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Marielle de Oliveira

Department:
School for the Environment
Title:
Assistant Professor
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Biography

Marielle de Oliveira is an Assistant Professor in the School for the Environment. Her research focuses on wind energy and its integration with other renewable energy sources. Using Computational Fluid Dynamics CFD) analysis to understand the interaction between renewable energy systems and the environment. Through her work, she aims to support the sustainable design and deployment of renewable energy technologies.

Area of Expertise

Marielle is an aerospace engineer with a PhD in Mechanical Engineering. Her main scientific contributions include the development and calibration of wall models, turbulence closures, and advanced advection schemes for LES/DES of complex flows, as well as the integration of data-driven and reduced-order modeling approaches to improve the predictive capability and efficiency of CFD tools applied to wind energy. Marielle's interdisciplinary background in aerospace engineering and mechanical engineering underpins her commitment to advancing the sustainable deployment of renewable energy technologies at the interface of engineering, environmental science, and the global energy transition.

Degrees
PhD in Mechanical Engineering, University of São Paulo
PhD (sandwich) in Mechanical Engineering, University of Tokyo
Bachelor of Science in Aerospace Engineering, Federal University of Santa Catarina
Bachelor of Science in Science and Technology, Federal University of Santa Catarina

Professional Publications & Contributions
For an updated list, please see Marielle’s Google Scholar or ORCID page
Selected publications since 2022:
Oliveira, M. de, Saltara, F., Jackson, A., Parsons, M., & Carmo, B. S. (2026). Three‑Dimensional CFD Simulations of the Flow Around an Infinitely Long Cylinder from Subcritical to Postcritical Reynolds Regimes Using DES. Fluids, 11(1), 26.
Puraca, R., de Oliveira, M., Carmo, B. S., & Neto, A. G. (2025). Aeroelastic simulation of IEA 15 MW blade in parked position subjected to extreme wind velocities. Proceedings of the 28th ABCM International Congress of Mechanical Engineering (COBEM 2025), Paper COB-2025-2358, Curitiba, Brazil.
Oliveira, M., Puraca, R. C., & Carmo, B. S. (2023). A study of the influence of the numerical scheme in the accuracy of blade‑resolved simulations employed to evaluate the performance of the NREL 5 MW wind turbine rotor in full scale. Energy.
Silva, L. S. P., Pesce, C. P., de Oliveira, M., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., & Ding, B. (2023). Stochastic analysis of the nonlinear dynamics of oscillating water columns: a frequency domain approach. Applied Ocean Research.
Oliveira, M., Puraca, R. C., & Carmo, B. S. (2022). Blade‑resolved numerical simulations of the NREL offshore 5‑MW baseline wind turbine in full scale: a study of proper solver configuration and discretization strategies. Energy, 254, 124368.
Silva, L. S. P., de Oliveira, M., Cazzolato, B., Sergiienko, N., Amaral, G. A., & Ding, B. (2022). Statistical linearisation of a nonlinear floating offshore wind turbine under random waves and winds. Ocean Engineering.
de Oliveira, M., Silva, L. S. P., Puraca, R., & Carmo, B. (2023). CFD investigation of the IEA offshore 15 MW reference wind turbine performance in full scale: a temporal discretization analysis. Proceedings of the ASME International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Melbourne, Australia.
de Oliveira, M., Silva, L. S. P., Carmo, B., & Gonçalves, R. T. (2023). Temporal discretization investigation of the unsteady loading on a infinitely long cylinder in high Reynolds numbers using DES. Proceedings of the ASME International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Melbourne, Australia.
Silva, L. S. P., Sergiienko, N., Cazzolato, B., Meng, F., de Oliveira, M., & Ding, B. (2023). Motion suppression of a floating offshore wind turbine using heaving point absorbers: a case study in Australia. Proceedings of the ASME International Conference on Ocean, Offshore and Arctic Engineering (OMAE), Melbourne, Australia.
de Oliveira, M., Puraca, R. C., & Carmo, B. S. (2022). Assessment of Turbulence Models for the Simulation of the Flow Through a Megawatt Scale Wind Turbine Rotor. In Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium on Experimental and Computational Aerothermodynamics of Internal Flows (EPTT 2022), Blumenau, Brazil.