Int. Centre for Numer­ical Met­hods in Eng. (CIM), Spain

CIMNE is a re­search and de­velop­ment centre de­dicated to pro­mot­ing and fos­ter­ing ad­vances in the de­velop­ment and applica­tion of numer­ical met­hods for the sol­u­tion of en­gineer­ing pro­blems.

Com­peten­cies and facilit­ies

The visit­ing re­search­ers will be­nefit from a long ex­peri­ence (over 20 years) of CIMNE in the educa­tion of young re­search­ers in ad­vanced numer­ical met­hods and the de­velop­ment of software for the sol­u­tion of en­gineer­ing pro­blems re­lated to landslides and de­bris flows. CIMNE pre­mises are loc­ated in the heart of the Uni­ver­sitat Politec­nica de Cat­alunya (UPC) in the cent­er of Bar­celona. UPC is the second lar­gest tech­n­ical uni­vers­ity in Spain with over 30000 students co­ver­ing most en­gineer­ing de­grees, com­put­er sci­ence, applied mat­hematics and architec­ture. CIMNE has modern equip­ment with in­dividu­al PC's li­nked via a fast in­tranet. CIMNE has ac­cess to the com­put­er facil­ity of the Super­com­put­ing Cent­er of Cat­alonia loc­ated at UPC and to the ex­periment­al laborato­ry of UPC. CIMNE col­laborates with many re­search in­stitutes and Uni­ver­sit­ies worldwide.

Key per­son

Prof. Eugenio OÑATE is Di­rec­tor of CIMNE, Past Pre­sident of the In­ter­nation­al As­socia­tion for Com­putation­al Mech­anics (IACM), and past Pre­sident of the European Com­mun­ity on Com­putation­al Met­hods in Applied Sci­ences (EC­COMAS) (2000 - 2004). He is aut­hor of two text books on fin­ite ele­ment struc­tur­al an­alysis, editor of 30 books and aut­hor of some 200 scien­tific pap­ers on de­velop­ment and applica­tions of numer­ical met­hods (fin­ite ele­ments, fin­ite volumes and meshless met­hods) to struc­tur­al and fluid dynamics pro­blems and the de­velop­ment of decision-support sys­tem in en­gineer­ing. He has wide ex­peri­ence in the co­or­dina­tion of EC fund­ed pro­jects.