{"id":283,"date":"2010-07-09T10:29:41","date_gmt":"2010-07-09T14:29:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/?page_id=283"},"modified":"2019-07-05T12:57:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-05T16:57:51","slug":"luis-miguel-de-la-cruz","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/people\/luis-miguel-de-la-cruz\/","title":{"rendered":"Luis Miguel de la Cruz, PhD"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-285\" src=\"\/pasi\/files\/2010\/07\/LuisMdelaCruz200x200.png\" alt=\"LuisMdelaCruz200x200\" width=\"200\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/files\/2010\/07\/LuisMdelaCruz200x200.png 200w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/files\/2010\/07\/LuisMdelaCruz200x200-150x150.png 150w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/h2>\n<h2>About the speaker<\/h2>\n<p>Luis Miguel de la Cruz \u00a0has a BSc in Physics from Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de Mexico (UNAM), an MSc from the same institution in Computer Science, and a PhD obtained at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Systems Research (IIMAS, Mexico). \u00a0He was a staff member at the UNAM General Directorate for Academic Computing Services in the area of Scientific Computing and Virtual Reality, where he developed software for Lagrangian tracking of surfaces.<\/p>\n<p>Dr de la Cruz was a recipient of a grant from the European-funded <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scat-alfa.eu\/\" target=\"_blank\">SCAT project<\/a> (Scientific Computing Advanced Training) which took him on a postdoctoral visit to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cse.scitech.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Daresbury Laboratories<\/a> in the United Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>He has developed scientific software for natural convection problems, both laminar and turbulent, using finite volume methods, and object-oriented software for computational fluid dynamics using radial basis function meshfree methods. \u00a0He currently is an associate researcher in the Department of Natural Resources of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.geofisica.unam.mx\/\" target=\"_blank\">Institute of Geophysics of UNAM<\/a>, and is working in computational aspects of a project for enhanced oil recovery, funded by Pemex and Conacyt.<\/p>\n<p>The current research interests of Dr de la Cruz are mainly:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>computational fluid dynamics<\/li>\n<li>domain decomposition methods<\/li>\n<li>new programming paradigms for numerical applications<\/li>\n<li>multi-phase flows on porous media for enhanced oil recovery<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Sample publications<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Mixing with time-dependent natural convection, L. M. de la Cruz and E. Ramos, Int. Comm. Heat and Mass Transfer Vol. 33(2): 191\u2013198 (2006) [<a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org.ezproxy.bu.edu\/10.1016\/j.icheatmasstransfer.2005.09.001\" target=\"_blank\">doi:10.1016\/j.icheatmasstransfer.2005.09.001<\/a>]<\/li>\n<li>Case study: Parallel Lagrangian visualization applied to natural convection, L. M. de la Cruz, I. Garcia, V. Godoy and E. Ramos, Proc. Symp. Parallel Visualization of Large Data, IEEE Visualization (2001) [<a href=\"http:\/\/doi.ieeecomputersociety.org\/10.1109\/PVGS.2001.964402\" target=\"_blank\">10.1109\/PVGS.2001.964402<\/a>]<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About the speaker Luis Miguel de la Cruz \u00a0has a BSc in Physics from Universidad Nacional Aut\u00f3noma de Mexico (UNAM), an MSc from the same institution in Computer Science, and a PhD obtained at the Institute for Applied Mathematics and Systems Research (IIMAS, Mexico). \u00a0He was a staff member at the UNAM General Directorate for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3344,"featured_media":0,"parent":148,"menu_order":6,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=283"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1659,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/283\/revisions\/1659"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/pasi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}