Biography:
José Rubén Pérez Domínguez holds a Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering (Energy and Fluid Mechanics, University of Valladolid, 2017), a degree in Industrial Engineering (2011), and a degree in Industrial Organization Engineering (2013).
With over 12 years of experience in the energy sector, he has worked at Westinghouse and Empresarios Agrupados on thermo-hydraulic applications for nuclear power plants, solar thermal plants, combined cycle and advanced projects like ITER. He has also contributed to the design of cooling systems for nuclear microreactors and spent nuclear fuel.
As a researcher at the University of Valladolid, he focused on CFD simulation applied to hospital ventilation, gas turbine combustion, and ocean energy generation using OWC systems.
Since 2017, he has been a lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at the ICAI School of Engineering (Comillas Pontifical University), where he teaches and conducts research in Fluid Mechanics, Heat Transfer, Energy Engineering, and CFD.
Areas of interest:
CFD, numerical modeling of processes and systems, solar thermal power plant, and hydrogen.
J.I. Linares, J.R. Pérez-Domínguez, E.M. Arenas, B.Y. Moratilla, "Unlocking nuclear flexibility through hydrogen production", Energy Conversion and Management, Vol. 349, pp. 120934, February 2026. [Online: December 2025] doi: 10.1016/j.enconman.2025.120934
JCR-JIF: 11,800 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 2,600 Q1 (2025) J.I. Linares, E.M. Arenas, M.J. Montes, A. Cantizano, J.R. Pérez-Domínguez, J. Porras, "Direct coupling of pressurized gas receiver to a brayton supercritical CO2 power cycle in solar thermal power plants", Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, Vol. 61, pp. 105021, September 2024. [Online: August 2024] doi: 10.1016/j.csite.2024.105021
JCR-JIF: 6,400 Q1 (2024); 6,600 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 1,061 Q1 (2024); 1,081 Q1 (2025) J.I. Linares, E.M. Arenas, A. Cantizano, M.J. Montes, A.J. Rovira, J. Porras, J.R. Pérez-Domínguez, "Innovative integrated solar combined cycle: enhancing dispatchability with a partial recuperative gas turbine and supercritical CO2 bottoming cycle, coupled with an ORC", Solar Energy, Vol. 264, pp. 112075, November 2023. [Online: October 2023] doi: 10.1016/j.solener.2023.112075
JCR-JIF: 6,000 Q2 (2023); 7,900 Q2 (2025) - SJR: 1,311 Q1 (2023); 1,336 Q1 (2025) J.I. Linares, A. Martín-Colino, E.M. Arenas, M.J. Montes, A. Cantizano, J.R. Pérez-Domínguez, "A novel hybrid CSP-PV power plant based on brayton supercritical CO2 thermal machines", Applied Sciences, Vol. 13, nº. 17, pp. 9532, September 2023. [Online: August 2023] doi: 10.3390/app13179532
JCR-JIF: 2,500 Q1 (2023); 2,900 Q2 (2025) - SJR: 0,508 Q2 (2023); 0,555 Q2 (2025) J.I. Linares, A. Martín-Colino, E.M. Arenas, M.J. Montes, A. Cantizano, J.R. Pérez-Domínguez, "Carnot battery based on Brayton supercritical CO2 thermal machines using concentrated solar thermal energy as a low-temperature source", Energies, Vol. 16, nº. 9, pp. 3871, May 2023. [Online: May 2023] doi: 10.3390/en16093871
JCR-JIF: 3,000 Q3 (2023); 3,900 Q3 (2025) - SJR: 0,651 Q1 (2023); 0,748 Q1 (2025) A. Cantizano, P. Ayala, E.M. Arenas, J.R. Pérez-Domínguez, C. Gutiérrez, "Numerical and experimental investigation on the effect of heat release rate in the evolution of fire whirls", Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, Vol. 41, pp. 102513, January 2023. [Online: October 2022] doi: 10.1016/j.csite.2022.102513
JCR-JIF: 6,400 Q1 (2023); 6,600 Q1 (2025) - SJR: 1,035 Q1 (2023); 1,081 Q1 (2025) 
