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Lorena Barba's publications
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Journal publications
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Additional publications
- Preprints, Submitted and in preparation
- Refereed conference papers
- Conference presentations (Abstracts, Posters)
- PhD Thesis, Caltech (2004)
- Seminars and invited talks
Preprints, Submitted, and in preparation
| Panel-free boundary conditions for viscous vortex methods Christopher D. Cooper, L. A. Barba SUBMITTED to AIAA |
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| Global field interpolation for particle methods L. A. Barba, Louis F. Rossi SUBMITTED to Journal of Computational Physics |
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| Fast Radial Basis Function Interpolation with Gaussians by Localization and Iteration Claudio E. Torres, L. A. Barba SUBMITTED to Journal of Computational Physics |
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| Characterization of the errors of the FMM in particle simulations Felipe A. Cruz, L. A. Barba SUBMITTED to Int. J. Numerical Methods in Engineering. Preprint uploaded to ArXiv. |
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| PetFMM --- An automatically load-balancing parallel particle library Felipe A. Cruz, Matthew G. Knepley, L. A. Barba In preparation. |
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| Lagrangian flow analysis of vortex structures L. A. Barba, O. U. Velasco Fuentes In preparation. |
Refereed conference papers
| Lagrangian Flow Geometry of Tripolar Vortex. L. A. Barba, O. U. Velasco Fuentes pp. 247–256 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4020-6744-0_21 IUTAM Symposium on Hamiltonian Dynamics, Vortex Structures, Turbulence Alexey V. Borisov, Valery V. Kozlov, Ivan S. Mamaev and Mikhail A. Sokolovskiy (Editors): Springer, 2007. |
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| Spectral-like accuracy in space of a meshless vortex method. L. A. Barba pp. 187–197 Advances in Meshfree Techniques V.M.A. Leitao, C.J.S. Alves, C. Armando Duarte (Editors): Springer, 2007. Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, Vol. 5 |
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| Computing high-Reynolds number vortical flows: a highly accurate method with a fully meshless formulation. L. A. Barba pp. 305–312, doi:10.1016/B978-044452024-1/50039-7 Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics - Multidisciplinary Applications G. Winter, A. Ecer, J. Periaux, N. Satofuka and P. Fox (Editors): Elsevier, 2005. |
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| Vortex method with fully meshless implementation for high-Reynolds number flow computations L. A. Barba, A. Leonard, C. B. Allen ECCOMAS 2004, Fourth European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering. 24–28 July 2004. Jyväskylä, Finland |
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| Numerical investigations on the accuracy of the vortex method with and without remeshing L. A. Barba, A. Leonard, C. B. Allen AIAA paper #2003-3426 16th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, 23–26 June 2003, Orlando FL |
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Conference presentations (Abstracts & Posters, when available)
Additionally to the list below, I have co-organized and participated in several international conferences in the context of the SCAT project for Scientific Computing Advanced Training. Visit the SCAT project website!
| Accurate solution of global field interpolations for particle simulations. L. A. Barba, Louis F. Rossi 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics / ECCOMAS 2008. Venice, 30 June–7 July, 2008. |
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| Characterization of the FMM approximation in particle simulations. Felipe A. Cruz, L. A. Barba 8th World Congress on Computational Mechanics / ECCOMAS 2008. Venice, 30 June–7 July, 2008. |
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| Fast multipole method for particle interactions: an open source parallel library component. Felipe A. Cruz, L. A. Barba, Matthew G. Knepley 20th International conference on Parallel Computational Fluid Dynamics. Lyon, 19–22 May, 2008. |
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| Eulerian versus Lagrangian flow geometry for analysis of vortex structures L. A. Barba EUROMECH Colloquium 491, Vortex dynamics from quantum to geophysical scales. Exeter, 11–14 September, 2007. |
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| Meshless simulation of Navier-Stokes equations with high-order and spatially adaptive basis functions L. A. Barba, L. F. Rossi 9th US National Congress on Computational Mechanics. San Francisco, 23–26 July, 2007. |
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| Lagrangian flow geometry of tripole vortex simulations. L. A. Barba, O. U. Velasco Fuentes IUTAM Symposium on Hamiltonian Dynamics, Vortex Structures, Turbulence. Moscow, 24–30 August, 2006. |
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| Emergence of tripoles in nonlinearly perturbed planar vortices: a numerical study. L. A. Barba International Conference on High Reynolds Number Vortex Interactions. Toulouse, 29–31 August 2005. |
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| Spectral-like accuracy in space of a meshless vortex method. L. A. Barba ECCOMAS Thematic Conference on Meshless Methods. Lisbon, Portugal, 11–14 July 2005. |
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| Numerical simulation of strained vortices with parallel vortex method. 17th International Conference on Parallel CFD. College Park, Maryland USA, 24–27 May 2005. |
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| Numerical studies of relaxing 2D vortices with non-axisymmetric states. L. A. Barba, A. Leonard EUROMECH 448 Vortex Dynamics and Field Interactions. Paris, 6–10 September 2004. |
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| Computation of viscous vortices with fully meshless method. L. A. Barba, A. Leonard 21st ICTAM, International Congress of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Warsaw, Poland, 15–21 August 2004. |
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| Computing high-Reynolds number vortical flows: a highly accurate method with a fully meshless formulation. L. A. Barba 16th International Conference on Parallel CFD.Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, 24–27 May 2004. |
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| Vortex method with meshless spatial adaption for accurate simulation of viscous, unsteady vortical flows. L. A. Barba, A. Leonard, C. B. Allen ICFD Conference on Numerical Methods for Fluid Dynamics Oxford University, England, 29 March–1 April 2004. |
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PhD Thesis, Caltech
Defended 18 May, 2004. Graduate Aeronautical Laboratories (GALCIT), California Institute of Technology, Pasadena.
Seminars and invited talks
2008
Aug. 19, Applied Mathematics Colloquium, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Global field interpolation for particle methods.
Visit hosted by: Prof. Gregory Fasshauer.
Aug. 18, Mechanical Engineering Seminar, Purdue University.
Visit hosted by: Prof. Marisol Koslowski.
Aug. 15, Mechanical Engineering, Belytschko-Liu group, Northwestern University.
Visit hosted by: Prof. Wing Kam Liu.
May. 29, Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Sussex.
Preconditioned field interpolation for particle methods
Visit hosted by: Prof. Holger Wendland.
Feb. 6-7, Invited Course, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados.
Meshfree methods and vortex methods
Watch the video/screencast of this seminar at the IMDEA site.
Feb. 5 , Mathematics & Aeronautics Seminar, Instituto Madrileño de Estudios Avanzados, IMDEA (Madrid, Spain)
Accurate solution of global field interpolations for particle methods
Watch the video/screencast of this seminar at the IMDEA site.
2006
Dec. 5, Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Delaware.
Vortex multipoles and vortex quasimodes: the parallels and differences between coherent structures of fluids and plasmas
Visit hosted by: Prof. L. F. Rossi.
Nov. 13, Applied Mathematics Seminar, Exeter University.
Vortex multipoles and vortex quasimodes: the parallels and differences between coherent structures of fluids and plasmas
Visit hosted by: Prof. Andrew Gilbert.
May. 18, Fluid Dynamics Laboratory, Dept. of Applied Physics, Technical University of Eindhoven.
Lagrangian analysis of vortex structures: learning from vortex merging how to study the tripole.
Visit hosted by: Prof. G.J.F. vanHeijst.
This visit was made possible by a grant from the British Council-NWO Partnership Programme.
Mar. 17, Center for Environmental and Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM) Seminars. The Johns Hopkins University, Mechanical Engineering.
Lagrangian analysis of vortex structures: the case of the tripole.
Visit Hosted by: Prof. Charles Meneveau.
This visit was made possible by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation.
2005
Nov. 29, Centre for Nonlinear Mechanics, "The Brooke Sessions". University of Bath.
Meshless simulation of nonlinear interactions of vortices
Visit Hosted by: Prof. Chris Budd.
May 27, Center for Environmental and
Applied Fluid Mechanics (CEAFM) Seminars. The Johns Hopkins University, Mechanical Engineering.
Emergence of tripoles in nonlinearly perturbed planar vortices
Visit Hosted by: Prof.
Charles Meneveau.
This visit was made possible by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation.
May 23, Applied Mathematics Seminar, University of Delaware.
Emergence of tripoles in nonlinearly perturbed planar vortices
Visit hosted by: Prof. L. F. Rossi.
This visit was made possible by a grant from the Nuffield Foundation.
Jan. 24, Computational Laboratory Seminar, ETH Zürich, Switzerland.
Spectral-like accuracy in space of a meshless vortex method.
Visit Hosted by: Prof. Petros Koumoutsakos, Director of the ETHZ CoLab and of the Institute of Computational Science.
This visit was funded by ETHZ CoLab.
2004
Dec. 1, Aerodynamics
and Flight Mechanics Seminar, University of Southampton, U.K.
Emergence of tripoles in nonlinearly perturbed two-dimensional vortices: a numerical study.
Visit hosted by: Prof. Owen Tutty.
Oct. 6, "Baglunch Seminar", Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol.
Some Idiosyncrasies of Planar Vortices.
May 11, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, U.K.
Advanced Meshless Methods for Scientific Computation.
May 6, Fluid
Mechanics Seminar Series, Department of Mathematics, University of Bristol, U.K.
Computation of Viscous Vortex Interactions with a Fully Meshless Method.
2003
Jan. 16, GALCIT, California Institute
of Technology, Pasadena CA.
High Accuracy Vortex Methods: Advances Toward a Fully Meshless Formulation.
2002
Oct. 25, Colloquium, Centre for Mathematical Modelling, University of Leicester, U.K.
Unsteady Fluid Dynamics Computations with Vortex Methods.
Visit Hosted by: Prof. Jeremy Levesley, Head of Department, Mathematics.
2000
Sep. 26, Fluid
Mechanics Research Conference, GALCIT, Caltech, Pasadena CA.
Computations of Vortex Induced Vibration using Viscous Vortex Methods.
Subsequent paper by Leonard and Roshko on Aspects of Flow-Induced Vibration (PDF) .
J. Fluids and Structures, (2001) 15:415–425.
Mar. 20-21, presenter at the
Eigth Annual Computational Sciences Outreach Awareness Program, Caltech, Pasadena CA. Hosted by The Center for Advanced Computing Research (CACR) for more than one hundred high school students drawn from science and technology programs throughout the Los Angeles metropolitan area.