2026 Antonio Huerta: Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering	57	791	720	7	7	231	13394

Research.com Recognitions

2026 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award
2025 - Research.com Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering in Spain Leader Award
2008 - Prandtl Medal, European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS)
2002 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Overview

Antonio Huerta is affiliated with the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya in Spain. Their research primarily spans the field of Engineering, with a strong focus on Computational Mechanics as a subfield. Additional research interests include Statistical and Nonlinear Physics, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Applied Mathematics, and Mechanics of Materials.

Their main research topics cover various areas related to fluid dynamics and computational methods. These topics include:

Computational Fluid Dynamics and Aerodynamics
Lattice Boltzmann Simulation Studies
Advanced Numerical Methods in Computational Mathematics
Model Reduction and Neural Networks
Probabilistic and Robust Engineering Design
Gas Dynamics and Kinetic Theory
Fluid Dynamics and Turbulent Flows

Antonio Huerta has published extensively, contributing to a number of journals and conference proceedings. Frequent publication venues for their work include:

International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids
arXiv (Cornell University)
Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
Journal of Computational Physics
Computers & Fluids

Selected recent papers authored or co-authored by Antonio Huerta include:

"HDGlab: An Open-Source Implementation of the Hybridisable Discontinuous Galerkin Method in MATLAB," 2020, Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering
"A weakly compressible hybridizable discontinuous Galerkin formulation for fluid-structure interaction problems," 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
"Separated response surfaces for flows in parametrised domains: Comparison of a priori and a posteriori PGD algorithms," 2021, Finite Elements in Analysis and Design
"Hybridisable discontinuous Galerkin solution of geometrically parametrised Stokes flows," 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering
"A staggered high-dimensional Proper Generalised Decomposition for coupled magneto-mechanical problems with application to MRI scanners," 2020, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering

Frequent collaborators in Antonio Huerta's research include:

Wolfgang A. Wall
P Frey
Sergio R. Idelsohn
Mark Ainsworth
Álvaro L. G. A. Coutinho

Antonio Huerta has been recognized with awards such as the Prandtl Medal from the European Community on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences (ECCOMAS) in 2008. Additionally, they were named Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) in 2002.

Best Publications

Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems

Jean Donea;Antonio Huerta

1987
Citations
Finite Element Methods for Flow Problems: Donea/Flow Problems

Jean Donea;Antonio Huerta

1011
Citations
Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian Methods

Jean Donea;Antonio Huerta;Jean-Philippe Ponthot;Antonio Rodriguez--Ferran

807
Citations
NURBS-Enhanced Finite Element Method (NEFEM)

Ruben Sevilla;Sonia Fernández-Méndez;Antonio Huerta

731
Citations
Imposing essential boundary conditions in mesh-free methods

Sonia Fernández-Méndez;Antonio Huerta

613
Citations
Viscous flow with large free surface motion

Antonio Huerta;Wing Kam Liu

502
Citations
PGD-Based Computational Vademecum for Efficient Design, Optimization and Control

Francisco Chinesta;Adrien Leygue;Felipe Bordeu;Jose Vicente Aguado

406
Citations
Enrichment and coupling of the finite element and meshless methods

Antonio Huerta;Sonia Fernández‐Méndez

310
Citations
An elastic plastic damage formulation for concrete: Application to elementary tests and comparison with an isotropic damage model

Ludovic Jason;Antonio Huerta;Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot;Shahrokh Ghavamian

271
Citations
Arbitrary Lagrangian–Eulerian formulation for fluid–rigid body interaction

Josep Sarrate;Antonio Huerta;Jean Donea

189
Citations
3D NURBS-enhanced finite element method (NEFEM): 3D NURBS-ENHANCED FINITE ELEMENT METHOD

Ruben Sevilla;Sonia Fernández-Méndez;Antonio Huerta

159
Citations
An error estimator for separated representations of highly multidimensional models

Amine Ammar;Francisco Chinesta;Pedro Diez;Antonio Huerta

156
Citations
Proper Generalized Decomposition based dynamic data-driven control of thermal processes ☆

Chady Ghnatios;Françoise Masson;Antonio Huerta;Adrien Leygue

154
Citations
Subdomain-based flux-free a posteriori error estimators

Núria Parés;Pedro Díez;Antonio Huerta

150
Citations
Upper and lower bounds in limit analysis: Adaptive meshing strategies and discontinuous loading

J. J. Muñoz;J. Bonet;A. Huerta;J. Peraire

140
Citations
Efficient unstructured quadrilateral mesh generation

Josep Sarrate;Antonio Huerta

133
Citations
Numerical differentiation for local and global tangent operators in computational plasticity

Agustı́ Pérez-Foguet;Antonio Rodrı́guez-Ferran;Antonio Huerta

132
Citations
Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian (ALE) formulation for hyperelastoplasticity

Antonio Rodríguez-Ferran;Agustí Pérez-Foguet;Antonio Huerta

124
Citations
Adaptive finite element strategies based on error assessment

Antonio Huerta;Antonio Rodríguez‐Ferran;Pedro Díez;Josep Sarrate

119
Citations
Consistent tangent matrices for substepping schemes

Agustı́ Pérez-Foguet;Antonio Rodrı́guez-Ferran;Antonio Huerta

119
Citations
New ALE applications in non-linear fast-transient solid dynamics

Antonio Huerta;F. Casadei

115
Citations
A unified approach to remeshing strategies for finite element h-adaptivity

Pedro Díez;Antonio Huerta

109
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Francisco Chinesta ESI (France)

Gilles Pijaudier-Cabot University of Pau and the Adour Region

Elías Cueto University of Zaragoza

Jaime Peraire MIT

Javier Bonet International Center for Numerical Methods in Engineering

Wing Kam Liu Northwestern University

Andrei V. Lyamin University of Newcastle Australia

Ramon Codina Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya

Gianluigi Rozza International School for Advanced Studies

Karen Willcox The University of Texas at Austin

External Links

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