Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022. Time: 15h
Online – Session link: https://meet.google.com/wgr-kyjv-cyr
ABSTRACT
Air pollution in urban areas has become a topic of major concern for all relevant institutions. It is well established that living in areas with high levels of air contaminants is linked to adverse health effects. The concentration of a pollutant like NO2 is closely related to traffic emissions, and thus city halls can typically reverse unfavorable air situations by implementing traffic restrictions. This work intends to design, develop and validate a numerical tool that can be used to predict and quantify the concentration of NO2 in urban areas at a micro-scale level. Such a tool is designed to be both accurate and fast because its final goal it to inform decision-making about the suitability of implementing proper traffic restrictions in a daily basis.
SPEAKERS CV
Ignasi de Pouplana Sardà is a Civil Engineer by the Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) since 2014. He is also a Master in Structural & Construction Engineering and a Ph.D. in Structural Analysis by the same university since 2015 and 2018, respectively. Ignasi developed the Ph.D. with the research focused on fluid-structure interaction in porous and fractured media. He has also participated in various research projects at CIMNE with different objectives, e.g. monitoring of stresses during the construction process of concrete arch dams, prediction of the final stress state of metallic pieces during casting processes, optimization of drill bit geometries for Particle Drilling's Technology, and prediction of sand production in well completions. Ignasi de Pouplana is currently a postdoctoral researcher at CIMNE working on the extension of the interface elements for different contact applications, such as the study of the pull-out strength of ribbed bars in concrete, or the analysis of multi-delamination processes in composite materials. He has already supervised one finished PhD thesis, and is supervising two more PhD theses which have widened his research expertise to other topics, e.g. transport of substances in fluids accounting for the convection-diffusion-absorption processes. Furthermore, Ignasi is also an instructor at UPC participating on three different courses: Structural Engineering, Structural Dynamics, and Finite Elements.
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