Pablo Ouro Barba
Lecturer in Computational Hydraulics
- Available for postgraduate supervision
Lecturer in Computational Hydraulics at Cardiff School of Engineering with expertise in high-fidelity Computational Fluid Dynamics, hydraulics and environmental flows, fluid-structure interaction, offshore renewable energies and high-performance computing.
I obtained my MEng in Civil Engineering from the University of A Coruna (Spain) after which I worked as Research Structural Engineer at the Structural Mechanics Group (http://gme.udc.es/en) for 6 months. In the academic year 2011-2012 I went to Chalmers University of Technology (Sweden) with an Erasmus grant.
In late 2013, I moved to Cardiff University to pursue my PhD degree at the Hydro-environmental Research Centre. From 2017-2019 I worked as Research Software Engineer in the Supercomputing Wales project appointed to the School of Engineering.
Honours and awards
Funding:
- 2019: Understanding the complexities of Large-Eddy Simulation: towards efficiently modelling offshore tidal turbine farms. EPSRC ICT Discipline Hopping. PI: Unai Lopez-Novoa; Co-I: Pablo Ouro. £166,548.
- 2019: ESPRC Global Challenges Research Funds IAA award. Joint with National University of Colombia. Role: PI.
- 2019: ESPRC Impact Acceleration Accound award with ORE Catapult. Role: PI.
- 2018. Distributed Fibre-optic Cable Sensing for Buried Pipe Infrastructure. EPSRC Standard grant. PI: Thorsten Stoesser; Co-Is: Pablo Ouro, Zhihua Xie. £456,723.
- 2018: Evaluation of the performance of a large-eddy simulation code on 64-bits ARMv8 processors. GW4 Data Science seed corn project. Role: PI
Personal Awards:
- 2019: GW4 'Data Science' Crucible member.
- 2017: Reynolds Osborne day. Oral presentation finalist.
- 2017: Winner best poster at PGR ENGIN conference .
- 2016: PGR Poster competition at Cardiff School of Engineering.
- 2015: John F Kennedy. Winner. IAHR World Congress.
- 2015: Travel Award. ECCOMAS.
Professional memberships
2019 - present: Member of the Early Career Researchers network board from Supergen Offshore Renewable Energy hub.
2019 - present: Academic representative, IAHR Cardiff Young Professionals Network.
2015 - 2016: Secretary, IAHR Cardiff Young Professionals Network.
Academic positions
2019 - present: Lecturer in Computational Hydraulics, Cardiff University.
2017 - 2019: Research Software Engineer, Supercomputing Wales. Cardiff University.
2017 - 2017: Research Associate. Cardiff University.
2013 - 2017: PhD Candidate. Cardiff University.
2011 - 2013: Researcher. University of A Coruna, Spain.
Committees and reviewing
Reviewer peer-review Journals:
- Computer Methods in Applied Mechanics and Engineering (CMAME).
- Energies.
- Environmental Fluid Mechanics.
- Journal of Hydraulic Engineering.
- Journal of Hydraulic Research.
- Mathematical Applications in Engineering.
- Renewable Energy.
- Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy.
- Water Resources Research.
- Water.
- Wind Energy.
International Scientific commitees:
- 2020 Riverflow. Delft, The Netherlands.
2020
- Harrold, M., Ouro, P. and O'Doherty, T. 2020. Performance assessment of a tidal turbine using two flow references. Renewable Energy 153, pp. 624-633. (10.1016/j.renene.2019.12.052)
- Ouro, P., Juez, C. and Franca, M. 2020. Drivers for mass and momentum exchange between the main channel and river bank lateral cavities. Advances in Water Resources 137, article number: 103511. (10.1016/j.advwatres.2020.103511)
2019
- Massie, L.et al. 2019. An actuator surface model to simulate vertical axis turbines. Energies 12(24), article number: 4741. (10.3390/en12244741)
- Muhawenimana, V.et al. 2019. Spanwise cylinder wake hydrodynamics and fish behaviour. Water Resources Research 55(11), pp. 8569-8582. (10.1029/2018WR024217)
- Ouro, P., Ramírez, L. and Harrold, M. 2019. Analysis of array spacing on tidal stream turbine farm performance using Large-Eddy Simulation. Journal of Fluids and Structures 91, article number: 102732. (10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2019.102732)
- Nikora, V. I.et al. 2019. Friction factor decomposition for rough-wall flows: theoretical background and application to open-channel flows. Journal of Fluid Mechanics 872, pp. 626-664. (10.1017/jfm.2019.344)
- Ouro, P.et al. 2019. Three-dimensionality of the wake recovery behind a vertical axis turbine. Renewable Energy 133, pp. 1066-1077. (10.1016/j.renene.2018.10.111)
- Harrold, M. and Ouro, P. 2019. Rotor loading characteristics of a full-scale tidal turbine. Energies 12(6), pp. 1035. (10.3390/en12061035)
- Ouro, P. and Stoesser, T. 2019. Impact of environmental turbulence on the performance and loadings of a tidal stream turbine. Flow, Turbulence and Combustion 102(3), pp. 613-639. (10.1007/s10494-018-9975-6)
- Ramírez, L.et al. 2019. A higher-order Chimera method based on Moving Least Squares. In: Ferrer, E. and Montlaur, A. eds. Recent Advances in CFD for Wind and Tidal Offshore Turbines. Springer, pp. 73-82., (10.1007/978-3-030-11887-7_7)
2018
- Ramírez, L.et al. 2018. A higher-order chimera method for finite volume schemes. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering 25(3), pp. 691-706. (10.1007/s11831-017-9213-8)
- Ouro, P.et al. 2018. Instantaneous transport of a passive scalar in a turbulent separated flow. Environmental Fluid Mechanics 18(2), pp. 487-513. (10.1007/s10652-017-9567-3)
- Ouro, P., Stoesser, T. and Ramirez, L. 2018. Effect of blade cambering on dynamic stall in view of designing vertical axis turbines. Journal of Fluids Engineering 140(6), article number: 61104. (10.1115/1.4039235)
2017
- Ouro, P. and Stoesser, T. 2017. Wake generated downstream of a vertical axis tidal turbine. Presented at: 12th European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference (EWTEC), Cork, Ireland, 27 August - 1 September 2017.
- Ouro, P. and Stoesser, T. 2017. An immersed boundary-based large-eddy simulation approach to predict the performance of vertical axis tidal turbines. Computers & Fluids 152, pp. 74-87. (10.1016/j.compfluid.2017.04.003)
- Ouro, P.et al. 2017. Hydrodynamic loadings on a horizontal axis tidal turbine prototype. Journal of Fluids and Structures 71, pp. 78-95. (10.1016/j.jfluidstructs.2017.03.009)
- Ouro, P. 2017. Large eddy simulation of tidal turbines. PhD Thesis, Cardiff University.
2016
- Ouro, P.et al. 2016. An immersed boundary method for unstructured meshes in depth averaged shallow water models. International Journal for Numerical Methods in Fluids 81(11), pp. 672-688. (10.1002/fld.4201)
2015
- Ouro, P., Stoesser, T. and McSherry, R. 2015. Large-eddy simulation of a Vertical Axis Tidal Turbine using an Immersed Boundary Method. In: Ferrer, E. and Montlaur, A. eds. CFD for Wind and Tidal Offshore Turbines. Springer Tracts in Mechanical Engineering Springer, pp. 49-58., (10.1007/978-3-319-16202-7_5)
Modules thought in BEng and MEng in Civil Engineering:
2019 - 2020: EN4576. Sediment Transport Dynamics. 4th year. Module leader.
2019 - 2020: EN3317. Environmental Hydraulics. 3rd year. Module leader.
2019 - 2020: EN3094. MEng International. 3rd year. Module leader.
2019 - 2020: EN3300. Final project. 3rd year.
2018 - 2020: ENT509. MSc dissertation. 1st year MSc Civil Engineering.
2018 - 2020: EN2315. Professional studies and construction. 2nd year. Assistant lecturer.
2017 - 2019 : EN4575. Environmental Fluid Mechanics. 4th year. Assistant lecturer.
2017 -2018: Hydraulics. 2nd year. Assistant lecturer.
My main research areas are:
- Large-eddy and direct numerical simulation.
- Offshore renewable energy: tidal stream turbines and wind turbine farms.
- Fluid-structure interaction.
- Turbulence in environmental flows and hydraulics.
- Free-surface flows.
- Multi-phase flows: Eulerian-Eulerian and Eulerian-Lagrangian.
- Flood modelling.
- Sediment transport.
The research areas I am keen on having research students are:
- Hydrodynamics of tidal turbine arrays.
- Bio-mimetic hydrodynamics.
- Development of hybrid turbulence models.
- Modelling of offshore wind farms.
- Flood modelling.
- Microplastics and sediment transport.
Current supervision
Past projects
MSc theses:
2019
- Zhi Xu. Natural flood man. intervention: Experimental investigation to examine the impact of woody debris dams on flood levels. Co-supervised with Dr Wilson
- Mathieu Caron. Influence of relative submergence on the tidal turbine array wake recovery. Visiting student from Ecole Polytechnique, France.
2018
- Ziwei Hu. Physical Model of Hydrodynamic of The Coastal Reservoir. Co-supervised with Prof. Falconer.
- Huda Bosnina. Actuator-line model for vertical axis tidal turbines. Co-supervised with Prof. Stoesser.
- Chin Vong. Investigating secondary currents-induced drag reduction using streamwise oriented objects. Co-supervised with Prof. Stoesser.
2016
- Nicolo Viti. CFD simulation and validation of a contact tank: hydrodynamics and solute transport. Co-supervised with Prof. Stoesser and Dr. Angeloudis.
