PhD candidates

Salil Luesutthiviboon obtained his MSc degree in Aerospace Engineering from Delft University of Technology. His MSc thesis focused on optimization of a microphone array for to improve beamforming performance, specifically for aeroacoustic applications. He is currently a PhD candidate within the Innovative PERmeable Materials for Airfoil Noise reduction (IPER-MAN) project funded by the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO). His current research focuses on development of permeable materials for maximized reduction of noise from wind turbine blades, with minimal impacts on performance of the wind turbine.

Contact: S.Luesutthiviboon@tudelft.nl

Tércio has a degree in aeronautical engineering by the University of São Paulo and is currently pursuing a PhD at Delft University of Technology. His work is focused on the study of trailing-edge serrations for wind turbine noise reduction.

Contact: L.T.LimaPereira@tudelft.nl

Hugo Bento was born in Lisbon, Portugal, where he completed his BSc degree in Aerospace engineering at Instituto Superior Técnico. He pursued his MSc in Aerospace Engineering at Delft University of Technology. His numerical thesis research focused on ducted propeller aerodynamic performance. He is currently doing experimental and numerical research at TU Delft as a PhD candidate. The research focuses on the application of wall liners to closed wind tunnel test sections, with applications to wind turbine blade acoustic measurements.

Contact: H.F.MouraoBento@tudelft.nl

Edoardo obtained his BSc in Mechanical Engineering and his MSc in Aeronautical Engineering from Roma Tre University. He is currently pursuing a PhD at Delft University of Technology. Edoardo’s research focus is on aerodynamics and aeroacoustics of low-Reynolds propellers for drones applications, by means of low fidelity methods, experiments and high fidelity simulations.

Contact: E.Grande@tudelft.nl

Yunusi Fuerkaiti studied Mechanical Engineering at the Istanbul Technical University (Turkey) and Aeronautical Engineering at the Free University Brussels (Belgium).

He is currently pursuing his Ph.D. at the Delft University of Technology. His is working on long-range noise propagation modelling for aeronautical applications.

Contact: Y.Fuerkaiti@tudelft.nl

I studied Design-Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche, Italy. I am currently carrying out my Ph.D. at von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics, Belgium, in collaboration with TU Delft in the framework of the ITN SmartAnswer. My research involves the investigation of turbulence-interaction noise reduction through porosity, with a special focus put on the analysis of the distortion experienced by the turbulence in the interaction with the porous surface.

Contact:  R.Zamponi@tudelft.nl

Cornelius studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Stuttgart (Germany) and Lunds Universitet (Sweden) and is specialized in aerodynamics, turbulence, numerical fluid dynamics, aeroacoustics and wind turbine blade design. His PhD project within the Marie Skłodowska‑Curie ETN Zephyr program in collaboration with Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy considers the impact of inflow conditions on noise emission of large-scale wind turbines and the validation of noise mitigation technologies.

Contact: C.J.Hoffrogge@tudelft.nl

Rubén Gutiérrez Amo was born in Miranda de Ebro (Spain) at where his interest on Physics began.  He obatined a Mechanical Engineering degree in the Faculty of Engineering of Vitoria-Gasteiz (UPV/EHU). Subsequently, he studied a Master of Science in Computational and Applied Mechanical Engineering in the Public University of Navarre meanwhile he was working as an intern in CENER during one year. Rubén participated in the European researching project called Offshore Demonstration Blade.

Since 2018, he has been working as an Aerodynamic Blade Junior Engineer in Nordex Energy Spain S.A.U. Providing new findings with research is one of the reasons why Rubén loves to do research. Apart from currently working as an engineer in Nordex, Rubén is a PhD candidate by a collaboration with UPNA, Nordex and TU-Delft. His current research is based on the aerodynamic effect of leading-edge roughness in horizontal axis wind turbines performance. The aim of the research is to improve the modelling of roughness effect using CFD and wind tunnel experiments.

Contact: RGutierrez@nordex-online.com

Colin van Dercreek received his B.S. in Engineering Mechanics from the University of Wisconsin – Madison and his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering at the University of Maryland. He worked on experimental VTOL aircraft at the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). He was heavily involved in operational testing and analysis at the Institute for Defense Analyses (IDA). His current research interests are Aeroacoustics and improving acoustic measurements in wind tunnels through optimizing the tunnel wall geometry surrounding microphones.

Contact: C.P.vanDercreek@tudelft.nl

Gianluca Romani holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering (2013) and a MSc in Aeronautical Engineering (2016) both from Roma Tre University (Italy). He is currently working as Aerospace Application Engineer at Dassault Systèmes (Germany) and pursuing a PhD at Aerospace Faculty of Delft University of Technology (the Netherlands). His research focuses on the numerical analysis of rotorcraft blade-vortex interaction noise, aerofoil turbulent boundary-layer trailing-edge noise, low-Reynolds propeller noise and fan boundary-layer ingestion noise by means of the lattice-Boltzmann methodology.

Contact: G.Romani@tudelft.nl

Manoel has a background in noise and vibration control using numerical and experimental approaches. He worked for three years as a researcher in the Vibration and Acoustics Laboratory (LVA) at the Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil, modeling the vibroacoustic problems resulted from the multiphase flow in expansion devices of refrigerators. Now his main topics of research are aeroacoustics of diffuser-augmented wind turbines and optimization methods.

Contact: J.M.FreireGuimaraes@tudelft.nl

Leandro has a Bachelor degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. He is currently a PhD candidate at the Delft University of Technology, working on jet aeroacoustics and jet-installation noise reduction through the application of porous materials.

Contact: L.Rego@tudelft.nl

Christopher Teruna is a doctoral candidate within the Aeroacoustics research group of the Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He completed his undergraduate study, majoring in aerospace Engineering, at Bandung Institute of Technology, Indonesia (2014). Afterward, he completed his M.S. in Aerospace Engineering from Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology, South Korea (2017). His current research interest is in aeroacoustics of turbulence impingement noise (TIN).

Contact: C.Teruna@tudelft.nl

Obtained a BSc (2017) and MSc (2020) in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Twente with a specialisation in Fluid and Thermal engineering. Currently a PhD candidate at the Delft University of Technology. His work is focused on the aerodynamic and aeroacoustics of distributed propulsion systems.

Umberto Boatto studied at Politecnico di Milano where he obtained a Bachelor in Aerospace Engineering. He continued his education at TU Delft with a Master in Aerodynamics and Wind Energy. His graduation project focused on the development of a fluid-structure interaction coupling between a CFD and a multibody solver for semirigid airfoil systems. He is about to start a PhD on low-fidelity aerodynamic simulation methods for rotorcraft and wind turbines and their coupling with structural tools in collaboration with Siemens Samtech.

Contact: U.Boatto@tudelft.nl

Yanan Zhang obtained MSc (2019) in Control Science and Engineering from Ocean University of China, Qingdao, China, and BSc (2016) in New Energy Science and Engineering from Hohai University, Nanjing, China, respectively. He is currently pursuing doctoral degree under the grant of Chinese Government Scholarship at Faculty of Aerospace Engineering, Delft University of Technology and working on wind turbine blade condition monitoring and fault detection using aerodynamic noise.

Contact: Yanan.Zhang@tudelft.nl

Fernanda has a Bachelor’s degree in aeronautical engineering and an MSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of São Paulo in Brazil. She is currently pursuing a Ph.D. at the Delft University of Technology. Her work investigates the aerodynamic and acoustic effects of a distributed propulsion system installed in a wing.

Contact: F.doNascimentoMonteiro@tudelft.nl

Marios Kotsonis studied Mechanical Engineering and Aeronautics at the University of Patras, Greece and holds a PhD from Delft University of Technology. His main research interests include flow stability, transition from laminar to turbulent flow, flow control and development of flow control actuators. In 2012 he received a Veni grant from the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and in 2018 a European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant. He is currently working on measurement and control of swept wing transition processes.

Theo Michelis holds a BEng degree in Mechanical Engineering from University College London, as well as an MSc and a PhD title in Aerodynamics from Delft University of Technology. His research focuses on laminar boundary layers, laminar separation bubbles, and the use of plasma actuators as tools for boundary layer control and diagnostics. He has a strong background in both experimental measurements and numerical simulations. Currently, he is developing advanced metamaterials for laminar to turbulent transition control.

Contact: t.michelis@tudelft.nl
Publications: ResearchGate, Google Scholar

Kaisheng Peng majored in Electrical Engineering at the Southwest Jiaotong University in China and was awarded the matser’s degree there. He is enthusiastic about the plasma actuators and its application on flow control. In 2018, he was granted with Chinese Government Scholarship to continue his PhD study in Delft University of Technology. His current work is studying the transition delay on swept wing with plasma actuators.

Contact: k.peng@tudelft.nl

Sven holds a bachelor’s degree in maritime engineering and a master’s degree in aerodynamics from the Delft University of Technology. In 2020, he joined the research group as a Ph.D. focusing on numerical stability techniques where his interests in mathematics and physics come together. In his research, he aims to find more efficient numerical models for crossflow instability simulations around complex geometries found in modern wing designs.

Contact: S.H.J.Westerbeek@tudelft.nl

Giulia Zoppini studied Aeronautical Engineering at Politecnico di Milano, Italy. After the Master degree she moved to the TUDelft to work on a PhD project. Her research addresses the experimental characterization of swept wing instabilities and transition process, with a main focus on their receptivity to surface and distributed roughness elements.

Contact: G.Zoppini@tudelft.nl

PhD in fluid-dynamics (Turin Polytechnic) and acoustics (Ecole Centrale de Lyon), my research interests in aeroacoustics cover propeller noise prediction through semi-analytical and numerical methods, high-fidelity aero-engine fan noise prediction, frequency-domain CAA for duct acoustics and installation effects, sound propagation in sheared flows, integral methods, stochastic noise generation, advanced experimental techniques for space launcher noise, helicopter trajectory optimization, vortex-airfoil interaction noise, liner optimization, long-range acoustic propagation. I am currently chair of Aeroacoustics in the Aerospace faculty of Delft University of Technology, where I lead a team of about ten researchers and PhD students, and I am senior director of aerospace application management at Exa GmbH with a focus on the industrial exploitation of the lattice Boltzmann method for airframe and engine noise predictions. During my career, I have been directly involved in several activities related to fixed- and rotary-wings aerodynamics. I am author and co-author of about thirty archival journal publications in the field of aeroacoustics and unsteady aerodynamics.

Contact: d.casalino@tudelft.nl

Daniele Ragni graduated in Thermo-Mechanical Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Marche (2007). Obtained the Ph.D. in 2012 (Faculty of Aerospace Engineering TU Delft) and joined TU Delft at the section of Wind Energy in the AWEP Department in the same year.

Assistant professor of Aerodynamics and recipient of NWO-STWs Thames (2016), IPER-MAN (2017), Marie Curie ETN SMART-ANSWER (partner, 2016) and European Project ARTEM (partner, 2016). In his current projects across wind energy and propulsion he supervised/s about 10 PhDs.

The research interests cover the development of experimental aeroacoustics (PIV) and its applications to rotors in low/high-speed. His background in wind energy and propulsion is engaging him in the extension of PIV-based pressure reconstruction in wind turbine and aircraft propeller blades for academic and industrial aerodynamics research. Notable developments are the usage of porous open-foams for the abatement of aeroacoustic noise scattering by pressure fluctuations and his studies on new serrated devices for wind-turbine noise reduction.

Contact: d.ragni@tudelft.nl

Francesco Avallone studied Aerospace Engineering at the University of Naples Federico II where he obtained also the PhD. His research interest focuses on application of computational aeroacoustics to investigate the noise generation mechanisms and noise reduction solutions for wind energy and aeronautical applications. He is currently working on acoustic liners, porous materials and urban wind turbines on projects sponsored by Clean Sky 2, NWO and AARC.

Contact: F.Avallone@tudelft.nl 

Alejandro was born in Valencia, Spain, where he obtained his MSc degree in Aerospace Engineering at the Polytechnic University of Valencia. Post graduation, he interned at CMT-Motores Térmicos, where he worked on the modelling of heat transfer models for turbochargers. Then, he completed his Research Master with honours at the Von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (Brussels, Belgium), where his research project dealt with shock-cell noise. He completed his PhD at the Delft University of Technology and is continuing his post-doctoral research in the same research group. His research project aims at designing of porous materials for low-noise aircraft configuration. In particular, he aims at mitigating noise produced at the landing gear and the slat regions.

Contact: A.RubioCarpio@tudelft.nl