Pedro Valente
Instituto Superior Técnico
Mecânica I, 1◦ andar/LASEF
Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa
[email protected]
http://web.ist.utl.pt/pedro.cardoso.valente
PERSONAL INFORMATION
Date of Birth: 27 of March 1984
Home address: R. da Casquilha 16, 6Dto,
1500-149 Lisbon, Portugal
Phone (PT):
Phone (UK):
00351 96 30 90 665
0044 (0)770 22 42 349
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Aeronautics
Imperial College London, UK
Thesis: “Energy transfer and dissipation in equilibrium and nonequilibrium turbulence”.
Supervisor : Prof. Christos Vassilicos.
2009-2013
M.Sc. in Experimental and Computational Turbulence
(Overall mark A – ECTS system)
2006-2008
Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Thesis: “Advanced 3D Blade Design Methods” developed in partnership with Volvo Aero Corp.
Supervisors: Prof. Ulf Håll (Chalmers) and Sonny Andersson (Volvo Aero Corp.).
”Licenciatura” in Mechanical Engineering – Applied thermodynamics
(5-year degree; Overall mark 17/20)
Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico), Portugal
Note: Conclusion of the degree within the Erasmus program at Chalmers, Sweden.
Thesis: “A Low-Order Dynamical Systems Approach to Turbulent Channel Flow”.
Supervisors: Dr. Peter Johansson (Chalmers) and Prof. W.K. George (Chalmers).
2002-2007
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RESEARCH EXPERIENCE
Post-doctoral fellow, Instituto Superior Técnico, Full-time
2013-present
Supervisors: Prof. Carlos B. da Silva (IST, U. Lisbon) and Prof. Fernando T. Pinho (FEUP - U. Porto).
Project “Turbelast” consisting of numerical simulations of viscoelastic turbulent flows and the formulation of
turbulence models for Large-eddy simulations of viscoelastic flows capable of capturing the relevant physics
of the polymer-turbulence interactions.
Research assistant, Imperial College London, Full-time
Supervisor : Prof. Christos Vassilicos.
2009-2013
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Invited lecturer, Instituto Superior Técnico
Lecturer for the course ‘Mecânica dos Fluidos II’ (undergraduate level)
Spring 2014
Invited lecturer, Instituto Superior Técnico
Lecturer for the course ‘Turbulência/Dinâmica dos Fluidos Computational’ (graduate level)
Spring 2014
Invited lecturer, Instituto Superior Técnico
Lecturer for the course ‘Mecânica dos Fluidos I’ (undergraduate level)
Autumn 2013
Tutorial supervisor, Imperial College London
Autumn 2010
Tutorial supervisor for the course ‘Introduction to Turbulence Part 3/4’ (undergraduate level)
Laboratory Demonstrator, Imperial College London
Autumn 2010
Laboratory demonstrator for the ‘Smoke Flow Visualisation Laboratory’ (undergraduate level)
Teaching assistant, Imperial College London
Teaching assistant in the ‘Specialist Course in Fortran Programming’ (postgraduate level).
Spring 2010
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Aero-thermodynamics Engineer at Volvo Aero Corp., Full-time
2008-2009
(now GKN aerospace) Trollhättan, Sweden
Aero-thermodynamics Engineer in the Department of Space Propulsion. Main responsibilities included the
aerodynamic design of blades and vanes for the LH2 turbines for the European Space Launcher (Ariane 5 and
the New Generation Launcher); CFD analyses for performance evaluation and aeromechanical behaviour;
development of in-house codes for blade design and turbine characterisation (in Fortran 90/95 and C).
SUPERVISION EXPERIENCE
• Co-supervisor (with Sonny Anderson) of M.Sc. thesis of Artyom Romanov (2008 - Volvo Aero Corp.)
“Rocket Engine System Analysis. Low-fidelity whole-engine and single-turbine models”
• Co-supervisor (with Prof. Carlos Silva) of M.Sc. thesis of Nuno Rodrigues (on-going - IST) on the
parallelisation of a in-house numerical code for Direct Numerical Simulations
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ACADEMIC AND ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
• Referee for Experiments in Fluids.
• Referee for The Physics of Fluids.
• Member of the committee accompanying the Ph.D. thesis of Diogo Chambel.
• Member of the committee accompanying the Ph.D. thesis of Rodrigo Taveira.
• Design and refurbishment of the undergraduate fluid mechanics laboratories at Instituto Superior
Técnico (ongoing). In total 14 fully automated measurement apparatuses are being installed, including a measurement station with a hot-film anemometer. In addition, two flow visualisation apparatuses
with hydrogen bubbles and smoke are being designed and installed.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
1. P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, The decay of turbulence generated by a class of multi-scale grids,
J. Fluid Mech., 687, 300–340, 2011
2. P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Comment on “Dissipation and decay of fractal-generated turbulence” [Phys. Fluids 19, 105108 (2007)], Phys. Fluids, 23, 119101, 2011
3. P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Universal dissipation scaling for nonequilibrium turbulence, Phys.
Rev. Lett. 108, 214503, 2012
4. P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Dependence of decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence on inflow
conditions, Phys. Lett. A, 376, 510–514, 2012
5. A. R. Oxlade, P. C. Valente, B. Ganapathisubramani & J. F. Morrison. Denoising of time-resolved
PIV for accurate measurement of turbulence spectra and reduced error in derivatives, Exp. Fluids,
53(5):15611575, 2012.
6. P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, The non-equilibrium region of grid-generated decaying turbulence,
J. Fluid Mech. 744, 300340, 2014
7. P. C. Valente, R. Onishi & C. B. da Silva, The origin of the imbalance between energy cascade and
dissipation in turbulence, Phys. Rev. E 90, 023003, 2014
8. P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Energy cascade in grid-generated non-equilibrium decaying turbulence (submitted to Exp. Fluids, arXiv:1307.5901)
9. P. C. Valente, C. B. da Silva & F. T. Pinho, The effect of viscoelasticity on the turbulent kinetic
energy cascade (submitted to J. Fluid Mech., draft available on request)
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SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
• The effect of the polymer relaxation time on the nonlinear energy cascade and dissipation of statistically steady and decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence, 66th Annual Meeting of the APS DFD,
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 24-26 November 2013
• Turbulent energy cascade in viscoelastic isotropic turbulence, Invited talk at Osaka University, Japan,
28th October 2013
• Energy transfer and dissipation in equilibrium and non-equilibrium turbulence, Invited talk at the
Japan Marine Science and Tech. Center (JAMSTEC), Japan, 22nd October 2013
• “Relevant terms for Large-Eddy-Simulations of viscoelastic isotropic turbulence”. Presentation at the
14th European Turbulence Conference, Lyon, France - 1-4 September, 2013
• “Energy transfer and dissipation in equilibrium and nonequilibrium turbulence decay”. Invited talk at
the Department of Civil Engineering of Imperial College London, 29th November, 2012
• “Wind tunnel measurements of scale-by-scale energy transfer, dissipation, advection and production/transport in equilibrium and nonequilibrium decaying turbulence”. Presentation at the 65th
Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, San Diego, California - 18-20 November, 2012
• “Energy dissipation scaling in equilibrium and nonequilibrium turbulence”. Invited talk at the Department of Mechanical Engineering of the Technical University of Lisbon (Instituto Superior Técnico),
8th May, 2012
• “Towards a universal dissipation scaling for non-equilibrium turbulence?”. Presentation at the 1st ERCOFTAC Workshop on Turbulent flows generated/designed in multiscale/fractal ways: fundamentals
and applications London, U.K. - 26 – 27th March, 2012
• “The decay of homogeneous turbulence generated by multi-scale grids”. Presentation at the 7th International Symposium on Turbulence and Shear Flow Phenomena, Ottawa, Canada - 28 – 31st July, 2011
• “Decay of fractal-generated homogeneous turbulence”. Presentation at the 63rd Annual Meeting of
the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California - 21 – 23rd November, 2010
PROGRAMMING SKILLS
• Vast programming experience with Matlab and Fortran 90/95.
• Experience with C programming language.
• Experience with FLUENT, ANSYS-CFX, ICEM-CFD.
LANGUAGE SKILLS
Portuguese: Mother tongue.
English:
Excellent reading, writing and verbal skills.
Swedish:
Basic reading, writing and verbal skills.
French:
Basic reading, writing and verbal skills.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
2013 – 2014 Postdoctoral Research Scholarship within the research project “TurbElast”
2009 – 2013 Postgraduate Research Scholarship “Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia”
2011
Old Centralians Trust Post-graduate travel grant
2010
Royal Academy of Engineering International travel grant
2006 – 2007 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship
REFERENCES
• Professor Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, University of Southampton, U.K.
[email protected]
0044 (0)23 8059 2305
• Professor Christos Vassilicos, Imperial College London, U.K.
[email protected]
0044 (0)20 7594 5137
• Professor Carlos da Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal
[email protected]
00351 21 841 71 84