Alvaro Meseguer
Associate professor at UPC
Research area: Mathematical Modelling
Email: alvaro.meseguer@upc.edu
PhD in Physics obtained at UPC
Biosketch
Assistant Professor (Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya, 1995-1999)
EPSRC Postdoctoral Research Officer (Oxford University, UK, 1999-2002)
Lecturer in Physics (Oxford University, Hertford College, UK, 1999-2002)
Indexed published papers: 36
h-index: 15
Supervised PhD Theses: 3
Currently PhD Theses under supervision: 2
Research lines
- Spectral Methods for Nonlinear Ordinary and Partial Differential Equations
- Dynamical Systems (Bifurcation Theory)
- Hydrodynamic Stability Theory
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
Selected publications
- Marques, F., Meseguer, A., Mellibovsky, F. and Weidman, P.D. Extensional channel flow revisited: a dynamical systems perspective, Proceedings of the Royal Society A, 473, 20170151, 23pp (2017).
- Mellibovsky, F., Meseguer, A. A mechanism for streamwise localisation of nonlinear waves in shear flows, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 779, R1 (2015).
- Deguchi, K., Meseguer, A., Mellibovsky, F. Subcritical Equilibria in Taylor-Couette flow, Physical Review Letters 112, 18 (2014).
- Mellibovsky, F., Meseguer, A. Critical threshold in pipe flow transition, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A-Mathematical and Engineering Sciences 367, 1888 (2009)
- Mellibovsky, F., Meseguer, A. , Schneider, T.M., Eckhardt, B. Transition in Localized Pipe Flow Turbulence, Physical Review Letters 103, 5 (2009)
- Meseguer, A. & Trefethen, L. N. Linearized pipe flow to Reynolds number 10,000,000, Journal of Computational Physics 186, 178 (2003)
- Meseguer, A. Streak breakdown instability in pipe Poiseuille flow, Physics of Fluids 15, 1203 (2003)