Education

PhD in Engineering 2018 - 2023 , The School of Industrial, Aerospace and Audiovisual Engineering of Terrassa (ESEIAAT), Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), Barcelona, Spain. Thesis: High-order finite volume method for solid dynamics in fluid-structure interaction applications. UPC and Santander Bank schollarship: FPI-UPC 2018 (109).

Master of Structural Engineering 2014 - 2017 , at Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo Uruguay. Thesis: Simulación del comportamiento de materiales viscoelásticos y aplicación a la identificación de las propiedades mecánicas de la pared arterial. Strategic areas national schollarship (ANII).

Structural Civil Engineer 2007 - 2013 , at Facultad de Ingeniería, Universidad de la República, Montevideo, Uruguay.

Internship September 2011 - January 2012 , at Instituto Superior Técnico (IST), Universidade Técnica de Lisboa (UTL), Lisbon, Portugal. Santander schollarship.

Teaching

Segundo semestre: Computational Methods Applied to Structural Analysis (CMASA) e Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI).

Selected publications

Articles in journals:

• High-order cell-centered finite volume method for solid dynamics on unstructured meshes, Computers & Structures, 2024.
• High-order finite volume method for linear elasticity on unstructured meshes, Computers & Structures, 2022.
• Development of a method for the identification of elastoplastic properties of timber and its application to the mechanical characterisation of Pinus taeda, Construction and Building Materials, 2017.
• IETFEM: Una herramienta de código abierto aplicada a la enseñanza del Método de Elementos Finitos en Ingeniería, Revista Argentina de Enseñanza de la Ingeniería, 2015, ISSN 15155838.

Conferences:

• Reed Valve Simulation Using 3D High-order Finite Volume and Finite Element Methods, Conferences in Compressor Engineering, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning, and High Performance Buildings, West Lafayette, Indiana, Purdue University, 2024.
• Analysis of high-order interpolation schemes for solving linear problems in unstructured meshes using the finite volume method, 8th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS Congress 2022), Scipedia, 2022.
• Power electronics high performance air-cooled heat sinks integrating graphite based materials, 18th International Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Conference at Purdue, May 24-28, 2021: proceedings. Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University, 2021.
• Experimental and numerical analysis of reed valve movement in an impact fatigue test system and reciprocating compressors, 25th International Compressor Engineering Conference at Purdue. Ïnternational Compressor Engineering Conference at Purdue: proceedings from 2021". Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, Indiana: Purdue University, 2021.
• Simulation of fluid-structure interaction and impact force on a reed valve , 8European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering. “14th World Congress on Computational Mechanics (WCCM), ECCOMAS Congress 2020): virtual congress: 11-15, 2021.

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