Óscar Flores

Oscar Flores is a Full Professor at the Aerospace Engineering Department of the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). He obtained his Bs/Ms. At the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid (UPM), where he also pursued doctoral training in direct numerical simulation (DNS) of wall-bounded turbulent flows. His Ph.D. thesis was one of the 5 best European theses on fluid mechanics (finalists of the Da Vinci Competition 2008, organized by ERCOFTAC). After completing his Ph.D., he was hired at the University of Washington as a Research Associate (2008-2011). During that time, he was selected to participate in the Flow Rate Technical Group, tasked by NOAA with the estimation of the oil spilled in the Deepwater Horizon accident in the Mexican Gulf (April 2010). 

Prof. Flores joined the UC3M in 2011, to launch the Aerospace Area of the UC3M. He has served as Director of the Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering of the UC3M from 02/2015 to 12/2020 and  Vice-Chair of the Aerospace Engineer Dept. from 09/2022 to 11/2024. He currently serves as Chair of the Aerospace Engineering Department (since 11/2024) and as Director of the Aerospace Engineering Research Group (since 09/2022). 

Prof. Flores research deals with the study of the fundamental processes that appear in unsteady and/or turbulent flows, and on the forces that appear in the interactions of these flows with moving surfaces/solids. To study these problems, he uses numerical simulation tools and High-Performance-Computing (HPC) techniques, developing his own numerical solvers when necessary. His work has been funded by European, national and regional projects, and he has directed or co-directed 10 PhD theses to date (8 finished, 2 on-going). 

At the present time, Prof. Flores works actively in three separate research lines with his research group at the UC3M, the CFD-Lab: unsteady aerodynamics at low-Reynolds numbers (in collaboration with Prof. García-Villalba, at TU Wien), wall-bounded turbulent flows (in collaboration with Prof. Jimenez at the UPM), and cardiovascular fluid mechanics (in collaboration with Prof. del Alamo at the University of Washington, and Dr. Bermejo at the Hospital Universitario Gregorio Marañón at Madrid, among others).