Pablo M. Carrica
Associate Professor
Mechanical and Industrial Engineering
Faculty Research Engineer
IIHR -- Hydroscience & Engineering
223D Stanley Hydraulics Laboratory
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242-1527
Telephone: (319) 341-6250
Joined the College of Engineering: 2007
Education: Ph.D., 1993 Nuclear Engineering, Instituto
Balseiro, Argentina
B.S. 1990 Nuclear Engineering, Instituto Balseiro, Argentina
Special Fields of Knowledge: Numerical methods in free surface flows; large-scale computations; motions and motion controllers.
Research Interests: Ship hydrodynamics; computational fluid dynamics; unsteady RANS and DES modeling of free surface flows; two-phase flow modeling and numerical computation; high-performance parallel computing; two-phase flow instrumentation development.
Selected Publications:
- M. Politano, P.M. Carrica, and J. Converti, "A Polydisperse Two-Phase Model for Turbulent Flows in Vertical Channels," International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 29, 1153-1182 (2003).
- P.M. Carrica, R.V. Wilson, and F. Stern, "Unsteady RANS Simulation of the Ship Forward Speed Diffraction Problem," Computers and Fluids 35, 545-570 (2006).
- P.M. Carrica, R.V. Wilson, and F. Stern, "An Unsteady Single-Phase Level Set Method for Viscous Free Surface Flows," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids, 53, 229-256 (2007).
- P.M. Carrica, R.V. Wilson, and F. Stern, "Ship Motions Using Single-Phase Level Set with Dynamic Overset Grids," Computers and Fluids 36, 1415-1433 (2007).
- J. Huang, P.M. Carrica, and F. Stern, "Coupled Ghost Fluid/Two-Phase Level Set Method for Curvilinear Body Fitted Grids," International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 55, 867-897 (2007).
Active Scientific and Professional Society Memberships: American Society of Mechanical Engineers