Dr Alvaro Meseguer

Associate Professor

Research interests:   Computational Fluid Dynamics, Transition to Turbulence and Dynamical Systems.

Convective and Rotational Instabilities Research Group (UPC)

Gallery of (computational) fluid motion:  

Laminar-turbulent coexisting states in Taylor-Couette flow

Meseguer, et al., Phys. Rev. E80 046315, 2009

Turbulent spots - intermittency (2D radial view)	Spiral turbulence (2D radial view)	Spiral turbulence (2D axial view)	Spiral turbulence (3D view)

Download movie 1 (turbulent spots, radial cross section).

Download movie 2 (spiral turbulence, radial cross section).

Download movie 3 (spiral turbulence, axial cross section) .

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SCI Research Publications

Textbook:  

• Fundamentals of Numerical Mathematics for Physicists and Engineers (Wiley, 2020).

  

  Errata (PDF document, updated August 2022)

  Codes (TAR file). These codes are just intended for educational purposes and come without any warranty.

Current teaching (courses taught at Engineering Physics & Mathematics Degrees at UPC BarcelonaTech):  

• Numerical and Computational Methods I (Eng. Physics).

• Numerical and Computational Methods II (Eng. Physics).

• Mathematical Physics (Mathematics).

• Physics of Fluids (Eng. Physics).

Outreach and Popular Science:  

• El Enigma de Osborne Reynolds .

  An introductory article on pipe flow turbulence transition.

  Spanish edition of Scientific American (Investigación y Ciencia, in spanish)

• El problema de Reynolds: transició subcrítica a la turbulència .

  A detailed introductory paper on pipe flow transition to turbulence intended for graduate students.

  Revista de Física (journal of the Societat Catalana de Física, in catalan)

Organized conferences, workshops and selected talks

• Bifurcations and Instabilities in Fluid Dynamics (4^th International Symposium, BIFD2011)

  Fluid Dynamics Research: Special issue: Selected papers from the BIFD2011 Conference.


• 13^th International Couette Taylor Workshop

  July 3-5, 2003 -- Barcelona, Spain.

• 21^st International Couette Taylor Workshop

  July 5-9, 2021 -- Online and Free.

• Subcritical equilibria in counter-rotating Taylor-Couette flow (video streaming)

  Talk given at the Newton Institute (University of Cambridge, September 2008).

Former PhD students:  

• Dr Fernando Mellibovsky (Associate Professor at UPC)

• Prof Marc Avila (Executive Director of ZARM - Center of Applied Space Technology and Microgravity - Bremen)

• Dr Carles Panades (Data Scientist at Sage)

PhD students:  

• Roger Ayats

• Baoying Wang

Interesting links:  

• Numerical Software Repository (Netlib, NA-Digest)

• Department of Physics (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya)

• Oxford University

• Academic jobs