People
The group brings together aerospace and mechanical engineers, physicists and mathematicians from the University of Cádiz who share a common approach: describing engineering, physical and biological systems through mathematical models, numerical simulation and experiments.
Permanent faculty
Miguel Ángel Fosas de Pando
Associate Professor · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Hydrodynamic stability, adjoint-based optimisation, reduced-order modelling and aeroacoustics, with applications to turbomachinery.
Antonio Juan Gámez López
Associate Professor · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Low-Reynolds-number locomotion and active matter, mechanics of soft biological tissues, ash deposition in biomass boilers, and modelling of manufacturing processes.
José Hermenegildo García Ortiz
Associate Professor · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Wingtip and trailing vortices, data-driven modal decomposition, fish-swimming hydrodynamics and rheology.
Luis Lafuente Molinero
Associate Professor · Applied Mathematics
Department of Mathematics
Statistical mechanics and density-functional theory, Bayesian optimisation and machine learning for engineering problems.
Pablo Moreno García
Associate Professor · Aerospace Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Structural health monitoring, damage identification in beams and plates, vibration analysis and speckle shearography.
Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Group coordinator
Associate Professor · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Numerical simulation of turbulent flows: thermal convection and sustainable ventilation, shear and vortex flows, the hydrodynamics of musical instruments and the physics of water sports.
rodolfo.ostilla@uca.es · ORCID · UCA profile · Personal website
Alberto Solís Fajardo
Associate Professor · Aerospace Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Damage models for composite laminates, delamination and free-edge effects, and high-velocity impact on sandwich structures.
Juan Ángel Tendero Ventanas
Associate Professor · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Linear instability of vortex systems in the wakes of lifting bodies.
Non-permanent faculty and researchers
Luis García Barrachina
Assistant Professor · Aerospace Engineering
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Superplastic forming of aeronautical components, dimensional analysis and material characterisation.
Marianela Machuca Macías
Postdoctoral Researcher (Junta de Andalucía) · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Computational fluid dynamics of wind and hydrokinetic turbines, and of fish swimming.
Cayetano Martínez Muriel
Substitute Lecturer (Profesor Sustituto Interino) · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Fluid–structure interaction at low Reynolds numbers: flexible flapping wings, gust–aerofoil interaction and passive load mitigation.
PhD students
Miguel Antonio Díaz Troyano
PhD Student
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Thesis: CFD modelling of ash-particle deposit formation in biomass boilers (Modelado CFD de formación de depósitos de partículas de ceniza en calderas de biomasa)
Supervisors: Antonio Juan Gámez López and Chungen Yin (Aalborg University)
Gabriel A. Tarditti
PhD Student · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Thesis: Design of wind towers for passive cooling (Diseño de torres de viento para la refrigeración pasiva)
Supervisor: Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Ammara Tassawar
PhD Student · Fluid Mechanics
Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design
Thesis: Aeroacoustics and hydrodynamics of flue-like wind instruments
Supervisors: Miguel Ángel Fosas de Pando and Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Within each category, members are listed in alphabetical order of first surname. Full publication records are available on each member’s UCA profile and on the group page of the UCA research portal.