César Huete Ruiz de Lira

CONTACT INFORMATION:
Phone: (+34) 91 624 8810
Email: chuete:at:ing.uc3m.es

ADDRESS:
Office: 1.1.F09
Av. Universidad, 30.
Edif. Betancourt
28911, Leganés (Madrid)

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Education

César Huete received a five-year degree in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Castilla-La Mancha (UCLM) in 2007. He obtained his PhD at the same university, in collaboration with UNED, in 2012. His doctoral thesis, supervised by Prof. Gustavo Wouchuk, focused on the theoretical study of the interaction between shock waves and weak turbulent flows.

Research Interests

After completing his PhD, César Huete joined the Department of Thermal Engineering and Fluid Mechanics at Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (UC3M). There, he collaborated with Professor Antonio L. Sánchez on the SCORE Consolider Research Project, focusing primarily on the interaction of thin detonation waves with turbulent flows. In 2013, he moved to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD), where he worked with Professors Forman A. Williams and Antonio L. Sánchez. His research at UCSD included studies on the interaction of detonations with small-scale turbulent flows, the impact of weak shocks on transonic mixing layers, and the ignition of reactive mixing layers by oblique shock impingement, supported by a project grant from Fundación Iberdrola España.

At UC3M, he has also worked on safety issues concerning undesired explosions in premixed hydrogen–air mixtures. The combustion group at UC3M is currently engaged in collaborative projects with coordinated groups at CIEMAT and UPM-ETSI Aeronáutica y del Espacio (UPM-ETISAE), funded by the Agencia Española de Investigación. These include two key initiatives: “Zero-Emission Technology and Applications for the Next-Generation Energy Conversion Systems: ZETA (PID2022-139082NB-C51)” and “Safe Use of Hydrogen for Energetic Applications: SAFET(H)Y (TED2021-129446B-C41).” Within this context, César Huete has co-supervised the PhD thesis of Alberto Cuadra Lara, in addition to contributing to hypersonics-related tasks.

His research also extends to High-Energy-Density Physics, with interests in the role of accretion shocks in core-collapse supernovae and hydrodynamic instabilities in inertial confinement fusion. This line of work began with a 2019 Leonardo Grant for Researchers and Cultural Creators from the BBVA Foundation, and continues with the support of Fundación Iberdrola España. Within this framework, he is supervising the PhD thesis of Andrés Calvo Rivera.

In parallel, César Huete contributes to NATO-STO activities in hypersonics, particularly on shock-turbulence interaction. He also holds a leadership role in the AVT-352 initiative, “Measurement, Modeling, and Prediction of Hypersonic Turbulence,” within the Applied Vehicle Technology (AVT) panel of NATO-STO.

Teaching Activities

After completing his two-year postdoctoral stay at UCSD, César returned to UC3M in 2015 with a National Juan de la Cierva grant to continue his research alongside teaching activities. He is currently an Associate Professor and actively involved in teaching several courses, including Engineering Fluid Mechanics (Bachelor’s Degree), Explosion Dynamics (Bachelor’s Degree), Hydraulic Turbomachinery (Master’s Degree), Combustion (Master’s Degree), Industrial Facilities I (Master’s Degree), and Fluid Mechanics II (Aerospace Bachelor’s Degree).

Other activities

He is currently the Director of the Polytechnic School at UC3M and previously served as Deputy Director of the Department of Thermal and Fluid Engineering for three years. He is also a frequent member of evaluation committees, including ANECA and the evaluation of academic curricula for engineering schools, contributing to the ACREDITA and SIC programs for EURO-ACE and EURO-INF certifications. Additionally, he has served as a member of the Academic Committee for the Bachelor’s Degree in Energy Engineering for four years and has participated in evaluation committees for Fundación BBVA, Red Leonardo and Fundations.

Publications list:

  1. Napieralski, M., Huete, C., Sánchez-Sanz, M., & Kurdyumov, V. (2025). Analytical study of a flame propagation front in a solid phase driven by chain-branching reactions at large Zel’dovich numbers: Steady states, stability and influence of the radical Lewis number. Combustion and Flame, 279, 114331.
  2. Cuadra, A., Di Renzo, M., Hoste, J. J., Williams, C., Vera, M., & Huete, C. (2025). Review of shock-turbulence interaction with a focus on hypersonic flow. Physics of Fluids, 37, 045129.
  3. Napieralski, M., Huete, C., & Kurdyumov, V. (2025). Asymptotic analysis of a planar reaction front in gasless combustion: Higher order effects and the influence of the large but finite Lewis number on the propagation velocity. Combustion and Flame, 275, 114032.
  4. Dieckmann, M. E., Huete, C., Cobos, F., Bret, A., Folini, D., Eliasson, B., & Walder, R. (2024). PIC simulation of a nonoscillatory perturbation on a subcritical fast magnetosonic shock wave. Physica Scripta, 99, 115606.
  5. Napieralski, M., Cobos, F., Velikovich, A. L., & Huete, C. (2024). Richtmyer–Meshkov instability when a shock is reflected for fluids with arbitrary equation of state. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 1000, A18.
  6. Hernández-Sánchez, R., Huete, C., & Martínez-Ruiz, D. (2024). Pathological detonations in mono-disperse spray media. Proceedings of the Combustion Institute, 40, 105505.
  7. Napieralski, M., Cobos, F., Sánchez-Sanz, M., & Huete, C. (2024). Richtmyer–Meshkov instability when a shock wave encounters a premixed flame from behind. Applied Mathematical Modelling, 134, 268–287.
  8. Calvo-Rivera, A., Huete, C., García-Rubio, F., Velikovich, A. L., Tzeferacos, P., & Betti, R. (2023). Stability of perpendicular MHD shocks in materials with ideal and non-ideal equations of state. Physical Review E, 108, 035203.
  9. Dieckmann, M. E., Huete, C., Cobos, F., Bret, A., Folini, D., Eliasson, B., & Walder, R. (2023). PIC simulations of stable surface waves on a subcritical fast magnetosonic shock front. Physica Scripta, 98, 095603.
  10. Calvo-Rivera, A., Velikovich, A. L., & Huete, C. (2023). On the stability of piston-driven planar shocks. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 964, A33.
  11. Sánchez-Monreal, J., Cuadra, A., Huete, C., & Vera, M. (2022). SimEx: A tool for the rapid evaluation of the effects of explosions. Applied Sciences, 12, 9101.
  12. Calvo-Rivera, A., Huete, C., & Velikovich, A. L. (2022). The stability of expanding reactive shocks in a van der Waals fluid. Physics of Fluids, 34, 046106.
  13. Huete, C., Velikovich, A. L., Martínez-Ruiz, D., & Calvo-Rivera, A. (2021). Stability of expanding accretion shocks for an arbitrary equation of state. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 927, A35.
  14. Huete, C., Cuadra, A., Vera, M., & Urzay, J. (2021). Thermochemical effects on hypersonic shock waves interacting with weak turbulence. Physics of Fluids, 33, 08611.
  15. Martínez-Ruiz, D., Huete, C., Martínez-Ferrer, P. J., & Mira, D. (2021). Specific heat effects in two-dimensional shock refractions. Shock Waves, 31, 1–17.
  16. Huete, C., Cobos-Campos, F., Abdikamalov, E., & Bouquet, S. (2020). Acoustic stability of non-adiabatic high-energy-density shocks. Physical Review Fluids, 5, 113403.
  17. Cuadra, A., Huete, C., & Vera, M. (2020). Effect of equivalence ratio fluctuations on planar detonation discontinuities. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 903, A30.
  18. Martínez-Ruiz, D., Huete, C., Sánchez, A. L., & Williams, F. A. (2020). Theory of weakly exothermic oblique detonations. AIAA Journal, 58, 236–242.
  19. Huete, C., & Vera, M. (2019). The D’Yakov-Kontorovich instability in planar reactive shocks. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 879, 54–84.
  20. Martínez-Ruiz, D., Huete, C., Martínez-Ferrer, P., & Mira, D. (2019). Irregular self-similar configurations of shock wave impingement on shear layers. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 872, 889–927.
  21. Huete, C., & Abdikamalov, E. (2019). Response of nuclear-dissociating shocks to vorticity perturbations. Physica Scripta, 94, 094002.
  22. Huete, C. (2019). Homogenous Turbulence Dynamics (invited book review). AIAA Journal, 57, 886–887.
  23. Huete, C., Abdikamalov, E., & Radice, D. (2018). The impact of vorticity waves on the shock dynamics in core-collapse supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 475, 3305–3323.
  24. Abdikamalov, E., Huete, C., Nussupbekov, A., & Berdibek, S. (2018). Turbulence Generation by Shock-Acoustic-Wave Interaction in Core-Collapse Supernovae. Particles, 1(1), 97–110.
  25. Martínez-Ruiz, D., Huete, C., Sánchez, A. L., & Williams, F. A. (2018). Interaction of oblique shocks and laminar shear layers. AIAA Journal, 56(3), 1023–1030.
  26. Huete, C., Jin, T., Martínez-Ruiz, D., & Luo, K. (2017). Interaction of a planar reacting shock wave with an isotropic turbulent vorticity field. Physical Review E, 93, 053104.
  27. Huete, C., Sánchez, A. L., & Williams, F. A. (2017). Diffusion-flame ignition by shock-wave impingement on a Hydrogen-Air supersonic mixing layer. Journal of Propulsion and Power, 33, 256–263.
  28. Huete, C., Urzay, J., Sánchez, A. L., & Williams, F. A. (2016). Weak-shock interactions with transonic laminar mixing layers of fuels for high-speed propulsion. AIAA Journal, 54(3), 966–979.
  29. Huete, C., Sánchez, A. L., Williams, F. A., & Urzay, J. (2015). Diffusion-flame ignition by shock-wave impingement on a supersonic mixing layer. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 784, 74–108.
  30. Huete, C., Sánchez, A. L., & Williams, F. A. (2014). Linear theory for the interaction of small-scale turbulence with overdriven detonations. Physics of Fluids, 26, 116101.
  31. Huete, C., Sánchez, A. L., & Williams, F. A. (2013). Theory of interactions of thin strong detonations with turbulent gases. Physics of Fluids, 25, 076105.
  32. Huete, C., Wouchuk, J. G., Canaud, B., & Velikovich, A. L. (2012). Analytical linear theory for the shock and re-shock of isotropic density inhomogeneities. Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 700, 214–245.
  33. Huete, C., Wouchuk, J. G., & Velikovich, A. L. (2012). Analytical linear theory for the interaction of a planar shock wave with a two- or three-dimensional random isotropic acoustic wave field. Physical Review E, 85, 026312.
  34. Velikovich, A. L., Huete, C., & Wouchuk, J. G. (2012). Effect of shock-generated turbulence on the Hugoniot jump conditions. Physical Review E, 85, 016301.
  35. Huete, C., Wouchuk, J. G., & Velikovich, A. L. (2011). Analytical linear theory for the interaction of a planar shock wave with a two- or three-dimensional random isotropic density field. Physical Review E, 83, 056320.
  36. Huete, C. (2010). Turbulence generation by a shock wave interacting with a random density inhomogeneity field. Physica Scripta, T142, 014022.
  37. Wouchuk, J. G., Huete, C., & Velikovich, A. L. (2009). Analytical linear theory for the interaction of a planar shock wave with an isotropic turbulent vorticity field. Physical Review E, 79, 066315.
  38. Velikovich, A. L., Wouchuk, J. G., Huete, C., Metzler, N., Zalesak, S., & Schmitt, A. J. (2007). Shock front distortion and Richtmyer-Meshkov-type growth caused by small preshock nonuniformities. Physics of Plasmas, 14, 072706.