Fernández-Méndez, Sonia

Sonia Fernández-Méndez

Professor (Catedrática de Universidad) at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering (DECA)

Lecturer at Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística (FME) and at Escola de Camins (ETSECCPB)

Research group: Laboratori de Càlcul Numèric (LaCàN)

Other web pages: LaCàN's web page, UPC directory, Futur UPC

e-mail: sonia.fernandez(add upc.edu)

Tel: (+34) 93 401 1625

Address: campus nord UPC, Jordi Girona 1, C2-207, E-08034 Barcelona, Spain.

Research Interests

Computational Modelling with special emphasis in

crack problems in solid mechanics,
dynamics of material interfaces,
electroactive materials
4th order PDEs

Advanced discretization methods:

high-order Finite Element computations
Discontinuous Galerkin methods (DG, HDG)
eXtended Finite Elements (X-FEM)

Publications

See Publications list at LaCaN's web page, ResearcherID, ORCID or Scopus for a list of publications.

Education

Llicenciada en matemàtiques per la Facultat de Matemàtiques i Estadística de la UPC (July 1996), P.h.D. in Applied Mathematics, UPC, November 2001. "Mesh-free methods and finite elements: friend or foe?" (advisor: Antonio Huerta)

Awards

Jacques Louis Lions Award 2010 for Young Scientistis in the field of Computational Mathematics, by European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS), June 2010

Juan Carlos Simó award 2009 for young scientist in the field of Computational Mechanics, by Sociedad Española de Métodos Numéricos en Ingenieria (SEMNI), June 2009.

Former PhD students

Rubén Sevilla (thesis), 2009, coadvised with Antonio Huerta (UPC)

Adeline de Montlaur (thesis), 2009, coadvised with Antonio Huerta (UPC)

Giorgio Giorgiani (thesis), 2013, coadvised with Antonio Huerta (UPC)

Mostafa Javadzadeh (thesis), 2016.

Ceren Gürkan (thesis), 2018, coadvised with Martin Kronbichler (TUM)

Mahendra Paipuri (thesis), 2018, coadvised with Carlos Tiago (IST)

Alba Muixí, 2020, coadvised with Antonio Rodríguez-Ferran (UPC)

Lecture notes

Introduction to HDG (from CISM school 2018): Matlab code, slides Laplace, slides Stokes

LaCaN's journal club "Discretization methods with unfitted meshes": Introduction 14/02/2018 slides, hand notes Nitsche's method for Dirichlet BC, hand notes Nitsche's method for interfaces and exercises.

X rank in Splatoon 2

- Clam Blitz (17th June 2019)

- Splat Zones (25th August 2019)

- Rainmaker (11th September 2019)

- Tower Control (13th November 2019)