Dr Pablo Ouro
Science for a sustainable future
Research Fellow.
The University of Manchester, UK
Offshore renewable energy farms: wake effects or improving energy harnessing are some of the topics we are currently investigating.
River turbines: river turbine arrays as sustainable resource for energy generation.
Wall-rough turbulence: mechanisms leading to bed resistance with heterogeneous bed roughness.
Environmental Fluid Mechanics: woody debris dams, multi-scale modelling.
Microplastics: interaction of sediment and microplastics.
High-Performance Computing: Optimisation the performance and scalability of CFD codes on the latest HPC architectures, e.g. ARM, AMD, Intel.
Swimming fish kinematics: impact of anthropogenic structures in fish passage or energy expenditure, in the wake of turbines or woody debris dams.
We study environmental fluid mechanics with
state-of-the-art high-fidelity numerical simulations
and experiments in hydraulic flumes
that we use to build theoretical models.
Selected recent publications
[] Drivers for mass and momentum exchange between the main channel and river bank lateral cavities.
Ouro P, Juez C, Franca M.
Advances in Water Resources. 137:103511. 2020. [URL] [PDF]
[] Analysis of array spacing on tidal stream turbine farm performance using Large-Eddy Simulation.
Ouro P, Ramirez L, Harrold M. Journal of Fluids and Structures. 91: 102732. 2019. [PDF]
[] Friction factor decomposition for rough-wall flows: theoretical background and application to open-channel flows.
Nikora V, Stoesser T, Cameron S, Stewart M, Papadopoulos K, Ouro P, McSherry R, Zampiron A, Marusic I, Falconer R. Journal of Fluid Mechanics. 872: 626-664. 2019. [URL]
Latest news
07/2021 9th ISEH conference, South Korea. Best paper award received by our contribution led by the PhD student Stephanie Mueller.
11/2020 Seminar talk. IHE-Delft. Last talk "From experiments to large-eddy simulation: developing efficienc hydrokinetic turbine arrays", can be watched again on: https://ocw.un-ihe.org/mod/bigbluebuttonbn/view.php?id=7665#.
09/2020 The University of Manchester. Pablo has joint the top-30 university as a Dame Kathleen Ollerenshaw Fellow to continue his research in the field of offshore renewable energy.
08/2019. Researchers prove that new supercomputers can compete with the mainstream. Cardiff University researchers prove that ARM-based processors are production-ready and competitive with existing mainstream processors. [link]
Upcoming conferences
European Wave and Tidal Energy Conference 2021. Plymouth, UK.
IAHR World Congress 2021. Granada, Spain.