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Dr. Ferrer-Vidal has a Ph.D. from Cranfield University with a focus on gas turbine performance and aerodynamics. He has worked in the industrial gas turbine field with Mitsubishi Power Systems, as a researcher with Rolls-Royce plc, and as a turbomachinery and performance engineering consultant with PCA Engineers Ltd.

Dr. Ferrer-Vidal's areas of interest are the aerothermal sciences, gas turbine performance, turbomachinery aerodynamics, and engine design. His research aims to develop practical, physics-based approaches to gas-turbine performance modeling by linking detailed turbomachinery analysis with engine models to improve off-design prediction, evaluate modeling assumptions, and infer internal engine conditions from limited measurements.

AERO 440 – Jet Propulsion Detail Design

AERO 435 – Jet Propulsion Preliminary Design

AERO 403 – Jet Propulsion

AERO 307 – Incompressible Aerodynamics

AERO 319 – Aerodynamics

AERO 314 – Experimental Aerodynamics

• Ferrer-Vidal, L.E., Pachidis, V. (2021),"Numerical modeling of core compressor discharge for a windmilling aero engine", Journal of Aerospace Science & Technology, DOI:10.1016/j.ast.2020.106365

• Ferrer-Vidal, L.E., Pachidis, V., Tunstall, R.J. (2020),"Generating axial compressor maps to zero speed", Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part A: Journal of Power and Energy, DOI:10.1177/0957650920976052

• Roig Tio, F., Ferrer-Vidal, L.E., Azamar Aguirre, H., Pachidis, V. (2020),"Considerations on Axial Compressor Bleed for SubIdle Performance Models", Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo 2020: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition., DOI:10.1115/GT2020-14413

• Righi, M., Ferrer-Vidal, L.E., Pachidis, V. (2020),"Body-force and mean-line models for the generation of axial compressor sub-idle characteristics", The Aeronautical Journal, 1-19. DOI:10.1017/aer.2020.58

• Ferrer-Vidal, L.E, Iglesias-Pérez, A., Pachidis, V. (2020), "Characterization of axial compressor performance at locked rotor and torque-free windmill conditions", Journal of Aerospace Science & Technology,  DOI 10.1016/j.ast.2020.105846

• Ferrer-Vidal, L.E, Schneider, M., Allegretti, A. Pachidis, V. (2019), "A loss and deflection model for compressor blading at high negative incidence", ASME Journal of Turbomachinery,  DOI 10.1115/1.4044967

• Righi, M., Ferrer-Vidal, L.E., Allegretti, A., Pachidis, V., Tunstall, R. (2019), "Low-order models for the calculation of compressor sub-idle characteristics", ISABE 2019 Conference, Canberra, Australia

• Ferrer-Vidal, L.E. (2018), "A rig for sub-idle compressor characteristics", Conference Presentation, XXIV Biennial Symposium on Measuring Techniques in Turbomachinery, Prague, Czechia

• Ferrer-Vidal, L.E., Pachidis, V., Tunstall, R. (2018), "An enhanced sub-idle map generation method", GPPS Forum 2018, Zurich, Switzerland