Dr. B. (Bianca) Giovanardi
Dr. B. (Bianca) Giovanardi
Profile
Biography
Dr. Bianca Giovanardi is an assistant professor in the Department of Aerospace Structures and Materials (ASM/LR) at TU Delft.
Her expertise lies in high-performance computational modeling of multi-physics coupled problems across diverse domains,
including geophysics, biomechanics, aerospace, and defense.
Prior to joining TU Delft in 2020, she served as a postdoctoral associate in the Department of Aeronautics and
Astronautics at MIT, where she applied high-performance computing to nonlinear solid mechanics, fracture mechanics, and
fluid-structure interaction. She earned her Ph.D. in Computational Mathematics from Politecnico di Milano in 2017.
Her research efforts have been sponsored by the US Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the US Army
Research Laboratory, and the Delft Technology Fellowship. Dr. Giovanardi's achievements include awards such as the 2nd Best Presentation at the World Congress on Computational Mechanics (2022), the Delft Technology Fellowship (2020), Women in Aerospace
Engineering recognition (2019), Caltech Young Investigator Lecturer (2019), and the Roberto Rocca Doctoral Fellowship (2015).
Her current research interests include next-generation models for high-performance computational mechanics with applications to aerospace structures, soft matter and architected materials.
Expertise
Publications
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2024
A discontinuous Galerkin/cohesive zone model approach for the computational modeling of fracture in geometrically exact slender beams
Sai Kubair Kota / Siddhant Kumar / Bianca Giovanardi
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2024
Blind prediction of curved fracture surfaces in gypsum samples under three-point bending using the Discontinuous Galerkin Cohesive Zone method
Daniel Pickard / Christopher Quinn / Bianca Giovanardi / Raul Radovitzky
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2023
A robust computational framework for simulating the dynamics of large assemblies of highly-flexible fibers immersed in viscous flow
Anwar Koshakji / Grégoire Chomette / Jeffrey Turner / Jonathan Jablonski / Aisha Haynes / Donald Carlucci / Bianca Giovanardi / Raúl A. Radovitzky
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2023
Converging-diverging shock-driven instabilities along soft hydrogel surfaces
Daniel Pickard / Dmitro Martynowych / Jet Lem / Anwar Koshakji / Shaoting Lin / Xuanhe Zhao / Keith Nelson / Bianca Giovanardi / Raul Radovitzky
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2021
Morphogenesis and proportionate growth
A finite element investigation of surface growth with coupled diffusion
Virginia von Streng / Rami Abi-Akl / Bianca Giovanardi / Tal Cohen -
Courses 2024
Courses 2023
Ancillary activities
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2024-03-01 - 2026-03-01
Consultancy / research and other
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2021-02-01 - 2025-02-01
Consultancy / research and other