We work on the development and improvement of measurement tools for turbulent and complex flows. Our contributions have been mostly in the field of PIV (planar, stereoscopic and volumetric) and IR thermography. Recent efforts include the application of data-driven methods to improve the measurement spatial and temporal resolution and signal-to-noise ratio.

We investigate data-driven tools to analyze numerical and experimental data. The tools we employ are aimed at flow sensing, model order reduction and control. Current activities include the sensing of large-scale motions in turbulent boundary layers and heat transfer enhancement with closed-loop control.

Turbulent boundary layers (TBLs) are of paramount importance given their ubiquitous presence in many relevant fluid-flow problems such as the flow over wings, land and sea vehicles, turbines, compressors, etc. The focus of our research is on the coherent structures´ organization, modeling and manipulation in canonical (pipe flows, ZPG TBLs) and non-canonical conditions.

Convective heat transfer is relevant in countless industrial applications (turbomachinery, manufacturing, food processing, etc.). We use optical methods and data-mining techniques to investigate the flow features which are more intensively active in convective heat transfer phenomena.

Faculty

• Andrea Ianiro
• Marco Raiola
• Stefano Discetti
• Ignacio Andreu Angulo

PostDocs

• Alvaro Moreno Soto
• Antonio Cuellar Martin
• Guy Cornejo Maceda

PhD Students

• Alicia Rodríguez Asensio
• Firoozeh Foroozan
• Iacopo Tirelli
• Junwei Chen
• Luca Franceschelli
• Lucas Schneeberger
• Luigi Marra
• Qihong Lorena Li Hu
• Ricardo Moreno Benavides
• Tani Angiero

• NEXTFLOW: Next-generation flow diagnostics for control.
  ERC Starting Grant (PI: S. Discetti, UC3M), 2021-2025
• ACCREDITATION: Artificial-intelligence active flow control for reductIon of transport emissions.
  Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PI: S. Discetti and A. Ianiro, UC3M), 2022-2024
• JAMAICAM: Diagnóstico del ruido de chorro producido en aeronaves mediante cámaras acústicas masivas.
  Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PI: M. Raiola, L.A. Azpicueta)
• HUMANIC: Human – Centric Indoor Climate for Healthcare Facilities.
  MSCA Doctoral Network (PI: A.Ianiro), 2023-2026
• EXCALIBUR: Extraction of machine learning strategies for turbulent flow control
  Agencia Estatal de Investigación (PI: A. Ianiro, S. Discetti, UC3M), 2023-2026
• PERSEVERE: Physics-informed nEuRal networks for SEVERe wEather event prediction.
  MSCA Postdoctoral Fellowship (PI: Álvaro Moreno Soto, UC3M), 2023-2025

• Airbus Operations, S.L
• Compañía Española de Sistemas Aeronáuticos, S.A.
• TU Delft
• Empresarios Agrupados
• ATOS Spain

• Design of aeroacoustic-quality jet facility and active flow control solution for noise reduction
  Luca Franceschell (ongoing) Supervisors: S. Discetti, M.Raiola
• Machine-learning-based flow control
  Alberto Solera Rico (ongoing) Supervisors: S. Discetti, C. Sanmiguel Vila
• Model Predictive Control applied to turbulent flow
  Luigi Marra (ongoing) Supervisors: S. Discetti, A. Meilán-Vila
• Closed-loop flow control in turbulent propulsion flows
  Antonio Cuellar-Martín (ongoing) Supervisors: S. Discetti, A. Ianiro
• Data-driven enhancement of optical measurement techniques
  Iacopo Tirelli (ongoing) Supervisors: S. Discetti, A. Ianiro
• Complete flow description from combination of incomplete measurements
  Junwei Chen (ongoing) Supervisors: S. Discetti, M.Raiola
• Detection and control of large-scale motions in wall-bounded turbulent flows
  Firoozeh Foroozan (ongoing) Supervisors: A. Ianiro, S. Discetti
• Convective heat transfer control in turbulent boundary layers
  Rodrigo Castellanos García de Blas (2022) Supervisors: S. Discetti, A. Ianiro
  Currently Researcher at INTA
• Sensing coherent structures from the wall
  Alejandro Güemes Jimenez (2021) Supervisors: A. Ianiro, S. Discetti
  Currently Data Scientist at Boeing
• Turbulent boundary layers with adverse pressure gradient
  Carlos Sanmiguel Vila (2019) Supervisors: S. Discetti, A. Ianiro
  Outstanding thesis award UC3M
  Currently Científico Titular at INTA
• Empirical eigenfunctions: application in unsteady aerodynamics
  Marco Raiola (2017) Supervisors: A. Ianiro, S. Discetti
  Currently Associate Professor in the EAP group (UC3M)
• Three-dimensional organization and heat transfer of jets with fractal generated turbulence
  Gioacchino Cafiero (2016) Supervisors: T. Astarita (Univ. of Naples), S. Discetti
  Currently Assistant Professor at Politecnico di Torino (Italy)
• Investigation of Synthetic Jets Heat Transfer and Flow Field
  Carlo Salvatore Greco (2015)  Supervisors: G. Cardone (Univ. of Naples), A. Ianiro
  Currently Assistant Professor at University of Naples Federico II (Italy)

• POD-based background removal for Particle Image Velocimetry www
• Data-driven Course Course
• Data set repository (Zenodo)
• Open-source data set repository (Github)

• Tommaso Astarita, Gennaro Cardone, Carlo Salvatore Greco, Industrial Engineering Department, University of Naples Federico II
• Gabriele Bellani, Alessandro Talamelli, Universitá Alma Mater Studiorum di Bologna
• Javier Jimenez, Universidad Politécnica de Madrid
• Woutijn Baars, Marios Kotsonis, Fulvio Scarano, Andrea Sciacchitano, Aerodynamics, TU Delft
• Yingzheng Liu, Di Peng, Shanghai Jiao Tong University
• Miguel Alfonso Mendez, von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics
• Bernd Noack, HIT Shenzhen
• Daniele Ragni, Aeroacoustics group, TU Delft
• Ricardo Vinuesa, KTH, Department of Mechanics
• Chris Willert, German Aerospace Center