ARC Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems

Beñat Oliveira

PhD Student Contact Details Beñat Oliveira Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Core to Crust Fluid Systems (CCFS), GEMOC Department of Earth and Planetary Sciences Macquarie University NSW 2109 AUSTRALIA Phone : 61-(0)2-9850 9114 Fax : 61-(0)2-9850 6904 email : benat.oliveira-bravo@students.mq.edu.au

PhD

Project:

Tittle: Multicomponent and Multiphase Reactive Flow in the Earth’s Mantle

The core of any computer simulation is the mathematical model to study the physical system of interest. Thus, the Earth’s mantle can be considered as a multi-phase, multi-component non-equilibrium system. I am working on a modified multiscale finite element method, coupled with a non-equilibrium thermodynamic formalism for flow simulations in heterogeneous and reactive porous media. This robust and generic numerical platform constitutes a conceptual framework directly applicable to understanding the complexity of the Earth’s Mantle. Moreover, this technique can be applied to model any processes where the difference in the spatial scales has an important role.

Supervisor:

Juan Carlos Afonso

Research Interests

Applied Computational Fluid Dynamics-Nonequilibrium Thermodynamics-Numerical Modeling-Multiscale FEM-Educational Research

Publications

B. Oliveira, P. Díez (07-2012), Numerical Simulation of fast transient phenomena in fluid-structure systems, Master Thesis (Grade: 9.5/10), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://upcommons.upc.edu/pfc/handle/2099.1/15920

B. Oliveira, M.R. Estela (07-2012), Talleres Audiovisuales de Cálculo en CaminsOpenCourseWare (Audiovisual Calculus workshops: CaminsOpenCourseWare), Jornada Innovación Docente, Universitat Politécnica de Catalunya.
http://upcommons.upc.edu/revistes/handle/2099/12696
 

Published educational Videos

- B. Oliveira (07-2012), Workshop on Rieman’s Iintegral: Theory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/217
- B. Oliveira (07-2012), Workshop on Rieman’s Integral: Problems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/216
- B. Oliveira (02-2012), Advanced Trigonometry: Problems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/161
- B. Oliveira (02-2012), Advanced Trigonometry: Theory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/159
- B. Oliveira (01-2012), Workshop on Ordinary Differential Equations: Problems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/158
- B. Oliveira (01-2012), Workshop on Ordinary Differential Equations: Theory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/157
- B. Oliveira (11-2012), Workshop on Conics and Quadrics: Theory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/226
- B. Oliveira (11-2012), Workshop on Conics and Quadrics: Problems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/227
- B. Oliveira (10-2012), Workshop on Approximations of functions: Theory, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/220
- B. Oliveira (10-2012), Workshop on Approximations of functions: Problems, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, http://media-camins.upc.edu/node/221

Background

• Civil Engineer specialised in Numerical Modelling.
• Teaching Assistant and scholarship holder on teaching innovation at the Department of Applied Mathematics III, ‘Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada III’ (MAIII) at the ETSECCPB from the UPC. Barcelona. (since 2010)