The team was formed in 2016 at the International Centre for Numerical Methods in Engineering/Technical University of Catalonia (CIMNE/UPC) to strengthen the research in the field of two-phase flow modeling for industrial purposes. Since then we have been developing and implementing models for the analysis of liquid-gas systems paying particular attention to microfluidic applications, where surface tension plays essential role. Our team is using Kratos Multiphysics software, an Open Source HPC framework as the basis for the implementations.

Members

Riccardo Rossi, professor. Director of Kratos Multiphysics group, expert in computational multiphysics and data-driven methods.

Pavel Ryzhakov, associate professor. Coordinator of Droplet Dynamics team, a specialist in coupled problems in CFD. Personal page: https://web.cimne.upc.edu/users/pryzhakov/

Alireza Hashemi, Ph.D. in physics (2016). Specialist in numerico-experimental studies, responsible for the Droplet Dynamics lab.

Angela Ares de Parga, PhD in Ciencias Fisicomatemáticas (2019). Researcher at CIMNE, a specialist in computational physics.

Mohammad Reza Hashemi, PhD in mechanical and civil engineering (2022). Affiliated scientist at CIMNE. Specialist in computational microfluidics.

Christian Narvaez-Muñoz, PhD in structural analysis (2023). Specialist in electrohydrodynamics.

Alireza Shamekhi, PhD student at UPC (supervisors: Prof. Ramon Codina and Pavel Ryzhakov). Thesis topic: development of Enriched FEM/conservative Level-Set method for two-phase flow modeling

Collaborators

Julio Marti, associate professor at University of Vic. Specialist in particle methods and numerical modeling of thermo-mechanical modeling of polymers.

Alex Jarauta, PhD in structural analysis. Specialist in numerical modeling of droplet dynamics in fuel cells (former team member and co-founder, currently, senior software developer at ALTAIR).