Fernández Cara, Enrique

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He has the Grade in Mathematics for the University of Sevilla (Spain) and the Doctorate in Mathematics for this University and also the University Paris 6 (France). He has been scholar, assistant professor, and full professor in the University of Sevilla. I have worked in Sevilla, Paris, Clermont-Ferrand and, more recently, as visiting professor, in several Brazilian universities: UNICAMP, UFF in Nitéroi and UFBB in Joao Pessoa. He has been the advisor of more than 25 PhD Theses and has participated in more than 20 Research Projects in Spain, France and Brazil.

His main areas of interest are the theoretical and numerical analysis of PDEs, with special emphasis in nonlinear PDEs from Physics, Biology, etc. and control and optimization problems. In particular, he has considered problems for nonlinear elliptic, parabolic and hyperbolic systems, the homogeneous and nonhomogeneous Navier-Stokes equations, the Oldroyd viscoelastic system and variants, other nonlinear nonscalar systems from tumor growth modelling etc. He has contributed with regularity results,  new numerical schemes (many of them based on parallelization), new control solution techniques and related applications.

He has published more than 160 papers in international journals and has attended more than 50 international conferences, most them related to control and PDEs. He has attained the maximal qualification of six 6-year research periods by the Spanish Agency CNEAI (the last one in 2015). More information can be found in https://personal.us.es/cara/

Awards

Premio Nacional de Terminación de Estudios 1979 (Ministerio de Educación).

Premio Investigador Joven 1992 (Academia Sevillana de Ciencias y la Real Maestranza de Caballerías de Sevilla).

Premio a la Divulgación de la Matemática Aplicada 2001 (Sociedad Española de Matemática Aplicada).

Main research results

  • 2-s2.0-85056238658 Ashley, T., Carrizosa, E., Fernández-Cara, E. Heliostat field cleaning scheduling for Solar Power Tower plants: A heuristic approach, (2019) Applied Energy, pp. 653-660. Impact factor: 8.426, Rank: 8/103 Q1, Energy and Fuels; 5/138 Q1, Engineering, Chemical
  • 2-s2.0-85026447442 Ashley, T., Carrizosa, E., Fernández-Cara, E. Optimisation of aiming strategies in Solar Power Tower plants, (2017) Energy, 137, pp. 285-291. Impact factor: 4.968, Rank: 4/59 Q1, Thermodynamics; 18/97 Q1, Energy and Fuels
  • 2-s2.0-84954401888 Carrizosa, E., Domínguez-Bravo, C., Fernández-Cara, E., Quero, M. Optimization of multiple receivers solar power tower systems, (2015) Energy, 90, pp. 2085-2093. Impact Factor: 4.292, Rank: 3/58 Q1, Thermodynamics; 15/88 Q1, Energy and Fuels
  • MR3692116 Cavalcanti, M. M., Fernández-Cara, E., Ferreira, A. L. Null controllability of some nonlinear degenerate 1D parabolic equation, J. Franklin Inst. 354 (2017), no. 14, 6405-6421. Impact factor: 3.576, Rank: 5/103, Q1 Mathematics, Interdisciplinary Applications
  • 2-s2.0-85010619205 Carrizosa, E., Domínguez-Bravo, C.-A., Fernández-Cara, E., Quero, M. An optimization tool to design the field of a solar power tower plant allowing heliostats of different sizes, (2017) International Journal of Energy Research, 41 (8), pp. 1096-1107. Impact Factor: 3.003, Rank: 1/33 Q1, Nuclear Science and Technology
  • MR3652397 Araruna, F. D., Fernández-Cara, E., Guerrero, S., Santos, M.C. New results on the Stackelberg-Nash exact control of linear parabolic equations, Systems Control Letters 104 (2017), 78-85. Impact factor: 2.656, Rank: 19/84 Q1, Operations Research and Management Science
  • MR3433238 Fernández-Cara, E., Limaco, J., de Menezes, S.B. On the controllability of a free-boundary problem for the 1D heat equation, Systems Control Lett. 87 (2016), 29-35. Impact factor: 2.550, Rank: 17/83 Q1, Operations Research and Management Science
  • MR3902884 Carvalho, P.P., Fernández-Cara, E. On the computation of Nash and Pareto equilibria for some bi-objective control problems, J. Sci. Comput. 78 (2019), no. 1, 246-273. Impact factor: 2.370, Rank: 26/254, Q1 Mathematics, Applied
  • MR3041629 Calzada, M.C., Fernández-Cara, E., Marín, M. Optimal control oriented to therapy for a free-boundary tumor growth model, J. Theoret. Biol. 325 (2013), 1-11. Impact factor: 2.303, Rank: 10/52 Q1, Mathematics and Computational Biology
  • MR3270952 Fernández-Cara, E., Santos, M.C. Numerical null controllability of the 1D linear Schrödinger equation, Systems Control Letters 73 (2014), 33-41. Impact factor: 2.059, Rank: 16/81 Q1, Operations Research and Management Science

Bibliometric data (January 2021):

Mathscinet: 168 contributions, 1691 citations (by 836 authors), h-index = 18

Google Scholar: 291 contributions, 3972 citations, h-index = 29

Scopus: 128 contributions, 1893 citations, h-index = 20