Antonio Acosta Iborra

Contact information
Office: 1.1.F.13
Phone: +34 916249976
Email: aacosta@ing.uc3m.es

EDUCATION
Degree in Industrial Engineering (5 years program), with intensification in Mechanics: Carlos III University of Madrid (UC3M), 2000. Also: Degree in Physics (4 year program): Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), 2019.
Research Fellowship: Department of Thermal and Fluids Engineering, UC3M, 2000.
Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering and Industrial Organization: UC3M, 2004.
Currently: Full Professor (Catedrático de Universidad) and researcher at the Department of Thermal and Fluids Engineering, UC3M.

RESEARCH INTEREST
I have always been fascinated by the complexities and richness of heat and mass transfer processes, in single and multiphase flows. It is a real challenge to understand nature by creating physical and mathematical models (analytically or numerically), as well as experiments, that can be useful for solving and optimising real engineering problems. As my research interests evolve over time, here are only mentioned the most recent and important ones (the order is arbitrary):

– Thermal analysis and thermo-mechanical CFD simulation of external receivers and molten salt flows in solar power towers.
– Simulation of gas-solids fluidized beds using both Eulerian-Eulerian two fluid models and Lagrangian-Eulerian discrete particle models.
– New methods of experimental data analysis and coupling with simulation results of fluidized beds to improve understanding and model validation of granular flows.
– Simulation of heat and mass transfer in absorption refrigeration and other gas-liquid mixtures.
– Analytical methods in fin heat transfer.
– Digital Image Analysis (DIA) and Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV) applied to two-fluid flows.

ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4715-7545

SOME SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

E. Cano-Pleite, M. Fernández-Torrijos, D. Santana, A. Acosta-Iborra, 2022, Heat generation depth and temperature distribution in solar receiver tubes subjected to induction, Appl. Therm. Eng. 204, 117902 (doi: 10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117902).

R. Pérez-Álvarez, P.A. González-Gómez, A. Acosta-Iborra, D. Santana, 2021, Thermal stress and fatigue damage of central receiver tubes during their preheating, Appl. Therm. Eng. 195, 117115 (doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2021.117115).

F. Hernández-Jiménez, A. Soria-Verdugo, A. Acosta-Iborra, D. Santana, 2019, Exergy recovery from solar heated particles to supercritical CO2, Appl. Thermal Eng. 146, 469-481 (doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2018.10.009).

M.R. Rodríguez-Sánchez, C. Marugán-Cruz, A. Acosta-Iborra, D. Santana, 2018, Thermo-mechanical modelling of solar central receivers: Effect of indicent flux resolution, Solar Energy 165, 43-54 (doi:10.1016/j.solener.2018.03.005).

E. Cano-Pleite, F. Hernández-Jiménez, L.M. García-Gutierrez, A. Acosta-Iborra, 2017, Experimental study on the motion of solids around an isolated bubble rising in a vertically vibrated fluidized bed, Chem. Eng. J. 330, 120-133 (doi: 10.1016/j.cej.2017.07.072)

E. Cano-Pleite, Y. Shimizu, A. Acosta-Iborra, Y. Mawatari, 2016, Effect of vertical vibration and particle size on the solids hold-up and mean bubble behavior in a pseudo-2D fluidized bed. Chem. Eng. J. 304, 384-398 (doi:10.1016/j.cej.2016.06.095).

C. Sobrino, A. Acosta-Iborra, M.A. Izquierdo-Barrientos, M. de Vega, 2015, Three-dimensional two-fluid modeling of a cylindrical fluidized bed and validation of the Maximum Entropy method to determine bubble properties. Chem. Eng. J. 262, 628-639 (doi:10.1016/j.cej.2014.10.014).

María Reyes Rodríguez-Sánchez, Carolina Marugan-Cruz, Antonio Acosta-Iborra, Domingo Santana, 2014, Comparison of simplified heat transfer models and CFD simulations for molten salt external receiver. Appl.Therm. Eng. 73(1), 993-1005 (doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2014.08.072).

F. Hernández-Jiménez, L.M. García-Gutiérrez, A. Soria-Verdugo, A. Acosta-Iborra, 2015, Fully coupled TFM-DEM simulations to study the motion of fuel particles in a fluidized bed. Chem. Eng. Sci. 134, 57-66 (doi:10.1016/j.ces.2015.04.028).

E. Cano-Pleite, F. Hernández-Jiménez, A. Acosta-Iborra, 2015, Compressible-gas two-fluid modeling of isolated bubbles in a vertically vibrated fluidized bed and comparison with experiments. Chem. Eng. J. 271, 287-299 (doi:10.1016/j.cej.2015.02.096).

E. Cano-Pleite, F. Hernández-Jiménez, M. de Vega, A. Acosta-Iborra, 2014, Experimental study on the motion of isolated bubbles in a vertically vibrated fluidized bed. Chem. Eng. J. 255, 114-125 (doi:10.1016/j.cej.2014.06.016).

F. Hernández-Jiménez, T. Li, E. Cano-Pleite, W. Rogers, A. Acosta-Iborra, 2014, Characterization of the particle–wall frictional forces in pseudo-2D fluidized beds using DEM. Chem. Eng. Sci. 116, 136-143 (doi:10.1016/j.ces.2014.04.033).

M.R. Rodríguez-Sánchez, Antonio Soria-Verdugo, José Antonio Almendros-Ibáñez, Antonio Acosta-Iborra, Domingo Santana, 2014, Thermal design guidelines of solar power towers. Appl.Therm. Eng. 63(1) 428-438 (doi:10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2013.11.014).

TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Lecturer of several courses in the Department of Thermal and Fluids Engineering UC3M, including Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, Internal Combustion Engines, Thermal Engineering and Applied Thermodynamics .