Contact Dr Patrick Verdin
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- Email: p.verdin@cranfield.ac.uk
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Areas of expertise
- Computational Fluid Dynamics
- Computing, Simulation & Modelling
- Fuels
- Oil and Gas
- Process Systems Engineering
- Renewable Energy
Background
Dr Patrick Verdin is a Senior Lecturer in Energy Fluid Dynamics at Cranfield University. He has more than 20 years of expertise in Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) applied to Aerospace (icing), Oil & Gas (multiphase flows, mixing, flow separation, droplet transport, sand erosion), and Renewable Energy (geothermal, wind, tidal).
After his MSc gained from the University of Sciences and Technologies of Lille (France), Patrick joined Cranfield University and completed a Ph.D. on Aircraft Icing, working on the development of the numerical ice prediction code ICECREMO2. His research work involved a collaboration with the main aircraft companies in the UK: Airbus UK, BAE Systems, Dunlop Aerospace (Meggitt), Rolls-Royce, QinetiQ, and Westland Helicopters (now AgustaWestland). He then carried out post-doctoral studies in multi-phase flows, working on the development of a CFD droplet transport model for ConocoPhillips (USA), in collaboration with Imperial College London, before becoming Research Fellow in 2008.
Patrick became successively Senior Research Fellow, Lecturer, then Senior Lecturer. Throughout his academic career, he has been involved in Research and commercial activities at National and International levels. Several of the recent and current projects he has been leading funded research in, include the European programmes SAFUEL (Safer Fuel System), and EMRP I & II (European Metrology Research Programme), UK-funded research on HOSE (Hydrodynamic Oil Sample Extraction), Forced Convection Heat Transfer in Unconventional Geothermal Systems, Oil-Water Slug Flow in Export Pipelines, and Wet Gas Flowmeter Performance by CFD modelling. He has also been recently involved in the development and the CFD verification of an innovative offshore wind turbine, has been working on the design of wind panels, on the design and CFD study of a particle reduction system, and on numerical studies of oxygen masks. He is currently actively involved in the design of an innovative small-scale vertical axis wind turbine.
Patrick is the former Director of the Energy and Sustainability Programme, looking after the following 4 MSc courses:
- Advanced Chemical Engineering (ACE)
- Advanced Digital Energy Systems (ADES)
- Advanced Mechanical Engineering (AME)
- Renewable Energy (RE)
Patrick has supervised 10 PhD researchers to completion, 3 MSc by Research students, and more than 80 MSc students. He has been the Deputy Director of the Cranfield MSc course in Offshore and Ocean Technology (OOT) for 3 years and the Deputy Director of the Energy Systems and Thermal Processes (ESTP) for 6 months before being appointed Director of the Offshore Engineering MSc course in 2018. He has also been a visiting lecturer at ESTIA (Ecole Supérieure des Technologies Avancées - Biarritz, France) for nearly 10 years, and has been a visiting lecturer at Muscat University (Oman) for 4 years. He is currently a visiting Lecturer at Jiangsu University (China).
Research opportunities
Patrick is accepting self-funded Research students (PhD. and MSc by Research) for CFD-based projects in the following areas:
- Renewable Energy (wind/tidal/waves/geothermal)
- Oil & Gas
- Phase change
- Numerical code development and optimisation
- Multiphase flow
Patrick is also keen to develop further collaborations with academics, research organizations, and industrial businesses. Anyone interested can contact him directly at: p.verdin@cranfield.ac.uk
Current activities
Dr. Patrick Verdin is leading CFD research and business projects related to:
- Renewable energy (wind, tidal, waves, solar and geothermal).
- Single/multiphase flows (slug flow, flow separation, mixing, etc.);
- Sand erosion;
- Droplet transport;
- Aircraft icing (external surfaces, and fuel systems);
Clients
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council
- Innovate UK
- European Commission
- ConocoPhillips Company
- BP PLC
- Airbus SE
- BAE Systems PLC
- Meggit PLC
- Rolls-Royce Holdings PLC
- Seamach Ltd
- Pietro Fiorentini Spa
- Particle Reduction Technologies Ltd
- Katrick Technologies Ltd
- Caeli Nova
- Department for Transport
- Connected Places Catapult
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Ibrahim KA, Maréchal TL, Luk P, Qin Q, Huang L, .... (2025). Floating solar wireless power transfer system for electric ships: design and laboratory tests. Energy Conversion and Management, 332
- Khan JA, Kim J, Irawan S, Permatasar KA, Verdin PG, .... (2024). Application of foam assisted water-alternating-gas flooding and quantification of resistivity and water saturation by experiment and simulation to determine foam propagation in sandstone. Heliyon, 10(3)
- Koragappa P & Verdin PG. (2024). Design and optimisation of a 20 MW offshore wind turbine blade. Ocean Engineering, 305
- Rathaur R, Verdin PG & Ghosh S. (2024). A numerical study of the performance of point absorber wave energy converters. Applied Sciences, 14(10)
- Allauddin U, Naeemullah & Verdin PG. (2024). Effect of nozzle shape on fluid flow and heat transfer characteristics of an impinging jet system – a numerical study. MATEC Web of Conferences, 398
- Gao Y, Geng L, Verdin PG, Fall I, Zhang R, .... (2024). Modeling of dual‐factor drag correction model for bubbly flow under elevated pressure. Chemical Engineering & Technology, 47(11)
- Okafor CC & Verdin PG. (2024). 3D computational fluid dynamics analysis of natural gas separation efficiency in multiphase pumping wells with heterogeneous flow regime. Engineering Applications of Computational Fluid Mechanics, 18(1)
- Farah E, Ouahsine A & Verdin PG. (2024). An improved implicit direct-forcing immersed boundary method (DF-IBM) around arbitrarily moving rigid structures. Physics of Fluids, 36(10)
- Song H, Verdin PG & Zhang J. (2024). Research developments and applications of ice slurry. Energies, 17(20)
- Allauddin U, Sohail MU, Sohaib M, Siddiqui MA, Khan MHU, .... (2023). Heat transfer enhancement investigation in jet impingement system of a single and array of square jets using numerical tools. Computational Thermal Sciences: An International Journal, 15(4)
- Laveda OB, Roche M-A, Phadtare M, Sauge L, Xavier KJ, .... (2023). Numerical investigation of aerodynamic performance and structural analysis of a 3D J-shaped based small-scale vertical axis wind turbine. Energies, 16(20)
- Allauddin U, Khan W, Ali SE, Haider SMM, Ahmed AS, .... (2022). Numerical investigation of fluid flow and heat characteristics of a roughened solar air heater with novel v-shaped ribs. Transactions of the Canadian Society for Mechanical Engineering, 46(3)
- Samiolo M & Verdin PG. (2022). Numerical modelling of a finless heat exchanger layout for electric vehicle application. Applied Thermal Engineering, 211(July)
- Mingozzi F, Verdin PG, Gucci L & Tirovic M. (2022). CFD and experimental study of heat dissipation from an anti-coning, pin vented, inboard mounted brake disc. Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part D: Journal of Automobile Engineering, 237(13)
- García Auyanet A & Verdin PG. (2022). Numerical study of the effect of flap geometry in a multi-slot ducted wind turbine. Sustainability, 14(19)
- Rasheed A, Allauddin U, Ali HM, Uzair M, Verdin PG, .... (2022). Heat transfer and fluid flow characteristics investigation using detached ribs in an axisymmetric impinging jet flow. Journal of Thermal Analysis and Calorimetry, 147(24)
- García Auyanet A, Santoso RE, Mohan H, Rathore SS, Chakraborty D, .... (2022). CFD-based j-shaped blade design improvement for vertical axis wind turbines. Sustainability, 14(22)
- Doran HR, Renaud T, Falcone G, Pan L & Verdin PG. (2021). Modelling an unconventional closed-loop deep borehole heat exchanger (DBHE): sensitivity analysis on the Newberry volcanic setting. Geothermal Energy, 9(1)
- Livinus A & Verdin PG. (2021). CFD study of the characteristics of a single elongated gas bubble in liquid in a moderately inclined pipe. Upstream Oil and Gas Technology, 7(September)
- Renaud T, Pan L, Doran HR, Falcone G & Verdin PG. (2021). Numerical analysis of enhanced conductive deep borehole heat exchangers. Sustainability, 13(12)
- Syihab ABMI, Verdin PG, Wright RM, Piper AT & Rivas Casado M. (2021). Computational fluid dynamics simulations of water flow on a studded upstream eel pass. River Research and Applications, 37(9)
- Renaud T, Verdin P & Falcone G. (2020). Conjugated numerical approach for modelling DBHE in high geothermal gradient environments. Energies, 13(22)
- Livinus A & Verdin PG. (2020). Experimental study of a single elongated bubble in liquid in under 10-degree upwardly inclined pipes. Experimental Thermal and Fluid Science, 120
- Gourma M & Verdin PG. (2020). Nature and magnitude of operating forces in a horizontal bend conveying gas-liquid slug flows. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 190
- Mifsud D & Verdin P. (2019). Surrogate-based design optimisation tool for dual-phase fluid driving jet pump apparatus. Archives of Computational Methods in Engineering, 28(1)
- Renaud T, Verdin PG & Falcone G. (2019). Numerical simulation of a Deep Borehole Heat Exchanger in the Krafla geothermal system. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 143
- Ernot J, Verdin PG, Ahmad H & Indge P. (2019). Analytical and numerical predictions of the thermal performance of multi-layered lattice structures. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 145
- González-Neria I, Alonzo-Garcia A, Martínez-Delgadillo SA, Mendoza-Escamilla VX, Yáñez-Varela JA, .... (2019). PIV and dynamic LES of the turbulent stream and mixing induced by a V-grooved blade axial agitator. Chemical Engineering Journal, 374
- Mifsud D, Cao Y, Verdin PG & Lao L. (2018). The hydrodynamics of two-phase flows in the injection part of a conventional ejector. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 112
- Livinus A, Verdin PG, Lao L, Nossen J, Langsholt M, .... (2017). Simplified generalised drift velocity correlation for elongated bubbles in liquid in pipes. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 160
- Ali HM, Arshad A, Jabbal M & Verdin PG. (2017). Thermal management of electronics devices with PCMs filled pin-fin heat sinks: A comparison. International Journal of Heat and Mass Transfer, 117
- Loyseau XF, Verdin PG & Brown LD. (2017). Scale-up and turbulence modelling in pipes. Journal of Petroleum Science and Engineering, 162
- Gourma M & Verdin PG. (2016). Two-phase slug flows in helical pipes: Slug frequency alterations and helicity fluctuations. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 86
- Bourdillon AC, Verdin PG & Thompson CP. (2016). Numerical simulations of drop size evolution in a horizontal pipeline. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 78
- Loyseau XF & Verdin PG. (2016). Statistical model of transient particle dispersion and deposition in vertical pipes. Journal of Aerosol Science, 101
- Bourdillon AC, Verdin PG & Thompson CP. (2015). Numerical simulations of water freezing processes in cavities and cylindrical enclosures. Applied Thermal Engineering, 75
- Verdin PG, Thompson CP & Brown LD. (2014). CFD modelling of stratified/atomization gas–liquid flow in large diameter pipes. International Journal of Multiphase Flow, 67(S)
- Verdin PG & Charpin JPF. (2013). Multi-Stepping Ice Prediction on Cylinders and Other Relevant Geometries. Journal of Aircraft, 50(3)
- Verdin P, Charpin JPF & Thompson CP. (2009). Multistep Results in ICECREMO2. Journal of Aircraft, 46(5)
- Harireche O, Verdin P, Thompson CP & Hammond DW. (2008). Explicit Finite Volume Modeling of Aircraft Anti-Icing and De-Icing. Journal of Aircraft, 45(6)
Conference Papers
- Bassey BO, Verdin PG & Lao L. (2022). Examination of non-traditional wax management techniques for flow assurance in petroleum production
- Renaud T, Verdin P & Falcone G. (2021). Heat transfer in unconventional geothermal wells: a double numerical modelling approach
- Okafor C, Verdin P & Hart P. (2021). CFD Investigation of Downhole Natural Gas Separation Efficiency in the Churn Flow Regime
- Renaud T, Verdin P, Falcone G & Pan L. (2021). Heat transfer modelling of an unconventional, closed-loop geothermal well
- Renaud T, Verdin PG & Falcone G. (2019). A numerical study of deep borehole heat exchangers efficiency in unconventional geothermal settings
- Renaud T, Stebel M, Verdin PG & Falcone G. (2018). CFD modeling of a high enthalpy geothermal context
- Verdin PG & Brown LD. (2016). CFD study of water droplets in a top rotating wall doughnut cell
- Brown L, Hewitt GF, Hu B, Thompson CP & Verdin P. (2009). Predictions of droplet distribution in low liquid loading, stratified flow in a large diameter pipeline
- Verdin PG & Thompson CP. (2005). Automatic Multi-Stepping Approach for Ice Prediction
