Publications
Journal Papers:
- R Silva-Valenzuela, A Ortiz-Bernardin, N Sukumar, E Artioli, N Hitschfeld-Kahler. A nodal integration scheme for meshfree Galerkin methods using the virtual element decomposition. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Engineering. 121(10):2174-2205. May 2020.
- J. Jara-Wilde, I. Castro, C.G. Lemus, K. Palma, F. Valdés, V. Castañeda, N. Hitschfeld, M.L. Concha, S. HärteL. Optimising adjacent membrane segmentation and parameterisation in multicellular aggregates by piecewise active contours. Journal of Microscopy. 278(2):59-75. May 2020.
- Héctor Ferrada, Cristóbal A Navarro, Nancy Hitschfeld, A filtering technique for fast Convex Hull construction in R2. Journal of Computational and Applied Mathematics. 364(112298):1-12, January 2020.
- Alejandro Ortiz-Bernardin, Catalina Alvarez, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Alessandro Russo, Rodrigo Silva-Valenzuela, Edgardo Olate-Sanzana. Veamy: an extensible object-oriented C++ library for the virtual element method. Numerical Algorithms. Springer Online. 1-32, January 2019.
- Pedro Sanzana, Jorge Gironás, Isabelle Braud, Jose-Francisco Muñoz, Sebastián Vicuña, Sonia Reyes-Paecke, Francisco de la Barrera, Flora Branger, Fabrice Rodríguez, Ximena Vargas, Nancy Hitschfeld, Santiago Hormazábal. Impact of Urban Growth and High Residential Irrigation on Streamflow and Groundwater Levels in a Peri-Urban Semiarid Catchment. JAWRA Journal of the American Water Resources Association. 55(3):720-739, June 2019.
- P Sanzana, J Gironás, I Braud, N Hitschfeld, F Branger, F Rodriguez, M Fuamba, J Romero, X Vargas, JF Muñoz, S Vicuña, A Mejía: Decomposition of 2D polygons and its effect in hydrological models. Journal of Hydroinformatics. 21(1), 104-122, 2019.
- Luis E. Campusano, Gabriel Marinello, Roger G. Clowes, Christopher P. Haines, Sebastián Pereira, Daniel Pizarro, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, and Ilona K. Söchting. A 3D Voronoi+Gapper Galaxy Cluster Finder in Redshift Space to z 0.2. II. An Abundant Cluster Population Dominated by Late-type Galaxies Unveiled. The Astrophysical Journal, 869:145 (27pp), 20 Diciembre 2018.
- Cristóbal A. Navarro, Matthieu Vernier, Benjamin Bustos and Nancy Hitschfeld: Competitiveness of a Non-linear Block-space GPU Thread Map for Simplex Domains. IEEE Transactions on Parallel and Distributed Systems. 29(12), 2728-2741, 2018.
- Francisco Carter, Nancy Hitschfeld, Cristóbal A. Navarro, Rodrigo Soto: GPU parallel simulation algorithm of Brownian particles with excluded volume using Delaunay triangulations. Computer Physics Communications, 229:148-161, 2018.
- Mauricio Cerda, Cristóbal A. Navarro, Juan Silva, Scott R. Waitukaitis, Nicolás Mujica, Nancy Hitschfeld: A high-speed tracking algorithm for dense granular media. Computer Physics Communications, 227:8-16, 2018.
- R Alonso, J Ojeda, N Hitschfeld, C Hervías, LE Campusano: Delaunay based algorithm for finding polygonal voids in planar point sets. Astronomy and Computing, Elsevier, 22:48-62, 2018.
- Sebastián Pereira, Luis E. Campusano, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Daniel Pizarro, Christopher P. Haines, Roger G. Clowes, Gabriel Marinello, and Ilona K. Soechting: A 3D Voronoi+Gapper Galaxy Cluster Finder in Redshift Space to z 0.2 I: an Algorithm Optimized for the 2dFGRS. The Astrophysical Journal, 832(2):109-126, 2017.
- Violeta Chang, Laurent Heutte, Caroline Petitjean, Steffen Härtel, Nancy Hitschfeld: Automatic classification of human sperm head morphology. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 84:205-216, 2017.
- Violeta Chang, Alejandra Garcia, Nancy Hitschfeld, Steffen Härtel: Gold-standard for computer-assisted morphological sperm analysis. Computers in Biology and Medicine, 83:143-150, 2017.
- P. Sanzana, J. Gironás, I. Braud, F. Branger, F. Rodriguez, X. Vargas, N. Hitschfeld, J.F. Muñoz, S. Vicuña, A. Mejía, S. Jankowfsky: A GIS-based urban and peri-urban landscape representation toolbox for hydrological distributed modeling. Environmental Modelling & Software, 91:168-185, 2017.
- Cristobal A. Navarro, Fabrizio Canfora, Nancy Hitschfeld, Gonzalo Navarro: Parallel family trees for transfer matrices in the Potts model. Computer Physics Communications, 187: 55-71, 2015.
- Violeta Chang, Jose M. Saavedra, Victor Castañeda, Luis Sarabia, Nancy Hitschfeld, Steffen Härtel: Gold-standard and improved framework for sperm head segmentation. Computer Methods and Programs in Biomedicine, 117(2): 225-237, 2014.
- Pedro O, Rossel, Maria Cecilia Bastarrica, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Violeta Díaz, Mario Medina: Domain modeling as a basis for building a meshing tool software product line. Advances in Engineering Software. 70:77-89, 2014.
- Cristobal Navarro, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Luis Mateu, A Survey on Parallel Computing and its Applications in Data-Parallel Problems Using GPU Architectures, Communications in Computational Physics, 15:285-329, 2014.
- P. Sanzana, S. Jankowsky, F. Branger, I. braud, X. Vargas, N. Hitschfeld, J. Gironás: Computer-assisted
mesh generation based on Hydrological Response Units for distributed hydrological modeling. Computers & Geosciences. 57:32-43, 2013. - Lucas D. Terissi, Mauricio Cerda, Juan C Gómez, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler and Bernard Girau. A Comprehensive System for Facial Animation of Generic 3D Head Models driven by Speech, EURASIP Journal on Audio, Speech, and Music Processing, vol: 2003(5), February 2013. Published online by SpringerOpen.
- Marek Bucki, Claudio Lobos, Yohan Payan, Nancy Hitschfeld. Jacobian Reparation of Finite Element Meshes after Registration. Engineering with Computers. 27(3):285-297,2011.
- Felipe Contreras, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Maria Cecilia Bastarrica, Carlos Lillo: Balancing Flexibility and Performance in 3D Meshing Tools. Advances in Engineering Software, 41:471-479,2010.
- G. F. Cabrera, S. Casassus, and N. Hitschfeld: Bayesian Image Reconstruction Based on Voronoi Diagrams. The Astrophysical Journal, 672:1272-1285, 2008
- J. Simmonds, M.C. Bastarrica, N. Hitschfeld-Kahler, S. Rivas: A tool based on DL for UML model consistency checking. International Journal of Software Engineering and Knowledge Engineering, IJSEKE, 18(6):713-735, 2008.
- M.C. Bastarrica, N. Hitschfeld-Kahler: Designing a product family of meshing tools. Advances in Engineering Software, 17:1-10, 2006.
- Domingo Mery, Dennis Hahn, N. Hitschfeld: Simulation of Defects in Aluminium Castings Using CAD Models of Flaws and Real X-ray Images. Insight, 47(10):618-624, 2005.
- N. Hitschfeld-Kahler: Generation of mixed element meshes using a flexible refinement approach. Engineering with Computers, 21(2):101-114, 2005.
- N. Hitschfeld, L. Villablanca, J. Krause, M.C. Rivara: Improving the quality of meshes for the simulation of semiconductor devices using Lepp-based algorithms. International Journal in Numerical Methods for Engineering, 58:333-347, 2003.
- N. Hitschfeld, M. C. Rivara: Automatic construction of nonobtuse boundary and/or interface Delaunay triangulation for control volume methods. International Journal in Numerical Methods for Engineering, 55:803-816, 2002.
- B. Simpson, N. Hitschfeld, M C. Rivara: Approximate shape quality mesh generation. Engineering with Computers, 17(3):287-298, 2001.
- M C. Rivara, N. Hitschfeld, B. Simpson: Terminal-edges Delaunay (small-angle based) algorithm for the quality triangulation problem. Computer-Aided Design (CAD), 33:263-277, 2001.
- N. Hitschfeld, P. Conti, W. Fichtner: Mixed Elements Trees: A Generalization of Modified Octrees for the Generation of Meshes for the Simulation of Complex 3-D Semiconductor Devices. IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems,12(11):1714-1725, 1993.
- P. Conti, N. Hitschfeld, W. Fichtner: Ω – an Octree-based Mixed Element Grid Allocator for the Simulation of Complex 3d Device Structures. IEEE Transactions on Computer Aided Design of Integrated Circuits and Systems, 10(10):1231-1241, 1991.
Conference papers:(in process)
- J. Torres, N. Hitschfeld, R.O. Ruiz, and A. Ortiz-Bernardin. Convex Polygon Packing Based Meshing Algorithm for Modeling of Rock and Porous. International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2020, LNCS 12141:257-269. Amsterdam, Netherlands.
- C. Sepúlveda-Díaz, E. Stuardo Rojas, J. Simmonds, F. Gutierrez, N. Hitschfeld, C. Casanova, C. Sotomayor. Lessons Learned From Introducing Preteens in Parent-Led
Homeschooling to Computational Thinking. Proceedings of the 50th ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education.
SIGCSE 2020:65-71, Portland, OR, USA. - Carlos Hervias, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Luis Campusano, Giselle Font, On Finding Large Polygonal Voids Using Delaunay Triangulation: The Case of Planar Point Sets, Proceedings of the 22th Internatinal Meshing Roundtable (IMR 2013). Springer. Orlando, U.S.A, October 2013, pp:275-292.
- Cristobal Navarro, Nancy Hitschfeld-Kahler, Eliana Scheihing. A GPU-based method for generating quasi-Delaunay triangulations based on edge-flips. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (GRAPP 2013). Barcelona, Spain, February 2013, pp:27-34.