João Paulo Innocente de Souza


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I am a D.SC. student in Mechanical Engineering from the Mechanical Engineering Program of the Alberto Luiz Coimbra Institute of Graduate Studies and Research in Engineering, at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. In 2018, I received my undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering and in 2021 my master's from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), the latter with a scholarship from the Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). I started my research career during my exchange year at the University of California at Berkeley, where I studied mechanical properties of intervertebral disc in the Berkeley Biomechanics Lab. After finishing the undergraduate program, I worked with experimental research in NIDF and, since 2020, I have been developing numerical models for fluid dynamics and fluid-structure interaction in LabMFA.


academic info:


research interests:

  • computational fluid dynamics
  • porous media
  • fluid-structure interaction (FSI)
  • finite element analysis

M.Sc. dissertation:

publications with Prof. Gustavo R. Anjos:

Journal Articles

  1. Souza, João P. I.; Anjos, Gustavo R. A finite element analysis of multiphase conjugated flow in diesel and biodiesel-driven engine filtration device. Journal of the Brazilian Society of Mechanical Sciences and Engineering, vol. 45(7), 375 (2023).

Conference Papers

  1. Garden, G. L.; Souza, J. P. I.; Su, Jian; Anjos, G.R. A Higher-Order Semi-Lagrangian ALE-FE Method for Fluid-Structure Interaction Problems. Proceedings of Flow-Induced Vibration 2026 (FIV 2026), Paris, France, 2026.
  2. Souza, J. P. I.; Anjos, G.R. A Finite Element Analysis of Flow-induced Vibration in Nonlinear Elastic Structures. Proceedings of Flow-Induced Vibration 2026 (FIV 2026), Paris, France, 2026.
  3. Souza, J. P. I.; Anjos, G. R. A Finite Element Analysis of Flow-Induced Vibration in Nonlinear Elastic Structures. Proceedings of the 28th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering, Curitiba, Brazil, 2025.
  4. Souza, J. P. I.; Anjos, G.R. The Finite Element Method Applied to Fluid-Structure Interaction Using the Arbitrary Lagrangian-Eulerian and the Semi-Lagrangian Methods. Anais do 20th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering, Foz do Iguaçu, Brazil, 2024.
  5. Souza, João P. I.; Anjos, Gustavo R. A Comparison Between Porous and Free-Flow Media Using the Finite Element Method to Solve the Generalized Darcy/Forchheimer Equation. Anais do 27th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2023.
  6. Souza, J. P. I.; Anjos, G.R. Numerical Simulation of Flows in Conjugated Regions Using the Finite Element Method to Solve the Darcy-Forchheimer Momentum and Energy Equations. Anais do 19th Brazilian Congress of Thermal Sciences and Engineering, Bento Gonçalves, Brazil, 2022.
  7. Souza, J. P. I.; Anjos, G.R. Particle-Laden Multiphase Flows: A Finite Element Analysis on Biofuel Particle Emissions. Proceedings of 8th International Symposium on Advances in Computational Heat Transfer (CHT-21), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2021.
  8. Souza, J. P. I.; Anjos, Gustavo R. Finite Element Analysis on Biofuel Particles Dispersion. Proceedings of 26th International Congress of Mechanical Engineering, Florianópolis, Brazil, 2021.

Conference Abstracts

  1. Souza, J. P. I.; Anjos, G. R. A Finite Element Analysis of Fluid-Structure Interaction With Nonlinear Structures. II Rio de Janeiro Fluid Mechanics Symposium (Rio Fluids 2026), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 2026.