Prof. Pilar García-Navarro

Universidad de Zaragoza

Catedrática de Mecánica de Fluidos-EINA

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About

She received an MSc in Physics (1984) and a PhD in Physics (1989) from the University of Zaragoza. She worked as postdoctoral researcher at the University of Reading during 1993 and 1994. Since 2010 she is a Full Professor in Fluid Mechanics at the Universidad Zaragoza, Spain. Research activity focused on the specific field of numerical models for efficient and accurate simulation in realistic cases with applications to engineering.

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Universities and Academia

Expertise Fields/Interests:

Research activity focused on the specific field of numerical models for efficient and accurate simulation in realistic cases with applications to engineering.

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Fluid Mechanics
IAHR/IWA Joint Committee on Hydroinformatics
Committee on Ecohydraulics
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics
Committee on Coastal and Maritime Hydraulics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
JHR Editorial Board	Associate Editors	2023-01-01	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year
Advancing Environmental Simulation Through SERGHEI: Novel Approaches in Hydrodynamic Modeling	2024
Free Surface Velocity Measurement in Highly-Transient Viscoplastic Flows: Combining NIR Surface Detection and PIV Techniques	2024
Finite volume models for shallow water equations with source terms - Part1	2021
Finite volume models for shallow water equations with source terms - Part2	2021
Finite volume models for shallow water equations with source terms - Practica	2021
Finite volume models for shallow water equations with source terms - References	2021
A 1D-2D Hydrodynamic Model for Sewer-Overland Coupled Flow Using GPU Technology	2020
A New 2D Bedload Transport Model Based on Non-Capacity Approach to Overcome the Problems Associated to Finite-Depth Sediment Layers	2020
21St Century Technology to Support Flooding Solutions: Use of Water Drones, and High Performance 2D Numerical Flood and Hydraulic Simulations Using Cloud Computing	2019
1D Model v.s. 2D Model for Flooding Events	2018
Calibration of a Numerical Model for the Transport of Floating Wooden Debris	2018
Coupled Method for the Numerical Simulation of1D Shallow Water and Exner Transport Equations in Channels with Variable Cross-Section	2018
Implicit 2D Surface Flow Models Performance Assessment: Shallow Water Equations v.s. ZeroInertia Model	2018
Numerical Simulation of 2D Real Large Scale Floods on GPU: The Ebro River	2018
Towards Transient Experimental Water Surfaces: Strengthening Two-Dimensional SW Model Validation	2018
A High Performance Computing 2D Software for Free Surface Flow. Application to the Ebro River Flooding	2017
Experimental and numerical simulation of bed load transport over steep slopes	2017
Simulation of Runoff Generation and Erosion in a Mediterranean Watershed Using 2D Shallow Water Equations	2017
An efficient GPU implementation for a faster simulation of unsteady bed-load transport	2016
Advanced Gpu Parallelization for Two-Dimensional Operational River Flood Forecasting	2015
2D Numerical Simulation of Granular Flow Dynamics and Validation with Experimental Data	2014
2D Numerical Simulation of Granular Flow Dynamics and Validation with Experimental Data	2014
Development of Novel Riemann Solvers in Hyperbolic System of Equations Including Source Terms	2014
2D Numerical Simulation of Sediment Transport with Variable Density	2013
2D Numerical Simulation of the Motion of a Granular Mass Down a Rough and Inclined Plane	2013
2D River Flood Simulation Using Interpolated River Bed Geometry	2013
A Simulation Tool for the Control of Pollutants in River Flow Using Storage Areas: Application to the Ebro River	2013
Assessment of a 3D Variably Saturated Subsurface Model	2013
Finite volumes for 2D shallow-water flow with bed-load transport on unstructured grids	2012
2D Numerical Model for Solute Transport in Shallow Water Flow over Irregular Geometries	2007
1D and 2D Models of Solute Transport Using Conservative Semi-Lagrangian Techniques	2005
Mathematical Modelling of Debris Flows with a Finite Volume Scheme	1999

My Videos

Title	Year
Pilar García-Navarro - Finite volume models for shallow water equations with source terms	2021

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date