Pablo M. Carrica
Associate Professor
Contact
Information:
223D SHL
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242
Telephone:
(319) 335-6381
pablo-carrica@uiowa.edu
Research Links:
http://www.iihr.uiowa.edu/people/details.php?id=236
Research Highlights
Joined the College of Engineering: 2007
Education:
Ph.D., Mechanical and Industrial Engineering, Instituto Balseiro, Argentina
Special
Fields of Knowledge:
Thermal-fluids sciences. Computational fluid dynamics. Multiphase flows. Ship hydrodynamics.
Present
Research Interests:
Ship hydrodynamics in motions. Ship behavior in extreme events and controllers. Bubble entrainment and transport.
Selected
Publications:
P. M. Carrica, R. V. Wilson & 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, R. Noack, T. Xing, M. Kandasamy & F. Stern “A Dynamic Overset, Single-Phase Level Set Approach for Viscous Ship Flows and Large-Amplitude Motions and Maneuvering,” 26st Symposium on Naval Hydrodynamics, Rome, Italy, (2006)
R. V. Wilson, P. M. Carrica & F. Stern “Unsteady RANS Method for Ship Motions with Application to Roll for a Surface Combatant,” Computers and Fluids 35, 501-524 (2006)
P. M. Carrica, R. V. Wilson & 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 & F. Stern “Ship Motions using Single-Phase Level Set with Dynamic Overset Grids,” Computers and Fluids (in press)
M. S. Politano, P. M. Carrica, C. Turan & L. Weber “A Multidimensional Two-Phase Flow Model for the Total Dissolved Gas Downstream of Spillways,” Journal of Hydraulic Research 45, 227-242 (2007)
J. Huang, P. M. Carrica and F. Stern “Coupled Ghost Fluid/Two-Phase Level Set Method for Curvlinear Body Fitted Grids,” International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (in press)
C. Turan, M. Politano, P. M. Carrica and L. Weber “Water Entrainment and Mixing due to Spillway Surface Jets,” International Journal of Computational Fluid Dynamics (in press)
Active
Scientific and Professional Society Memberships:
American Society of Mechanical Engineering