Dr Pierre Ricco

Department of Mechanical Engineering

Senior Lecturer

p.ricco@sheffield.ac.uk
+44 114 222 7726

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Dr Pierre Ricco
Department of Mechanical Engineering
Sir Frederick Mappin Building
Mappin Street
Sheffield
S1 3JD
Profile

Pierre Ricco received his PhD in Applied Mathematics (Fluid Mechanics) from Imperial College London in 2006, and is a registered professional engineer. Before joining the department, he was a lecturer in mechanical engineering at King's College London.

He obtained an MSc degree in Mechanical Engineering (Thermal/Fluids systems) at the University of Texas at Austin (2000), a five-year-long Laurea in Ingegneria Meccanica at Politecnico di Milano (2001), and a post-graduate diploma in Environmental and Applied Fluid Dynamics at the von Karman Institute for Fluid Dynamics (2001).

He carried out his post-doc research at the Institute for Mathematical Sciences at Imperial College and he took part in the 2004 summer research program at the Center for Turbulence Research at Stanford University.

Pierre's research focuses on fluid mechanics and he has used experimental, numerical and theoretical techniques. He has been interested in turbulent drag reduction by moving surfaces (spanwise wall oscillations and travelling waves), and in boundary-layer transition to turbulence induced by free-stream perturbations. He has also worked on the problem of attenuation of pressure waves generated by high-speed trains travelling through tunnels.

Research interests
  • Turbulent drag reduction
  • Bypass transition to turbulence
  • Klebanoff modes in laminar boundary layers
  • Effect of free-stream disturbances on laminar boundary layers
  • Receptivity of Tollmien-Schlichting waves
  • Perturbation methods in applied mathematics
Publications

Journal articles

Chapters

Conference proceedings papers

  • Ricco P & Hahn S (2020) Reduction of turbulent wall friction by spinning discs. ETC 2013 - 14th European Turbulence Conference RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Hahn S (2020) Reduction of turbulent wall friction by spinning discs. ETC 2013 - 14th European Turbulence Conference RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aghdam SK, Ricco P & Seddighi M (2015) Turbulent drag reduction by hydrophobic surfaces with shear-dependent slip length. Proceedings - 15th European Turbulence Conference, ETC 2015 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hicks PD & Ricco P (2015) Laminar Streaks in Oscillating Boundary Layers. Procedia IUTAM, Vol. 14 (pp 264-273) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Aghdam SK, Ricco P & Seddighi M (2015) Turbulent drag reduction by hydrophobic surfaces with shear-dependent slip length. Proceedings - 15th European Turbulence Conference, ETC 2015 RIS download Bibtex download
  • Marensi E, Ricco P & Wu X (2015) Nonlinear Response of a Compressible Boundary Layer to Free-stream Vortical Disturbances. Procedia IUTAM, Vol. 14 (pp 105-114) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lu L, Agostini L, Ricco P & Papadakis G (2014) Optimal state feedback control of streaks and görtler vortices induced by free-stream vortical disturbances. 2014 UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 9 July 2014 - 11 July 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • da Rocha Pinto JM, Ricco P & Papadakis G (2014) Wall-transpiration feedback control of laminar streaks using an adjoint approach. 2014 UKACC International Conference on Control (CONTROL), 9 July 2014 - 11 July 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Whidborne JF, Lu L, Papadakis G & Ricco P (2014) Performance Limits for Control of Boundary Layer Streaks Induced by Free Stream Turbulence. IFAC Proceedings Volumes, Vol. 47(3) (pp 7007-7012) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wu X, Luo J & Ricco P (2011) Stability of unsteady nonlinear streaks induced by free-stream vortical disturbances. 6th AIAA Theoretical Fluid Mechanics Conference RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P (2010) Asymptotic theory of the pre-transitional laminar streaks and comparison with experiments (pp 331-336) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Brajou F & Ricco P (2004) The airbus A380 - an AFDX-based flight test computer concept. AUTOTESTCON 2004, PROCEEDINGS (pp 460-463) RIS download Bibtex download
  • GABELLA M, ABRATE T, PERONA G & RICCO P (1992) USE OF MESSR-MOS DATA TO ASSESS WATER-QUALITY IN SMALL LAKES. INTERNATIONAL SPACE YEAR : SPACE REMOTE SENSING, VOLS 1 AND 2 (pp 1518-1520) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Hahn S () Control of Wall Turbulence by Spinning Discs. Advanced Materials Research, Vol. 745 (pp 135-143) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Quadrio M () Turbulent drag reduction over an oscillating wall. Proceedings 5 Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference. Toulouse, France, 24 August 2003 - 28 August 2003. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Wu X () Generation of highly-oblique TS waves in a laminar boundary layer by free-stream turbulence. Proceedings 6 Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference. Stockholm, Sweden, 26 June 2006 - 29 June 2006. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Wu X () EFFECT OF FREE-STREAM TURBULENCE ON A COMPRESSIBLE LAMINAR BOUNDARY LAYER (pp 139-144) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Quadrio M () Modification of turbulent friction drag by streamwise-traveling waves of spanwise wall velocity. Proceedings. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting. Ostritz-St. Marienthal, Germany, 8 September 2008 - 11 September 2008. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Wu X () Nonlinear development of Klebanoff modes in a laminar boundary layer (pp 726-726) RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Quadrio M () Spanwise generalized Stokes layer and turbulent drag reduction. Proceedings 8 Euromech Fluid Mech. Conference. Bad Reichenhall, Germany, 13 September 2010 - 16 September 2010. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Quadrio M () Drag reduction effects in a turbulent channel flow induced by spanwise wall oscillations. Proceedings 7 Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference. Manchester, UK, 14 September 2008 - 18 September 2008. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P, Ottonelli C, Hasegawa Y & Quadrio M () Near-wall enstrophy generation in a drag-reduced turbulent channel flow with spanwise wall oscillations. Procedings European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting. Toulouse, France, 10 December 2012 - 12 December 2012. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P, Ottonelli C, Hasegawa Y & Quadrio M () The drag-reduction oscillating-wall problem: new insight after 20 years. Proceeding 9 Euromech Fluid Mechanics Conference. Rome, Italy, 9 September 2012 - 12 September 2012. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lu L, Papadakis G & Ricco P () Optimal control of streaks induced by free-stream turbulence in incompressible boundary layer by wall blowing and suction. 14 European Turbulence Conference (Poster presentation). Lyon, France, 1 September 2013 - 4 September 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P () Supersonic streaks over porous surfaces. Invited presentation, Workshop - Hydrodynamic instability and laminar-turbulent transition: progress. Tianjin University, China, 24 August 2013 - 26 August 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wise D & Ricco P () Reduction of turbulent skin-friction drag by oscillating discs. 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. Pittsburgh, USA, 24 November 2013 - 26 November 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P () Effect of porous surface on pre-transitional supersonic boundary-layer disturbances generated by free-stream vortices. 66th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. Pittsburgh, USA, 24 November 2013 - 24 November 2013. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Lu L, Agostini L, Ricco P & Papadakis G () Optimal state feedback control of boundary layer streaks and Gortler vortices induced by free-stream vortical disturbances. 10th International Conference on Control. Loughborough, UK, 8 July 2014 - 11 July 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Da Rocha Pinto J, Ricco P & Papadakis G () Wall-based feedback control of an incompressible laminar boundary layer subjected to free-stream vortical disturbances. 6 European Conf. CFD (ECFD VI). Barcelona, Spain, 20 July 2014 - 25 July 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Hicks PD & Ricco P () A comparison of the laminar streaks above a spanwise oscillating plate and a plate with spanwise wall forcing. IUTAM-ABCM Symposium on Laminar Turbulent Transition. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 8 September 2014 - 12 September 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Da Rocha Pinto J, Ricco P & Papadakis G () Wall-based feedback control of a compressible laminar boundary layer subjected to free-stream vortical disturbances. 8th International Conference on Computational Fluid Dynamics (ICCFD8). Chengdu, China, 8 July 2014 - 12 July 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P () Reduction of turbulent friction drag by rotating discs. Symposium on ``Active drag reduction via wavy surface oscillations''. Aachen, Germany, 20 November 2015 - 21 November 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P, Aghdam SK & Seddighi M () Combination of wall transpiration and spinning rings for turbulent drag reduction. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting. Sidney Sussex College, Universiy of Cambridge, 23 March 2015 - 26 March 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Papadakis G, Liang L & Ricco P () Control of streaks induced by free-stream turbulence in incompressible boundary layers: application to a linear model. 67th Annual Meeting of the APS Division of Fluid Dynamics. San Francisco, USA, 23 November 2014 - 25 November 2014. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Alvarenga C, Wise D & Ricco P () Turbulent drag reduction via spinning discs and rings. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting. Sidney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, 23 March 2015 - 23 March 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P, Aghdam SK & Seddighi M () Reduction of turbulent friction by hydrophobic surfaces with shear-dependent slip length. European Drag Reduction and Flow Control Meeting. Sidney Sussex Conference, University of Cambridge, 23 March 2015 - 26 March 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Wise D & Ricco P () Oscillating discs for turbulent drag reduction. European and Drag Reduction Flow Control Meeting. Sindney Sussex College, University of Cambridge, 23 March 2015 - 26 March 2015. RIS download Bibtex download
  • Ricco P & Quadrio, Maurizio () Reduction of turbulent friction by spanwise wall oscillation. Proc. AIDAA XVII Congresso Nazionale. Rome, Italy, 15 September 2003 - 19 September 2003. RIS download Bibtex download

Preprints

Grants

EPSRC Research funding

2011-2014 EP/I016015/1 Papadakis, G. Ricco, P. Whidborne, J.
Control of boundary layer streaks induced by free-stream turbulence using a novel velocity-pressure control
framework.
Duration: 3 years, starting 1 September 2011.
Researchers to be employed: 1 Ph.D. student and 1 post-doc for three years.

2011-2012 First-Grant EP/I033173/1 Ricco, P.
Control of a swept-wing boundary layer perturbed by free-stream turbulence.
Duration: 18 months, starting 1 October 2011.
Researcher to be employed: 1 post-doc for 12 months.