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Alvaro Meseguer Serrano is an Associate Professor at the Polytechnic University of Catalonia (UPC), affiliated with the Department of Applied Physics and the School of Engineering of Roads, Canals, and Ports of Barcelona. He holds a BSc in Theoretical Physics from the University of Barcelona (1992) and a PhD in Applied Physics from UPC. His research focuses on hydrodynamic instabilities, transition to turbulence, and spectral methods in fluid dynamics. He has supervised three PhD theses and currently advises two students: Roger Ayats and Baoying Wang. His work involves computational fluid dynamics and dynamical systems analysis, with notable contributions to understanding Taylor-Couette flow instabilities and pipe flow turbulence. Meseguer has authored over 36 indexed publications with an h-index of 15.
Research interests include computational fluid dynamics, bifurcation theory, and stability analysis of shear and centrifugal flows. His group, the Nonlinear Fluid Dynamics Group, explores transitional coherent structures and edge states in subcritical flows. Recent work examines Feigenbaum universality in Taylor-Couette systems and relativistic proton dynamics in Earth's magnetosphere. He has organized international conferences like BIFD2011 and the International Couette-Taylor Workshop. His teaching spans numerical methods, mathematical physics, and fluid dynamics at UPC's engineering programs.
Professional activities include serving on conference committees and contributing to research projects funded by national grants. He collaborates with institutions like the Barcelona Supercomputing Center and maintains an active presence in the fluid dynamics community through publications, software development (e.g., spectral methods codes), and educational outreach.
