Teaching & Students
Current PostDocs
O Mariño, J Nuñez, L Botaro, E Jané
Current PhD Students
M de Frutos: "Acoustic optimisation of offshore turbine farms", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2023
D Huergo: "Reinforcement Learning for automation of high order simulations", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2023
A Ballout: "Accelerated multiphase flows for high order solvers", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2024
S Shrestha: "Variational multiscale methods for turbulence modelling in high order methods", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2023
G Campaña: "CFD for floating wind turbines", ETSIAE-UPM & CENER, Start:2022
A Portillo: "Minimising underwater radiated noise of ship propellers", ETSIN-UPM (Naval Eng.), Start:2022
S Colombo: "Immersed boundaries for complex flows using discontinuous Galerkin methods", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2021
A O’Sullivan: "High fidelity simulations for automotive and aeronautical applications", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2022
Yu Zhang: "High-order numerical simulations of electrohydrodynamic turbulence", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2024
Yingjie Xia: "High order fluid structure interactions", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2024
D Lodares: "Industrial application of high order immersed boundary methods", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:2019
PhD Alumni
12-O Mariño (PhD): "Wind turbine aeroacoustics using DG solvers", ETSIAE-UPM, Start: Oct 2020- End:June2024
11-K Otmani (PhD): "Accelerating high order solvers using unsupervised clustering", ETSIAE-UPM, Start: Feb 2021- End:May 2024 (available here)
10-S Joshi (PhD): "Robust simulation of turbulent aerodynamic flows using high-order methods ", ETSIAE-UPM & Numeca, Start:Sept 2019 - End:March 2023 (available here)
9-A Hurtado-Mendoza (PhD): "An Incompressible High-Order Solver with Thermal Coupling ", ETSIAE-UPM & Numeca, Start:Jan2020 - End:Feb 2023 (available here)
8-W Laskowski (PhD): "Efficient solvers for steady and unsteady high-order compressible flow simulations", ETSIAE-UPM & Numeca, Start:June 2019 - End:Sept 2022 (available here)
7-J Kou (PhD): "Immersed Boundary Methods for Fixed and Moving Bodies Using High-Order Solvers", ETSIAE-UPM & Numeca, Start:May 2019 - End:Feb 2022 (available here)
6-Y Wang (PhD): "Aerodynamic Optimisation Based on Stability and Sensitivity Analysis", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:Nov 2016 - End:Nov 2020 (available here)
5-J Manzanero (PhD): "A high-order discontinuous Galerkin multiphase flow solver for industrial applications", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:Nov 2017 - End:July 2020 (available here)
4-A Rueda (PhD): "Efficient Space and Time Solution Techniques for High-Order DG Discretizations of the 3D Compressible Navier-Stokes Equations", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:Oct 2016 - End:Oct 2019 (available here)
3-M Chávez (PhD): "Analysis and optimization of multiple-relaxation lattice Boltzmann methods for under-resolved flow simulations", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:Nov 2014 - End:May 2019 (available here)
2-O Browne (PhD): "Discrete linear stability and sensitivity analysis of fluid flows", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:Nov 2012 - End:May 2016 (available here)
1-M Kompenhans (PhD): "Adaptation strategies for Discontinuous Galerkin Spectral Element Methods by means of truncation error estimations", ETSIAE-UPM, Start:Oct 2012 - End:March 2016 (available here)
Undergraduate and Master Students
26-D Mayoral (Final Degree Project): "Neural Networks to accelerate turbulent simulations", ETSIAE-UPM, Oct 2023
25-D Soler (Final Degree Project): "Reinforcement learning for wind turbine control", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2022
24-A Juanicotena (Final Degree Project): "Neural Networks to accelerate turbulent simulations", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2022
23-L Alonso (Final Degree Project): "Reinforcement learning for high order multigrid", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2022
22-R Sanz (Final Degree Project): "High order actuator lines to model wind turbines", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2023
21-R Ballano (Master Thesis): "Airfoil optimisation enhanced by autoenoders", ETSIAE-UPM, March 2023
20-Q Ramírez (Final Degree Project): "Comparisons of high order aerodynamics and experiments and moderate Reynolds numbers", ETSIAE-UPM, September 2022
19-D Huergo (Master Thesis): "High order methods for CFD simulation of a hypersonic flow on a reentry capsule", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2022 (available here)
18-F Manrique (Master Thesis): "Neural Networks to accelerate high order methods", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2022 (available here)
17-I Heras (Final Degree Project): "Machine Learning for CFD", ETSIAE-UPM, March 2021
16-M Viqueira (Final Degree Project): "Aeroacoustic predictions of vertical axis turbines using ANSYS-Fluent", ETSIAE-UPM, Feb 2020
15-S Babio (Final Degree Project): "Stability and sensitivity of chaotic and turbulent flows", ETSIAE-UPM, Sept 2019
14-J Ramos (Master thesis): "Aerodynamics of surface imperfections in boundary layer transition", Airbus & ETSIAE-UPM, Sept 2019
13-A Carrillo (Master thesis): "Aerodynamics of surface imperfections on aircraft wings", Airbus & ETSIAE-UPM, March 2019
12-V Villagarcia (Final Degree Project):"Comparisons of high and low order solvers for aeronautics", ETSIAE-UPM, Sept 2018
11-I Palacios de Elias (Final Degree Project): "Road car wheel simulations using sliding meshes", Solute & ETSIAE-UPM, Sept 2018
10-A Gomez (Final Degree Project): "Comparisons of high and low order solvers for turbulent flows", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2018
9-E Peña (Final Degree Project): "Investigation of turbulent wakes in vertical axis turbines", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2018
8-E Adsuara (Final Degree Project): "Aeroacoustic predictions using high order discontinuous Galerkin methods", ETSIAE-UPM, Sept 2017
7-B Pérez (Master thesis): "Three dimensional flow structures in rotating square cylinders", ETSIAE-UPM, Sept 2017
6-J Manzanero (Master thesis): "Dispersion-diffusion analysis for variable coefficient advection problems: applications to DG formulations and under-resolved turbulence", ETSIAE-UPM, June 2016 (available here)
5-B Pérez (Final Degree Project): "Flow investigations of rotating square cylinders", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2015
4-A Pareja (Final Degree Project): "XFlow: Validation cases for dettached turbulent flows", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2015
3-M Bilbao (Master thesis): "Lattice-Boltzmann code development in C++", ETSIAE-UPM, July 2015
2-L Liu (Master thesis): "An alternative to the Orr-Somerfield equations for the prediction of boundary layer transition", collaboration between ETSIAE-UPM Northwestern Poly. Univ. China, August 2012
1-A Humpf (Final Degree Project): "Investigation of computational aeroacoustic tools for wind turbine aerofoils", CENER, December 2006
Teaching Activities
2019-Now: Lecturer in Differential and Integral Calculus at ETSIAE-UPM: School of Aeronautics in Madrid (Spain)
Differential and integral calculus is a first year compulsory undergraduate course
Nov 2021: I have been nominated for the 'golden flat' as the best lecturer of 1st year undergraduate level in Aeronautics (ETSIAE-UPM)
Nov 2020: I have been nominated for the 'golden flat' as the best lecturer of 1st year undergraduate level in Aeronautics (ETSIAE-UPM)
2017-2019: Lecturer Computing Science & Programming at ETSIAE-UPM: School of Aeronautics in Madrid (Spain)
Computing & Programming (using Fortran 90) is a first year compulsory undergraduate course
2020: Lecturer for Modern CFD at 3DS: Dassault Systèmes
This is a 20 hours course on modern CFD techniques. We covered FD, FV, FE and DG methods, and also turbulence modelling, multiphase, CAA and FSI.
May 2018: I have been awarded the 'golden flat' as the best lecturer of 1st year undergraduate level in Aeronautics (ETSIAE-UPM)
2014-2018: Lecturer in Linear Algebra at ETSIAE-UPM: School of Aeronautics in Madrid (Spain)
Linear Algebra is a first year compulsory undergraduate course
2015: Parallelisation strategies for HPC (MPI vs OPENMP) at ETSIAE-UPM: School of Aeronautics in Madrid (Spain)
This is a three day course on parallelisation paradigms for high performance computing. We covered distributed and shared memory techniques
2013: Lecturer in Calculus at EUITT-UPM: School of Telecommunication Engineering in Madrid (Spain)
In 2013, I lectured differential and integral calculus, ordinary differential equations and series. This is a first year compulsory undergraduate course
2013: Invited lecturer for a 3 hours course at LITEC - University of Zaragoza (Spain)
Title: High order discontinuous Galerkin methods for fluid dynamics (link to slides)
2010–2011 (2 years): Laboratory demonstrator in Fluid Dynamics at the University of Oxford (UK)
This included wind tunnel experimental tests of circular cylinders and theoretical explanations of principles of bluff body flow aerodynamics
2007: Invited lecturer for a short course at the Public University of Navarra (Spain)
Title: CFD and Wind Turbine aerodynamics (link to slides in Spanish)
2007–2008 (2 years): Assistant lecturer at the MEng level course at the Public University of Navarra (Spain)
Title: Aerodynamics and computational fluid mechanics (link to slides)