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  1. Effect of flexibility on the pitch-heave flutter instability of a flexible foil elastically supported on its leading edge

    Article • Journal of Sound and Vibration, December 2026, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  2. Propulsion performance analysis of an elastically mounted flexible pitching foil actuated by a given torque

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2026, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  3. Optimum design and operation of an internally-heated packed-bed tank for high-temperature solid–air energy storage: Practical application from theoretically-derived relations

    Article • Journal of Energy Storage, October 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  4. Analysis of forces in flexible wings with a flapping movement for aerial robots that mimic birds.

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2025, American Institute of Physics

    Ernesto Sanchez-Laulhe, Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  5. Comparing analytically propulsion by pitching and heaving flexible foils near the first two natural modes

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2025, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  6. Asymptotic analytical solution for the temperature evolution in internally-heated packed-bed tanks for high-temperature solid-air energy storage

    Article • Applied Energy, January 2025, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  7. Effects of inertia on the time-averaged propulsive performance of a pitching and heaving foil

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, July 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  8. Unsteady Propulsion of a Two-Dimensional Flapping Thin Airfoil in a Pulsating Stream

    Article • AIAA Journal, June 2023, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  9. Effect of flexibility on the self-propelled locomotion by an elastically supported stiff foil actuated by a torque

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, June 2023, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  10. Force and torque reactions on a pitching flexible aerofoil

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, April 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  11. Efficient self-propelled locomotion by an elastically supported rigid foil actuated by a torque

    Article • Applied Mathematical Modelling, April 2023, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  12. Simplified Model for Forward-Flight Transitions of a Bio-Inspired Unmanned Aerial Vehicle

    Article • Aerospace, October 2022, MDPI AG

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  13. On the feasibility of a flexible foil with passive heave to extract energy from low wind speeds

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, October 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  14. Numerical validation of simple non-stationary models for self-propelled pitching foils

    Article • Ocean Engineering, September 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  15. Flutter stability analysis of an elastically supported flexible foil. Application to the energy harvesting of a fully-passive flexible flapping-foil of small amplitude

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, February 2022, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  16. Energy Harvesting and Propulsion of Pitching Airfoils with Passive Heave and Deformation

    Article • AIAA Journal, September 2021, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  17. Propulsion enhancement of flexible plunging foils: Comparing linear theory predictions with high-fidelity CFD results

    Article • Ocean Engineering, September 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  18. Numerical study of the propulsive performance of two-dimensional pitching foils at very high frequencies: scaling laws and turbulence effects

    Article • International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, August 2021, Emerald

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  19. Propulsion and energy harvesting performances of a flexible thin airfoil undergoing forced heaving motion with passive pitching and deformation of small amplitude

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, April 2021, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  20. Propulsion performance of tandem flapping foils with chordwise prescribed deflection from linear potential theory

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, January 2021, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  21. Analytical results for the propulsion performance of a flexible foil with prescribed pitching and heaving motions and passive small deflection

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2021, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  22. Effect of the pivot point location on the propulsive performance of a pitching foil

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, August 2020, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  23. Aerodynamics of Heaving and Pitching Foils in Tandem from Linear Potential Theory

    Article • AIAA Journal, January 2020, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  24. Propulsion of a foil undergoing a flapping undulatory motion from the impulse theory in the linear potential limit

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, November 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  25. Maximum propulsive efficiency of two pitching and plunging plates in tandem at low Reynolds number

    Article • International Journal of Numerical Methods for Heat & Fluid Flow, November 2019, Emerald

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  26. On analytical approximations for the structure of a shock wave in a fully ionized plasma

    Article • Physics of Plasmas, August 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria, Daniel Domínguez-Vázquez

  27. On the origin and structure of a stationary circular hydraulic jump

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria, Eugene Benilov

  28. On the added-mass force and moment and the vortex projection method. Application to thin airfoils

    Article • Fluid Dynamics Research, June 2019, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  29. Comparison of aerodynamic models for two-dimensional pitching foils with experimental data

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 2019, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  30. Assessment of two vortex formulations for computing forces of a flapping foil at high Reynolds numbers

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, February 2019, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  31. Unsteady thrust, lift and moment of a two-dimensional flapping thin airfoil in the presence of leading-edge vortices: a first approximation from linear potential theory

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2018, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  32. Effect of the angle of attack on the transient lift during the interaction of a vortex with a flat plate. Potential theory and experimental results

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, October 2017, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  33. Problemas Resueltos de Mecánica de Fluidos

    Article • September 2017, Malaga University

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  34. Note on optimum propulsion of heaving and pitching airfoils from linear potential theory

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, August 2017, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  35. Stability analysis of the interface between two weak viscoelastic liquids under periodic oscillations

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2017, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  36. On the autorotation of animal wings

    Article • Journal of The Royal Society Interface, January 2017, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  37. Linearized propulsion theory of flapping airfoils revisited

    Article • Physical Review Fluids, December 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  38. Heavy gas relaxation in a light gas shock wave at small Prandtl number

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2016, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  39. Analysis of the aerodynamic interaction between two plunging plates in tandem at low Reynolds number for maximum propulsive efficiency

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, May 2016, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  40. Buoyancy effects in a wall jet over a heated horizontal plate

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, March 2016, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  41. Vortex flow structures and interactions for the optimum thrust efficiency of a heaving airfoil at different mean angles of attack

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  42. On the development of lift and drag in a rotating and translating cylinder

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  43. Purely pulsating flow of a viscoelastic fluid in a pipe revisited: The limit of large Womersley number

    Article • Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics, March 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  44. Separation in the mixed convection boundary-layer radial flow over a constant temperature horizontal plate

    Article • Physics of Fluids, October 2014, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  45. A pseudospectral based method of lines for solving integro-differential boundary-layer equations. Application to the mixed convection over a heated horizontal plate

    Article • Applied Mathematics and Computation, September 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  46. High accuracy numerical methods for the Gardner–Ostrovsky equation

    Article • Applied Mathematics and Computation, August 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  47. Experimental study of the aerodynamic characteristics of a low-aspect-ratio flat plate array in a configuration of interest for a tidal energy converter

    Article • Journal of Fluids and Structures, July 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  48. Lift and drag characteristics of a cascade of flat plates in a configuration of interest for a tidal current energy converter: Numerical simulations analysis

    Article • Journal of Renewable and Sustainable Energy, July 2013, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  49. Experimental evidence of convective and absolute instabilities in rotating Hagen–Poiseuille flow

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, January 2013, Cambridge University Press

    Carlos del Pino, Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  50. Experimental study on sand bed excavation by impinging swirling jets

    Article • Journal of Hydraulic Research, September 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  51. Structure of trailing vortices: Comparison between particle image velocimetry measurements and theoretical models

    Article • Physics of Fluids, January 2011, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  52. Mecánica de Fluidos

    Article • January 2011, Malaga University

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  53. Quasicylindrical description of a swirling light gas jet discharging into a heavier ambient gas

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2010, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  54. Three-dimensional transitions in a swirling jet impinging against a solid wall at moderate Reynolds numbers

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2009, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  55. Three-dimensional structure of confined swirling jets at moderately large Reynolds numbers

    Article • Physics of Fluids, April 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  56. A numerical method for the study of nonlinear stability of axisymmetric flows based on the vector potential

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, March 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  57. Stability of the boundary layer flow on a long thin rotating cylinder

    Article • Physics of Fluids, March 2008, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  58. Transport of suspended sediment under the dam‐break flow on an inclined plane bed of arbitrary slope

    Article • Hydrological Processes, November 2007, Wiley

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  59. Spatial stability and the onset of absolute instability of Batchelor's vortex for high swirl numbers

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, July 2007, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  60. Interaction of an unconfined vortex with a solid surface

    Article • Physics of Fluids, June 2007, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  61. On the development of three-dimensional vortex breakdown in cylindrical regions

    Article • Physics of Fluids, August 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  62. Dam-Break Flow for Arbitrary Slopes of the Bottom

    Article • Journal of Engineering Mathematics, April 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  63. Nonlinear instabilities in a vertical pipe flow discharging from a cylindrical container

    Article • Physics of Fluids, February 2006, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  64. Nonparallel spatial stability of the boundary layer induced by Long’s vortex on a solid plane perpendicular to its axis

    Article • Physical Review E, September 2005, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  65. A Cartesian grid finite-difference method for 2D incompressible viscous flows in irregular geometries

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, March 2005, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  66. Nonlinear waves in the pressure driven flow in a finite rotating pipe

    Article • Physics of Fluids, December 2004, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  67. An explicit projection method for solving incompressible flows driven by a pressure difference

    Article • Computers & Fluids, March 2004, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  68. Nonparallel stability of the flow in an axially rotating pipe

    Article • Fluid Dynamics Research, August 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  69. On the efficiency of a numerical method with periodic time strides for solving incompressible flows

    Article • Journal of Computational Physics, March 2003, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  70. The onset of absolute instability of rotating Hagen–Poiseuille flow: A spatial stability analysis

    Article • Physics of Fluids, September 2002, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  71. Stability analysis of boundary layer flow due to the presence of a small hole on a surface

    Article • Physical Review E, February 2002, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  72. Boundary layer induced by a conical vortex

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, November 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  73. On the appearance of swirl in a confined sink flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, November 2000, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  74. Axisymmetric instabilities of Bödewadt flow

    Article • Physics of Fluids, July 2000, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  75. Inviscid evolution of incompressible swirling flows in pipes: The dependence of the flow structure upon the inlet velocity field

    Article • European Journal of Mechanics - B/Fluids, November 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  76. Nonparallel linear stability analysis of Long’s vortex

    Article • Physics of Fluids, May 1999, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  77. Conically similar swirling flows at high Reynolds numbers

    Article • The Quarterly Journal of Mechanics and Applied Mathematics, February 1999, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  78. Inviscid vortex breakdown models in pipes

    Article • Zeitschrift für angewandte Mathematik und Physik, January 1999, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  79. Viscous and inviscid instabilities of non-parallel self-similar axisymmetric vortex cores

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, September 1996, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  80. Solution breakdown in a family of self-similar nearly inviscid axisymmetric vortices

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, December 1995, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  81. Nonlocal electron heat relaxation in a plasma shock at arbitrary ionization number

    Article • Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics, May 1993, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  82. Self-consistent, nonlocal electron heat flux at arbitrary ion charge number

    Article • Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics, November 1992, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  83. Nonlocal electron heat flux revisited

    Article • Physics of Fluids B Plasma Physics, October 1990, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  84. Hypersonic expansion of the Fokker–Planck equation

    Article • Physics of Fluids A Fluid Dynamics, February 1989, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  85. Fokker-Planck and Langevin equations for arbitrary slip velocities

    Article • Physical Review A, November 1987, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  86. Solution of the Fokker-Planck equation for the shock wave problem

    Article • Journal of Statistical Physics, August 1987, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  87. Shock wave structure in gas mixtures with large mass disparity

    Article • Journal of Fluid Mechanics, June 1987, Cambridge University Press

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  88. Kinetic theory of binary gas mixtures with large mass disparity

    Article • The Physics of Fluids, March 1987, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria

  89. Interspecies transfer of momentum and energy in disparate-mass gas mixtures

    Article • The Physics of Fluids, January 1987, American Institute of Physics

    Professor Ramon Fernandez-Feria