Sergio R. Idelsohn

Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics a Enginyeria

Engineering Sciences

Date and place of birth: November 15, 1947, Paraná (Argentina). Marital status: Married. Three children. Education: Degree: Mechanical Engineer, Universidad Nacional de Rosario (Argentina) 1970. Postgraduate Studies: PhD in Applied Sciences, University of Liege (Belgium) 1974. Adviser: Prof. Fraeijs de Veubeke. Languages: Spanish, French and English. Research Interests: Computational Mechanics, Finite Element Methods in Structural Dynamics, Fluid Mechanics and Heat Transfer. Present Positions: ICREA Research Professor and Senior Researcher at the International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain. Full-time Professor, National University of Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina (in leave of absence).


Research interests

He is a specialist in the numerical simulations of mechanical engineering problems, in particular, Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD). In the last ten years he developed a new method called the Particle Finite Element Method (PFEM) to solve fluid mechanics problems including free-surface flow, breaking waves and fragmentation. This method becomes very popular to solve problems like ship and harbour designs, melting of metals, erosion, and polymer combustion or magma analysis. Currently he works on solving CFD problems in Real Time using approximation techniques based on particles.

Selected publications

- Idelsohn SR, Gimenez JM, Marti J & Nigro NM 2017, 'Elemental Enriched Spaces for the Treatment of Weak and Strong Discontinuous Fields', Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, Volume 313, 1, Pages 535-559.

- Ryzhakov PB, Marti J, Idelsohn SR & Oñate E 2017, 'Fast fluid-structure interaction simulations using a displacement-based finite element model equipped with an explicit streamline integration prediction', Computer Methods In Applied Mechanics And Engineering, 315, 1080 - 1097.

- Ortega E, Flores R, Oñate E & Idelsohn S 2017, 'A-posteriori error estimation for the finite point method with applications to compressible flow', Computational Mechanics, 60, 2, 219 - 233.

- Cosimo A, Cardona A & Idelsohn S 2017, 'Global-Local ROM for the solution of parabolic problems with highly concentrated moving sources', Computer Methods In Applied Mechanics And Engineering, 326, 739 - 756.

- Marti J, Ortega E & Idelsohn S 2017, 'An improved enrichment method for weak discontinuities for thermal problems', International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, Vol. 27 Issue: 8, pp.1748-1764

Selected research activities

  • Chairman of the Second Pan American Congress on Computational Mechanics- PANACM 2018, July 22-27, 2018, New York City, USA.
  • Vice President of the International Association of Computational Mechanics (2014-2018).
  • Plenary Lecturer at the  III CSMA-SEMNI joint workshop on Model Order Reduction. Jaca, Spain, 1-3 February 2017. 
  • Keynote Lecturer at the XIX International Conference on Finite Element in Flow Problems. April 5-7; 2017; Rome, Italy.
  • Plenary Lecturer at the VII International Conference on Computational Methods in Marine Engineering-MARINE-2017. Nantes, France, 15-17 May 2017
  • Plenary Lecturer at the XXIII Congreso sobre Métodos Numéricos y sus Aplicaciones, ENIEF 2017, Nov. 5-10, 2017, La Plata, Argentine.
  • Declared “Santafesino Outstanding” by the Government of the Province of Santa Fe, Argentine.