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Researcher with 10 years of experience in Computational Fluid Mechanics, Wind Energy and Atmospheric Flows. Has an Msc (2009) and a PhD (in late 2019) in Mechanical Engineering at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto, the later titled "Modelling of Wind Turbine Wakes through an Actuator Disk". He has 5 peer reviewed publications (one under revision), two of which as a first author, with a focus on wind turbine and wind farm performance assessment and on prediction of complex atmospheric flows. Lead developer of a family of dedicated CFD codes for atmospheric boundary layer and flow modelling in complex terrain (Ventos/2D, Ventos/2 and Ventos/M), using state-of-the-art techniques for modelling of wind turbine, canopy and atmospheric stratification. Publications and computer code development occurred under the collaboration with major wind energy companies (RES and NP) and within FCT (4 projects) and European Commission (2 projects) funded projects, most notably EERA-DTOC, Windscanner.eu and NEWA. Research grant holder with FEUP since 2009, having also joined the institution as an invited assistant professor in early 2019.
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Identification

Personal identification

Full name
Vitor Manuel Martins Gonçalves da Costa Gomes

Citation names

  • Costa Gomes, Vitor

Author identifiers

Ciência ID
D112-4A36-087B
ORCID iD
0000-0002-8801-1681

Knowledge fields

  • Engineering and Technology - Mechanical Engineering - Mechanical Engineering

Languages

Language Speaking Reading Writing Listening Peer-review
Portuguese (Mother tongue)
English Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1) Advanced (C1)
Spanish; Castilian Intermediate (B1) Upper intermediate (B2) Elementary (A2) Upper intermediate (B2)
French Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1) Beginner (A1)
Education
Degree Classification
2019/10
Concluded
 Engenharia Mecânica (Doutoramento)
Major in Sem especialidade
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
"Modelling of Wind Turbine Wakes through an Actuator Disk" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 Aprovado
2004 - 2009
Concluded
 Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado)
Universidade do Porto, Portugal
"Computational Simulation of Atmospheric Flows Over Mountainous Regions Using the Commercial CFD Software Star-CCM+" (THESIS/DISSERTATION)
 14
2003 - 2004
Attended
 Engenharia Informática e Computação (Licenciatura)
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Affiliation

Science

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2009/10 - Current Researcher (Research) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Teaching in Higher Education

Category
Host institution 		Employer
2019/02 - Current Invited Assistant Professor (University Teacher) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
Projects

Contract

Designation Funders
2017/10/23 - Current Windscanner.pt
NORTE-01-0145-FEDER-022207
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2014/05/01 - Current New European Wind Atlas Joint Programme
info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/FP7/618122/EU
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Ongoing
2012/10 - 2015/09 WindScanner.eu - The European WindScanner Facility
312372
Researcher
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 European Commission
Concluded
2012/01 - 2015/06 EERA-DTOC
Researcher
Universidade do Porto, Portugal

Danmarks Tekniske Universitet, Denmark

WindEurope asbl vzw, Belgium

Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der Angewandten Forschung E.V., Germany

Centro Nacional de Energías Renovables, Spain

Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands, Netherlands

Centro de Investigaciones Energeticas, Medioambientales y Tecnologicas, Spain

University of Strathclyde, United Kingdom

Indiana University Press, United States

Collecte Localisation Satellites S.A., France

Statkraft Development AS, Norway

Iberdrola SA, Spain

Statoil Petroleum AS, Norway

Overspeed GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Bard Engineering GmbH, Germany

HEXICON AB, Sweden

The Carbon Trust, United Kingdom

E.ON Sverige AB, Sweden

Renewable Energy Systems Limited, United Kingdom
European Commission
Concluded

Other

Designation Funders
2010/10 - Current Ventos JVA
RES
Natural Power
Technical development
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Renewable Energy Systems Ltd, United Kingdom

Natural Power Consultants Ltd, United Kingdom
Ongoing
2011/03 - 2012/07 Projecto Estratégico - UI 679 - 2011-2012
PEst-OE/EME/UI679/2011
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
2010/07 - 2011/02 COMPWIND: High Performance Computing of Wind Over Complex Terrain
PTDC/ENR/71216
Research Fellow
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
 Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Concluded
Outputs

Publications

Conference paper
  1. Costa Gomes, Vitor; Réthoré, P.-E.; Hansen, K.S.; Barthelmie, R.J.; Pryor, S.C.; Sieros, G.; Prospathopoulos, J.; et al. "Benchmarking of Wind Farm Scale Wake Models in the EERA-DTOC Project". Paper presented in ICOWES 2013, Copenhaga, 2013.
    Published
Conference poster
  1. Costa Gomes, Vitor; José Manuel Laginha Mestre da Palma. "Computational modelling of a large dimension wind farm cluster using domain coupling". Paper presented in The Science of Making Torque from Wind 2016, 2016.
  2. Costa Gomes, Vitor; Hauke Beck; Juan José Trujillo; Gerrit Wolken-Möhlmann; Julia Gottschall; Jonas Schmidt; Alfredo Peña; et al. "Comparison of simulations of the far wake of alpha ventus against ship-based lidar measurements". Paper presented in RAVE Offshore R&D Conference, 2015.
  3. Costa Gomes, Vitor; José Manuel Laginha Mestre da Palma. "Actuator disk wake model in RaNS". Paper presented in EERA DeepWind'2014 - 11th Deep Sea Offshore Wind R&D Conference, 2014.
Journal article
  1. José Manuel Laginha Mestre da Palma; Carlos Madureira Silva; Costa Gomes, Vitor; José Alexandre Costa da Silva Lopes; Teresa Simões; Paula Alexandra Costa; Vasco T. P. Baptista. "The digital terrain model in the computational modelling of the flow over the Perdigão site: the appropriate grid size". Wind Energy Science (2019):
    Under revision
  2. Palma, J.M.L.M.; Silva Lopes, A.; Costa Gomes, V.M.; Veiga Rodrigues, C.; Menke, R.; Vasiljevic, N.; Mann, J.. "Unravelling the wind flow over highly complex regions through computational modeling and two-dimensional lidar scanning". Journal of Physics: Conference Series 1222 (2019): 012006. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/1222/1/012006.
    10.1088/1742-6596/1222/1/012006
  3. Vasiljevic, Nikola; L. M. Palma, José M.; Angelou, Nikolas; Carlos Matos, José; Menke, Robert; Lea, Guillaume; Mann, Jakob; et al. "Perdigão 2015: methodology for atmospheric multi-Doppler lidar experiments". Atmospheric Measurement Techniques 10 9 (2017): 3463-3483. http://dx.doi.org/10.5194/amt-10-3463-2017.
    10.5194/amt-10-3463-2017
  4. da Costa Gomes, V M M G; Palma, J M L M. "Computational modelling of a large dimension wind farm cluster using domain coupling". Journal of Physics: Conference Series 753 (2016): 082032. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/753/8/082032.
    10.1088/1742-6596/753/8/082032
  5. Gomes, V M M G Costa; Palma, J M L M; Lopes, A Silva. "Improving actuator disk wake model". Journal of Physics: Conference Series 524 (2014): 012170. http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012170.
    10.1088/1742-6596/524/1/012170
Report
  1. Beck, H.; Trujillo, J. J.; Wolken-Möhlmann, G.; Diaz, A. P.; Costa Gomes, Vitor; Schmidt, J.. 2015. Mesoscale effects on wind farm energy yield reported. http://www.eera-dtoc.eu/wp-content/uploads/files/D5_10-Mesoscale-effects-on-wind-farm-energy-yield-ver2.pdf.
  2. Gerard Schepers; Alfredo Peña; Alice Ely; Ana Palomares; Ayman Attiya; Giorgos Sieros; Gregor Giebel; et al. 2015. EERA-DTOC calculation of scenarios. http://www.eera-dtoc.eu/wp-content/uploads/files/D5_12_Scenarios-for-wind-farm-clusters.pdf.
  3. Costa Gomes, Vitor; Réthoré, P.-E.; Hansen, K.S.; Barthelmie, R.J.; Pryor, S.C.; Sieros, G.; Prospathopoulos, J.; et al. 2013. Benchmark report on wake models at the wind farm scale. http://www.eera-dtoc.eu/wp-content/uploads/files/D1_3_Benchmark_report_on_wake_models_at_the_wind_farm_scale_small-MODIFIED.pdf.
  4. Costa Gomes, Vitor; José Manuel Laginha Mestre da Palma. 2013. The Wind Flow Over Gouda Wind Farm Site - Computer Flow Simulations.
  5. Costa Gomes, Vitor. 2012. The Wind Flow Over Serra do Perdigão.
  6. Costa Gomes, Vitor. 2011. Wind Turbine Wake Model Through Actuator Surface Technique.
  7. Costa Gomes, Vitor. 2010. Two equation turbulent viscosity models.
Thesis / Dissertation
  1. Costa Gomes, Vitor. "Modelling of Wind Turbine Wakes through an Actuator Disk". PhD, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2019.
  2. Costa Gomes, Vitor. "Computational Simulation of Atmospheric Flows Over Mountainous Regions Using the Commercial CFD Software STAR-CCM+". Master, Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, 2009.

Other

Other output
  1. VENTOS/M - Simulation of Atmospheric Flows Over Forested Complex Terrain. Parallel software code based on the finite volume method and uRaNS equations for simulation of wind flow over complex terrain, running in a one-way coupling with a meteorological model representing the mesoscale flow (WRF), plus associated User Guide.. 2018. Costa Gomes, Vitor; José Manuel Laginha Meste da Palma; Carlos Veiga Rodrigues; Fernando Aristides da Silva Ferreira de Castro.
  2. VENTOS/2 - Simulation of Atmospheric Flows Over Forested Complex Terrain. Computer code based on the finite volume method, for the solution of wind flow over complex terrain, forested or unforested and with or without wind turbines, plus associated User Guide. 2011. José Manuel Laginha Mestre da Palma; Fernando Aristides da Silva Ferreira de Castro; Vitor Manuel Martins Gonçalves da Costa Gomes; Carlos Veiga Rodrigues; José Carlos Pereira Lopes da Costa; Alexandre Silva Lopes.
  3. VENTOS/2D. Computer code based on the finite volume method and RaNS equations, for the solution of two-dimensional wind flow over complex terrain.. 2010. Costa Gomes, Vitor; Alexandre Silva Lopes; João Viana Lopes.
Activities

Oral presentation

Presentation title Event name
Host (Event location)
2015/05/27 UPORTO – Base scenario, Wind Farm efficiency, online vs. offline RaNS calculations Final Bi-anual EERA-DTOC Meeting
Risøe DTU (Roskilde, Denmark)
2015/04/29 Predicting Offshore Wind Farm Cluster Performance Using RaNS-based Actuator Disc Wind Turbine Model PANACM 2015
(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
2014/06/25 EERA-DTOC wake modelling benchmark: Predicting production for two operating wind farms Final Bi-anual EERA-DTOC Meeting
University of Strathclyde (Glasgow, United Kingdom)
2011/01/26 A Test Site For a Large Scale Field Experiment EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) Workshop on "Wind Conditions"
Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia (Porto, Portugal)

Event organisation

Event name
Type of event (Role) 		Institution / Organization
2019/04/28 - 2019/04/29 NEWA 2nd Perdigão Data/Science Meeting, with participants of the Perdigão 2017 Field Experiment. Hosted at INESCTEC auditorium, Porto, Portugal. (2019/04/28 - 2019/04/29)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2016/05/10 - 2016/05/13 NEWA General Meeting for the design and preparation of the Perdigão 2017 field experiment. Hosted at Casa das Artes e Cultura do Tejo, Vila Velha de Rodão. (2016/05/10 - 2016/05/13)
Meeting (Co-organisor)
 Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2011/01 - 2011/01 EERA (European Energy Research Alliance) Workshop on "Wind Conditions". Hosted at Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (2011/01/25 - 2011/01/27)
Workshop (Co-organisor)
 EERA, Portugal

Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal

Course / Discipline taught

Academic session Degree Subject (Type) Institution / Organization
2020/02/01 - 2020/07/31 Gestão de Energia Térmica Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/09/01 - 2020/01/31 Mecânica dos Fluidos II Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal
2019/02/01 - 2019/07/30 Mecânica dos Fluídos I Mestrado Integrado em Engenharia Mecânica (Mestrado integrado) Universidade do Porto Faculdade de Engenharia, Portugal