Marco Alacid Onofre

Research Associate/PhD Student
Nationality: Spanish
Institute:
Date of first affiliation: 09/01/2011
Research aim and objectives
Exact 3D boundary representation in Finite Element Analysis, based on Cartesian grids, applied to shape optimization of structural components
Biography
I met Stephane Bordas and his team during my research visit to Cardiff University in 2011. During my stay I incorporated the ability to handle NURBS to a 2D Cartesian grid Finite Element code. This work was part of my Master's Thesis.
Now I am a PhD student at Universitat Politècnica de València under the supervision of Prof. Juan José Ródenas and Manuel Tur. My research interests focus in the field of Computational Mechanics, more specifically on the following areas:
- Exact representation of FE models in a Cartesian grid environment using NURBS and T-spline.
- Efficient imposition of boundary conditions in non-conforming meshes.
- Automatic and robust h-refined mesh generation.
- Development of efficient and accurate shape optimization algorithms using a Cartesian grid FEM.