CV
Manuel A. Diaz
Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics · CFD · GPU computing
Summary
Senior Research Engineer with 10+ years developing high-performance GPU-accelerated algorithms and solvers for computational fluid dynamics (CFD) and aeroacoustics (CAA). Currently at Cenaero ASBL (Gosselies, Belgium).
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Mechanics2015National Taiwan University (NTU)GPA: 3.85
- M.S. in Applied Mechanics2012National Taiwan University (NTU)GPA: 3.93
- Chinese Language Studies2010National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU)
- B.S. in Mechanical Engineering2008Universidad Centroamericana José Simeón Cañas (UCA)GPA: 8.23
- Technical High School Diploma in Mechanics2002Instituto Técnico Ricaldone (ITR)GPA: 9.2
Work Experience
- Senior Research Engineer2022 - presentCenaero ASBL
- GPU port and optimization of FIDELIO (WINGS-II) with CUDA C++ and HIP/ROCm
- Developed a GPU-accelerated FV-LB solver for rarefied gas flows (MaiSoVI)
- Assessed GPU particle / MPM methods for mechanical engineering (VirtualLab)
- Postdoctoral Researcher ANR MAMIES2022 - 2022Institut Pprime — University of Poitiers
- Experimental–computational work on time-reversal aeroacoustics for the MAMIES project
- Project lead: Vincent Valeau
- Postdoctoral Researcher FEDER/NAE2020 - 2021ISAE-ENSMA — Institut Pprime
- High-order immersed boundary methods (IBM) for aeroacoustics in Xcompact3d
- Project leads: Véronique Fortuné and David Marx
- Postdoctoral Researcher ANR MAMIES2019 - 2020Institut Jean Le Rond d'Alembert — Sorbonne University
- CFD/CAA algorithms; DG solvers and data assimilation / time-reversal for acoustic sources
- Project leads: Régis Marchiano and Vincent Valeau
- Postdoctoral Researcher NSC2016 - 2018Institute of Biomedical Engineering and Nanomedicine (NHRI)
- Multi-GPU WENO solvers for nonlinear acoustic propagation (CUDA, MPI, OpenMP)
- Project lead: Maxim Solovchuk
- Junior Mechanical Designer2008 - 2009Ingendehsa S.A. de C.V.
- Design of valves, cranes, and pressurized pipelines for hydroelectric plants
- AutoCAD and Autodesk Inventor parameterized models linked to Excel calculations
Skills
Languages
- Spanish (Native)
- English (C2)
- Chinese (B1)
- French (A2)
Programming
- Python 3
- MATLAB
- Mathematica
- C/C++
- Fortran
- LaTeX
- Git
- Bash
- CMake
Libraries
- CUDA
- HIP/ROCm
- MPI
- MPI-IO
- HDF5
- OpenMP
- PETSc
Tools
- Visual Studio Code
- Vim
- Emacs
- Jupyter
- NSight Compute
- valgrind
Interests
- CFD
- computational aeroacoustics (CAA)
- thermoacoustics
- data assimilation
- time reversal
- WENO/FVM/FDM/FEM/DG
- GPU computing
Publications
- Asymptotic-Preserving Weno Schemes for Boltzmann Model Equations and Rarefied Gas Flow Simulation2014In the proceedings of Proceedings of the Korea Society of Computational Fluids Engineering
- Numerical Solutions of Ideal Quantum Gas Dynamical Flows Governed by Semiclassical Ellipsoidal-Statistical Distribution2014In the proceedings of Proc. R. Soc. A
- High-Order Conservative Asymptotic-Preserving Schemes for Modeling Rarefied Gas Dynamical Flows with Boltzmann-BGK Equation2015Communications in Computational Physics
- Modeling Rarefied Gas Flows of Arbitrary Statistics with the Semiclassical Boltzmann-BGK Equation2015Institute of Applied Mechanics, Taiwan University
- An Efficient Direct Solver for Rarefied Gas Flows with Arbitrary Statistics2016Journal of Computational Physics
- A Conservative Numerical Scheme for Modeling Nonlinear Acoustic Propagation in Thermoviscous Homogeneous Media2018Journal of Computational Physics
- High-performance multi-GPU solver for describing nonlinear acoustic waves in homogeneous thermoviscous media2018Computers & Fluids
- Aeroacoustic Source Identification with Effects of Solid Boundaries Using a Numerical Time-reversal Technique2020In the proceedings of Forum Acusticum
- Identification of Aeroacoustics Sources with Data Assimilation2020In the proceedings of Forum Acusticum
- A High-Order Immersed Boundary Technique for Computational Aeroacoustics2022In the proceedings of Congrès Français d'Acoustique
- An efficient three-level weighted essentially non-oscillatory scheme for hyperbolic equations2023Computational and Applied Mathematics
- Localizing aeroacoustic sources in complex geometries: A hybrid method coupling 3D microphone array and time-reversal2024Journal of Sound and Vibration
Presentations
- Asymptotic-Preserving WENO Schemes for Boltzmann Model Equations and Rarefied Gas Flow Simulation2014Korea Society of Computational Fluids EngineeringKorea
- Best Paper Presentation, NHRI Research Day2018National Health Research Institutes (NHRI)Zhunan, Taiwan
- Identification of Aeroacoustics Sources with Data Assimilation2020Forum AcusticumLyon, France
- Aeroacoustic Source Identification with Effects of Solid Boundaries Using a Numerical Time-reversal Technique2020Forum AcusticumLyon, France
- A High-Order Immersed Boundary Technique for Computational Aeroacoustics2022Congrès Français d'AcoustiqueFrance
Teaching
- Teaching Assistant — Nanoscale Energy Transport2014Institute of Applied Mechanics, National Taiwan University (NTU)Role: Teaching assistant
- Fluid Mechanics Lab Instructor2020ENSIP — University of PoitiersRole: Laboratory
- LaTeX Instructor2021Tecnológico Nacional de MéxicoRole: Certification course
Portfolio
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