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Papers in refereed journals


Garreau, M., Puiseux, T., Moreno, R., Toupin, S., Giese, D., Nicoud, F. and Mendez, S., 2026. Impact of partial echo on 4D flow MRI: the insight from synthetic MRI, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Accepted, Jan. 2026.

Kaplan, O., Abkarian, M. and Mendez, S., 2025. How a table modulates the risk of airborne transmission between facing individuals, FLOW, Applications of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 5, E37; hal-05388449.

Di Pietro, D., Mendez, S. and Spadotto, A. E., 2025. A discrete de Rham discretization of interface diffusion problems with application to the Leaky Dielectric Model, Journal of Computational Physics, Vol. 530, 113920; hal-05081625.

Alexandre, N. and Mendez, S., 2024. Viral Transmission in Pedestrian Crowds: Coupling an Open-source Code Assessing the Risks of Airborne Contagion with Diverse Pedestrian Dynamics Models, Collective Dynamics, Vol. 9, 1–10.

Ling, H. J., Bru, S., Puig, J., Vixège, F., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F., Courand, P.-Y., Bernard, O. and Garcia, D., 2024. Physics-Guided Neural Networks for Intraventricular Vector Flow Mapping, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 71(11), 1377–1388.

Ranc, A., Bru, S., Mendez, S., Giansily-Blaizot, M., Nicoud, F. and Méndez Rojano, R., 2023. Critical evaluation of kinetic schemes for coagulation, PLOS ONE, 18(8), e0290531.

Bérod, A., Mut, F., Cebral, J., Mendez, S., Chnafa, C., and Nicoud, F., 2023. Assessing a heterogeneous model for accounting for endovascular devices in hemodynamic simulations of cerebral aneurysms, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 39(11), e3762.

Mendez, S., Garcia, W. and Nicolas, A., 2023. From Microscopic Droplets to Macroscopic Crowds: Crossing the Scales in Models of Short-Range Respiratory Disease Transmission, with Application to COVID-19, Advanced Science, Vol. 10(19), 2205255.

Taraconat, P., Gineys, J.-P., Isèbe, D., Nicoud, F. and Mendez, S., 2023. Red blood cell rheology during a complete blood count: a proof of concept, PLOS ONE, 18(1), e0280952.

Garreau, M., Puiseux, T., Toupin, S., Giese, D., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F. and Moreno, R, 2022. Accelerated sequences of 4D flow MRI using GRAPPA and compressed sensing: A comparison against conventional MRI and computational fluid dynamics, Magnetic Resonance in Medicine, Vol. 88(6), 2432–2446.

Vixège, F., Bérod, A., Courand, P.-Y., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F., Blanc-Benon, P., Vray, D. and Garcia, D., 2022. Full-volume three-component intraventricular vector flow mapping by triplane color Doppler, Physics in Medicine & Biology, Vol. 67(9), 095004.

Sun, Y., Vixege, F., Faraz, K., Mendez, S., Nicoud, F., Garcia, D. and Bernard, O., 2022. A pipeline for the generation of synthetic cardiac color Doppler, IEEE Transactions on Ultrasonics, Ferroelectrics, and Frequency Control, Vol. 69(3), 932–941.

Bérod, A., Chnafa, C., Mendez, S. and Nicoud, F., 2022. A Heterogeneous Model of Endovascular Devices for the Treatment of Intracranial Aneurysms, International Journal for Numerical Methods in Biomedical Engineering, Vol. 38(2), e3552.

Giri, A., Biswas, N., Chase, D., Xue, N., Abkarian, M., Mendez, S., Saha, S. and Stone, H., 2022. Colliding respiratory jets as a mechanism of air exchange and pathogen transport during conversations, Journal of Fluid Mechanics, Vol. 930, R1.

Vixège, F., Bérod, A., Sun, Y., Mendez, S., Bernard, O., Ducros, N., Courand, P.-Y., Nicoud, F. and Garcia, D., 2021. Physics-constrained intraventricular vector flow mapping by color Doppler, Physics in Medicine & Biology, Vol. 66(24), 245019.

Garcia, W., Mendez, S., Fray, B. and Nicolas, A., 2021. Model-based assessment of the risks of viral transmission in non-confined crowds, Safety Science, Vol. 144, 105453.

Taraconat, P., Gineys, J.-P., Isèbe, D., Nicoud, F. and Mendez, S., 2021. Detecting cells rotations for increasing the robustness of cell sizing by impedance measurements, with or without machine learning, Cytometry Part A, Vol. 99(10), 977–986.

Matteoli, P., Nicoud, F. and Mendez, S., 2021. Impact of the membrane viscosity on the tank-treading behavior of red blood cells, Physical Review Fluids, Vol. 6, 043602.

Mignon, T. and Mendez, S., 2021. A theoretical investigation of the frisbee motion of red blood cells in shear flow, Mathematical Modelling of Natural Phenomena, Vol. 16, 23.

Puiseux, T., Sewonu, A., Moreno, R., Mendez, S., and Nicoud, F., 2021. Numerical simulation of time-resolved 3D phase-contrast Magnetic Resonance Imaging, PLOS ONE, Vol. 16(3), e0248816.

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. Download the document

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. Download the document

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. Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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: Download the document. Preprint:Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

Chnafa, C., Mendez, S. & Nicoud, F., 2014. Image-based large-eddy simulation in a realistic heart, Computers and Fluids, Vol. 94, pages 173-187.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document.

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.Download the document.

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.Download the document

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.Download the document

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.Download the document


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.Download the document


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