On the 11th of July, Noelia Fernández, student of the Máster de Ingeniería de Caminos, Canales y Puertos of UDC, defended its Technical Project titled "Análisis comparativo y optimización estructural de diferentes configuraciones de jacket para eólica offshore".
In the project, supervised by professors Ignasi Colominas and Iván Couceiro, Noelia proposes new models of substructures for offshore energy systems and a reduction of their cost by means of a weight optimization of the structures. The study is focused also on the comparisson between optimized models of two main typologies: jackets with three and four legs.
Antonio Eirís Barca will defended his PhD thesis "From Mesh to Meshless: A generalized meshless formulation based on Riemann solvers for Computational Fluid Dynamics" the next 24th of March.
The thesis has been supervised by professors Xesús Nogueira and Luis Ramírez.
The defense will be held in the Civil Engineering School of Unversity of a Coruña at 11:30. The Committee members will be professor Fermín Navarrina from Universidade da Coruña, professor Luis Cueto-Felgueroso from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and professor Sofiane Khelladi from HESAM Université.
Manuel Ruiz will defend his PhD thesis "Impact of dynamic axle loading on the service life of flexible pavements" the next 25th of February.
The thesis has been supervised by professors Luis Ramírez and Fermín Navarrina.
The defense will be held in the Civil Engineering School of University of A Coruña at 11:30. The committee members will be: proffessor Ignasi Colominas from UDC, professor Margarita Martínez from Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña and professor Eugenio Pellicer for Universidad Politécnica de Valencia.
This thursday the 24th, the GMNI in collaboration with the Colegio de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos from Galicia and the Consello Galego de Enxeñeriás, organize a conference with the intervention of Mario Aymerich. The talk is a free attendance event after registration ( link ) and can be followed in person at the AC Hotel of A Coruña or remotely via Zoom.
2021
Next thursday, 6 of december, the Civil Engineering School will hold the conference "Big Data e Inteligencia Artificial: Oportunidades Laborales en Ingeniería"
This conference is organized by the GMNI in collaboration with SDG Group and will have talks from Dr. Andrés Soage, the ex-student of the School, Rocío Barro and Antonio Torrado.
The conference will be accesible online via Microsoft Teams.
This friday, november 26th, Ahmad Towaiq will deliver a seminar titled "Towards the assessment of fatigue damage on offshore steel structures using numerical simulations"
The seminar will take place at the Numerical Methods Laboratory of the Civil Engineering School.
Diego Villalba will defend his PhD thesis "Topology optimization of structures with high spatial definition considering minimum weight and stress constraints" the next 1st of June.
The thesis has been supervised by professors José París and Fermín Navarrina.
The defense will be held in the Civil Engineering School of Unversity of a Coruña at 16:00. The Committee members will be professor Santiago Hernández from UDC, professor Elías Cueto from Universidad de Zaragoza and professor Eugenio Oñate from Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya.
Manuel Andrés Soage Quintáns defended his PhD thesis "A numerical modeling framework for the optimization and economic analysis of unconventional gas production" on the 20th of May.
The thesis has been supervised by professors Ignasi Colominas and Luis Cueto-Felgueroso.
The defense was held in the Civil Engineering School of Unversity of a Coruña at 11:00. The Committee members were professor Fermín Navarrina from Universidade da Coruña, professor David Santillán from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and Dr. David Castiñeira from Hess corporation.
On Thursday the 22nd of April 2021 at his residence in A Coruña, Professor Manuel Casteleiro passed away at the age of 74. Professor Casteleiro had a degree in Civil Engineering from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and a Masters and PhD degrees from American universities of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Northwestern, respectively. After his return to Spain in 1975, and until 1992, he took up a Professor position in Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos at Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña in Barcelona, in whose construction and consolidation he intervened in a very active and significant way.
Among other academic positions he was, during this period, vice-rector of Faculty and (founder) director of the Departamento de Matemática Aplicada III. In 1992 he relocated to Galicia, where he resumed his Professor position at Escuela Técnica Superior de Ingenieros de Caminos, Canales y Puertos of the Universidade da Coruña. His talent, expertise and academic vision left their mark in this recently-created university, where he was vice-rector of Faculty as well, and were crucial in the foundational stages of this new school, being Director from 2005 to 2013. On the occasion of his retirement in 2017 he was designed Professor Emeritus of Unviersidade da Coruña, in whose Escuela de Ingenieros de Caminos he was still working until a short while ago, when his health suddenly and permanently deteriorated.
Manolo, as he was known by relatives, friends and students; was an extraordinary professor who dramatically influenced the education of more than 40 promotions of civil engineers accounting for both schools to which he devoted his life. He carefully cultivated his teaching abilities, educating thousands of engineers in Statistics, the course he teached year after year at the schools of Barcelona and A Coruña. To his clear thinking and explanatory abilities, Manolo added a special knack: he captivated the audience from the very first words, with the precise tone, speed and assurance, making just the needed stops to make each class an unforgettable moment.
Manolo was a brilliant researcher, internationally renowned, who drove the numerical methods and their application in Engineering forward and his once students are today scientists that lead top-level research groups around the world. He was also a great manager in both universities he worked at and one of the main advocates of the Centro Internacional de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (CIMNE) and Sociedad Española de Métodos Numéricos en Ingeniería (SEMNI), which he presided from 2003 to 2008. When taking office, he undertook a vow that his actions would only be driven by academic reasons, the respect to the people and the greater good. This vow would never be broken.
Great figures are usually beacons that cast their light far beyond their professions. Manolo was a deeply inspiring man, and an excellent person. He loved life. Behind his daunting presence hid a person as good as gold. He always fought to improve the world by using science, technique and technology as his only weapons, and academic exquisiteness and personal honesty as his framework. Those of us who were lucky enough to work side by side with him, learned a lot from him. We will miss him and we remember him.
May his soul rest in peace.
2019
Francisco Javier Fernández Fidalgo will defend his PhD thesis "Computational simulation of compressible flows: A family of very efficient and highly accurate numerical methods based on Finite Differences" the next 7th of November.
The thesis has been supervised by professors Xesús Nogueira and Ignasi Colominas.
The defense will be held in the Civil Engineering School of Unversity of a Coruña at 11:00. The Committee members will be professor emmeritus Manuel Casteleiro from UDC, professor Luis Cueto-Felgueroso from E.T.S. de Ingenieros de Caminos Canales Y Puertos of the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid and doctor Raphaël Loubère, CNRS researcher of the Université de Bordeaux
This week, Pablo Ouro will be giving a lecture on "Large-Eddy Simulation in turbulent hydro-environmental flows and offshore renewable energy." The lecture will take place next 6th of June at 12:00 p.m. at the Visualization Hall of the CITEEC.
Dr. Pablo Ouro is a lecturer in Computational Hydraulics at Cardiff School of Engineering, United Kingdom. He graduated as Civil Engineer in Universidade da Coruña in 2013. After obtaining his degree, he worked as structural engineer in the Structural Mechanics Group at the same university. In summer 2013, he joined the Computational Hydraulics group to do his PhD, which completed in 2017. During this period, Pablo worked in applications of large-eddy simulation for turbulent flows, fluid-structure interaction, offshore marine turbines, or high-performance computing. During his doctoral studies, he received the JFK award from the 35th IAHR congress in Delft, and participated in the Osborne Reynolds competition at the University of Manchester in 2016 and 2017. After his PhD, he did an 18-month postdoc in the Supercomputing Wales project at Cardiff School of Engineering, during which he expanded his research interests to turbulence on fractal surfaces, direct numerical simulation and ARM parallel computing. Since January 2019, he is a Lecturer in the Computational Hydraulics Group at Cardiff University working in the development of a digital simulator of offshore wind farms and VAWT design for medium range speed areas.
2018
The Asociación Nacional de Constructores Independientes (ANCI) has awarded the "Premio ANCI a Tesis Doctorales 2018" to Iván Couceiro's thesis, supervised by professors José París and Fermín Navarrina and defended on May the 4th, his work obtained a Summa Cum Laude qualification.
Click here to read the full interview with the awardee in the local press (in Spanish).
Next Thursday, October 25, the GMNI's PhD Workshop will be held in the ETS de Caminos of University of A Coruña. For further details click on the brochure.
Guillermo Lorenzo will defend his PhD thesis "Tissue-scale, patient-specific modeling and simulation of prostate cancer growth" the next 25th of June.
The thesis has been supervised by Professor Héctor Gómez.
The defense will be held in the Civil Engineering School of Unversity of a Coruña at 11:00. The Committee members will be professor Fermín Navarrina from UDC, professor Carlotta Giannelli from Università degli Studi di Firenzi and professor Alicia Martínez from Universidad de Castilla La Mancha.
Iván Couceiro will defend his PhD thesis "Structural optimization of steel jackets for offshore wind turbines considering dynamic response and fatigue constraints" the next 4th of May.
The thesis has been supervised by professors José París and Fermín Navarrina.
The defense will be held in the Civil Engineering School of Unversity of a Coruña at 12:30. The Committee members will be professor Manuel Casteleiro from UDC, professor Eugenio Oñate from UPC (CIMNE) and Doctor Santiago Martínez.
Raquel Guizán will defend his PhD thesis "A general formulation for computational design of grounding systems in underground electrical substations" the next 3rd of May.
The thesis has been supervised by professors José París and Ignasi Colominas.
The defense will be held in the Civil Engineering School of Unversity of a Coruña at 11:00. The Committee members will be professor Fermín Navarrina from UDC, professor Elías Cueto from Universidad de Zaragoza and Jesús Fraile from Universidad Politécnica de Madrid.
2017
Professor Manuel Casteleiro received on July the 5th on the Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering (CMN2017), the SEMNI O.C. Zienkiewitz Award given by the Spanish Society of Numerical Methods in Engineering.
It is the maximum award given by SEMNI to researchers whose professional activity is considered specially relevant in the field of numerical methods in engineering and its applications and whose influence was decisive in the advance and spread of numerical methods worldwide and particularly in Spanish speaking countries.
