E. marensi - Relaminarising turbulent pipe flow: nonlinear dynamics and optimisation

Elena Marensi, University of Sheffield (UK), e.marensi@sheffield.ac.uk

Thursday, June 18th (2026), 16:30 Paris Time, LMFL 

Dr Elena Marensi is a senior lecturer of Fluid Mechanics in the School of Mechanical, Aerospace and Civil Engineering at the University of Sheffield. Prior to her lectureship in Sheffield, Dr Marensi was an ISTplus Fellow in the Nonlinear Dynamics Turbulence group at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria and a PDRA in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Sheffield. Dr Marensi holds a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Sheffield, jointly with the A*Star Institute of High Performance Computing in Singapore. She obtained her Bachelor and Master degrees in Marine Engineering Naval Architecture from the University of Genoa, Italy. Dr Marensi’s research focuses on transition to turbulence in wall-bounded shear flows, flow instabilities, turbulence modelling and control, and flow optimisation. To tackle these problems she combines mathematical tools with high-fidelity computer simulations and data-driven approaches.