Hugo Casquero, PhD

Dr. Hugo Casquero, former postdoctoral researcher in the mechanical engineering department at Carnegie Mellon University, is currently tenure-track faculty in the mechanical engineering department at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. His research is focused on developing accurate, robust, and efficient computational methods and using them to solve open problems in structural mechanics, solid mechanics, fluid mechanics, fluid-structure interaction, biomechanics, and multiphysics. The overarching theme of the computational methods that Dr. Casquero develops is to solve partial differential equations exploiting the new advantages that splines bring to computational mechanics. Dr. Casquero is particularly interested in developing computational frameworks for real-world applications in which experimental measurement of the quantities of interest is too costly or not currently available. Research sponsors include the National Science Foundation, Ansys Inc., Honda Motor Co., and Ford Motor Co., among others.

• Coupled B.S. and M.S., Civil Engineering, Universidade da Coruna, Spain, 2012
• Ph.D., Civil Engineering, Universidade da Coruna, Spain, 2016

• H. Casquero, K. D. Mathews, Overcoming membrane locking in quadratic NURBS-based discretizations of linear Kirchhoff–Love shells: CAS elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 417, 116523 (2023)
• M. Golestanian, H. Casquero, Extending CAS elements to remove shear and membrane locking from quadratic NURBS‐based discretizations of linear plane Timoshenko rods, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering, 124, 3997-4021 (2023)
• Z. Wen, M.S. Faruque, X. Li, X. Wei, H. Casquero, Isogeometric analysis using G-spline surfaces with arbitrary unstructured quadrilateral layout, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 408, 115965 (2023)
• H. Casquero, M. Golestanian, Removing membrane locking in quadratic NURBS-based discretizations of linear plane Kirchhoff rods: CAS elements, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 399, 115354 (2022)
• H. Casquero, C. Bona-Casas, D. Toshniwal, T.J.R. Hughes, H. Gomez, Y.J. Zhang, The divergence-conforming immersed boundary method: Application to vesicle and capsule dynamics, Journal of Computational Physics, 425, 109872 (2021)
• H. Casquero, X. Wei, D. Toshniwal, T. J. R. Hughes, J. Kiendl, Y. J. Zhang, Seamless integration of design and Kirchhoff-Love shell analysis using analysis-suitable unstructured T-splines, Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering, 360, 112765 (2020)

• Runner-up award for the Best Doctoral Thesis Prize in Biomedical Engineering given by the International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, 2017
• Outstanding PhD Thesis Award, Civil Engineering Doctoral Program, 2016 (Universidade da Coruna, Spain)