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    • A 3D finite element model of ventral furrow invagination in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo 

      Conte, Vito; Muñoz Romero, José; Miodownik, Mark (2008-04)
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      The paper describes a mechanical model of epithelial tissue development in Drosophila embryos to investigate a buckling phenomenon called invagination. The finite element method is used to model this ventral furrow formation ...
    • A biomechanical analysis of ventral furrow formation in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo 

      Conte, Vito; Ulrich, Florian; Baum, Buzz; Muñoz Romero, José; Veldhuis, Jim; Brodland, Wayne; Miodownik, M. (2012-03-28)
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      The article provides a biomechanical analysis of ventral furrow formation in the Drosophila melanogaster embryo. Ventral furrow formation is the first large-scale morphogenetic movement in the fly embryo. It involves ...
    • A control Hamiltonian-preserving discretisation for optimal control 

      Bijalwan, Ashutosh; Muñoz Romero, José (2023-04-13)
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      Optimal control theory allows finding the optimal input of a mechanical system modelled as an initial value problem. The resulting minimisation problem may be solved with known direct and indirect methods. We propose time ...
    • A deformation gradient decomposition method for the analysis of the mechanics of morphogenesis 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Barrett, K.; Miodownik, M. (2007-06)
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      A new finite element model is proposed for the analysis of the mechanical aspects of morphogenesis and tested on the biologically well studied gastrulation phenomenon, in particular ventral furrow invagination of the ...
    • A new 3D hybrid model for epithelial morphogenesis 

      Muñoz Romero, José (2021-03-22)
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      Wound healing is a biological mechanism that allows the integrity and functionality of tissues to be preserved. Dr Jose Muñoz, Associate Professor at the Laboratory of Numerical Analysis (LaCàN), Universitat Politècnica ...
    • A note on upper bound formulations in limit analysis 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Huerta, Antonio; Bonet Carbonell, Javier; Peraire Guitart, Jaume (John Wiley & Sons, 2012-08-24)
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      In this paper we study some recent formulations for the computation of upper bounds in limit analysis. We show that a previous formulation presented by the authors does not guarantee the strictness of the upper bound, ...
    • A truss element for modelling reversible softening in living tissues 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Conte, Vito; Asadipour, Nina; Miodownik, M. (2013-04-01)
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      We resort to non-linear viscoelasticity to develop a truss element able to model reversible softening in lung epithelial tissues undergoing transient stretch. Such a Maxwell truss element is built by resorting to a ...
    • AAR-based decomposition algorithm for non-linear convex optimisation 

      Rabiei, Syednima; Muñoz Romero, José (2014)
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    • AAR-based decomposition algorithm for non-linear convex optimisation 

      Rabiei, Syednima; Muñoz Romero, José (2015)
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      n this paper we present a method for decomposing a class of convex nonlinear programmes which are frequently encountered in engineering plastic analysis. These problems have second-order conic memberships constraints and ...
    • AAR-based decomposition method for limit analysis 

      Rabiei, Nima; Muñoz Romero, José (Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria (CIMNE), 2014)
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    • AAR-based decomposition method for lower bound limit analysis 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Rabiei, Nima (2015-12-01)
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      Despite the recent progress in optimisation techniques, finite-element stability analysis of realistic three-dimensional problems is still hampered by the size of the resulting optimisation problem. Current solvers may ...
    • AAR-based decomposition method for lower-bound limit analysis 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Rabiei, Syednima (2015)
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      Despite the recent progress in optimisation techniques, finite-element stability analysis of realistic three-dimensional problems is still hampered by the size of the resulting optimisation problem. Current solvers may ...
    • Cell remodelling in 3D vertex models 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Khan, Ahmad Kamal; Vicente, Pablo; Villacrosa, Adrià (2022)
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    • Cell-centered truss model for the analysis of cell rheology and remodelling 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Asadipour, Nina; Albo, Santiago (2013)
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      Soft active tissues exhibit softening, hardening, and reversible fluidisation [14]. The result of these non-linear behaviour is due to multiple processes taking part at di erent scales: active protein motors that actuate ...
    • Cell-centred model for non-linear tissue rheology and active remodelling 

      Asadipour, Nina; Mosaffa, Payman; Muñoz Romero, José (Centre Internacional de Mètodes Numèrics en Enginyeria (CIMNE), 2014)
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      Soft active tissues exhibit softening, hardening, and reversible fluidisation. The result of these non-linear behaviour is due to multiple processes taking part at different scales: active protein motors that actuate at ...
    • Cell-centred model for the simulation of curved cellular monolayers 

      Mosaffa, Payman; Asadipour, Nina; Millán, Raúl Daniel; Rodríguez Ferran, Antonio; Muñoz Romero, José (2015)
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      This paper presents a cell-centred model for the simulation of planar and curved multicellular soft tissues. We propose a computational model that includes stress relaxation due to cell reorganisation (intercellular ...
    • Collective cell durotaxis emerges from long-range intercellular force transmission 

      Sunyer, Raimon; Conte, Vito; Escribano, Jorge; Elosegui Artola, Alberto; Labernadie, Anna; Valon, Leo; Navajas Navarro, Daniel; Garcia Aznar, José Manuel; Muñoz Romero, José; Trepat, Xavier (2016-09-09)
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      The ability of cells to follow gradients of extracellular matrix stiffness—durotaxis—has been implicated in development, fibrosis, and cancer. Here, we found multicellular clusters that exhibited durotaxis even if isolated ...
    • Computation of bounds for anchor problems in limit analysis and decomposition techniques 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Rabiei, Syednima; Lyamin, Andrei; Huerta, Antonio (Springer, 2013-07-15)
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      Numerical techniques for the computation of strict bounds in limit analyses have been developed for more than thirty years. The efficiency of these techniques have been substantially improved in the last ten years, and ...
    • Computation of forces from deformed visco-elastic biological tissues 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Amat Olóndriz, David; Conte, Vito (2018-04-01)
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      We present a least-squares based inverse analysis of visco-elastic biological tissues. The proposed method computes the set of contractile forces (dipoles) at the cell boundaries that induce the observed and quantified ...
    • Computational limit analysis for anchors and retaining walls 

      Muñoz Romero, José; Lyamin, Andrei V.; Huerta, Antonio (Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya. Escola Tècnica Superior de Camins Canals i Ports de Barcelona, 2011-11-15)
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      The computation of the bearing capacity of engineering structures commonly relays on results obtained for simple academic examples. Recent developments in computational limit analysis have allowed engineers to compute ...