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Frederic Alauzet

Frederic Alauzet

Adjunct Professor

Office: 222 HPC Building
Email: falauzet@cavs.msstate.edu
Phone: 662-325-7550
Mail : Mississippi State University HPC Building
PO Box 9627, Mississippi State, MS 39762-9627

Education

HDR (French equivalent to tenure), Applied Mathematics, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, France, 2012
Ph.D., Applied Mathematics, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 2003
M.S., Mathematics, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 2000
B.S., Mathematics, Université Montpellier II, Montpellier, France, 1998

Experience Record

  • 2018-Present, Visiting Research Professor, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), MSU
  • 2015-Present, Adjunct Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, MSU
  • 2013-Present, Senior Researcher, Gamma3 Project, Inria Saclay Ile-de-France
  • 2012-2013, Visiting Research Professor, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Center for Advanced Vehicular Systems (CAVS), MSU
  • 2005-2013, Research Scientist, Gamma Project, Inria Paris-Rocquencourt
  • 2004-2005, Research Associate, SCOREC Department, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

Specialty Areas

Honors and Awards

  • Best Technical Paper, 24th International Meshing Roundtable, 2015.
  • Best Technical Paper, 22nd International Meshing Roundtable, 2013.
  • AIAA Shahyar Pirzadeh Memorial Award for Outstanding Paper in Meshing Visualization and Computational Envrironments, 2009

Publications

1 Book
5 Book Chapters
32 peer-reviewed Journal Papers
47 peer-reviewed Conference Papers
8 Keynote Presentations
113 Conference Presentations and 29 Seminars

Keynote Presentations

  • Contributions of Applied Mathematics to Meshing Technologies and their Applications to Aerospace Simulations, Future CFD Technologies Workshop, Sponsored by the AIAA CFD2030, Kissimmee, FL, USA, January 2018.
  • A connectivity-change moving mesh algorithm to efficiently handle large displacements of body-fitted geometries in CFD simulations, MUSAF III, Toulouse, France, Septembre 2016.
  • Fifteen years of progress on anisotropic mesh adaptation for CFD and remaining challenges, 23th International Meshing Roundtable, London, England, October 2014.
  • Adjoints and anisotropic mesh adaptation for compressible gas dynamics, Jameson-Roe-Van Leer Symposium-CFD: Looking Back and Moving Forward, San Diego, CA, USA, June 2013.
  • Metric-based anisotropic mesh adaptation: theory and practice, Journée conjointe GDR MSPC et SMAI-AFA - Génération de maillages: théorie et applications, Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France 2010.
  • Anisotropic mesh adaptation for unsteady flow simulations, International Tetrahedron Workshop III, Swansea University, Swansea, Pays de Galles, 2010.
  • A continuous mesh framework for metric-based mesh adaptation, Current & New Trends in Scientific Computing, Santiago, Chili, 2009.
  • Concrete application examples based on adaptive mesh generation methods, International Tetrahedron Workshop I, Weierstrass Institute, Berlin, Allemagne 2005.

Book

  • P.L. George, H. Borouchaki, F. Alauzet, P. Laug, A. Loseille, and L. Maréchal. Maillage, modélisation géométrique et simulation numérique 2. Métrique, maillages et adaptation de maillages. ISTE Edition, 2018.

Book Chapters

  • Alauzet, A. Dervieux, L. Frazza, and A. Loseille. Numerical uncertainties estimation and mitigation by mesh adap- tation. In Uncertainty Management for Robust Industrial Design in Aeronautics, Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design, Vol. 66, Edited by C. Hirsch, D. Wunsch, J. Szumbarski, L. Laniewski-Wollk and J. Pons- Prats, chapter 2. Springer International Publishing, 2019.
  • L. George, H. Borouchaki, F. Alauzet, P. Laug, A. Loseille, D. Marcum, and L. Maréchal. Mesh generation and mesh adaptivity: theory and practice. In Encyclopedia of Computational Mechanics, Edited by E. Stein, R. de Borst and T.J.R. Hughes. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2017.
  • Marcum and F. Alauzet. Enhanced viscous mesh generation with metric-based blending. In New Challenges in Grid Generation and Adaptivity for Scientific Computing, SEMA SIMAI Springer Series, Edited by S. Perotto and L. Formaggia, chapter 9, pages 323–338. Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York, 2015.
  • Koobus, F. Alauzet, and A. Dervieux. Numerical algorithms for unstructured meshes. In Computational Fluid Dynamics, Chapman and Hall/CRC Numerical Analysis and Scientific Computation Series, Edited by F. Magoules, chapter 7. CRC Press, Boca Raton, London, New York, Washington D.C., 2012.
  • Alauzet, B. Mohammadi, and O. Pironneau. Mesh adaptivity and optimal shape design for aerospace. In Variational Analysis and Aerospace Engineering: Mathematical Challenges for Aerospace Design, Springer Optimization and Its Applications, Vol. 66, Edited by G. Buttazzo and A. Frediani, chapter 14, pages 323–338. Springer, Dordrecht, Heidelberg, London, New York, 2012.

Journal Papers

  • Belme, F. Alauzet, and A. Dervieux. An a priori anisotropic goal-oriented estimate for viscous compressible flow and application to mesh adaptation. J. Comp. Phys., 2018 - Published online.
  • Barral and F. Alauzet. Three-dimensional CFD simulations with large displacement of the geometries using a connectivity-change moving mesh approach. Engineering with Computers, 2018 - Published online.
  • Loseille, L. Frazza, and F. Alauzet. Comparing anisotropic adaptive strategies on the 2nd AIAA Sonic Boom Workshop geometry. AIAA Journal, 2018 - Accepted.
  • Van Langenhove, D. Lucor, F. Alauzet, and A. Belme. Goal-oriented error control of stochastic system approxima- tions using metric-based anisotropic adaptations. J. Comp. Phys., 374:384–412, 2018.
  • Amari, A. Canou, J.-J. Aly, F. Delyon, and F. Alauzet. Magnetic cage and rope as the key for solar eruptions. Nature, 554:211–215, 2018.
  • Alauzet, A. Loseille, and G. Olivier. Time-accurate multi-scale anisotropic mesh adaptation for unsteady flows in CFD. J. Comp. Phys., 373:28–63, 2018.
  • Loseille, F. Alauzet, and V. Menier. Unique cavity-based operator and hierarchical domain partitioning for fast parallel generation of anisotropic meshes. Comput. Aided Des., 85:53–67, 2017.
  • Barral, G. Olivier, and F. Alauzet. Metric-based anisotropic mesh adaptation for three-dimensional time-dependent problems involving moving geometries. J. Comp. Phys., 331:157–187, 2017.
  • Alauzet and A. Loseille. A decade of progress on anisotropic mesh adaptation for Computational Fluid Dynamics. Comput. Aided Des., 72:13–39, 2016. Review Paper.
  • Alauzet, B. Fabrèges, M. A. Fernàndez, and M. Landajuela. Nitsche-XFEM for the coupling of an incompressible fluid with immersed thin-walled structures. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 301:300–335, 2016.
  • Alauzet. A parallel matrix-free conservative solution interpolation on unstructured tetrahedral meshes. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 299:116–142, 2016.
  • Gueyffier, F. X. Roux, Y. Fabignon, G. Chaineray, N. Lupoglazoff, F. Vuillot, J. Hijlkema, and F. Alauzet. Accu- rate computation of grain burning coupled with flow simulation in rocket chamber. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 32(6):1761–1776, 2015.
  • Alauzet and D. Marcum. A closed advancing-layer method with connectivity optimization based mesh movement for viscous mesh generation. Eng. w. Comp., 31:545–560, 2015.
  • Alauzet. A changing-topology moving mesh technique for large displacement. Eng. w. Comp., 30(2):175–200, 2014.
  • Belme, A. Dervieux, and F. Alauzet. Time accurate anisotropic goal-oriented mesh adaptation for unsteady flows. 
J. Comp. Phys., 231:6323–6348, 2012.
  • Alauzet and O. Pironneau. Continuous and discrete adjoints to the Euler equations for fluids. Int. J. Numer. Meth. 
Fluids, 70:135–157, 2012.
  • Picasso, F. Alauzet, H. Borouchaki, and P.-L. George. A numerical study of some Hessian recovery techniques on 
isotropic and anisotropic meshes. SIAM J. Sci. Comput., 33(3):1058–1076, 2011.
  • Loseille and F. Alauzet. Continuous mesh framework. Part II: validations and applications. SIAM J. Numer. Anal., 
49(1):61–86, 2011.
  • Loseille and F. Alauzet. Continuous mesh framework. Part I: well-posed continuous interpolation error. SIAM J. 
Numer. Anal., 49(1):38–60, 2011.
  • Loseille, A. Dervieux, and F. Alauzet. Fully anisotropic goal-oriented mesh adaptation for 3D steady Euler equations. 
J. Comp. Phys., 229:2866–2897, 2010.
  • Guégan, O. Allain, A. Dervieux, and F. Alauzet. An L∞-Lp mesh adaptive method for computing unsteady bi-fluid flows. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Engng, 84(11):1376–1406, 2010.
  • Alauzet and M. Mehrenberger. P1-conservative solution interpolation on unstructured triangular meshes. Int. J. 
Numer. Meth. Engng, 84(13):1552–1588, 2010.
  • Alauzet and A. Loseille. High order sonic boom modeling by adaptive methods. J. Comp. Phys., 229:561–593, 
2010.
  • Alauzet. Size gradation control of anisotropic meshes. Finite Elem. Anal. Des., 46:181–202, 2010.
  • Bourgault, M. Picasso, F. Alauzet, and A. Loseille. On the use of anisotropic error estimators for the adaptative solution of 3-D inviscid compressible flows. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 59:47–74, 2009.
  • Dervieux, Y. Mesri, F. Alauzet, A. Loseille, L. Hascoet, and B. Koobus. Continuous mesh adaptation models for CFD. CFD Journal, 12(2), 2008.
  • Alauzet, S. Borel-Sandou, L. Daumas, A. Dervieux, Q. Dinh, S. Kleinveld, A. Loseille, Y. Mesri, and G. Rogé. Multi-model and multi-scale optimization strategies. Application to sonic boom reduction. European Journal of Com- putational Mechanics, 17(1-2):191–214, 2008.
  • Alauzet. High-order method and mesh adaptation for Euler equations. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 56:1069–1076, 2008.
  • Alauzet, P.J. Frey, P.L. George, and B. Mohammadi. 3D transient fixed point mesh adaptation for time-dependent problems: Application to CFD simulations. J. Comp. Phys., 222:592–623, 2007.
  • Alauzet, X. Li, E. Seegyoung Seol, and M.S. Shephard. Parallel anisotropic 3D mesh adaptation by mesh modifica- tion. Engineering with Computers, 21(3):247–258, 2006.
  • J. Frey and F. Alauzet. Anisotropic mesh adaptation for CFD computations. Comput. Methods Appl. Mech. Engrg., 194(48-49):5068–5082, 2005.
  • Alauzet, P.L. George, B. Mohammadi, P.J. Frey, and H. Borouchaki. Transient fixed point based unstructured mesh adaptation. Int. J. Numer. Meth. Fluids, 43(6-7):729–745, 2003.

Conference Papers

  • Vanharen, R. Feuillet, and F. Alauzet. Mesh adaptation for fluid-structure interaction problems. In 24th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2018-3244, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun 2018.
  • Michal, D.S. Kamenetskiy, D. Marcum, F. Alauzet, L. Frazza, and A. Loseille. Comparing anisotropic error esti- mates for ONERA M6 wing RANS simulations. In 56th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2018-0920, Kissimmee, FL, USA, Jan 2018.
  • Frazza, F. Alauzet, A. Loseille, and A. Dervieux. Nonlinear corrector for RANS equations. In 24th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2018-3242, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun 2018.
  • Frazza, F. Alauzet, and A. Loseille. Mesh adaptation strategies using wall functions and low-reynolds models. In 24th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2018-4153, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun 2018.
  • Feuillet, A. Loseille, D. Marcum, and F. Alauzet. Connectivity-change moving mesh methods for high-order meshes: Toward closed advancing-layer high-order boundary layer mesh generation. In 24th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2018-4167, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun 2018.
  • Feuillet, A. Loseille, and F. Alauzet. P2 mesh optimization operators. In Proceedings of the 27th International Meshing Roundtable, Oct 2018.
  • Marcum and F. Alauzet. 3D metric-aligned and orthogonal solution adaptive mesh generation. Proceedings of the 26th International Meshing Roundtable, Procedia Engineering, 203:78–90, 2017.
  • Loseille, L. Frazza, and F. Alauzet. Comparing anisotropic adaptive strategies on the 2nd AIAA Sonic Boom Workshop geometry. In 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2017-0281, Grapevine, TX, USA, Jan 2017.
  • Gauci, F. Alauzet, and A. Dervieux. Vortical flow prediction of a moving aircraft using goal-oriented anisotropic mesh adaptation. In 23th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2017-3298, Denver, CO, USA, Jun 2017.
  • Frazza, A. Loseille, and F. Alauzet. Anisotropic mesh adaptation for turbomachinery applications. In 23th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2017-3299, Denver, CO, USA, Jun 2017.
  • Alauzet and D. Marcum. Metric-aligned and metric-orthogonal strategies in AFLR. In 23th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2017-3108, Denver, CO, USA, Jun 2017.
  • Alauzet, A. Loseille, D. Marcum, and T. Michal. Assessment of anisotropic mesh adaptation for High-Lift Prediction of the HL-CRM configuration. In 23th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2017-3300, Denver, CO, USA, Jun 2017.
  • Alauzet, A. Loseille, and D. Marcum. On a robust boundary layer mesh generation process. In 55th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2017-0585, Grapevine, TX, USA, Jan 2017.
  • Menier, A. Loseille, and F. Alauzet. Multigrid strategies coupled with anisotropic mesh adaptation. In 53th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2015-2041, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2015.
  • Loseille, V. Menier, and F. Alauzet. Parallel generation of large-size adapted meshes. Proceedings of the 24th International Meshing Roundtable, Procedia Engineering, 124:57–69, 2015. Best Technical Paper Award.
  • Loseille, D. Marcum, and F. Alauzet. Alignment and orthogonality in anisotropic metric-based mesh adaptation. In 53th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2015-0915, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2015.
  • Loseille, A. Dervieux, and F. Alauzet. Anisotropic norm-oriented mesh adaptation for compressible flows. In 53th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2015-2037, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2015.
  • Gauci, F. Alauzet, A. Loseille, and A. Dervieux. Towards goal-oriented mesh adaptation for fluid-structure interaction. In VI International Conference on Computational Methods for Coupled Problems in Science and Engineering, pages 1197–1208, Venice, Italy, May 2015.
  • Brèthes, A. Loseille, F. Alauzet, and A. Dervieux. Towards a certified model of numerical uncertainty in CFD. In Conference on Modelling Fluid Flow, Budapest, Hungary, Sep 2015.
  • Brèthes, A. Loseille, F. Alauzet, and A. Dervieux. Estimates- and corrector-based mesh adaptation. In 1st Pan- American Congress on Computational Mechanics, pages 787–798, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Apr 2015.
  • Barral, F. Alauzet, and A. Loseille. Metric-based anisotropic mesh adaptation for three-dimensional time-dependent problems involving moving geometries. In 53th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2015-2039, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2015.
  • Menier, A. Loseille, and F. Alauzet. CFD validation and adaptivity for viscous flow simulations. In 44th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2014-2925, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun 2014.
  • Marcum and F. Alauzet. Enhanced viscous mesh generation with metric-based blending. In New Challenges in Grid Generation and Adaptivity for Scientific Computing, SEMA SIMAI Springer Series. S. Perotto and L. Formaggia Eds, 2014.
  • Marcum and F. Alauzet. Aligned metric-based anisotropic solution adaptive mesh generation. Proceedings of the 23th International Meshing Roundtable, Procedia Engineering, 82:428–444, 2014.
  • Gueyffier, F.X. Roux, Y. Fabignon, G. Chaineray, N. Lupoglazoff, F.Vuillot, and F. Alauzet. High-order computation of burning propellant surface and simulation of fluid flow in solid rocket chamber. In 50th AIAA/ASME/SAE/ASEE Joint Propulsion Conference, AIAA Paper 2014-3612, Cleveland, OH, USA, Jul 2014.
  • Barral, E. Luke, and F. Alauzet. Two mesh deformation methods coupled with a changing-connectivity moving mesh method for CFD applications. In Proceedings of the 23th International Meshing Roundtable. Elsevier, 2014.
  • Barral and F. Alauzet. Large displacement body-fitted FSI simulations using a mesh-connectivity-change moving mesh strategy. In 44th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2014-2773, Atlanta, GA, USA, Jun 2014.
  • L. Marcum and F. Alauzet. Unstructured mesh generation using advancing layers and metric-based transition. In 21th AIAA Computational Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2013-2710, San Diego, CA, USA, Jun 2013.
  • Alauzet and D.L. Marcum. A comparison of open and closed advancing-layer methods for unstructured mesh generation. In Proceedings of the 22th International Meshing Roundtable, pages 241–261. Springer, 2013. Best Technical Paper Award.
  • Mbinky, F. Alauzet, and A. Loseille. High-order interpolation for mesh adaptation. In Research Note of the 21th International Meshing Roundtable, 2012.
  • Amari, F. Delyon, F. Alauzet, P. Frey, G. Olivier, J.J. Aly, and SDO/HMI Team. On some algorithm for modeling the solar coronal magnetic field as MHD equilibrium on unstructured mesh. In Proc. of the 6th International Conference of Numerical Modeling of Space Plasma Flows (ASTRONUM 2011), volume 459 of ASP Conference Series, page 189. Eds.: N.V. Pogorelov, J.A. Font, E. Audit and G.P. Zank, 2012.
  • Alauzet. Efficient moving mesh technique using generalized swapping. In Proceedings of the 21th International Meshing Roundtable, pages 17–37. Springer, 2012.
  • Olivier and F. Alauzet. A new changing-topology ALE scheme for moving mesh unsteady simulations. In 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2011-0474, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2011.
  • Amari, A. Canou, F. Delyon, J.J. Aly, P. Frey, F. Alauzet, and SDO/HMI Team. Reconstruction of the solar coronal magnetic field, from active region to large scale. In Proceedings of the annual meeting of the French Society of Astronomy & Astrophysics, pages 389–394. Eds.: G. Alecian, K. Belkacem, R. Samadi and D. Valls-Gabaud, 2011.
  • Alauzet and G. Olivier. Extension of metric-based anisotropic mesh adaptation to time-dependent problems involving moving geometries. In 49th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2011-0896, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2011.
  • Alauzet, A. Belme, and A. Dervieux. Anisotropic goal-oriented mesh adaptation for time dependent problems. In Proceedings of the 20th International Meshing Roundtable, pages 99–121. Springer, 2011.
  • Loseille, A. Dervieux, and F. Alauzet. A 3D goal-oriented anisotropic mesh adaptation applied to inviscid flows in aeronautics. In 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2010-1067, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2010.
  • Alauzet and A. Loseille. High-order sonic boom prediction by utilizing mesh adaptive methods. In 48th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2010-1390, Orlando, FL, USA, Jan 2010.
  • Loseille and F. Alauzet. Optimal 3D highly anisotropic mesh adaptation based on the continuous mesh framework. In Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable, pages 575–594. Springer, 2009. Shahyar Pirzadeh Memorial AIAA Award.
  • Allain, D. Guégan, and F. Alauzet. Studying the impact of unstructured mesh adaptation on free surface flow simulations. In Proceedings of the ASME 28th International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering, pages 707–715, OMAE2009-79762, Honolulu, HI, USA, 2009.
  • Alauzet and A. Loseille. On the use of space filling curves for parallel anisotropic mesh adaptation. In Proceedings of the 18th International Meshing Roundtable, pages 337–357. Springer, 2009.
  • Alauzet, W. Hassan, and M. Picasso. Goal oriented, anisotropic, a posteriori error estimates for the laplace equa- tion. In Proceedings of ENUMATH 2009, the 8th European Conference on Numerical Mathematics and Advanced Applications. Springer, 2009.
  • Loseille, A. Dervieux, P.J. Frey, and F. Alauzet. Achievement of global second-order mesh convergence for discon- tinuous flows with adapted unstructured meshes. In 37th AIAA Fluid Dynamics Conference, AIAA Paper 2007-4186, Miami, FL, USA, Jun 2007.
  • Alauzet, A. Loseille, A. Dervieux, and P.J. Frey. Multi-dimensional continuous metric for mesh adaptation. In Proceedings of the 15th International Meshing Roundtable, pages 191–214. Springer, 2006.
  • Alauzet. Adaptive sonic boom sensitivity analysis. In Proc. of the ECCOMAS CFD Conference, 2006.
  • J. Frey and F. Alauzet. Anisotropic mesh adaptation for transient flows simulations. In Proceedings of the 12th 
International Meshing Roundtable, pages 335–348, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA, 2003.
  • Alauzet, P. Frey, P.-L. George, E. Leclerc, P. Sagaut, and B. Mohammadi. 3D adaptive control and shape design platform for unstructured meshes. In 40th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting, AIAA Paper 2002-0592, Reno, NV, USA, Jan 2002.