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
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
Thesis: “A Low-Order Dynamical Systems Approach to Turbulent Channel Flow”.
Supervisors: Dr. Peter Johansson (Chalmers) and Prof. W.K. George (Chalmers).
Note: Conclusion of the degree within the Erasmus program at Chalmers, Sweden.
2002-2007
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.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Tutorial supervisor
Imperial College London
Tutorial supervisor for the course ‘Introduction to Turbulence Part 3/4’
Autumn 2010
Laboratory Demonstrator
Imperial College London
Laboratory demonstrator for the ‘Smoke Flow Visualisation Laboratory’.
Autumn 2010
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Laboratory Demonstrator
Imperial College London
Laboratory demonstrator for the ‘Specialist Course in Fortran programming’.
HONORS AND AWARDS
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
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.
Franch:
Basic reading, writing and verbal skills.
JOURNAL PUBLICATIONS
(author in bold and supervisor underlined)
• P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Universal dissipation scaling for nonequilibrium
turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, 214503, 2012
• 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.
• P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Dependence of decaying homogeneous isotropic
turbulence on inflow conditions, Phys. Lett. A, 376, 510–514, 2012
• 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
• P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Comment on “Dissipation and decay of fractalgenerated turbulence” [Phys. Fluids 19, 105108 (2007)], Phys. Fluids, 23, 119101,
2011
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• P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, The nonequilibrium region of grid-generated decaying turbulence. Part I: Flow characterisation (under preparation)
• P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, The nonequilibrium region of grid-generated decaying turbulence. Part II: Scale-by-scale energy transfer budget (under preparation)
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
• “Energy transfer and dissipation in equilibrium and nonequilibrium turbulence decay”. Invited talk at the Department of Civil Engineering of Imperial College London, 29th Novembery, 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 yurbulence 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