Pedro Valente PERSONAL INFORMATION. Date of Birth: 27 of March Home address: R. da Casquilha 16, 6Dto, Lisbon, Portugal

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1 Pedro Valente Instituto Superior Técnico Mecânica I, 1 andar/lasef Avenida Rovisco Pais, Lisboa pedro.cardoso.valente@tecnico.ulisboa.pt PERSONAL INFORMATION Date of Birth: 27 of March 1984 Home address: R. da Casquilha 16, 6Dto, Lisbon, Portugal Phone (PT): Phone (UK): 0044 (0) EDUCATION Ph.D. in Aeronautics Imperial College London, UK Thesis: Energy transfer and dissipation in equilibrium and nonequilibrium turbulence. Supervisor: Prof. Christos Vassilicos. M.Sc. in Experimental and Computational Turbulence (Overall mark A ECTS system) 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).

2 p. 2 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. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Invited lecturer, Instituto Superior Técnico Spring 2014 Lecturer for the course Mecânica dos Fluidos II (undergraduate level) Invited lecturer, Instituto Superior Técnico Spring 2014 Lecturer for the course Turbulência/Dinâmica dos Fluidos Computational (graduate level) Invited lecturer, Instituto Superior Técnico Autumn 2013 Lecturer for the course Mecânica dos Fluidos I (undergraduate level) 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 Spring 2010 Teaching assistant in the Specialist Course in Fortran Programming (postgraduate level). PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Aero-thermodynamics Engineer at Volvo Aero Corp., Full-time (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 ( 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

3 p. 3 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, , P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Comment on Dissipation and decay of fractal-generated turbulence [Phys. Fluids 19, (2007)], Phys. Fluids, 23, , P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Universal dissipation scaling for nonequilibrium turbulence, Phys. Rev. Lett. 108, , P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Dependence of decaying homogeneous isotropic turbulence on inflow conditions, Phys. Lett. A, 376, , 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): , P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, The non-equilibrium region of grid-generated decaying turbulence, J. Fluid Mech. 744, , 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, , P. C. Valente & J. C. Vassilicos, Energy cascade in grid-generated non-equilibrium decaying turbulence (submitted to Exp. Fluids, arxiv: ) 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)

4 p. 4 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, 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 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 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 ER- COFTAC Workshop on Turbulent flows generated/designed in multiscale/fractal ways: fundamentals and applications London, U.K th 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 st July, 2011 Decay of fractal-generated homogeneous turbulence. Presentation at the 63rd Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics, Long Beach, California rd 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.

5 p. 5 HONORS AND AWARDS Postdoctoral Research Scholarship within the research project TurbElast 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 Erasmus Mundus Scholarship REFERENCES Professor Bharathram Ganapathisubramani, University of Southampton, U.K. G.Bharath@soton.ac.uk 0044 (0) Professor Christos Vassilicos, Imperial College London, U.K. j.c.vassilicos@imperial.ac.uk 0044 (0) Professor Carlos da Silva, Instituto Superior Técnico, Portugal carlos.silva@tecnico.ulisboa.pt