This book treats the derivation and implementation of a unified particle finite element
formulation for the solution of fluid and solid mechanics Fluid-Structure Interaction (FSI)
and coupled thermal problems.FSI problems are involved in many engineering branches from
aeronautics to civil and biomedical engineering. The numerical method proposed in this book has
been designed to deal with a large part of these. In particular it is capable of simulating
accurately free-surface fluids interacting with structures that may undergo large displacements
suffer from thermo-plastic deformations and even melt. The method accuracy has been
successfully verified in several numerical examples. The thesis also contains the application
of the proposed numerical strategy for the simulation of a real industrial problem.This thesis
defended at the Universitat Politecnica de Catalunya in 2015 was selected (ex aequo) as the
best PhD thesis in numerical methods in Spainfor the year 2015 by the Spanish Society of
Numerical Methods in Engineering (SEMNI).
