Daniela Brito Melo
EPFL Valais Wallis
ENAC IIE CRYOS
Route des Ronquos 86
CH-1951 Sion
Web site: Web site: https://cryos.epfl.ch
Current work
Snow erosion and aeolian snow transport in extreme environmentsRelative importance of snow transport in snow height variability and snowpack mass balance
Flow modelling with Large Eddy Simulations
Particle-fluid interaction with Lagrangian Stochastic Models
Study of surface phenomena as aerodynamic entrainment, rebound and splash of snow crystals
Education
MSc
Mechanical Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico, IST - University of Lisbon
2016
BSc
Mechanical Engineering
Instituto Superior Técnico, IST - University of Lisbon
2013
Publications
Selected publications
| Melo, D. B., Sharma, V., Comola, F., Sigmund, A., Lehning, M. Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres, 127, e2021JD035260, 2022 |
Modeling snow saltation: the effect of grain size and interparticle cohesion |
| Baltazar, J., Melo, D., Rijpkema, D. Ocean Engineering, 211, 107633, 2020 |
Analysis of the blade boundary-layer flow of a marine propeller using a RANS solver |
| Melo, D. B., Baltazar, J., Falcão de Campos, J. A. C. Journal of Wind Engineering and Industrial Aerodynamics, 174, 382-390, 2018 |
A numerical wake alignment method for horizontal axis wind turbines withthe lifting line theory |