Paulo Roberto Maciel Lyra

Full Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE), where he is the Leader of the High Performance Computing on Computational Mechanics (PADMEC) group and was responsible for the Implantation and Head of the Research Institute on Petroleum and Energy LITPEG - UFPE (Integrated Laboratories on Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels Technology with 12 Labs and 13,300 m2 of labs facilities (2008-2022), being also the head of the Scientific Computation and Visualization Laboratory). He has been a Research Fellow from the Brazilian National Scientific Research Council (CNPq), and a Permanent Member of the Graduate Programs on Mechanical and on Civil Engineering. Lyra is a member of the Brazilian Association on Computational Methods in Engineering (ABMEC) General Council and a Brazilian representative in the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) General Council, received an IACM Fellows Award at 2020. Lyra holds the following degrees in Civil Engineer: BSc from UFPE (1984), an MSc from Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (COPPE-UFRJ) (1988) and a PhD from of Swansea University (1994), with a postdoctoral assignment (Research Assistant) at Swansea University (1994-1995) and at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) (Visiting Associate Professor) (2002?2003) in Computational Mechanics. Member of the editorial board of the International Journals International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (IJNMF) and of the Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería (RIMNI), and served as an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Modeling and Simulation for the Petroleum Industry (2011-2018). He has coauthored more than 350 research publications in referred journals and in conference proceedings on different subjects. Coordinator and/or Participant on several Projects (over US$ 75 millions granted). His main research areas of interest are computational fluid dynamics (compressible and incompressible fluid flow, reservoir simulation: alternative formulations (FEM, FVM, Spectral methods), multiscale/multiphysics methods), high performance computation (HPC) (data structure, multigrid, parallel computation), coupled problems (FSI, T-F, T-S), bioheatransfer, computational modeling (FEM, FVM, meshing, adaption), optimization and inverse problems.

Professor Titular do Departamento de Engenharia Mecânica da Universidade Federal de Pernambuco e pesquisador do CNPq (PQ1-A). Possui graduação em Engenharia Civil pela Universidade Federal de Pernambuco (1984), mestrado em Engenharia Civil pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (COPPE-UFRJ/CNPq) (1988) e doutorado em Civil and Computational Engineering pela University of Wales Swansea (UWS/CNPq)(1994), com pós-doutorado como Research Assistant no Civil and Computational Engineering Departement da University of Wales Swansea (UWS/NASA-Langley)(1994-1995) e com pós-doutorado como Visiting Associate Professor no Departament of Aeronautics and Astronautics - Massachusetts Institute of Tecnology (MIT/CNPq) (2002-2003). Pesuisador do CNPq e recebeu o IACM 2020 Fellows Award. Responsável pela construção, implantação e direção do Instituto de Pesquisas em Petróleo e Gás (LITPEG-UFPE)(com 12 laboratórios e 13.300 m2 de instalações) (2008-2022). Membro do Conselho da Associação Brasileira de Métodos Computacionais em Engenharia (ABMEC), assim como Membro representante do Brasil junto ao Conselho Geral da International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) (2004-), Membro Titular do Comitê Gestor do PRH48.1-ANP, líder do grupo de pesquisa PADMEC (Processamento de Alto Desempenho na Mecânica Computacional) e Coordenador do Laboratório de Computação Científica e Visualização (LCCV-LITPEG). Membro do Advisory Board da International Journals International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids (IJNMF) e do Editorial Board da Revista Internacional de Métodos Numéricos para Cálculo y Diseño en Ingeniería (RIMNI), e foi Editor-in-Chief da International Journal of Modeling and Simulation for the Petroleum Industry (2011-2018). É coautor de mais de 350 artigos completos publicados em periódicos e congressos, com revisores. Tem experiência nas Engenharias Civil e Mecânica, com ênfase em Princípios Variacionais e Métodos Numéricos, atuando principalmente nos seguintes temas: dinâmica dos fluidos computacional e computação de alto desempenho, envolvendo dentre outros: formulações alternativas (FEM, FVM, Métodos Espectrais, multiescala/multiníveis/multifísica, etc.), adaptação de malhas, problemas acoplados, biotransferência de calor, simulação de reservatórios, integridade estrutural.