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Ricardo Costa obtained his Ph.D. in Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites from the University of Minho in 2020. He is currently a Junior Researcher at the Institute of Polymers and Composites of the University of Minho. His research is mainly focused on the development of novel numerical methods in finite volume and discontinuous Galerkin philosophies with high-order accuracy, focusing on their numerical properties and implementation challenges on high-performance computing platforms, as well as their application in the fields of computational fluid dynamics and computational rheology. He has published 19 papers in peer-reviewed international journals and 4 papers in peer-reviewed international conference books. He has co-authored 1 pedagogical book and teaches bachelor's and master's courses at the University of Minho. He has co-organised 9 international conferences. He has co-supervised 3 doctoral theses, supervised 1 master's dissertation, supervised several master's projects, and mentored several master's and doctoral students. He has received 5 awards and/or honourable mentions. He has participated in several projects, including project proposals. His personal website is [https://ricardodpcosta.github.io/].
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Ricardo Costa

Citation names

  • Costa, Ricardo

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
2F14-5623-03EB
ORCID iD
0000-0002-1904-8317

Email addresses

  • rcosta@dep.uminho.pt (Professional)

Websites

Education
Degree Classification
2023/03/20 - 2023/03/23
Concluded
 OpenFOAM Short Course on Multiphase Flows (Outros)
Technische Universitat Darmstadt, Germany
2021/12/13 - 2021/12/17
Concluded
 Virtual School on Numerical Methods for Parallel CFD (Outros)
Cineca Academy, Italy
2021/05/04 - 2021/05/04
Concluded
 Fortran for High Performance Computing (Outros)
University of Southampton, United Kingdom
2017/02/01 - 2020/11/10
Concluded
 Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Advanced computational methods towards high-performance polymer processing simulations" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Approved with praise and distinction
2016/06/20 - 2016/06/23
Concluded
 TACC - Summer School in Advanced Scientific Computing (Outros)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2013/09/01 - 2015/11/02
Concluded
 Industrial Engineering (Mestrado)
Major in Área de especialização: Gestão Industrial
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
"Numerical modeling and assessment of the thermal environment in an industrial premise of automotive components " (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 18/20
2010/09/01 - 2013/06/30
Concluded
 Biomedical Engineering Sciences (Licenciatura)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 17/20
2012/12/19 - 2012/12/19
Concluded
 Time Management and Task Prioritisation (Outros)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2012/05/15 - 2012/05/17
Concluded
 An Introduction to the Numerical Analysis of Partial Differential Equations (Outros)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2011/03/31 - 2011/04/16
Concluded
 Higher Education: Learning Requirements and Competencies (Outros)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2016/11/01 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos, Portugal
2015/12/01 - 2016/08/31 Researcher (Research) Université Toulouse III Paul Sabatier, France
Institut de Mathématiques de Toulouse, France
2012/02/15 - 2015/11/30 Researcher (Research) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Universidade do Minho Centro de Matemática, Portugal

Others

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2021/04/01 - 2021/12/15 Software Engineer Continental AG, Germany
Continental Engineering Services Portugal, Portugal
2014/09 - 2015/10 Thesis Training Continental AG, Germany
Continental Indústria Têxtil do Ave, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2024/08/01 - 2025/07/31 Efficient computation and simulation of complex materials in advanced manufacturing processes
2024.07065.CPCA.A1
10.54499/2024.07065.CPCA.A1
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho Instituto de Polímeros e Compósitos, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2024/08 - 2025/07 Efficient computation and simulation of complex materials in advanced manufacturing processes Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
2021/06/01 - 2024/03/31 ExaFOAM - Exploitation of Exascale Systems for Open-Source Computational Fluid Dynamics by Mainstream Industry
H2020-JTI-EUROHPC-2019-1
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 European High Performance Computing Joint Undertaking
Ongoing
2021/01/01 - 2021/05/31 FAMEST - Footwear, Advanced Materials, Equipment's and Software Technologies
POCI-0247-FEDER-02459
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2020/02/01 - 2020/03/31 TSSiPRO - Technologies for Sustainable and Smart Innovative Products
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-000015
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2017/02/01 - 2020/01/31 IMPULSE - Polymers and Composites: Drivers of Technological Innovation and Industrial Competitiveness
NORTE-08-5369-FSE-000034
PhD Student Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2016/11/01 - 2017/01/31 MOLDPRO - Multi-scale Approximations for Injection Molding of Plastic Materials
PTDC/EMS-ENE/3362/2014
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2014/11/01 - 2015/11/30 GEONUM - New Numerical Scheme for Extreme Geophysical Phenomena
FCT-ANR/MAT-NAN/0122/2012
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2013/10/15 - 2014/10/14 POLYNUM - Numerical Simulation of Three-dimensional Polymer Flows and Application to Plastic Forming
PTDC/MAT/121185/2010
Research Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2012/02/15 - 2013/02/14 Application of the PRO Scheme to the Bending of a Beam
PEst-C/MAT/UI0013/2011
Integration into Research Grant Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2021/10/01 - Current SIFA - Smart Systems for Additive Manufacturing
POCI-01-0247-FEDER-047108
Supervisor
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2015/01/01 - Current FVLib - The Great Finite Volume Library
NA
Principal investigator
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
Ongoing
2018/07/15 - 2022/07/14 ESC4SHI - Efficient Simulation and Computation for Health, Sea and Industry
POCI-01-0145-FEDER-028118
PTDC/MAT-APL/28118/2017
Post-doc Fellow
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
Outputs

Publications

Book
  1. Smirnov, Georgui; Brito, Irene; Machado, Gaspar J.; Costa, Ricardo. Linear algebra from a geometrical viewpoint. Guimarães, Portugal: Universidade do Minho. 2025.
    Published
Conference abstract
  1. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.. "Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the streamfunction-vorticity formulation of incompressible fluid flows with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries". Paper presented in HONOM 2024 - High-order Nonlinear Numerical Methods for Evolutionary PDEs: Theory and Applications, Chania, 2024.
    Published
  2. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.; Beirão da Veiga, Hugo; Crispo, Francesca. "Very high-order accurate finite volume schemes on polygonal meshes for curved boundary problems". Paper presented in ECMI 2023 - Conference on Industrial and Applied Mathematics, Wroclaw, 2023.
  3. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.. "Viscoelastic fluid flows for industrial relevant case studies". Paper presented in exaFOAM Workshop, 2023.
    Published
  4. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.; Beirão da Veiga, Hugo; Crispo, Francesca. Corresponding author: Costa, Ricardo. "The reconstruction for off-site data method for general slip conditions on 3D arbitrary curved boundaries". Paper presented in SHARK-FV 2023 - Sharing High- order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume, São Félix, 2023.
    Published
  5. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.; Beirão da Veiga, Hugo; Crispo, Francesca. Corresponding author: Costa, Ricardo. "A very high-order accurate finite volume scheme on polygonal meshes for 3D incompressible flows with general slip conditions on curved boundaries". Paper presented in CFC2023 - 22nd Computational Fluids Conference, Cannes, 2023.
    Published
  6. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.; Beirão da Veiga, Hugo; Crispo, Francesca. "Imposing slip conditions on curved boundaries for 3D incompressible flows with a very high-order accurate finite volume scheme on polygonal meshes},". Paper presented in ENUMATH 2023 - European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications, Lisboa, 2023.
    Published
  7. Naqvi, Sahrish; Kirimi, Mohsen; Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Naqvi, Sahrish. "Improvement of a solver to model the formation of polyurethane foams". Paper presented in OFC 2022 – 10th OpenFOAM Conference, 2022.
    Published
  8. Naqvi, Sahrish; Karimi, Mohsen; Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Naqvi, Sahrish. "Improvement of the three-dimensional CFD solver PUFoam for industrial applications". Paper presented in FOAM@IBERIA 2022 - 4th Iberian Meeting of OpenFOAM technology users, Santander, 2022.
    Published
  9. RIBEIRO, RICARDO; Ramôa, Bruno; Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: RIBEIRO, RICARDO. "Injection molding simulation in footwear industry". Paper presented in FOAM@IBERIA 2022 - 4th Iberian Meeting of OpenFOAM technology users, Santander, 2022.
    Published
  10. Golhar, Jayesh; Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Golhar, Jayesh. "Towards fractional viscoelastic models in OpenFOAM". Paper presented in FOAM@IBERIA 2022 - 4th Iberian Meeting of OpenFOAM technology users, Santader, 2022.
    Published
  11. Castro, João; Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Castro, João. "Computational modelling of the selective laser sintering process in OpenFOAM". Paper presented in FOAM@IBERIA 2022 - 4th Iberian Meeting of OpenFOAM technology users, Santader, 2022.
    Published
  12. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Costa, Ricardo. "High-order accurate conjugate heat transfer solutions with a finite volume method in anisotropic meshes with application in polymer processing". Paper presented in CMN 2022 – Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, 2022.
    Published
  13. Araújo, A.; Barbeiro, Sílvia Alexandra Alves ; Clain, Stéphane; Costa, Ricardo; Machado, Gaspar J.; Santos, Milene. Corresponding author: Santos, Milene. "The reconstruction for off-site data for the discontinuous Galerkin method". Paper presented in EWM General Meeting 2022, Espoo, 2022.
    Published
  14. Ramôa, Bruno; Costa, Ricardo; Chinesta, Francisco; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Ramôa, Bruno. "A semi-automatic approach based on the method of manufactured solutions to assess the convergence order in OpenFOAM". Paper presented in OFW 2022 - 17th OpenFOAM Workshop, Cambridge, 2022.
    Published
  15. Ramôa, Bruno; Costa, Ricardo; Chinesta, Francisco; Nóbrega, J. M.. "Code verification through the method of manufactured solutions". Paper presented in OFW 2022 - 17th OpenFOAM Workshop, Cambridge, 2022.
    Published
  16. RIBEIRO, RICARDO; Ramôa, Bruno; Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: RIBEIRO, RICARDO. "Assessing injection molding simulation in footwear industry". Paper presented in OFW 2022 - 17th OpenFOAM Workshop, Cambridge, 2022.
    Published
  17. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Costa, Ricardo. "Very high-order accurate finite volume method for the incompressible Navier-Stokes equations with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries". Paper presented in HONOM 2022 - High-order Nonlinear Numerical Methods for Evolutionary PDEs: Theory and Applications, Braga, 2022.
    Published
  18. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, J. M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. Corresponding author: Costa, Ricardo. "Efficient very high-order accurate polyhedral mesh finite volume scheme for 3D conjugate heat transfer problems in curved domains". Paper presented in wkoESC4SHI 2021 - Workshop on Efficient Simulation and Computation for Sea, Health and Industry, Guimarães, 2021.
    Published
  19. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Towards an efficient very high-order accurate polyhedral mesh finite volume scheme for 3D conjugate heat transfer problems in curved domains". Paper presented in wkoESC4SHI 2020 - Workshop on Efficient Simulation and Computation for Sea, Health and Industry, Lisboa, 2020.
    Published
  20. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme on polygonal meshes for general boundary conditions on curved boundaries". Paper presented in CMN 2019 - Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, Guimarães, 2019.
    Published
  21. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Innovative numerical methods to improve the performance of computational rheology simulations in polymer processing applications". Paper presented in PPS-35 - 35th International Conference of the Polymer Processing Society, Cesme, 2019.
    Published
  22. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Very high-order accurate finite volume methods for computational rheology and advanced applications". Paper presented in wkoESC4SHI 2019 - Kick-off Workshop on Efficient Simulation and Computation for Sea, Health and Industry,, Coimbra, 2019.
    Published
  23. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.. "A finite volume method in the framework of proper generalized decomposition for the convection-diffusion-reaction equation". Paper presented in SYMCOMP 2017 - 3rd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Developments and Applications, Guimarães, 2017.
    Published
  24. Costa, Ricardo; Teixeira, Senhorinha; Loureiro, Isabel. "Numerical assessment of thermal environments for decision-making in industrial engineering and management". Paper presented in ENEGI 2016 - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia e Gestãoo Industrial, Covilhã, 2016.
    Published
  25. Costa, Ricardo; Correia, Aldina; Dória-Nóbrega, Sónia. "Control charts for monitoring an obstetrician service performance". Paper presented in ECMI 2016 - European Conference on Mathematics for Industry, Santiago de Compostela, 2016.
    Published
  26. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Loubère, Raphaël. "High-order accurate finite volume method for curved boundaries and non-matching domain-mesh problems". Paper presented in SHARK-FV 2016 - Sharing High- order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume, São Félix, 2016.
    Published
  27. Costa, Ricardo; Teixeira, Senhorinha; Loureiro, Isabel. "Numerical modeling of the physical parameters of the environment in industrial contexts". Paper presented in SHO 2016 – International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene, Guimarães, 2016.
    Published
  28. Costa, Ricardo; Teixeira, Senhorinha; Loureiro, Isabel. "Numerical modeling and assessment of the thermal environment in an industrial premise of automotive components". Paper presented in ENEGI 2015 - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia e Gestão Industrial, Lisboa, 2015.
    Published
  29. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "High-order finite volume scheme for the incompressible Navier- Stokes equations on staggered unstructured meshes". Paper presented in SHARK-FV 2015 - Sharing High- order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume, Ofir, 2015.
    Published
  30. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "6-th order finite volume approximations for the Stokes equations with a curved boundary". Paper presented in SYMCOMP 2015 - 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Developments and Applications, Faro, 2015.
    Published
  31. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "A sixth-order finite volume scheme for the steady-state incompressible Stokes equations on staggered unstructured meshes". Paper presented in HONOM 2015 - European Workshop on High-order Nonlinear Numerical Methods for Evolutionary PDEs: Theory and Applications, Trento, 2015.
    Published
  32. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Numerical simulation of heat and mass transfer problems using high-order finite volume method". Paper presented in POLYNUM 2014 - Numerical Simulation of Three-dimensional Polymer Flows and Application to Plastic Forming, Guimarães, 2014.
    Published
  33. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "A new cell-vertex reconstruction method for finite volume schemes". Paper presented in SHARK-FV 2014 - Sharing High-order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume, Ofir, 2014.
    Published
  34. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Métodos numéricos sofisticados para simulação computacional em engenharia (Sophisticated numerical methods for computational simulation in engineering)". Paper presented in EJIUM 2013 - II Encontro de Jovens Investigadores da U.Minho, Braga, 2013.
    Published
  35. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "A new second-order finite volume scheme for 2D and 3D convection-diffusion problems". Paper presented in MMNSEA 2013 – Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation for Engineering Applications, Guimarães, 2013.
    Published
  36. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Bending of a beam with finite volume schemes". Paper presented in SYMCOMP 2013 - International Conference on Algebraic and Symbolic Computation, Lisboa, 2013.
    Published
  37. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Esquemas de volumes finitos com valores nos vértices para o problema da convecçao-difusão 2D e 3D (Finite volume schemes with vertex values for the 2D and 3D convection- diffusion problem)". Paper presented in POLYNUM 2013 - Numerical Simulation of Three-dimensional Polymer Flows and Application to Plastic Forming, 2013.
    Published
Conference paper
  1. Castro, João; Nóbrega, J. M.; Costa, Ricardo. Corresponding author: Castro, João. "Computational modelling of the selective laser sintering process". Paper presented in Novel trends in rheology IX, Zlin, 2022.
    Published
  2. Costa, Ricardo; Teixeira, Senhorinha; Loureiro, Isabel. "Numerical modeling of the physical parameters of the environment in industrial contexts". Paper presented in SHO 2016 - International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene, Guimarães, 2016.
    Published • http://doi.org/10.1201/B21172-56
  3. Costa, Ricardo; Teixeira, Senhorinha; Loureiro, Isabel. "Numerical assessment of thermal environments for decision-making in industrial engineering and management". Paper presented in ENEGI 2016 - Encontro Nacional de Engenharia e Gestão Industrial, Covilhã, 2016.
    Published
  4. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "6th-order finite volume approximations for the stokes equations with a curved boundary". Paper presented in SYMCOMP 2015 - 2nd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Developments and Applications, Faro, 2015.
    Published
  5. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Bending of a beam with finite volume schemes". Paper presented in SYMCOMP 2013 - International Conference on Algebraic and Symbolic Computation, Lisboa, 2013.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Improving the performance of computational modelling tools for polymer processing applications through innovative numerical methods". Paper presented in POLÍMEROS 2019 - Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, 2019.
  2. Fontaínhas, Ana; Pedro, João; Romero, João; Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Fernandes, Célio. "Development and verification of an open-source computational framework to simulate injection moulding". Paper presented in CMN 2019 – Congress on Numerical Methods in Engineering, 2019.
  3. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Improving the performance of computational modelling tools for polymer processing applications through innovative numerical methods". Paper presented in FOAM@IBERIA - 3rd Iberian Meeting of OpenFOAM technology users, 2019.
  4. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Development of innovative computational rheology methods". Paper presented in POLÍMEROS 2018 – Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovaçãao, 2018.
  5. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Very high-order accurate finite volume method for advanced computational rheology". Paper presented in POLÍMEROS 2017 – Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação, 2017.
  6. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "A new second-order finite volume scheme for 2d and 3D convection- diffusion problems". Paper presented in MMNSEA 2013 – Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation for Engineering Applications, 2013.
  7. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Simulação da convecção 1D com o método dos volumes finitos de ordens muito elevadas (1D convection-diffusion simulations with very high-order accurate finite volume methods)". Paper presented in MMNSEA 2012 – Mathematical Modelling and Numerical Simulation for Engineering Applications, 2012.
Journal article
  1. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.. "Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the streamfunction-vorticity formulation of incompressible fluid flows with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries". (2025): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/384561319.
    Submitted
  2. Santos, Milene; Araújo, Adérito; Barbeiro, Sílvia; Clain, Stéphane; Costa, Ricardo; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Very high-order accurate discontinuous Galerkin method for curved boundaries with polygonal meshes". Journal of Scientific Computing 100 (2024): 66. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10915-024-02613-2.
    Published • 10.1007/s10915-024-02613-2
  3. João Castro; João Miguel Nóbrega; Ricardo Costa. "Computational framework to model the selective laser sintering process". Materials 18 8 (2024): 1845. https://doi.org/10.3390/ma17081845.
    Published • 10.3390/ma17081845
  4. Ricardo Costa; Stéphane Clain; Gaspar J. Machado; João M. Nóbrega; Hugo Beirão da Veiga; Francesca Crispo. "Imposing slip conditions on curved boundaries for 3D incompressible flows with a very high-order accurate finite volume scheme on polygonal meshes". Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (2023): https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2023.116274.
    10.1016/j.cma.2023.116274
  5. João Castro; João Miguel Nóbrega; Ricardo Costa. "Computational modelling of the selective laser sintering process". AIP Conference Proceedings (2023): http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0159825.
    10.1063/5.0159825
  6. Ramôa, Bruno; Costa, Ricardo; Chinesta, Francisco; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Ramôa, Bruno. "An open-source framework for modelling fiber orientation". OpenFOAM Journal (2023):
    Submitted
  7. Ramôa, Bruno; Costa, Ricardo; Chinesta, Francisco; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Ramôa, Bruno. "A semi-automatic approach based on the method of manufactured solutions to assess the convergence order in OpenFOAM". OpenFOAM® Journal 2 (2022): 148-165. http://dx.doi.org/10.51560/ofj.v2.75.
    10.51560/ofj.v2.75
  8. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Nóbrega, J. M.. Corresponding author: Costa, Ricardo. "Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the steady-state incompressible Navier–Stokes equations with polygonal meshes on arbitrary curved boundaries". Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 396 (2022): 115064. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.cma.2022.115064.
    10.1016/j.cma.2022.115064
  9. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "High-order accurate conjugate heat transfer solutions with a finite volume method in anisotropic meshes with application in polymer processing". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 123 4 (2021): 1146-1185. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/nme.6892.
    Published • 10.1002/nme.6892
  10. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Efficient very high-order accurate polyhedral mesh finite volume scheme for 3D conjugate heat transfer problems in curved domains". Journal of Computational Physics 445 (2021): 110604. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110604.
    10.1016/j.jcp.2021.110604
  11. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Very high-order accurate polygonal mesh finite volume scheme for conjugate heat transfer problems with curved interfaces and imperfect contacts". Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering 357 112560 (2019): http://hdl.handle.net/1822/68504.
    Published • 10.1016/j.cma.2019.07.029
  12. Costa, Ricardo; Nóbrega, João M.; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Loubere, Raphael. "Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme for the convection-diffusion equation with general boundary conditions on arbitrary curved boundaries". International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering 117 2 (2019): 188-220. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/59423.
    Published • 10.1002/nme.5953
  13. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Loubère, Raphaël; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Very high-order accurate finite volume scheme on curved boundaries for the two-dimensional steady-state convection diffusion equation with Dirichlet condition". Applied Mathematical Modelling 54 (2018): 752-767. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/57483.
    Published • 10.1016/j.apm.2017.10.016
  14. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.; Loubère, Raphaël. "A very high-order accurate staggered finite volume scheme for the stationary incompressible Navier-Stokes and Euler equations on unstructured meshes". Journal of Scientific Computing 71 (2017): 1375-1411. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/48544.
    Published • 10.1007/s10915-016-0348-9
  15. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "A sixth-order finite volume scheme for the steady-state incompressible Stokes equations on staggered unstructured meshes". Journal of Computational Physics 349 (2017): 501-527. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/47496.
    Published • 10.1016/j.jcp.2017.07.047
  16. Clain, S.; Reis, C.; Costa, R.; Figueiredo, J.; Baptista, M. A.; Miranda, J. M.. "Second-order finite volume with hydrostatic reconstruction for tsunami simulation". Journal of Advances in Modeling Earth Systems 8 4 (2016): 1691-1713. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/2015ms000603.
    Published • 10.1002/2015ms000603
  17. Costa, Ricardo; Machado, Gaspar J.; Clain, Stéphane. "A sixth-order finite volume method for the 1D biharmonic operator: application to intramedullary nail simulation". International Journal of Applied Mathematics and Computer Science 25 3 (2015): 529-537. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/39020.
    Published • 10.1515/amcs-2015-0039
  18. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Machado, Gaspar J.. "New cell-vertex reconstruction for finite volume scheme : application to the convection-diffusion-reaction equation". Computers & Mathematics with Applications 68 (2014): 1229-1249. http://hdl.handle.net/1822/30759.
    Published • 10.1016/j.camwa.2014.08.015
  19. Costa, Ricardo; Clain, Stéphane; Nóbrega, João M.; Machado, Gaspar J.. "Finite volume scheme based on cell-vertex reconstructions for anisotropic diffusion problems with discontinuous coefficients". Lecture Notes in Computer Science 8579 (2014): 87-102.
    Published • 10.1007/978-3-319-09144-0_7
Report
  1. Costa, Ricardo. 2017. Proper generalized decomposition for convection- diffusion problems with a finite volume method.
  2. Costa, Ricardo; Correia, Aldina; Dória-Nóbrega, Sónia. 2016. Control charts for monitoring obstetrician services performance.
  3. Araújo, Adérito; et al.. 2015. Physical model of MDF boards.
  4. Costa, Ricardo. 2013. Application of the PRO scheme to the bending of a beam.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Costa, Ricardo. "Advanced computational methods towards high-performance polymer processing simulations". PhD, Universidade do Minho, 2020.
  2. Costa, Ricardo. "Numerical modeling and assessment of the thermal environment in an industrial premise of automotive components". Master, Universidade do Minho, 2015.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2021/11/22 Modelação computacional em engenharia: dos métodos numéricos avançados à supercomputação (Computational modelling in engineering: from the advanced numerical methods to the supercomputing) PPGECAM - Postgraduate Programme in Civil and Environmental Engineering
Federal University of Pernambuco (Recife, Brazil)
2019/11/22 Métodos inovadores em reologia computacional para aplicações avançadas no processamento de polímeros (Innovative computational rheology methods for advanced polymer processing applications)
D. Maria II High School (Braga)
2015/02/26 Ferramentas de simulação na concepção de novos produtos (Simulation tools in new products design)
High-School of Caldas das Taipas (Caldas das Taipas, Portugal)

Supervision

Thesis Title
Role 		Degree Subject (Type)
Institution / Organization
2024/12/01 - Current Simulator for the fused filament industry
Co-supervisor of João Castro
 Doctoral Program in Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/09/01 - Current A pioneering integrated computational approach for extrusion blow moulding
Co-supervisor of Jayesh Golhar
 Doctoral Program in Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/09/01 - Current An innovative computational approach for injection moulding simulation in footwear industry
Co-supervisor of Ricardo Ribeiro
 Doctoral Program in Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/12/01 Computational modelling of the selective laser sintering process
Supervisor of João Castro
 Integrated Master in Polymer Engineering (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/01/31 Numerical simulation of the fused deposition modelling process
Co-supervisor of João Sousa
 Integrated Master in Polymer Engineering (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/09/01 - 2022/01/31 Computational modelling of the selective laser sintering process
Supervisor
 Integrated Master in Polymer Engineering (Scientific initiation)
2016/11/01 - 2018/12/01 Very high-order finite volume method for the unidimensional biharmonic operator
Co-supervisor of Hélder Barbosa
 Integrated Master in Mechanical Engineering (Scientific initiation)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2024/05/26 - 2034/05/31 SHARK-FV - Sharing High-order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume (2024/05/26 - 2024/05/31)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/11/02 - 2023/11/03 5th Iberian Meeting of OpenFOAM Technology Users (2023/11/02 - 2023/11/03)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2023/06/26 - 2023/06/30 Recent challenges in high-order accurate numerical methods for differential equations (2023/06/26 - 2023/06/30)
Symposium (Co-organisor)
2023/05/22 - 2023/05/26 SHARK-FV - Sharing High-order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume (2023/05/22 - 2023/05/26)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/05/23 - 2022/05/27 SHARK-FV - Sharing High-order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume (2022/05/23 - 2022/05/27)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/04/04 - 2022/04/08 HONOM - High-Order Nonlinear Numerical Methods for Evolutionary PDEs: Theory and Applications (2022/04/04 - 2022/04/08)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2017/03/06 - 2017/03/07 SYMCOMP - 3rd International Conference on Numerical and Symbolic Computation: Developments and Applications (2017/03/06 - 2017/03/07)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/03/23 - 2016/03/27 SHARK-FV - Sharing High-order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume (2016/03/23 - 2016/03/27)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2016/03/23 - 2016/03/24 SHO - International Symposium on Occupational Safety and Hygiene (2016/03/23 - 2016/03/24)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2015/05/18 - 2015/05/22 SHARK-FV - Sharing High-order Advanced Research Know-how on Finite Volume (2015/05/18 - 2015/05/22)
Conference (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Jury of academic degree

Topic
Role 		Candidate name (Type of degree)
Institution / Organization
2024/11/18 Computational modelling and optimisation of the extrusion blow moulding process
(Thesis) Arguer
 Wagner Galuppo (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10/10 Viscoelastic fluids in profile extrusion: relevance and characterization
(Thesis) Arguer
 Mohammadreza Aali (PhD)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2022/10 Computational modelling of selective laser sintering process
Supervisor
 João Castro (Master)
Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Committee member

Activity description
Role 		Institution / Organization
2017/02/01 - 2020/12/31 Delegate of PhD students of the doctoral program in Science and Engineering of Polymers and Composites
Coordinator
 Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Conference scientific committee

Conference name Conference host
2022 - 2022 FOAM@IBERIA - 4th Iberian Meeting of OpenFOAM technology users IHCantabria

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2022/03/01 - Current Advanced Course in Numerical Simulation and Scientific Computing for Computational Mechanics (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2021/03/01 - Current CRheoLab - An Exploratory Code for Computational Rheology Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2029/07/01 Computational Mechanics in Polymer Engineering Master's Degree in Polymer Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2025/07/01 Introduction to Design with Polymers Bachelor Degree in Polymer Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal
2024/09/01 - 2025/07/01 Graphic Representation and Digital Modelling Bachelor Degree in Polymer Engineering (Licenciatura) Universidade do Minho, Portugal

Journal scientific committee

Journal title (ISSN) Publisher
2024/12 - Current Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (1879-1778) Elsevier
2024/11/01 - Current Computers and Fluids (1879-0747) Elsevier
2024/09/01 - Current International Journal of Fluid Engineering (2994-9017) AIP Publishing
2024/08/01 - Current OpenFOAM Journal (2753-8168) OpenCFD Ltd
2024/07/01 - Current AIMS Mathematics (2473-6988) AIMS Press
2024/07/01 - Current Partial Differential Equations in Applied Mathematics (2666-8181) Elsevier
2024/06/01 - Current Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (1872-7166) Elsevier
2024/06/01 - Current Journal of Computational Mathematics and Data Science (2772-4158) Elsevier
2024/06/01 - Current Advances in Engineering Software (1873-5339) Elsevier
2023/12/01 - Current International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer (1879-2189)
2023/10/01 - Current Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics (1879-1778) Elsevier
2023/01/01 - Current Computer and Mathematics with Applications (1873-7668) Elsevier
2022/07/01 - Current Alexandria Engineering Journal (2090-2670) Elsevier
2022/01/01 - Current Communications in Nonlinear Science and Numerical Simulation (1007-5704) Elsevier
2022/01/01 - Current Journal of Computational Physics (0021-9991) Elsevier
2017/01/01 - Current Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (0045-7825) Elsevier

Mentoring / Tutoring

Topic Student name
2021/01/01 - Current A data-driven approach for modeling fiber orientation in injection molding Bruno Ramôa
2021/01/01 - 2021/08/31 Simulation of the injection moulding of a shoe with OpenFOAM -- Shoe Sole Aloft (Atlanta) João Castro
2021/01/01 - 2021/08/31 Simulation of the injection moulding of a shoe with OpenFOAM -- Shoe Sole Helena (Atlanta) João Sousa
2021/01/01 - 2021/08/31 Simulation of the injection moulding of a shoe with OpenFOAM -- Shoe Sole Fay (Atlanta) Renata Martins
2019/01/01 - 2019/12/31 Numerical modelling of the filling stage of the injection moulding process João Pedro

Scientific expedition

Activity description Institution / Organization
2021/10/01 - 2021/10/31 Collaboration in the exaFOAM project activities for performance analysis tools to support developers on the evaluation, tuning and optimization of the OpenFOAM code. Centro Nacional de Supercomputación, Spain
Distinctions

Award

2021 Best Ph.D. Thesis in Applied and Computational Mechanics 2020
Associação Portuguesa de Mecânica Teórica Aplicada e Computacional, Portugal
2019 PPS Graduate Travel Award 2019
Polymer Processing Society, United States
2019 Carlos Sousa Oliveira Award 2019
Sociedade Portuguesa de Engenharia Sísmica, Portugal
2015 HONOM Travel Award 2015
European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences, Spain
2013 SYMCOMP Young Researcher Award 2013
Timberlake Consultores and Maplesoft, Portugal