Tariq Ridwan

Biography

I am doing PhD at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC · BarcelonaTECH), on modeling properties of daytime atmospheric boundary layers (ABL) for different environmental conditions to improve the characterization of wind properties for wind energy applications. In particular:
● study barotropic daytime ABLs using large eddy simulations (LES) and open-source C++ code OpenFOAM.
● study the use of wall modeling in LES (WMLES) to reproduce important ABL flow characteristics.

My PhD supervisors are Adeline Villardi de Montlaur and David Pino González from UPC, and Juan Pedro Mellado González from Universität Hamburg.

As part of my PhD work, I had a year-long research visit at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC · CNS) to learn High-Performance Computing (HPC) techniques to conduct CFD simulations using parallel multi-physics code. I had a second research visit of two months at Meteorologisches Institut of Universität Hamburg to conduct and validate the wall-resolved (WRLES) and wall-modeled LES (WMLES) results of ABL flows against DNS.

Previously from 2020 to 2021, I worked as an R&D Engineer at Vortex Engineering, Malaysia, on alternate fuel combustion and multidisciplinary CFD. I also worked as a Research Associate and CFD consultant at Jubail University College, Saudi Arabia, in alternate fuel-powered engine design and fluid-structure interaction (FSI) projects. During my Master’s study in 2017-19 at IIUM Malaysia, I designed a swirling flow gas turbine combustor to assess biogas' feasibility compared to traditional natural gas for industrial gas turbines.

In 2014-15 in Sweden, I attended the MSc. Applied Mechanics program at Chalmers University of Technology (CTH), Göteborg.

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Research

Research interests:
● Meteorology, Wind energy, alternate fuels combustion.
● Atmospheric boundary layers (ABL) flows, land-atmosphere interactions.
● Turbulent mixing, shear- and buoyancy-driven flows, entrainment.
● OpenFOAM, development of open-source CFD codes & HPC multi-physics CFD codes for massively parallel supercomputers.
● Large Eddy & Direct Numerical simulations, wall-modeled LES (WMLES), high-performance computing (HPC).

Funding/research grant:
● 4-year fellowship for doctoral research by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation, €98960 (2021–2025).
● 3.1 million core-hours computational time to simulate ABL flows in Marenostrum5 Supercomputer at Barcelona Supercomputing Center (BSC), by Red Española de Supercomputación (RES - The Spanish Supercomputing Network) in June 2024.
● 2.5 million core-hours computational time by RES in October 2024.

Ongoing project:
● TABL4CW: Turbulence and large coherent structures in the atmospheric boundary layer: Fundamental aspects for parametrizations of cloud formation and for wind-energy applications, 96800€, 01/06/2020–30/11/2024: futur.upc.edu/28980349.
In collaboration with Barcelona Supercomputing Centre, Meteorological Institute of Universität Hamburg, Max Planck Insittute for Meteorology, and Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization.

Previous projects:
● Design and development of a novel alternate fuel powered annular gas turbine engine for power generation (2020-21).
● Comparative study of Natural Gas (Traditional) and Biogas (Alternative Fuel) combustion in a swirling flow gas turbine combustor (2017-19). Project URL
● Numerical and experimental analysis of nonlinear dynamics of slender flexible cylinders in axial flow with multiple support conditions (2018-19).
● Investigation of active control of Nano-Thin Film flows (2012-14). Project URL
● Investigation of secondary flow in diffusers of stationary gas turbines (2013).

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Publications

A. Hoda, Tariq Ridwan, W. Asrar (2021): A Comparative Study of Natural Gas and Biogas Combustion in A Swirling Flow Gas Turbine Combustor, Combustion Science and Technology 194 (13), 2613-2640. DOI: 10.1080/00102202.2021.1882441.

Tariq Ridwan, W. Asrar (2019): An Investigation of RANS Simulations for Swirl-Stabilized Isothermal Turbulent Flow in a Gas Turbine Burner, CFD Letters 11 (9), 14-31. URL: akademiabaru.com/cfdl/3181.

Tariq Ridwan, Adeline Montlaur, David Pino, Juan Pedro Mellado (2024): OpenFOAM large-eddy simulations of sheared convective boundary layers, 19th OpenFOAM Workshop (OFW19), Beijing, China, 25-28 June, 2024.

Tariq Ridwan, Juan Pedro Mellado, David Pino, Adeline Montlaur (2024): Investigation on wall-resolved and wall-modeled Large-Eddy Simulations of daytime Atmospheric Boundary Layers, 9th European Congress on Computational Methods in Applied Sciences and Engineering (ECCOMAS2024), Lisbon, Portugal, 3-7 June, 2024.

Tariq Ridwan, David Pino, Adeline Montlaur (2023): Investigation on wall-resolved and wall-modeled large-eddy simulations of a barotropic convective boundary layer, 18th European Turbulence Conference (ETC18), València, Spain, 4-6 September, 2023.

Tariq Ridwan, David Pino, Adeline Montlaur (2023): OpenFOAM large-eddy simulations of a barotropic convective boundary layer at moderate Reynolds number, 18th OpenFOAM Workshop (OFW18), Genoa, Italy, 11-14 July, 2023.

Tariq Ridwan (2020): A comparative study of Natural Gas and Biogas combustion in a swirling flow gas turbine combustor, Master's thesis, Department of Mechanical Engineering, IIUM, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. URL: IIUM Theses Repository.

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Contact

Edifici C3, Despatx 113
Castelldefels School of Telecommunications and Aerospace Engineering (EETAC)
Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Campus del Baix Llobregat
Parc Mediterrani de la Tecnologia
Carrer d'Esteve Terradas, 5
08860 Castelldefels, Barcelona, Spain.
Email: tariq.md.ridwanur.rahman@upc.edu · Telèfon: +34 934 13 41 56
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