Publications:

    2020:

  1. T. Kolev, P. Fischer, M. Min, J. Dongarra J. Brown, V. Dobrev, T. Warburton, S. Tomov, M. Shephard, A. Abdelfattah, V. Barra et al., Efficient Exascale Discretizations, in review for the International Journal of High Performance Computing Applications

  2. V. Barra, J. Brown, J. Thompson, Y. Dudouit, High-performance operator evaluations with ease of use: libCEED's Python interface, Proceedings of the 19th Python in Science Conference, 85-90 (2020) (PDF)

  3. A. Mehraban, J. Brown, V. Barra, H. Tufo, J. Thompson, R. Regueiro, Efficient Residual and Matrix-free Jacobian Evaluation for Three-Dimensional Tri-Quadratic Hexahedral Finite Elements with Nearly-Incompressible Neo-Hookean Hyperelasticity applied to Soft Materials on Unstructured meshes in Parallel, with PETSc and libCEED, accepted at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress & Exposition

  4. 2019:

  5. V. Barra, S. Afkhami, L. Kondic, Thin viscoelastic dewetting films of Jeffreys type subjected to gravity and substrate interactions, the European Physical Journal E, 42, (12)1-14 (2019) (PDF)

  6. 2018:

  7. V. Barra, S. A. Chester, S. Afkhami, Numerical Simulations of Nearly Incompressible Viscoelastic Membranes, Computers and Fluids, 175, 36-47 (2018) (PDF)
  8. V. Barra, Ph. D. Dissertation,Numerical Simulations of Thin Viscoelastic Films, New Jersey Institute of Technology, (2018), (mirror)

  9. 2016:

  10. V. Barra, S. Afkhami, L. Kondic, Interfacial dynamics of thin viscoelastic films and drops, Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, 237, 26-38 (2016) (PDF)

Technical Reports:

    2020:

  1. CEED ECP Milestone Report: Support CEED-enabled ECP applications in their preparation for Aurora/Frontier (mirror)

  2. CEED ECP Milestone Report: Improve performance and capabilities of CEED-enabled ECP applications on Summit/Sierra (mirror)

  3. 2019:

  4. CEED ECP Milestone Report: : Performance tuning of CEED software and 1st and 2nd wave apps (mirror)

  5. CEED ECP Milestone Report: Improved Support for Parallel Adaptive Simulation in CEED (mirror)

  6. CEED ECP Milestone Report: Public release of CEED 2.0 (mirror)

  7. 2018:

  8. The Problem of Freezing of Copper Water Heat Pipes - Final Report for the Mathematical Problems in the Industry (MPI 2018) workshop (mirror)

  9. 2017:

  10. Predicting Exacerbation and Associated Triage in COPD Patients - Executive Summary for the Mathematical Problems in the Industry (MPI 2017) workshop (mirror)

  11. 2016:

  12. Scoring Practices for Remote Sensing - Final Report for the Mathematical Problems in the Industry (MPI 2016) workshop (mirror)

  13. 2015:

  14. Methods for Thin Nearly Flat Elastic Shells with Stretching and Bending - Final Report for the Mathematical Problems in the Industry (MPI 2015) workshop (mirror)

  15. 2014:

  16. Structure-Performance Relations in Fibrous Materials - Executive Summary for the Mathematical Problems in the Industry (MPI 2015) workshop (mirror)
  17. A smooth ride on a bumpy road - Final Report for the Graduate Student Mathematical Modeling Camp (GSMMC 2014) workshop (mirror)

Selected Contributed Talk Abstracts:

Selected Poster Abstracts:

    2017:

  1. Gravity-driven instabilities of thin viscoelastic films on an inverted plane - Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, NJIT, Newark, NJ (poster)

  2. 2015:

  3. Surface instabilities and droplets formation in thin viscoelastic films - Graduate Student Research Day, NJIT, Newark, NJ (poster)

  4. Numerical Study of Thin Layers of Viscoelastic Fluids - Scientista Symposium - Microsoft, New York, NY (poster)

  5. Numerical Study of Thin Viscoelastic Films on Substrates - Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, NJIT, Newark, NJ (poster)

  6. Numerical Study of Thin Viscoelastic Films on Substrates - SIAM Conference on Computational Science and Engineering, Salt Lake City, UT (poster)

  7. 2014:

  8. Interfacial instability of thin viscoelastic liquid films - Graduate Student Research Day, NJIT, Newark, NJ (poster)

  9. Linear stability analysis of thin viscoelastic liquid of Jeffreys type with van der Waals interaction - Frontiers in Applied and Computational Mathematics, NJIT, Newark, NJ (poster)