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Paulo Ferreira de Sousa
New Mexico State University
Department of Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering
POBox 30001/Dept 3450
Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001

You can reach me by e-mail at: psousa@nmsu.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal. "High-Order Compact Finite Differences Solutions of Perturbed Vortex Flows" (In English). PhD advisor: Prof. José Carlos Pereira - December 2005.
• Master's Degree in Mechanical Engineering, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal "Application of the Reduced Navier-Stokes Equations to Exterior Flows including Airfoil Sections" (In Portuguese). Master's thesis advisor: Prof. Luís Eça - April 1999.
• Mechanical Engineer Degree, Instituto Superior Técnico - Universidade Técnica de Lisboa, Portugal "A Method for the Prediction of the Minimum Pressure in Tip Vortices from Three-Dimensional Foils" Final thesis advisor: Prof. José Falcão de Campos. - September 1994

Research Interests

• Computational Fluid Dynamics, Direct Numerical Simulation, Incompressible Navier-Stokes equations, Immersed boundary methods.
• Fluid/structure interaction, bird and insect flight, fish swimming, biofluiddynamics.
• Vortex systems, mixing in vortical flows, lagrangian coherent structures in vortical flows.

Peer-reviewed publications

• Falcão de Campos, J.A.C., Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., Bosschers, J. (2005) "A verification study on low-order three-dimensional potential based panel codes", Computers & Fluids, 35(1): 61-73.
• Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., Pereira, J.C.F. (2005) "Reynolds number dependence of two-dimensional laminar co-rotating vortex merging", Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, 19(1): 65-75.
• Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., Pereira, J.C.F. (2005) " Fourth and tenth order compact finite difference solutions of perturbed circular vortex flows", International Journal of Numerical Methods in Fluids, 49(6): 603-618.

Peer-reviewed publications (submitted)

• Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., Pereira, J.C.F.,"Dynamics of passive scalars and tracers advected by a two-dimensional tripolar vortex", Journal of Fluid Mechanics, submitted for publication.
• Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., Pereira, J.C.F.,"High-order compact immersed boundary method", Journal of Computational Physics, submitted for publication.
• Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., Pereira, J.C.F.,"Laminar co-rotating Batchelor vortex merging", Theoretical and Computational Fluid Dynamics, submitted for publication.

In preparation

• Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., Allen, J.J., “Thrust efficiency of harmonically oscillating flexible membranes”.
• Allen, J.J., Ferreira de Sousa, P.J.S.A., “Axisymmetric interaction between a laminar vortex ring and a sphere”.

Participation in conferences (2006)

• 2006 APS March Meeting, Monday-Friday, March 13-17, 2006; Baltimore, MD.
  • On small insect flight -- a two-dimensional study". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR06/Event/43840
  • Co-rotating Batchelor vortex merging". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR06/Event/45729
  • Wake characteristics of a model ornithopter". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/MAR06/Event/43841
• 2006 59th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Sunday-Tuesday, November 19-21, 2006; Tampa Bay, FL.
  • Mixing characteristics of laminar two-dimensional co-rotating vortex merging". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD06/Event/53922
  • Experimental and computational results of harmonically oscillating flexible and rigid flat plates". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD06/Event/54718
  • Harmonically driven oscillating flexible flat plates behind a bluff body". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD06/Event/54327
  • Wake Studies of Ornithopters". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD06/Event/53527

Participation in conferences (2007)

• 2007 60th Annual Meeting of the Divison of Fluid Dynamics, Sunday–Tuesday, November 18–20, 2007; Salt Lake City, Utah.
  • "High-order fluid/structure coupled numerical model". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/71826
  • "Axisymmetric interaction between a laminar vortex ring and a sphere -- stationary sphere case". http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/72588
  • "Chaotic advection in unstable two-dimensional circular vortices." http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/72815
  • "Experimental results of harmonically oscillating flexible and rigid flat plates." http://meetings.aps.org/Meeting/DFD07/Event/72463

Scientific Societies

• American Physical Society

Scholarships

• Post-doc fellowship attributed by Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia - Portugal (2 years) - January 2006.
• Ph.D. scholarship attributed by Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia - Portugal (4 years) - September 2000.
• Master's scholarship attributed by Fundação de Ciência e Tecnologia - Portugal (2 years) - September 1997.