Artur Palha

Artur Palha has an M.Sc. from the University of Lisbon in Portugal, and a Ph.D from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.

At the National Laboratory of Civil Engineering in Portugal, he worked on the simulation of ocean waves nearshore, and wave energy devices. At TU Delft, as co-PI of a CSER project, he worked on reservoir modelling; together with Sandia National Labs in the USA, he worked on pHyFlow, an Eulerian-Lagrangian flow solver for modelling vertical axis wind turbines; and with the Australian Bureau of Meteorology and Monash University he worked on atmospheric flows. At TU Eindhoven, together with École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL), he worked on a fusion reactor numerical simulator for control purposes. At ASML, he worked on the development of electromagnetic solvers.

His expertise is on the development of structure preserving high order numerical discretisations for the fast and efficient solution of PDEs. His work combines concepts from differential geometry, geometric mechanics, and numerical analysis. He is interested in the development and implementation of these ideas into general frameworks for the discretisation of physical field laws. He has worked with these techniques on the solution of diverse (multi)-physics problems, including fluid flows, electromagnetics, and MHD.

A detailed overview of Artur Palha’s research work can be found on his website: https://www.palha.org .