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Leopoldo P. Franca

Leopoldo P. Franca

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Engineering and Technology
Brazil
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
42
Citations
15154
World Ranking
6359
National Ranking
25

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in Brazil Leader Award
  • 2002 - Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM)

Overview

Leopoldo P. Franca was affiliated with IBM in Brazil during their career. Their work contributed to the field of computational mechanics, as indicated by their recognition as a Fellow of the International Association for Computational Mechanics (IACM) in 2002.

No records of recent publications, co-authors, or specific research topics were identified from the available data. Likewise, information regarding book publications, main fields, subfields of study, and frequent publication venues was not provided.

The fellowship from the IACM suggests a professional involvement and contribution to computational mechanics, a discipline concerned with the use of computational methods and numerical analysis for solving problems in mechanics.

The scientist was deceased at the time of this profile. Their career was primarily linked to IBM Brazil, where they presumably conducted research and professional activities relevant to computational mechanics.

Best Publications

  • A new finite element formulation for computational fluid dynamics: V. Circumventing the Babuscka-Brezzi condition: A stable Petrov-Galerkin formulation of

    T J R Hughes;L P Franca;M Balestra

  • A new finite element formulation for computational fluid dynamics: VIII. The galerkin/least-squares method for advective-diffusive equations

    Thomas J.R. Hughes;Leopoldo P. Franca;Gregory M. Hulbert

  • Stabilized finite element methods. II: The incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Sérgio L. Frey

  • Stabilized finite element methods. I: Application to the advective-diffusive model

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Sérgio L. Frey;Thomas J. R. Hughes

  • A new finite formulation for computational fluid dynamics: VII. The Stokes problem with various well-posed boundary conditions: symmetric formulations that converge for all velocity/pressure spaces

    T. J.R. Hughes;L. P. Franca

  • A new finite element formulation for computational fluid dynamics: I. Symmetric forms of the compressible Euler and Navier—Stokes equations and the second law of thermodynamics

    T J R Hughes;L P Franca;M Mallet

  • The Discontinuous Enrichment Method

    Charbel Farhat;Isaac Harari;Leopoldo P. Franca

  • Stabilized Finite Element Methods

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Thomas J. R. Hughes;Rolf Stenberg

  • A relationship between stabilized finite element methods and the Galerkin method with bubble functions

    Franco Brezzi;Marie-Odile Bristeau;Leopoldo P. Franca;Michel Mallet

  • Virtual bubbles and Galerkin-least-squares type methods (Ga.L.S.)

    Claudio Baiocchi;Franco Brezzi;Leopoldo P. Franca

  • Two classes of mixed finite element methods

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Thomas J. R. Hughes

  • Error analysis of some Galerkin least squares methods for the elasticity equations

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Rolf Stenberg

  • Multiscale and Stabilized Methods

    Thomas J. R. Hughes;Guglielmo Scovazzi;Leopoldo P. Franca

  • A new finite element formulation for computational fluid dynamics: VI. Convergence analysis of the generalized SUPG formulation for linear time-dependent multi-dimensional advective-diffusive systems

    T. J. R. Hughes;L. P. Franca;M. Mallet

  • Bubble Functions Prompt Unusual Stabilized Finite Element Methods

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Charbel Farhat

  • $b=\int g$

    F Brezzi;L Franca;T Hughes;A Russo

  • On an Improved Unusual Stabilized Finite Element Method for theAdvective-Reactive-Diffusive Equation

    L. P. Franca;F. Valentin

  • Residual-Free Bubbles for the Helmholtz Equation

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Charbel Farhat;Antonini P. Macedo;Michel Lesoinne

  • Convergence analyses of Galerkin least-squares methods for symmetric advective-diffusive forms of the Stokes and incompressible Navier-Stokes equations

    Leopoldo P. Franca;Thomas J.R. Hughes

  • Stabilized finite element methods for the velocity-pressure-stress formulation of incompressible flows

    Marek A. Behr;Leopoldo P. Franca;Tayfun E. Tezduyar

  • The Stokes problem with various well-posed boundary conditions - Symmetric formulations that converge for all velocity/pressure spaces

    Thomas J. R. Hughes;Leopoldo P. Franca

Frequent Co-Authors

Thomas J. R. Hughes
Thomas J. R. Hughes The University of Texas at Austin
Isaac Harari
Isaac Harari Tel Aviv University
Charbel Farhat
Charbel Farhat Stanford University
Franco Brezzi
Franco Brezzi National Research Council (CNR)
Rolf Stenberg
Rolf Stenberg Aalto University
Lutz Tobiska
Lutz Tobiska Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg
Arif Masud
Arif Masud University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Wei Zhao
Wei Zhao Shenzhen Institutes of Advanced Technology
Jan Mandel
Jan Mandel University of Colorado Denver
Martin Stynes
Martin Stynes Beijing Computational Science Research Center

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