CV

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Contact Information

Name Miguel Ángel Fosas de Pando
Professional Title Associate Professor of Fluid Mechanics
Email miguel.fosas@uca.es

Professional Summary

Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor) in Fluid Mechanics at the University of Cádiz, Spain. PhD from École Polytechnique (2012, cotutelle with ONERA), supervised by Peter J. Schmid and Denis Sipp. David Crighton Fellow at DAMTP, University of Cambridge (2014). Visiting researcher at Caltech and Stanford. Research focuses on computational fluid dynamics, hydrodynamic instabilities, aeroacoustics, adjoint-based methods, reduced-order models, and numerical optimization. Author of 13 indexed journal articles (h-index: 8, over 400 citations). Principal Investigator of a national competitive research project and supervisor of 3 doctoral theses.

Experience

  • 2019 -

    Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain

    Associate Professor (Profesor Contratado Doctor)
    Universidad de Cádiz
    Permanent full-time position in the Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design, School of Engineering.
    • Teaching: Aerodynamics I & II, Fluid Mechanics, Aeroelasticity (Aerospace Engineering degree)
    • Principal Investigator of national competitive research project DPI2016-75777-R (2016–2020)
    • Coordinator of the Aerospace Engineering degree (2016–2019)
    • Supervisor of 3 doctoral theses (2 completed, 1 ongoing)
  • 2015 - 2019

    Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain

    Assistant Professor (Profesor Ayudante Doctor)
    Universidad de Cádiz
  • 2013 - 2015

    Puerto Real, Cádiz, Spain

    Lecturer
    Universidad de Cádiz
  • 2013 - 2014

    Palaiseau, France

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    École Polytechnique – LadHyX (CNRS)
    • David Crighton Fellow at DAMTP, University of Cambridge (Oct 2013 – Feb 2014)
    • Visiting Researcher at Caltech (GALCIT), Pasadena, CA (Jun–Jul 2013)
    • Participant in the CTR Summer Program, Stanford University (Jul 2014)
  • 2009 - 2012

    Palaiseau, France

    PhD Researcher
    École Polytechnique – LadHyX (CNRS) / ONERA
    • Teaching at ENSTA ParisTech and École Centrale Paris

Education

  • 2009 - 2012

    Palaiseau, France

    PhD
    École Polytechnique
    Mechanics
    • Thesis: Tonal noise in flows around aerofoils: a global stability analysis
    • Supervisors: Peter J. Schmid (LadHyX, CNRS–École Polytechnique) and Denis Sipp (ONERA)
    • Cotutelle agreement with ONERA. Funded by the French Ministry of Higher Education and Research.
  • 2008 - 2009

    Toulouse, France

    Master of Research
    ISAE-Supaero
    Fluid Dynamics, Energetics and Transfers
    • Erasmus scholarship (EU/Spain/Junta de Andalucía)
  • 2004 - 2009

    Seville, Spain

    MEng (Ingeniero Aeronáutico)
    Universidad de Sevilla
    Aerospace Engineering
    • 2nd best academic record of the graduating class

Awards

  • 2013
    David Crighton Fellowship
    University of Cambridge, DAMTP

    Competitive postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.

  • 2013
    Postdoctoral Fellowship (Jeune post-doc)
    École Polytechnique, LadHyX

    Postdoctoral fellowship at the Hydrodynamics Laboratory (LadHyX), École Polytechnique.

  • 2009
    PhD Fellowship (Ministère de l'Enseignement Supérieur et de la Recherche)
    French Ministry of Higher Education and Research

    Full doctoral fellowship for PhD research at LadHyX, École Polytechnique (2009–2012).

  • 2009
    2nd Best Academic Record – Aerospace Engineering
    Universidad de Sevilla

    Second best academic record of the Aerospace Engineering graduating class.

Publications

Skills

Computational Fluid Dynamics (Expert): Direct Numerical Simulation, high-order methods, immersed boundary methods, compressible flow solvers
Stability Analysis & Adjoint Methods (Expert): Global and non-modal stability, adjoint operators, sensitivity analysis, receptivity
Numerical Optimization (Expert): Adjoint-based optimization, Bayesian optimization, reduced-order models, POD-DEIM
Scientific Programming (Advanced): Fortran, Python, CUDA, MPI, OpenMP, OpenFOAM, SU2

Languages

Spanish : Native speaker
English : Proficient (C1)
French : Proficient (C1)

Interests

Aeroacoustics: Tonal noise, trailing-edge noise, turbomachinery aeroacoustics
Hydrodynamic Instabilities: Global stability, non-modal stability, receptivity, rotating stall
Computational Methods: High-order methods, reduced-order models, adjoint methods, Bayesian optimization

Projects

  • Adjoint-based methods for stability analysis and control of unsteady flows in axial compressors (DPI2016-75777-R)

    Competitive research project funded by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness. Collaboration with researchers from the University of Cambridge, Imperial College London, University of Oxford, and Sorbonne Université.

    • Role: Principal Investigator (3 researchers, 100,188 € budget)
    • Outcomes: publications in Phys. Rev. Fluids (2017, 2023), Comput. Fluids (2022), J. Comput. Phys. (2022)
  • Aeroacoustics and Hydrodynamics of Flue-like Wind Instruments – Aeroflut (PID2022-141243NA-I00)

    Competitive research project funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2022).

    • Role: Team member (PI: Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico)
    • Budget: 81,250 €