Research Projects [ 1996 -- ]:


On-going Projects:


Cardiovascular Imaging, Mdeling and Simulation - SIMCARD

Project FCT – UTAustin/CA/0047/2008 [2009 - 2012].

(Partnership UTAustin | Portugal: CEMAT/IST; IST; HSM; SPRM; FEUP; UTAustin – ICES – T. Hughes, C. Bajaj).

URL: web.ist.utl.pt/~ist13440/simcard

Participation: Project Coordinator.

Multiscale Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Mathematical Models in Haemodynamics and Haemorheology

Bilateral Project FCT/CNR - Portugal/Italy, (CEMAT/IST and IAC/CNR) [2007 – 2008; 2009 - 2010].

New Algorithms for Current and Future High Performance Supercomputers

Project FCT - PTDC/EIA-CCO/098910/20068 [2010 - 2012].

Participation: Researcher (Project Coordinator: J. Acebron)

Projects Concluded:

Multiscale Mathematical Models in Biomedicine

Project FCT - PTDC/MAT/68166/2006 [2007 - 2010].

(with the group of Carlota Saldanha -  Microvascular Biology and Inflammation Unit IMM/FML).

Participation: Project Coordinator.

Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems in the Blood Circulation: Mathematical and Numerical Modeling

Bilateral project FCT/CNRST - Portugal/Morocco (CEMAT / IST with MACS – Univ. Hassan II Ain-Chok Casablanca) [2008 - 2009].



Blood Flow Modelling in the Vascular System

Bilateral project Portugal/Tunisia (CEMAT / IST with LAMSIN / ENIT) [2004 - 2007].

Numerical Modelling and Simulation of Complex non-Newtonian Fluid Flows

Bilateral project GRICES / CNRST - Portugal/Morocco (CEMAT / IST with SIANO - Univ. Ibn Tofail) [2004 - 2006].

Mathematical and Numerical Modelling of the Human Cardiovascular System

POCTI/MAT/41898/2001 [2002 - 2006].

Participation: Project Coordinator.

Mathematical and Numerical Modelling in Haemodynamics - HaeMOdel

Contract N. HPRN - CT-2002-00270 - Research Training Network of European Union [2002 - 2006]

Research Centers: MOX, Politecnico di Milano (Coordinator: A. Quarteroni) - Italy;
EPFL – Switzerland; Univ. Graz – Austria; INRIA Rocquencour - France; Imperial College - U. K., CEMAT/IST -  Portugal.

Participation: Project Coordinator in Portugal.

Multiscale Models of Blood Flow in the Cerebral Vasculature

NSF International Collaborative Project (Western Europe Program of NSF - 0104680) [2001 - 2005]

Research Centers: Univ. Pittsburgh, USA (Coordinator:  A. M. Robertson),
EPFL – Switzerland ( A. Quarteroni), IST – Portugal (A. Sequeira).

Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Non-Newtonian Fluid
Models with Applications to the Technology of Polymer Liquid Crystals

      POCTI/MAT/380/94 [ 2001 - 2005] (II phase)
      (with the group of A. Farinha Martins - Department of Material Science, FCT/UNL).

      Participation: Project Coordinator.

Numerical Simulation of Direct and Inverse Problems in Wave Propagation and in Fluid Flows

      Bilateral project ICCTI / Rep. of Tunisia (CEMAT / IST with ENIT / LAMSIN, Tunis,Tunisia) [1999 - 2002].

Applied Mathematics for Industrial Flow Problems - AMIF / ESF:

      European Science Foundation - Programme [1998 - 2001].
      (Chairman: P.- L. Lions ; Co-chairman: A. Quarteroni ).

Mathematical and Numerical Analysis of Nonlinear Problems in Mechanics and Physics

      Bilateral project ICCTI / CNRS (CEMAT / IST and CMAF / UL with
      CMAP - Šcole Polytechnique, France) [1997 - 2000].

Numerical Methods in Fluid Mechanics

      Bilateral project ICCTI / Rep. of Tunisia (CEMAT / IST with Šcole Polytechnique, La Marsa, Tunisia) [1997 - 2000].

Mathematical Analysis and Numerical Simulation of Non-Newtonian Fluid
Models with Applications to the Technology of Polymer Liquid Crystals

Project PRAXIS XXI, Contract 2/2.1/MAT/380/94 [1996 - 2000].
(with the group of A. Farinha Martins - Department of Material Science, FCT/UNL).

Participation: Project Coordinator.