CV

Contact Information

Name Rodolfo Ostilla Mónico
Professional Title Associate Professor (Profesor Titular), Fluid Mechanics
Email rodolfo.ostilla@uca.es

Professional Summary

Fluid dynamicist specializing in the direct numerical simulation of turbulent flows.

Experience

  • 2026 - present

    Puerto Real, Spain

    Assistant Professor / Profesor Titular
    Universidad de Cádiz
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design, School of Engineering
  • 2022 - 2026

    Puerto Real, Spain

    Emergia Postdoctoral Fellow
    Universidad de Cádiz
    • Department of Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Design, School of Engineering
  • 2017 - 2021

    Houston, USA

    Assistant Professor
    Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of Houston
    • Taught undergraduate and graduate courses in fluid mechanics and non-linear dynamics
    • Supervised 5 MSc theses, 4 undergraduate research projects, and 1 PhD thesis
  • 2015 - 2017

    Cambridge, MA, USA

    Postdoctoral Researcher
    Harvard University
  • 2010 - 2011

    Madrid, Spain

    Trainee
    European Space Astronomy Centre (ESAC)
  • 2008 - 2009

    Seville, Spain

    Research Assistant
    Departamento de Mecánica de Fluidos, Universidad de Sevilla

Education

  • 2011 - 2015

    Enschede, NL

    Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
    Twente University
    Physics of Fluids
    • Thesis: Highly turbulent Taylor-Couette flow: direct numerical simulations
    • Advisors: D. Lohse (director), R. Verzicco (co-director)
  • 2009 - 2010

    Cranfield, UK

    Aerospace Dynamics MSc
    Cranfield University
    Aerodynamics
    • Thesis: Aerodynamic flow control through weak plasma interaction
  • 2005 - 2010

    Sevilla, Spain

    Ingeniero Aeronáutico (5-year degree)
    Universidad de Sevilla
    Aerospace Engineer
  • 2006 - 2022

    Spain

    Grado en Filosofía (Philosophy BSc)
    Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED)
    Philosophy

Projects

  • Aeroacústica e hidrodinámica de los instrumentos musicales tipo chimenea

    University of Cádiz, competitive research project funded by the Spanish State Research Agency (Proyectos de Generación de Conocimiento 2022). Main PI.

    • Total funding: €81,250
  • CDS&E: Multi-scale Coherent Structure Extraction and Tracking for Modern CFD Data Analysis

    University of Houston, competitive research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Co-PI with Guoning Chen and Di Yang.

    • Total funding: $453,000
  • Particulate Rayleigh-Bénard Flow

    University of Houston, competitive research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Principal Investigator.

    • Total funding: $209,666
  • Controlling Secondary Flows by the Use of Non-Wetting Surfaces

    University of Houston, competitive research project funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation. Co-PI with Kamran Alba.

    • Total funding: $340,000

Awards

  • 2022

    Fellowship funding return to Spain and research at the Universidad de Cádiz (€85,000).

Publications

Skills

Computational Fluid Dynamics: Direct Numerical Simulation, Large-Eddy Simulation, GPU-accelerated solvers, turbulence, Taylor-Couette flow, Rayleigh-Bénard convection
Applied Fluid Mechanics: Aeroacoustics, vortex dynamics, ventilation and airborne transmission, hydrodynamics of musical instruments, biomechanics of flow

Interests

Philosophy of Science: Ethics in Science, Open Science, People's Science

Languages

Spanish : Native speaker
English : Fluent
Mandarin Chinese : B1