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Building up from canonical experiments
Looking forward to the first results of our Bunsen and counterflow burners to characterize natural gas/hydrogen flames.
Building up from canonical experiments
Move forward on detonation modeling
We are focusing our energy on characterizing hydrogen and DME detonations using simple models and following innovative approaches.
Move forward on detonation modeling
Fernando Veiga López

Fernando Veiga López

Assistant professor of Fluid Mechanics

Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (uc3m)

Biography

I have been playing with fire since 2015, when I joined the aerospace combustion group at TU Delft to carry out my MSc Thesis on hydrogen burners. Amazed by the complex physics and beauty of combustion, I moved to Madrid to study the topology and stability of gaseous laminar flames in confined environments as my PhD Thesis topic. The discovery of two dangerous and unknown propagation regimes for hydrogen mixtures is one of the most important accomplishments during this period. After my PhD, I expanded my research areas at CNRS-Institut Pprime, developing simplified detonation models to avoid explosions of hydrogen mixtures.

Currently, I am working on studying hydrogen addition to natural gas, from how to include and mix hydrogen to the available pipelines to the safety assessment of these blends when burning, with my focus on flashback.

Interests
  • Hydrogen and innovative fuels
  • Combustion and reactive flows
  • Thermo-fluid mechanics
  • Teaching (Fluid mechanics courses / around 600 hours) and tutoring (11 students)
Education
  • PhD in Fluid Mechanics, 2020

    Universidad Carlos III de Madrid

  • MSc in Aerospace Engineering, 2016

    TU Delft

  • BSc in Aerospace Engineering, 2014

    Universidad Politécnica de Madrid

Experience

 
 
 
 
 
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Assistant professor
Feb 2022 – Present Madrid, España

Research interests:

  • Hydrogen combustion
  • Hydrogen and natural gas blends mixing and flashback
 
 
 
 
 
Institut Pprime - CNRS
Postdoctoral researcher
Feb 2021 – Feb 2022 Poitiers, France

Research interests:

  • Hydrogen detonations
  • Chemistry effect on detonations
 
 
 
 
 
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Postdoctoral researcher
Jun 2020 – Feb 2021 Madrid, España

Research interests:

  • Hydrogen combustion
  • Flame-condensation interaction
 
 
 
 
 
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
Predoctoral researcher
Feb 2017 – Jun 2020 Madrid, España

Research interests:

  • Alternative fuels combustion
  • Flame topology and instabilities

Awards

Extraordinary PhD thesis prize
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2018 APS/DFD Milton van Dyke award
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Outstanding Student Presentation
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Other Journal Articles

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Effect of ozone addition on curved detonations
Analysis of ozone addition on curved detonations.
Effect of ozone addition on curved detonations
La sigilosa combustión del hidrógeno
La sigilosa combustión del hidrógeno

Last and Upcoming Talks

Influence of low temperature chemistry on steady detonations with curvature losses
We present the solutions that appear at low detonation speeds when considering low temperature chemistry of DME.
Influence of low temperature chemistry on steady detonations with curvature losses
A Methodology to Develop Simplified Kinetic Schemes for Detonation Simulations
We present an alternative methodology to obtain simplified chemical model by matching the steady solutions obtained with slightly-curved detonations.
A Methodology to Develop Simplified Kinetic Schemes for Detonation Simulations

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