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2005

  • A Newton Level Set Fictitious Domain Method for Shape Optimization. Alexandre Cunha, Volkan Akcelik, George Biros, Omar Ghattas. In SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering. February 12-15, 2005. Orlando, Florida.

2004

  • A Fully Eulerian Method for Shape Optimization with Application to Navier Stokes Flows. Alexandre Cunha. PhD Thesis. Computational Science & Engineering. Carnegie Mellon University. September, 2004.

  • A Bézier-Based Approach to Unstructured Moving Meshes. David Cardoze, Alexandre Cunha, Gary Miller, Todd Phillips, Noel Walkington. In Proceedings of the 20th Symposium on Computational Geometry. June 2004, New York.PDF

  • Parallel CFD-Based Optimization: Optimal Control and Optimal Design with PDE Toolkits. Volkan Akcelik, George Biros, Alexandre Cunha, Omar Ghattas. Parallel CFD 2004. May 24-27, 2004. Las Palmas City, Spain.PDF

  • A Purely Eulerian Method for Shape Optimization. Level Set/Fictitious Domain Method for PDE-Constrained Shape Optimization. Alexandre Cunha. Sandia National Laboratories, June 2004. Livermore, California.

  • Eulerian Shape Optimization. Alexandre Cunha. Sangria Seminar Series. January 2004. Carnegie Mellon University.

2003

  • A Bézier-Based Approach to Unstructured Moving Meshes. David Cardoze, Alexandre Cunha, Gary Miller, Todd Phillips, Noel Walkington. Technical Report CS-CMU-03-166, Computer Science Department, Carnegie Mellon University, September 2003.PDF

  • Experimental Upper Bounds For Star Quality As A Function Of Polytope Quality. Alexandre Cunha and Omar Ghattas. Seventh National Congress on Computational Mechanics, July 27-31, 2003, Albuquerque, New Mexico.PDF

  • Solving Multiphysics and Interface Problems with Sundance. George Biros, Alexandre Cunha, Omar Ghattas. SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, February 10-13, 2003, San Diego, California.

  • Smoothing for Mesh Improvement. Sangria Seminar Series. March 2003. Carnegie Mellon University

prior 2003

  • Optimal Smoothing in Polygons. Alexandre Cunha and Omar Ghattas. 10th International Meshing Roundtable. October 7-10, 2001, Newport Beach, California (poster presentation).PDF

  • SMARTSIZING: Automatic Boundary Sizing for 2D and 3D meshes. Alexandre Cunha, Sunil Saigal, Scott A. Canann. ANSYS Conference and Exhibition. August 17-19, 1998. Pittsburgh, PA (poster presentation).

  • Automatic Boundary Sizing for 2D and 3D Meshes. Alexandre Cunha, Scott Canann and Sunil Saigal. Trends in Unstructured Mesh Generation, ASME, pp.65-72, July 1997.PDF

  • Deformation Models for Computer Graphics. Alexandre Cunha, M.Sc. Dissertation, 1994. Computer Science Department, Federal University of Pernambuco, Brazil.