceedings of ``XIV Congress on Numerical Methods and its applications''. Bariloche, Argentina.
    14. Paz, R. ; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ; Rodríguez, L. ; Vionnet, C.. ``Modelo Distribuido de Elementos finitos para Flujo Superficial y Subsuperficial Acoplado en Hidrología: Cuencas de Santa Fe, Argentina, Condición de Borde Absorbente. Referred. Proceedings of ``XXI Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidráulica''. Sao Pedro. Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil, 2004.)
    15. Paz, R.R. ; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ; L. B. Rodríguez and C. A. Vionnet. ``Parallel finite element model for coupled surface and subsurface flow in hydrology: Province of Santa Fe basin, absorbent boundary condition''. Mecánica Computacional - VOL XXII, por Marta B. Rosales, Víctor H. Cortínez y Diana V. Bambill (edts.), AMCA (2003). Pags 339-353.
    16. Paz, R.R.; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ; L. B. Rodríguez ; C. A. Vionnet and G. P. Farias. ``Parallel finite element model for surface and subsurface hidrology''. Mecánica Computacional - VOL XXI. por Sergio R. Idelsohn, Victorio E. Sonzogni y Alberto Cardona (edts.), AMCA. (2002). Pags 2343-2360.
    17. Storti, M. ; Dalcín, L. ; Paz, R.R. ; Yommi, A. and Sonzogni V. ``An Interface Strip Preconditioner for Domain Decomposition Methods''. Mecánica Computacional - VOL XXI. por Sergio R. Idelsohn, Victorio E. Sonzogni y Alberto Cardona (edts.), AMCA. (2002). Pags 2991-3007.
    18. Paz, R.R.; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ``Modelo de Elementos Finitos para Flujo en Sistemas Multi-acuíferos''. Mecánica Computacional - VOL XX. por Fernando G. Flores (edts.), AMCA. (2001). Pags 219-226.

    In congresses:

    Total: 25 , 25 works presented in 14 congresses.

    see an updated list in this pdf file.

  • “XVII Congress on Numerical Methods and their Applications”. ENIEF 2008. San Luis, Argentina.

    • Rodrigo R. Paz, Mario A. Storti.“Local Absorbent Boundary Condition for Nonlinear Hyperbolic Problems with Unknown Riemann Invariants”. (Referred).
    • Luciano Garelli, Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti.“Interaccion Fluido Estructura en Flujo Compresible en Regimen Supersónico”. (Referred).
    • Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz, Lisandro D. Dalcin.“Numerical simulation of solid particle deposition in ducts”. (Referred).

  • IV Symposium on Civil Aeronautic Update, Córdoba, Argentina. 2007.
    • Rodrigo R. Paz. ``Computational Fluid Dynamics and Parallel Computing in Engineering''. Plenary Talk.

  • ENIEF-MACI 2007, XVI Congreso sobre Métodos Numéricos y sus Aplicaciones. October 2007. Córdoba, Argentina
    • Luciano Garelli, Rodrigo R. Paz, Gustavo Rios, Mario A. Storti and Norberto M. Nigro and Norberto M. Nigro. ``Explosiones de Gas en Recintos Cerrados''. (Referred).
    • Mario A. Storti, Gustavo R. Ríos Rodríguez, Norberto M. Nigro, Lisandro Dalcín and Rodrigo R. Paz.``Particle-Trace Visualization Technique''. (Referred).
    • Federico Langhi, Rodrigo R. Paz and Mario A. Storti.``Transición desde la Reflexión Regular a la Reflexión Irregular de Ondas de Choque Oblicuas''. (Referred).

  • ENIEF 2006, XV Congreso sobre Métodos Numéricos y sus Aplicaciones. November 2006. Santa Fe, Argentina
    • Rodrigo R. Paz, Lisandro D. Dalcín, Mario A. Storti and Norberto M. Nigro. ``Flow-Induced Vibration of Elastic Bodies in Supersonic Regime Via Fixed Point Iteration Algorithm''. (Referred).
    • Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz, Gustavo R. Ríos Rodriguez and Ezequiel López. ``Fluids Structure Interaction with a Staged Algorithm''. (Referred).
    • Germán Filippini, Norberto M. Nigro, Mario A. Storti and Rodrigo R. Paz. ``Vortex-Induced Vibration (VIV) of a Cylinder at Low Reynolds Numbers. The Lock-in Phenomenon''. (Referred).
  • 6th Argentine Symposium on Computing Technology JAIIO, september 2005.
    • Mario A. Storti, Lisandro Dalcín, Rodrigo R. Paz. ``Avances en Cálculo Paralelo para Mecánica Computacional: MPI para Python y el Método de Descomposición de Dominios''. Plenary talk.
  • VIII Argentinian Congress on Computational Mechanics - MECOM 2005.
    • Rodrigo R. Paz, Norberto M. Nigro and Mario A. Storti. ``Inviscid/Viscous Hypersonic Flow in Confined Ducts and Around of Immersed Bodies Considering Anisotropic Shock Capturing and Adaptive Mesh Refinement Techniques''. Referred.
    • Lisandro Dalcín, Rodrigo R. Paz, Andrés Anca, Mario A. Storti and Jorge D'Elía. ``Parallel Fem Application Development in Python''. Referred.
    • Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz and Lisandro Dalcín. ``Dynamic Boundary Conditions in Fluid Mechanics''. Referred.
  • ENIEF 2004. ``XIV Congreso sobre Métodos Numéricos y sus Aplicaciones''. Bariloche, Argentina, (November 2004).
    • Paz, Rodrigo R. ; Storti, Mario A..``An Interface Strip Preconditioner for Domain Decomposition Methods: Application to the Coupled Surface and Ground-water Flow''.
    • Dalcín, Lisandro ; Storti, Mario A. ; Paz, Rodrigo R. .``Desarrollo de Aplicaciones Paralelas en Python''.
    • Vera, Sergio A. ; Febbo, Mariano ; Méndez, Carlos G. ; Paz, Rodrigo R..``Análisis de Vibraciones Libres de una Viga con un Sistema de Dos Grados de Libertad Montado Elásticamente''.
  • ``Congreso Nacional del Agua 2005- Simposio de Recursos Hídricos del Cono Sur''. Mendoza, Argentina, (Mayo 2005).
    • Paz, R. ; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ; Rodríguez, L. ; Vionnet, C.``Simulación de la Interacción Agua Subterránea/Superficial Mediante un Código de Elementos Finitos en Paralelo''.
  • ``XXI Congreso Latinoamericano de Hidráulica''. Sao Pedro. Estado de Sao Paulo, Brasil, (Octubre 2004).
    • Paz, R. ; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ; Rodríguez, L. ; Vionnet, C.. ``Modelo Distribuido de Elementos finitos para Flujo Superficial y Subsuperficial Acoplado en Hidrología: Cuencas de Santa Fe, Argentina, Condición de Borde Absorbente.
  • ENIEF 2003. ``XIII Congreso sobre Métodos Numéricos y sus Aplicaciones''. Bahía Blanca, Argentina, (November 2003).
    • Paz, R. ; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ; Rodríguez, L. ; Vionnet, C.. ``Parallel finite element model for coupled surface and subsurface flow in hydrology: Province of Santa Fe basin, absorbent boundary condition''.
    • M. Storti ; L. Dalcín ; R. Paz. ``An interface strip preconditioner for domain decomposition methods''
  • ``International Conference on Hydrology: Science and Practice for the 21st Century''. British Hydrological Society. Imperial College, London, UK. (July 2004).
    • Rodríguez, L. ; Giampieri R. ; Vionnet, C. ; Paz, R. ; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ``Modelling the Impact of Changing Hydrology in the Interaction Between Ground-water-Surface Water at Large Scales in Santa Fe, Argentina''.
  • MECOM 2002. ``First South-American Congress on Computational Mechanics, III Brazilian Congress on Computational Mechanics, VII Argentinean Congress on Computational Mechanics''. Santa Fe, Argentina, (October 2002).
    • R. R. Paz ; M. A. Storti ; S. R. Idelsohn ; L. B. Rodríguez ; C. A. Vionnet ; G. P. Farias. ``Parallel nite element model for surface and subsurface hidrology''.
    • M. Storti ; L. Dalcín ; R. Paz ; A. Yommi ; V. Sonzogni. ``An interface strip preconditioner for domain decomposition methods''.
  • ENIEF 2001. ``XII Congreso sobre Métodos Numéricos y sus Aplicaciones''. Córdoba, Argentina, (October-November 2001).
    • Paz, R. ; Storti, M. ; Idelsohn, S. ``Modelo de Elementos Finitos para Flujo en Sistemas Multi-acuíferos''.

    Thesis and reports.

    1. Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro and Rodrigo R. Paz. `` PETSc-FEM: A General Purpose, Parallel, Multi-Physics FEM Program''. User's Manual and Web Page (http://www.cimec.org.ar/petscfem).
    2. Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz, Germán Filippini and Mario A. Storti. ``Numerical predictions of several configurations of circular cylinders''. Available online at http://www.cimec.org.ar/cylinders.
    3. Cimec CFD Division. `` PETSc-FEM: A Parallel Finite Element Code For CFD Applications Running on a Beowulf Cluster''. Features of the PETSc-FEM Code .
    4. Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro and Rodrigo R. Paz. Advances in Domain Decomposition Method techniques. . Seminar at UBA. Buenos Aires. Argentina. 2005.
    5. Difusión: ``Poderosa Herramienta Tecnológica para Afrontar el Problema Hídrico''. Artículo aparecido en el diario El Litoral (Santa Fe). 15 de junio de 2003.
    6. Paz, R.R. ; Panasenko, G.P. ; Ruas, V. ``Essais Numériques de la Méthode de Décomposition Asymptotique de Domaine''. Soutenance de Stage de travaille, D.E.A., Equipe d'Analyse Numérique, Faculté des Sciences Jean Monnet. Université de Saint-Etienne. France, 2000.
    7. Paz, R.R. ``Un Estudio acerca de la Integridad Estructural de Paneles Solares de Microsatélites''. Tesis de Grado. Biblioteca de la Facultad de Ciencias Exactas, Físicas y Naturales de la Universidad Nacional de Córdoba, Argentina, 1999.
    8. Paz, R.R. ; Torresán, G. ; Zapico, E. ``A Study about Structural Integrity of Microsatellite Solar Arrays''. Enviado a 16th Brazilian Congress of Mechanical Engineering. COBEM 2001.
    9. Paz, R.R. ; Torresán, G. ; Zapico, E. ``Un Estudio acerca de la Integridad Estructural de Paneles Solares de Microsatélites''. Enviado a Jornadas SAM 2000. IV Coloquio Latinoamericano de Fractura y Fatiga.
    10. Storti, M.A. ; D'Elia, J. ; Paz, R.R. ``Algoritmos y Estructuras de Datos''. Apuntes de la asignatura Algoritmos y Estructuras de datos de las carreras de Ingeniería Informática y Analista en Informática Aplicada de la UNL. [Home-page:] http://www.cimec.org.ar/aed.
    11. Mario Storti, Rodrigo Paz, Lisandro Dalcín y Sergio Idelsohn ``Aplicaciones de PETSc-FEM en hidráulica''. Reunion en Dirección Provincial de Obras Hidráulicas, Santa Fe. 2002.
    12. Krohling D. ; Iriondo M. ; Vionnet C. ; Rodríguez L. ; Giampieri R. ; Idelsohn S. ; Storti M. ; Paz R.. Informes anuales y cuatrimestrales de avance de proyecto FLAGS. 2002-2004.
    13. Rodrigo R. Paz and Norberto M. Nigro. Loxodromes in Curvilinear Basis. 2004.
    14. Idelsohn S.R. ; Storti M.A. ; Paz R.R.. Informe para la auditoría de la Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica al proyecto FLAGS. Marzo de 2005.
    15. Diffusion: Coupled Large Scale Surface and Ground-water Flow. TV Emission ``A ciencia cierta''. Santa Fe, Argentina. December, 2005.
    16. Newspaper article: A Powerfull Technological Tool to Tackle the Hydrological Problem in Santa Fe, Argentina. Article appeared in the regional newspaper ``El Litoral''. Santa Fe, June, 15 2003.

    Thesis Adviser.

    • Student: Ing. Garelli, Luciano.
      Type of Thesis: Ph.D. Thesis. Engineering and Computational Mechanics. UNL.
      Title: ``Fluid/Structure Interaction Problems in Supersonic an Hypersonic Regime with Partitioned Time Integration Methods''.
      Status: In progress.

    • Student: Msc.Ing. Garibaldi, Javier.
      Type of Thesis: Ph.D. Thesis. Engineering and Computational Mechanics, UBA.
      Title: ``Gas Explosions Modelling''.
      Status: In progress.

    • Student: Msc.Ing. Castro, Hugo Guillermo.
      Type of thesis: Ph.D in Engineering, field of Computational Mechanics, FICH-UNL-UTN.
      Title: “Fluid-Structure Interaction in the Dynamics of Trucks and Big Vehicles. Numerical and Experimental Study.”. Status: in progress.

    • Student: Dabin, Alejandro. Type of thesis: University degree graduation thesis. Engineering in Informatics - UNL. Title: “High Performance Computing with GPU's”. Status: In progress, 2009.

    • Student: Langhi, Federico.
      Type of Thesis: University degree graduation thesis. Aeronautical Engineering. UNC.
      Title: ``PETSc-FEM code validation in supersonic/hypersonic flows''.
      Status: Aproved APR-19-2007.

    • Student: Torres, Milva.
      Type of thesis: University graduation thesis. UNL.
      Title: ``Development of a CAD-like multiplatform environment in C++''.
      Status: Aproved July, 2004.

    • Student: Arnoldt, Leandro. Type of thesis: University degree graduation thesis. Engineering in Informatics - UNL. Title: “A MPI/C++ Parallel Library for Computational Mesh Movement”. Status: Aproved, Dic 2008.

    • Student: Schinner, Sebastian. Type of thesis: University degree graduation thesis. Engineering in Informatics - UNL. Title: “A MPI/C++ Parallel Library for Computational Mesh Movement”. Status: Aproved, Dic 2008.

    • Student: Del Barco, Emmanuel.
      Type of thesis: University graduation thesis. UNL.
      Title: ``Development of a CAD-like multiplatform environment in C++''.
      Status: Aproved July, 2004.

    • Student: Costarelli, Santiago. Type of thesis: University degree graduation thesis. Engineering in Informatics - UNL. Title: “Simulation and performance evaluation of Implicit Navier-Stokes equations on GPGPU’s”. Status: defended Aug 2011..

    • Student: Costarelli, Santiago. Type of thesis: Supervised Professional Practice. Engineering in Informatics - UNL. Title: “Simulation and visualization of 3D compressible Navier-Stokes equations on GPGPU’s”. Status: Defense, Mar 2011.

    Copyrights

    PETSc-FEM. A general purpose, parallel, multi-physics FEM program for CFD applications based on MPI/PETSc. Mario A. Storti, Norberto M. Nigro, Rodrigo R. Paz and Lisandro Dalcín. Copyright (C) 1999-2007
    CIMEC, Internacional Center for Computational Methods in Engineering, Santa Fe, Argentina. http://www.cimec.org.ar/petscfem
    CIMEC-INTEC, Guemes 3450, 3000 Santa Fe, Argentina.

    Research Scholarships

    • Posdoctoral Fellow at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET), 2006-2007.
    • Scolarship at Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Tecnológicas (CONICET). Argentina. Ph.D. scolarship (years 2001-2006).
    • Scolarship at Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica. Argentina. Ph.D. scolarship FLAGS-PROA grants (year 2001).
    • Scolarship in Projet ALFA. Commission Européenne - Laboratoire de Modélisation en Mécnique - Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris VI), France. (Année 2000)

    I+D Projects.

    • PICT 2009 Young Researchers - Absorbent boundary conditions for hyperbolic problems and their applications in computational fluid dynamics. Role: Director. Aproved. 2009. National Founding for Scientific and Technological Research (ANPCyT - FONCYT).
    • CAI+D 2009 65/334 - Numerical Modeling of Moving Boundaries Problems. Director: Rodrigo R. Paz. 2009. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Argentina.
    • PICT 01141/2007 - Numerical Modeling of Moving Boundaries for Free Surface and Fluid/Structure Interaction Problems. Role: Rodrigo R. Paz, Researcher in charge. 2008. National Founding for Scientific and Technological Research (ANPCyT - FONCYT).
    • PID-99/74. FLAGS: Large scale simulation of the interaction between surface and sub-surface flows. Director: Sergio. Idelsohn. (2001-2004)
    • Proyecto Nro. PICT 6973, BID 1201/OC-AR. Developments in computational mechanics using advanced programming techniques. Director: Sergio Idelsohn. (2000-2003)
    • E.C Alpha Program. ``Sinus Pim B: Modélisation et Simulation Numériques en Ingeniérie Mécanique''. Directors: Sergio Idelsohn y Vitoriano Ruas (Univ. Paris VI, Laboratoire de modélisation en Mécanique.) CONICET - European Community. 2000.
    • PICT 12-14573/2003 LAMBDA. LAMBDA: Laboratorio virtual para el Análisis y simulación computacional de problemas Multifísicos Basados en ecuaciones Diferenciales Acopladas. Director: Mario Storti. (2005-2007)
    • PIP-5271. Mecánica Computacional en Problemas de Multifísica. Director: Sergio Idelsohn. (2005-2006)
    • PAV2003-00127. ProTIC : A Net for Information Technologies and Communications. Director: Guillermo Marshall. (2005-2007)

    Membership

    • International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM).
    • Argentinian Association of Computational Mechanics (AMCA).
    • Organising Committee of the XV Congress on Numerical Methods and their Applications. ENIEF 2006. Argentina.

    • Organising Committee of the First South-American Congress on Computational Mechanics. MECOM 2002. Argentina.
    • Department of Informatics. Universidad Nacional del Litoral. Argentina.
    • ``Rolando Bustos'' Society for Collaborative Writting in Literature.

    Areas of interest

    • Computational Fluid Dynamics.
    • Multi-phase flows.
    • Numerical methods, finite elements.
    • Large Scale Linear Systems Solvers.
    • Domain Decomposition Techniques.
    • Numerical simulation of the stream/aquifer interaction.
    • Implementation of finite element programs with parallel programming in Beowulf class clusters (GNU/Linux OS) using MPI/PETSc messages passing libraries.
    • Fluid-Structure Interaction.
    • Structural Dynamics of Micro-satellites.
    • Transonic and Supersonic Flight Dynamic.
    • Turbo-engines, Rockets and Scramjets.
    • Object Oriented Programming in C/C++.

    Maintainer

    • ``Continuum Mechanics'': course web page at Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas. Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

    • ``Introduction to Tensor Calculus and its Applications on Continuum Mechanics'': course web page at Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas. Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

    • ``Algorithms and Data Structures'': course web page at Facultad de Ingeniería y Ciencias Hídricas. Universidad Nacional del Litoral.

    • Web Page of the Code: ``PETSc-FEM: A General Purpose, Parallel, Multi-Physics FEM Program''. http://www.cimec.org.ar/petscfem.

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    LES flow around a 3D cylinder at Re=5e4 using PETSc-FEM code


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