Congratulations to our Rodrigo Castellanos for winning the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid 2022-2023 Extraordinary Doctoral Award for his PhD thesis "Convective Heat Transfer Control in Turbulent Boundary Layers"! 🎉 🏆 This well-deserved achievement recognizes the quality of his doctoral research based on its scientific and technological contributions. Rodrigo’s thesis, supervised by Stefano Discetti and Andrea Ianiro, delved into convective heat transfer in turbulent wall-bounded flows, addressing innovative control solutions based on plasma actuators and pulsed jets. This experimental study showcased the potential of machine-learning methods, including Reinforcement Learning and Evolutionary Algorithms, in optimizing flow control for future technological applications in the field of heat transfer. The work enclosed in this thesis has been partially supported by UC3M through a PIPF scholarship awarded on a competitive basis, and by the following research projects: ARTURO (Active contRol of Turbulence for sUstainable aiRcraft propulsiOn), ref. PID2019-109717RB-I00/AEI/10.13039/501100011033, funded by the Agencia Estatal de Investigación; the 2020 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators AEROMATIC (Active flow control of aerodynamic flows with machine learning), funded by the BBVA Foundation with grant number IN[20]_ING_ING_0163; GloWing Starting Grant, funded by the European Research Council (ERC), under grant agreement no 803082. More 👉 https://lnkd.in/dTq7Fwfy Aerospace Engineering UC3M #FluidMechanics #FlowControl #MachineLearning #award #PhDJourney
This is well deserved! Congrats!!!