Publications
Papers in refereed journals
Yang, F., Pahlavan, A. A., Mendez, S., Abkarian, M. & Stone, H. A., 2020. Towards improved social distancing guidelines: Space and time dependence of virus transmission from speech-driven aerosol transport between two individuals, Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 5, 122501(R).
Abkarian, M., Mendez, S., Xue, N., Yang, F. & Stone, H. A., 2020. Speech can produce jet-like transport relevant to asymptomatic spreading of virus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117(41), pages 25237-25245.
Taraconat, P., Gineys, J.-P., Isebe, D., Nicoud, F. & Mendez, S., 2019. Numerical simulation of deformable particles in a Coulter counter, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 35(11), e3243.
Iss, C., Midou, D. Moreau, A., Held, D., Charrier, A., Mendez, S., Viallat, A. & Helfer, E., 2019. Self-organization of red blood cell suspensions under confined 2D flows, Soft Matter, Vol. 15, 2971-2980.
Puiseux, T., Sewonu, A. Meyrignac, O., Rousseau, H., Nicoud, F., Mendez, S. & Moreno, R., 2019. Reconciling PC-MRI and CFD: an in-vitro study, NMR in Biomedicine, Vol. 32(5), e4063.
Méndez Rojano, R., Mendez, S., Lucor, D., Ranc, A., Giansily-Bmaizot, M., Schved, J.-F. & Nicoud, F., 2019. Kinetics of the coagulation cascade including the contact activation system: Sensitivity analysis and model reduction, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 18(4), pages 1139-1153.
Mendez, S. & Abkarian, M., 2018. In-plane elasticity controls the full dynamics of red blood cells in shear flow, Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 3(10), 101101.
Mauer*, J., Mendez*, S., Lanotte, L., Nicoud, F., Abkarian, M., Gompper, G. & Fedosov, D. A., 2018. Flow-Induced Transitions of Red Blood Cell Shapes under Shear, Physical Review Letters, Vol 121, 118103.
Méndez Rojano, R., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2018. Introducing the pro-coagulant contact system in the numerical assessment of device-related thrombosis, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 17(3), pages 815-826.
Siguenza*, J., Pott*, D., Mendez, S., Sonntag, S. J., Kaufmann, T. A. S., Steinseifer, U. & Nicoud, F., 2017. Fluid‐structure interaction of a pulsatile flow with an aortic valve model: a combined experimental and numerical study, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 34(4), e02945, pages 1-19.
Assi, K., Gay, E., Chnafa, C., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F., Abascal, J., Lantelme, P., Tournoux, F. & Garcia, D., 2017. Intraventricular vector flow mapping—a Doppler-based regularized problem with automatic model selection, Physics in Medecine & Biology, Vol. 62(17), pages 7131–7147.
Siguenza, J., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2017. How should the optical tweezers experiment be used to characterize the red blood cell membrane mechanics?, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 16(5), pages 1645–1657.
Zmijanovic, V., Mendez, S., Moureau, V. & Nicoud, F., 2017. About the Numerical Robustness of Biomedical Benchmark Cases: Interlaboratory FDA's Idealized Medical Device, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 33(1), e02789, pages 1-17.
Lanotte, L., Mauer, J., Mendez, S., Fedosov, D. A., Fromental, J.-M., Claveria, V., Nicoud, F., Gompper, G. & Abkarian, M., 2016. Red cells' dynamic morphologies govern blood shear thinning under microcirculatory flow conditions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol 113(47), pages 13289-13294.
Siguenza, J., Mendez, S., Ambard, D., Dubois, F., Jourdan, F., Mozul, R. & Nicoud, F., 2016. Validation of an immersed thick boundary method for simulating fluid-structure interactions of deformable membranes, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 322, pages 723-746.
Chnafa, C., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2016. Image-based simulations show important flow fluctuations in a normal left ventricle: what could be the implications?, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 44(11), pages 3346-3358. Editor link:. Preprint:
Loiseau, E., Massiera, G., Mendez, S., Aguilar Martinez, P. & Abkarian, M., 2015. Microfluidic study of enhanced deposition of sickle cells at acute corners and its possible role in vaso-occlusion, Biophysical Journal, Vol. 108, pages 2623-2632.
Sanchez, M., Ecker, O., Ambard, D., Jourdan, F., Nicoud, F., Mendez, S., Lejeune, J. Thines, L., Dufour, H., Brunel, H., Machi, P., Lobotesis, K., Bonafe, A. & Costalat, V., 2014. Intracranial aneurismal pulsatility as a new individual criterion for rupture risk evaluation: Biomechanical and numerical approach (IRRAs project), American Journal of Neuroradiology, Vol. 35(9), pages 1765-1771.
Boulkeraa, T., Ghenaiet, A., Mendez, S. & Mohammadi, B., 2014. A numerical optimization chain combining computational fluid dynamics and surrogate analysis for the aerodynamic design of airfoils, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 228, pages 1964-1981.
Martins Afonso, M., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2014. On the damped oscillations of an elastic quasi-circular membrane in a two-dimensional incompressible fluid, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 746, pages 300-331.
Chnafa, C., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2014. Image-based large-eddy simulation in a realistic heart, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 94, pages 173-187.
Mendez, S., Gibaud, E. & Nicoud, F., 2014. An unstructured solver for simulations of deformable particles in flows at arbitrary Reynolds numbers, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 256, pages 465-483.
Mendez, S., Shoeybi, M., Lele, S. K. & Moin, P., 2013. On the use of the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings equation to predict far-field jet noise from large-eddy simulations, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Vol. 12, pages 1-20.
Sanchez, M., Ambard, D., Costalat, V., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F. & Jourdan, F., 2013. Biomechanical assessment of the individual risk of rupture of cerebral aneurysms: a proof of concept, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 41(1), pages 28-40.
Mendez, S., Shoeybi, M., Sharma, A., Ham, F. E., Lele, S. K. & Moin, P., 2012. LES of Perfectly-Expanded Supersonic Jets Using an Unstructured Solver, AIAA Journal, Vol. 50(5), pages 1103-1118.
Jaegle, F., Cabrit, O., Mendez, S. & Poinsot, T., 2010. Implementation methods of wall functions in cell-vertex numerical solvers, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Vol. 85(2), pages 245-272..
Mendez, S. & Eldredge, J. D., 2009. Acoustic modeling of perforated plates with bias flow for Large-Eddy Simulations, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 228(13), pages 4757-4772..
Gullaud, E., Mendez, S., Sensiau, C. Nicoud, F. & Poinsot T., 2009. Effect of multiperforated plates on the acoustic modes in combustors, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences, Mécanique, Vol. 337(6-7), pages 550-561.
Duchaine, F., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F., Corpron, A., Moureau, V. & Poinsot T., 2009. Conjugate Heat Transfer with Large Eddy Simulation for Gas Turbine Components, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences, Mécanique, Vol. 337(6-7), pages 406-414.
Mendez, S. & Nicoud F., 2008. Adiabatic Homogeneous Model for Flow Around a Multiperforated Plate, AIAA Journal, Vol. 46(10), pages 2623-2633.
Senoner, J.-M., Garcia, M., Mendez, S., Staffelbach, G., Vermorel, O. & Poinsot, T., 2008. Growth of rounding errors and the repetitivity of Large Eddy Simulations, AIAA Journal, Vol. 46(7), pages 1773-1781.
Mendez, S. & Nicoud F., 2008. Large-eddy simulation of a bi-periodic turbulent flow with effusion, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 598, pages 27-65.
Nicoud F., Chnafa, C., Siguenza, J., Zmijanovic, V. & Mendez, S., 2018. Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulence in Cardiovascular Flows, In Biomedical Technology. Modeling, Experiments and Simulation, Eds. P. Wriggers and T. Lenarz. Springer Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, pages 147-167, 2018.
Chnafa C., Mendez, S., Moreno R. & Nicoud, F., 2015. Using image-based CFD to investigate the intracardiac turbulence, In Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System, Ed. A. Quarteroni. Springer MS&A, Vol. 14, 2015.
The list is up-to-date in my CV.
Mendez, S., 2007. Simulations numériques et modélisation de l'écoulement autour des parois multi-perforées. Ph.D. thesis, University Montpellier II.
Just to check if someone (apart from me) knows what I am doing:
Google Scholar
Abkarian, M., Mendez, S., Xue, N., Yang, F. & Stone, H. A., 2020. Speech can produce jet-like transport relevant to asymptomatic spreading of virus, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 117(41), pages 25237-25245.
Taraconat, P., Gineys, J.-P., Isebe, D., Nicoud, F. & Mendez, S., 2019. Numerical simulation of deformable particles in a Coulter counter, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 35(11), e3243.
Iss, C., Midou, D. Moreau, A., Held, D., Charrier, A., Mendez, S., Viallat, A. & Helfer, E., 2019. Self-organization of red blood cell suspensions under confined 2D flows, Soft Matter, Vol. 15, 2971-2980.
Puiseux, T., Sewonu, A. Meyrignac, O., Rousseau, H., Nicoud, F., Mendez, S. & Moreno, R., 2019. Reconciling PC-MRI and CFD: an in-vitro study, NMR in Biomedicine, Vol. 32(5), e4063.
Méndez Rojano, R., Mendez, S., Lucor, D., Ranc, A., Giansily-Bmaizot, M., Schved, J.-F. & Nicoud, F., 2019. Kinetics of the coagulation cascade including the contact activation system: Sensitivity analysis and model reduction, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 18(4), pages 1139-1153.
Mendez, S. & Abkarian, M., 2018. In-plane elasticity controls the full dynamics of red blood cells in shear flow, Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 3(10), 101101.
Mauer*, J., Mendez*, S., Lanotte, L., Nicoud, F., Abkarian, M., Gompper, G. & Fedosov, D. A., 2018. Flow-Induced Transitions of Red Blood Cell Shapes under Shear, Physical Review Letters, Vol 121, 118103.
Méndez Rojano, R., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2018. Introducing the pro-coagulant contact system in the numerical assessment of device-related thrombosis, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 17(3), pages 815-826.
Siguenza*, J., Pott*, D., Mendez, S., Sonntag, S. J., Kaufmann, T. A. S., Steinseifer, U. & Nicoud, F., 2017. Fluid‐structure interaction of a pulsatile flow with an aortic valve model: a combined experimental and numerical study, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 34(4), e02945, pages 1-19.
Assi, K., Gay, E., Chnafa, C., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F., Abascal, J., Lantelme, P., Tournoux, F. & Garcia, D., 2017. Intraventricular vector flow mapping—a Doppler-based regularized problem with automatic model selection, Physics in Medecine & Biology, Vol. 62(17), pages 7131–7147.
Siguenza, J., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2017. How should the optical tweezers experiment be used to characterize the red blood cell membrane mechanics?, Biomechanics and Modeling in Mechanobiology, Vol. 16(5), pages 1645–1657.
Zmijanovic, V., Mendez, S., Moureau, V. & Nicoud, F., 2017. About the Numerical Robustness of Biomedical Benchmark Cases: Interlaboratory FDA's Idealized Medical Device, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 33(1), e02789, pages 1-17.
Lanotte, L., Mauer, J., Mendez, S., Fedosov, D. A., Fromental, J.-M., Claveria, V., Nicoud, F., Gompper, G. & Abkarian, M., 2016. Red cells' dynamic morphologies govern blood shear thinning under microcirculatory flow conditions, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol 113(47), pages 13289-13294.
Siguenza, J., Mendez, S., Ambard, D., Dubois, F., Jourdan, F., Mozul, R. & Nicoud, F., 2016. Validation of an immersed thick boundary method for simulating fluid-structure interactions of deformable membranes, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 322, pages 723-746.
Chnafa, C., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2016. Image-based simulations show important flow fluctuations in a normal left ventricle: what could be the implications?, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 44(11), pages 3346-3358. Editor link:
. Preprint:
Loiseau, E., Massiera, G., Mendez, S., Aguilar Martinez, P. & Abkarian, M., 2015. Microfluidic study of enhanced deposition of sickle cells at acute corners and its possible role in vaso-occlusion, Biophysical Journal, Vol. 108, pages 2623-2632.
Sanchez, M., Ecker, O., Ambard, D., Jourdan, F., Nicoud, F., Mendez, S., Lejeune, J. Thines, L., Dufour, H., Brunel, H., Machi, P., Lobotesis, K., Bonafe, A. & Costalat, V., 2014. Intracranial aneurismal pulsatility as a new individual criterion for rupture risk evaluation: Biomechanical and numerical approach (IRRAs project), American Journal of Neuroradiology, Vol. 35(9), pages 1765-1771.
Boulkeraa, T., Ghenaiet, A., Mendez, S. & Mohammadi, B., 2014. A numerical optimization chain combining computational fluid dynamics and surrogate analysis for the aerodynamic design of airfoils, Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part G: Journal of Aerospace Engineering, Vol. 228, pages 1964-1981.
Martins Afonso, M., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2014. On the damped oscillations of an elastic quasi-circular membrane in a two-dimensional incompressible fluid, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 746, pages 300-331.
Chnafa, C., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2014. Image-based large-eddy simulation in a realistic heart, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 94, pages 173-187.
Mendez, S., Gibaud, E. & Nicoud, F., 2014. An unstructured solver for simulations of deformable particles in flows at arbitrary Reynolds numbers, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 256, pages 465-483.
Mendez, S., Shoeybi, M., Lele, S. K. & Moin, P., 2013. On the use of the Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings equation to predict far-field jet noise from large-eddy simulations, International Journal of Aeroacoustics, Vol. 12, pages 1-20.
Sanchez, M., Ambard, D., Costalat, V., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F. & Jourdan, F., 2013. Biomechanical assessment of the individual risk of rupture of cerebral aneurysms: a proof of concept, Annals of Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 41(1), pages 28-40.
Mendez, S., Shoeybi, M., Sharma, A., Ham, F. E., Lele, S. K. & Moin, P., 2012. LES of Perfectly-Expanded Supersonic Jets Using an Unstructured Solver, AIAA Journal, Vol. 50(5), pages 1103-1118.
Jaegle, F., Cabrit, O., Mendez, S. & Poinsot, T., 2010. Implementation methods of wall functions in cell-vertex numerical solvers, Flow, Turbulence and Combustion, Vol. 85(2), pages 245-272.
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Mendez, S. & Eldredge, J. D., 2009. Acoustic modeling of perforated plates with bias flow for Large-Eddy Simulations, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 228(13), pages 4757-4772.
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Gullaud, E., Mendez, S., Sensiau, C. Nicoud, F. & Poinsot T., 2009. Effect of multiperforated plates on the acoustic modes in combustors, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences, Mécanique, Vol. 337(6-7), pages 550-561.
Duchaine, F., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F., Corpron, A., Moureau, V. & Poinsot T., 2009. Conjugate Heat Transfer with Large Eddy Simulation for Gas Turbine Components, Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des sciences, Mécanique, Vol. 337(6-7), pages 406-414.
Mendez, S. & Nicoud F., 2008. Adiabatic Homogeneous Model for Flow Around a Multiperforated Plate, AIAA Journal, Vol. 46(10), pages 2623-2633.
Senoner, J.-M., Garcia, M., Mendez, S., Staffelbach, G., Vermorel, O. & Poinsot, T., 2008. Growth of rounding errors and the repetitivity of Large Eddy Simulations, AIAA Journal, Vol. 46(7), pages 1773-1781.
Mendez, S. & Nicoud F., 2008. Large-eddy simulation of a bi-periodic turbulent flow with effusion, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 598, pages 27-65.
Book chapters
Nicoud F., Chnafa, C., Siguenza, J., Zmijanovic, V. & Mendez, S., 2018. Large-Eddy Simulation of Turbulence in Cardiovascular Flows, In Biomedical Technology. Modeling, Experiments and Simulation, Eds. P. Wriggers and T. Lenarz. Springer Series: Lecture Notes in Applied and Computational Mechanics, pages 147-167, 2018.
Chnafa C., Mendez, S., Moreno R. & Nicoud, F., 2015. Using image-based CFD to investigate the intracardiac turbulence, In Modeling the Heart and the Circulatory System, Ed. A. Quarteroni. Springer MS&A, Vol. 14, 2015.
Papers and Presentations in conferences
The list is up-to-date in my CV.
Ph.D. thesis (in French)
Mendez, S., 2007. Simulations numériques et modélisation de l'écoulement autour des parois multi-perforées. Ph.D. thesis, University Montpellier II.