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Descubre nuestros proyectos de investigación
Innovación
Trabajamos con simulación avanzada para afianzar la seguridad nuclear.
Comunidad
La Cátedra UNESCO en Métodos Numéricos lidera la innovación de vanguardia en el Sur global.
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CIMNE actúa como catalizador para la comunidad global de investigación en ingeniería. Desde charlas informales y seminarios hasta talleres y grandes eventos organizados por nuestro Congress Bureau, trabajamos para inspirar la innovación y fomentar la colaboración a nivel mundial.
CIMNE actúa como catalizador para la comunidad global de investigación en ingeniería. Desde charlas informales y seminarios hasta talleres y grandes eventos organizados por nuestro Congress Bureau, trabajamos para inspirar la innovación y fomentar la colaboración a nivel mundial.
RESUMENEn esta charla nos centramos en la modelización, el análisis numérico y la simulación de problemas de elasticidad con grandes deformaciones (hiperelásticos), con una aplicación particular al estudio de tejidos biológicos blandos. También se considera el...
📅 Viernes, 7 de noviembre de 2025🕛 12 h CET📍 Sala de conferencias OCZ, Edificio C1, primera planta, Campus Nord de la UPC (Barcelona) + 💻En líneaEnlace a la retransmisión en directoRESUMENPresentamos un algoritmo numérico eficiente y robusto para resolver problemas...
📅 Martes, 28 de octubre de 2025🕛 18 h CET📍 Sala Cotxeres, Palau Robert (Passeig de Gràcia 107, 08008 Barcelona)✍🏽 Inscríbete aquí (las plazas son limitadas)Acompáñanos en este seminario sobre Computación Cuántica a cargo del nuevo titular de la Cátedra UNESCO en...
ABSTRACT This seminar will explore contemporary methodologies for the modification and updating of transit route networks and clusters, with a focus on enhancing service quality, efficiency, and sustainability in urban public transport systems. Participants will be...
📆 Wednesday, May 21, 2025🕐 12:00 noon CET📍 Conference Room C2-212, C2 Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT The multifractal theory of turbulence provides a powerful framework that connects the scaling and geometrical properties of coarse grained fields in the limit of...
ABSTRACT One possible realization for the new computing paradigm called Data-Driven Computational Mechanics (DDCM) relies on the formulation of a topological optimization problem that seeks to optimally assign experimental constitutive data to subdomains of the...
Durante 2024, se llevó a cabo una hoja de ruta en CIMNE. Se trató de una primera experiencia piloto con el objetivo de definir las necesidades futuras de la industria y el gobierno para mejorar la transferencia de tecnología, alinear los intereses de investigación con...
ABSTRACT This seminar presents the concept of digital twin of a complex engineering product and demonstrates the application of advanced computational engineering techniques and Artificial Intelligence methods to system-level design of complex products, addressing the...
ABSTRACT This talk presents a high-fidelity numerical framework developed by the CFSMgroup at the University of Calgary for simulating marine renewable energy systems. Built on the variational multiscale (VMS) formulation and finite element discretization, the...
ABSTRACT Numerical methods for the simulation of transient systems with structure-preserving properties are known to exhibit greater accuracy and physical reliability, in particular over long durations. These schemes are often built on powerful geometric ideas for...
ABSTRACT Hilbert space sequences capture the relations between different fields in a partial differential equation compactly. In fact, as suggested in [1] it is advantageous to study a partial differential equation as framed in a corresponding Hilbert space sequence....
The event This seminar brought together experts from different disciplines to explore the impact of extended reality and virtual worlds in engineering, education, accessibility and other fields. Through presentations and discussions, innovative applications of these...
ABSTRACT The advent of quantum computers, operating on entirely different physical principles and abstractions from those of classical digital computers, sets forth a new computing paradigm that can potentially result in game-changing efficiencies and computational...
ABSTRACT Electromagnetic solvers are of paramount importance to simulate the behavior of complex microwave and photonic devices and systems, which have many applications in domains as communication, sensing, imaging and computing. However, EM solvers can result very...
ABSTRACT We will present results related to the estimation from cardiovascular model parameters, i.e. boundary conditions and mechanical properties, based (mainly) on velocity-encoded MRI measurements, including the consideration of imaging artifacts. We will review...
ABSTRACT Digital Twins have appeared in nearly every field: civil, mechanical and aerospace engineering, medicine, social media, etc. The term `digital twin' can mean different things in different realms - even if we consider specialized field like civil...
📆 Tuesday, June 25th, 2024🕛 12 pm (CEST)📍 OCZ Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona + 💻 OnlineLink for the online session ABSTRACT Soil penetration and excavation are ubiquitous processes in civil engineering activities, from the installation of...
ABSTRACT Talk in SpanishIn this talk, we took a tour of the optimization and data science applications carried out by our groups at the University of Buenos Aires and the University of Chile in the field of sports in general, and football in particular. From the...
📆 Wednesday, June 12, 2024 🕐 12 pm CEST 📍 C2-212 room | C2 Building, 2nd floor | UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT In silico models are invaluable tools that complement in vitro experiments to improve our understanding of complex biological phenomena such as cancer...
ABSTRACT The use of high-order methods in computational fluid dynamics is becoming more and more widespread thanks to their desirable features such as low levels of numerical dissipation, intrinsic geometrical flexibility and fast convergence properties. However, it...
ABSTRACT Urban energy vulnerability index assessment at the building level is crucial for understanding and addressing climate challenges in cities, particularly in Barcelona. This study, conducted as part of the Climate Ready Barcelona project (funded by ICLEI and...
ABSTRACT In this talk, Dr. Gebhardt will present some of the research he carried out in the last few years within computational structural analysis, concretely on slender structures as well as their interaction with surrounding flows. In the first part, he will focus...
ABSTRACT The media of the aorta consists primarily of smooth muscle cells (SMCs) embedded in a highly structured matrix of collagen fibrils and elastin lamellae. Thanks to their phenotypic plasticity [1], SMCs normally maintain a certain mechanical homeostasis through...
ABSTRACT Espresso extraction is a complex process involving water flow through a porous medium undergoing time-dependent geometric changes, solubilisation of hydrophilic substances, emulsification of insoluble coffee oils and suspension of coffee cell-wall fragments...
ABSTRACT Stroke is the second cause of death and major cause of disability worldwide. The most prevalent type of stroke is Acute Ischemic Stroke (AIS), which occurs when a thrombus blocks a neck or intracranial artery. This blockage impairs perfusion to a portion of...
Tuesday, December 19th, 2023. Time: 12 noon. Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See on Youtube ABSTRACT Inverse problems are ubiquitous in various fields of science and engineering, such as energy exploration,...
Monday, November 20th, 2023. Time: 19h Palau Robert, Barcelona (Pg. de Gràcia, 107) SPEAKER CV Karen Willcox is director of the Oden Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences, associate vice president for research and professor of aerospace and...
Wednesday, February 7th, 2024. Time: 3 p.m. ABSTRACT Luis Javier Segura, Zebin Li, Chi Zhou, Hongyue Sun Droplet morphology and behavior substantially determine the quality of the Material Jetting (MJ) printed parts. However, obtaining consistent and stable...
Thursday, September 28th, 2023. Time: 10 a.m. Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See video on Youtube ABSTRACT A new formulation for the displacement-only partitioned equations of motion for linear structures is...
Friday, September 29th, 2023. Time: 10 a.m. Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See video on Youtube ABSTRACT A new formulation for the displacement-only partitioned equations of motion for linear structures...
Friday, June 16th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Face-to-face - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT Congenital Heart Disease (CHD) results when the heart abnormally develops before birth. With diminished cardiac function, the...
14th June, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid / O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, BarcelonaLink for online session See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Embedded/immersed/unfitted boundary methods obviate the need for continual re-meshing in...
CIMNE presents the third seminar of a serie dedicated to the European Award for Human Resources in Research (HRS4R) that will take place on May 4th at 15h. in an online format. This seminar is entitled "The implementation of good practices in contracting within the...
Wednesday, September 4th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - Place: UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona (O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room) / Link for online session See on Youtube ABSTRACT In this seminar a high-fidelity numerical framework for marine and wind energy...
From Fatigue4Light, and in collaboration with REVOLUTION project, are organising the webinar “EVs lightweighting assessment based on AI machine learning and numerical modelling using new materials”, taking place next April 18th, 2022 from 10.00h - 12.30h...
Thursday, October 19th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona / Link for online session See seminar on Youtube ABSTRACT In this presentation the method called pseudo-DNS will be presented,...
CIMNE presents the second seminar of a serie dedicated to the European Award for Human Resources in Research (HRS4R) that will take place on March 30th at 10.00 a.m. in an online format. This seminar is entitled 'Professional research career options within the...
Thursday, March 30th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona / Link for online session See video on Youtube ABSTRACT As we enter the third energy transition in human history, the coming...
Wednesday, March 8th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona / Link for online session See video ABSTRACT Risk assessment is a thematic of great relevance since it is related to the safety...
Wednesday, May 3rd, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona / See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Material degradation challenges at the interface between mechanics, chemistry and materials...
Thursday, March 23rd, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona / Link for online session See video on YouTube ABSTRACT In the era of the Industrial Metaverse the availability of real-time...
Thursday, February 23rd, 2023. Time: 11 a.m. ABSTRACT This seminar will be the first of the three events dedicated to the European Award for Human Resources in Research (HRS4R). It is entitled "The HRS4R Award and its benefits for the organization and researchers" and...
Wednesday, March 1st, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona / Link for online session See video ABSTRACT Many technologically important and interesting materials possess the capability to...
Wednesday, July 12th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid / O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See video on YouTube ABSTRACT With the increasing knowledge in seismicity, a growing number of dams fail to meet revised safety criteria...
Thursday, January 26th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid! / C2-212 Room, C2 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See on Youtube ABSTRACT Static analysis has established itself as a weapon of choice for...
Wednesday, February 22th, 2023. Time: 12 noonHybrid! O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona See video on Youtube ABSTRACT The mathematical problem corresponding to classical continuum damage mechanics can be defined as a...
Wednesday, February 8th, 2023. Time: 3 p.m.Hybrid - C1-116, C1 building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on YouTube ABSTRACT A new numerical approach called the optimal local truncation error...
Friday, March 31st, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid / O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, BarcelonaLink for online session See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Green and Innovative Technologies for Food, Environment and Bioengineering Research...
CIMNE promotes a programme of seminars that addresses four scientific challenges of high impact to the welfare of citizens, related to the development of new materials, construction, transport, manufacturing, environment, energy and security. The seminars are funded...
Tuesday, January 17th, 2023. Time: 12 noon Hybrid - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See on Youtube ABSTRACT In this talk, the speaker will give an overview...
Wednesday, November 16th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Hybrid! - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Session link: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See on Youtube ABSTRACT 3D printing can be used for manufacturing of very complex...
Friday, July 15th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Hybrid! Place: Room C2-212, C2 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link of the session: https://meet.google.com/ekd-qqgp-rec See video on Youtube ABSTRACT In this talk, a new numerical framework, employing...
Tuesday, July 19th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Blended Learning - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on YouTube ABSTRACT This 'yearly report'-like...
Wednesday, June 29th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Hybrid format: FACE-TO-FACE (highly suggested, limited places - Registration is mandadory for face-to face attendes: Please, fill this registration form) It will take Place at O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room (C1...
Thursday, April 28th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Blended Learning - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on Youtube ABSTRACT It is well known how humanity has...
Wednesday, September 21st, 2022. Time: 12 noon Online! Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video ABSTRACT Since the earlier work of Cundall and Strack, the Discrete Element Method (DEM) has been widely used for modeling dynamic behavior...
Wednesday, May 4th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Online! Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on Youtube ABSTRACT We propose a novel dual-primal finite element tearing and interconnecting method for nonlinear variational inequalities....
Wednesday, March 23rd, 2022. Time: 12 noon Blended learning - Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See the video on Youtube ABSTRACT Polymer electrolyte...
Wednesday, July 13th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Hybrid! | Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona | Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Stimuli-responsive materials,...
CIMNE Winter School is a five days course about basic aspects on computational methods, such as linear algebra, continuum mechanics or the basics of the FEM; and will sample interdisciplinary disciplines such as High-Performance Computing, optimization and...
Wednesday, December 15th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Blended Learning - C-116 Room, Gran Capità S/N, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona- Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video ABSTRACT The numerical simulation of...
See video Thursday, November 18th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Blended Learning - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, Gran Capità S/N, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo ABSTRACT The importance of...
Wednesday, April 20th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Online - If you like, you can attend the session from the following conference room: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Link for online session:...
Wednesday, April 6th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Hydrid! - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Link for session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See seminar on Youtube ABSTRACT During the last years, the research group of...
Wednesday, March 9th, 2022. Time: 12 noon Online - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video ABSTRACT Reinforced concrete began to be used at the beginning of...
Wednesday, November 17th, 2021. Time: 12 noon ONLINE! - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo ABSTRACT We consider nonoverlapping domain decomposition methods for the Rudin-Osher-Fatemi (ROF) model, which is one of the standard models in...
CIMNE promotes a programme of seminars that addresses four scientific challenges of high impact to the welfare of citizens, related to the development of new materials, construction, transport, manufacturing, environment, energy and security. The seminars are funded...
Wednesday, October 20th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Blending learning: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See seminar video ABSTRACT Rivers transport water but also...
Tuesday, June 29th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Blending learning: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video ABSTRACT A new embedded/immersed framework for...
Friday, July 9th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Online - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Mathematical engineering continuously addresses new applications and solves new problems. The expansion of...
June 2021 is packed with professional meetings related to engineering. Organized by the CIMNE Congress Bureau, these meetings are presented as spaces for exchange to share knowledge between researchers, companies and technology developers. All of them will be...
Thursday, July 8th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Blended Learning - O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on Youtube ABSTRACT The current pandemic has renewed...
Wednesday, July 14th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video on Youtube ABSTRACT Machine Learning (ML) is an emerging technology with applications in multiple fields. The concepts and techniques developed in the...
See video Wednesday, April 21st, 2021. Time: 12 noon ONLINE! - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo ABSTRACT The European Commission has published Horizon Europe, the NEW EU Research & Innovation Programme, with a budget of around...
Wednesday, March 24th, 2021. Time: 12 noon ONLINE! - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video ABSTRACT Pseudo-DNS (P-DNS) is a multiscale methodology developed with the aim of reproducing the reliable solutions of the direct...
CIMNE promotes a programme of seminars that addresses four scientific challenges of high impact to the welfare of citizens, related to the development of new materials, construction, transport, manufacturing, environment, energy and security. The seminars are funded...
Thrusday, June 17th, 2021. Time: 12 noon Blending learning: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona - Link for online session: meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See seminar video ABSTRACT Acoustic black holes (ABHs) in mechanics...
Wednesday, May 19th, 2021. Time: 12 noon See video ONLINE! - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo ABSTRACT Metal artifact reduction has become a challenging issue for practical X-ray CT applications since metal artifacts severely cause...
Wednesday, February 24th, 2021. Time: 12 noon ONLINE! - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/qjo-sttx-dgo See video ABSTRACT Computational fluid dynamics simulations in industrial design and optimisation procedures involve the exploration of large...
The aviation sector has technological tools to address the challenges of the future, but time is short and there are inertia in traditional business models. How do experts see the 2030 horizon? Are we prepared for the challenges of the future? What urgent...
Wednesday, November 4th, 2020. Time: 12 noon ONLINE! - Link for online session: meet.google.com/gzo-dhcu-hyt See video on Youtube ABSTRACT In this work, the performance of industrial components made by Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) is analysed. This Additive...
The aim of the round table is to present and make clear the short, medium and long term effects that the COVID-19 pandemic may have at the airport level, with special attention at Catalan airports. The speakers, with proven experience in airport management, both...
Wednesday, December 2nd, 2020. Time: 11 noon ONLINE! - Link for online session: https://meet.google.com/gzo-dhcu-hyt See video ABSTRACT This Webinar is focused on presenting practical developments and implementations of data-driven techniques to predict the...
Wednesday, November 18th, 2020. Time: 12 noon ONLINE / Link for online session: meet.google.com/gzo-dhcu-hyt See Seminar on Youtube ABSTRACT Different natural events can run into disasters when there are a series of socioeconomic factors that allow it. With a...
Wednesday, June 17th, 2020. Time: 12 noon ONLINE SEMINAR Seminar video on Youtube ABSTRACT The objective of the seminar is to give a quick review of the current state of computational glacier dynamics, some of its limitations and its future. In the...
Wednesday, February 26th, 2020. Time: 12 noon Place: O.C. Zienkiewicz Conference Room, C1 Building, UPC Campus Nord, Barcelona ABSTRACT The simulation of CFD problems using VMS techniques is inherently unstationary in all the cases in which the flow itself...
Wednesday, July 1st, 2020. Time: 12 noon ONLINE SEMINAR Seminar video on Youtube ABSTRACT The automotive industry is an extensive user of complex numerical models, requiring large computational resources. These models are stated in terms of input parameters....
Wednesday, May 6th, 2020. Time: 12 noon ONLINE (Session link: https://meet.google.com/qfj-jtsz-mry) Seminar video on Youtube ABSTRACT Reduced Order Models (ROM) in computational mechanics aim at solving problems approximating the solution in spaces of very...
CIMNE promotes a programme of seminars that addresses four scientific challenges of high impact to the welfare of citizens, related to the development of new materials, construction, transport, manufacturing, environment, energy and security. The seminars are funded...